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Names In The News May 2016

 

May 27 2016

 

Former Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is confirmed to replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United's new manager.  


Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue are reportedly reuniting for another single together.


BBC Two has renewed the Steven Knight-created crime drama Peaky Blinders for a fourth and fifth series.


Ashley Slanina-Davies is set to reprise her role as Amy Barnes in Hollyoaks with Blue’s Duncan James as her on screen boyfriend.   


Disney is reportedly in talks for a live-action remake of The Little Mermaid – not to be confused with the separate non-Disney Little Mermaid adaptation currently in the works at Universal, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as a blonde Ariel.  


 

May 26 2016

 

X Factor singer Louisa Johnson’s first release since winning the show will be Tears – a collaboration with Clean Bandit set for release on May 27.


Stephen Mulhern is set to host ITV’s new show Go For It, which will celebrate contestants' unique skills and bizarre talents.


Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe’s The Last Leg is returning to Channel 4 for its eighth series next month. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is taking part in the first episode, answering questions submitted by Twitter users using the #isitok hashtag.


After an 18-year absence Davinia Taylor is making a comeback to Hollyoaks this autumn.

 

McFly have had to postpone their upcoming Anthology tour in the UK next month while drummer Harry Judd recovers from an acute disc herniation. 


 

May 25 2016

 

Channel 4 has confirmed a second series of The Secret Life of the Zoo will premiere later this year, as well as a Christmas special.


Hollyoaks and Harry Potter actress Anna Shaffer has reportedly landed a role in the new Doctor Who spinoff show Cass.


The Elmore Leonard novel and classic movie Get Shorty is getting a revamped TV spinoff by Damages' Davey Holmes, set to air on in 2017.       


Glastonbury has added Coronation Street's Craig Charles to its 2016 line-up.  


Fearne Cotton and Martin Kemp are set to take over Graham Norton’s BBC Radio 2 show this summer.


Record label Vibe On plans to reissue Kylie Minogue’s self-titled 1994 album as a two-disc special that will feature "rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks". 


 

May 23 2016

 

MTV have confirmed that rumours of Harry Styles joining the cast of Teen Wolf are false.


Blue star Duncan James is joining the cast of Channel 4’s Hollyoaks as Ryan, a new character who moves into the village with his family.


Channel 5 are making documentaries about musical icons Freddie Mercury and Karen Carpenter, which will include interviews with those closest to the stars.


Love Island returns to ITV2 next Monday May 30 at 9pm.


The Omen sequel series Damien has been cancelled by A+E after just one season.


Jimmy Kimmel and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston have spoofed MTV’s My Super Sweet 16. Watch here. 


 

May 20 2016

 

Take That and Sigma have revealed their new collaboration Cry:  

 

After 10 years of playing Dr Callie Torres on Grey’s Anatomy, Sara Ramirez will be leaving the show.

 

New horror show Outcast, from Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, will make history when it premieres simultaneously in 61 countries this evening on Facebook Live.


CBS journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer has sadly passed away at the age of 84.    


Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock - The Musical is set to debut in the West End at the New London Theatre on November 14.   


 

May 19 2016

 

Anna Friel has confirmed she's contracted for two more series of ITV thriller Marcella.


Vin Diesel has confirmed that Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel will be returning as hacker Ramsey in the upcoming Fast 8.


Mark Wright's CBBC kids' show The Dengineers has landed a deal to air in the US on Discovery Family.


Drake has become Spotify’s most-streamed artist ever with 3.212 billion streams, taking over the top spot from Justin Bieber.  


Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have released the music video for their new single Dance Off – featuring a cameo from Idris Elba.


 

May 18 2016

 

Two Pints of Lager writers are currently working on Carry On Doctors – a new movie installment of the iconic Carry On comedy franchise.


TOWIE star Ferne McCann has confirmed on This Morning that she has landed a role in a Hollywood movie.


Josh Duhamel is confirmed to return as Colonel Lennox for the fifth installment of Transformers – The Last Knight.


Late Late Show host James Corden has confirmed that there are plans for a Carpool Karaoke spinoff show.  


Jennifer Hudson is the latest star to be rumoured as a new judge on The Voice UK.


Little Mix’s latest headline Get Weird tour has been named the highest-selling of 2016 so far in the UK, selling 300,000 tickets across 34 dates in the UK.

 

 

May 17 2016

 

Gleb Savchenko, Jimmy Osmond, Audley Harrison, Amy Childs, Sinitta, Donna Air, Laila Morse, Sid Owen and Amelle Berrabah are among the celebs taking part in the next series of Celebrity MasterChef. 


Michael bay’s Transformers 5 will officially be titled Transformers: The Last Knight.


Insidious: Chapter 4 has been given a release date of October 20 2017. 


CBS have axed the Rush Hour TV series after its first season. 


The first trailer for Fox's Prison Break revival has finally arrived: 

 
 

 


May 16 2016

 

Courtney Cox, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens and Nick Jonas have signed up for the next season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls.   


The upcoming documentary on Oasis from the team behind Amy Winehouse documentary film Amy, is to be titled Supersonic.


Birdman actress Andrea Riseborough has joined the cast of Netflix's Bloodline as a new series regular.  


Michael Caine, Bill Nighy and Matthew Goode will reportedly star in director Ande De Emmony’s family action adventure movie Four Kids And It, based on the Jacqueline Wilson novel of the same name.


NBC is teaming up with Tina Fey for new pilot Great News. They have also picked up Marlon, a semi-autobiographical comedy starring Marlon Wayans and Essence Atkins.

 

 

May 13 2016

 

OneRepublic have premiered their brand single 'Wherever I Go'.


