‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Becomes Most-Streamed Show In UK With 2M Viewers For Netflix

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour will be available to watch at home from December.Directed by Sam Wrench, the concert film documents Swift’s latest tour which runs through her biggest hits and rarities across all ten of her studio albums.After it was released in cinemas in October, the film has become the highest-grossing concert movie ever, earning $249million at the worldwide box office. It also landed a nomination at the 2024 Golden Globes for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.In the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, the film will be available to rent digitally from December 13 (to coincide with Swift’s birthday).Other confirmed territories include Australia and New Zealand from December 14, and Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico and Brazil from December 21.As listed on Swift’s website, the film will be available from Apple TV+, Vudu, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Xfinity, YouTube and Sky.The extended version on streaming services will include songs which were cut from the cinematic release, including ‘Wildest Dreams’, ‘The Archer’ and ‘Long Live’.In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “It’s a staggering feat.

Cinema professionals from across Europe are gathered in Berlin this evening for the 36th European Film Awards.

Squid Game The Challenge winner Mai Whelan claims she has yet to receive the $4.56 million first prize - 10 months after filming the Netflix show. The 55 year old won over viewers of the game show with her dramatic story of how she escaped the communist regime in her homeland of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon - as well as her cunning streak that saw her beat 455 other players to scoop the jackpot. In the final of the programme, which was inspired by Netflix’s smash-hit dystopian Korean series Squid Game, she beat 27 year old scuba instructor Phill Cain after multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors.

The Killers have announced a handful of extra dates and their opening support act for their ‘Rebel Diamonds‘ greatest hits UK and Ireland arena tour.Ahead of the release of their ‘best of’ album, ‘Rebel Diamonds’, The Killers have added four extra dates in Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow and London to their celebratory 2024 tour due to exceptional demand during early ticket pre-sales.Brandon Flowers and Co. have also shared that the Glaswegian band Travis will be serving as opening support for the tour.The ‘Rebel Diamonds’ tour will mark the first time The Killers play arena shows in the UK since 2017’s ‘Wonderful Wonderful’ tour, and will see their return after the band’s most recent stadium tour, which saw them play to 400,000 fans at sold-out shows, and their acclaimed headline appearances at Reading & Leeds 2022.Tickets for the tour are set to go on sale tomorrow, December 8 at 9:30am local time.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is on the verge of greenlighting French and German versions of reality format Surviving Paradise from Squid Game: The Challenge producer Studio Lambert and Raw TV, as it steps up its strategy in the premium unscripted space.

Netflix has announced Squid Game The Challenge will return for a second series - with the winner of the season one just hours away from being revealed. The finale of the first series will land on the streaming giant in the UK at 2am on Thursday (7 December) - when the victor will get the $4.56 million reward.

One of Sam Lantz, Mai Whelan and Phill Cain will be crowned champion of Squid Game: The Challenge later today and walk away with $4.56M, the largest prize in reality TV history.

Squid Game: The Challenge has revealed how much they were paid for featuring in the reality TV series.The show is based on the hit 2021 K-drama Netflix series Squid Game and follows contestants battling it out for a prize sum of $4.56million (£3.55million).The reality show was filmed in the UK over the course of 16 days and features participants from all over the world.Squid Game: The Challenge player 352, Radhika, has now shared exactly how much she was paid for appearing on the show.The 27-year-old from the UK was asked on TikTok how much she earned for being on the show, replying: “Zero. Zero GBP, zero USD, zero rupees, zero Yuan, zero Pesos.

There was no changing of the guard for Netflix‘s Top 10 this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Lionsgate UK & Europe chief and Marv Studios Group CEO Zygi Kamasa launched film and TV company True Brit Entertainment last month with backing from talent management and entertainment company Three Six Zero, which reps talent including Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, FKA Twigs, Will Smith, Marcus Rashford and Kid Cudi. The company will focus exclusively on British feature films and TV.

At least one of the stars of Derry Girls would sign up for a reprise of the hit comedy.

With December now officially here and the countdown to Christmas well and truly on, Britain’s biggest family, the Radfords, have kicked things off in style with a lavish festive dinner to feed all 26 members of the family.Taking to Instagram to document the mammoth sized meal, the family shared a photo of every member of the family settled around a large table, including the two most recent additions to the family, grandchildren Chester Bleu, one, and Elodie Jade, three months. In the festive themed snap, the table could be seen beautifully decorated with plenty of Christmas crackers and a Christmas themed tablecloth as the family teased at what their fans could expect on the big day later this year.

Helen George was left blushing during an interview on BBC's Morning Live as her pet dog Charlie began partaking in some self-grooming as she chatted via video link. The Call the Midwife actress, 39, appeared on the BBC show on Thursday, 30 November, to discuss The King and I with hosts Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones.

Netflix’s Squid Game is the basis of a new reality show where 456 contestants compete for a huge cash prize.Based on the South Korean survival drama, Squid Game: The Challenge sees contestants take part in various games inspired by the series for a chance to win $4.56million.A synopsis for the show reads: “As they compete through a series of games inspired by the original show – plus surprising new additions – their strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them.”Since the first five episodes premiered on November 22, the series has topped the Netflix charts in the UK. According to Deadline, the premiere episode drew an audience of around 1.1million households in the US.Netflix has not announced whether the show will return for a second season.

Spotify Wrapped has been launched, revealing the most popular artists, songs, albums and podcasts in the UK and giving users special insight into their own listening habits.Shared each year by the streaming platform, this latest edition introduces a range of new features and is available to access now via the Spotify mobile app (iOS and Android) or on desktop by heading to the website.As well as showing the usual insights into each user’s own listening habits, a new range of features have been rolled out for the 2023 edition too. These include a new section called ‘Me in 2023’ which reveals which one of the 12 listening styles best describes the way you listen on Spotify, and a new section called ‘Sound Town’, which matches you to a city based on your listening and shared artist affinity.Pre-existing insights such as Top Five Genres and Top Five Artists have also been given a new design, and some of the most popular musicians of 2023 have recorded messages that will be played if they feature as one of your top artists.An AI DJ feature has also been added to guide listeners through their personalised Wrapped – serving up a mix based on your taste and sharing commentary about some of your favourite artists, genres, songs and more.

Squid Game: The Challenge has become the most-watched show on the platform this week.This is according to data from Netflix’s official most-watched list, which tracks the platforms most popular content based on a metric called “views”, based on “the total hours viewed divided by the total runtime”. For the week of November 20 to 26 – also the show week of debut – Squid Game: The Challengelogged about 20.1million views.The unscripted survival series draws from the games depicted in Netflix hit 2021 K-drama series Squid Game.

Good Morning Britain viewers were not happy and criticised ITV for debating the shocking revelations from Omid Scobie's new book, Endgame.The show's hosts, Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley discussed the explosive claims from the book about the Royal Family. The book was recently pulled from shelves in Holland as it seemed to reveal the identity of a "royal racist". In 2021, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused an unnamed senior Royal of expressing concern over their child's skin colour in a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The highly-anticipated The Couple Next Door aired on Channel 4 on Monday night.

EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game: The Challenge has piqued the interest of quite a few spectators.

A Squid Game: The Challenge contestant has spilled the beans on the incredible amount of time it took to film the iconic game, Red Light, Green Light, in the new reality TV gameshow. The Netflix series is inspired by the smash-hit dystopian Korean series, Squid Game, and features the same nail-biting challenges but without the deadly outcomes.