Vera’s new sidekick David Leon looks completely different in forgotten role

Dove Cameron and Damiano David are still going strong as a couple!

“Sequels suck, whether you’re making them or watching them.” So said one storied filmmaker in rejecting a rich movie deal (details below), and he’d likely react the same if offered Biden vs. Trump.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After signing with Republic Records in 2019 and releasing numerous projects on the imprint, rapper Coi Leray has announced that she has inked a new deal with Island Records, releasing a new single to commemorate the moment. The 26-year-old initially signed with Republic after stacking up a few indie hits including “By Myself” and “Huddy,” dropping the “EC2” EP to commemorate the moment.

The cast of How to Train Your Dragon just got bigger!

While the “Kick-Ass” film franchise has never been a massive blockbuster franchise, it does have a devoted fanbase, especially with those folks who love hard-R superhero stories. And while we knew that Matthew Vaughn and his production company have been working on a new ‘Kick-Ass’ film, we haven’t heard much about what it was going to be.

Chrissy Teigen is hard at work promoting her new show!

Bradley Cooper appears to be on Cloud Nine after the 2024 BAFTAs nominations!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Even next to David Bowie, with his alien regalia and mutating persona, it was Brian Eno who always seemed like the supreme spaceman of the pop-music universe. In 1972, when he first came onto the scene as the 24-year-old synthesizer wizard of Roxy Music, he sported a look that was pure glam, except that he somehow appeared even more baroque than the gender-bending rock stars of the time (the New York Dolls, Bowie, Lou Reed), because they were Dionysian pansexual strutters, whereas Eno was his own unique thing: a delicate sci-fi gamine, a geek in thrift-shop drag.

BreAnna Bell ABC News Studios has teamed up with Neon and Network Entertainment to announce “Brats,” a feature-length documentary that focuses on the stars who came to be known in the ’80s as the famous Brat Pack. Told with the help of director and former Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy (“Pretty in Pink,” “St. Elmo’s Fire”), the director hits the road 30 years later, reuniting with several members of the Brat Pack crew including Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Emilio Estevez asking each member what being apart of the Brat Pack meant to them.

Simon Cowell has given fans a sneak peek into his family life with a cute snap of their newest addition, a German Shepherd puppy. The 64-year-old Britain's Got Talent judge, who has been with fiancée Lauren Silverman, 46, since 2013 and shares nine-year-old son Eric with her, recently posted a picture of the new pup on Instagram. Lauren and Simon announced their engagement in January 2022, and now their family is growing even more with the arrival of the adorable new dog.

Attorney Leon Wildes, who stood next to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in court, in public and on TV during the early 1970s as the famous couple successfully fought unrelenting deportation attempts by the Nixon Administration, died Monday, January 8, at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 90.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is inching towards the finishing line and it seems Larry David may have truly revealed himself.

David Leon has reprised his role as DS Joe Ashworth in ITV's Vera after a decade away from the series, but he also starred in a forgotten TV role and had a football career. The actor, 43, who first starred in the ITV drama from 2011 to 2014, returned to his role with a bang on Sunday, January 7, much to the delight of Vera fans as series 13 kicked off.The new series also welcomed back Brenda Blethyn playing the titular detective, DCI Vera Stanhope, while Kenny Doughty, who played Aiden Healy and Ibinabo Jack, who portrayed DC Jacqueline Williams have not returned for this series.

Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic During the Cold War, we had “I Married a Communist” and “I Married a Monster From Outer Space” — two predicaments that the era’s paranoias rendered basically the same thing. In recent years, however, a more common screen fantasy might be summarized as “Whoops, My Significant Other Turns Out to Be an International Spy/Assassin.” There have been numerous efforts in that vein, of variably intentional absurdity.

Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo are stepping out to promote their new Prime Video movie.

The Night Agent is one of Netflix’s most popular shows of all time and its coming back for a second season, likely sometime in 2024.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Julian Jacobs, a longtime UTA executive who has helped the firm expand into entertainment marketing, has been named to lead the agency’s New York office, effective in March. Jacobs expects to build on momentum fostered under Allan Haldeman, a partner and co-head of TV Lit, who has led New York operations since September of 2022.

Actor Neil Morrissey best known for his roles in Men Behaving Badly, Waterloo Road, Line of Duty and The Good Karma Hospital is joining a brand-new drama. He’ll be playing detectorist Martin Stone alongside Cold Feet actress Fay Ripley (who plays Martin's wife Anne Stone) and Inbetweeners star, James Buckley (who will play Ashley Taylor) in Channel 5’s Finders Keepers. Neil is thrilled to be playing Fay’s on-screen husband as the pair have never worked together before despite them appearing in so many iconic British shows.

From Deal Or No Deal and Wheel Of Fortune to Blankety Blank, classic shows keep returning to our screens – and now BBC One is continuing the trend with its reboot of the hit series Gladiators.The show debuted in 1992 on ITV and ran for eight seasons before ending in 2000. Gladiators was then revived for a short run by Sky between 2008-2009, with Ian Wright, Kirsty Gallacher and Caroline Flack as hosts. Now it’s back with brand new contestants, gladiators and a fresh look – including a change of hosts as Bradley Walsh and his son Barney present the action in the iconic arena.