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A Tipping Point winner has been left seething after being 'banned' from enjoying a £2,500 holiday prize won on the ITV quiz show.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor European Film Promotion has revealed the participants for its Producers on the Move program, which runs before and during the Cannes Film Festival. The promotion and networking program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, brings together 20 of Europe’s most promising producers.

Russ has added new UK and European dates to his ‘It Was You All Along’ world tour. Check them out along with ticket details below.Back in March, the New Jersey rapper first announced his upcoming ‘It Was You All Along’ tour in North American with 6LACK and Melii as support acts.

A couple from Stockport managed to bag a city break to Porto for just £20.68 thanks to Jet2holidays’ ‘Bid for a Break’ competition. With the campaign holidaymakers can win a trip by entering the lowest unique bid.

Orlando Weeks has dropped his simmering new single ‘Dig’ featuring Wet Leg‘s Rhian Teasdale – watch the video below.The former Maccabees frontman has released his latest music in anticipation of his forthcoming album ‘Loja’, scheduled to drop on June 6 via Fiction Records – presave the album here.‘Dig’ is described by Weeks as an “under your breath half-argument, the kind that only ever happens in public,” featuring jabs such as “I’m so far from it on the other shore / I dig my heels into the hardwood floor”. Weeks added: “‘Dig’ is a tit for tat exchange where long worn-out promises are remade and road weary offences retaken.

Fontaines D.C. have announced a 2024 European ‘ROMANCE’ tour.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Starring “3o Coins’” Miguel Angel Silvestre and “The Palace’s” Katia Fellin, “Weiss & Morales” has gone into production in the Canary Islands, boasting the credentials of a textbook procedural appealing to current market appetites. As co-production ramps up between free-to-air players in Europe, led very often by its state-backed networks, “Weiss & Morales” links two of the continents’ most powerful public broadcasters, Germany’s ZDF and Spain’s RTVE, which produce with ZDF Studios.

Juan Mata believes Bruno Fernandes is the perfect player for Manchester United to build the "culture of the club" around.

Love Island's Georgia Harrison appears to have made another dig at ex Anton Danyluk with an Instagram post claiming she'll settle for nothing less than marrying her best friend. Georgia and Anton, both 29, finished fifth in Love Island: All Stars in February, but were reported to have split earlier this month just a couple of months after leaving the South African-set dating show.

The Foreign Office has issued an urgent warning for people flying to France as flyers are urged not to head to the airport without checking with their airline.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Cinephil has sold Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó’s feature documentary “Agent of Happiness” to a wide range of key international territories ahead of the film’s Hot Docs debut this weekend. Deals are confirmed in the U.K.

The Swifts and the Kelces are headed across the pond! Together!

Holidaymakers heading to a popular city break destination in Portugal could have to pay in ‘tourist tax’. The fee, which is applied to anyone staying overnight in Lisbon, is set to be doubled after it was approved by the city council.

Megadeth is a busy band.The thrash metal group is currently midway through their ongoing ‘Crush The World Tour’ that wraps up with a festival appearance at Portugal’s Evil Live in late June.Rather than pump the brakes, Dave Mustaine and co. are going full throttle into August and September with their newly announced ‘Destroy All Enemies Tour’ with Mudvayne and All That Remains.On the 33-concert trek, they’ll make three New York stops.First, Megadeth will mosh their way into Albany’s MVP Arena on Tuesday, Sept.

Abbey Clancy and The One Show host Alex Jones discovered a brand new thing in common during Tuesday night’s episode (April 23) of the hit BBC show, when the duo revealed that they both share the same unusual ‘obsession’ of plate collecting. The surprising hobby first came to light during a segment with fellow guest Chris O’Dowd, who was promoting his new show The Big Door Prize, which is about a sleepy American town that becomes the owner of a mysterious machine which reveals people’s full potentials and the lives they ought to be living, by printing their ideal future on a piece of paper.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter A24‘s political thriller “Civil War” is resonating not just in red states and blue but overseas, too. Alex Garland’s film, starring Kirsten Dunst as a photojournalist who traverses a violently divided United States, has grossed $45.7 million in North America and $20 million internationally. Global ticket sales stand at $67.3 million through Monday, and it’s projected to cross $70 million on Tuesday.

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Manchester City have reached the FA Cup final for a second consecutive season and for the third time in six years.

