New BBC Chair Unveiled With Licence Fee Decision Expected Tomorrow

Eileen, a film we caught earlier this year at Sundance. Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway lead the cast of the film which is directed by William Oldroyd.Eileen is based on the book of the same name Ottessa Moshfegh and follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery.

Sports presenter and former footballer Alex Scott seems to have confirmed she's in a relationship with singer Jess Glynne.The pair have been romantically linked since October this year, after they were spotted on various outings with each other. Now the couple appear to have gone Instagram official, after sharing photographs on a sandy beach while enjoying some winter sun this Christmas.

The late Queen Elizabeth II needed some reassurance that it would be alright for her to die at Balmoral according to a new documentary.

There’s no denying that 2023 was a period of huge adjustment for King Charles, who experienced many highs as well as some trickier lows during the first full year of his reign. With so much to digest from a momentous royal year, this special edition of OK! looks back at the many highlights of the last 12 months – including the extraordinary coronation and some triumphant tours, as well as a few poignant firsts without much-missed Queen Elizabeth II, such as Trooping The Colour and Mother’s Day.

Gary Lineker, the BBC’s highest paid presenter and rider of many a controversial media storm, has been dubbed the “Tucker Carlson of the UK” by resentful colleagues, The Times reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Tucci is continuing his Italian adventures.

A First Dates star who spent almost two years with teeth issues splashed out on a heavy £80k to fix them.

Rina Sawayama has dropped two new tracks, including a new remix of ‘Imagining’ with Amaarae.The British-Japanese singer recently shared her bonus edition of sophomore album ‘Hold The Girl’ on Friday (Dcember 8). NME originally praised the record in a five-star review, saying: “While ‘Hold the Girl’ is filled with often contrasting sounds, it’s rooted by moments such as these.

Pharrell Williams has teamed up with Swae Lee and Rauw Alejandro on his new song "Airplane Tickets." Check it out below. In February of this year Pharrell was named Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director.

Good afternoon Insiders, here we go again with a busy old week in TV and film. Max Goldbart penning the newsletter. Read on and sign up here.

The Killers have said that they scrapped their planned new album because it didn’t feel “authentic”.Speaking to The Sun newspaper frontman Brandon Flowers and co said the new sound “just didn’t feel right” and they decided to stop making the album they’d planned.He told the newspaper: “It just didn’t feel authentic. It felt like we were forcing something.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC insiders have voiced alarm over a funding deal that has blown a £90M ($113M) hole in the UK broadcaster’s finances and sources say potentially threatens its independence.

Boris Johnson has claimed he "got on very well" with Nicola Sturgeon when they worked together.

The BBC‘s licence fee will not rise by as much as previously promised, the UK government has confirmed, condemning the corporation to a difficult year that could see more cuts and less shows commissioned. The government has, meanwhile, launched a review into the BBC’s funding model.

K.J. Yossman Juniper TV CEO Samir Shah is set to become the new chair of the BBC, the U.K.’s culture secretary Lucy Frazer said today. Shah, who has worked in broadcasting for more than 40 years, will appear before the Culture, Media and Sport committee in the U.K.

The Scottish Covid Bereaved expect Boris Johnson to give "a grotesque distortion of the truth" when he appears at the UK Covid Inquiry this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh Produce Media, the podcast company behind Jon Hamm and Kate Mara-fronted scripted series The Big Lie, has renewed its first-look deal with Audible.

Gisele Bündchen just celebrated a new martial arts milestone… with her rumored beau by her side!

Kasabian have announced a huge ‘Summer Solstice II’ show in their hometown of Leicester ahead of a new album, ‘Happenings’.The band will be performing at Leicester’s Victoria Park on Saturday July 6 with Kaiser Chiefs set to support. More opening acts are set to be announced in due course.“We are truly honoured to be playing Victoria Park in our beloved hometown, with all our people for summer solstice two,” the band said in a press release.

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has said that a £15 increase in the BBC licence fee would be "high". Her comments come after reports that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is planning to block a 9% rise in the annual charge.