Marvel's World War II-era action series Agent Carter has been dropped by ABC after two seasons.  


Jack O'Connell will reportedly star in a brand-new drama series for Netflix called Godless, produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.  


The BBC has announced you're going to have to start paying to watch BBC iPlayer from 2017 if you don’t have a TV license 


X Factor duo Reggie N Bollie have released their debut single 'New Girl'.


The screenwriters of Avengers: Infinity War have hinted that Bradley Cooper's Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy could be joining the line-up.


 

May 12 2016

 

Chris Evans' revamped Top Gear is officially returning to the BBC on Sunday 29 May.


The release date for Godzilla 2 has been pushed back from June 8 2018 until March 22 2019. Godzilla vs King Kong will be released on May 29 2020.


Vanessa Hudgens is starring in NBC’s DC Comics series Powerless, a sitcom about an insurance adjuster who sells claims to people damaged in superhero fights.  


The producers behind Beyoncé's Lemonade video are reportedly working on a movie about the failed Provisional IRA attempt to kill former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher with a bomb planted in the hotel she was staying in. 


Gareth Gates has released his own range of coconut tea called Cuppanut.


 

May 11 2016

 

Director Ridley Scott is reuniting with The Martian writer Drew Goddard for Western drama Wraiths of the Broken Land - an adaptation of S Craig Zahler's novel which was published in 2013.  


Channel 4 is adapting the works of sci-fi legend Philip K Dick for a new 10 part drama series Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K Dick, starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston. 


Game of Thrones actress Michelle Fairley is reportedly set to star in Starz's White Queen spinoff The White Princess opposite My Mad Fat Diary and Doctor Foster star Jodie Comer.


Fox has greenlit the Lethal Weapon and The Exorcist movie spinoffs; with Lethal Weapon recasting its cop duo originally played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover with Damon Wayans Sr and Clayne Crawford.


A new biopic movie is reportedly being made about Andre the Giant , one of the biggest stars in pro-wrestling history, based on last year's authorised graphic novel Andre the Giant: Closer to Heaven.


Syfy has officially announced a pilot order of Man of Steel writer David S. Goyer's Superman prequel series Krypton, set entirely on Superman's home planet.


 

May 6 2016

 

Hail, Caesar! actor Alden Ehrenreich is reportedly set to play the Young Han Solo in Phil Lord and Chris Miller's as-yet untitled Star Wars spinoff. 


Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is reportedly working with Les Misérables director Tom Hooper on a big-screen movie adaptation of his musical Cats.


John Boyega, who plays Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is heading to the West End to take on a role in Jack Thorne's new adaptation of the 19th century play Woyzeck at London's Old Vic.


Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced their 11th album – and first in half a decade - The Getaway which will be released on June 17.

 

Channing Tatum has announced he is bringing a live Magic Mike show to Las Vegas's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.


Caroline Flack begins her new morning slot on Heart Radio alongside Gethin Jones this Sunday May 8 at 9am. 

 

 

May 5 2016

 

Loose Women & Men is set to return for a second episode with Larry Lamb and Made in Chelsea's Spencer Matthews joining the panel, and Joe Swash as the backstage roving reporter.  


A sequel to the 1996 Neve Campbell and Fairuza Balk-starring movie The Craft is reportedly in the works.


Fleur East is set to perform her single Sax on The Late Late Show with James Corden on May 25.


Sharknado: The 4th Awakens is hitting TV screens this summer with cameos from Dog the Bounty Hunter, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil and Dr Drew Pinsky.


Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer is producing an adaptation of author Kendare Blake's novel Anna Dressed in Blood, starring Gotham's Cameron Monaghan and Twisted's Maddie Hasson.


Justin Timberlake has confirmed his comeback single is titled Can’t Stop the Feeling, and will be released on Friday (6 May). 


Beyoncé  has become the first woman to score twelve simultaneous tracks in the Billboard Hot 100.  


 

May 4 2016

 

Kanye West has announced he will tour his recent album The Life of Pablo in September. 


Jackson 5 legend Tito Jackson has revealed he will release his debut LP later this year, with his lead single Get It Baby featuring rapper Big Daddy Kane, coming out in June. 


FOX will air The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's new horror series Outcast, on Tuesday June 7 at 10pm – just four days after its debut in the US.


Danniella Westbrook has officially started filming for her return as Sam Mitchell in EastEnders.


Congrats to Eddie Murphy on the arrival of his ninth child Izzy Oona on Tuesday, with girlfriend Paige Butcher - the couple's first baby together.


Dan Aykroyd is reportedly working with the team behind Bob's Burgers to create an animated comedy series about The Blues Brothers.


 

May 3 2016

 

Congratulations to Kerry Washington who has announced she and her partner Nnamdi Asomugha are expecting their second child.

 

Astrologer and Daily Mail columnist Jonathan Cainer has sadly passed away at the age of 58.

 

This year's Eurovision Song Contest will air live in the US for the first time ever.

 

John Krasinski, who played Jim Halpert in The Office, has been cast as the new Jack Ryan in an up coming thriller TV series.

 

Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson’s The Ranch has been officially renewed for a second season on Netflix.

 

Charlie Brown is returning to US TV after a new series of Peanuts has been made for the channel Boomerang, set to air on May 9th.

 

Oprah Winfrey will make a return to acting in new HBO show The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack.

 

Space Jam 2 is officially going ahead, with Fast and Furious’ Justin Lin as director andLeBron James as the lead star.

 

Busted have premiered their first new track in 12 years Coming Home. Check out the official lyric video here: 

 

 
 
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