THE trailer for Danny Dyer’s new movie Marching Powder has been released – and it looks like not one to miss.

There are plenty of fights, drug taking and raunchy sex scenes in the upcoming film.

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Marching Powder, written and directed by Nick Love, is due to hit our screens in March 2025.

The trailer has given a sneak peek on what to expect.

It starts with actor Danny, 47, talking to camera with some suspicious substance in his hand – and a group of men fighting in the background.

“I’m here to introduce my new film,” Danny says.

“It’s a gentle lovely little rom com called marching powder.”

He then stops and shouts at the men: “Oi mate, oi mate pipe down,” before sniffing the suspicious substance.

Danny then explains what the movie is about.

He continues: “The film is about a couple who are trying to save their marriage, it’s under strain because of the husband’s going struggle with drugs and…”

However the group behind him carry on arguing, so he goes to shut them up by beating them up.

Danny then walks back up to the camera and sarcastically says: “Here’s the trailer for Marching Powder. It’s a beautiful film, very PG.”

At the start of the trailer, Danny’s alter-ego Jack Jones can be seen in court, where a judge tells him all the bad things that he has done – including fighting at football, possession of cocaine.

He is given six weeks to turn his life around or he’ll end up in prison.

Jack says: “I’ve f***ed it. My wife is going to leave me.

“I’ve turned my son into a lunatic. My mates think I’m a bore.

“My father-in-law is going to f***ing kill me!”

He continues: “I know I can become a productive member of society.

“I’m going to make her proud.”

In another scene Jack picks his son JJ up from school, and the young boy asks him if his mum is having an affair.

“She said that if you ever pick me up from school, means she’s either dead or run of with another man,” he confesses.

This isn’t the first time that Danny and Nick have worked together on a film.

They’ve also joined forces for The Football Factory, The Business, Goodbye Charlie Bright and Outlaw.

Undoubtedly, Danny’s performance in The Football Factory is his most memorable to date.

Revealing the darker side to “the beautiful game”, the ultra-violent movie follows Chelsea fan Tommy who lives for bloody brawls with ­supporters of rival teams.

Even though Danny is once again playing a drug-taking football ­hooligan in Nick’s latest film, Marching Powder, the director insists it is not a ­Football Factory sequel.

Nick explains: “It’s not a sequel. It’s a sort of reflection on what it’s like to be slightly washed up and middle-aged and then completely f*** your life up.

“People might think it relates to The Football Factory because it’s got Danny Dyer and it is made by me and it has got football violence in it, but that’s where the comparisons sort of finish.

“I think the most important thing is that it’s got more comedy.

“This is about the disintegration of the relationship and about a wife who’s had enough of her husband acting like a complete c***, from years of sniffing cocaine and fighting at football.”

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Fox News host Bret Baier has been criticised for his attempts to talk over Kamala Harris during his interview with the presidential candidate on the conservative network.

The interview, which lasted 27 minutes, included several heated exchanges between the Democratic nominee and Baier, who has worked for Fox since 1998.

The pair frequently talked over each other, and Harris was much more animated than in other recent appearances as part of her media blitz.

Harris and Baier kicked off the conversation with a feisty exchange over immigration. The vice president then wrapped with a demand for Baier to focus the interview on a “full assessment of the facts.”

It was Harris’s first appearance on Fox and many have hit out at Baier for his treatment of the vice president during the interview, while complimenting Harris for how she handled the situation.

Community and Inside Out 2 actor Yvette Nicole Brown took to X/Twitter to ask Baier: “Would you have interrupted any other @VP of our country they way you rudely interrupted and tried to talk over @KamalaHarris? Asking for every woman in America.”

The American businessman and TV personality, Mark Cuban was full of praise for Harris and her performance. The 66-year-old wrote: “The beautiful thing about the @BretBaier interview is that @KamalaHarris understood and responded to each question. She used examples of policies. She gave real world context. When Brett went hard after her. She didn’t call him names. She didn’t quit the interview. She didn’t make things up. She never once complained the questions were tough. She never played the victim card. She didn’t lose her temper. She didn’t take the bait to diminish or talk down to Trump supporters. She stood up to him with force and never backed down.“

The author of If God is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz added: “Bret Baier tries to talk over Kamala Harris in hopes of pivoting again and again so she isn’t able to state her position. She cuts through his bulls***. She is the leader we all deserve.”

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Baier had earlier hit back at accusations from Trump supporters that the interview with Harris would be edited to make her seem more favourable.

The Fox News host took to X/Twitter on Monday night and Tuesday morning to assure people the interview, while pre-taped, would be aired as-live with minimal interruptions and no questions would be given to Harris ahead of time.“No one has the questions. Except me,” he told an X user. When another person assumed Baier would “pass [Harris] the questions” Baier rejected the claim.

