Stanley Tucci Sets New Italy TV Show at Nat Geo After CNN Dropped Him

Hospital patients and visitors forked out £146 million for car parking last year – up by 50 per cent from the previous year, new figures showed today.

Coronation Street's Alex Bain's time on the soap is coming to an end.

It’s been an eventful 2023 for international TV and film. As the strikes shut down Hollywood and streamers retrenched from the mega-spends of the Covid era, shows and movies from far and wide came were already in demand like never before, as viewers look to new countries for inspiration. Call it the Squid Game effect, or whatever you want, but neither subtitles nor geographical boundaries are an impediment to content getting seen any more. Here, we run down each Deadline International journalist’s top pick from the year, for the most part avoiding spoilers (there are some though, so this is a fair warning). You’ll find big-ticket U.S. fare, Japanese anime, restaurant TV dramas and Australian newsroom stories among our eclectic selections.

Simone Biles is sticking by husband Jonathan Owens‘ side after he made some controversial comments about their relationship.

EXCLUSIVE: Jenner Furst, the Peabody-winning Emmy nominated director and exec producer of numerous hot button documentaries, has teamed with Arnold Rifkin and former CJ Entertainment exec Justin Lee to form Incite. Rifkin is the Hollywood vet who ran WMA for years and was producing partner with Bruce Willis after that, and who will move Incite into scripted fare next year.

G-Dragon is ready for his next era.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Bobby Kotick is officially leaving Activision Blizzard on Dec. 29, after more than three decades as CEO of the gaming giant, following Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of the company.

French commercial network Tf1 has unveiled fresh details of its new free streaming platform TF1+, which launches on January 8.

If you remember, at the turn of the 21st century, the world was being reintroduced to the “Star Wars” franchise through George Lucas’ prequel trilogy. 1999 saw “The Phantom Menace,” which was a massive hit, and it was quickly followed up in 2002 with “Attack of the Clones.” But in between those films, a major casting search was conducted to find the young man who would play Anakin Skywalker, the tragic Jedi who eventually becomes Darth Vader.

Corinne Foxx is getting married!

BBC Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood is known for being the show's panto villain so fans were left surprised after the 58-year-old appeared emotional during Saturday night's final.

EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Tucci is continuing his Italian adventures.

A2D2, made by using data from DJ Mag’s Top 100, revealed that women may have to work twice as hard as men in order to reach the same recognition as them. A2D2 reported that although only 11 female artists appeared on the list, they account for 40 per cent of the top 10 hardest-working DJs.A2D2’s research read: “Delving further into the data, we identified that on average female DJs gig nearly twice as hard as the men on the list.”It continued: “The average number of gigs for a male DJ was 13 in 2023, whereas the female DJ’s average was 23, quite a considerable difference.

Jonathan Majors‘ ongoing trial for alleged assault have been made public. The Marvel actor denies the allegations against him.The newly-released evidence, which was shared in court last week, is between Majors and his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabarri, who accused him of assaulting her in the backseat of a car in March.As reported by Variety, the evidence includes text messages in which Majors threatened to kill himself, and an audio recording of an argument in which the actor told Jabarri that she needed to act more like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama to support his career.The text messages are from September 2022 and centre on a prior incident between Majors and Jabarri when they were a couple.

A Florida woman is facing manslaughter charges over the disturbing 2022 death of her newborn son. Bianca DeSouza (pictured in he

With only two weeks until Christmas, it’s definitely time to start thinking about your Christmas day looks or New Year’s Eve outfits if you haven’t already. If you want that celeb style on a budget then you’re in luck because George has dropped the most gorgeous sequin maxi dress that rivals Hailey Bieber’s £1.2k gown from 16Arlington. And to make it even better, it’s only £55 here or you can shop the dress in your local Asda store.The George dress features silver sequin embellishments alongside a keyhole cutout around the chest area, making it similar to the 16Arlington one.

Dave Chappelle is set to release a new stand-up special on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. It comes two years after the comedian received a backlash due to comments he made about the trans community.The new special was announced on X (formely Twitter), with the streaming service’s official Netflix is a Joke account posting a short teaser clip with the caption: “Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special will launch globally on Netflix, December 31st.”The currently untitled special will be Chappelle’s seventh for Netflix.

Selome Hailu Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind “Cocomelon,” has set its first project in collaboration with game and toy company Toikido: animated preschool series “PeaKeeBoo.” “PeaKeeBoo” focuses on sounds and visuals from nature and draws inspiration from the children’s game peek-a-boo. Season 1 will debut on the Moonbug Kids YouTube channel in 2024.

Livingston FC are hosting Christmas charity donation drives at both the men’s game at home to Kilmarnock on Saturday, December 16 and the women’s game against Queen’s Park at the Tony Macaroni Arena the next day.

Fans of the usually much loved ITV quiz show, The Chase, aren't too happy with the set up following a recent episode. It comes as four contestants, Joann, Ruby, Matthew and Brendan put in an impressive shift but unfortunately lost out on the huge £100,000 cash prize, which would have made them each £25,000 richer. Following the foursome's failure to make it all the way, a slew of viewers have since taken to social media to brand the show as "fixed" - mainly for the reason that professional quizzer, Mark Labbett, otherwise known as 'The Beast,' was given a whole host of easy questions by presenter Bradley Walsh compared to the contestants.