October 31 2014

The X Factor has confirmed a double elimination twist for this weekend.

Former Manchester United midfielder and current assistant manager at Aston Villa Roy Keane has confirmed that he has met with the producers of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.

Bette Midler is to appear in her first ever UK TV special later this year for ITV’s Bette Midler: One Night Only, which will be presented by Joanna Lumley.

Lady GaGa and Tony Bennett have teamed up to front H&M’s Christmas campaign and will perform It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) in the Christmas adver. 

Seth Rogen is reportedly in the running to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic. 

Emile Hirsch and Zoe Kravitz have been cast in Gary Michael Schultz’s crime drama Vincent-N-Roxxy.

Isla Fisher has reportedly been cast in spy comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses alongside Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis. 

Julia Stiles has been cast in Go With Me alongside Anthony Hopkins. 

October 30 2014

Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud is on track to take over Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass at the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart.

Ant & Dec are confirmed to be taking over James Corden as host of next year’s Brit Awards.

The X Factor’s Live Shows may reportedly move to Sunday nights next year due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Glyndwr University have awarded Robbie Savage with an honorary fellowship for his services to sport.

Made In Chelsea has added another new cast member Josh Shepherd, for series 8. 

TOWIE cast member James Argent has been suspended from the show and will not appear in this week’s episodes. 

Sony Music and Syco Music have announced a new compilation album called X Factor Songbook. 

Neil Patrick Harris and his husband David Burka have reportedly joined the cast of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Prince will reportedly perform one extended 8-minute medley in the middle of this week’s Saturday Night Live episode. 

October 29 2014

Channel 5 will broadcast the MTV European Music Awards, which takes place next month. 

Marvel have confirmed that Captain Marvel will be the studio’s first female-led superhero movie. 

The Fall is returning to BBC on November 13 for a second series. 

Chadwick Boseman has been unveiled as the star of Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther. 

Nick Grimshaw’s Sweat the Small stuff is returning to BBC Three tonight, along with team captains Rochelle Hume and Melvin Odoom.

Paolo Nutini’s 2009 album Sunny Side Up has reached 6x Platinum status in the UK.

Brad Pitt’s Fury has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend with £2.6m, ahead of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 

The Fault in Our Stars screenwriters have reportedly joined James Franco’s The Disaster Artist. 

The Flash’s series premiere on US network The CW has become the most-watched episode of all time in the history of the network, with 6.8m viewers. 

October 28 2014

Benedict Cumberbatch has reportedly been chosen to star in Marvel’s Doctor Strange after speculation that Colin Farrell and Keanu Reeves were up for the role.

Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field have welcomed their second child together, a baby boy.

MTV have confirmed that Vicky Pattison has quit Geordie Shore after nine series.

Following the release of his 19th studio album If Everyone Was Listening on November 17, Michael Ball has announced a 2015 tour across the UK.

Strictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor on Sunday’s ratings by nearly 2 million viewers. 

ITV’s Wire in the Blood is the latest UK drama to reportedly be adapted for a US TV remake.

Taylor Kitsch is reportedly set to star in the upcoming second season of True Detective alongside Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell. 

Neil Patrick Harris is to host the US version of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

October 27 2014

Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer has broken the studio’s record for trailer views by gaining 34.3 million global views within 24 hours. 

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are reportedly returning to The Lego Movie sequel as writers.

Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge is reportedly working on a three-issue miniseries titled Poet.

Next week’s X Factor will have a Fright Night theme for Halloween, with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and John Legend performing on Sunday’s results show.

The upcoming Fast & Furious 7 has been renamed Furious 7 – the franchise are set to release a trailer next month. 

Ben Howard has claimed his first UK number one album with I Forget Where We Were.

With 4 weeks at the top of the charts, Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass has claimed the joint-longest UK number one single of 2014 so far, along with Clean Bandit’s Rather Be.

