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Image copyright Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images Image caption Shane Gillis performs at the Clusterfest comedy festival in San Francisco US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live has dropped a new cast member after videos surfaced online of him making slurs about Chinese people. Shane Gillis, 31, came under fire soon after his casting was announced, when […]

Robert Downey Jr. loves Marvel 3000, and the feeling is apparently mutual.  The fast-talking, kebab-eating and gauntlet-snapping Tony Stark/Iron Man will reportedly live to see another day in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a few caveats, of course.  The iron-clad superhero, who has appeared in 10 films in the ever-expanding franchise, is apparently set to

A team of dancers put on a show in Coventry suspended about 80ft in the air. The performance, with the theme Home, was aimed at encouraging audience members to look up and appreciate the architecture around them in the city centre, as well as the performance itself. Coventry University’s five-storey Alison Gingell Building was the

Superstar Pink took a moment during an April appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to gush about a beloved collaborator. “He’s great,” Pink said of Wrabel, with whom she co-wrote “90 Days,” a track on “Hurts 2B Human,” her latest album. “He’s an independent artist, and his dream is to make an album. I hope this is what

Image copyright Getty Images US actor Alec Baldwin was the latest star of a Comedy Central Roast, and it was his daughter Ireland who had some of the best jokes. Their relationship made headlines in 2007 after a voicemail in which Baldwin called his then 11-year-old a “rude, thoughtless little pig” went viral. The actor

Lizzo reached out to a fan on Twitter about how to undo the “years of internalized programming from external influences” that fuel “self-hate.” On Sunday night, the “Truth Hurts” singer responded to a tweet from someone who wrote that despite listening to Lizzo extoll the importance of self-love, “i still somehow hate myself like that’s

The BBC is to switch off the news and sport text services on the TV red button early next year. The decision spells the end of reading headlines, football scores, weather, travel news and more on TV sets, 45 years after the launch of Ceefax. Red button text launched in 1999, taking over as Ceefax

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star and creator Rachel Bloom just took a page out of the Beyoncé playbook, announcing her pregnancy at an awards show. Bloom revealed she was expecting at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday. Bloom, along with Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen, won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the

Image copyright Getty Images The TV industry is about to enter “a second wave of disruption” due to new players in the streaming market, according to the BBC chief Tony Hall. In a speech on Wednesday, Lord Hall will say the main impact of the new Disney and Apple streaming services may be felt by

John Oliver on Sunday zinged Joe Biden over his “record player” comment during last week’s Democratic presidential debate. (See the video below.) In his monologue, the “Last Week Tonight” host replayed the former vice president’s rambling answer in response to a question about reparations for slavery. “We bring social workers into homes of parents to help