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All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.

Korean actor Kim Woo-bin has starred in hit films and TV series including The Heirs, Twenty, Uncontrollably Fond, Our Blues and Genie, Make a Wish. He will marry his fellow K-drama star Shin Min-a this month. Photo: Instagram/kimwoobin

Profile | Who is Kim Woo-bin, star of K-dramas Our Blues and Genie, Make a Wish?

Kim Woo-bin, who is marrying fellow K-drama star Shin Min-a this month, has proved he has the acting chops to match his good looks.

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Director convicted of scamming millions from Netflix for unfinished sci-fi show

12 Dec 2025 - 10:44AM

Explainer | Not so fair: the controversy behind Kim Kardashian’s elephant Hermès Birkin

12 Dec 2025 - 6:00AM

Korean drama reviews

Pro Bono: Jung Kyung-ho shines in another breezy legal K-drama

Jung Kyung-ho plays a judge aspiring to join the Supreme Court, but ends up working as a pro bono lawyer in a large law firm.

11 Dec 2025 - 8:15PMvideocam

Jung Kyung-ho as judge-turned-lawyer Kang Da-wit in a still from Netflix’s new Korean drama Pro Bono.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Noah Beck, Sidelined star and TikTok phenom

Beck dropped out of college to pursue a successful TikTok career in Los Angeles, he was once a member of Sway House, and he dated Dixie D’Amelio for 2 years.

11 Dec 2025 - 6:00AMvideocam

Korean drama reviews

Surely Tomorrow: Park Seo-joon makes muted comeback in K-drama romcom

Park Seo-joon and rising actress Won Jin-ah lack chemistry in this Korean drama about a couple repeatedly thrown together and torn apart.

10 Dec 2025 - 7:15PMvideocam

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Josh Hutcherson dating? Meet his Spanish girlfriend, Claudia Traisac

The Hunger Games star has seen continued success in HBO’s I Love LA and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 – and he met his long-time girlfriend on a film set too ….

10 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Actress Claudia Traisac and actor Josh Hutcherson have been together for over a decade. Photo: Getty Images

‘One Battle After Another’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 9 nods

Paul Thomas Anderson’s film earns momentum for Oscar season, while Chinese-born director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet scores six nominations.

9 Dec 2025 - 2:52PM

Paramount counters Netflix with US$108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros

Paramount’s offer came days after Netflix won a weeks-long bidding war to acquire Hollywood giant Warner Bros Discovery.

9 Dec 2025 - 9:42AM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Xochitl Gomez, the Marvel actress rumoured to be dating Robert Irwin

Dancing with the Stars winner Robert Irwin has been sparking romance rumours with the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actress – so who is she?

8 Dec 2025 - 7:00PM

Xochitl Gomez and Robert Irwin are close. Photos: @_xochitl.gomez/Instagram

Fame and celebrity

Who plays Scott Hunter on Heated Rivalry? Meet François Arnaud

The Canadian actor fell in love with the craft when he was nine, landed his first major role on The Borgias in 2011, and is openly bisexual in real life.

8 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Canadian actor François Arnaud stars in ice hockey romance Heated Rivalry. Photo: @francoisarnaud/Instagram

Fame and celebrity

Who is Connor Storrie, the actor behind Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry?

Storrie was in Joker: Folie à Deux with Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix before his role in the Crave ice hockey romance with Hudson Williams – with whom he has amazing chemistry.

8 Dec 2025 - 11:45AMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Meet Hudson Williams, who’s stealing hearts as Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry

He played basketball, aspired to reach the UFC and was a stuntman once – but what did he say about his special chemistry with co-star Connor Storrie?

7 Dec 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Latest K-drama casting news: Yuna of Itzy, Jung So-min and more

K-pop star Yuna will play an actress in My Favorite Employee, while Jung So-min and Ryoo Seung-bum are looking at roles in Dealer.

6 Dec 2025 - 5:15PM

Yuna of the K-pop girl group Itzy is set to star in the upcoming K-drama series My Favorite Employee. Photo: Instagram/igotyuandme

How Sony’s PlayStation changed gaming and entertainment forever

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in North America and Europe, the PlayStation brand has penetrated popular culture like few others.

