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James Morrison‘s partner Gill Catchpole.The news of Catchpole’s death was reported last Friday (January 5), when it was confirmed that emergency services were called when she was found by her husband at their home in Gloucestershire.The pair have two children together – 15-year-old Elsie and Ada, five.A source told The Mirror at the time: “Gill was found dead on Friday at the family’s home in Whitminster. James is devastated and is being supported by his family.

A labourer died when he was crushed by a lift he was repairing at a hospital. Sandy Noble, 33, wasn't qualified as a lift engineer and nor was he qualified to work alongside one, an inquest heard.

Oil from new licences granted to North Sea producers and sent to UK refineries would account for less than 1 per cent of the fuels used here in 2030, analysis has found.

Fidelity, which helped Elon Musk acquire the platform formerly known as Twitter in late 2022, announced that its stake in the company has fallen 72% in that time, according to an analysis by Bloomberg.

Was the Oscar race defined all the way back in July?

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest sign of the industry’s changing times, Disney last week announced that Hulu original Only Murders in the Building would air on ABC in January. New data provided to Deadline by Tubular Labs shows the logic behind the scheduling move.

Disney CEO Bob Iger blames the pandemic effect as part of the reason for the dismal box office results on The Marvels.

It took more than three weeks and many attempts, but the Republican Party finally elected a new Speaker of the House, Louisiana representative Mike Johnson. The three-term former attorney for far-right causes has the least political and executive experience of any Speaker in a century. But he checked all the far-right boxes for the increasingly more extremist GOP while also being a “nice” guy, so elected he was.

Sony Pictures Television has hired Tania Missad as EVP of Research, Strategy and Analysis.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Sony Pictures Television has brought in Tania Missad as executive vice president of research, strategy, and analysis. She will begin her new role today at the studio’s Culver City lot and will report to Sony Pictures Television Studios president Katherine Pope. “A deeply respected leader, Tania brings curiosity, rigor, and passion to her work,” Pope said.

First impressions matter and more than 49,000 Rangers fans left Ibrox with a real spring in their step for the first time in months.

Kristen Welker’s Meet the Press debut was focused on her interview with former president Donald Trump, and their sit-down, his first with a major broadcast network since leaving office, was pretty much what you would expect.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had a ready answer this week when asked about the plans to shut nearly all railway ticket offices in England amid pressure from the Government to cut costs.

Alec Baldwin could be facing charges once more in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

On July 25, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a town hall on Fox News with Sean Hannity. If it seems odd that a Democratic candidate for president was speaking to the Trump-invested Fox News audience, it was. Hannity asked Kennedy, “You’re talking to the American people tonight. Why should they vote for you?”

If you’ve ever wondered if the colors you’re wearing suit your skin tone, then a personal color analysis appointment might be for you.

Cable news was again a study in contrasts on Thursday: Fox News carried a big portion of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before a House committee, while CNN and MSNBC did not.

Every now and then the Emmys will surprise us just by having a surprise. Too often the same people from the same shows turn up year after year, and with the 75th Emmy Awards that is certainly the case, but also this year my fellow Emmy voters (Full Disclosure: I am a longtime member and former Governor of the Writers branch) proved they could cut through the clutter and the imposing mountain of content to make way for some newbies and deserving shows that might have been hard to find.

There are only about 100 trans women athletes competing in the U.S., but trans women and girls in sports is one of the hottest topics in the country. GOP presidential candidates are discussing it, GOP state legislatures are passing laws over it and on June 24, disgraced former world-class cyclist Lance Armstrong, added his commentary to the “debate.”

with your complexion, and it's called color analysis: a stylist-approved technique for identifying your seasonal color palette.I discovered this method six months ago when a video on happened upon my Instagram “Explore” page. I had never thought about color contrast and how it could impact the color combinations I should wear, let alone the ones I put on my face.

The Directors Guild’s tentative agreement with the studios for a new film and TV contract, reached late last night, eliminated the prospect of an unprecedented WGA, DGA and SAG-AFTRA three-guild strike which would’ve paralyzed the film and TV industry. It also likely won’t bring the labor peace the studios and streamers are looking for. But it brings even more attention to the WGA, whose strike is in its second month.

Brent Lang Executive Editor It makes sense that Martin Scorsese would demand and receive final cut. That’s the perk of directing some of the most iconic films in Hollywood history. But even the most exhaustively realized lowlife saga could use a snip here and there. And as Scorsese’s stature has grown, his movies have gotten longer and longer, making one wonder if he needs to be more merciless in the editing bay. It’s gotten so bad that ahead of the Cannes premiere of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the maestro’s team had to deny reports that his latest movie was nearly 4 hours. Turns out it’s a fleet 3 hours, 20 minutes and change. In honor of that film’s debut, we break down some selections from Scorsese’s canon — with an emphasis on the clock to see if length correlates to quality.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The premium end of the streaming video sector in India is poised for shake-up, with Reliance Industries’ JioCinema challenging the SVOD dominance of Disney+ Hotstar, new research suggests. “The India Online Video Report: Analysis of Consumption, Content & Investment Trends,” from Singapore-based Media Partners Asia, shows total consumption across the online video sector reached 6.1 trillion minutes for the 15-month period from Jan 2022 to Mar 2023. Within that period, the SVOD, AVOD and freemium platforms accounted for some 12% of viewing time, up from 10% in 2021. Social services such as YouTube and TikTok accounted for 88% of viewing time.

