The Who’s Pete Townshend is working on a new rock opera

Helen Flanagan has revealed that she was involved in a minor car crash with her kids which "took off the whole bonnet" of her new car. The former Coronation Street star, 33, took to Instagram on Sunday 5 November to give her 1M followers an update on what she had been up to recently. After sharing that her children Matilda, Delilah, and Charlie, had spent half-term with their nan and dad, Helen said at the time of the video her dad was on his way to pick them up.

Megan Thee Stallion has shared a ferocious new single titled ‘Cobra’. Check it out below.Dropped today (November 3), the single marks the first new music from the American rapper since she formally severed ties with label 1501 Certified Entertainment, following a legal dispute.It arrives instead via her new independent music label, Hot Girl Productions, and follows her teasing new music online.

Thania Garcia Megan Thee Stallion is shedding her past in the new music video for her first official solo single since 2022, “Cobra.” Released under her own Hot Girl Productions, “Cobra” lyrically touches on Megan’s fight to keep her head above water after dealing with back-to-back obstacles. “Breakin’ down and I had the whole world watching,” Megan declares in the first verse before questioning: “Every night I cried, I almost died / And nobody close tried to stop me / Long as everybody gettin’ paid, right?” The song’s scaley visuals portrayed essentially the same narrative, as Megan faces a venomous cobra and finds herself as the main attraction when she begins to literally shed pieces off her skin like a snake as witnesses record.

excited. Well, we say “new,” but it's the latest cut to bust out of the ‘90s archive. The “Meredith Blake bob” revisits the beauty looks served up in Lindsay Lohan’s iconic 1998 film, The Parent Trap.

Francia Raísa is breaking down exactly what tore her and Selena Gomez apart!

The Finals has responded to the criticism from fans and actors over the use of artificial intelligence to create voices for its characters.After a few voice actors noticed an affectation to the callouts from the commentators, a podcast episode featuring two of The Finals audio designers affirmed that these voices were the result of text-to-speech (TTS) software.“Trying to imagine how an audio professional could possibly think this sounds good,” said an actor of a compilation of the commentators’ callouts.Now, Embark Studios has supplied a statement to IGN justifying the inclusion of artificial intelligence at this point in The Finals‘ development.“We use a combination of recorded voice audio and audio generated via TTS tools in our games, depending on the context,” said a spokesperson.“Sometimes, recording real scenes where actors get together – allowing character chemistry and conflict to shape the outcome – is something that adds depth to our game worlds that technology can’t emulate.“Other times, especially when it relates to contextual in-game action call-outs, TTS allows us to have tailored voice over where we otherwise wouldn’t, for example due to speed of implementation.”In the open beta, those voices are the product of a “mix of professional voice actors and temporary voices from Embark employees” put through TTS software.“Making games without actors isn’t an end goal for Embark and TTS technology has introduced new ways for us to work together.”The Finals is in development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Rosanna Arquette is speaking out about Matthew Perry, whom she starred alongside in the 2000 comedy The Whole Nine Yards.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Funny Birds,” an heartwarming comedy-drama starring Andrea Riseborough, Catherine Deneuve and Morgan Saylor, has sold in key territories in the run up to the AFM. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the movie is directed by Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul.

Some movie theaters are implementing intermissions during screenings of Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, prompting Apple and Paramount to intervene.

The Who‘s Tommy is set to return to Broadway in 2024.The musical, featuring music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, started as a concept album in 1969 and debuted on Broadway in 1993.It’s now set to return for a new run – a reimagined version of the classic from director Des McAnuff and Townshend – at New York’s Nederlander Theatre in March 2024.Previews are due to start on March 8 before the official opening on March 28. Tickets will be available to purchase here from Friday, November 10 at 10am local time.Check out a teaser below.“In 1969, when I originally wrote TOMMY with The Who, nobody had ever written popular music songs about trauma, nobody talked about bullying, domestic sexual abuse was a subject that was virtually censored,” Townshend shared in a press statement.“Then, in 1993, working with Des on the staged theatre piece, we broke the established rules for a musical show.

