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"[Bias] is that thing that stops you being regarded as a person and makes you something smaller. With my accent, I've had that experience where I'm suddenly no longer a person with infinite possibilities and potential - I am 'that Scottish person'. I'm reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth."

Outlander, now wrapping up its eighth and final season, has had this kind of massive, fervent fandom from the very beginning, and although it's rarely thought of in the same company as big buzzy shows of the moment - never nominated for any of the major Emmys, rarely the source of "what is TV now" think pieces like Succession - Outlander has been out there for years inspiring screams, sing-alongs, and packed fan pits.

This being the final on-screen round with time-crossed lovers Claire and Jamie Fraser, there are plenty of older, previously absent faces who have returned for the show's swan song, as well as plenty of ghosts who loom large as Outlander makes its way to its final reckoning.

Perhaps best known for taking over The Wheel of Time, Sanderson made his electric debut 21 years ago with. Now, more than two decades later, Sanderson's complex fantasy books, including the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are finally getting adapted for film and TV. As revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Sanderson's Mistborn books will be adapted into a series of films, while The Stormlight Archive will become a TV series.

I'm categorically not," he said when asked in a recent The Times interview whether he is set to play Voldemort. "Can you make that the headline?" he asked, seemingly keen to make it known far and wide that he wouldn't take on the role.

Director Ben Gregor wanted his cast to interact with the fantastical surroundings as much as possible. And so, on their sound stage in Reading, Gadsdon found herself filming in a grove of marshmallow trees, surrounded by giant flying-saucer plants and Haribo strawberry beds. I did eat a few, she confides. The Land of Birthdays was just as fun she was filmed in those scenes in the middle of a giant cake, as rollerskating elves disco-danced by.

The Traitors, and its stunning home in Scotland's Ardross Castle, returned to our screens on New Year's Day 2026 for a highly anticipated fourth run. The latest series follows the runaway success of The Celebrity Traitors in autumn 2025, where the UK was gripped by a host of household names entering the now-instantly-recognisable property to scheme, plot and accuse each other of being a traitor.

In the film, a timid man (played by Harry Melling) is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome dom top biker (played by Alexander Skarsgård) takes him on as his submissive. Harry Lighton wrote and directed the film, which is based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones.

He played the wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) and in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018); he also portrayed Caius Vulturi in the Twilight saga (2009) and Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013). But the role that has truly catapulted actor as well as singer and model Jamie Campbell Bower, 37, to wider recognition is that of the antagonist in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things.

Killarney woman Buckley has proved unbeatable through the awards season so far for her performance as Shakespeare's wife Agnes Hathaway - historically known as Anne - in the big-screen adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel about the family life of William Shakespeare and the death of their young son. The Irish actress has also been nominated for an Oscar and secured a string of trophies including the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards.

the veteran actor, who died on Monday aged 95, will also be remembered fondly for playing Gordon McLeod a beleaguered Scottish football manager attempting to take lowly Kilnockie FC to Scottish Cup glory with the help of mercurial striker Jackie McQuillan, played by Rangers legend Ally McCoist. While recording football drama A Shot at Glory in 1999 and 2000, which also starred Hollywood A-listers Michael Keaton and Brian Cox

Melling plays Colin, a certified beta whose deepest desire is to serve. He gets his wish when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), a toppy, Tom of Finland -esque biker with an attitude so icy it could preserve food. The two enter into a full-time power-exchange relationship that fuels both of their desires, until their connection evolves to a heart-wrenching breaking point.