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David Tennant and Neil Patrick Harris were spotted filming the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary in the streets of Bristol.

Joey Bada$$ has announced that he’ll be hitting the road later this year, with some UK and Ireland tour dates scheduled for winter – get tickets here.The New York rapper will celebrate his acclaimed 2012 mixtape ‘1999’ and upcoming third album ‘2000’, out June 17 via Columbia Records, with a string of shows which kick off on December 13 at London’s Roundhouse.The tour will then take is shows in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, before wrapping on December 21 at Dublin’s Helix. You can check out the full list of dates below.Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday (June 17); you can get them here.A post shared by Gigs and Tours (@gigsandtours)‘2000’ is Joey’s first full-length effort in five years, following 2017’s ‘All-Amerikkkan Bada$$’. It was announced by the rapper on his Instagram, alongside a short trailer and the caption: “Back on the set like I never left…”The announcement of ‘2000’ followed the release of new single ‘THE REV3NGE’ earlier this year, which came with a cinematic music video directed by child.In an XXL interview last month, Joey spoke about what to expect from his new album.

Sports Team have announced their ‘Friendship tour’ dates in support of their forthcoming second album ‘Gulp‘.The indie rockers have an 11-date run scheduled across the UK and Ireland between October 11 and 25, 2022. Ahead of that, they play 17 shows in the US from mid September until early October, with dates kicking off in Atlanta on September 16.In the UK the band will play shows in Leeds Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol, Norwich, London, Belfast and Dublin.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. TV producer Content Kings and production finance broker and distribution agent Silverlining Rights have revealed a raft of international pre-sales for “Diana: The Ultimate Truth” (1×60’), a documentary which investigates the circumstances leading up to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 25 years ago.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has acquired a majority 79.5% stake in leading natural history program producer Plimsoll Productions.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has completed its acquisition of leading natural history program producer Plimsoll Productions by taking a majority 79.5% stake.The deal, which was revealed by Variety last week, values Plimsoll at £131 million ($161 million) and ITV will pay £104 million ($127 million) in cash for the stake.Founded in Bristol in 2013, the BAFTA, Emmy and Academy award winning Plimsoll has produced hundreds of hours of content including “Tiny World” and “Giant World” for Apple+; “Hostile Planet” and “Supernatural Planet” for Disney; “Night on Earth” and “Animal” for Netflix and the upcoming series, “A Year on Planet Earth” for ITV, Tencent in China, Fox Nation in the U.S.

The UK’s ITV has agreed to acquire a majority interest of 79.5% in Hostile Planet and Tiny World producer Plimsoll Productions for approximately £103.5 million ($126 million), giving the company an enterprise value of £131 million ($159.7M). The stake is being acquired from private equity group LDC.

NME earlier today (June 13) reads: “Jeff Johns, known to all as Big Jeff, has been very seriously injured in a fire at his home in Bristol. He is in a specialist burns unit in Swansea in a stable condition.“His family have asked for people to keep Jeff in their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time.

A festival goer has claimed he and other music fans were crushed as they attempted to flee the site during a torrential rain storm.

Nina Nesbitt will release her new album ‘Älaskar’ later this year, she has announced. New single ‘Pressure Makes Diamonds’ is out now, and she’s got tour dates coming up too.“Making this album was a completely different experience to anything I’ve made before”, she says.

Manori Ravindran International EditorITV Studios is buying British natural history producer Plimsoll Productions, Variety can reveal.While the acquisition isn’t a done deal just yet, sources indicate that it’s expected to close in the next two days. The deal, which sees ITV Studios take a majority stake in Grant Mansfield’s company, is a major coup for the “Love Island” super-indie, which has long been missing a strong natural history player in its entertainment and drama-skewing portfolio. Founded by RDF Media and Zodiak USA veteran Mansfield, Plimsoll was founded in 2013 and specializes in wildlife and natural history programming across its outposts in Bristol, Cardiff and Los Angeles.

Editors have shared details of their new album ‘EBM’ and released new song ‘Karma Climb’ alongside news of a UK and European tour.‘EBM’ is released on 23 September via Play It Again Sam (pre-order here). The music video for ‘Karma Climb’, which follows last month’s single ‘Heart Attack‘, is out now.The band’s seventh album is being showcased along with classics at their newly announced UK and European tour, which kicks off in Spain this month and wraps in Bristol next February.Editors will take in dates at London’s iconic Troxy, with further dates in Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and beyond in Europe.

