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.

  • Efficient Gloom and Gold farming in Mortal Shell 2

    A gaming guide sets out the most efficient ways to farm Gloom and Gold, the two key resources in Mortal Shell 2, which players need to level up their Shell and upgrade weapons via the Tarforge system. Efficient farming matters most in the later stages of the game, when high-tier upgrades become significantly more expensive…

  • ‘Outer Banks’ Celebrates Final Season, ‘Fast & Furious’ Turns 25 and This Week’s Best Events

    The Hollywood Reporter’s weekly gallery rounds up celebrity appearances at red-carpet screenings, premieres and fan events across Los Angeles and beyond, highlighting the entertainment industry’s busy August calendar. Highlights include Netflix’s farewell fan event for the fifth and final season of “Outer Banks” and Universal’s 25th-anniversary screening of “The Fast and the Furious”, alongside several…

  • You Have Exactly 1 Week to Watch Apple TV’s Most Exciting Sci-Fi Series Before Season 2

    Apple TV’s acclaimed sci-fi drama Dark Matter is set to return for its second season on 28 August 2026, giving viewers roughly a week to catch up on or revisit the first season. Based on Blake Crouch’s novel, the series follows Professor Jason Dessen, played by Joel Edgerton, who becomes trapped navigating countless alternate versions…

  • Chris Hansen Reveals Why He Didn’t See Robert Pattinson’s Primetime

    Former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen reveals why he walked out of an A24 screening for Robert Pattinson’s Primetime after he refused to sign a legal agreement.

  • Here’s Why Drake Fans Think New Music Could Be on the Way

    Drake has fuelled speculation about new music by posting a photo of a “FEAR OF MISSING OUT” CD case to Instagram, prompting fans to guess it could be the title of his next project. The tease comes just months after he released three albums simultaneously in May, suggesting the prolific rapper may not be pausing…

  • Bonnaroo Is Taking 2027 Off

    Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will not take place in 2027, organisers have announced, to give its Tennessee grounds time to recover from repeated storm damage, including flooding that disrupted this year’s event. The festival, held near Manchester, Tennessee, is expected to return in 2028. The move follows safety issues at the 2026 edition, where…

  • All Modern Warfare 4 Mastery camos – Multiplayer, DMZ, and Warzone

    Modern Warfare 4 will bring back Mastery camos, giving players a shared grind across all three of the game’s modes: multiplayer, DMZ, and Warzone. The system lets Call of Duty players work towards prestigious, animated weapon skins once they have unlocked the standard camos in whichever mode they choose to play, meaning progress carries across…

  • The CW Drops Miss USA Pageant a Week Before Scheduled Airing

    The CW has withdrawn from broadcasting the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants just days before they were due to air, forcing the events back onto a streaming platform. The Miss USA Organization said the decision stemmed from a “contractual issue with our production arrangements”, which it had identified two weeks earlier and had…

  • Prince Harry and six others face privacy case legal bill of up to £34.5m

    Prince Harry and six other public figures face a legal costs bill of up to £34.5m after losing a privacy case against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). A High Court judge made an exceptional ruling ordering the claimants to pay far more than the pre-trial agreed costs, saying they had pursued the…

  • Insidious sixth film introduces a new protagonist and expanded mythology

    Collider has published an extended interview with the cast of “Insidious: Out of the Further,” the sixth instalment in Blumhouse’s horror franchise, which is being positioned as a soft reboot built around a new protagonist rather than a direct sequel. Newcomer Amelia Eve plays Gemma, a young mother who discovers she can travel into the…