Brits have seen the winter flu season start earlier and an NHS director has said that we could be facing one of the worst ever which is putting a major strain on services

The actor stars in the much-celebrated sleeper hit. Now, she’s changing gears to tackle the compulsively twisty Harlan Coben adaptation Missing YouWhen Rosalind Eleazar got married last year on a Greek island, she asked her agents not to contact her about work. But the day after the wedding (which took place in a mini amphitheatre – “we are so extra”) she was “exceptionally hungover” when she got a call about a job: the lead in Netflix’s new Harlan Coben adaptation, Missing You. Eleazar immediately bought the book and, to the mild annoyance of her new husband, the Italian producer and director Gabriele Lo Giudice (“he wasn’t best pleased”), spent her honeymoon reading it. “Those final five pages – are you kidding me?” She shakes her head, wide-eyed. “I did not in my wildest dreams imagine that was where it was going.”It is a fairly typical reaction to a Coben story. Over the last few years, the mystery US author has turned his bestselling novels into an enormously successful televis...

Director Ron Howard and his family almost had quite the harrowing start to the holidays with a bizarre fire.

The actor has posted a video describing her bad experiences in the industry, in response to Blake Lively, who also alleges mistreatment on a movie setKate Beckinsale, the British star of films such as Love & Friendship, Canary Black and the Underworld series, has posted a video on social media in response to Blake Lively, who is involved in a legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. Beckinsale says she has been “assaulted” and “felt up” on film sets, and was insulted and called “a cunt” and “a bitch” when she complained.Beckinsale says that, while she has never met Lively or Baldoni, she has been “following as a lot of people have, the situation”, and that it highlights “this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful, whatever, in this industry”. Continue reading...

Nicole Kidman takes a younger lover, Tom Cruise accepts his final impossible mission, Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas and Timothée Chalamet belts out some Bob Dylan in the best of the movies coming to UK cinemas next yearWe’re overdue a genuinely good romantic-comedy with a few drops of weepie thrown in. This could be it. Screenwriter Nick Payne and director John Crowley give us a non-smooth-running love story in nonlinear form, in which Florence Pugh’s chef Almut and Andrew Garfield’s breakfast cereal executive Tobias meet cute when Almut runs Tobias over in her car on the day his divorce comes through. • 1 January Continue reading...

Guha was in the infancy of her TV commentary career when she met Australian TV producer/director Jacob Walker at the 2015 Cricket World Cup.