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Image caption Jerk tells the story Tim (second right), who uses his cerebral palsy to get away with things The BBC has promised a more “authentic and distinctive” representation of disabled people on screen. The corporation has announced a string of new shows and said there will be an “enhanced portrayal in existing programmes”. New […]

Famous cat Lil Bub has died at the age of 8. On Monday, the feline’s owner, Mike Bridavsky, posted on social media that his beloved friend had passed on Sunday. “We lost the purest, kindest and most magical living force on our planet. BUB was cheerful and full of love laying in our bed with

Pop star Jack Savoretti has got behind a campaign to raise £460,000 for an eight-year-old girl with a rare form of bone cancer. The star sent Anna Drysdale a message saying he would help her in any way he could. Anna, from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma when she was five years old,

The door will soon close for good at “Fuller House.” The Netflix sequel to the long-running ABC sitcom “Full House” will return for a fifth and final season on Friday. And for much of the cast, parting ways is bittersweet.  Candace Cameron Bure, who plays D.J. Tanner-Fuller on the series, said that nearly everyone got

Amelia Dimoldenberg is used to awkwardly interviewing rappers in chicken shops, for her YouTube series Chicken Shop Date. After entering the Homespun Yarns short films competition with her comedy film, Amelia spoke to Radio 1 Newsbeat’s Kirsty Grant about building a career in the media, confronting privilege and how it all began. Follow Newsbeat on

We’re thinking that assembling two of America’s greatest actors — Streep and Sarandon have 26 nominations and four victories between them — for a nationally televised shaking of the booty might not be the route to go, but the ceremony could use a new twist. “It would be so much fun,” the “Black Mitzvah” comedian

Image copyright Channel 4 Image caption Gogglebox is now in its 14th series Comments about former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who is facing a sexual assault trial, have been edited out of catch-up versions of Channel 4’s Gogglebox. In Friday’s episode, the Siddiqui family referred to Scotland’s former first minister – who denies all charges

Baby Yoda is one wee green fighting machine ― thanks to editing from “Star Wars” fan filmmaker MaxeBaumannFilms2013. Watch (below) the lovable creature from the Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian” take on Darth Sidious in a lightsaber duel borrowed from Jedi Master Yoda’s smackdown with the Sith Lord in “Revenge of the Sith.” We can

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The prize is announced in the building which houses the Alfred Nobel Museum in Stockholm Two external members of the Nobel literature prize committee have quit after criticising the Swedish Academy. Gun-Britt Sundstrom said the choice of Peter Handke as this year’s winner had been interpreted as if literature

It seems Kanye West has more than a few words for us. “Kanye always wants people to be more positive so he came up with this little dictionary game,” Kim says. “We pick a page in the dictionary and everyone has to underline the positive words.” The segment of the show features the sisters and