A black satirist who gave white audiences a deeper feel for the nation’s shameful racial history.

The long cords extend from the phones they’re attached to, spiraling in neat little curves. The people talking on those phones have to always be conscious of them, to navigate them as they chat for hours on end.

Sir Bruce Forsyth, the veteran entertainer and presenter of many successful TV shows, has died aged 89. The former Strictly Come Dancing presenter had been unwell for some time and was in hospital earlier this year after a severe chest infection. His long career in showbusiness began when he was aged just 14.

Given the binge-friendly nature of Netflix content, fans will likely blow through all eight episodes of The Defenders when it premieres on Friday and be left craving more adventures from the Marvel superheroes. But they shouldn’t worry as they won’t have to wait long.

Now that Apple has seemingly lost its spark, Netflix has become the most talked-about company in the world – and for good reason. The streaming innovator is in the middle of disrupting several industries, having completely revolutionized television and now poised to do the same with the film industry. The company’s commitment to innovation has put Netflix head and shoulders above its closest streaming competitors in terms of both subscriber totals and critical acclaim;

Doctor Who broke casting barriers last month when it announced that the role of the Time Lord will be going to a woman, actress Jodie Whittaker. How will The Doctor react to being a woman? And how will others react to her?

The Jason Bateman and Laura Linney drama will return for another round of 10 episodes. Netflix is going back to the Ozarks. Less than a month after its premiere, the streaming giant has renewed Jason Bateman and Laura Linney drama Ozark for a second season.

Debut developer Imaginati has revealed Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, a standalone cinematic adventure game set between the events of 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and this year’s War for the Planet of the Apes. It will be released for PS4, Xbox One and PC this fall. Published by the new games division of The Imaginarium - the performance capture studio run by Planet of the Apes lead actor Andy Serkis, who executive produces here - the game is even being developed on-site at the company’s historic Ealing Studios headquarters.

When the original “Twin Peaks” debuted on ABC in 1990, the eerie mystery-drama distanced itself from everything else on network television by how it looked. Over a quarter-century later, the co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost have brought “Twin Peaks” back into a TV landscape where “cinematic” is the norm, not the exception. Yet Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” has still stood out from the pack with images unlike any ever seen on the small screen.

Daniel Craig says he is coming back as James Bond.

Kurt Russell gave a great performance as Ego, the Living Planet in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but he did struggle with one little piece of dialogue in the script: his son's name. On a few occasions, Russell referred to Star-Lord, the nickname for Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), as "Star Wars." "Well, even where I reside out past the edge of what's known, we've heard tales about the man they call Star Wars," Russell says during one take featured on the film's Blu-ray. "We could be in trouble," he jokingly adds.

Jason Isaacs is ready for the captain's chair. The Liverpool native will play Captain Lorca in the “Star Trek: Discovery,” and he's fine with the possibility that die-hard fans may have difficulty adjusting to the reboot of the beloved franchise. Isaacs, 54, said the new show will throw away the legacy of William Shatner and Patrick Stewart – and expects it to upset die hard Trekkies.

The actor will appear in season 2 of the Marvel-Netflix drama about the titular super-powered private investigator played by Krysten Ritter, EW has confirmed. The Doctor Who alum starred in the first season as Kilgrave, a mind-controlling villain who tormented Jessica until — nearly two-year-old spoiler alert! — she grew immune to his powers and snapped his neck, killing him in the season finale.

Eminem is reportedly set to release his ninth album later this year, after previously teasing that he was back in the studio. The rap icon, who previously released The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013, will release his latest album this autumn, according to industry insiders HITS Daily Double.

Hackers have leaked a trove of unaired episodes of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Insecure, Ballers, Barry and The Deuce, as they continue to in their efforts to extort the US television network. The leaks over the weekend did not include any further episodes of Game of Thrones, but did include the latest episode of Insecure, which was due to be broadcast on Sunday evening, and several episodes of the highly anticipated new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is due to return in October.

A few days ago, I flew to Canada for a friend's bachelor party, prompting me to flip on my Switch for the first time in a few weeks and browse the eShop for a game to play on the flight. I was bummed, though not surprised, to find there wasn't much that interested me, or that I hadn't played elsewhere. But when I look around at the games I haven't spent more time with in 2017— Yakuza 0 and Persona 5, chiefly—all I can do is sigh at my inability to transplant those games to my Switch.

