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“Squid Game: The Challenge,” based on the hit South Korean drama, has gotten the green light — and the first trailer is officially here.At first glance, one thing is abundantly clear: “This is a savage game,” says one of the 456 players competing for the massive $4.56 cash prize, which is easily the largest prize in reality-TV history. And the tagline says it all: “Make friends.

Here’s a cool one in the works at Warner Bros: Sydney Sweeney is attached to star in and produce I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, via her Fifty-Fifty Films.

The Righteous Gemstones concludes with its fourth season this year.The HBO series, created by and starring McBride, follows a dysfunctional family of televangelists led by the widowed patriarch Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) who has to contend with his three spoiled children.Other cast members in the series include Adam DeVine, Edi Patterson, Tony Cavalero, Cassidy Freeman, Gregory Alan Williams and Tim Baltz.The Righteous Gemstones debuted in August 2019 and is set to end with its fourth season, which premiered in March 2025.The show’s score is by Joseph Stephens, whose other TV credits include Eastbound & Down and Never Have I Ever. You can stream the full soundtrack below.The series features a wealth of needle drops ranging from Peter Gabriel, DMX and Kenny Rogers.

Edward Berger, hot from his double-whammy Best Film and Outstanding British Film wins for Conclave at the EE BAFTA Film Awards, wanted to stop by the Searchlight after-party at Soho House’s Greek Street to laud Rising Star winner David Jonsson.

The Masked Singer is set to announce its 2025 winner in just a few hours, but it seems the identity of one contestant may have been unveiled early.

Hacks now finally available to watch in the UK, what songs have been included on the show’s soundtrack? Find the full list below.The first two seasons of the show, set in the world of stand-up comedy, had been broadcast via Amazon Prime Video in the UK, but when the third season premiered in May 2024 in the US on HBO and Max, it failed to find a home this side of the Atlantic.That issue was resolved recently when it was revealed that Sky had exclusively acquired the rights to seasons three and four of the multi-Emmy-winning series. The third season launched on Sky and NOW TV on February 7, while a 10-episode fourth season is expected in May.

A Strictly Come Dancing legend, Laurence Holloway, has sadly passed away.The former musical director on both Strictly Come Dancing and the talk show Parkinson, died at the age of 86, his family confirmed.The English composer, who began his career as a pianist in dance bands, passed away after a "short illness" on Thursday 9 January, his daughter Abigail Holloway revealed to the PA news agency. Throughout his illustrious career, the jazz musician collaborated with big names such as Engelbert Humperdinck, Sir Tom Jones, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Mel Torme, Bob Monkhouse, Barry Humphries and Ronnie Corbett, as well as his late wife Marion Montgomery.

Robbie Williams has admitted that he hates his hit single ‘Millennium’.The song features on his 1998 album ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’ and interpolates the theme from the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.It was also the pop star’s first single to top the UK singles chart. But in an interview with Colin Paterson on BBC Breakfast earlier this week, he heavily criticised the song.Paterson shared: “I interviewed Robbie Williams for @bbcbreakfast about his Golden Globe nominated chimpanzee biopic Better Man, which is spending its second week in the UK Box Office Top 10.

Robbie Williams has said he wants to make a “new Rat Pack album”.The pop star released his big band swing covers collection, ‘Swing When You’re Winning’, in 2001 and followed it up with 2013’s ‘Swings Both Ways’. Both albums went to Number One in the UK.During a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Williams revealed that he was keen to revisit this style of music on a forthcoming record.“I would like to write a new Rat Pack album,” he told the publication.

It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Colman Domingo, who’s preparing to make his directorial debut with Scandalous! in 2025.

William Earl Larry Auerbach, a top agent at William Morris Agency for nearly 50 years who also served 25 years at USC School of Cinematic Arts, died Nov. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 95.

Larry Auerbach, former powerhouse agent at the William Morris Agency who segued to a second career helping USC students break into into the entertainment industry, passed away peacefully this morning, Nov. 23. He was 95.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Save the Children,” an early ’70s concert film featuring many of that era’s biggest names in Black music, was in need of some saving itself. Although the documentary featured iconic stars like the Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Bill Withers, the movie disappeared completely off the radar after being briefly released to theaters in 1973 by Paramount Pictures, never getting an authorized home-video release, let alone revival screenings.

An acclaimed singer is hoping his new album will help Salford Lads and Girls Club avoid closure. As reported in the MEN Wayne Devlin has published a book after his own career switched from working on building sites in Manchester to crooning on stage in Las Vegas.

It all started with his dad's record collection.

J. Kim Murphy Colman Domingo is set to make his feature directorial debut with “Scandalous,” a period drama about the 1950s romance between movie star Kim Novak and singer Sammy Davis Jr., and the bigoted scrutiny that the pair faced once their relationship came to light. Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson are in talks to play the two leads.

EXCLUSIVE: Colman Domingo will make his directorial debut in Scandalous, a fast tracked Miramax drama about the clandestine love affair between film star Kim Novak and singer/dancer and film star Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957. Sydney Sweeney will play Novak, and David Jonsson will play Davis Jr.

Joaquin Phoenix was “sick every day” because he was so nervous about singing with Lady Gaga on the set of Joker: Folie à Deux, the film’s director has said.The film is the follow-up to 2019’s Joker, and is out in cinemas on October 4. It received its premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival this week (September 4), with some of the early reactions hailing it as the “movie of the year”.According to director Todd Phillips, Phoenix had to perform with Gaga as early as nine days into shooting, but despite his nerves, they both helped each other out.“The truth is, they gave each other pointers.

Andrew McCarthy’s upcoming Hulu documentary about the ’80s-era Brat Pack, of which both Nelson and McCarthy were charter members.“It seems strange to have that subject matter be something for edited entertainment,” Nelson, 64, told Us Weekly while attending the Children Uniting Nations 24th Annual Academy Awards Celebration & Viewing Dinner on March 10 in Beverly Hills.“Also, like, [McCarthy’s] a nice guy,” he continued, “but I hadn’t seen him in 35 years.“And it’s like, I’m not going to [be] like, ‘Hey!’ No, dude.”It was announced in January that McCarthy, 61, was working on the Hulu documentary about the Brat Pack, so dubbed in a 1985 New Yorker magazine article after the cast appeared together in two movies, “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.”The main Brat Pack members were McCarthy, Nelson, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham, Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy.Fringe members, sometimes included in the group, were Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Sean Penn.McCarthy, Lowe, Moore, Cryer, Sheedy and Estevez, among others, will all be featured in the new project.The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.”The group’s name was a play on Frank Sinatra’s early-’60s era Rat Pack, which included Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop.Nelson confirmed to the outlet that there was a “request” for him to join McCarthy’s Brat Pack documentary, but that he “politely declined” the offer.

according to Deadline.The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.”Together with Lowe, Moore, Estevez et al., McCarthy co-starred in the big-screen ’80s hits “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985), “Pretty in Pink” (1986) and “Less Than Zero” (1987) with Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.

Ahead of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, the Television Academy has compiled a list of the 75 Most Impactful TV Moments.