AI microdrama edit of Neighbours worries actors and crew

Fremantle, producer of the now-defunct Australian TV soap opera, has partnered with US-based RoseBerry Media for the project that will use AI to "scan decades of episodes" to help make short vertical videos. Footage of…

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Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history

As it outlines the five women's ceaseless, fearless actions over the last 20 years, you can't help but ask: when did the IRA and Sinn Féin realise they had picked on the wrong family to cross? Robert McCartney, a…

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Death of US actress Hayden Panettiere ruled accidental, ending local police probe

The Heroes and Nashville star died in August from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs in her system, at the age of 36. Citing the medical examiner's report last month that found Panettiere died…

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Liverpool's Littlewoods film studios plan given £20m Budget boost

The funding, announced in the Budget earlier, will come from the government's Growth Mission Fund but is subject to final business case approval. The long-delayed project would see the former Littlewoods Pools…

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Keira Knightley on trading period drama for Black Doves: 'Playing a deadly assassin is much more my thing'

Today, though, is different. I’m talking to Keira Knightley. She’s regarded as extremely cool by young people for a number of reasons. One of them is because she was in Love Actually , the Richard Curtis 2003 Christmas…

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‘We sold out tickets within 13 minutes’: new novel from romantasy author Sarah J Maas sparks fan mania

"We sold out within 13 minutes," says the shop's co-founder Ali Maynard James. "As soon as tickets went on sale, our website crashed". The shop was one of many across the UK marking the release of A Court of Splintered…

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Bradley Walsh's twisty new game show Million Pound Shot to feature UK TV first as contestants bet their own money to win

Hosted by Bradley Walsh , the one-off quiz event has been described as a British television first in which contestants put their own money on the line for the chance to win up to £1 million. Bradley Walsh's Million Pound…

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Tokyo noise artist Yuko Araki details new album, V

The music is darker, with compositions that combine club music and post-industrial electronic textures. “Decoded Void”, which grew from ideas Araki developed while supporting SUMAC in Tokyo in 2025, lands as the first…

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A guide to Blue Planet III: Producer Joanna Haley reveals the secrets behind the new series

Storms have sent giant rollers across the Pacific Ocean, with the rocky islands the pups once sheltered on overwhelmed by water. “It was a dramatic shoot,” says Joanna Haley, who spent a year as producer and director…

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Blue Planet III: How Sir David Attenborough's returning series finds hope in changing seas

Bottlenose dolphins hunt by trapping fish with sea sponges in Western Australia. Swarms of small Smith’s swimming crabs drift across the vastness of the Indian Ocean and, closer to home, four-metre-long bluefin tuna…

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