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- Disney+ Pacts With Spanish Public Broadcaster RTVE for Hit Shows, Including ‘MasterChef’ and Upcoming Series ‘Rojo Sobre Blanco’by Emeza805 on March 27, 2026 at 9:00 am
Disney+ and Spain’s RTVE have inked a deal for a selection of the public broadcaster’s most successful shows, including “MasterChief,” one of the most iconic and most watched culinary talent shows on Spanish television. Beginning March 31, the agreement will expand the entertainment offering available to Disney+ customers while providing RTVE with a new distribution
- TaiwanPlus Strikes U.S. Distribution Deal With GoldenTV (EXCLUSIVE)by Naman Ramachandran on March 27, 2026 at 7:11 am
TaiwanPlus and GoldenTV have entered a programming partnership that will see Taiwanese content made available through GoldenTV’s cable and streaming operations in the U.S. TaiwanPlus will supply a selection of its programming to GoldenTV’s distribution network, with the aim of reaching both Asian American and Pacific Islander viewers and the wider American public. The centerpiece
- ‘Love Story’ Gives John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy a Wrenching, Wistful Sendoffby Danvariety on March 27, 2026 at 3:03 am
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Love Story.” We get a glimpse of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the final moments of the finale of “Love Story.” But it’s only in memory. The pair are shown on a Massachusetts beach, living the life they might have had fate
- Taylor Swift Takes Home Seven Awards at iHeartRadio Music Awards 2026, Extending Her Record for Most Winsby Steven J. Horowitz on March 27, 2026 at 2:22 am
Taylor Swift picked up the most trophies out of any artist at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Thursday night, walking away with seven wins in nine nominated categories to extend her record as iHeartRadio’s most decorated artist of all time. Swift was on hand with her fiancé, Travis Kelce, to first accept the award for
- Japanese Grand Prix 2026: Where to Watch F1 Online for Freeby Rudie Obias on March 27, 2026 at 1:30 am
After a thrilling start of the F1 season in China, Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Team Mercedes won the race gaining 25 points after 56 laps. His teammate George Russell came in second, so it’s a very good start for Mercedes at the top of the leaderboard. However, the season is still new, as F1 travels
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- Self-taught chef wins MasterChef: The Professionalson March 27, 2026 at 9:03 am
The winner of the BBC One show beat 31 fellow contestants to take home the crown.
- ‘We feel betrayed’ – the bitter rent row in Glasgow’s art sceneon March 27, 2026 at 6:13 am
Seven organisations that use the Trongate 103 building were informed last month their rent was to increase by four times the current amount.
- Sarah Ferguson’s ‘close Epstein ties’ scrutinised in US lawmaker’s letteron March 27, 2026 at 12:52 am
The letter, seen by the BBC, also called on Ferguson to share any knowledge about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Epstein.
- Raye comes out swinging on her new album, This Music May Contain Hopeon March 27, 2026 at 12:40 am
The star suffered writer’s block while working on her second album, but it hits all the right notes.
- Olivia Dean’s streak continues as she wins big at Mobo Awardson March 26, 2026 at 10:44 pm
The pop star secured three of the biggest awards of the night as the show celebrated its 30th anniversary.
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- Flea: Honora review – Chili Pepper turns piper, taking up trumpet for a soulful jazz odysseyby Dave Simpson on March 27, 2026 at 8:00 am
(Nonesuch)Imaginative interpretations of Funkadelic and Frank Ocean sit alongside starry collaborations and gorgeous instrumentals on the bassist’s brassy side projectWhile some rock musicians fill the boredom of long tours with nefarious activities, bassist Flea spent Red Hot Chili Peppers’ global jaunt of 2022-24 practising the trumpet, an instrument he first played as a child before funky rock pulled him away. Now, the 63-year-old’s daily routine and open spirit has produced his own deeply meditative and groovy jazz odyssey.Named after a family member, Honora brings together a star-studded cast of peers and LA jazz and experimental luminaries for 10 tracks spanning Flea-penned instrumentals, chanted mantras and imaginative reinterpretations. The bassist doubles as narrator for spirited track A Plea, a yelled call for sanity (“Live for peace! Live for love!”) amid global madness and takes his trumpet to Eddie Hazel’s famous guitar solo on a beautifully plaintive remodel of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain. Continue reading…
- Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios album review – Andris Nelsons’ prodigious talent on full displayby Clive Paget on March 27, 2026 at 8:00 am
Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons/Schuen/Zeppenfeld(Deutsche Grammophon)The Latvian conductor finds dynamic light and shade in seven discs’ worth of special performances with an orchestra once led by the composer himselfAndris Nelsons’ tenure may have been prematurely terminated in Boston, but this handsome box set with his other ensemble, the venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra, is proof positive of the Latvian conductor’s prodigious talent. Of course, Mendelssohn is in the orchestra’s DNA – after all, the composer held the reins in Leipzig from 1835 until his death in 1847 – but these performances, especially of the five symphonies, are pretty special.Recorded live between 2021 and 2024, tempi are brisk, though never rushed. It’s the phrasing, elastic and full of dynamic light and shade, that brings these accounts to life. Listen to the ultra-lithe opening movement of the Italian Symphony, or the filigree woodwind in the Scottish Symphony’s scherzo. In Nelsons’ hands, the First Symphony – often the Cinderella of the set – takes its place alongside its more colourful cousins. Continue reading…
- Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist fatherby Patrick Barkham on March 27, 2026 at 8:00 am
Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayward dadHigh in the Caucasus mountains, the photojournalist Rena Effendi is searching for the butterfly that bears the name of the father she hardly knew. It is rocky, bleak, beautiful – and impossible. The grass is fried yellow by the increasingly fierce summer sun, the butterfly’s food has been grazed by sheep and, if it exists at all, Satyrus effendi usually flies only as a single insect across a square kilometre of rock, scree and slope.A butterfly hunt makes an unlikely subject for a prize-winning documentary, but Searching for Satyrus is a gripping quest that reveals a remarkable part of the world little known to western audiences while examining issues from war and nationalism to global heating and extinction. Ultimately, however, Effendi’s search for her father’s butterfly becomes a moving reckoning with the secrets and lies in her family and the life of her wayward father. Continue reading…
- ‘The violence of racist tyranny’: African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpieceby Sam Jones in Madrid on March 27, 2026 at 7:42 am
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work.While African Guernica, which was drawn by the late South African artist Dumile Feni in 1967, may lack the scale of Picasso’s masterpiece, its depth, anger and unnerving juxtaposition of man and beast, light and dark, and innocence and cruelty, are every bit as disturbing. Continue reading…
- Your Friends and Neighbours to Portobello: the seven best shows to stream this weekby Phil Harrison on March 27, 2026 at 7:00 am
Jon Hamm is back as the charismatic banker-cum-cat burglar, plus an irresistibly strange show about the TV host accused of being a mafiosoNo one does problematic but sneakily likable middle-aged man like Jon Hamm and his charisma carries this black comedy about financier-turned-burglar Andrew “Coop” Cooper. Despite being offered his old job back, Coop has decided to continue with his riskily enjoyable crisis. While he emerged from season one’s explosive climax smelling of roses, he’s soon on a collision course with his squeeze/nemesis Samantha Levitt. And worryingly, age is catching up with Coop as a back spasm curtails his latest robbing spree. Every now and then, the show edges towards a satire on jaded suburban overconsumption. But it is slightly too keen to have its aspirational cake and eat it, so remains a flimsy (albeit fun) romp. Apple TV, from Friday 3 April Continue reading…














