Out this week
COMING SOON
Albums
Florescence by Maisie Peters: Third album by the English singer; follows The Good Witch (2023); preceded by the singles ‘Audrey Hepburn’, ’You You You’, ‘Say My Name in Your Sleep’, ‘My Regards’, and ‘Kingmaker’ (with Julia Michaels).
Movies
* The Mandalorian and Grogu (starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Lateef Crowder, Sigourney Weaver) – action, continuation of the Star Wars streaming series The Mandalorian (2019 – 2023); Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pascal) and his apprentice Grogu embark on an adventure to help the New Republic.
* I Love Boosters (starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González) – crime comedy; a group of shoplifters target a fashion maven by stealing her clothes and selling them at a lower price.
* Ladies First (starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Emily Mortimer, Richard E. Grant) – comedy, loosely inspired by the 2018 French film I Am Not an Easy Man; a male chauvinist (Cohen) finds himself in an alternate world with a matriarchal society.
* Passenger (starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo) – supernatural horror; after witnessing a horrific accident, a young couple on a van life adventure find themselves pursued by a demonic presence.
Awards
2026 British Academy Television Awards
Winners:
- Drama Series: Code of Silence
- Limited Drama: Adolescence
- International: The Studio
- Leading Actor: Stephen Graham – Adolescence
- Leading Actress: Narges Rashidi – Prisoner 951
- Actor in a Comedy: Steve Coogan – How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
- Actress in a Comedy: Katherine Parkinson – Here We Go
- Supporting Actor: Owen Cooper – Adolescence Supporting
- Actress: Christine Tremarco – Adolescence
- Entertainment: Last One Laughing
- Entertainment Performance: Bob Mortimer – Last One Laughing
- Scripted Comedy: Amandaland
- Reality: The Celebrity Traitors
- Current Affairs: Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
- Shortform: Peaked
- Soap: East Enders
- Daytime: Scam Interceptors
- Memorable Moment: The Celebrity Traitors (“Alan Carr wins”)
- BAFTA Fellowship: Mary Berry
- Special Award: Martin Lewis
- For the complete list of nominees and winners, visit bafta.org/awards.
SPOTLIGHT
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, and Kenneth Branagh
Director: David Frankel
- Comedy drama; as Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigates a new media landscape, she reunites with Andy Sachs (Hathaway) and reconnects with her former assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt) who is now a senior executive.
- Sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, which was based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger.
- Has grossed over US$550 million against a $100 million production budget.
- Has received positive reviews, with praise for the acting – especially Streep’s performance – but criticism for some unnecessary subplots.
- Received allegations of anti-Asian racism and stereotyping for the character of Jin Chao (played by Helen J. Shen), the East Asian assistant of Hathaway’s Andy.
- Costumes from the movie are being auctioned off to benefit the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists.
- Score composed by Theodore Shapiro.
