National Spelling Bee 2021 to return in mostly virtual format

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Love Island fans will be brimming with excitement to learn that this year's dating hopefuls will potentially be heading to Jersey, leaving sunny Mallorca well behind. According to recent reports published in The Mirror, Love Island bosses have chosen Jersey as a back-up location for the series.It seems producers would prefer for contestants to return to the Spanish sunshine but are lining up other options as a precaution.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frias’ latest feature, “I’m No Longer Here,” has garnered a host of awards since it was minted at the Sundance Screenwriters lab. Now streaming on Netflix, the film’s depiction of a nearly extinct countercultural movement framed against an immigration drama has won accolades from Oscar-winning directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron.It’s shortlisted to represent Mexico at the Oscars in 2021. The Columbia U alum also directed the entire first season of “Los Espookys” on HBO, from “Saturday Night Live” alums Julio Torres and Fred Armisen.How do you feel about the enthusiastic support that Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro have given you? I feel incredibly grateful.

Kim Kardashian has been the target of a dangerous trespasser, who intended to force his way into the California mansion of the reality star.The 40-year-old entrepreneur who recently made headlines for her official divorce from Kanye West, seems to be feeling unsafe in her own home, after a 24-year-old man was arrested in front of the gated community in Hidden Hills.

Reggae star Bunny Wailer has died aged 73.

The CW has given a massive update this month on all their TV shows.

Blu DeTiger, Olivia Dean, Orla Gartland and Miss Grit have all been confirmed to play NME‘s Girls To The Front online special for International Women’s Day 2021.Initially created as a live event series that showcases female and non-binary artists as well as celebrating gigs as a safe place for all genders, in the past shows have featured performances from Poppy, AMA, Nasty Cherry, Tove Lo, The Japanese House, Beabadoobee, Dream Wife, GIRLI, GLOWIE, and Black Honey among others.Now NME will be bringing Girls To The Front online for a special live streamed show to mark International Women’s Day on March 8.The show will air at 8pm GMT, and be available to watch on the NME YouTube channel and NME.com.Blu DeTiger is New York’s “achingly cool

Channel 4 but will continue to appear in the Australian version of SAS: Who Dares Wins, with the first series of the spin-off enjoying success Down Under.The former soldier, 40, has appeared as the chief instructor on the competitive reality series since its 2015 inception, but the UK network has confirmed it will no longer work with Middleton.In a statement shared with The Mirror, Channel 4 revealed they were cutting ties with the TV personality over his "personal conduct”.However, Australian network Channel Seven has announced their plans to continue working with the former Royal Marine.A representative confirmed the decision in a statement shared with Daily Mail Australia, promising series two would go ahead as planned.They said: "Ant

Chris Willman Music WriterTo the surprise of few, the CMA Festival planned for downtown Nashville in June has been canceled for a second consecutive year — likely the first of many likely summer festival cancellations to come in the U.S.The news first came via a lengthy note sent by Country Music Festival CEO Sarah Trahern to CMA members.While other festivals are still looking at vaccine rates and mulling their prospects for being able to pull off a large-scale, multi-day gathering before the summer is over, the cards were clearer for the CMA and its festival, which takes place on the earlier side, in June, and which would face enormous difficulties even bumping the proceedings back a month or two, given that CMA Fest takes over a

EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Dupont (Brian Banks) is set as a series regular opposite Billy Campbell, Angel Parker and Gerardo Celasco in National Parks, ABC’s drama pilot co-written and executive produced by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The project hails from Costner’s Territory Pictures Entertainment, 20th Television and A+E Studios.

due to the coronavirus pandemic — with studios repeatedly pushing release dates and film festivals scrapping plans or moving online — prompting awards bodies to postpone their respective telecasts and adjust eligibility rules to account for continued uncertainty.Below, ET has your handy awards season calendar to keep you up to date as we learn more about what's to come for the Oscars, Golden Globes, GRAMMYs, BAFTA Awards and more.The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards -- originally scheduled for the first Sunday in January — took place on Feb. 28 as a bicoastal telecast hosted by Tina Fey from the The Rainbow Room in NYC and Amy Poehler from The Beverly Hilton in California, with nominees appearing virtually from around the world.

For the students at a remote boarding school for Kurdish boys, survival is a matter of course, particularly during the frigid depths of winter. The meals are meager, the heating doesn’t work, and even the principal’s car won’t start.

direct to your inboxBBC Three is to return as a broadcast TV channel, six years after it was moved online.BBC is awaiting the approval of broadcasting watchdog Ofcom but plans to relaunch in January 2022.The TV channel will be targeted at audiences aged 16 to 34 and will broadcast from 7pm to 4am each day – the same hours as when it closed in 2016.BBC Three was best known for airing shows such as Gavin And Stacey, Being Human and the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.And fans are calling its reboot the 'best news'."Wow, that's some big news. I'm so happy too hear this, since I've missed @bbcthree ever since it came off air all those years back," wrote one.Another cheered: "YAYYY.

The 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards have staked out a date for their 73rd edition, setting Sunday, September 19 for the live broadcast on CBS.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed Edinson Cavani is closing in on a return to first-team action in a triple-thronged Man United injury update. Cavani went off injured in United's 1-1 draw with West Brom last month and has missed the last four matches with a muscular injury.But in his latest update, Solskjaer confirmed the 34-year-old had resumed training and is in contention for the trip to Crystal Palace.The United boss also offered an update on Phil Jones, who hasn't been seen in a Red Devils shirt since January 2020, and Paul Pogba, who last featured at the start of February against Everton.

As the ongoing pandemic continues to challenge planning for a physical Cannes Film Festival in July, the Cannes Marche, the market section that traditionally runs alongside the festival, is weighing plans for pre-festival market screenings in May and June, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "We're just evaluating this option, talking with the sellers and distributors.

The 2021 Golden Globes ceremony was not a ratings hit.

one-of-a-kind virtual ceremony on Sunday night. It turns out, even though most viewers were home anyway, they decided not to watch the 2021 show, as Nielsen ratings recorded a paltry 6.9 million viewers, Deadline reported on Tuesday.

For the first time in decades, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will bestow just one Oscar for Sound. The Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories, for the time being, are no more.

Lowland League and West of Scotland League clubs are due to learn their fate in meetings with the SFA tonight but the cost of PCR testing is prohibitive to those clubs.It's understood that clubs are still in discussions regarding how to finish the season with time running out in the schedule.Revised dates for Scottish Cup and league fixtures, in both the SPFL and SWPL, will be released in due course.Rod Petrie, Scottish FA President, said: “We are pleased that the First Minister has again recognised the importance of football in Scotland."The decision to temporarily suspend parts of the professional game played by predominantly part-time teams was not an easy one to take."None the less, given the sharp rise in infection rates caused by new

Shelia Washington was instrumental in the exoneration of the Scottsboro Boys, nine young Black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping two white women in a famous 1935 case.The Scottsboro Boys – Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, and Eugene Williams – were riding on a freight train through Tennessee when a white mob tried to force them from the train and later accused them of raping two white women. When their case was heard in Scottsboro, Alabama, eight of the young men were convicted and sentenced to death.