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Yellowstone director Christina Voros has shed light on how the show plans to come to an end, despite its star Kevin Costner’s unexpected, premature exit earlier this year.

Ahead of the hit Western’s long-awaited return this month, Voros addressed how Costner’s character, John Dutton, remains an “essential component” to the show’s final episodes.

“John Dutton is still central,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “His presence is integral. I think to say any more than that would potentially compromise all the work that went into redacting the scripts!

“But I think the reason people are wondering, ‘Is he, isn’t he? Where is he, where is he not?’ is because he is the patriarch and his presence is an essential component to the story.”

Costner, who led Yellowstone as the Montana landowner and Dutton family patriarch for four seasons, announced he was departing the hit series in June.

“I just realized that I’m not going to be able to continue Season 5b or into the future,” he said in an Instagram video. “It was something that really changed me. I loved it, and I know you loved it. I just wanted to let you know that I won’t be returning.”

Early reports suggested that his exit was due to a falling out with the show’s creator, Taylor Sheridan, over scheduling conflicts allegedly caused by the actor’s desire to shoot his Western passion project, Horizon – An American Saga.

However, Costner later disputed these claims, saying that had been prepared and ready to shoot whenever he was required, but the production kept getting pushed back.

“I did it for five years, and I wanted to work more than once a year,” he said on a June episode of the Today Show. “We lost an entire year at one point, and I thought, that can’t happen again.”

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He added that he “would love to go back” to Yellowstone, albeit “under the right circumstances.”

Yellowstone returns with the second part of its fifth and final season on November 10 on Paramount+ at 8pm ET/PT.

While the series is coming to an end, Sheridan isn’t done expanding the world of Yellowstone. In fact, he recently announced that Michelle Pfeiffer is set to lead the forthcoming Yellowstone sequel series The Madison.

The new series will follow a family of New Yorkers who relocate to the Madison River valley in central Montana. It is set to deal with themes of grief and human connection.

NETFLIX has revealed key details for the final episodes of smash hit series Stranger Things.

The sci-fi horror drama takes place in the 1980s and debuted in summer 2016.

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Ahead of the fifth and final series, the streaming platform has unveiled the episode titles.

The first four instalments are named: The Crawl, The Vanishing of [REDACTED], The Turnbow Trap and Sorcerer.

Meanwhile, the latter episodes are titled Shock Jock, Escape from Camazotz, The Bridge and The Rightside Up respectively.

Set in fictitious small town Hawkins, Indiana – this location becomes central to the show’s overall mystery.

Oscar nominee Winona Ryder leads the ensemble cast, playing the role of Joyce Byers.

In addition, actor David Harbour – who is husband to Lily Allen – portrays Jim Hopper, the town’s police chief.

Millie Bobby Brown emerged as the breakout star, with her role as Eleven – a teenage girl with psychokinetic and telekinetic powers.

Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp and Sadie Sink also have starring roles.

It comes as a 90s film legend has come out of retirement to join Stranger Things.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Frank Darabont has signed up to the Netflix hit.

Frank, 65, is known for directing film classics The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

He also adapted The Walking Dead for television on AMC, serving as the original showrunner.

Speaking to Daily Beast, the director and screenwriter shared: “What really dragged me out of retirement was that my wife and I really love this show.

“Our content now is so filled with horrible people doing horrible things for greedy reasons but Stranger Things has so much heart.

Stranger Things: Some of the show’s biggest moments

By Conor O’Brien, TV Reporter

Stranger Things launched on Netflix in 2016 and became a pop culture phenomenon.

While the show’s ending after series five, there have been several key moments impacting the story.

Here’s a stroll down memory lane of Stranger Things, with moments from each series so far.

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• Will’s disappearance: A central mystery in series one concerned the disappearance of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp). Everyone – from the police, his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) and his loyal friends – were left on tenterhooks as to the boy’s whereabouts and what became of him. Mid-way through series one, Hawkins Police make a heartbreaking discovery after finding what is assumed to be Will’s body in a lake. Fortunately, it transpires this was faked.
• Dustin and Steve team up: Although they had nothing to do with each other in series one, series two saw Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Steve (Joe Keery) become an unexpected team up. The polar opposite characters formed a surrogate brother-type dynamic which has endured throughout the show.
• Billy’s sacrifice: Billy Hargrove, played by Dacre Montgomery, made his debut in series two and was immediately established as an antagonist. In particular, he formed a rivalry with Steve Harrington. In series three, his villainous antics intensify after becoming the main host for the Mind Flayer. However, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) later breaks Billy free of the control by reminding him of happy memories with his mother. The bully sacrifices himself to save Eleven from the Mind Flayer – and dies in stepsister Max’s (Sadie Sink) arms.
• Eddie Munson’s death: Played by Joseph Quinn, the character Eddie Munson was a new addition in series four – and soon became a fan favourite. The President of the Hellfire Club, Steve feared he would replace him as Dustin’s older mentor figure. In the end, Eddie dies a heroic death – by sacrificing himself to save others from monsters known as “demobats.”

