Talk Fuse

    Topic: Entertainment

    Entertainment brings together the latest from film, television, music and gaming, tracking everything from big studio releases and streaming hits to the smaller stories behind the scenes. Expect a mix of reviews, interviews and features that look at how films and shows come together, the choices actors and musicians make along the way, and how decisions by studios and networks play out once viewers get involved.

    The topic also keeps an eye on the business and cultural side of the industry: how streaming services are reshaping what gets made and watched, the sometimes tangled relationship between entertainment and technology, and the moments when a franchise, format or platform doesn't go the way its backers hoped. Older films, shows and songs feature too, revisited with the benefit of hindsight on decisions that looked different at the time.

    For readers, it's a way to keep up with what's actually worth watching or listening to, understand the reasoning behind the projects that shape popular culture, and see how the industry's bigger shifts affect the entertainment on offer day to day.

    • Five killed in horror head-on crash that saw flames engulf two cars and trap passengers inside

      Five people have died after a horror head-on collision in the Northern Territory, Australia, in which two vehicles caught fire and trapped passengers inside. The crash occurred on a highway near Darwin, and the scale of the death toll has shocked local police and emergency services, prompting warnings about road safety in the region. Northern…

    • TV tonight: Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars in a supernatural horror drama

      Tonight’s TV picks are led by Possession, a new supernatural drama on Sky Atlantic starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as British lawyer Claudia, who travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim on a former plantation. As she investigates, she becomes haunted by the estate’s dark history, with flashbacks gradually revealing how the past connects to the…

    • Charlie Puth Partners Up With Lucky Brand

      Charlie Puth has become a brand ambassador for Lucky Brand, the American denim and casual-wear label, fronting campaigns across in-store displays, online platforms, paid media and social channels. The partnership positions the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer as the face of a company known for vintage-inspired denim and a laid-back aesthetic, with both sides framing…

    • Ryan Murphy Outlines Three-Season Arc for FX’s ‘The Shards’ Adaptation

      Ryan Murphy is adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 autofiction novel “The Shards” for FX, having settled on a three-season arc to tell the story across the network. The project holds personal significance for Murphy, since his own coming-of-age overlapped with the novel’s 1981 Los Angeles setting, letting him draw on lived experience as he translates…

    • The 10 greatest Silverchair songs

      Far Out Magazine has compiled a list of the ten greatest songs by Australian rock band Silverchair, celebrating the trio’s ability to reinvent their sound across five studio albums released between 1995 and 2007. The feature argues that few bands matched Silverchair’s range, as they moved from raw post-grunge on their teenage debut through to…

    • Secret Cinema seeks to build first long-term venue

      Secret Cinema has applied for a premises licence for its first long-term venue, to be built on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London, marking a shift from the immersive cinema company’s previous run of temporary productions across the capital. Greenwich Council is due to decide on the licence application on 11 August, having already granted…

    • Marjorie Taylor Greene joins celebrity app Cameo charging absurd amounts for silly video messages

      US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has signed up to Cameo, the celebrity video message platform, where she is charging fans substantial sums for personalised clips. The move sees the Georgia Republican, known for her outspoken and often controversial political stances, join a growing roster of politicians and public figures cashing in on the app’s pay-per-message…

    • Toby Fox Shares Another Deltarune Chapter 6 Development Update

      Toby Fox has published a new newsletter with a fresh update on Deltarune’s development, revealing details about Chapter 6 now that Chapter 5 has launched. He expects Chapter 6 to be released as a standalone chapter sometime in 2027, and says it will be a shorter, more focused instalment concentrating on a single aspect of…

    • Rihanna working on new music, A$AP Rocky confirms in podcast interview

      A$AP Rocky has said that Rihanna is currently recording new music, suggesting she may be preparing to end her near decade-long break from releasing studio albums. His comments matter because Rihanna has not issued a full album since 2016’s Anti, despite sustained public interest in a follow-up. Speaking on The Jason Lee podcast, Rocky said…

    • A$AP Rocky Gives Update on Rihanna’s Next Album: “She Cooking”

      It’s been a decade since the Grammy winner released her last album, ‘Anti,’ in 2016.