Noel Fielding has extended his An Evening with Noel Fielding tour into January and February 2015. 

Lindsy Fonseca has become the final member of the main cast of Marvel’s Agent Carter.

October 24 2014

David Beckham and Robbie Williams have teamed up for a UNICEF UK campaign to raise awareness about childhood violence.

Nicole Scherzinger is confirmed to perform on The X Factor next month. 

James McAvoy is returning to Trafalgar Transformed to play an English Earl in the Jamie Lloyd adaptation of Peter Barnes’ play the Ruling Class.

McBusted have announced their self-titled debut album which is to be released in December. 

Jason Manford is lined up to star in the new touring version of The Producers musical – the latest stage adaptation of Mel Brooks’ Academy Award-winning movie.

David Hasselhoff has confirmed he is to make an appearance in Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming Ted 2.

Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and One Direction are to perform at the BBC Music Awards at London’s Earl’s Court on December 11.

12 Years a Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor and Captain America’s Sebastian Stan have reportedly been cast in Ridley Scott’s The Martian alongside Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig.

Ethan Hawke is to play legendary trumpeter Chet Baker in upcoming biopic Born to Be Blue.

Steve Carell and Charlie Kaufman are reportedly working on an adaptation of Arthur Herzog’s classic sci-fi novel IQ 83.

October 23 2014

Check out the winners from last night’s MOBO Awards here. 

CBS drama Madam Secretary starring Téa Leoni and Morgan Freeman is to air on Sky Living in the UK. 

Mad Men’s Levin Rahm will reportedly appear in the third season of Bates Motel in a recurring role.

Will Smith’s comedy Hitch is reportedly being adapted into a TV series with Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith serving as executive producers.

Hollyoaks and Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel has joined the cast of the upcoming Maze Runner sequel, The Scorch Trials. 

Long-running BBC Three show Snog Marry Avoid? is being remade for US TV as Love, Lust or Run?

The Great British Bake Off co-host Mel Giedroyc is to front new Sky1 quiz show Relatively Clever. 

Steve Coogan is replacing the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as the lead role in Showtime’s series Happyish. 

Marvel have released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron:

October 22 2014

After months of speculation S Club 7 have confirmed a full reunion for BBC’s Children in Need this November. 

Back to the Future is to mark its 30th anniversary next year with a worldwide tour of screenings accompanied by an orchestral band performing Alan Silvestri’s score, as well as 15 minutes of new material. 

Christian Slater is to star in a new USA Network pilot called Mr Robot, where he will play an activist who recruits a cyber technology engineer in a bid to strike corporate America. 

Sean Bean has reportedly been cast in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi The Martian alongside Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. 

Pixar has confirmed that Peter Sohn will replace Bob Peterson as principal director on their new animated film The Good Dinosaur. 

Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles topped the UK box office this weekend with over £4 million. 

Kate Moss and Jennifer Saunders have joined the cast of David Walliams’ upcoming BBC One comedy which is based on his book The Boy in the Dress. 

October 21 2014

Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of manslaughter and is to be jailed for five years.

Lost star Terry O’Quinn, Will & Grace’s Eric McCormack and Ally McBeal’s Calista Flockhart have joined the cast of Full Circle’s second season.

Warner Bros has delayed the release of The Conjuring 2 until 2016. 

Vinnie Jones has reportedly been cast in Arrow’s third season as the villain Danny ‘Brick’ Brickwell.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s channel 4 sitcom Peep Show is to return for a ninth and final series in 2015.

Taylor Swift has announced that Welcome to New York, which features on her new album 1989, will be her next single.

Pitbull is confirmed to host the 2014 American Music Awards this November for a second year.

Guardians of the Galaxy has become Marvel’s third highest-grossing film worldwide, behind The Avengers and Iron Man 3.

ITV Encore has reportedly ordered its first original series, The Frankenstein Chronicles, with Sean Bean in line to play detective John Marlott. 

October 20 2014

Tributes are pouring in for actress and TV presenter Lynda Bellingham who sadly passed away yesterday (October 19th).

Meghan Trainor has claimed the UK’s longest-running female number one single of 2014 with All About That Bass, having spent its third week at the top of the chart.

Ella Henderson’s debut album Glow claimed the number one spot on the Album Chart this weekend.

Jena Malone is reportedly rumoured to be cast in the upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice movie. 

Tom Hardy is reportedly being asked to play the villain in X-Men: Apocalypse. 

The likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Keanu Reeves and Colin Farrell are reportedly being considered for Marvel’s Doctor Strange. 

NBC has ordered a pilot for a Marley & Me TV spinoff which will pick up from where the 2008 movie left off.

October 17 2014

British DJ Duke Dumont is writing new music with Nelly Furtado. 

Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling are to star alongside Ben Whishaw in the new BBC Two espionage thriller London Spy. 

Tom and Jerry are returning to the BBC as part of this year’s Children in Need.

Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton and Nick Grimshaw are returning to host Children in Need this year, as well as The Saturdays’ Rochelle Humes. 

Colin Hanks is reportedly set to guest star in Anna Faris’ sitcom Mom.

NBC and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence are remaking Richard Ayoade and Chris O’Dowd’s The IT Crowd for US TV.

Warwick Davis has revealed that he is returning to the Star Wars franchise for the upcoming Episode VII.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is confirmed to hold its world premiere in London on November 10.

Foo Fighters have unveiled their new single Something From Nothing.

Sir Ridley Scott is producing an Ebola-themed drama series for Fox TV Studios, which will be adapted from Richard Preston’s 1994 non-fiction book The Hot Zone.

October 16 2014

Warner Bros has confirmed that a Justice League movie will be released in 2017. 

Nick Cannon is joining the cast of Andy Samberg’s Brooklyn Nine Nine in a recurring role as the nephew of Captain Ray Holt. 

Christian Bale is reportedly in talks to join Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic.

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris is confirmed to host the 87th Academy Awards on February 22nd 2015, for the first time. 

Gal Gadot is reportedly in talks to join the remake of Ben-Hur as the female lead.

US network ABC is reportedly set to adapt Chris O’Dowd’s Moone Boy for US TV.

Jonny Wilkinson has joined Sky Sports as a pundit for the new season, beginning this Saturday 18th October opening European Rugby Champions Cup fixtures.

Frank Skinner is set to return to host Room 101’s fifteenth series on BBC One. 

October 15 2014

Javier Bardem is reportedly in discussions to play the villain in the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film which begins production in Australia next year.

Girls actress Greta Lee has reportedly landed a role on New Girl as Nick’s love interest.

Gone Girl has topped the UK box office for a second consecutive weekend with a further £3 million, putting The Maze Runner in second place.

Fox has confirmed a Monster-In-Law TV series which is to be adapted from the 2005 rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda.

Downton Abbey’s Lesley Nicol is to appear in an upcoming episode of BBC One’s period drama Inspector George Gently. 

Katherine Parkinson and Mr Selfridge actor Tom Goodman-Hill have reportedly been cast in new sci-fi series Humans. 

The CW are to remake ITV’s 2012 mini-series The Town, which starred Martin Clunes and Andrew Scott, for US TV. 

October 14 2014

Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey are reprising their Men Behaving Badly roles as Gary and Tony for this year’s Stand Up to Cancer telethon on Friday October 17. 

Robert Downey Jr will reportedly star in Captain America 3 as Tony Stark/Iron Man.

David Beckham is fronting a new campaign about Ebola prevention for Unicef. 

Kate Beckinsale may reportedly return as Selene for the new Underworld films.

Made In Chelsea star Lucy Watson is to launch her modelling career after signing with model agency Models 1.

X Factor’s Overload Generation have announced they will be releasing their single No No No in April 2015. 

