Lionsgate Says Scope Of Starz Deal Could Grow As Partners Eye Studio Too; September Announcement On Track

A woman recalled 'putting on a brave face' after allegedly being raped by Benjamin Mendy at his home, a jury has heard. The trial of the Manchester City defender continued at Chester Crown Court today (August 24).

TV presenter Laura Whitmore was corrected after she attempted to mock Tasha Ghouri on Saturday Kitchen. Love Island host Laura made a jokey jibe at Islander Tasha when she appeared as a guest on the BBC cookery show.

A BBC star defended Love Island's Tasha Ghouri after Laura Whitmore made a dig at her wine knowledge. Laura, 37, sparked a backlash when she tried to mock Tasha on Saturday Kitchen.The Irish Love Island host jokingly made a dig about Tasha on Matt Tebbut's BBC daytime show, Saturday Kitchen.

Every participant who gets a lifestyle makeover on Queer Eye is referred to as a hero, but never as a trailblazer. That changed with the arrival of Angel Flores.

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired all rights in U.S. and anglophone Canada to Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s drama The Worst Ones, which was awarded the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and will make its North American premiere at TIFF.

Canal+ is teaming with African streamer Showmax for its latest drama from Africa, an action drama about the dangerous South African motor sport spinning. Production on Spinners began in Cape Town on the eight-part series this week, with Gaia director Jaco Bouwer attached.

Johnny Depp has inked an endorsement deal worth seven figures with French fashion house Dior, a source close to the actor confirmed to Fox News Digital Tuesday. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star will be the face of Dior's cologne Savauge as part of a multi-year agreement, sources told TMZ. The gossip site reported that Depp, 59, hammered out the deal after fashion photographer Greg Williams attended one of Depp and English guitarist Jeff Beck's concerts in Paris.

Hunter Ingram Each morning as Toni Collette brushes her teeth, an owl stares back at her.The stoic bird of prey is not perched outside her window but rather ornately sitting on her countertop, contorted into the shape of a ceramic coffee mug that she places her toothbrush into before she starts her day.“It’s there looking at me daily — twice a day if I’m dentally honest,” Collette says. “Maybe I need a new receptacle.”Even if its days as her morning companion are numbered, the mug is a surreal artifact of her newly Emmy-nominated turn as Kathleen Peterson, a North Carolina woman found dead at the bottom of her stairs in 2001 — a case dramatized by HBO Max’s true crime limited series “The Staircase.” The shocking death occupied headlines for months as her husband, Michael Peterson (played by Colin Firth), was tried and convicted of her murder — all of it later chronicled in a 2004 French documentary also called “The Staircase.” The making of that doc was part of the 2022 series.After years behind bars and later house arrest, Peterson was released in 2017 when he accepted an Alford plea, a paradoxical agreement in which he pleaded guilty but maintained his innocence.

Spice Girls fans could not get enough of Geri Horner's latest update which saw fellow band member Mel C pen a special message to the star in celebration of her 50th birthday.MORE: Geri Horner's son Monty is his mum's double in new photo – see picTaking to her Instagram feed, the former Ginger Spice shared an incredible video with a montage of photos of herself alongside incredibly famous faces including the late Sir George Michael, Prince Charles and even Nelson Mandela!WATCH: Geri Horner celebrates England's win alongside daughter BluebellCaptioning the fabulous clip she penned: "I get to be 50! I’m so grateful to all the wonderful people and experiences I’ve had in my life. Thank you.

Good afternoon Insiders. We have truly entered holiday season but in TV and film Land things simply don’t slow down. I’m Max Goldbart and here’s your list of the week’s biggest headlines.

Paramount+ is performing “above expectations”  in the UK, Ireland and South Korea, according to Bob Bakish, who forecast a “big year” for Western Europe to come and talked up local language content.

François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Joshua Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut.