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Say Anything and Wavves, two acts that emerged in the 2000s with contrasting approaches to pop-punk, have announced a collaborative album titled Cherry Soda. The record unites their respective frontmen, Max Bemis and Nathan Williams, who wrote the songs together with the aim of crafting an "early 2000s…
The Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has officially launched its $1 billion Pan-African Film Fund, appointing publishing veteran Lavaille Lavette as its Chief Executive Officer. Established through the bank's development impact investment arm, the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the fund aims to strengthen Africa's creative…
No details of the reported incident could be extracted from the supplied article text, which contains only a Google cookie-consent and sign-in page rather than the news story itself. According to the headline, a High Street in Sheffield city centre was closed following a road traffic collision, an…
The nominations for the 2026 Emmy Awards have been announced, with the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt leading the field with 25 nominations. The comedy Hacks followed closely with 24 nods — a single-year record for a comedy series — while newcomer Widow's Bay led all new…
Food influencer and former private chef Meredith Hayden has signed a deal with Netflix to make an original "Wishbone Kitchen" video podcast, marking another example of the streamer commissioning original programming from internet creators. Hayden, an ex-Vogue staffer who built a large following on TikTok and Instagram and…
Bithell Games, the studio behind Tron: Catalyst, John Wick Hex and Thomas Was Alone, has announced a new minimalist immersive vampire sim called Vampirium: 1997. The game casts players as an assassin serving the King of England — who is also Dracula — with the goal of infiltrating…
Bravo's reality series Summer House has received its first Emmy nomination, earning a nod in the unstructured reality program category among the 2026 nominees announced on Wednesday. The recognition follows a tenth season that saw a surge in ratings and viewer interest, driven largely by a widely discussed…
The late director and actor Rob Reiner has received a posthumous Emmy nomination for his guest role in Season 4 of FX's "The Bear", in which he played restaurant and business consultant Albert Schnurr, a character who mentors Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) on franchising. He will compete in…
The HBO Max comedy "Hacks" has secured 24 Emmy nominations for its fifth and final season, setting a new record for the most nominations ever received by a single comedy season. This surpasses the previous benchmark of 23 nominations, held first by "The Bear" and then by "The…
Connor Storrie, a star of the hockey romance series Heated Rivalry, has earned his first Emmy nomination for hosting NBC's Saturday Night Live. The recognition is notable because Heated Rivalry itself is ineligible for the Emmys, meaning Storrie's nomination came through his guest hosting appearance rather than his…