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Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1:18 PM ET

BBC News - Entertainment

Dwayne Johnson wrestling film to be made into stage musical -- Fighting With My Family, released in 2019, starred Florence Pugh as a young wrestler making her name.

17 hours ago

Michael Jackson film is a 'whitewash' and 'ghoulish', critics say -- A new biopic, titled Michael, sees the singer's nephew Jaafar Jackson portray his uncle's rise to fame.

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Performing together on Saturday Night Live is amazing, say comedians -- Comedians Celeste Dring and George Fouracres, both from the Black Country, are in the show's cast.

10 hours ago

Foo Fighters interview: 'We're a different band without Taylor Hawkins' -- The band talk about life without their drummer, their "angry" new album, and their backstage Lego habit.

17 hours ago

Rock band Traffic co-founder Dave Mason dies at 79 -- He rose to fame after starting the British group alongside Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood.

2 hours ago

Half Man: Richard Gadd series explores male rage -- The Scottish actor and writer's first project after the acclaimed Baby Reindeer is a dark study of masculinity.

9 hours ago

Carey Mulligan on the Gen Z v millennial feud at the heart of Netflix's Beef -- Mulligan and Oscar Isaac play a couple who get into a dramatic row with a pair of younger employees.

1 day ago

Madonna offers reward for return of missing Coachella costume -- The items, which she says are "part of my history", disappeared after her slot with Sabrina Carpenter.

1 day ago

Why police are seeking to arrest billionaire K-pop mogul behind BTS -- Bang Si-hyuk, who created the supergroup, denies defrauding investors before his $7.3bn company went public.

11 hours ago

US singer D4vd pleads not guilty to murder in death of missing teen girl -- Prosecutors say the singer, real name David Anthony Burke, could face life in prison due to the nature of the case, if convicted.

1 day ago

James Bond and prog rock to feature in 2026 Proms -- Concerts celebrating Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich and Miles Davis also appear in the programme.

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Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China -- Gao Zhen is being retroactively punished for 15 year-old-works, in a case that has alarmed rights groups.

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Twenty goals and a burning yellow card - the best bits from Sidemen charity match -- A sold-out Wembley Stadium watched the Sidemen FC charity match, which raised £6.2 million.

3 days ago

Coachella campers are turning tents fancy - and not all Brits are happy -- Campers are being judged for over-the-top tent set ups at this year's festival in California.

4 days ago

Avengers reassemble and Top Gun flies back - Hollywood studios preview their new movies -- Some of the most hotly anticipated new films of the next couple of years are previewed at CinemaCon.

5 days ago

Christine Baranski says West End debut is a 'dream come true' -- The US actress will star opposite Richard E Grant in a new production of Noel Coward's comedy Hay Fever.

5 days ago

'Grant is back!', Ross Kemp on his return to Eastenders -- Ross Kemp talking about what it's like to be back on the Square.

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The kitsch '60s act that dominated the US charts -- In the middle of the 1960s rock revolution, a jazz trumpeter smashed chart records and briefly became bigger than the Beatles. Now aged 91, Herb Alpert talks to the BBC.

7 hours ago

Foo Fighters is 'a different band without Taylor Hawkins' -- Your Favourite Toy is the band's second release since the death of their beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

7 hours ago

Beverley Callard forced to leave I'm A Celebrity: 'I didn't know I had cancer' -- The soap star revealed her diagnosis in February, several months after the reality show was filmed.

8 hours ago

The Salfordian origins of Coronation Street -- The soap's setting was based on a real street

1 day ago

A 'bland, barely competent' biopic -- This saccharine, reverential biopic about controversial music legend Michael Jackson is set to be one of the worst films of 2026 – removing "everything that might be deemed dramatic".

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