What are Taskmaster contestants paid?
Ever watched a beloved comedian eat a raw onion or shave their head for five points and wondered what they're getting out of it? The honest answer involves surprisingly little money — and occasionally costs the contestants their own possessions.
July 28, 2026 3:45 pm
Deadliest Catch UK 2026 release date: the new season drags the fleet 225 miles into waters they've never fished
Season 22 of Deadliest Catch is already rolling — and it's one of the biggest shake-ups in the programme's 21-year history, filmed under the shadow of a real tragedy at sea. Here's when UK viewers can watch, and what the fleet is sailing into.
July 28, 2026 3:45 pm
Where does Dear England end? The BBC series pushes past the play's final whistle
James Graham's Dear England always had a problem football writers know well: the story kept moving after the curtain came down. The four-part BBC One adaptation — broadcast from 24 May to 1 June 2026, with Joseph Fiennes reprising his stage role as Gareth Southgate — finally gets to write the whole thing.
July 28, 2026 3:45 pm
What happens at the end of Matrix 3? Neo's fate still splits fans two decades on
The Matrix Revolutions closed the Wachowskis' trilogy on 5 November 2003, just six months after Reloaded — and ended it with a finale fans were still arguing about twenty years later.
July 28, 2026 3:28 pm
How are Taskmaster contestants chosen? Alex Horne spent years begging one comedian to say yes
Every series of Taskmaster delivers five comedians nobody quite expected to see together — and that's not an accident. There is no application form, no audition tape, no public casting call. Here's how the line-ups actually come together, and the story of the one booking that took fourteen series to land.
July 28, 2026 3:05 pm
Why did Martin leave EastEnders? James Bye had to beg producers to let him tell one co-star first
Martin Fowler was the first baby ever born on EastEnders, arriving in Walford on 30 July 1985 — so when the soap killed him off in its live 40th-anniversary episode in February 2025, it cut one of the show's deepest roots.
July 28, 2026 2:41 pm
Tom Holland’s The Odyssey turn is way better than anyone expected
With first reactions to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey landing, Tom Holland is getting stick — but once you factor in the role’s intended register, the pile-on looks off.
July 27, 2026 11:11 pm
8 War Movies So Perfectly Directed They’ll Floor You
We’ve picked the essential war films by bona fide auteurs, judged on craft and cultural clout — and it’s not just the usual suspects.
July 27, 2026 9:52 pm
Tom Holland doesn’t mince words: “I’ve made some s*** movies”
In a frank new podcast interview, Tom Holland admits there were times he had to sell a film he didn’t believe in.
July 27, 2026 9:22 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch joins campaign to block ‘disastrous’ Paramount–Warner Bros. merger
Benedict Cumberbatch has waded into the row over the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, backing a letter to ministers warning of stark knock‑on effects for Britain’s screen sector.
July 27, 2026 8:25 pm