Him & Her actress Kerry Howard has revealed that she will star opposite her brother, comedian Russell Howard in a new one-off TV project. 

Kendall and Kylie Jenner have been listed number 17 on Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014 list. 

October 13 2014

Overload Generation and Blonde Electra became the first acts to leave the X Factor last night. Next week’s theme is songs from the 80s. 

Alan Carr won £41,000 on Deal or No Deal last night for the Stand Up To Cancer appeal.

George Ezra has kept his place at the top of the UK album chart for a second week with Wanted On Voyage. 

Danny DeVito is to portray One Direction’s director in the upcoming Steal My Girl video, which is being directed by Ben Winston.

OneRepublic’s Counting Stars has passed one million sales in the UK.

Luke Wilson is reportedly lined up to star alongside Will Smith and Alec Baldwin in an untitled NFL football concussion drama. 

Girls creator and star Lena Dunham has revealed plans to adapt Karen Cushman’s young adult novel Catherine, Called Birdy into a movie. 

Jim Carrey is confirmed to host the October 25 episode of Saturday Night Live.  

Jackie Earle Healey has reportedly joined the cast of Olympus Has Fallen sequel London Has Fallen, alongside Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman.  

October 10 2014

Following Jason Orange’s departure from the band last month, Take That have announced their new album III.  

Channel 4 has confirmed it will not be renewing Utopia for a third series. 

The Great British Bake Off final on Wednesday pulled in an average of 12.3 million viewers, making it the most watched non-sporting event of the year so far on UK TV.

Harry Potter star Tom Felton is to make his directorial debut with a BBC Three show about film and TV conventions and their fans.

Roger Daltrey has revealed that The Who are working on a brand new album. 

Tim Roth has joined upcoming comedy Mr Right alongside Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell. 

Rob Brydon is to host one-off TV special Neil Diamond: One Night Only, a 75 minute special which will see him perform at the London Palladium. 

Bad Neighbours writer Andrew Jay Cohen has reportedly signed on to direct a new horror comedy Thrill Ride. 

Hart of Dixie’s Tony Cavalero has been cast as Jack Black’s character Dewey Finn in the new School of Rock TV series. 

Stephen King’s Under The Dome has been renewed by CBS for a third series.  

October 9 2014

The second season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is confirmed to return to Channel 4 on Friday October 24. 

Sandra Bernhard and Stephen Root are to guest star in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Hilary Swank is to host The Great American Dog-a-Thon in celebration of rescue dogs on November 27, with guest appearances from Scarlett Johansson, Josh Duhamel and Fergie.

Director Paul Feig has taken on Ghostbusters 3, confirming it will star ‘hilarious women’.

Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston has reportedly been cast in Brad Furman’s thriller The Infuriator. 

Casey Affleck is reportedly working on a Boston Marathon bombing film called Boston Strong, in which he will star in and produce.

Nancy Birtwhistle was crowned the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2014 last night.  

October 8 2014

One Direction, Sir Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Lorde, Sam Smith, Brian May and Paloma Faith are among the 27 artists who have teamed up to perform the Beach Boys’ God Only Knows for BBC Music's Children In Need Track.

Gone Girl has debuted at number one in the UK box office with £4.1 million, beating Dracula’s £1.7 million. 

During a Q&A on Reddit yesterday, Robert Downey Jr has confirmed that Sherlock Holmes 3 is in development. 

McBusted have announced their debut single Air Guitar will be available to pre-order from midnight on October 8, and will be released on November 23.

Kevin Bridges has announced a new 13-date live stand up tour titled A Whole Different Story, for autumn next year.

Scarlett Johansson has landed her first major TV role in an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. 

Taylor Swift and Pharrell Williams are the first artists confirmed to perform on The X Factor, singing on this Sunday’s live show. 

FX has ordered a 10-part anthology series from Glee and American Horror Story writer Ryan Murphy called American Crime Story. The first season is titled The People v. OJ Simpson, based on Jeffrey Toobin’s best-selling novel The Run of His Life: The People v. OJ Simpson. 

