The Guardian Culture

The real love story behind Colin from Accounts: ‘I wouldn’t want to write with anyone else’

As the show takes its final bow, Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer reflect on ‘having a ball’ playing exes while being married with kids, ignoring notes from US TV executives and having ‘big old cries’ at the endIt began, as all great romances do, with a nipple flash. When Colin from Accounts, the little comedy that could, started airing back in 2022, the world fell in love – hard and fast. It was a surprisingly prickly Australian show about Ashley, a student doctor (Harriet Dyer), and Gordon, a

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Variety

‘Heated Rivalry’ Success Sparks New Publishing House From Gay Adult Entertainment Giant Falcon | NakedSword (EXCLUSIVE)

Just nine months after “Heated Rivalry” premiered and became a worldwide phenomenon, gay adult entertainment company Falcon | NakedSword is getting into the book business. The San Francisco-based company is launching FalconInk, a publishing house with a focus on erotic fiction, Variety has exclusively learned. The publisher will consist of three imprints: Falcon Books, NakedSword […]

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Variety

Peacock to Be Included in YouTube Premium Subscription Bundle Starting in 2027

NBCUniversal is hoping Peacock will catch a huge updraft from a new bundling pact with Google’s YouTube. Under a new multiyear agreement between NBCUniversal and YouTube, Peacock Premium (which includes ads) will be available in a new YouTube Premium bundle in the U.S. beginning in early 2027. That will be in addition to the core […]

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Variety

After a 50-Year Split, Los Angeles’ TV Academy and New York’s National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences in Talks to Re-Merge

Fifty years after the TV Academy broke into two, rival Los Angeles- and New York-based organizations, the two sides are exploring a re-merger. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the Television Academy revealed Monday morning that they have started “exploratory talks” on bringing the two sides together. There’s no deadline set […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium in Major Streaming Tie-Up

The new deal expands on a wide-ranging agreement inked between Google and NBCUniversal last year, and will also see NBCU stream some live sporting events on its YouTube channels.

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The Guardian Culture

‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’ Emily Wilson, the classicist whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by Christopher Nolan in early publicity for his hugely successful adaptation of the poem, has roundly criticised the film, saying “it has nothing convincing to say” and that its “lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth”.In a sc

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Variety

‘I Want Your Sex’ Director Gregg Araki on Using an Intimacy Coordinator for the First Time, Opening Outfest and Gen Z Turning Away From Sex: ‘That’s F—ing Life!’

“I Want Your Sex” writer and director Gregg Araki has seen the reports of Gen Z having less sex, and he has some notes. “Like, why don’t you have sex? What’s going on?” Araki told Variety at the opening night of OutfestNEXT on Thursday at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre. “Sex is a […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again

Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attackBoy George has released a new song entitled We Will Dance Again, which voices support for Israel’s military action in Palestine.Posted on X and Instagram with the Hebrew title עוד נרקוד alongside its English translation, the song features a pop-reggae backing. The opening lyrics are: “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, tha

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Hollywood Reporter

Carly Simon Reveals Parkinson’s Diagnosis: “I Have Not Stopped Living. I Have Not Stopped Working”

The 'You’re So Vain' singer has also been treated for skin cancer, as she explains her public absence to fans before the release of her latest album, 'Comes in Waves.'

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The Guardian Culture

Bill Oddie: the comedy legend tragically undervalued by the BBC

The beloved star of The Goodies went on to become TV’s most famous birdwatcher. But behind these triumphs were pain, frustration and mental health issues that led him to leave the show he loved• Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85• Bill Oddie – a life in picturesBill Oddie, who has died aged 85, had two separate, substantial TV presences – as a comedy actor and an ornithologist. Both roles brought him fame but also pain. The peak of the former career was 76 episodes from 1970-82

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The Guardian Culture

‘There’s so much magic!’: how we made Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

‘The ripple of energy and anticipation from the audience was almost visual. It was like opening a new Star Wars film – I didn’t hear a phone go off once’My initial response when I was asked if I was interested in the role was confusion – I felt a bit long in the tooth to play a teenager. I had read the first Harry Potter book and seen a few of the movies, but was just past the right age when it was all kicking off. I didn’t know that there was the coda in the final book that places the action 19

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Hollywood Reporter

Ari Emanuel Once Really Wanted Anthony Fauci to Be His Client

The agent would call him every few weeks to get him to sign with Endeavor.

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Hollywood Reporter

International Dance League’s First Media Rights Deal Is With ESPN (Exclusive)

The IDL's 2026 regular season has four events left: New York, Vancouver, Sydney and Seoul.

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Variety

Laufey Signs With UTA in All Areas

Fast-rising Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Laufey has signed with United Talent Agency for global representation in all areas, the company announced early Monday. UTA will work to secure opportunities across live touring, media, filmed entertainment, brand partnerships, and more. The signing comes as Laufey — whose fusion of pop and traditional jazz has introduced a decade-sold style […]

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Variety

Imax China Prepares Full ‘Odyssey’ Rollout Across Nearly 800 Screens as CEO Cites the ‘Christopher Nolan Effect’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Imax China is preparing to dedicate the vast majority of its nearly 800-screen network to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” when the film opens in mainland China on Aug. 14, with CEO Daniel Manwaring telling Variety that audience anticipation for the release “is going to be enormous.” “I’m expecting a very large majority of our entire […]

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The Guardian Culture

Rienzi review – Wagner’s early opera makes its Bayreuth debut as a frenzied contemporary election drama

Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthAlexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka’s production swaps 14th-century Rome for an abstract near future in an over-busy staging . Jennifer Holloway’s Adriano is a standout in a strong castIt was Adolf Hitler’s favourite opera – and thus vital to a historical chapter that Germany’s Bayreuth festival long preferred to avoid. But Rienzi has finally arrived at Wagner’s symbolic HQ, opening the 150th anniversary season as an exception to the festival’s rigid cano

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Variety

Carly Simon Reveals Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis: ‘I Have Not Stopped Living and I Have Not Stopped Working’

Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The 83-year-old singer-songwriter, best known for her 1972 hit “You’re So Vain,” revealed the news on Monday in a statement (via The New York Times). “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been […]

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The Guardian Culture

Haex – a wilder, weirder open-world adventure

The debut from Scandinavian outfit Dead Astronauts promises shooting, survival, and, in a shake-up to the genre, seeds that terraform its pristine world right before your eyesThe wilds of the sub-Arctic north: towering pine trees, flashes of psychedelic-yellow lichen, and a sun that never wholly sets during the summer months. This land is gorgeous, yes, but also unforgiving, yet in Haex (pronounced “hex”) you have an unusual tool at your disposal to make it a little more hospitable: a cube that

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Variety

Deep Com Roots Sells ‘Summer Days’ to Half the World, as ISII Group Rolls on ‘Amor de Dios’ With Belen Rueda (EXCLUSIVE)

Flexing its muscles as one of the biggest new kids on its film industry block, Spain’s ISII Group has gone into production on “Amor de Dios” headlined by “The Orphanage” star Belén Rueda and produced by ISII banner label Inefable Productions.  The news comes as ISII Group distribution-sales house Deep Com Roots has sold “Summer […]

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Variety

Diego Luna to Be Feted at Sarajevo Film Festival as ‘Ashes’ Screens

Mexican actor, director and producer Diego Luna will be feted at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs Aug. 14 to 21. Luna will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in recognition of his “outstanding career and indelible contribution to cinema.” The festival will screen “Ashes,” his latest directorial feature, which premiered at the Cannes […]

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