The one change at the weekend that could add five years onto your life

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet International is doubling down on its German business by launching a standalone scripted arm in the European country.

A dream home has come on the market just outside of Greater Manchester boasting an incredible garden that looks just like the Love Island villa. The beautiful four-bed property is tucked away in the midst of the countryside near Rawtenstall, Lancashire and is surrounded by rolling hills and fields.

EXCLUSIVE: Four years after his last full-length feature — the black comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan as a venal business tycoon — Michael Winterbottom is back, this time with a political drama set in Tel Aviv, based on real-life people and events that occurred during the 1930s, in the run-up to the foundation of Israel in 1948.

Emiliano De Pablos Madrid-based sales house Latido Films and indie distributor-producer #ConUnPack are joining forces to handle international distribution rights to Tribeca Festival’s hit “One Night with Adela,” the feature debut of Spanish writer-director Hugo Ruiz snagged Tribeca’s best new narrative director award. An audacious family drama, lensed using a single-shot technique, the film marries concepts of religion and sin with childhood trauma.

John Hamilton is a busy man in the lead-up to Pride.

A police officer has suffered 'life-changing' injuries after being hit by a train while attempting to save a man's life near Newark-on-Trent.

A Manchester swimming pool is set to close down — threatening the future of a Bannatyne health club understood to be one of the city's first gyms.

Manchester will host the first ever International Brewing & Cider Festival, a two-day event showcasing the very best beers and ciders from around the world.

A wave of £5 after-work ‘rush hour’ gigs are set to come to Manchester to show off up-and-coming musical talent.

Why did it take decades for a biopic to be made about Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir?

The musical adaptation of the S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 teen novel (and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film) The Outsiders will begin Broadway previews at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Saturday, March 16, 2024 ahead of a Thursday, April 11, 2024 opening night, producers announced today.

A plan is underway to get Manchester the Ten O’Clock News a lot more regularly - and for the right reasons.

A young thug who repeatedly booted a man on the head when he was lying unconscious on the ground has been sentenced to a year's detention. Jak Biggam, 21, broke David Walker's cheekbone in the violent attack in a shopping centre car park, a court heard.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. edition of iconic game show “Password” will bow imminently on broadcaster ITV, and new countries are being added. Variety can reveal that the Fremantle-owned format is getting versions in Greece (Alpha TV), Hungary (TV2), Israel (Channel 13), Mexico (TV Azteca) and Slovakia (TV JOJ).

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Though raised in Brooklyn, actor turned producer/director Danny A. Abeckaser was born in Israel. Unfortunately, that birthright isn’t enough to lend authenticity to “The Engineer,” which feels very much like an American B-movie stab at turning Israeli anti-terrorist operations of 30 years ago into formulaic action fodder — without much action, even.

Israeli networks have taken the unprecedented step of banding together to form an emergency group forum opposing the government’s new media bill.

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Queens Of The Stone Age have added a new UK show to their upcoming tour of the UK and Ireland.The update follows the announcement that their ‘The End Is Nero’ tour will arrive in the UK and Europe later this year – kicking off with a now-sold-out show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on November 4.After making stops across Luxembourg, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Antwerp, Josh Homme and co. will play a series of live sets in the UK, including a spot at the O2 Arena in London on November 15.Now, it has been announced that an extra UK date has been added to the scheduled tour for the end of 2023 – a gig at the International Centre in Bournemouth on November 16.The show will take place just after the rock veterans play in the UK capital, and two days before they head over to Glasgow for a slot at the OVO Hydro arena.

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor “The Vanishing Soldier” is a coming of age story, as breathless as its protagonist: the kind of film that will make cinephiles of seventeen-year-olds. Which is one of the reasons that Dani Rosenberg, the film’s 43-year-old director, is delighted to be in Locarno, where the film, sold by Intramovies, is screening in main competition, and has just got a trailer, and poster, shared in exclusivity with Variety. “We had options for other festivals,” Rosenberg told Variety at the Swiss fest.

Amid two ongoing strikes, CBS kicks off its fall 2023 schedule with a broadcast run of Yellowstone, Paramount+’s SEAL Team, Ghosts UK — the comedy’s original BBC version — three new alternative series and expanded versions of reality series, primetime news programs and live sports.