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Cyndi Lauper has announced the final North American tour dates of her Farewell Tour, culminating in two August dates at the historic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA. And if we were to put money on it, we’d guess that those dates will be rife with special guests (Chaka Khan, Sam Smith, and Hayley Williams of Paramore have already made appearances this tour).

Trump’s special envoy to the United Kingdom following the 2024 election.“‘The Apprentice’ is one of the best shows that I ever produced,” said Burnett. “The charismatic on-screen presence of President Donald J.

Cast have announced their forthcoming UK and Ireland tour in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their debut LP ‘All Change’.The Britpop veterans are set to embark on a 15-date run across the UK and Ireland with their first show set to take place on October 29 at the 3Olympia in Dublin. From there, John Power and co will make stops in the likes of Belfast, Nottingham, Oxford, Torquay, Birmingham, Leeds, London, Sheffield and more.

Ne Zha 2, the biggest animated film of all time, is set to get a UK cinema release.The Chinese film was released in its homeland in January, and has broken a slew of records since, notably becoming the highest-grossing animated film ever after surpassing last year’s Inside Out 2.Ne Zha 2 is also now the highest-grossing film of all time in China and the biggest in a single market, the first non-English language film to gross $1billion (£700million), as well as the highest-grossing non-English language film ever. It also currently stands as the sixth highest-grossing film in history.It has now been confirmed that the film will be released in the UK later in March, according to Deadline, with other European territories likely to get a release too.The film landed in the US last month, and has so far made just over $19million (£14.6million) across the pond.Ne Zha 2 comes from director Jiaozi and follows on from the 2019 first film.

Nick Cave is set to share a global stream of one of his shows in Europe last year.Titled Wild God – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live In Paris, the stream is set to show Cave’s full live show from his recently completed number of UK and European tour dates.The footage was captured at the music icon’s show at the Accor Arena in the French Capital last November, and marked the final date of the band’s extensive European tour. The dates ran across the latter half of 2024, and saw Cave celebrate the release of his latest album ‘Wild God’.It included a career-spanning set that included classics such as ‘The Weeping Song’ and ‘Red Right Hand’, as well as numerous tracks from the tracklist of the latest LP.“With Cave’s electrifying stage presence and a powerful band featuring Warren Ellis, George Vjestica, Colin Greenwood, Jim Sclavunos, Carly Paradis and Larry Mullins, plus a four-piece gospel-inspired vocal section (Wendi Rose, T Jae Cole, Miça Townsend and Janet Ramus), Nick Cave led a high-intensity, emotionally charged performance in front of 20,000 fans,” reads a description.It will be available to stream worldwide (barring North America) on April 7 via the ARTE Concert YouTube channel and ARTE.tv.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Negotiations between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s right-wing government and Elon Musk‘s SpaceX over a Starlink deal reportedly worth $1.6 billion are sparking outrage in Italy‘s parliament. On Saturday, the spat prompted Musk to ask to meet personally with President Sergio Mattarella in what appears to be a last-ditch attempt to salvage the deal. Italian opposition parties are trumpeting their aversion to the proposed five-year deal under which Starlink, the satellite internet company operated by SpaceX, would provide a secure telecommunications system for Italian diplomats and military forces.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Simon Fisher-Becker, a British actor known for his roles in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and the series “Doctor Who,” died Sunday. He was 63. Fisher-Becker’s death was announced by the actor’s husband on Facebook, with no cause of death or location revealed.

four-row pearl choker with a diamond clasp necklace that belonged to Queen Elizabeth that she donned to the monarch’s funeral in September 2022.Buckingham Palace confirmed last week that Middleton was set to attend the 2025 Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration, which marks the royal family’s first major event of the year. This year’s theme is “Together We Thrive” and 2,000 guests will come together to commemorate “the enduring spirit of the Commonwealth family,” read a statement.Middleton missed last year’s commemoration, held on March 11, 2024, because of health reasons.At the time, Middleton hadn’t yet announced that she was diagnosed with cancer after she underwent abdominal surgery, though questions swirled about her condition following the release of a doctored photograph on UK Mother’s Day.Middleton eventually confirmed she had cancer in a video message on March 22.Following her diagnosis, she mostly stayed out of the spotlight while she was going through chemo last year.