6 Dec 2025 - 5:49AM

People play Wipeout at an exhibition tracing 30 years of the PlayStation console at the OXO Video Game Museum in Malaga, Spain, on November 13, 2025. Photo: EPA

Netflix’s US$72 billion Warner Bros deal to reshape streaming landscape

Netflix’s acquisition gives it control of HBO Max, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reshaping Hollywood and raising antitrust concerns.

5 Dec 2025 - 9:31PM

Korean drama reviews

Review | The Price of Confession: Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Go-eun in binge-worthy K-drama

Bold performances and punchy scripting keep this murder mystery Korean drama engaging from start to finish.

5 Dec 2025 - 4:00PMvideocam

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Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Cantopop icon Alan Tam: from Leslie Cheung’s rival to fans smashing albums

‘Principal Tam’ ruled Cantopop in the late 1970s and ’80s but later vexed fans with his offstage actions. Still, he’s going strong today.

5 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM

Canto-pop singer Alan Tam Wing-lun

The Star Wars of Netflix: how Stranger Things changed the streamer forever

The sci-fi series was instrumental in growing new branches of business for Netflix, from spin-offs to live events to merchandise and more.

4 Dec 2025 - 7:15PM

Fame and celebrity

Doctor who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry gets 2½ years in prison

Salvador Plasencia did not provide the drugs that killed the actor, the judge says, but he exploited Perry’s addiction for his own profit.

4 Dec 2025 - 1:46PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Who plays Stranger Things’ Karen Wheeler? Meet prolific actress Cara Buono

The actress behind ‘Karen wine ‘em down Wheeler’ has appeared in Mad Men and The Sopranos, among over 80 other acting credits – she is also a Columbia grad.

2 Dec 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Cara Buono at the world premiere of Stranger Things’ fifth season in Los Angeles, in November. Photo: AP

New BBC series shows China’s Guangdong province as a wildlife wonderland

From pangolins to pink dolphins, BBC co-production China’s Wild Guangdong shows how animals live in China’s most populous province.

2 Dec 2025 - 9:34AM

A Chinese pangolin is seen in a still from China’s Wild Guangdong. The critically endangered pangolin is the world’s most trafficked animal, thanks not least to the demands of traditional Chinese medicine, but the new series, co-produced by the BBC and Guangdong Radio and Television, makes little mention of its perilous position. Photo: BBC Studios

One-take wonder: the making of One Shot with Ed Sheeran in New York City

In the show, helmed by Adolescence director Philip Barantini, Ed Sheeran is filmed roaming New York City in the afternoon before his gig.

1 Dec 2025 - 7:15PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Meet Stranger Things star Priah Ferguson, who plays Erica Sinclair

Ferguson has acted since she was 4, appearing in Donald Glover’s Atlanta, alongside Tiffany Haddish in The Oath, and with Millie Bobby Brown and Caleb McLaughlin on the Netflix show.

1 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Video killed the radio star and now streaming has killed MTV across Europe

MTV Music, MTV Hits and its 80s and 90s music shows will be shut down in the UK and other European countries in the coming months.

30 Nov 2025 - 3:20PM

Fame and celebrity

Q&A | Eugenio Franceschini on fashion and his role as Marcello on Emily in Paris

The Italian actor talks about landing the Netflix show, working with Lily Collins, and what it’s like being a ‘heartthrob’.

30 Nov 2025 - 12:00PM

Emily in Paris’ Eugenio Franceschini was in Hong Kong recently. Photo: Fashion to Reconnect

Fame and celebrity

Meet Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Vecna in Stranger Things

He made his acting debut in Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp, and starred in franchises like Twilight and Harry Potter before the Netflix hit.

29 Nov 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

American cinema

How Daniel Craig has evolved detective Benoit Blanc in Knives Out

Benoit Blanc, the detective with the ‘Kentucky-fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl’ played by Daniel Craig, is the beating heart of the film series.

29 Nov 2025 - 5:15PMvideocam

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