NICOLA King is set to make a chilling discovery about her nephew-in-law Tom King after seeing the way he interacts with her stepson Carl Holliday. 

Emmerdale villain Tom (James Chase) has been hiding his abusive ways and manipulation of his estranged wife Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) from the King family – but is the truth finally about to come out?

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In scenes airing next week, Nicola (Nicola Wheeler) will pick up on some tension between Carl (Charlie Joyce) and Tom. 

Spoilers for Thursday’s episode (October 24) confirm that Nicola will become unsettled when she observes how Carl seems to be afraid of Tom, sensing something isn’t right.

But will this actually lead to the truth coming out?

As Emmerdale viewers know, Carl is terrified of Tom after he witnessed him smashing up his iPad and then bribed him not to tell anyone about it. 

After being arrested for attacking Tom with an axe in self defence, Belle realised she needed to find evidence of his ongoing abuse. 

Realising that there would likely be proof on the iPad, Belle tried to get her hands on it, but Tom got there first and stopped the police from finding it. 

Tom found it in the hands of his young cousin Carl and took it back before smashing it to pieces to hide incriminating evidence about himself from Belle and the police. 

But unbeknownst to Tom, Carl saw the whole thing and was left terrified. 

When Tom noticed Carl was acting weird in the latest episode and believed he’d scared him after having a go at him recently.

Carl admitted this was the case, but didn’t reveal that he saw him break the iPad. 

Later, Tom returned from the shops with a gift for his cousin in the form of a remote controlled toy car. Carl was amazed, but Tom had one condition before handing over the toy.

He asked Carl to promise that the issues with the iPad were over, making him repeat the words: “iPad? What iPad?”

Carl did what he was told and agreed to stay quiet, meaning the only witness to the smashing up of the iPad and where it could be now is not going to spill the beans… for now.

But if Nicola asks Carl about her suspicions, will he tell her the truth about what happened, or will he continue to protect Tom with his silence?

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It all begins with a moan. In the opening seconds of Rivals, the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bestselling bonkbuster, breathy cries of ecstasy flutter across a peppy orchestral score, as we’re introduced to a naked bottom belonging to lothario Rupert Campbell-Black. He’s a Tory MP, and he’s humping a journalist in a Concorde loo. When he’s done, he proudly returns to his seat – gold-framed aviator shades and all – as the women in the cabin practically faint at his feet.

I should probably make this clear: the rutting happens on every surface possible in Rivals. It occurs within TV studio storage cupboards, atop office desks and on four-poster beds in stately homes. Would it be a spoiler to tell you there’s naked tennis? It’s a sensory overload – but then again, it is set in the glorious Cooper-verse: the 1980s world of the Tory elite living in the Cotswolds, who deal exclusively in excess. It’s a setting that’s enchanted (and titillated) Cooper fans for more than three decades through the 12 books in her Rutshire Chronicles, including the mischievously named Riders, Tackle!, Mount! and Score!

At the centre of this horny parade is jockey-turned-Conservative sports minister Rupert, played by chiselled actor Alex Hassell. The hunky horserider is described in Cooper’s books as “Britain’s sexiest man”, so no pressure, then. In order to encourage the actor to fully embrace his heartthrob status, Rivals showrunner Dominic Treadwell-Collins had a plan. He told the crew that whenever Hassell entered a room, they must gawp at him as if he were a megastar like Harry Styles.

“That’s not my day-to-day life,” laughs Hassell as we speak in a Soho hotel. “There was definitely a wish fulfilment aspect to it. It was a great way to live.” He says it’s disappointing now that this charade is over. “My wife swoons when I walk in a room but that’s about it,” he says, with mock self-pity. That’s when his co-star, David Tennant – who plays Lord Tony Baddingham, the conniving head honcho of a TV studio called Corinium – steps in to reassure him. “Stop it, we all swoon over you!”

There’s been a lot of sweet talking to bring all this swooning to life on the small screen. Treadwell-Collins, like Rishi Sunak, has been hooked on Cooper since he was a teen. He spent the past 10 years sending dozens of love letters to Cooper, telling her how much he adored Rivals – and that he wanted the rights. After years of communication via her agent, Cooper finally said yes. “I was told, ‘Jilly wants to give you the rights and said because your letter was so well-written, you should write the script too,”’ a chirpy Treadwell-Collins tells me. He was working on EastEnders and other projects at the time. “I was going through the adoption process with my husband and so much was going on. But I kept on coming back to the script.”

