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‘A Different World’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
Netflix has renewed its 'A Different World' reboot for a second season, continuing the HBCU-set revival of the 1987-1993 NBC sitcom with a new generation of Hillman College students.
Tanowitz and Shaw's Pastoral Premieres in UK
Pam Tanowitz's 'Pastoral,' a collaboration with Pulitzer-winning composer Caroline Shaw and visual artist Sarah Crowner, receives its UK premiere as a bright, sparse staging that deconstructs Beethove
Guadagnino's 'Artificial' Premieres, Takes On Altman, OpenAI Drama
Luca Guadagnino’s new film 'Artificial' dramatizes Sam Altman’s 2023 ousting and return at OpenAI, with Andrew Garfield in the role, premiering at the New York Film Festival amid speculation about rea
Alan Cumming Stars in 'Tip Toe' on Starz: TV Review
Alan Cumming trades his 'Traitors' kilt for 'Tip Toe,' a five-episode Starz limited series set in Manchester that confronts homophobic and transphobic hostility through a working-class lens.
AMC+'s 'Kill Jackie' Fails to Stick Despite Zeta-Jones
AMC+'s 'Kill Jackie' pairs Catherine Zeta-Jones as a drug-queenpin-turned-art-dealer with a stylish assassin thriller, but reviewers say eight bloated episodes, cartoonish villains, and a lead charact
Stray Kids Join BTS in Sitting Out Grammy Awards
Stray Kids and BTS both declined to submit music for the 69th Grammy Awards after the Recording Academy introduced a new Asian Pop category, with both acts leaving the submission window closed.
Lenny Rush on his Eric Morecambe vampire comedy and Harry Potter
Lenny Rush, the 17-year-old Bafta-winning actor, stars in BBC One's "The Reluctant Vampire," an adaptation of Eric Morecambe's 1980s children's book written specifically for him by the Gibbons brother
‘It’s radical to release a film called Girls Like Girls in this climate’: hitmaker turned director Hayley Kiyoko on sexuality, safety and becoming ‘Lesbian Jesus’
Pop star Hayley Kiyoko makes her directorial debut with the film *Girls Like Girls*, an expansion of her 2015 song and 2023 novel, releasing October 2 as a bold act of queer representation amid rising
Bassam Tariq Made 'Your Mother' After Blade Collapse
Bassam Tariq pivoted from the collapsed Marvel *Blade* reboot to direct *Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother*, a faith-infused neo-western with Mahershala Ali, channeling personal grief and fatherhood
‘The Celebrity Traitors’ Scores Record-Breaking Season 2 Premiere With Nearly 9 Million Viewers
The second season of BBC's "The Celebrity Traitors" debuted with 8.8 million overnight viewers, peaking at 9 million and capturing over half of all UK TV audiences Thursday night — a new franchise pre
Grouper's Harris on viral hit, streaming scam
Liz Harris of Grouper discusses her first tour since 2008 track 'Poison Tree' was fraudulently uploaded to streaming — earning a scammer six figures before being shut down — and her new dream-pop trio
Gaten Matarazzo Joins West End Rent Revival
Jonathan Larson's musical Rent has been revived for its 30th anniversary on the West End, with Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo joining the cast in a new production captured by photographer Tristr
Read an extract from Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel 'Exit Party' (Picador), the October New Scientist Book Club read, opens in 2031 with protagonist Ari walking post-coup Los Angeles as international peacekeeping troop
Trá Pháidín: Cloch's Claí bursts folk's boundaries
Galway collective Trá Pháidín release their second album Cloch's Claí, a 45-minute bilingual folk record that fuses mariachi, krautrock and post-rock with biting Irish-language satire aimed at tourism
BRICS+ Fashion Summit Builds Non-Western Style Alliance
The BRICS+ Fashion Summit in Moscow spotlighted rising fashion industries from emerging markets, as designers and brands forge cross-border ties amid shifting global retail dynamics.
Ross McElwee's 'Remake': A Father's Grief on Film
Filmmaker Ross McElwee's documentary 'Remake' transforms a planned meta-film about adapting his 1986 'Sherman's March' for Hollywood into a grief-stricken reckoning over his son Adrian's death from a
Rolling Stones Drop Skarsgård-Led 'Mr. Charm' Video
The Rolling Stones released a cinematic music video for 'Mr. Charm' starring Alexander Skarsgård, directed by Henry Scholfield in Palmdale, California, as part of their recent album Foreign Tongues.
Coles's Murder Before Evensong reviewed at Watermill theatre
The Watermill theatre in Newbury stages an adaptation of Rev Richard Coles's village mystery 'Murder Before Evensong,' drawing a mixed review that praises Ian Hallard's detecting rector while flagging
Pakistan Picks Doc Thriller 'Hanging By A Wire' for Oscars
Pakistan has selected Mo Naqvi's documentary thriller 'Hanging By a Wire' — about the 2023 cable car rescue of six schoolchildren in Battagram — as its entry for Best International Film at the 99th Ac
Watch: Celebrity Traitors series two kicks off with a wild curveball
Celebrity Traitors series two has premiered with a dramatic curveball: Richard E Grant made an admission no contestant had ever made on the show, just moments after the traitors were revealed.
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