December 18 2014

Bianca Miller and Mark Wright made it in to the final of The Apprentice last night and will battle it out for Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment.

Bridesmaids star Maya Rudolph and Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson are to guest star in the fourth season of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!.

Shark Tank investor Lori Geriner is to reportedly guest star as herself in an upcoming episode of New Girl.

Ed Sheeran is on course to claim this year’s Christmas number one album with X.

An untitled Steve Carell movie project set in North Korea has been cancelled in response to the recent cyber-attacks at Sony Pictures.

Suits actress Gina Torres has reportedly joined the second half of the current season of Revenge.

11 unfinished tracks from Madonna’s upcoming 13th studio album have leaked online months before its expected release. 

Charlie Sheen is to reprise his role from John Hughes’s 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in an upcoming episode of The Goldbergs.

Sony Pictures has confirmed that Seth Rogen and James Franco’s The Interview will not be released next week as planned after terror threats. 

December 17 2014

The BBC has confirmed a second series of The Missing.

Ben Haenow has taken an early lead over Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars in the race for this year’s Christmas number one.

Jack Whitehall has was voted King of Comedy by the public for a third consecutive year at the British Comedy Awards. Check out all the winners here.

The New York premiere for Seth Rogen and James Franco’s The Interview has been cancelled by Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema following threars from the ‘Guardians of Peace’ group which claims to be behind the recent hackings at Sony Pictures. 

Skins and The Maze Runner star Kaya Scodelario is reportedly in line for the female lead in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Winona Ryder will reportedly be returning for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2.

Fifty Shades of Grey has beaten Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Age of Ultron to the most-watched YouTube trailer of the year with more than 93 million views. 

December 16 2014

Comedian George Lopez will host the first ever World Dog Awards in the New Year, joined by the likes of Ian Somerhalder and Beth Behrs.

Johnny Depp co-wrote and plays guitar on Ryan Adams’s ‘No Shadow’ and ‘It’s in My Head’, which feature on No Shadow 7 which is released on January 13. 

Thierry Henry has announced his retirement from professional football and will join Sky Sports as a football expert and ambassador from 2015.

Taylor Swift, Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are the first artists confirmed to perform at the 35th Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in February. 

Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams are to perform their new single Spark The Fire at the People Magazine Awards  later this month.

ITV has re-commissioned Celebrity Squares for a second series with Warwick Davis returning as host.

Don’t Tell the Bride is to move from BBC Three to BBC One and will be based on older couples.

Sons of Anarchy’s series finale was the show’s most-watched episode of all time on FX with 9.6m viewers.

December 12 2014

Congratulations to Keira Knightley and James Righton, who are expecting their first child.

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan's 'Especially for You' has hit 1 million sales in the UK, 26 years after it was first released.

Noel Gallagher will headline the 15th year of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at Royal Albert Hall on March 28 2015.

John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Daisy Ridley's Star Wars character names have been revealed as Finn, Poe Dameron and Rey respectively.

EastEnders stars will appear in iPlayer series EastEnders: Back to Ours, that sees them look back on big moments in the show's 30 year history.

January 2015 sees new BBC Three comedy 'Crims', set in a Youth Offender Institution, starring Elis James and Kadiff Kirwan.

December 11 2014

Amy Schumer has been confirmed to host the MTV Movie Awards 2015 at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles on April 12.

Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in 'Lord of the Rings', wrote and performed 'The Last Goodbye' for 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies'.

Congratulations to Sandi Toksvig and Mary Portas, who are among first of thousands of gay couples to convert their civil partnerships into marriage.

It has been announced that JK Rowling’s Cormoran Strike detective novels will be adapted into a BBC1 drama.

Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt will play dysfunctional couple in Channel 4 comedy pilot 'Flowers'.

Emma Willis and Reggie Yates will present new BBC1 Saturday night entertainment show Prized Apart, where ten contestants compete in a range of gruelling challenges.

Christine Bleakley and Amanda Holden will return to ITV’s This Morning to co-host with Phillip Schofield in 2015.

This year's All Star Family Fortunes Christmas special will see Coronation Street vs Emmerdale on Sunday 28 December, 8pm on ITV.

December 10 2014

Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy lend their voices to Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ alongside Ellen Degeneres.

Congratulations to Sir Chris Hoy who will receive the BBC Sports Personality Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony on December 14.

Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Peter Krause and Paula Patton will reveal the nominees for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on December 11.

