Venice’s Barbera Built Fest Into Awards Season Must-Stop

Gogglebox favourite Izzi Warner showed off her adorable new puppy and introduced Cookie to the world. The TV star shared a couple of photos, including one of her wearing a casual tan jumper and black PVC leggings while holding the black and brown chihuahua, with her face nuzzled into the new pup's head to show the pup off.The second image was a close-up of the heart-meltingly cute little dog.

EastEnders is going to war against Emmerdale as the BBC plans to shake up its TV schedules next month.From March 7, EastEnders will air four times a week from Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm.There will be no Friday edition now - as instead it will go out on a Wednesday night.But the shift means Albert Square’s antics will go directly head-to-head for viewers on all those days against rival ITV soap Emmerdale.The BBC One soap currently averages around 3 million while its ITV rival has been averaging 4.5 million.BBC continuing drama chief Kate Oates said the soap - which has been running for 37 years - had "a loyal following".She added to The Mirror: "We’re delighted that, from 7th March, there will be new regular time slots for EastEnders on BBC1."This new simplified schedule means it’s even easier for viewers to get their fix, as well as being able to watch whenever and wherever they choose on iPlayer."The move comes after ITV recently revealed it would be broadcasting an hour long news show from 6.30pm until 7.30pm in March.This meant their two soaps Corrie and Emmerdale were on the move.Emmerdale will go out Monday to Friday at 7.30pm.And Corrie will air hour long episodes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm until 9pm.It comes as one TV insider swore the "gloves are now off" when it comes to the war of the soaps, explaining: "There used to be a gentleman’s agreement between the channels to avoid clashes but the gloves are off."Of ITV's latest schedule change, the channel's continuing drama boss John Whiston said: "The new format gives Coronation Street a brilliant new canvas on which to shine.

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Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas has confirmed his daughter Scarlett is set to join Waterloo Road to play his brother's - Emmerdale star Adam Thomas - on-screen child.Ryan is best known for playing Jason Grimshaw on the ITV soap, while Adam played Adam Barton in Emmerdale until 2018.Previously, the supportive brother boasted about his sibling’s success as he prepares to reprise his role as Donte Charles on the BBC drama.In the upcoming series, fans can expect to see Donte and his partner Chloe Grainger back on screen once again but this time they aren’t alone as Scarlett makes her debut role as their daughter Izzy.The TV legend appeared on Monday’s (21 February) edition of Morning Live as he shared the exciting news with co-hosts Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones.Full of excitement, Adam said: "I can’t believe I'm saying this, I feel like I'm working for Marvel as I can’t say too much about what’s going on but what I can tell you is that my little niece Scarlett Thomas is going to be joining the cast of Waterloo Road."When the Welsh heartthrob asked how it would be filming and working with his niece on set, Adam replied: "I really don’t know, but if you’re a fan of the show Donte and Chlo had a baby called Izzy many moons ago and she’s now grown up and my little niece gets to play her."My brother’s daughter gets to play my on-screen daughter," he added, before he reassured viewers that she "doesn’t need" any advice from him on how to act.Shortly after the show aired, Ryan took to Instagram to confirm the news with his loyal legion of fans online as fans rushed to congratulate her on social media.Alongside a sweet throwback snap of Ryan with his daughter, he wrote: "As a father & big brother it doesn’t get much better in life

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Britney Spears has reportedly signed a “record-breaking” deal to publish a tell-all book in which she will detail her career and family.The pop star was released from her 13-year court-ordered conservatorship last year and has been outspoken about her family’s treatment of her on social media since.According to Variety, publishers Simon & Schuster has agreed on a deal with Spears that will see them publish her memoir. The book will share the pop star’s own accounts of “her rise to fame, her music career and her relationship with her family”.Page Six also reports that the deal was secured after a bidding war with multiple other publishers and is worth as much as $15million (£11m).

She flew in last week from Portugal and posh Linda Hancock is getting on Bernie Winter's nerves in a tense showdown dubbed 'Granny Wars' on Coronation Street.