But when Treadwell-Collins began to contact prospective TV studios, he found that execs – both men and women, but mainly men – were dismissive of the idea due to preconceived ideas they had about Cooper’s work, despite having never read it. “Everyone said ‘Jilly Cooper, oh, it’s a bit silly,’” recalls the director. “But it’s not silly! She’s an amazing storyteller. There’s a really complicated love story at the heart of it. She pulls apart Britishness and class and the way we all behave towards each other.” He remembers seeing Rivals on his mother’s bookcase as a child and knowing it was naughty (the suggestive covers of all of Cooper’s books were a huge giveaway). “I think it was a group of people who saw Jilly’s work as naff but another group who saw it as dangerous and sexy,” he says. “I knew I wanted to turn it into telly.”

Did the actors have the same relationship with Cooper’s work? Tennant admits to making judgements about the books, which eventually didn’t carry when he read them himself. “I suppose as a teenager in Paisley in the Eighties, I didn’t feel like I was the target audience,” the Scottish actor says. “I had made assumptions that were slightly unfair to just how nuanced and clever the books are.” The very fact that there’s an adaptation more than 30 years later proves the intelligence of Cooper’s writing, he says. “It’s not the initial thing people recognise about it, but these books have tenacity.”

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The next thing Tennant knew, he had been dunked in fake tan, his hair perfectly coiffed and a cigar permanently fixed to his lips as showbiz tyrant Tony. When he first saw his hair, he reckoned he looked like the suave French actor Louis Jourdan. “Hmmm, I was quite pleased with that,” he ponders. “And then a couple of days later, I saw a picture of myself and I thought, no, it’s more Terry Wogan. They are both good touchstones for me.” He read the biography of former TV super-boss Michael Grade to help him embody his character, too. “Visually, he became quite a source material with the braces and the large cigars.”

As we’ve established, the characters in Rivals are insanely posh. When they’re not doing the deed, they spend their days strolling around country grounds, buying horses and/or football clubs and intermittently receiving calls from Margaret Thatcher. I note that it’s an ironic detail, given how Thatcher’s attitudes towards sex and promiscuity contradict the indulgent world we see in the series. “Are you suggesting there was some hypocrisy in the world of the government?” teases Tennant. “It’s not the Eighties I remember. But I remember it being the kind of era of excess… the money on an almost gross level of conspicuous consumption.”

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Hassell agrees, pointing out that there are still different rules for the elite and extremely wealthy – the sort of standards that make his character untouchable. “Rupert gets away with absolutely terrible things because he has money and privilege. There’s a different rule for the super-rich… it’s a great time for the show to be coming out.”

One character who finds himself in a bitter rivalry with Rupert is chat show host Declan O’Hara, played by Poldark actor Aidan Turner, who discovers that both his wife, Maud (Victoria Smurfit), and daughter, Taggie (Bella Maclean) – like every other woman in the series – have a crush on the sports minister. Turner thinks the elite world in the show is entirely transactional. “They’re either denying their class, imposing their class or escaping their class. I think sex is used in that way too. Almost for all of the characters, sex is a tool in some way, even if it’s a tool for enjoyment,” he says. His character Declan, who is Irish, never fully seems pulled in by the class system that those around him are obsessed with. “Declan would never trust the British class system,” he says. “He thinks the class system is weird – he’s dubious about British politics generally speaking, as I think a lot of Irish people will be.”

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Getting to grips with that class system was an education for Nafessa Williams, who is the only American in the cast. She plays TV industry ballbuster Cameron Cooke, a colleague of Tony’s, who has flown into Corinium from New York. The sheer Britishness of Cooper’s books left Williams with lots of questions for her co-stars. “Someone mentioned going to the loo – I had no clue what that was… like, do I need to come with you? Do I stay? What is that?” she says in her Philly accent. It was helpful, then, that the cast had a WhatsApp group where she could vent. “I remember texting the group… What the hell is Boots? I only eat fish, where can I get it from?” she laughs. “Didn’t I hear you say, who the f*** are the Tories one day?” Turner asks her. She nods. “Yeah, like who the f*** is that?”

Speaking of Tories: it was during filming when our former PM admitted that Cooper’s racy 1985 book Riders was one of his favourites. That moment sent the internet into a frenzy. Everyone imagined Sunak hunkering down with a hot mug of cocoa as he devoured the Rupert and Taggie sex scenes. It similarly caused a buzz among the cast and crew. “Jilly has fans everywhere,” laughs Treadwell-Collins, recalling that day. “And whatever your political views are, someone saying they like Jilly’s books is making everyone think you’re a populist person. I think that’s what we took from it.”

There were many days on set where the cast were in fits of laughter, the actors all say. They got on so well that Cooper invited them to a party at her home – Rutshire style. When I try to get the goss on what goes down at a Cooper house party, Hassell doesn’t give too much away. “I couldn’t possibly say what happened,” he jokes. “We saw the cabin under a tree in her garden where she wrote Rivals. It looks out over this valley, where she imagined Declan’s house would have been.” All sounds very wholesome. Surely he’s being coy?

He gives in. “There were vol-au-vents and lots of champagne…” Well, it’s Jilly Cooper, darling. One would not expect anything less.

