Starz to Lay Off More Than 10% of Staff, Exit U.K. and Australia Amid Separation From Lionsgate

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Television Broadcasts (TVB), long the dominant free-to-air TV operator in Hong Kong is to dismiss 300 staff, or 8% of its already reduced workforce, in a further cost cutting move. The company said in a regulatory filing on Monday that it will shed 200 staff from its program production operations, merge two of its five channels and reduce its Zstore e-commerce business, with the loss of an additional 100 jobs. The moves, some of which require regulatory approval, are the second staff reduction to be announced this year. In March, TVB cut 255 employees, taking its headcount to 3,600 as of June.TVB is proposing to merge its J2 channel (offering content and programs aimed at a young audience) with its TVB Finance, Sports & Information channel and to create TVB+.

Ozzy Osbourne has made the grim statement that he thinks he has “10 years left” to live.The legendary metal musician and former frontman of Black Sabbath made the revelation in a recent interview with Rolling Stone UK, in which the Prince Of Darkness spoke about his lengthy health troubles, which have included numerous surgeries in the last couple of years.During his chat with the publication, Osbourne spoke about his outlook on death, saying that he doesn’t “fear dying”, but that he doesn’t want to have “a long, painful and miserable experience”.He went on to add that he told his wife Sharon that he had smoked a joint recently: “She said ‘What are you doing that for! It’ll fucking kill you!’ I said, ‘How long do you want me to fucking live for?!’ At best, I’ve got ten years left and when you’re older, time picks up speed. Me and Sharon had our 41st wedding anniversary recently, and that’s just unbelievable to me!”Elsewhere in the chat, Osbourne said that while he still hopes that he’d get the chance to perform again, he might have to “accept the fact” that he might never get the chance to do so.In September, the former Black Sabbath frontman underwent what he said would be his “final surgery” after he had suffered a fall in 2019, which dislodged metal rods that were put into his body after a quad bike crash in 2003.In July Ozzy provided a health update after cancelling his headlining slot at the Power Trip festival next month.

Nam Woo-hyun of K-pop boyband INFINITE has opened up about his “rare” cancer diagnosis.Nam Woo-hyun revealed his gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) diagnosis during a new interview with The Korea Times, where he opened up about it being an “extremely rare form of cancer” and how it faced it.“In my case, the urgency of surgery was non-negotiable, so I quickly held my fan events and performances in January and February before undergoing surgery [in April],” the singer said, before revealing that “the scale [of the cancer] was more extensive than I had thought”.“After the surgery, I had to refrain from drinking water for almost three weeks and got a 20-centimeter scar on my stomach,” the INFINITE singer added. “I even had to attach a blood bag.”However, Nam Woo-hyun also touched on how his time in the hospital, in particular his interactions with the “caring” nurses, had inspired him “to recover, release new music and pursue my passion as a singer”.“I feel as if I were reborn after the surgery,” he said.

Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo has revealed in a new interview that he thinks his late bandmates Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell would’ve been supportive of the band’s current reunion.Appearing on a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast, Anselmo and Pantera bassist Rex Brown shared their first public comments on the band’s reunion. Anselmo said: “It’s empowering. It is incredibly beautiful, and you feel so much love when you’re up there.

The Smashing Pumpkins have appeared on Disney’s holiday special The Wonderful World Of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration to perform Christmas-themed music. The special, which aired on ABC on Sunday (November 26), was broadcasted from Walt Disney World in Florida.

BABYMONSTER have broken the record for the most-viewed debut K-pop music video in 24 hours with their new song, ‘Batter Up’.According to BABYMONSTER’s label, YG Entertainment, the music video for ‘Batter Up’ garnered 22.59million views within the first day of its release on YouTube, per Korea JoongAng Daily. It was released on November 27 at 12 midnight KST.The rookie K-pop girl group has broken a record previously held by SM Entertainment quartet aespa, who reached 21.4million views with the music video for their debut single ‘Black Mamba’ in November 2020.The highly anticipated debut of BABYMONSTER comes nearly a year after the members were first introduced in January and February of this year.

NMIXX have teased a new single titled ‘Soñar (Breaker)’, from their upcoming second EP ‘Fe3O4: BREAK’.Today (November 28) at midnight KST, NMIXX dropped a “motion poster” for their upcoming second EP ‘Fe3O4: BREAK’. The clip features a magnetic box that explodes into the logo for the upcoming project, which comes out on January 15, 2024 at 6pm KST.At the same time, the girl group announced the upcoming release of a pre-release digital single called ‘Soñar (Breaker)’.

Kelly Clarkson performed a cover of Bloc Party’s 2004 single ‘Like Eating Glass’ on Monday’s (November 27) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. The performance is part of the American Idol alum’s tradition of opening her talk show with a cover song.

Margot Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley have been on the red carpet together many times, but they rarely pose as a couple!

The best in film and television was honored tonight at the 2023 Gotham Awards, which kicked off awards season with a bang!

Greta Gerwig is reflecting on the phenomenon that was Barbie!

Tammy Sytch is heading to prison for the next 17 years.

Robert De Niro‘s speech at the 2023 Gotham Awards did not go as planned.

Charles Melton was so shocked by his win at the 2023 Gotham Awards that he was practically speechless while accepting the award!

Adele sent the internet wild with rumours that she had married her partner Rich Paul this month, and now it appears that babies are on the horizon for the superstar. Reportedly a married woman, the singer is looking to the future and making plans to welcome a second child, a source told us.

Jasmine Jobson rose to fame as drug dealer Jaq in Top Boy, but she’s tackling a hauntingly different role in ITVX thriller Platform 7 – that of a ghost trying to solve her own murder. The supernatural drama follows teacher Lisa, played by Jasmine, who finds herself stuck at a train station in ghost-form after dying there. When another cataclysmic event happens in the same place, Lisa tries to work out how it’s connected to her death and whether foul play was involved.

Kathryn Hahn is reprising her role of Agatha Harkness in Agatha: Darkhold Diaries on Disney+.

Ivanka Trump has been working on her surfing skills. In a new Instagram post, Trump shared a photo of herself surfing whle on an indoor pool. She paired the photo with a video of her progress, showing her learning some more advanced moves with the help of an instructor.

Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig and star-producer Margot Robbie showcased their comedy chops in a one-two bit tonight, thanking the Gotham Awards for a Global Icon & Creator tribute. Watch their speech above.

Heartstopper has found its Michael Holden and Darragh Hand will be portraying the character in Season 3 of the Netflix series.

A group of former WWE shareholders has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the events leading up to the merger of WWE and Endeavor’s UFC into TKO Group this year resulted in a “sham sales process” designed to keep Vince McMahon in power and minimizing other bidders.