Sam Nelson is ready to beat some more bad guys – and this time he’s on the Berlin metro. Shenanigans will ensue!
Do you remember the lazy, hazy days of summer 2023, when Idris Elba got on a plane and it was hijacked? It was in a programme called Hijack. For seven effortlessly bingeable hours supposedly showing the adventure in real time, our man on the pressurised inside deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men’s phones, saved lives, averted disasters, and got Kingdom Flight 29 landed safely by Holly Aird so that he could return to his family, even though viewers agreed the scenes with them in between the plane bits were very boring indeed.
And he wasn’t even a policeman like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or a counter-terrorist federal agent like Kiefer Sutherland in 24! Or a pilot, which might also have been useful. He was Sam Nelson, a business negotiator. He had extreme business negotiating skills and he beat the bad guys. Who turned out not to be terrorists but a crime syndicate that wanted to short shares in the airline. Which was a bit weird, but never mind. And one of the bad guys escaped, but the point is Sam was a hero and Elba was the only man who could have played him and made it work. He was a mighty, implacable force. The rock on which this fragile, teetering edifice of nonsense was built.
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On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved actors
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The novelist told fans in a post on social media that she is undergoing radiotherapy
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The Newcastle-born actor carried last year’s ‘28 Years Later’ on his shoulders, all while going toe-to-toe with some of Britain’s biggest stars. As he returns for the sequel ‘The Bone Temple’, he speaks to Adam White about early fame, his rock band aspirations, and the annoying law that meant he missed meeting Cillian Murphy
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Oscar-winning actor called out ‘Pulp Fiction’ director and said he would love to work with Dano
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Zoe Saldaña has surpassed Scarlett Johansson at the box office
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Danny Boyle cedes directorial duties to the ‘Candyman’ filmmaker for a bold and deceptively playful post-apocalyptic follow-up
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K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture but it has long been under-celebrated at institutions like the Grammys
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It will be the group’s first tour since its members returned from South Korea's mandatory military service
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Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’ similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86.
Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin’s 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others and helped form the basis for the federal lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation in US public transportation.
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Actor Marisa Abela, 29, has spoken out about her thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2020 when she was 23.
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The actress, now 29, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2020
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K-pop band to start tour in April after nearly four-year hiatus due to all seven members needing to complete South Korea’s mandatory military service
The BTS comeback is upon us: the K-pop septet has announced a 2026-2027 world tour, kicking off in South Korea in April and running through to March 2027 with more than 70 dates across Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Europe.
The tour marks the group’s first headline performances since their 2021–22 Permission to Dance on Stage tour.
9 April and 11-12 April – Goyang, South Korea
17-18 April – Tokyo
25-26 April – Tampa, Florida
2-3 May – El Paso, Texas
7 May and 9-10 May – Mexico City
16-17 May – Stanford, California
23-24 and 27 May – Las Vegas
12-13 June – Busan, South Korea
26-27 June – Madrid
1-2 July – Brussels
6-7 July – London
11-12 July – Munich
17-18 July – Paris
1-2 Aug – East Rutherford, New Jersey
5-6 Aug – Foxborough, Massachusetts
10-11 Aug – Baltimore
15-16 Aug – Arlington, Texas
22-23 Aug – Toronto
27-28 Aug – Chicago
1-2 Sept and 5-6 Sept – Los Angeles
2-3 Oct – Bogotá, Colombia
9-10 Oct – Lima, Peru
16-17 Oct – Santiago, Chile
23-24 Oct – Buenos Aires, Argentina
28 Oct and 30-31 Oct – São Paulo
19 Nov and 21-22 Nov – Kaohsiung, Taiwan
3 Dec and 5-6 Dec – Bangkok
12-13 Dec – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
17 Dec, 19-20 Dec and 22 Dec – Singapore
26-27 Dec – Jakarta
12-13 Feb – Melbourne, Australia
20-21 Feb – Sydney
4 March and 6-7 March – Hong Kong
13-14 March – Manila, Philippines
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Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man
Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper.
Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man took the nonfiction prize. Jamila Gavin was awarded the children’s fiction prize for My Soul, A Shining Tree.
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The actress, now 29, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2020, requiring an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour from her neck
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‘I did not do anything to those little boys,’ Busfield said in a video before turning himself in
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The stakes are lowered and the puerility ramped up in this off-beat prequel to HBO’s fantasy phenomenon
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Peut-on captiver les fans de Game of Thrones sans dragons ni magie ? C'est le défi auquel fait face A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, une petite série d'à peine six épisodes, d'une durée unitaire allant de 30 à 40 minutes. Basée sur le roman court Le Chevalier errant de George R. R. Martin, la série met le paquet sur le duo hétéroclite composé de Duncan et l'Œuf (Egg). Un pari audacieux, mais réussi, malgré un récit trop court et un faux pas de réalisation qui casse l'élan final.
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