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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticCelebrated guitarist Zakk Wylde has made it official, after rumors and anonymously sourced reports that he was joining Pantera for a reunion tour: It’s all true. Except maybe for the part that he is truly “in” Pantera.In Wylde’s view, the guitarist whose shoes he will be filling, the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, can’t be replaced, so he considers himself more of an auxiliary member going into the upcoming concert and festival engagements.“Obviously, it’s not Pantera,” Wylde said over the weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Condon, who has exec produced series including HBO’s Bored To Death and USA Network’s Dare Me, has struck a development deal with Fremantle and has set her sights on her first couple of projects.

Coronation Street’s real-life siblings James Jack Ryan and Rebecca Ryan are currently taking over the famous ITV cobbles. Jack plays Corrie’s Jacob Hay, while Rebecca is very much front and centre as one third of a complicated love triangle as scheming Lydia Chambers.

UK stage and screen actor Paul Ritter, best known for long-running Channel4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner, has died of a brain tumour aged 54, his agent has announced.

direct to your inboxIt's 17 years since Frank Gallagher and his trouble-making clan shambled onto our screens in the BAFTA-winning Channel Four drama Shameless. Set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate the gritty comedy, created by Paul Abbott, ran from 2004 until 2013.

direct to your inbox If you've been to Queen's Park in Heywood this week you might have spotted something a bit unusual.

Comcast’s European giant Sky has announced a major slate of films and TV series falling under its "Sky Originals" banner that it says is its biggest lineup to date. Among the new high-end scripted dramas announced are series from noted writers Paul Abbott (Shameless, No Offence), David Farr (The Night Manager) and Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Batman) in Wolfe, The Midwich Cuckoos and Extinction, respectively.

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist.

Shameless, which first aired back in 2004 and ran until 2013, won BAFTA and British Comedy awards at the height of its popularity and viewers have been loving the opportunity to re-watch the dark comedy all over again.

By Nellie Andreeva