Sesame Workshop, the organisation behind Sesame Street has said that characters Bert and Ernie “do not have a sexual orientation” after a former writer for the show recently said he considered them to be gay. Former writer Mark Saltzman, who worked for Sesame Street, made his comments during an interview with Queerty. “I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were [gay],” Saltzman said.

Buying a ticket for Saturday's Bruno Mars concert in Toronto was probably never going to be cheap, but what many of the star's 17,000 fans who scored a seat might not realize is it wasn't just scalpers driving up prices.

As attitudes have changed, circuses are facing extinction.

'Egypt Station' also gives the ex-Beatle his first debut at No. 1 and first chart-topper since 'Tug of War' in 1982. Paul McCartney achieved his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his new studio effort, Egypt Station, bowed atop the list.

At the opening night of their “Cold and Black and Infinite” tour last night, Nine Inch Nails kicked off the show by performing the entirety of their 1992 Broken EP in full. The performance marked the first time the group have performed “Happiness In Slavery” in 23 years. Check out some fan footage below.

When you woke up Monday morning there was only one man in the history of television who had ever won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series three times. His name was Aaron Paul and he was on a little show you might have heard of called Breaking Bad. However, that changed Monday night when Peter Dinklage told Paul to move the hell over, bitch, and took home his third Emmy for his performance as Tyrion Lannister on HBO's Game of Thrones.

The Wolfenstein series numbering scheme is a little messy. Castle Wolfenstein was the first, but the FPS series as we know it started 25 years ago with Wolfenstein 3D. Sequels and reboots led to Wolfenstein—just Wolfenstein—in 2009, after which Bethesda took over and gave us Wolfenstein: The New Order and then Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, neither of which were Wolfenstein 2, which didn't come along until last year. This year, Bethesda revealed Wolfenstein: Youngblood at E3, which in keeping with that complicated tradition is not Wolfenstein 3 but rather a standalone spin-off.

Ryan Murphy continues to be a powerhouse at the Emmys when it comes to the outstanding limited series category. The creator’s second installment of “American Crime Story,” entitled “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” took home the prize at the 2018 Emmy awards. The show’s debut season, “The People vs. OJ Simpson,” won the same honor in 2016.

On Monday night, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won the Emmy for outstanding variety talk series, marking the third consecutive win for the series in this category.“All the shows, every year, we fly our staff here and we put them in the worst seats in the building to send a mixed message,” Oliver joked, as he accepted the award. “Thank you to our staff — we’re incredibly proud of you.

One game folks just can’t stop talking about these days is CD Projekt Red’s upcoming RPG Cyberpunk 2077. Based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk 2020 series of tabletop RPGs, Cyberpunk 2077 promises to take players on a neon-filled adventure like never before. The hype is real, so are the stakes, especially since CDPR’s last game- The Witcher 3 raised the bar very high in terms of quest design and narrative. CDPR is fully dedicated to making Cyberpunk 2077 bigger and better from their past titles in almost every way imaginable.

The producers are being tight-lipped on the character but I hear Paul will be a series regular. Created for television by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie, the sci-fi thriller is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Paul is a series regular on Apple’s upcoming drama Are You Sleeping? It is an anthology series, so most of the cast, including Paul, have one-year deals for the Season 1 story arc.

“Black Mirror: USS Callister” has won the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie, making it two years in a row the Netflix anthology series has submitted an episode as a movie and won the category. “USS Callister” is the feature-length first episode of “Black Mirror” Season 4. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and William Bridges, the movie tracks Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), the Chief Technical Officer of a video game company by day and Captain of the USS Callister by night — inside the game he created. Soon, his virtual colleagues start to show signs of life, and the science-fiction adventure takes off from there.

The superstar rapper’s surprise LP clocks in as the North American chart’s fourth-best sales week of 2018.

“Saturday Night Live” officially has the most wins in Emmy history for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. At Sunday’s 2018 Creative Arts, the 43-year series just won its third Emmy in the category, for the song “Come Back Barack” written by Eli Brueggemann, Chris Redd, Will Stephen and Kenan Thompson. (Watch our fun interview with Thompson.) By claiming gold, “Come Back Barack” essentially stopped Benj Pasek and Justin Paul from earning an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) this time around.

"Three months in a hospital bed. Check," the actor wrote on his Twitter Friday evening. It was the first tweet Perry has written since March. Friends alum Matthew Perry penned his first tweet since March 23 on Friday to announce that he has spent the last three months in the hospital. "Three months in a hospital bed. Check," the actor wrote.

Frank Underwood is officially dead, a trailer for the sixth and final series of House of Cards has revealed. The Netflix trailer shows Robin Wright, who plays Spacey's screen wife Claire, speaking at Frank's grave. "I'll tell you this though, Francis. When they bury me, it won't be in my backyard. When they pay their respects, they'll have to wait in line."

“Titans” is the first of the three commissioned live-action series for the DC Universe streaming service and has been in production for many months ahead of its debut on October 12th. “Doom Patrol” recently kicked off filming and is looking likely to have an early 2019 debut.

Comedian Norm Macdonald is making some controversial comments ahead of his upcoming Netflix talk show, "Norm Macdonald Has a Show." In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Macdonald defended Louis C.K. and Chris Hardwick, and said it was "crazy" of people to think Roseanne Barr was racist. Macdonald told THR that he was "happy the MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit."

Those expecting confirmation of a downgrade to Marvel's Spider-Man when assessing final code should probably look away now. Having stacked up the final game against the E3 2017 presentation, our overall conclusion is that Insomniac is on the money here - there have been changes, as there are during production of any game - but there has been no technical downgrade. In fact, we'd say that the final presentation is upgraded in key respects, both technical and artistic.