Daniel Craig is the best James Bond, even better than Sean Connery. There, I said it. While Connery played him as if he always had an ace up his tuxedoed sleeve, Craig plays him as an ice-blooded assassin with a hint of sentiment, whose true love is Queen and Country. And they said a blond Bond would never work. But Craig has announced he's stepping down after his turn in the next Bond film. That leaves some mighty big (and likely weaponized) shoes to fill.

The bonus features for James Gunn’s superhero blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , available both digitally and physically this month,. include deleted scenes, an audio commentary by Gunn, and a gag reel that spotlights the sight of actor Kurt Russell —who plays the father of Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill — almost getting hit in the face by a zooming-in camera.

On Game of Thrones, members of the Night's Watch are seen as a band of misfits who fight nobly, protect Westeros from white walkers, and apparently go shopping at big-box furniture stores. A costume designer for Game of Thrones revealed that members of the Night's Watch are actually wearing rugs from IKEA as they take on the winter.

Before he signed up for the role of Kaecilius in Doctor Strange, Mads Mikkelsen had already had his brush with casting for a Marvel Comics-related property. That property was the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot that is largely remembered as a critical flop. Mikkelsen tried out for a role in the film, but quickly realized it wasn’t for him. Now, with films like Doctor Strange and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story under his belt, Mikkelsen has revealed that he would give the Fantastic Four another shot… if he could play Doctor Doom.

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

In unexpected and delightful news, CBS and fan film producer James Cawley (Star Trek New Voyages) are creating the Star Trek Film Academy, a film school for Star Trek fan filmmakers—giving them an unprecedented legitimacy.

At 96, the "longest-working cartoonist" spoofs the president on health care.

It’s cyber deja vu time in Hollywood. HBO just confirmed that hackers broke into their servers and stole an unknown quantity of data. Now, unreleased episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have appeared online as well a script that looks an awful lot like next week’s Game of Thrones episode. This is not a drill.

IGN can exclusively reveal the first concept development sketches of the Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV show. The first, 'Democracy March', shows the suspended streets packed with people amidst the Mega-City skyline (including the Statue of Liberty). The title may well be a reference to the events of "America", one of the Judge Dredd comic series' most well-loved storylines, which tackled some incredibly heavy themes, and saw a major change in Dredd's depiction.

Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson, played by Danielle Brooks, is a main character in US comedy-prison series Orange Is the New Black. Well known for her friendship with equally outspoken character, Poussey, Taystee is dominant in pushing for fair treatment and equal rights regardless of race, among fellow female prisoners.

What if documentary filmmaker Ken Burns directed Captain America: Civil War? What if a superhero film about The Flash were directed by Ingmar Bergman? What if Sergio Leone took on The Punisher? Filmmaker Patrick H. Willems frequently asks these odd-ball questions. He also answers them with some spot-on videos, mashups of geek culture and high-brow cinema, where the camerawork is as broad as the humor.

Avengers: Infinity War will be a major turning point in the MCU, make no mistake. In a way, it's a farewell to the old guard and an ushering in of the new class - the Black Panthers and Captain Marvels - though whether that actually involved a concrete farewell to any of the franchise's beloved characters was yet to be determined. That is until JoBlo breached the topic with Marvel Studio head Kevin Feige, who responded with a simple: "Yes".

Rain Pryor, Kelly Carlin, Camilla Cleese and others on the struggle to cut their own path.

Season seven of Game of Thrones has only just begun, and already HBO is cracking down on people illegally downloading the wildly popular TV series. But it's questionable how successful the TV network's attack will be, especially when many pirates are turning to streaming — a form of piracy that's hard to track but easy to do, even for Luddites.

Mr. Shepard, one of the most important and influential early writers in the Off Broadway movement, specialized in capturing the darker sides of American family life.

'Broadchurch' actress Jodie Whittaker replaces Peter Capaldi in the role and becomes the 13th 'Doctor Who.'

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes had his annual earnings call this morning, in which he discussed all sorts of money-related things that are very boring and are only important to people who have stupid things like “stocks” and “investment portfolios” and “retirement strategies.” But he also discussed Game of Thrones and piracy, and in doing so, he said this, which I kind of love.