October 7 2014

Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes has sadly passed away aged 86.

Alan Sugar’s tenth series of The Apprentice returns to BBC One with a two part opener on October 14.   

Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Noel Gallagher are reportedly lined up to star in a special episode of Gogglebox for Channel 4’s Stand Up to Cancer.

Game of Thrones stars Natalie Dormer and Lena Headey star in Plan UK’s new global campaign to end violence against girls.

The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies has been cast in the USA pilot Colony, opposite Josh Holloway.

Martin Donovan has reportedly joined the cast of Marvel’s Ant-Man, which already stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

Twin Peaks is confirmed to return to TV with nine new episodes on 2016, continuing from the original series and set in the present day. 

Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie are reportedly set to star in new TV series The Night Manager, based on john Le Carre’s novel. 

Boyzone have announced their upcoming Motown album Dublin to Detroit, which is due for release on November 24, will cover classics from Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and The Supremes.

October 6 2014

Gregg Wallace became the first celebrity to be voted out of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Meghan Trainor claimed the UK number one single this weekend with her debut All About That Bass, also becoming one of the fastest-selling singles of the year behind Clean Bandit’s Rather Be.

Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, has debuted at number one in the US box office with $38 million.

BBC One has announced Atlantis will be returning to the channel on October 4.

The Guardians of the Galaxy DVD is to feature an exclusive preview of the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Calvin Harris has revealed his new album Motion, which is due for release on November 3, features collaborations with Gwen Stefani, HAIM and Ellie Goulding.

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has hinted at the release of a solo album next year.

Jeff Daniels has reportedly entered talks for Ridley Scott’s The Martian alongside Jessica Chastain and Kate Mara.

Steve Martin is to be honoured by the American Film Institute with the Life Achievement Award, in June 2015.

October 3 2014

Dwayne Johnson has confirmed he is to star in a Baywatch movie for Paramount Pictures. 

Olly Murs has debuted his new single Wrapped Up online, featuring Travie McCoy. The single is to be released on November 16.

Masters of Sex star Nicholas D’Agosto is to play Harvey Dent in new batman prequel series Gotham.

NBC has reportedly ordered a half hour comedy series loosely based on Peter Pan and Wendy, set in the modern day.

Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly turned down the offer to play Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle’s biopic of the Apple co-founder, with Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper and Ben Affleck now in the running. 

Hollyoaks are releasing Hollyoaks: The Album on October 20, which will include some of the biggest songs featured on the show this year.

Breaking Bad star Giancarlo Esposito has reportedly been cast in the Maze Runner sequel.

Sarah Jessica Parker has been cast as the female lead in new rom-com All Roads Lead to Rome.

Matt Bomer has joined the cast of upcoming thriller The Nice Guys alongside Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.

October 2 2014

New Batman series Gotham has been given a UK air date of October 13 on Channel 5.

Channel 4 has confirmed that the upcoming fourth season of Homeland will premiere on Sunday October 12, a week after it debuts in the US.

Lionsgate is bringing back Twilight for five brand new short films exclusively for Facebook.

EastEnders has confirmed it will air a live episode for its 30th anniversary next February. All other episodes that week will also include live elements. 

Adam Sandler and his company Happy Madison Productions has signed a deal to produce and star in four movies exclusive to Netflix.

Daniel Radcliffe has reportedly been cast in Now You See Me 2 alongside returning stars Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Isla Fisher.

Former X Factor winner Joe McElderry has announced his 60-date UK Evolution Tour for next year.

We’re the Millers star Jason Sudeikis is to voice the lead character Red in the upcoming Angry Birds movie, while Frozen’s Josh Gad is to voice speedy Chuck, and Danny McBride will play the volatile Bomb.

Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey have reportedly joined the voice cast for DreamWorks Animation’s new family comedy Boss Baby.