Gold will show a tribute to the late comedian Bob Monkhouse, presented by Paul O'Grady.

Contestants announced for The Jump 2015 include Gogglebox’s Dom, Strictly’s Ola Jordan and Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts.

The film adaptation of much-loved British comedy Dad's Army will appear in cinemas on February 5th, 2016.

Nicole Scherzinger received a standing ovation last night during her performance as Grizabella in ‘Cats’.

Cuba Gooding Jr and Sarah Paulson will play OJ Simpson and his prosecutor in an upcoming FX adaptation.

December 9 2014

Mark Ronson has released his new single 'Uptown Funk' on iTunes following Fleur East's performance of the song on The X Factor.

Julian Ovenden has said that he would like reprise his role of Charles Blake in Downton Abbey next year.

Kodaline have announced their second album Coming Up For Air, as well as a nine-date UK tour.

Celebrity Big Brother will return in the New Year with a 'twisted faiytale' theme.

Zoella announced she's taking "a few days off the internet" after the admission from publishers that her debut novel was ghostwritten.

It’s a British invasion as Martin Freeman will host this weekend’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ with special musical guest Charli XCX.

BBC are to mark 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's state funeral, presented by Jeremy Paxman.

The family of convicted Adnan Syed have said the 'Serial' podcast is "doing a better job investigating than the police did".

December 8 2014

Carl Fogarty is this year’s King of the Jungle in I’m A Celebrity, beating Jake Quickenden to the crown.

Barbara Windsor will return to EastEnders next year for one of the show's 30th anniversary specials

Lauren Platt is the latest contestant to be sent home from The X Factor, one week before the final.

Strictly Come Dancing fans were left shocked this weekend as Pixie Lott was eliminated.

Pride took home three awards at last night’s Moët British Independent Film Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Andrew Scott.

Ryan Tedder has revealed that he has been working with Madonna on material for her new album.

Congratulations to Countryfile presenter Julia Bradbury, who has revealed she is expecting twins after IVF.

Len Goodman has revealed that he will quit Dancing with the Stars next year.

December 5 2014

Benedict Cumberbatch is confirmed to play Sorcerer Supreme in Marvel’s Doctor Strange. 

X-Men: First Class filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has reportedly acquired the rights to produce the adaptation of Tonya Hurley’s young adult novel Ghostgirl. 

Jennifer Lawrence has claimed her first Top 20 hit in the US with her recording of The Hanging Tree with James Newton and The Lumineers which features on her latest film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

Former Dexter star CS Lee has joined the cast of the second season of True Detective. 

Samuel James has joined the cast of the second series of Birds of a Feather, taking over the role of Matt Willis’ character Garth Stubbs. 

Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt is reportedly in talks to join the remake of Magnificent Seven alongside Denzel Washington. 

Coldplay’s Chris Martin has revealed the name of the band’s upcoming seventh album as A Head Full of Dreams. 

Sean Bean’s Legends has been renewed for a second season by TNT.  

December 4 2014

Davina McCall has confirmed that she will be returning to present the second series of The Jump.

Ant & Dec, Phillip Schofield, Christine Bleakley, Alesha Dixon and Paddy McGuinness will present ITV’s Text Santa.

James Bay has won the 2015 Brits Critics’ Choice Award.

Wolf of Wall Street star Jonah Hill has reportedly signed up to star in The Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips’s crime comedy Arms and the Dudes.

Merlin actor Bradley James has reportedly been cast as the lead role in a new TV sequel to The Omen movie.

Take That are on course to claim their sixth UK number one album with III. 

Paddington has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend with £5.1m, beating The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall have joined Steve McQueen’s HBO pilot Codes of Conduct.

December 3 2014

Jared Leto, Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne have been confirmed for the highly anticipated supervillain movie Suicide Squad.

Bond 24’s cast and title will be announced at Pinewood Studios at 11am on December 4. Daniel Craig, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Ralph Fiennes and Naomie Harris are all expected to return.

A sequel to Anna Foerster’s 2011 Source Code starring Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly in the works. 

Felicity Jones is reportedly in talks to star alongside Tom Hanks in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s Inferno. 

Amber Heard has repoertedly entered talks for Tom Hooper’s period drama The Danish Girl alongside Eddie Redmayne.

Downton Abbey’s Christmas special is to air on Christmas Day at 9pm on ITV. 

BBC Two has confirmed that James Corden and Mathew Baynton’s comedy The Wrong Mans will begin its four-part second series on Monday December 22.