A man allegedly stabbed to death at a commune in Portugal during a 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party’ music festival has been named as a former pupil at the private Bolton School. Tributes have been paid to 'creative genius' Neil Sutcliffe, who was 37 and from Bolton.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Some of the best MMA fighters in the world are in Chicago, Illinois this weekend for PFL 3 (Professional Fighters League). For the third event of the 2024 regular season, the main card pits Russian fighters Andrey “The Spartan” Koreshkov (27-4) vs.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety has been granted exclusive access to the trailer (below) for Portuguese director Miguel Gomes‘ “Grand Tour,” which will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Competition section. Variety can also exclusively reveal that that distribution on “Grand Tour” will be handled in France by Tandem, and in Italy by Lucky Red, and that Gomes’ next film will be “Savagery.” “Grand Tour” kicks off in 1917 in Burma. It centers on Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, who runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married.

Lucy Mecklenburgh said she was only 'joking' after she mocked Ryan Thomas' efforts to welcome her home following a short working break. There were emotional scenes when the former The Only Way is Essex star said a sad goodbye to Ryan and their son Roman and fiancé Ryan Thomas.

Thania Garcia The Latin Grammys will happen in Miami this year, marking the Spanish-language awards show’s return to the United States just one year after it made a controversial move to Spain. The 25th annual show will air live from the Kaseya Center on Nov. 14.

A high-ranking member of an organised crime group that trafficked heroin and cocaine has been convicted after he was extradited from Portugal.

Lucy Mecklenburgh was left heartbroken as her four-year-old was left in tears as she left home to go on holiday. Former TOWIE star Lucy, 32, posted an Instagram story of her son, Roman crying and her fiancé Ryan Thomas, 39 waving goodbye to her as she boarded a train on Saturday 13 April.

Love Island star Anton Danyluk has fuelled rumours that he's split from Georgia Harrison, as he headed on a night out with his show 'wife', Hannah Elizabeth.The 29 year old Scotsman flashed a smile as he, Hannah and his mum, Sherie-Ann, enjoyed a night out at Sheesh restaurant in Mayfair, London.They were seen smiling and laughing as they linked arms, with Anton ever the gentleman in the middle. Hannah looked incredible in a pair of tan-coloured suede trousers, a form-fitting beige top and stilettos.

Tribeca Festival is crossing the Atlantic. 

Jack Dunn Tribeca Enterprises, SIC, the Portuguese broadcast company, its streaming service OPTO and the City of Lisbon have unveiled the first-ever European-edition of the Tribeca Festival, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from Oct. 17-19. The festival will kick off with an opening night celebration followed by a two-day event on Lisbon’s waterfront.

Bastian Schweinsteiger has admitted he has no hard feelings over the way he was treated by Jose Mourinho at Manchester United.

Annika Pham Boutique world sales outfit The Yellow Affair has boarded the Portuguese crime thriller “Irreversible,” produced by prestige outfit Caracol Studios for pubcaster RTP. The upcoming six-part TV show was showcased among 10 exclusive titles at this week’s MipDrama at MipTV in Cannes.

Annika Pham Copenhagen-based REinvent International Sales has closed Spain and Portugal with AMC Networks International Southern Europe, on the Finnish suspense disaster drama “Seconds”, Variety has learned exclusively. One of REinvent’s MipTV highlights, “Seconds,” made a strong debut on Finnish pubcaster Yle this week, according to head of drama, Jarmo Lampela. “It will easily go over the average viewing target,” he said.

Alex Ritman Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire (“Augure by Baloji,” “My New Friends”), French producer Sylvie Pialat (“Timbuktu,” “Staying Vertical”), Belgian cinematographer Virginie Surdej (“The Blue Caftan,” “Our Mothers,” “Casablanca Beats”) and Canadian film critic, journalist and frequent Variety contributor Ben Croll have been named on the jury for the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. The four will now join Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who last week was named Critics’ Week jury president, with the group set to choose the sidebar competition’s award winners, including the Grand Prize for best feature film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star award for best actor or actress and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for best short film.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning stage actor Jos Vantyler and Niahm McCormack (Everything Now) are starring in an international action drama series the explores the dark side of detective work and artificial intelligence.

AMC Networks International has installed Antonio Ruiz, Warner Bros. Discovery’s former UK and Ireland General Manager, as its boss in Spain and Portugal.

The Fremantle exec who fell victim to a $1M fake M&A scam has exited the business.

Cristiano Ronaldo received a first red card since leaving Manchester United during a 2-1 Saudi Super Cup defeat on Monday night.