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Instagram again today after taking a brief break from the social media platform to concentrate on her family life.The Countryfile star, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2021, shared the announcement alongside a video of the common areas women miss when they are looking for signs of breast cancer.Earlier today, Julia uploaded a picture of herself enjoying the sunshine as she looked into the horizon.Alongside the picture, the presenter shared a reflection on meditation and its benefits.She penned: “Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years.“Originally a more spiritual practice to help deepen the understanding of the sacred and mystical forces of life, meditation is now commonly used for relaxation and stress reduction.“Meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can help emotionally and impact your overall health & well-being.“These benefits continue throughout the day... A bit like the longer- term benefits of spending time in green spaces.”The TV star concluded: “Our overall health is so much more than just physical/how we look.“The brain, gut, mental and physical health are all linked - what we eat, how we move, what we think, our environment...all play a significant role in our health.“Happy Monday everyone.

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The Walking Dead star Lauren Cohan has opened up about Maggie’s violent turn.Discussing latest episode No Other Way, the actor addressed the twist that saw her character shoot a number of Reapers dead and kill her enemy, Carver, by stabbing him with a cleaver.Cohan told Entertainment Weekly this was “one of the most fun episodes” she’s ever shot on the show, calling the killing scene in particular “very visceral”.The scene sees Daryl make Maggie refrain from killing Carver before she looks at Elijah and changes her mind.“There’s that promise that Maggie makes to Elijah, and we have seen the horrors that the Reapers have inflicted on our people,” Cohan explained. “There is a calm that Maggie finds briefly.

Manori Ravindran International EditorAs the Venice Film Festival claws back 70% of its pre-pandemic registration numbers and lures a parade of Hollywood stars to the Lido, it seems festival director Alberto Barbera is right: Venice is well and truly back. And just in time, too.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentOn Tuesday night, the eve of the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, Variety hosted a rooftop party at the Hotel Danieli honoring fest topper Alberto Barbera and the Biennale, its parent organization, with its International Achievement in Film Award.Variety international editor Manori Ravindran presented the prize to Barbera and Roberto Cicutto, the president of the Biennale.The event’s theme was “Stairway to Parasite,” a tribute to director Bong Joon Ho, this year’s Venice Jury President, who posed for paparazzi and mingled with fellow jurors Virginie Efire, Cynthia Erivo and with guests including Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and supermodel Madisin Rian.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe 78th Venice Film Festival gets underway Wednesday with a slew of Hollywood stars expected on the red carpet for the Sept. 1-11 event, beginning with Penelope Cruz for Pedro Almodovar’s opening film “Parallel Mothers,” in competition, and Isabelle Huppert for French drama “Promises,” which opens the fest’s more cutting-edge Horizons section.They will soon be followed by the creative teams and key cast “of all the films,” said artistic director Alberto Barbera speaking to Variety.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLast year, the small Southern African nation of Lesotho entered the Academy Awards race for the first time with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” one of 28 features spawned over the past decade by Biennale College — Cinema, the workshop created by Alberto Barbera for emerging filmmakers to develop and produce micro-budget feature-length films.The College was conceived by Barbera in tandem with Torino Film Lab topper Savina Neirotti, who also heads the unique Venice initiative.Instead of backing just one aspect of the filmmaking process, this lab shepherds movies through their entire production cycle, working closely with director-producer teams on their

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThere is no doubt that Venice these days is the world’s top event to premiere a future Oscar winner, but it wasn’t always like that.When artistic director Alberto Barbera returned to the Lido in 2012 “a lot of things had changed at an international level, driven by transformations due to the digital revolution and the re-organization of production and distribution,” he says.At the time, “Venice was suffering very much from the competition from other festivals, specifically Toronto and subsequently also Telluride.”For various reasons, one being cost, it had become more difficult for Venice to have access to big productions; not just from Hollywood, but also to European films that often preferred to

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival, after some ups and downs over the years, has been hitting its stride for the past decade thanks to Alberto Barbera, who has steadily steered the event forward by finding ways to make the grand dame’s historic grandeur flourish into a crucially important space for the future of filmmaking.Variety will give its Intl. Achievement in Film Award to Barbera and La Biennale di Venezia at a ceremony at the Venice Film Festival.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThough the Venice Film Festival will serve as a launching pad for several blockbusters, festival artistic director Alberto Barbera this year is introducing a section called Horizons Extra, dedicated to more offbeat works of all genres with no length constraints although they must be more than an hour long.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival and Italy’s Mymovies streaming platform have devised what the streamer’s chief Gianluca Guzzo calls “a unique model.”It’s an SVOD service called Biennale Cinema Channel that offers Italians Lido titles from past editions that never made it into local theaters and in September will also provide them with a selection of world premieres launching from Venice’s upcoming 78th edition.It all started with Alberto Barbera’s second mandate at Venice 10 years ago, says Guzzo.