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Animals can be the best companions anyone could have, despite their lack of ability to communicate with their owner.

Extensive council housing construction is going on at a number of sites across Irvine and Kilwinning, councillors have been told.

Dermot O’Leary revealed he kicked off his This Morning hosting stint on three hours of sleep after presenting Soccer Aid the previous night.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It’s Juliette’s fifth birthday, and she can wish for whatever she wants. Top of her list is an adventure, the likes of which this restless girl has only read about in books — specifically, a series of fantasy novels published by a family friend, about a capricious wizard who controls the wind. In “Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams,” a quiet afternoon takes an unpredictable, eye-popping turn, as Juliette (voiced by Loïse Charpentier) and her 8-year-old sister Carmen (Maryne Bertieaux) are whisked away to a dazzling surreal world of alligator-shaped airships and bird-headed opera divas, where seemingly anything can happen. Welcome to the imagination of French director Benoît Chieux, who has crafted — in the year 2023, against considerable odds — a truly spectacular psychedelic excursion in the vein of head-trip classics “The Fantastic Planet” and “The Yellow Submarine.” It’s been roughly half a century since those two movies demonstrated just how liberating the medium of animation can be, but you wouldn’t know it to watch Chieux’s hand-drawn curio, which takes the mesmerizing dream logic of such projects and applies is to an “Alice in Wonderland”-style plot.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have “gone dark” — temporarily closing their virtual doors — for what’s planned as a two-day protest over the company’s move to charge third-party apps for API access to the site. More than 6,500 subreddits as of Monday morning have gone dark, according to Reddark, a site that’s tracking the shutdowns. Those joining in the blackout include some of the most popular subreddits on the site, including r/funny, r/science, r/gaming, r/aww, r/Music, r/todayilearned and r/pics. “/r/Funny has gone private as part of the coordinated protest against Reddit’s exorbitant new API pricing,” says a notice on the forum’s landing page. “This community has shut down and will not grant access requests during the protest.”

Jennifer Coolidge the huge success of two seasons of “The White Lotus” represents both a huge career revival and a hard act to follow. “I have to move on,” Coolidge told fans in Sydney, Australia, this weekend. “Offers have come in and I would love to do a film next, but ‘The White Lotus’ holds this very high bar, so it will be hard to choose.” Coolidge and the show’s creator, writer and director Mike White were in Australia’s biggest city for Vivid Talks, part of 23-day Vivid Sydney, the largest festival in Australia. Their 90 minute “Conversation” was attended by a sold-out crowd of 9,000 at Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre stadium.

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts.” The 10-episode series is based on Chinese-American author Ying Chang Compestine’s bestselling 2016 YA book. Episode 1 of the anthology, titled “Egg Fried Rice,” is currently in production as a pilot order from Singapore’s national media network Mediacorp, and is due an early 2024 release. The project was one of the winning pitches at Mediacorp’s Content Development Pitch 2022 competition, which was part of Creatives Assembly, the company’s annual call for content ideas.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor In NewsNation, New York City isn’t the de facto location for a morning-news program. On Monday, the Nexstar Media-backed cable-news outlet expands its Chicago-based “Morning in America” to four hours and adds Markie Martin, formerly the network’s Dallas correspondent, as a co-anchor alongside Adrienne Bankert. There is some precedent for such a format. Robin Meade succeeded at it for 20 years by holding forth from Atlanta on behalf of HLN. Her program, “Morning Express,” was canceled earlier this year by Warner Bros. Discovery in a cost-cutting maneuver. “I grew up in small-town Oklahoma, and often felt that national news networks catered more toward big-city lives,” says Martin in a recent interview. “I think our content lines up with what every American cares about on a daily basis.” Martin arrived in the Windy City for her new assignment just about a week ago, and was in need of furniture for her new apartment.

Sophia Scorziello editor Dominique Appleby and McKenzie Van Dorne Rice have joined the boutique content company Fandomodo as president of film and TV and VP of film and TV acquisitions. “I’m so thrilled to add these powerhouse women who more than anything, share the same values and vision for what we are building at Fandomodo — content that can open hearts and minds, content that can change the world,” said Anthony Kaan, CEO of Fandomodo Films. Appleby previously worked in a venture capital division of a Hollywood studio before becoming co-founder and president of Harmony Gold Finance. She is also an entreprenuer who has financed pharmaceutical ventures and oil and gas endeavors. She found her way in Hollywood with the help of her mother, the Egyptian-born Aida Takla O’Reilly, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

