'It's absolute bedlam': Locals fury at roadworks set to last another month

BAFTA-winner Joanna Scanlan is leading Riot Women, Sally Wainwright‘s BBC series about a group of middle-aged women who form a punk rock band, while BritBox International has boarded as co-producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Killing Eve co-producer Charlotte Essex is heading to UK indie Roughcut TV to develop a slate of projects for its drama push.

Netflix released another round of viewership data Thursday afternoon revealing its most-watched films and shows across the first half of 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: British agency Host Talent Group has signed singer-actress Lulu, Strictly Come Dancing professional Michelle Tsiakkas and Peleton instructor Bradley Rose.

EXCLUSIVE: Harlan Coben and Nicola Shindler have flagged a “shared vision” and “hybrid British-American sensibilities” as leading to the success of Fool Me Once, Netflix‘s most-watched show in the first half of this year.

Sky and Starz‘ Sweetpea will drop October 10.

Squid Game season two will arrive today (September 19), Netflix has announced.The hit K-drama is due to premiere later this year, and ahead of its release, the streamer has previously teased fans with a brief clip.Last month, a clip was shared in which we see a number of players’ numbers flash across the screen, before focusing on 456 – aka Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) – who turns to look at the camera.The text then reads: “The real game begins.”Yesterday (September 18), Netflix announced that a new trailer would be arriving today, with the caption: “It’s almost time to pull you back in.” It followed with an image that was captioned, “The game will not stop” – check it out here:It's almost time to pull you back in. Squid Game Season 2 special teaser TOMORROW.

Kylie Minogue has announced the details of her upcoming ‘Tension’ 2025 UK tour.The ‘Tension’ 2025 tour is set to be Minogue’s biggest tour since 2011, with her embarking on live dates set in her home country of Australia followed by Asia and then the UK stops.The tour will see the ‘Padam Padam’ singer take over the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on May 16, 2025. From there, the singer will make stops in cities such as Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, London, and Nottingham.

Julia Roberts for saying “untrue” things about her in the past.Previously, Eric had claimed responsibility for Julia’s career, saying he made her famous. The claim was most notably made in a 2018 Vanity Fair interview, in which he also discussed his daughter, American Horror Story star Emma Roberts.Now, he’s admitted that was “an asinine thing to have said” about Julia in his new memoir, Runaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Far.He explained: “Now one of the things I’d like to apologise for in this book is for publicly saying on more than one occasion, ‘If it wasn’t for me, there would be no Julia Roberts’…That’s not only unfortunate, but it’s also untrue.

Pocketpair has responded to Nintendo filing a lawsuit over Palworld.Last night (September 18) Nintendo and The Pokémon Company shared a joint statement announcing that they had filed a lawsuit against Palworld developers Pocketpair. Palworld was first teased back in 2021 and quickly became known as “Pokémon with guns”.

Isle of Wight Festival co-founder, has recently spoken out about what “grieves” him about modern festivals.The festival organiser recently spoke to PA, where he reflected on nearly 25 editions of the festival. Foulk founded the event alongside his brothers Ron and Bill.Speaking to PA, Foulk said: “The festival, with the likes of Bob Dylan and (Jimi) Hendrix and Joni Mitchell and people, it was a pilgrimage for the counter-culture, and the songs and the artists were singing about trying to make a better world.“It was very political in that sense.

Zach Bryan has deactivated his Twitter/X account, following widespread backlash to a tweet he shared about Taylor Swift.The country music star first deactivated his account last week, when he started a conversation by sharing an update reading: “Anyone willing to put politics above music don’t get the point of listening to music.”Soon afterwards, he returned to the social media platform, and stirred the pot once more – this time taking aim at Taylor Swift.Sharing a tweet on Tuesday (September 17), the singer-songwriter wrote: “Eagles > Chiefs” and “Kanye > Taylor,” before finishing off the update with: “Who’s with me?”It seems likely that the first part of the tweet is a jab at Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce, who plays as the tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Kanye West mention is a nod to the long-running tension between the pop star and the controversial rapper.Unsurprisingly, the post was quick to spark backlash from countless Swifties on the app, with many users responding to the update with remarks like “Literally anyone else > Zach Bryan.”Literally anyone else > Zach Bryan.