Alex Warren is bringing his song “Ordinary” to Netflix‘s Love Is Blind!

An oil tanker has crashed with a cargo vessel in the North Sea.

Andrew Ahn’s latest feature The Wedding Banquet opens this year’s BFI Flare Film Festival, which runs from March 19 – 30 at the BFI Southbank in London. 

EXCLUSIVE: KSI and Maya Jama are two of the first interviewees featuring on a new BET UK show produced by The Sidemen Story maker Pangaea Group.

EXCLUSIVE: Punch, the acclaimed new play by the Olivier Award winning James Graham, will open on Broadway this fall as part of the Manhattan Theatre Club‘s 2025-2026 season.

Lorraine Kelly found herself a tad red-faced after she accidentally dropped a cheeky word on Good Morning Britain during her regular appearance.The 64-year-old telly favourite was in the midst of a lively chat with Susanna Reid and Ed Balls about her upcoming guests on Monday, March 10, when the naughty term just slipped out. Buzzing about Sir David Suchet's visit to her show, thanks to Agatha Christie's latest page-turner, Lorraine gushed: "Sir David Suchet is coming in and I just wondered, you know what he makes....

UTA’s Co-Head of Media Rights, Jason Richman, is feeling reflective after one of the most shocking beginnings to a year the entertainment industry can remember. The prominent lit exec is considering how the industry has been recovering from the California wildfires that tore through neighborhoods in January, as he prepares for the London Book Fair (LBF), kicking off thousands of miles away this week in the UK. Richman will be repping the likes of Adam Kay’s thriller A Particularly Nasty Case and Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter and sees the event as a reset opportunity for the international book-to-screen market.

Idlewild have announced a UK headline tour for later this year – you can find all the details below.The Scottish band are due to hit the road in the autumn, with the trek kicking off in Newcastle on October 10. From there, they’ll head to Leeds, Wolverhampton, Cambridge, Bristol, London and Manchester.In December, Idlewild will return to Scotland to play two further shows in Aberdeen and Glasgow.“Live in 2025! We’re very happy to be heading on tour later this year, stopping by some of our favourite cities and venues, with a final night at the Barrowland Ballroom in December,” the group wrote on social media.Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday (March 14) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s programming and for many festival goers is a standout and popular attraction. Boasting fresh restorations and rare screenings of difficult to get prints, past seasons have been devoted to filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk or studios such as last year’s retrospective, The Lady with the Torch, which celebrated the centenary of Columbia Pictures.

Brut Post TikTok Subscriber MilestoneFrance’s young adult-focused, online news-skewed platform Brut is sounding its own bell after hitting 10 million subscribers on TikTok, making it the top French publisher on the Chinese-owned platform. The subscriber gains also make the platform the second most followed European news publisher on TikTok after the Daily Mail. “Making news on TikTok was a challenge. A successful bet with 10 million subscribers, which makes us the leading news media in France on a platform historically focused on entertainment,” said TikTok Editor in Chief Laurent Lucas in a release. “This symbolic milestone reflects the success of an editorial policy developed especially for new uses of information consumption in France and around the world.”  Launched by Guillaume Lacroix and Renaud le Van Kim in 2016, the Paris-based platform employs some 250 people. It has had its financial ups and down over its existence but reported last year that it had gone into profit in the final quarter of 2023.  The company is also pushing into the U.S., Africa and India.

Channel 4 has axed Ben Wheately’s zombie comedy horror Generation Z after one season.

Amazon MGM Studios.“It takes great courage for them to let go,” he told the Telegraph. “I hope that [Amazon] handles the work and the character with dignity and imagination and respect.”“In this world that is moving so fast now, at the speed of light, [the takeover] does come with a certain lament,” Brosnan continued.

The BBC has acquired Oscar-nominated director Thomas Vinterberg‘s first TV series.