James Chance, no-wave legend and The Contortions frontman has died, aged 71

Marta Balaga Nicole Holofcener wouldn’t mind reuniting with her “Friends With Money” star Jennifer Aniston. “Maybe we will work together again,” she says. “She knew my movies.

The real-life Scot known for playing Amy Pond to a legion of Doctor Who fans, Karen Gillan comes back to UK screens on Thursday in Douglas is Cancelled.

The Bear has just landed in the UK on Disney+, and the soundtrack to the latest show features classic songs from bands including Radiohead.The highly anticipated third season arrived in the US yesterday (June 26) ahead of schedule, and is now available to stream in the UK today (June 27) on Disney+.The popular comedy-drama – which has been hailed a huge commercial and critical success since its premiere two years ago – stars Jeremy Allen White as a chef who returns to manage his late brother’s chaotic sandwich shop in Chicago.Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also star in the show, which debuted in 2022 and returned for a second season in 2023. It’s since racked up 10 Emmy and four Golden Globes, including Best Performance awards for stars Allen White and Edebiri.A synopsis of the new season reads: “Season three of FX’s The Bear follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they do what it takes to elevate The Bear, their beef stand turned fine dining establishment, to the highest level, all while doing their best just to stay in business.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Bridgerton” author Julia Quinn has taken to social media to address upset fans of the Netflix series following the Season 3 finale, which included a dramatic change from Quinn’s novels in gender-flipping Francesca Bridgerton’s love interest. While Season 3 was primarily devoted to the blossoming romance between friends Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), it also tracked the courtship of Francesca (Hannah Dodd) by John Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin (Victor Alli).

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The Palm Springs International ShortFest has announced the juried and audience award winners for its 2024 edition, which took place June 18-24. Over $25,000 in cash prizes and five Academy Award-qualifying honors were presented to the winning films, which included Esteban Pedraza’s “Bogotá Story” and Jadwiga Kowalska’s animated film “The Car That Came Back from the Sea.” See a full list of winners below.

A period of damp gloom that has come to define early summer 2024 is set to be disrupted by a spell of warmer weather.

Michaela Zee Willie Mays, the baseball legend who played as center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants, has died. He was 93.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor James Chance, the confrontational, controversial saxophonist and singer of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped start the No Wave movement of the late 1970s in New York City, died Tuesday in New York, his Facebook page confirmed. He was 71. “His death was announced by his brother David Siegfried of Chicago, who did not specify a cause of death but noted that the musician’s health had been in decline for several years,” the statement said.

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.

Anohni and the Johnsons played their first show in nine years in Athens last night (June 13) – read on to see the footage.READ MORE: Anohni – ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’ review: a sublime soul reinventionThe group last performed live in June 2015, the final show taking place in Hobart, Australia. That absence came to an end in the Greek capital’s Odeon of Herodes Atticus on Thursday with a show that took in material from across their career, as well as Anohni’s 2016 solo album ‘Hopelessness’.The group were introduced by the renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, and gave live debuts to a number of songs, including ‘It Must Change’, ‘Can’t’ and ‘Why Am I Alive Now?’Check out footage below:ANOHNI and the Johnsons @ Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Overflowing with insight; stuffed with bracing interviews and anecdotes and archival footage; as bursting with flavor as a baked ziti; and as immersive, in its way, as the show itself, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos” is Alex Gibney’s sensationally artful and engrossing two-hour-and-40-minute documentary about the greatest show in the history of television. If you’re a fanatic for “The Sopranos” (and who isn’t?), you probably already know a fair amount about how the show came to be, and “Wise Guy,” for a while, treads familiar ground.

It looks like Gavin and Stacey: The Finale could be in for a mad dash in order to wrap up production in time for the Christmas Day special, with filming yet to kick off. James Corden, 45, co-creator and star of the much-loved BBC Three sitcom alongside Ruth Jones, 57, is set to reprise his role as Smithy for the show's final festive hurrah, and he's confessed that the timeline is seriously snug.

Catfish and the Bottlemen have announced a 10th anniversary edition of their classic debut album ‘The Balcony’.The Welsh indie-rockers will release their special reissue of ‘The Balcony’ on September 13. Their debut originally landed at Number 10 in the UK Charts, eventually going Platinum by 2016.Now, the 10th anniversary reissue will be available on a limited edition CD, cassette, and vinyl.

Prolific British scribe James Graham will ask “why television has a problem with the working classes” in the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture this year.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Mark James, a Songwriters Hall of Fame member who wrote or co-wrote “Suspicious Minds,” “Always on My Mind” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” died June 8 at his home in Nashville. The news was reported by his hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. James was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “In the next 45 minutes, we’re about to hear Gus speak more than he has in the last 40 years,” Vito Schnabel, the art world scion who is increasingly turning his head toward Hollywood, told a crowd at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival last week. He was there to moderate a conversation with American heavyweight filmmaker Gus Van Sant, who just directed Schnabel (and a pack of actors barreling toward Emmy nominations) in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” That history, of a glittery New York whose underbelly was found in the bedrooms and hallways of the ruling class, took a back seat to Van Sant’s impactful career.

“The French Connection,” has died. He was 87.His representative confirmed on Wednesday that he died of prostate cancer.“Tony Lo Bianco passed away last night at his horse farm in Maryland after a battle with prostate cancer,” the rep’s statement to Fox News read.

A post shared by Thomas Dutronc (@thomas.dutronc)While a cause of death has yet to be confirmed, Hardy revealed in June 2021 that she had been diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 2018, following a lymphoma diagnosis in 2004, and said she felt “close to the end” of her life.As a musician, François Hardy broke out with the 1962 hit ‘Tous les garçons et les filles’, which topped the singles charts in her homeland of Paris and several other countries. The following year, she clinched her second hit ‘C’est à l’amour auquel je pense’.Besides French, Hardy also performed in English, German and Italian.

Thania Garcia The Recording Academy is working to expand its global efforts for artists in rapidly advancing spaces. The Academy announced Tuesday it has inked agreements with Ministries of Cultures and key stakeholders across the Middle East and Africa to collaborate on strengthening the Academy’s presence and services in these music regions.

Scots can look forward to basking in heatwave temperatures this month, but not before enduring more rain.