ITV has announced that its ITVBe channel will close in June 2025, and be replaced by a new channel focusing on quiz and game shows. Launched in 2014, ITVBe has primarily been the home for reality and unscripted programmes, such as The Only Way Is Essex (Towie). The reality shows currently airing on the channel,…

Popular television actor Vishnu Prasad who has been diagnosed with severe liver cirrhosis is fighting for his life. Vishnu requires an emergency liver transplant surgery to save his life, that would cost at least Rs 30 lakh. Mohan Ayiroor, Vice President of Association of Television Media Artists told Manorama Online that the association has handed…

It’s now been nearly 14 years since the eighth and final part of the Harry Potter film series hit cinema screens – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was released in 2011. And it’s a remarkable 24 years since the first film in the series was released, introducing the world to the then…

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Showrunners Craig Mazin and original game writer Neil Druckmann created something “thrilling” and “profound” with “The Last of Us”, said John Nugent in Empire. Based on the 2013 post-apocalyptic video game of the same name, the hit HBO show was a “masterclass in adaptation”. Now, the duo are “tempting fate” with a second instalment and,…

Prolific game show host and media personality Wink Martindale, known for popular programs like Tic-Tac-Dough, Gambit, and Teenage Dance Party and for his stylish, affable onscreen persona, has died at 91. Martindale, who had been suffering from lymphoma, died on Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, according to his publicist Brian Mayes. Born…

In the blurb promoting Government Cheese, Apple TV+ describes it as “surrealist”. It isn’t, but it does have plenty of what is becoming the streamer’s signature style. Is your dramedy quirky, kooky and kind of cartoony? Is it set mid-century in the US, away from the big cities, where humble but smarter-than-average folk arch deadpan…

RANCHO MIRAGE, CA — Wink Martindale, one of the most well-known television game show hosts of his generation, died Tuesday at his Rancho Mirage home. He was 91. According to a statement from his family, Martindale died “surrounded by his family and his beloved wife of 49 years, Sandra Martindale.” No cause of death was…