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Welcome to Backstage, the TV and movie podcast from Sky News.This week we hear the most recent from the SAG-AFTRA strikes within the US as Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston makes a defiant speech focused at Disney's CEO Bob Iger. Click to subscribe to Backstage wherever you get your podcastsDavid Tennant and Michael Sheen chat about season two of Prime Video's Good Omens.Plus, Elizabeth Banks speaks about pay disparity and her function in new Apple TV+ movie The Beanie Bubble, based mostly on the 90s Beanie Babies craze.Producer: Debbie RidgardEditor: Paul Stanworth Content Source: information.sky.com

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is championing a invoice that may enable placing employees to qualify for meals stamp advantages, a transfer that coincides with high-profile labor disputes amongst Hollywood actors and writers. ...

TV chef James Martin, who's dealing with allegations he bullied manufacturing workers on his exhibits, has revealed he was recognized with facial most cancers a number of years in the past.The presenter mentioned he underwent surgical procedure for the most cancers in 2018 and has since had common therapy because it has "returned on several occasions". Martin not too long ago agreed "lessons have been learned" and apologised "for any offence or upset caused" after he responded "emotionally" to an incident throughout the filming of ITV's James Martin's Saturday Morning."The end of 2017 was one of the most fraught and difficult periods of my life," he tweeted, including he had been coping with his grandfather's dying and a house housebreaking."I was then diagnosed with cancer o...

Kylie Minogue has introduced her first residency in Las Vegas. The Australian singer is about to start a three-month stint on the Venetian's Voltaire nightclub from November. The 55-year-old stated she is "so excited" to start her keep in Sin City, and make her first skilled return to North America since 2011.She instructed a information convention in Los Angeles: "I've performed a couple of times at Vegas, but as part of a tour, and particularly when I did the Showgirl tour in 2004 - at that time we said, 'oh, this feels like a Vegas show'."The star stated the present could be smaller than the same old Las Vegas reveals, going down at a 1,000-seat venue to offer followers a extra private expertise. "I want it to be the kind of essence of what a Kylie show has become, enough ...

Sinead O'Connor had an advanced relationship with the only that skyrocketed her to worldwide fame.Nothing Compares 2 U was, famously, written by Prince for The Family, however it should at all times be O'Connor's music. Like Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and Amy Winehouse's Valerie, it is a cowl that transcended the unique. Released in 1990, O'Connor's gorgeous vocal efficiency, coupled with the video that made it one of many all-time greats, meant her model topped charts world wide. Image: Prince in 1985. Pic: AP/Liu Heung Shing "I love it, it's great!" Prince reportedly stated publicly of the music. "I look for cosmic meaning in everything. I think we just took that song as far as we could, then s...

Director William Friedkin’s 1985 graphic crime thriller richly debuts within the ultra-high definition format in To Live and Die in L.A. (Kino Lorber, rated R, 1.85:1 facet ratio, 116 minutes, $39.95). ...

In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor destroyed a photograph of Pope John Paul II on U.S. nationwide tv. The pushback was swift, turning the late Irish singer-songwriter’s protest of intercourse abuse within the Catholic Church right into a career-altering flashpoint. ...

The Screen Actors Guild canceled picket strains in New York City on Thursday and Friday over scorching climate. The strikes had been anticipated at ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese pop star Shinjiro Atae stated he's homosexual in an emotional announcement at a fan occasion that was warmly welcomed in a rustic the place the federal government doesn't legally acknowledge LGBTQ equality. ...

Nominees for this yr's Mercury Prize have been introduced - with Alex Turner equalling data together with his fifth nod for Arctic Monkeys, Raye making her debut after ditching her document label, and in-demand DJ Fred Again additionally recognised.Arctic Monkeys gained the award again in 2006 with debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and in addition acquired nominations for Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), AM (2013), Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2017), and now for seventh album The Car. It means Turner equals Radiohead star Thom Yorke's six Mercury Prize nominations in whole, having additionally beforehand been shortlisted for his debut album with aspect undertaking The Last Shadow Puppets in 2008. Yorke has 5 nominations with Radiohead and one as a ...