British comedy once dominated the small screen, spawning iconic shows and formats from “Monty Python” to “The Office.” But the last decade hasn’t been a bundle of laughs as sketch shows and sitcoms fell out of fashion, partly due to traditional broadcasters’ shrinking budgets whi
This Disney ‘Haunted Mansion’ Accessories Drop Is Giving Graveyard Meets Goyard and more — today's rave signal.
The official Disney collaboration with female-founded brand Stoney Clover Lane features accessories inspired by the amusement park ride
Sabrina Ionescu is hitting the road with Away. The luggage brand has teamed up with the New York Liberty star on a limited-edition travel collection, marking Away’s first collaboration within its premium Aluminum Edge line. The capsule includes two suitcases and a pair of packing
But perhaps the most surreal aspect is Zedd's dance-floor version of the song
In perhaps the least surprising development in recent CMA Awards history, Ella Langley emerged at the front of the pack when nominations for the 2026 telecast were announced Thursday morning, scoring nine in all, just one shy of the all-time single-year record set by Alan Jackson
Yehuda Levi (“A Body that Works”) stars in a new international action-thriller “The Escape” for Keshet International. Set deep in the Colombian jungle, the eight-episode series, titled “Ha’Bricha” in Hebrew, centers around the scion of a religious cult leader who manages to flee
“Entourage” creator Doug Ellin has spoken out against an ad reuniting Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, calling it a “cheap, shitty imitation” of his beloved HBO comedy. While Piven and Grenier are technically playing themselves in the ad — not super agent Ari Gold and movie star
Warner Bros. TV Group isn’t acting like a studio with an uncertain future. Even as the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery remains up in the air — given the uncertain timeline of a Paramount Skydance acquisition — the studio has been on a development and production spree in recent mon
Football superfans from Alice Cooper and Melissa Etheridge to Breland and Bret Michaels predict how their favorite teams will fare
Multiple current and former Anthropic employees warned — and admitted — on Tuesday that the researchers building new AI models believe the technology could lead to humanity’s destruction by the end of the decade, reflecting the industry’s frenzy over reining in rapid development.
Euro-Atlantic Series Co-Pro Pitch Program Launches at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid (EXCLUSIVE) and more — today's rave signal.
Just days after punk pioneers played "one of the most boring rock & roll shows ever," McNeil writes in his book 'Resident Punk,' Johnny Rotten called it quits
Is Venice still vibrating from all the rounds of applause? It’s become customary for audiences at the festival’s premieres to clap and cheer for a seeming eternity after the credits roll. (Often to the visible discomfort of the actors and filmmakers, who look like they don’t know
The Republican midterm convention predictably turned into a worship service for the president
The first-ever Toronto film market, running as part of the Toronto Film Festival, will have a robust contingent of African filmmakers, executives and industry professionals on the ground. Producers at TIFF: The Market look to capitalize on the festival’s historically strong posit
Tyler Hagan of Experimental Forest Films has won the Canadian Media Producers Association’s (CMPA) 2026 Feature Film Producer Indiescreen Award. The plaudit was announced Sept. 10 at the Indiescreen Awards, held at a packed industry event and ceremony at the Sutton Place Hotel on
New Zealand is set to announce a first-of-its-kind Indigenous co-production initiative at the Toronto Film Festival, New Zealand Film Commission CEO Annie Murray tells Variety. The pact will bring together Māori filmmakers from New Zealand, Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia an
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, YouTube serves as a fascinating time capsule for news coverage from that day, during which shocked anchors documented the national tragedy in real time. American Airlines Flight 11 was flown by a terrorist into the North Tower of the World Tra
Def Leppard’s epic journey from Sheffield to global rock superstardom is getting the documentary treatment from filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig (“The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” “Author: The JT LeRoy Story”). “Long Live Def Leppard” is the first authorized feature-length documentary abo
Touted as the most ambitious sci-fi pic ever made in Spanish, Gonzalo Gutiérrez’s “Pacific” (“Pacifico”) will make its European bow at the prominent Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in October and is selling fast to buyers worldwide. “We are proud of the response among top-tier theat
The “Practical Magic 2” press tour might be taking over the world, but Tony Vahl’s impressive feature debut “Krux” also finds space for the supernatural. Set in the final days of the WWII and premiering at TIFF and San Sebastián, it portrays a German village waiting for the inev
Rescue workers turned Chelsea Piers, the sports-and-leisure complex on the Hudson River at West 23rd Street, into a makeshift emergency room. But there were no survivors to treat
The dramatic drop in 2025 French TV export figures may have cast a shadow over this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV market in Le Havre. Yet, like the skies over the Normandy coast, the gloom proved fleeting. Local sellers, rather than disheartened, are already navigating the curr
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