About 50 minutes in to CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump, moderator Kaitlan Collins told him, “The election was not rigged, Mr. President. You cannot keep saying that all night long.”

In total, Cannes Film Festival General Delegate Thierry Frémaux today announced 52 titles that will debut at the 76th edition which runs May 16-27 on the Riviera, and which he dedicated to the late producer and Telluride co-founder Tom Luddy. It’s set up to be yet another starry affair – though to outdo last year’s Top Gun: Maverick screening replete with French fighter jets buzzing the Palais would be a real feat.

“Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough sparred about whether or not Democrats are itching to replace President Joe Biden with a different candidate in the next presidential election.Thursday’s episode began with a discussion about a new poll in which Trump leads in the GOP primary by more than 10 points over rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. Noting that Trump is proposed to have a wide positive margin in the primaries but a more difficult time clinching the win for the general, Scarborough broke the poll down by making a comparison to Biden.“I find the most fascinating thing about this presidential race is, you have the presumptive nominees in both parties – one a sitting president – with people in their own party going, ‘I like him, I’m very grateful for what he’s done – I hope we can find someone else,'” Scarborough said, in reference to Biden and Trump.“Democrats are saying that about Joe Biden wherever you go, they do it every two weeks,” he added.At that point, co-host Brzezinski cut in.

As far as this year’s Oscars goes, it was undoubtedly the year of the comeback.

win Best Picture still seemed crazy. After all, nobody had seen any of the fall festival movies that often dominate the awards lineup.

There can be no doubt the champagne corks are popping at Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale indie distributor A24 tonight. Not only did it see a record-setting performance at the SAG Awards, where it won all five of the movie categories (other than the non-televised stunt ensemble), but also Saturday night, where it took the top Best Picture award at the Producers Guild. Both often are Oscar-prescient guild awards shows that last year, and in many others, have foretold just exactly what would happen at the Academy Awards — not always but often.

The restructures, layoffs, cancelations and a maybe-strike currently impacting the U.S. TV industry rippled through the halls of the Berlinale Series Market this week as senior execs forecasted an international future.

An investigator has ruled a woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is not the missing girl after carrying out biometric analysis.

Judging by the results this weekend of the first major industry test of where the Oscar winds could be blowing, it was basically a draw as we now have results from both the DGA and BAFTA. Both these groups, as well as the upcoming SAG, PGA, and to a slightly lesser extent due to their eligibility quirks, the WGA, are considered the most important bellwethers for Oscar as their memberships heavily cross over with actual Oscar voters as opposed to critics groups. Earlier televised awards shows like Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, but both composed also of journalists, split their Best Picture choices between The Banshees Of Inisherin (GG Comedy), The Fabelmans (GG Drama), and Everything Everywhere All At Once (CCA). But now for the first time we are hearing from the industry and that is key for prognosticators. Sometimes the race can turn on a dime, or they can really muddy the waters.

A commenter named Brad replied to an Oscar predictions piece I put up over the weekend and said: “There used to be a time when I anticipated the Oscar Nominations. But I feel that time has not been good to the Academy Awards and with so many awards ceremonies these days, the Oscars do not seem special like they once did.”

After last night’s Golden Globe thing, we had only less than 12 hours to regroup and prepare for the real deal: First SAG nominations, and then DGA, the initial two major guild indicators of where the real sentiment may lie before Oscar voting begins tomorrow. With Producers Guild, often a very Oscar-predictive list as well, still to come also tomorrow the best barometers of where industry thinking is at the moment will be on the table.

Following a tumultuous day in which Kevin McCarthy failed three times to muster up enough votes to lead the House of Representatives, one of the last members to leave the floor was the last speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

With all the talk about the diversification of the “new” Hollywood Foreign Press Association, particularly in terms of recruiting Black members to make up for the sheer paucity of them as revealed originally in a now-infamous Los Angeles Times report, it might be one of this morning’s key surprises in the nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards, that not a single film with strong Black themes or actors or behind the camera talent was among the Best Picture nominees in either Drama or Comedy/Musical categories. Most egregiously missing in those key categories, as well as directing and writing were hotly awards-buzzed The Woman King, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Till, the latter film completely shut out despite heavy Oscar attention expected for its star Danielle Deadwyler who last week was named Best Lead Performance at the Gothams as well as Best Actress at the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema & Television. Will Smith’s return in Emancipation from director Antoine Fuqua also was AWOL, although considering its decidedly mixed critical reception and inherent controversy (although not with the Globes) that isn’t all that surprising to see it snubbed.