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Doctor Who fans finally have a steer on when Season 16 should land, as the BBC launches a competitive tender for the show's next chapter.

Convinced Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman’s Sherlock double act is unbeatable — meet the characters who top them.

Tom Felton is backing the new Draco Malfoy to the hilt — and says the young actor bringing him to television has nothing to fear.

Half a century on, one Jaws decision still nags at Steven Spielberg — and yes, there’s a specific choice he’d take back.

What Tommy Shelby did in the First World War: his rank, his unit, the underground job that explains half of Peaky Blinders, and the real Royal Engineers history behind it — including the mine crater you can still visit today.

As we wait for Amazon MGM to name the next 007, the new James Bond film has quietly hit a key milestone behind the scenes.

Barely settled on Instagram, Jennifer Lawrence has already issued a big ask to the people filling her comments — delivered via a Story.

Ruby Patterson left Death in Paradise after two series. Here's how the show wrote Shyko Amos's character out, what the BBC said at the time, and Amos's own candid account of how viewers received Ruby at first.

Two EastEnders actresses were murdered three years apart — Gemma McCluskie in 2012 and Sian Blake in 2015. The full facts of both cases, the police investigations, and the sentences handed down at the Old Bailey.

The BBC's four-part drama Dear England, which began on BBC One on 24 May 2026 with Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate, takes its title from a real open letter Southgate published in The Players' Tribune on 8 June 2021 — roughly 1,700 words addressed to the nation days before Euro 2020 kicked off. This is what the letter said, why he wrote it, and how one piece of pre-tournament writing turned into an Olivier-winning play, a TV series, and a book.

The full history of Zoe and Kat in EastEnders: the 2001 confrontation everyone still quotes, the truth behind it, two decades of estrangement, and where the story stands after the 2025 return.

Why Clarkson, Hammond, and May ended The Grand Tour after 2024's One For The Road — in their own words — and what Amazon has done with the name since September 2026.

How much EastEnders actors earn, from per-episode rates for newcomers to the salary bands the BBC's own annual report once made public — and why those names vanished from the list.

With fans still grieving Dolly Parton’s passing last month, sister Stella has now explained why the family kept her cancer diagnosis under wraps.

Robert Pattinson sets the Venice Film Festival abuzz with a turn critics call career-defining — and that’s before you clock the A24 stamp and who’s in the director’s chair.

Andrew Garfield isn’t mincing words: his new medieval class‑revolt epic is out to make billionaires sweat.

James Farrar's casting was announced on 31 January 2021, and Zack Hudson turned up in episode 6237 on 16 March. Within weeks he'd moved into Sharon Watts's house. The BBC kept the reason under embargo until the moment he opened his mouth at a funeral.

Disgraced BAFTA-winning actor Chris Langham, The Thick of It's Hugh Abbott, has died aged 77 — with an obituary this week revealing the cause.

Peaky Blinders is set in Birmingham. It was barely filmed there. Steven Knight's crime drama ran for six series on the BBC between 2013 and 2022, and the cobbles, canals and back-to-backs that made the show look like 1920s Small Heath are spread across four counties and two countries.

Gregg Wallace and John Torode co-presented MasterChef from the 2005 relaunch until July 2025. Neither is on it now, and both exits trace back to the same document.