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.

    • Tracy Chapman Reveals Her Last Big Hit Is Also Her Most Personal

      Tracy Chapman’s 1995 single “Give Me One Reason” was her final hit as a solo artist, and the singer-songwriter has revealed it is also her most personal, unlike her more famous breakthrough track “Fast Car”. Speaking at a concert, Chapman described the song as autobiographical, explaining she wrote it late one night and left it…

    • Qobuz rolls out real-time synced lyrics to all subscribers

      Qobuz has introduced real-time synchronised lyrics and a redesigned player interface across its iOS and Android apps, making the feature available to all subscribers. The high-fidelity streaming service announced the update on Thursday 23 July, bringing it into line with Spotify and Apple Music, which have offered synced lyrics since 2021 and 2019 respectively. Because…

    • England’s Langton feared for gymnastics future after fall

      England gymnast Gabriel Langton has said he feared he might never do gymnastics again after suffering a serious fall at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The 19-year-old fell roughly three metres, landing directly on his head during Friday’s horizontal bar routine, and was taken from the arena on a stretcher before spending 20 hours in…

    • Tom Hiddleston Has Made a Pompeii Documentary, Inspired by His Marvel Brother Chris Hemsworth, And After Suggesting the Location Appear in Loki

      Actor Tom Hiddleston has made a three-part National Geographic docu-drama series about Pompeii, returning to a location he previously championed for an episode of Marvel’s Loki. Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston follows several potential survivors of the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, blending historical research with speculative recreation to explore how their…

    • Mercury Prize 2026: Judging Panel Confirmed

      The judging panel for the Mercury Prize 2026 has been confirmed, ahead of this year’s ceremony returning to Newcastle following its historic first outing outside London in 2025, when hometown favourite Sam Fender won. The event has become a fixture in the North East, and confirming the panel marks a key step towards the announcement…

    • TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85

      TV presenter, comedian and naturalist Bill Oddie has died at the age of 85, his agent David Foster announced. Oddie found fame in the 1970s as part of the anarchic comedy trio The Goodies, before becoming one of the best-known faces of British wildlife broadcasting, notably as an original host of BBC’s Springwatch. Foster described…

    • 10 Greatest 2000s One-Hit Wonders

      Collider has published a ranking of the ten greatest one-hit wonders of the 2000s, spotlighting artists whose single track became a lasting hit even as their wider careers failed to take off. The piece reflects on how the decade’s shifting musical landscape—spanning pop, hip-hop, R&B, pop-punk, emo and Eurodance—produced a wave of memorable songs from…

    • Prime Video Picks Up 100-Plus Korean Dramas From CJ ENM in Multi-Year India Deal

      Amazon’s Prime Video has struck a multi-year licensing deal with South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM to bring more than 100 Korean drama titles to its Indian streaming service. The agreement, announced by Prime Video India on Monday, will see 26 new series roll out over the next two years alongside a large library of…

    • Resident Evil 4 is by far and away the best-selling remake on this console generation, new analysis reveals

      New analysis from market research firm Alinea confirms that Capcom’s 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4 is the best-selling remake of the current console generation, outperforming rivals across PlayStation, Xbox and PC. The finding underscores just how commercially successful the reimagining of the 2005 survival horror classic has been for Capcom, cementing it as one…

    • Avenged Sevenfold Release New EP ‘STATICA’, Debut Songs Live As Support For Themselves

      Avenged Sevenfold have surprise-released a new EP, ‘STATICA’, a four-track collection that pushes further into the experimental territory the band have explored since 2016’s ‘The Stage’ and 2023’s ‘Life Is But a Dream…’. The release, described as glitchy, lo-fi and dreamlike in tone, marks a deliberate departure from expectations and comes as the band embark…