Holly Humberstone has shared details of a UK tour for late 2022 that features her biggest shows to date – see the full dates below and pick up tickets here.READ MORE: Holly Humberstone: haunting synth-pop to soundtrack coming-of-age anxietyThe new shows come after the singer-songwriter wrapped US shows in support of Olivia Rodrigo and Girl In Red, while she will play London’s Kentish Town Forum tonight (June 6). The new run of shows begin in Bristol at the O2 Academy on November 22 before shows in Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and more follow.The tour finished in Nottingham at Rock City on December 4 with a massive London show at Brixton Academy three days later.After a series of pre-sales, general sale tickets for Humberstone’s 2022 UK tour will go on sale this Friday (June 10) at 9am BST.

A Wetherspoons insider has warned customers to stay away from ordering some of the more popular items on the menu.

Paolo Nutini has shared another track from upcoming album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ – check out the anthemic ‘Shine A Light’ below.The track follows on from ‘Lose It’ and ‘Through The Echoes’ which were both released last month to announce Nutini’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.‘Shine A Light’ is an upbeat slice of arena-ready pop which is perfectly timed, since Nutini will headline TRNSMT and Victorious Festival this summer, and later this month he’ll perform two large outdoor shows in Bristol and Belfast. He’s also set to support Liam Gallagher this weekend at one of his two Knebworth shows.Listen to ‘Shine A Light’ below: Nutini’s ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ is released on July 1 via Atlantic Records.

NME have an exclusive new clip of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis‘ film This Much I Know To Be True, featuring Marianne Faithfull – check it out below.The film came to cinemas for one night only last month, and the new clip arrives alongside the announcement that This Much I Know To Be True will be available to watch on the MUBI streaming service from July 8.In the new clip, Faithfull reads the poem ‘Prayer Before Work’ by May Sarton before Cave and Ellis play through ‘Ghosteen’ track ‘Galleon Ship’.Watch the exclusive clip on NME below.Reviewing This Much I Know To Be True, NME wrote: “At the core of This Much I Know To Be True are sumptuously-shot performances of choice tracks from the Bad Seeds’ ethereal ‘Ghosteen’ and Cave & Ellis’ lockdown revelation record ‘Carnage’, all filmed in breathtaking arthouse style in an abandoned factory in Bristol.”The film is a documentary meets performance film that centres around the creative relationship between Cave and his Bad Seeds bandmate and longtime collaborator Warren Ellis, and looks at the creation of their most recent albums ‘Ghosteen’ and ‘CARNAGE’.Andrew Dominik, director of the new film, recently spoke to NME about how the movie depicts how far Nick Cave has come in his journey of processing grief, saying that it presents “what Nick has learned over the past six years that he has to pass on to us”.“Nick has survived and thrived,” said Dominik. “He’s been determined to take Arthur’s death in the most useful way that he can, and to be there for the other people.

An anti-monarchy billboard has appeared in Dundee as part of a UK-wide protest.

Love Island had a hilarious response to the claims new contestant Andrew Le Page, 27, a real estate agent, looked like the perpetrator who allegedly "stole" a woman's daughter's handbag in a Sainsbury's in unfounded claims. After spotting the new snaps of the contestant emerging online, one concerned user commented: "He looks like the man who stole my daughter's handbag in Sainsbury's." Alarmed and demanding answers, the women then asked the Love Island team to find out if Andrew had been in the Bristol branch of the supermarket on 12 March of this year.The tweets continued as another Twitter user commented they thought Andrew looked familiar, wondering if they'd seen him somewhere else before.

Eco vigilantes targeting 4x4s and SUVs have set their sights on Glasgow.

Jessie Ware performed at O2 Academy Brixton last night (May 28), and during the show she brought out special guest Kylie Minogue for a performance of their duet, ‘Kiss Of Life’.The song is taken from ‘DISCO: Guest List Edition’, a deluxe version of Kylie’s 15th studio album, 2020’s ‘Disco’. Upon its release, NME‘s Nick Levine gave the album a four-star review, describing it as her “most consistent and enjoyable album in a decade”.Ware’s gig last night marked the first of two dates at O2 Brixton Academy, with the second scheduled to take place tonight (May 29).

Actress Patricia Brake has died at the age of 79 following a long cancer battle, it has been announced. She had a career that spanned over 60 years, but she was best known for her roles in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.The star also appeared in soaps such as Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale. Patricia's son Jon McBain shared the news on Twitter, he wrote: "I can confirm that my mother, the actress Patricia Brake, died earlier today at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer." Her agent Scott Marshall Partners also issued a statement: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our client and well-loved stage and TV actress, Patricia Brake, at the age of 79, after a very long battle with cancer.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.