“That positivity is something I really responded to.”

He added: “I haven’t missed the business but I have missed being on set with creative people…

“It may well be one and done, but we’ve still got time.”

Stranger Things 5 will be airing on Netflix in 2025.

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Netflix have teased a big mystery for the forthcoming final season of fan-favourite, Stranger Things.

The record-breaking drama features an ensemble cast including Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers.

The show, which follows a series of paranormal events taking place in an American town in the 1980s, is back for its fifth and final segment in 2025, the streamer confirmed earlier this year.

In a new video shared to their social media page on Wednesday afternoon (6 November), the name of each new episode was revealed.

Titles for each episode often shed light on key events, with the first episode of the first season called “The Vanishing of Will Byers”, setting the scene for the plot of the entire show.

They can take on obscure names based on a theme identifiable to fans, for instance “The Flea and the Acrobat” in which the gate between dimensions was first revealed.

Fans dived deep into speculation, particularly after one of the forthcoming episodes had part of its title omitted.

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The titles are as follows:

The Crawl

The Vanishing Of [Omitted]

The Turnbow Trap

Sorcerer

Shock Jock

Escape From Camazotz

The Bridge

The Rightside Up

In the show’s characteristic Eighties style lettering along with its instantly recognisable music by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, the teaser was accompanied by the tagline, “In the fall of 1987… one last adventure begins.”

“‘The Vanishing Of…’ was such a massive tease,” wrote one fan, as speculation centred on whether Eddie Munson, played by Gladiator II star Joseph Quinn, could be set to return, or whether a main character will vanish in a repeat of the show’s first episode.

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Fans were also left emotional at the name of the final episode called “The Rightside Up”, as opposed to the horror the characters endured in the evil-ridden “Upside Down”.

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“My God, The Rightside Up is the best thing I’ve heard,” wrote one person on social media.

Another added, “Sobbing my eyes out” as fans left crying and tearing up emojis.

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer said that they had created a 25-page document detailing the mythology of the Upside Down when they created the show, in an interview with Tudum.

“We were like, ‘We know what’s going on in the Upside Down, more or less, but we want it to be unknowable. We want it to be mysterious,’ ” Matt Duffer explained.

“But they were like, ‘Yeah, but can you write it down?’ And so we wrote it all down.”

Meanwhile, Ross said the final season would finally tie up all loose ends.

“The last remaining questions that are answered in that document, we’ve punted a couple of those to have some big reveals in Season 5,” said Ross Duffer during Geeked Week in June 2022. “And that’s really going to affect what Season 5 is about.”

Stranger Things 5 will be released in 2025.

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Jeremy Clarkson has responded to accusations that he burned an effigy of US president Donald Trump on Bonfire Night.

The 69-year-old Clarkson’s Farm star, who recently underwent a heart procedure after becoming unwell while on holiday, called the claims “utter horse s***”.

A picture of a figure dressed in a suit with what appeared to be a coiffed hairstyle burning in the middle of flames was shared by the TV personality on Tuesday night (5 November).

He captioned the post: “Bonfire Night at The Farmer’s Dog pub”.

The image provoked a divided response from his social media followers, after the businessman and Home Alone 2 star was elected the 47th president of the US on Wednesday morning (6 November).

“This is disappointing,” wrote one person, while another added, “Anyway….looking forward to voting for TRUMP today!”

A third Republican supporter accused the former Top Gear host of being “corrupted by the Democrats”.

However, Clarkson cleared up any confusion by resharing an article about the bonfire and denying the claims.

“Utter horse sh*t,” he wrote in the caption posted on Wednesday afternoon.

“If I was going to burn someone contemporary on our fire, it would be someone closer to home. But it was actually just Guy Fawkes.”

The US has endured a chaotic and highly polarised election day in which the US voted to elect either Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris.

Shortly after posting the image of Guy Fawkes burning in the fire, Clarkson revealed that his hit Prime Video series, Clarkson’s Farm had been renewed for a fifth season.

