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Betty Gilpin Recites “Manic Poem” To Accept First Emmy For ‘Widow’s Bay’: “Let’s All Lean Towards Sam Shepard & Less Toward Sam Altman”
Betty Gilpin won her first Emmy, taking the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series award for her portrayal of the tragic 18th-century character Sarah Westcott Warren in Apple TV’s breakout series Widow’s Bay. During her acceptance speech on Night 2 of the 2026 Emmys, Gilpin read out an unusual, poem-based speech she had written on…
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Rob Reiner Wins Posthumous Emmy for ‘The Bear’
Rob Reiner has posthumously won an Emmy for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his role in “The Bear,” nine months after his death alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in December. It marks the first posthumous Emmy for an on-camera performance since Raúl Julia in 1995, and comes as Reiner is widely…
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Migrants cross Channel again as Dover blockade sparks disruption fears, Delhi hostel collapse kills three
Fresh Channel crossings and a far-right blockade near Dover overshadow Burnham-Macron pledges on small boats; elsewhere, a Delhi hostel collapse has killed three, two stabbings and violent crime cases hit UK courts, and Arsenal host Chelsea in a big Premier League clash.
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Robert Downey Jr.’s Forgotten Supernatural Horror Thriller Is Officially Back on Streaming
Gothika, the 2003 supernatural horror thriller that gave Robert Downey Jr. an early foothold in his career comeback, has been made available to stream on Netflix. The film arrived at a pivotal moment for Downey, who had recently left rehab after years of substance abuse and public trouble; producer Joel Silver reportedly withheld 40% of…
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Horrifying new video of fatal crocodile attack as beast performs death roll on wildlife worker – months after staff taunted them in enclosure
A wildlife worker at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, has died after a crocodile seized him during a feeding and performed a “death roll” while horrified onlookers watched. The attack, which occurred on Saturday afternoon, took police roughly an hour and eleven shots to end, and comes just months after videos surfaced…
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Labour ‘chickens out’ on curbing migrant rights: Mahmood vowed crackdown but nearly a year on she hasn’t acted
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been accused of “chickening out” on immigration reforms she promised almost a year ago, with critics saying delays are allowing roughly 1,100 people a day to gain the right to remain in Britain. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp claimed Mahmood was bowing to Labour’s Left-wing, warning that migrants gaining indefinite…
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Reform UK donation row tests public trust in Farage
Nigel Farage has faced questions over Reform UK’s handling of donations after a fresh row over party funding threatened to overshadow policy announcements made at its Birmingham conference. Farage insisted the party would have “sent money back” to donors whose contributions had come under scrutiny, but the episode raises questions about trust and transparency ahead…
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‘I want to see wealth creation’ John Healey to say as he tries to reassure nervous markets over economy
Chancellor John Healey will use his first major speech in the role to argue that Britain must back “wealth creation” and spread prosperity across all regions, as he attempts to reassure jittery financial markets over Labour’s economic stewardship. Speaking in the Midlands ahead of what is expected to be a difficult Budget in October, he…
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Venice Film Festival Chief Alberto Barbera On Oscar Chances, Why Gaza Doc ‘NAZA’ Is Playing So Late & Why He’s Confident U.S. Studios Will Return
Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has spoken about the key issues dominating this year’s event, including the growing use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, the politically sensitive scheduling of Gaza-related films, and the festival’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In a wide-ranging interview, Barbera acknowledged that AI is set to transform cinema much…
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ANDREW GRIFFITH: Healey risks bankrupting Britain if he takes the easy option of just hiking taxes
In this opinion piece, Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith argues that new Chancellor John Healey will worsen Britain’s public finances if he opts to raise taxes further in his upcoming Budget rather than reforming welfare and reducing state spending. Griffith contends that Healey, having sat in the Cabinet under Rachel Reeves, has already signalled he will…