‘Rivals’ premieres 18 October exclusively on Disney+

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Viewers have been left furious at the BBC’s decision to scrap one of its flagship current affair programmes, HARDtalk.

The politics show, known for its challenging interviews with world leaders, is presented by veteran broadcaster Stephen Sackur and has spent nearly three decades on air.

On Tuesday (15 October) the BBC announced the decision to end the programme in March 2025, along with the loss of 100 news roles at the corporation.

The company has been facing increasing financial pressure and has projected its total deficit will increase to £492 million for the 2024/25 financial year.

Sackur, 60, hit out at the decision to axe HARDtalk, calling it “depressing news for the BBC and all those who believe in the importance of independent, rigorous deeply researched journalism.”

He continued, “At a time when disinformation and media manipulation are poisoning public discourse, HARDtalk is unique – a long-form interview show with only one mission, to hold to account those who all too often avoid accountability in their own countries.”

During his career, the presenter has interviewed Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez, Sergei Lavrov, Meles Zenawi, Lula, Nancy Pelosi, Recep Tayep Erdogan, Emmanuel Macron, Imran Khan, Olusegan Abasanjo, and many others.

Fellow broadcaster, Piers Morgan, commented on the decision saying: “What a shame. Always enjoyed HARDtalk and your masterful interrogations, even when it [was] once me on the receiving end! Very surprised the BBC is ending it.”

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Viewers were left unimpressed.

“Closing HARDtalk is a grave mistake,” wrote one person. “It’s the BBC’s top show holding global leaders accountable with tough, necessary questions. In an era of misinformation, we need more HARDtalk, not less. The BBC must reconsider.”

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Another hit out at the long list of era-defining shows which have been cancelled in recent times.

“Victoria Derbyshire Show: gone. Newsnight is now ‘Newsnight’ in name only. Dateline London: gone. HARDtalk, a globally respected and highly influential show: gone,” listed one person.

“You could be forgiven for thinking that the BBC appears to be withdrawing from journalism.”

“This is utterly ridiculous.” wrote another on X/Twitter. “HARDtalk was the type of journalism that only the BBC was equipped to produce. Always fascinating, no matter the guest. Terrible decision. Sorry Stephen.”

Another added, “Sad news that HARDtalk is coming to an end as a result of BBC cuts. One of the most varied and insightful interview programmes around. Stephen was always a particularly reassuring presence on hotel rooms TV screens.”

“Stephen Sackur created the gold standard in how to conduct an accountability interview – speaking truth to power,” said one person praising the host’s interviewing skills. “Thanks to you and the HARDtalk team for the incredible public service over so many years.”

According to PA, BBC Deborah Turness sent an email to staff, part of which read: “I’m sorry to say that post closures are unavoidable. We propose to close 185 roles and open 55 new ones – a net reduction of 130 posts. As a result of the changes in news, media operations is also proposing to close the equivalent of 25 posts.”

BIG Brother fans have been left scratching their heads after Sarah Griffiths made a huge faux pas during the latest task.

In a bid for the contestants to win luxury shopping items, the BB house has been transformed into Downing Street.

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The housemates have been divided up into Government roles, with Khaled being named Prime Minister, Emma made Minister of Transport, Daze as Minister for Energy and Nathan given the job Minister for Agriculture. 

A mock set of Number 10 Downing Street has even been installed in the BB house, which leads to the Government’s ‘offices’ away from the remaining contestants.

But as the task got underway, Sarah made a huge gaffe as she repeatedly banged on the door of Number 10.

Highlighting to the nation that she doesn’t know who the UK’s Prime Minister is, the farmer shouted: “Rishi…Rishi…Rishi….Rishi!

“Stop making the pensioners pay more, they’re going to freeze to death!”

Rishi Sunak has not been Prime Minister for more than three months, following the 2024 General Election. Keir Starmer is now PM.

Sarah was joined by fellow housemate Izaaz at the door and he failed to correct her mistake.

Big Brother fans couldn’t believe their ears and rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their astonishment.

One exclaimed: “Do they still think Rishi is Prime Minister?!”

Another added: “Rishi?? He hasn’t been prime minister for months now loool.”

A third penned “Does Sarah know that Rishi’s not the PM anymore??”

And someone else added: “Can someone tell Sarah Rishi Sunak isn’t the Prime Minister anymore!”

Meanwhile, a huge row erupted during the Big Brother Government task – over a bagel.

Dean threw one of the Minsters’ leftover lunchtime bagels in the kitchen bin to avoid anyone eating it and losing the task.

Emma briefly questioned his decision – before Izaaz began telling housemates she was “upset” over it.

An almighty argument blew up, with a furious Dean branding Izaaz a “sh** stirrer”.

• Big Brother continues, 9pm, ITV2, Thursday October 17

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