William Earl Art the Clown is ready to cause more mayhem. Cineverse Corp. announced that it has secured North American rights to slasher sequel “Terrifier 3,” from series writer and director Damien Leone and producer Phil Falcone. The film is scheduled to have a wide theatrical release next year in North America, followed by its exclusive debut on Cineverse’s streaming service Screambox. Produced for less than $250,000, “Terrifier 2” went on to make $15 million at the worldwide box office. It also became a much-discussed viral sensation, as fans took to social media to share the parts that disgusted them most.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Fremantle-owned Lux Vide production powerhouse is expanding its in-house studio capacity, unveiling a large new soundstage on Monday at its facilities in Formello outside Rome which will become a major new European physical production hub. Plans are underway for a total of seven state-of-the-art stages, plus a new post-production facility to be in place at Formello by year’s end creating a sprawling Lux Video studio area on more than 6,500 square meters of space (2,5 square miles) including the backlot. Lux Vide’s new Teatro 5 measuring more than 1150 square meters (more than 12,000 square feet) was inaugurated with Italy’s deputy culture minister Lucia Bergonzoni and other local authorities on hand alongside Lux CEO Luca Bernabei, Andrea Scrosati, Fremantle’s group COO and CEO continental Europe, and Lux’s honorary president Matilde Bernabei.

Marta Balaga Oscar winner Andrew Ruhemann has returned to the director’s chair for “The Day I Became a Bird.” His first short in 13 years, based on a book by Chabbert Ingrid, will see a boy who falls in love – with a girl that only has eyes for birds. Desperate to get her attention, he comes up with a rather unusual plan. “I was at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and that’s where I found this book. I thought it was a very intriguing image: Why is there this kid in a bird costume? It moved me,” he says. Ruhemann’s previous short, “The Lost Thing,” brought him an Academy Award in 2011, shared with Shaun Tan.  

Holly Jones Successful Argentinean YouTube Channel, The Children’s Kingdom (El Reino Infantil), will team with kidoodle.tv, the safe streaming network, to bring their slate of inventive children’s programming to the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. “The alliance with Kidoodle opens the path for us to continue to expand our brand globally and grow our content in the English-speaking market. We are very proud to be part of this platform with “Zenon the Farmer” and “Bichikids,” two of our main IPs,” said Agostina Sanzio, marketing and communications manager at Leader Entertainment. “We continue working so that The Children’s Kingdom is the home of reference content for parents and preferred by children,” she told Variety.

Summer has finally arrived and budget supermarket Aldi has the perfect item for keeping you cool.Those envious of Stacey Solomon's swimming pool can now bag one of their own, as the 14ft Elite Rattan Frame Pool is available on Aldi's website as an online exclusive for £299.99. The supermarket claims that the rattan exterior combines playtime with a stylish outdoor accessory and is quick and easy to set up. The swimming pool comes with a filter pump, ladder, cover, maintenance kit, ground cloth, filter cartridge, and repair patch, so you can rest assured that you're stocked up with all the essentials.

As Love Island season 10 enters its second week, we're fully getting to know all the Islanders and what makes them tick in the world of fashion and beauty. For Molly Marsh, it's House of CB dresses, for Jess Harding it's a Sleek Liptick; and for Ruchee Gurung it's a velvety bronzer, which we spotted her using in the famous girl's dressing room.The powder product happens to be a part of a limited-edition collaboration between much-loved beauty brand Morphe and America's popular TikTok star and make-up influencer Avani Gregg.

Coleen Nolan set tongues wagging last week when she confessed on Loose Women that she is in a relationship again.The 58-year-old panellist proudly declared she’s "never been happier" as she opened up about how it’s taken her time to adjust to her new romance. And while speculation has been rife as to the identity of her mystery new man, OK! can exclusively reveal that Coleen’s boyfriend is in fact her ex, Michael Jones, who she met on Tinder two years ago. The pair went public with their relationship in January 2022, before calling time on things three months later.

Love Island looks set for explosive scenes on Monday night as Jess Harding confronts Molly Marsh over Zachariah Noble. With tensions still high following the banker-themed challenge on Sunday night, Mitchel Taylor, Jess, 22, and Catherine Agbaje watch on as Molly, 21, talks to Zachariah, 25, that evening.

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New Love Island bombshell Leah Taylor is set to enter the famous villa tonight alongside fellow bombshell Charlotte Sumner. She may not have entered the villa just yet, but she already has a number of connections to some former islanders.The brunette from Manchester has already dated one previous islander and she is best friends with another.  The 27 year old dated hunk Danny Williams, who was on the show back in 2019 and also entered as a bombshell. It was back in November of 2020 that Danny and Leah began dating, with the pair spotted in Iceland together in January of 2022.

She only welcomed her first child, daughter Bella Rose, last November, and now former TOWIE favourite Nicole Bass is getting ready to do it all over again – as we can exclusively reveal she’s expecting baby number two. Nicole, 31, excitedly tells us she’s having another girl, due two weeks after Bella Rose’s first birthday. And while Nicole knows she will have her hands full, she wouldn’t have it any other way.