Pete Doherty has spoken about a forthcoming documentary about his life which he thinks he’s unlikely to be able to watch again.The Libertines and Babyshambles singer, songwriter and guitarist said in a new video interview with NME that he found the film “quite heavy” to watch, since it focuses on his past drug abuse and experiences with fame.The documentary Peter Doherty – Stranger In My Own Skin is filmed and directed by Doherty’s wife, Katia deVidas, a musician who also plays in Doherty’s other solo outfit band The Puta Madres.DeVidas shot more than 200 hours of exclusive “intimate” footage across a decade that at points details Doherty “plunging into the depths of addiction at the very height of his popularity”.NME‘s Andrew Trendell sat down recently with Doherty and his Libertines bandmate Carl Barat to talk about the band’s first album in nearly a decade, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade‘, as well as the upcoming documentary.When asked how it feels to see his life put under the microscope, and to have done so in collaboration with his wife, Doherty said: “I’m really happy for Katia, really. It’s been finished for quite a while.

BBC's Home Under the Hammer will celebrate its 20th anniversary and mark the occasion by being presented by a host of celebs.

Britney Spears is not only revealing the complicated matters of her personal life in her new memoir but that of her entire family. In The Woman in Me, the pop star recal

Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has spoken to NME about making his theatrical debut by penning the music for new play The Confessions, as well as his long-mooted project with the late Tony Allen.Having opened at London’s National Theatre last week before a press showing last night (October 23), The Confessions is an emotional, gut-wrenching and powerful play written and directed Alexander Zeldin – telling the story of his mother’s life across eight “tumultuous” decades across two continents and a series of complex relationships.Philippakis and Zeldin have known each other since their days at school, when they would sneak away to smoke together on a nearby riverbank. Speaking with NME, the artist explained how the director had “a reputation that preceded him a bit” as someone “ferociously intelligent, but with a naughty streak”.“We’ve just been in each other’s lives for a long time, but with differing orbits and different worlds,” Philippakis told NME.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Costume designer Jacqueline West, a four-time Academy Award nominee, had several directors on her wish list. She had already worked alongside Denis Ville- neuve, Ben Affleck, Terrence Malick and Alejandro González Iñárritu. This year, she finally crossed Martin Scorsese’s name off the list.

Johnny Marr has said that gifting Noel Gallagher with an expensive guitar – after he smashed the previous one – is partly what motivated him to stop drinking.Marr previously recalled the time he gave a young, “skint” Gallagher his guitars before the pre-Oasis guitarist could afford his own.“He was just this guy who I recognised was intense and really serious about what he was doing, and he was skint and I had a load of guitars and I thought, ‘right OK well I’ll give him this guitar’,” he told Radio X.The Smiths guitarist gave Gallagher a 1960 Gibson Les Paul – which can be heard on The Smiths’ 1986 album ‘The Queen Is Dead’, and was formerly owned by The Who‘s Pete Townshend – only for him to smash it while dealing with a stage invader during a gig in Newcastle.Gallagher called Marr to ask for a replacement, after which the guitarist gifted his black 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom.Marr also gave his 12-string sunburst Gibson 335, which features in the video for ‘Sheila Take a Bow’, to former Suede guitarist and producer Bernard Butler.“It’s just to be nice,” Marr told The Guardian. “As simple as that.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Minutes before “Saturday Night Live” was set to kick off Season 49 inside Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the show’s production team — led, of course, by executive producer Lorne Michaels — received word that two special guests were on their way. According to a source, that was when they learned that Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who were in New York City, wanted to drop by the show.

The Crown is coming to an end.

Taylor Swift’s upcoming track ‘Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)’ has been featured in the trailer for film Migration.It is almost time for the highly anticipated re-recorded version of Taylor Swift’s 2014 album ‘1989’, titled ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’, which is set for release later this month.Now, the pop star has dropped a little insight into what fans can expect from the upcoming release, by featuring a snippet of her re-recorded track ‘Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)’ in the trailer for new animated film, Migration.Released yesterday (October 15), the clip is the third teaser for the upcoming Illumination and Universal movie and features the re-imagined track playing in the background. “Out of the woods and… not in the clear yet,” a tagline reads on Illumination’s YouTube channel.The film is directed by Benjamin Renner, and features voice acting from the likes of Elizabeth Banks, Caspar Jennings, Kumail Nanjiani and Awkwafina.

Hunter Ingram For once, Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard aren’t the most dysfunctional pirate couple on the deck of Max’s comedy series “Our Flag Means Death.” In Season 2’s fourth episode, titled “Fun and Games,” that distinction belongs to legendary pirates Anne Bonny (Minnie Driver) and Mary Read (Rachel House). As the series has done with the shared history between the real-life Stede and Blackbeard, “Our Flag Means Death” interprets the fearsome women pirates as a couple. But they’ve been at the whole dating thing a lot longer than the boys.