Endeavour to end after 10 years as ITV detective drama films final series

Ryan Gosling has transformed into the iconic character of Ken from the Barbie toy franchise for the highly-anticipated new movie, which also stars Margot Robbie in the lead role, and he's gone for a radical change in look. The 41 year old Hollywood actor, whose career skyrocketed after he starred in brooding romance The Notebook, looked worlds away from any previous role as he sported a platinum bleached blond look for the first time in an official promo shot. With his tresses short at the sides and cut in a semi curtain-style at the front, Ryan also got Ken's smouldering eyebrow-raise down perfectly for the role.

Sam Mitchell will get close to Zack Hudson in EastEnders on Thursday evening's episode of the BBC soap. EastEnders spoiler pictures for Thursday’s episode show the pair sharing a cosy drink, drowning their sorrows together after they both have a bad day. And as sparks begin to fly, how far will things go between the pair? This week’s episodes have already seen Sam cheesed off after being pushed out of managing the club, with Sharon snatching the reins from her.

With Love Island ’s Gemma Owen currently dominating the villa in the hopes of finding true love, many fans at home have been left wondering how long it will be before she drops the ultimate bombshell and reveals she is the daughter of footballing legend Michael Owen. While many may be content to ride on the coat tails of their famous parents, 19 year old Gemma has made the decision to be known only as her own person, instead declaring herself to be an international dressage champion in her own right, rather than the daughter of a celebrity athlete.

Jerrod Carmichael is taking Dave Chappelle to task over his derogatory comments toward the LGBTQ+ community made in his controversial Netflix special. Carmichael says, in a nutshell, Chappelle's legacy is tarnished, and it's his own doing.Carmichael made the statement in a profile, where the 35-year-old comedian opened up about how the only person who acknowledged him after he came out as gay in his HBO stand-up special back in April was his 15-year-old niece.«She hit me with a quick text, 'I see you. I hear you,'» Carmichael said.

Jennifer Hudson shared her heartwarming reaction to this week's Tony win that completed her EGOT collection on Wednesday. «As I said when I won the Oscar, look what God can do,» she said in a video posted to Instagram, in which she is still wearing her Tonys dress as a group cheers happily with a multitude of champagne glasses. A post shared by Jennifer Hudson (@iamjhud)Hudson won a Daytime Emmy in 2021 as an executive producer for. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for  in 2007, and she took home multiple GRAMMY Awards for both her debut self-titled album in 2009 and for  in 2017. Sunday night's Tony was for being a producer for, which took home Best Musical.

"You're out in the open. Especially when you're in the US and you're riding through the canyons."Different temperatures you have different smells.“Being with friends, you know, even when you break down, you don't care."He went on: "Our last ride, we broke down and we were literally in a trailer park for seven hours.“And the one guy that was there, had the part that we needed, or he could get the part in a few hours."So we just sat with this guy, we didn't know him.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKyra Sedgwick has been acting since she was 16, stealing scenes from Julia Roberts in “Something to Talk About” and interrogating hardened criminals to Emmy-winning effect on “The Closer.” But she thinks she’s found her true calling as a director.“I’m madly in love with it,” Sedgwick tells Variety as she prepares for “Space Oddity,” her latest directorial effort, to premiere at the Tribeca Festival. “I feel like this is what I was meant to do all along.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTiffany Boone is set to star opposite André Holland in the Apple limited series “The Big Cigar.”The series is based on the Playboy article of the same name by Joshuah Bearman. It tells the true story of how Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton (Holland) relied in his friend Bert Schneider, the Hollywood producer behind “Easy Rider,” to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba.

Nick Clement Cris Abrego’s rise to the top of the ranks of the unscripted television world is a tale of passion and perseverance. Born and raised in suburban El Monte, Calif., he is a second-generation Mexican American who fought hard to break into the entertainment industry 25 years ago.

Diane Garrett In the final episode of “Gaslit,” the Watergate hearings play in the background as socialite truth-teller Martha Mitchell languishes in the hospital, stricken with cancer and ridiculed as crazy by Republicans and members of the media. Five decades later, Wyoming legislator Liz Cheney is playing a similar straight shooter at the congressional hearings about the Trump White House’s role in the Jan.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicFor this week’s edition of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast. we’re bringing you a panel discussion from the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on May 4.Titled “Drop the Mic: The Business of Music,” I was joined on stage by four incredibly knowledgable music industry professionals (pictured, from left): Marc Cimino, chief operating officer of Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG); Sherrese Clarke Soares, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners; Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy and a noted songwriter and producer who’s worked with the likes of Whitney Houston, Elton John and Justin Bieber; and Scott Pascucci, CEO of Concord and a Grammy-winning producer for the Ron Howard-directed 2016 documentary, “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.” On the agenda: the booming business of catalog sales, which has seen the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon cash out for paydays in the hundreds of millions of dollars and multiples of more than 20 times current market value.Indeed, In 2021, investors spent $5.3 billion on acquisitions of recorded music catalogs, publishing and other royalties.

Jennifer Lopez has revealed that she thought she would receive an Oscars nomination for her work in Hustlers.MORE: Hoda Kotb is all smiles during night out supporting Jennifer LopezThe superstar, who released her Netflix documentary Halftime this week, revealed during the movie that the night before the 2019 nominations were released she told herself: "It's gonna happen, we're gonna be good."WATCH: Jennifer stars in HustlersThat night she said that she had a dream that "it happened" but when she woke in the morning she had texts to confirm that the film hadn't received a single nod."The truth is, I really started to think I was gonna get nominated. I got my hopes up because so many people were telling me I would be.

