‘The Queen’s Gambit’ creators dismiss plans for a second season

Calum Gallagher says Airdrie can't focus on Cove Rangers, and must take care of their own business.

Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou used to watch Scottish Cup Finals from the other side of the world.

An Ayrshire nursing home which was previously told to improve its infection control practices has been given the thumbs up by an official watchdog.

Gordon Smith feared Rangers were booked for trouble with Craig Whyte when learning he’d dodged paying the club’s pre-season hotel.

Chapelhall FC will kick their first league ball during the summer, having been borne of a hunger for the game in the village but, more importantly, to help struggling players with their mental health battles.

Manchester United icon is set to return to the fray in his native Uruguay in sensational fashion.The striker has enjoyed a fantastic career, including a stint at Old Trafford where he became a cult hero during his two years at the club.While he only scored 10 Premier League goals from 2002 to 2004, Forlan would enjoy La Liga much more where he became a huge star.Four years each at Villarreal and Atletico Madrid saw him become one of the top finishers in the game.He retired in 2019 - a year after leaving his last club Hong Kong side Kitchee - where he scored five times in eight games.But the United icon’s love for the game has clearly not died down and he looks set to return imminently.The veteran will join the Old Boys & Old Girls Club for over 40s in the La Liga Universitaria de Deportes de Uruguay (Uruguayan Universities League).The announcement was made on social media with Forlan saying: "The idea is to have fun and share with friends.

Manori Ravindran International EditorMia Wasikowska will take on the lead role in “Little Joe” director Jessica Hausner’s cult thriller “Club Zero,” Variety can reveal.The Australian actor will portray an unusual schoolteacher in Hausner’s second English-language film, which begins shooting in the U.K. and Austria in July.Wasikowska was most recently seen in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Cannes-premiering film “Bergman Island.”In “Club Zero,” Wasikowska’s teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.Discussing the film at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event last year, Hausner described the film as “a lot about eating,” relating to eating disorders and “eating behaviors.” This will be Hausner’s sixth feature.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian director Roberta Torre, known for campy Mafia musical “Tano to Die For” and other anarchic pics, is making “Le Favolose,” about a group of transgender women who reunite after 20 years to commemorate a dead friend and do right by her after her identity has been violated.“Le Favolose,” which translates as “The Fabulous Ones,” is being produced by Donatella Palermo, who is at the Berlinale with auteur Paolo Taviani’s competition entry “Leonora Addio.”Palermo, who has a longstanding rapport with Torre, is the Italian producer behind two Berlin Golden Bear winners: the Taviani brothers’ “Caesar Must Die” and Gianfranco Rosi’s “Fire at Sea.” “When a person decides to face the [gender] transition from man to woman it can be a very painful process in several different ways: social, physical, etc.,” said Palermo, who notes that “when a trans dies, most of the time their body is returned to their families.” Torre’s new pic is based on a real-life story of Antonia, one of the “Fabulous Ones,” who is buried by her family dressed as a man under her original name, Giampaolo, amid the indifference of most.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorArna Media, the Russian distribution company run by Nadezda Motina, has secured the rights to “Brother and Sister,” “The Tank,” “Little Allan – The Human Antenna” and “The Colors of Fire” for its theatrical pipeline. Arnaud Desplechin’s family-drama “Brother and Sister” stars Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud and Golshifteh Farahani. Cotillard and Poupaud play the titular siblings who, following the death of their parents, reunite after decades of silence.

Jamie Lang After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution.As bolts of lightning reanimated the body of Frankenstein’s monster, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which turned heads when it took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner “Nanny,” a supernatural tale from director Nikyatu Jusu, have revitalized the festival scene.While “Nanny” may have been the jewel in the genre crown at Sundance, the influence that genre cinema held over 2022’s first major festival was wide-ranging and undeniable. Chloe Okuno’s psychological thriller “Watcher” impressed — segueing into several sales deals — as did Hanna Bergholm’s psycho-horror feature “Hatching,” sold by Wild Bunch and Charades-sold Spanish standout “Piggy,” the follow-up to Carlota Pereda’s 2019 Spanish Academy Award-winner “Cerdita.” Among genre titles at Berlin this year are Dario Argento’s serial killer thriller “Dark Glasses” in the Berlinale Special section, while Bertrand Bonello’s subconscious voyage “Coma” and Peter Strickland’s gory “Flux Gourmet” (pictured above) feature in Encounters.

Amidst family drama piled miles high, Travis Scott looks as chilled out as ever; but then again, maybe it’s just new dad exhaustion! In the first photos of the rapper since the birth of his second child with wife Kylie Jenner, the rapper wore a comfortable outfit and statement hoodie as he arrived at the Fanatic Super Bowl party on Feb. 12. Travis and Kylie welcomed a son, Wolf Webster, on Feb. 2nd.

"I’ve played with Katie Zelem since I was 12 years old. I’m not going to sit here and say I don’t want her to do well. She’s one of my best friends and always will be," Keira Walsh explains.

Luke Shaw has told Jadon Sancho to keep his head high after emerging as a shining light during Manchester United's difficult run of form.

The Met Office is warning of snow and torrential rain set to hit Britain in the coming days. According to the UK's national weather service, an active jet stream is to bring a change to the weather with a series of low-pressure systems across the country.The first of these low-pressure systems will cross to northern regions including Scotland bringing extraordinarily wet and windy weather hitting winds of up 77km/h.

Last night was a big night for Netflix and “The Queen’s Gambit.” Though star Anya Taylor-Joy didn’t take home a trophy for Best Actress in a Limited Series at the Primetime Emmys, the show did take home Best Directing and the coveted Best Limited Series/Anthology/Movie. And since we live in a world where “limited series” might actually mean “Season 1, but the network hasn’t greenlit more episodes yet,” inevitably, the talk surrounding “The Queen’s Gambit” and its wins is about a potential Season 2.

Netflix's The Queen's Gambit pulled off quite the shocking surprise for the last award of the night at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, taking home Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.The beloved series was going up against HBO'sI May Destroy You andMare of Easttown, Amazon'sThe Underground Railroad and Disney Plus'WandaVision for the coveted award.The series was a passion project of creator Scott Frank's, who had tried to get the series off the ground for nearly 30 years, with Frank accepting the award with producersMoses Ingram, Marielle Heller, William Horberg, Mick Aniceto, Marcus Loges and star Anya Taylor-Joy, with Horberg delivering a poignant speech.

The creator of the hit Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit is responding to speculation about a possible second season after the show’s Emmy wins.

Even with an Emmy win for Best Limited/Anthology series and a tie with The Crown for the most Emmys this season at 11, don’t count on a second season, or even sequel movie for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. 

Close to a year since it debuted on Netflix, becoming the streamer’s most watched limited series with 62M households WW, femme trailblazing chess drama The Queen’s Gambit finally won the ultimate prize, the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Would it go to the singular? Or or, both series that launched a million fan theories? Or perhaps one of the prestige period pieces, or ?In the end, was named the winner.

2021 Emmys speech.The filmmaker won the award for Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie for the Netflix show and spoke for about two minutes, despite the music trying to play him off.“I’m almost done,” he said about mid-way through his speech over the exit music and continued speaking about the show’s star, 25-year-old Anya Taylor-Joy.“Really?” he said, looking annoyed, as the music played on.Twitter, of course, had something to say about Frank’s obnoxiously extended speech after his win.One user shared a photo from the telecast of a gigantic red and white “stop” sign that is placed in the auditorium to signal celebs when it’s time to wrap up their speeches.