The Mancunian Way: Strangeways, here we come

Jennifer Lopez feels more confident about herself than ever, and it’s thanks in large part to husband Ben Affleck.

The woman Matthew Perry spent some of his final moments with has been revealed.

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Travis Kelce has been a superstar from the moment he joined the NFL, but he’s become even more of a household name since he started dating Taylor Swift. Even still, fans are still learning new things about him.

A huge ‘no man’s land’ between Ancoats and the Etihad will become a ‘vibrant city centre neighbourhood’, the council hopes.

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“Yesterday” all over again.That’s because there will be a brand new Beatles song — yes, you read that right — coming here, there and everywhere in just one week. On Thursday, it was announced that “Now and Then” — featuring all four members of the Fab Four — will be released on Nov.

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At this point, given the ongoing SAG-AFTRA guild strike, who knows when Shawn Levy will shoot “Stranger Things” Season 5? But the longer the wait to shoot the Netflix show’s final season, the older its troupe of once-child actors will look. Fear not, says Levi: EW reports (via Variety) that the director and series executive producer promises he’ll use “all the tools available to us” to keep the “Stranger Things” teen looking like, well, teens, even if they’re in their early twenties.

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Netflix just in time for Halloween.A24’s Talk To Me film, which earned 94 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes following glowing reviews from critics, follows Mia (Sophie Wilde) – a young woman who becomes embroiled with the supernatural following a séance with an embalmed hand.After she and a group of teens come into the possession of a mummified hand, they believe it supposedly connects them with spirits when a seance is performed. When connected to the hand for no longer than 90 seconds, users experience a drug-like high, leading to the teens taking turns to use it.Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou in their feature directorial debut, Talk To Me also stars Alexandra Jensen as Jade, Joe Bird as Riley, Otis Dhanji as Daniel, Miranda Otto as Sue, Zoe Terakes as Hayley and Chris Alosio as Joss.The film, which originally premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022 before arriving in cinemas earlier this year, will arrive on Netflix this week.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have been praised time and time again for their modern approach to official royal duties and the series of modernisations they have already introduced since they took on their new roles. Among a long list of examples is the way they are raising their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

One of Manchester's busiest roads will close for four nights while urgent works take place. Safety repairs are set to be carried out on the barrier along the Mancunian Way.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Saturday Night Live” opened this week’s Season 49 premiere without a skit, but instead with host Pete Davidson discussing “the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza.” Said Davidson: “And I know what you’re thinking, Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson? Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that’s like. “I saw so many terrible pictures this week.

Saturday Night Live departed from its usual cold open with a heartfelt message from Pete Davidson about Israel’s war with Hamas.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It begins as a spatter of heavy rainfall — nothing out of the ordinary for acclimatized Brits, for whom an actual storm can even be cozily welcome after days of noncommittal drear and drizzle. But then it doesn’t stop, deep-set wet turns to invasive flooding, and what seemed a mere bout of inclement weather has swept you — and countless others like you — out of house and home.

Editors note: On October 10, Deadline posted a story summarizing a Medium column written by Jim McKairnes, a former SVP Planning for CBS who’s spent the past 13 years teaching TV history at the college level. The title of his piece was “Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An RIP Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry,” which, among other things, said that scheduling “is the word that’s slowly becoming irrelevant to the medium, having less and less meaning as television itself comes to mean more and more.”

When the nights turn dark and the temperature drops, nothing can cheer you up quite like a peaceful autumn staycation.

Liam Gallagher has shared some of the Oasis B-sides that he will be performing on his ‘Definitely Maybe‘ tour next year.Earlier this year, the former Oasis frontman revealed that he wanted to celebrate 30 years of the band’s debut LP by performing its tracklist in full.He took to X/Twitter to announce that he will be playing the album next year with a post that read: “As it’s 30 years since [‘Definitely Maybe’] was released nxt year I’m gonna be playing the album from start to finish in its original order at a few BIBLICAL venues”Gallagher has spent the past week teasing the 2024 tour on his X/Twitter account, sharing that dates are “in the post” and will be announced “soon.” He took the time to respond to some the fans questions on the social media platform.One fan asked if the ‘Stand By Me’ singer would be playing any of the album’s B-sides to which Gallagher responded: “Yes WE are.”liam are we getting bring it on down for the DM tour— fairuz (@filmpaccino) October 6, 2023No but Half the world away will be I’ve never sung that song bfore somebody stop me cmon— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 6, 2023Not far off— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 10, 2023He added: “Of course your getting it all (‘Definitely Maybe’) and a few Norty b sides might even roll out (Oasis’ cover of The Beatles‘) ‘I Am The Walrus’ just for crocs n boob tubes.”Elsewhere, Gallagher shared that though he will not be singing ‘Take Me Away’, he will be tackling the Noel Gallagher sung track ‘Half the World Away’ which is known for being the theme song to The Royle Family.

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