Faith Hill's move from country music into acting through her hit show, 1883, has certainly paid off, and while the show is extra special in that it allows her to work alongside her husband, Tim McGraw, she's made it clear there are rules!MORE: Faith Hill shares exciting details from latest trip with daughter Gracie - and why Tim McGraw wasn't invitedThe star stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show to talk all things 1883, Tim, and family, giving viewers a glimpse into what it's really like to work side by side with your husband.For the appearance, the actress stunned in a bright red tweed jacket paired with bell-bottom jeans, and when she stepped out, fans were so excited to see her that not only did she receive a standing ovation, but it even prompted Kelly to admit: "They don't do that for everyone."WATCH: Faith and Tim's love storyMORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie supported by family amid Broadway dreamsAs the host played back a clip from the series, a prequel to critically acclaimed Yellowstone, she didn't hesitate to ask Faith about the realities of working so closely with Tim.Kelly asked her: "Were you excited to be doing it together?" and the singer surprisingly admitted: "Well, I'm intimidated by him, because he is an amazing actor."She also went on to reveal the very specific conditions under which she agreed to work with him, explaining: "I did have the rule, for me, personally, because we've been together for so long and we are together all the time…" going on to sarcastically say: "It's glorious…" prompting a fit of laughter from the fellow singer.A post shared by The Kelly Clarkson Show (@kellyclarksonshow)Faith opens up about the reality of working with her husbandContinuing to detail her rules,

Michael Peterson likely won’t watch “The Staircase” but he has plenty to say about HBO Max’s dramatization of his life.

E! News' Daily Pop, Nick recalled what his 9-year-old son Camden said when the tyke stumbled across a shitless picture of his dad. "My son, Camden, looked at it. He says, 'Who photoshopped daddy's body?,'" Nick said. The photo, snapped while Nick and Vanessa were on vacation, is 10 years old. "It was me coming out of the water," Nick said.

dentist in Japan is donning cosplay maid outfits for surgery in an attempt to make patients less scared about visiting for tooth treatment.The Akiba Dental Clinic in Tokyo embraces characters from anime and manga and sees dentists dress up in typical cosplay to calm down their patients.But although it’s unusual to see a hygienist wearing a maid’s uniform, Dr Joji Yukawa, the dentist and clinic director, explained the paid-for service will be the same.He told soranews24: “I’m only using top-of-the-range equipment. It’s something I’ve been most careful about.“I think there are quite a few people who are scared of dentists, to the extent that they have a phobia around dentistry.

Love Island fans were left in disbelief after bombshell Remi Lambert revealed his real age. Remi made a dramatic entrance alongside Jay Younger in last night's episode (June 14), and it wasn't long before the questions were being thrown their way.

Premier League is reportedly set to announce they will scrap the traditional Christmas calendar fixtures between Boxing Day and the New Year following the World Cup.A staple mark of the top-flight season, fixtures held on December 28th have been scrapped to avoid players being rundown after a hectic schedule of international football. For the first time in Premier League history, there will be a six-week gap in the fixture list during November and December to accommodate the Qatari World Cup.According to The Telegraph, when the fixtures are released on Thursday morning (June 16th) there is expected to be one less Christmas game than usual.The report states the festive calendar will only include matches on Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, and January 2nd with no games to be held on December 28th.The change has been brought forward to due concerns over player burnout as the Boxing Day clashes occur just eight days after the final in Doha.The EFL are also anticipated to announce similar changes to the Christmas pile-up.

Elvis actor Austin Butler spent two years perfecting The King’s voice - and now he can’t stop talking like him.The 30-year-old actor, who is being tipped for an Oscar for his role in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann-biopic, can’t shake the voice.He said: “At this point, I keep asking people, ‘Is this my voice?’ because this feels like my real voice.“It’s one of those things where certain things trigger it and other times as well it’s, I don’t know.“When you live with something for two years, and you do nothing else, I think that you can’t help it. It becomes a fibre of your being.“I was waking up at three o’clock in the morning terrified, getting to work and I had two years of doing nothing else.”Butler also revealed that it was “not just moving the hips, but the ankles” to imitate the film’s big dance numbers.He said: “I had to work hard for it.

ITV has announced it is axing its hit detective drama Endeavour after 10 years.The popular police show, which starred English actor Shaun Evans in the leading role of Inspector Morse, has run for eight series with a ninth in the works.Show producers Mammoth Screen, as well as writers Russell Lewis, Roger Allam and Shaun Evans, have mutually agreed to end the show, which means the ninth series shooting in Oxford will be the last.Executive Producer Damien Timmer said in a statement: "Endeavour has been a real labour of love for all of us, and we salute Russell Lewis for his extraordinary achievement in chronicling Endeavour Morse’s coming of age across 72 hours of TV."Russell always knew where he wanted the series to end, and that Remorseful Day is nearly upon us! We’d like to thank Shaun and Roger and all the other members of the Endeavour family on and off screen, and to the show’s fans both in the U.K.

Endeavour, the long-running Inspector Morse prequel series, is ending after nine seasons.