“Over the years bright lights in the sky have been used to make many important announcements, the birth of the baby Jesus for example,” he said as lights arranged themselves behind him in the video.

“But tonight they’re being used to make an announcement that’s even bigger than that. Season 5 of Clarkson’s Farm is coming.”

The documentary series first aired on Prime Video in 2021, and follows the former Top Gear host as he attempts to run his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm near Chipping Norton.

The 61-year-old bought the land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, decided to see if he could run it himself. A long-awaited third series was released to success in May.

AMANDA Holden has revealed her first ever tattoo – and her husband Chris isn’t impressed.

The Heart radio star, 53, showed off her first inking on today’s breakfast show after returning home from a holiday in Los Angeles.

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The Britain’s Got Talent judge was in the States with daughter Hollie, 12, for half-term and they met up with her best friend, Jane.

Amanda told listeners: “I was having a cup of tea with my friend Sarah, and she was squashing a tea bag in her cup when I noticed something about her.

“I noticed something about her person that I was so shocked at but thrilled for her because this is something she’d always wanted to do.

“And I was like ‘Oh my gosh Sarah, I am going to do that,’ and she says, ‘you must do that.’ Anyway, I go for dinner with Jane, and we were there with Hollie, Freya and Jack.

“They’re all children, I say children they’re old. And I said to Jane, look at what Sarah’s done to herself. And Jane was like ‘Oh my gosh this is fabulous’ I said, ‘let’s do it.’

“She went, ‘you’re kidding’ and I said, ‘I’ve always been wholeheartedly against them.’ And we got in the car, and we went, and we found a place.”

The parlour in question used to be a bar and had a huge pole in the middle of the room.

Upon returning home, her family failed to spot the two hearts she’d had tattooed onto her wrist.

“I dropped so many hints,” she said. “I was, you know, obviously my husband just didn’t notice.

“And then yesterday, obviously my 18-year-old is home, I made a roast dinner. I was pretending to mop my brow because my tattoo is actually just on my wrist. Because, you know, I was sort of slaving over a stove as I was talking to Chris.

“I had my hand like that, just nothing. Anyway, Holly was losing her mind because she was obviously present for the tattoo moment, which didn’t hurt and took less than 30 seconds.”

Amanda admitted she expected Chris’s negative reaction, and it played out how she imagined it would.

She said: “First, he would say, it looks fake. Second, he said it looks naff. And third, he said, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen next? Where else are you going to get one? What else are you going to do? And now the children are going to want one,’ is what he said.”

Regardless of his view, Amanda was thrilled with her body art, which symbolises her two children Hollie and Lexi.

And she revealed she’s going to get a small third heart added at the bottom, perhaps to symbolise her son, Theo, who was tragically stillborn in 2011.

Listen to Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden weekdays from 06:30 – 10:00 across the UK and on Global Player

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The BBC has shared a first look at the new lead detective in popular mystery series, Death in Paradise.

EastEnders and Shetland star Don Gilet was unveiled as the replacement for Ralf Little earlier this year. Little had starred as Detective Inspector Neville Parker in series 9 to 13 of the show, which has been running since 2011.

The hit BBC series, which focuses on the detective inspector from the UK and his police team solving murder mysteries that continue to shake the fictional island of Saint Marie, sees a new actor joining as DI every few years.

Gilet will make his debut as Detective Inspector Mervin WiIson in a feature-length Christmas special later this year, before a brand-new series in 2025. He is best known for playing Lucas Johnson in the long-running soap, as well as Jacob Harris in Sherwood and John Howell in Shetland.

Filming has wrapped in Guadeloupe, which will also see the return of regular faces including Don Warrington, Shantol Jackson, Ginny Holder, Élizabeth Bourgine and Danny John-Jules.

“I am delighted to have returned to the wonderful island of Guadeloupe and this time to be stepping into the well-worn shoes of the Detective Inspector,” Gilet said.

“It’s been a real pleasure filming such a beloved series alongside the hardworking cast and crew. I can’t wait for the fans to see how DI Mervin Wilson fares on the island, how he fits within the Saint Marie police team and what secrets may unfold…”

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When his casting was revealed back in May, Gilet had said that “being offered the new lead role in Death in Paradise feels like a deeply loved and incredibly precious jewel has been placed in my hands”.

He added, “This is a big show, with a big heart and the love continually grows for it. It is my intention to never lose sight of that and to remain grateful, humbled and dedicated.

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“Even during those testing times when every sinew is screaming at me to run off the set and dive into the sea, swimming pool or an ice-cold beer – whichever happens to be closer at the time!”