Alan Cumming will host the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises on Sunday, May 11 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, the British Academy said Monday. The actor, writer, producer and TV host is “renowned for his celebrated career in the arts, spanning television, film, and theater,” BAFTA said. “From his Tony and Olivier Award-winning performance …
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Paramount+, the streaming service of Paramount Global, will launch two new subscription tiers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, namely its basic (with ads) and premium plans. They will join the standard tier in the three countries. Starting on Wednesday, March 26, the premium plan will launch in the three markets, priced at €12.99 ($14.08) per month in Germany and Austria, and …
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On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note. O’Brien accepted the award for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night while acknowledging the backstage turmoil that hangs over the future of the cultural center …
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There’s no denying Denzel Washington’s magnetism. He carries himself with a swaggering authority enhanced by the natural gravitas of his voice. The two-time Oscar winner is the principal reason audiences are shelling out upwards of $900 to see Kenny Leon’s frustratingly underpowered revival of Othello on Broadway. Playing the Venetian general often disparagingly referred to as “the Moor,” Washington emanates …
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Hacks star Hannah Einbinder was honored at the Human Rights Campaign‘s Los Angeles Dinner on Saturday night and used her time on stage to speak about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The actress received HRC’s Visibility Award for expanding LGBTQ+ representation on and off-screen and told the crowd, “My queerness is a tradition of social justice, as is …
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Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM, the studio famously behind Bong Joon Ho’s multi-Oscar-winning Parasite, has signed a three-year pact with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to boost Asian cinema’s presence in Hollywood. The agreement’s first initiative, spearheaded under CJ ENM’s support, will be the world’s first museum exhibition dedicated to Bong’s work. Opening March 23 and titled “Director’s Inspiration: …
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[This story contains spoilers from The White Lotus season three, episode six, “Denials.”] You gotta hand it to Mike White. Whatever else you want to say about the Emmy winning writer’s work on The White Lotus, when it comes to delivering on shock value, he does a heck of a job. Case in point: season three, episode six. If last week’s kiss between brothers Saxon …
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American mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart once said, “The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.” This is very much the case for all mysteries — but throw in chaos with an unreliable ensemble of characters as things go haywire, and you have the recipe for Netflix‘s new …
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Mike Myers is appearing in an ad for Canada‘s Liberal party that supports new Prime Minster Mark Carney and throws some shade at U.S. President Donald Trump. In the ad, Myers and Carney are chatting inside a hockey rink wearing red and white jerseys that say “Canada,” with a Canadian flag hanging on the wall behind them. Carney, who posted …
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YouTube star-turned-boxer Jake Paul and his Olympic speed skater girlfriend Jutta Leerdam got engaged on Friday. The couple announced the news in a joint Instagram post Saturday, featuring photos of the proposal, which took place the day before. In front of a scenic backdrop and amid white flowers and candles, Paul proposed to Leerdam, who looked surprised as she put …
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