Kylie Minogue has announced her album ‘Tension II’, which will include nine new tracks.The Australian popstar revealed the news on X/Twitter, where she unveiled the sequel to last year’s ‘Tension’.“LOVERS …. TENSION II … The sequel with NINE new tracks will be yours on October 18th!” Minogue wrote.

The WAEVE‘s Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall have spoken to NME about how raising a daughter together shaped not only their view of the world, but their second album ‘City Lights’.The Blur guitarist and Pipettes singer’s second studio album swiftly follows the couple’s 2023 self-titled debut, and comes driven by what Dougall referred to “a bit more sleep deprivation”. It is inspired by their lives with young daughter, Eliza May – who has a song in her honour on the record.“We felt that we’d built a bit of momentum up with the first one, and wanted to be sure that it didn’t drop off,” Dougall told NME.

IndieWire in a new interview, though declined to name the show in question.This came ahead of celebrated work in women’s wrestling comedy Glow playing Debbie “Liberty Belle” Eagan – and as Dr. Carrie Roman in the Showtime comedy-drama series Nurse Jackie.

Coldplay‘s UK tour may stop off at the Liverpool venue.The band are currently embarking on their ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour, which has recently become the biggest rock tour of all time.They’re set to continue their reign as they announced a series of giant London and Hull stadium shows just days ago. Kicking off next August at Craven Park and Wembley Stadium, you can purchase any remaining tickets here.Fans speculated there may be potential Anfield show when an Avanti West Coast train arrived into Liverpool Lime Street station earlier this month.

PJ Harvey’s London Tide soundtrack is being released later this year, with the first song ‘Holloway’ available to stream now – check it out exclusively via NME below.London Tide is based on the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend and was adapted for stage by Ben Power. For the project, Power worked with Harvey to create 13 original songs that were performed by the cast of the play.London Tide, a romantic and propulsive thriller, premiered earlier this year at London’s Lyttelton Theatre, running between April and June. “Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

Metallica have announced a new run of US tour dates to their huge ‘M72’ tour, with Pantera and Limp Bizkit set to join as support. Find ticket details below.Announced today (September 19), the new run of tour dates will see the band’s record-breaking world tour extended into its third year, with 21 shows being added to the schedule for 2025.The run of live dates come in support of the thrash metal icons’ latest album ’72 Seasons’, which was shared last spring.

Liam Gallagher has suggested that “there could be a few new faces” performing with Oasis as part of their 2025 reunion shows.The Britpop legends recently announced news of their long-awaited reformation, and took the world by storm by announcing 2025 live shows.Since the news broke that Liam and Noel Gallagher would be coming together once again, speculation arose about who else would be joining them on the tour.Now, after a fan reached out on X/Twitter to ask about the other musicians joining on tour, Liam shared the response: “Good question, there could be a few new faces just to freshen things up”.Good question there could be a few new faces just to freshen things up— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 17, 2024Initially, reports claimed “no other original Oasis member were expected to join the reunion”, and that the members of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds would be stepping in for the rest of the band.However, many began speculating that Oasis co-founder and original guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, would be coming along for the tour dates.It comes after the guitarist has kept close with Liam, and already joined him for a number of his many solo tour dates. Last month, The Sun reported that a source said: “Bonehead is confirmed.

Jenna Ortega was spotted at Chappell Roan’s Dublin gig this week, as Wednesday season two filming continues in Ireland.The actress was spotted alongside co-star Emma Myers at the gig, which took place in Dublin on Tuesday (September 17).The pair were seen sitting in one of the balconies in the 3Olympia Theatre on Dame Street in Dublin. Fans shared footage and images of the pair once they’d spotted them – some of which you can see here:WHO HAD EMMA MYERS AND JENNA ORTEGA TOGETHER AT A CHAPPELL ROAN CONCERT ON THEIR BINGO CARDS????? pic.twitter.com/Mhm5Znygc2— flou (@esinclaires) September 17, 2024A very blurry photo of Jenna Ortega at @ChappellRoan in Dublin tonight.

Nick Knowles has revealed he's lost a staggering amount of weight following his "really tough" 'Strictly Come Dancing' training sessions.