If you’ve got a blockbuster that needs a villain, there’s really only one guy you turn to. Whether he’s playing an evil Imperial officer in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or an evil CEO in Ready Player One, Ben Mendelsohn knows how to imbue a role with a certain sort of memorable menace. (Up next, he’ll be starring in Robin Hood: Origins as — you guessed it — the evil sheriff of Nottingham.)

NBC has ordered an extra five episodes for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Season 6, the broadcaster announced Friday. That brings the cop comedy series’ sixth season to 18 episodes total. The series was canceled at Fox after five seasons back in May, with NBC saving the show shortly thereafter. Producer Universal Television had been in talks with Hulu to keep the series afloat, but the streaming service ultimately passed.

Paul Feig has ruled out the idea of sitting in the director's chair for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The team of misfits and outlaws first appeared in the comics back in 1969, but with a vastly different line-up. The modern incarnation debuted in 2008, before bursting onto the big screen back in 2014. The success of Vol. 1 made household names of such characters as Star Lord, Drax the Destroyer, and Groot. It also officially launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe away from Earth and deeper into the cosmos. An equally successful sequel was released in 2017.

Geoffrey Owens says the Bill Cosby scandal was just one of the factors that led him to search for work outside of his industry, including bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s. Owens, 57, had been receiving royalties from The Cosby Show for years. But when Cosby, 81, was accused and later convicted of sexual assault, reruns were pulled from syndications, and the checks stopped coming.

Captain Marvel may introduce Brie Larson’s pilot-turned-superhero Carol Danvers, but it’s also an origin story for another character. The March 2019 film marks Samuel L. Jackson’s ninth big-screen appearance as Nick Fury, but with the story set in the mid-‘90s, this younger Nick is different from the espionage expert we’ve met before — so different that there were times Jackson himself didn’t recognize him.

Since dropping his surprise ten studio album Kamikaze last Thursday, Eminem has set his sights on his critics with the first visual off the new album for the track ‘Fall’. Directed By James Larese, the video begins with a montage of Eminem reading scathing reviews of his last album Revival on his phone. Fed up, he gets out of the car he’s sharing with fellow Detroit rappers Royce da 5’9″ and Denaun Porter and a phantom spectre emerges from the screen and stalks Eminem throughout the video. A nod to the rapper’s upcoming involvement with the Marvel Venom franchise or a metaphor for oppressive hold of social media? Could be either.

Gérard Depardieu, the enfant terrible of French cinema, has been spotted in the North Korean capital Pyongyang hours before the 70th anniversary of the country's birth. Journalists noticed the iconic actor in the Yangakdo hotel for tourists in the biggest city of the Communist state, which is due to mark its “Day of the Foundation of the Republic” on Sunday. A major military parade, huge rallies and the return of iconic “mass games” are expected. It is not known whether Mr Depardieu will take part in the festivities or is a guest.

Kevin Hart has split opinion as a "zero tolerance" mobile phone ban at his UK gigs left some people out of pocket. Fans were left frustrated with the US comedian's strict policy as some claimed they were removed from the venue for as little as sending a text. But others saw the funny side as they reported sightings of so-called "cell phone security" around the O2 Arena on Sunday.

I have many questions about the Purge, the annual night of government-sanctioned murder and mayhem—in which all laws are suspended, and anything and everything goes—depicted in The Purge and its three sequels. If I steal someone’s credit card and make tons of purchases on Amazon, will those shipments still arrive two days later? Can I download as many movies, TV shows and albums as possible on The Pirate Bay during the course of the evening...

Kevin Spacey will not be prosecuted over a sexual assault claim because too much time has passed since the alleged incident took place. A man alleged the actor had assaulted him in West Hollywood in October 1992, but Los Angeles prosecutors said on Tuesday they could not take the case forward because any alleged sex crime involving an adult that occurred in that year would fall outside of California’s statute of limitations.

Eminem has proven once again that he's a hit maker. The rapper's latest album, "Kamikaze," is quickly rising to the top of the charts after its surprise release last week. The Detroit native is currently on track for his album to debut No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The feat would mark Eminem's ninth No. 1 album, according to Nielsen Music.

Alan Wake, a game that was structured like and inspired by TV shows, is set to become a TV show itself. If nothing else, it at least fits the format better than most games. It’s even got product placement! Peter Calloway has already signed on to be the showrunner and writer, which might be quite good news. Calloway was the executive producer for the exceptional (and exceptionally weird) Legion TV series, as well as writing a couple of episodes. His other credits include the terminally boring Under the Dome and the soapy superhero drama Cloak & Dagger.

Of all the attacks on cord-cutting that we’ve heard over the years, the most common is what I call the “gee whiz” argument: The idea that if you subscribe to a bunch of streaming video services, then gee whiz, the cost of all those subscriptions really adds up. This obvious point is routinely presented as an epiphany by cord-cutting naysayers, none of whom seem to realize that being able to pick and choose is the entire point of ditching cable.

Legendary singer who called Detroit home recorded 42 studio albums, charted 43 Top 40 singles, and earned 18 Grammy Awards.

Wesley Snipes continues to tease a future appearance as Blade, either as a continuation or even in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Marvel Studios receives plenty of credit for kicking off this current age of superhero movies, they were hardly the first. The success of the original X-Men trilogy and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy both made it possible, but neither of those would've happened without the success of Blade in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Snipes made three appearances as the vampire hero, but fans of his portrayal continue to want more.

Inside the posthumous styling of the Queen of Soul