TVI's final aired on Friday night, hosted by Maria Botelho Moniz. Bóris finished second on the remaining 41%, Nuno third and João Ventura fourth.

Ten weeks of Portugal's noisiest summer television ended in a two-way vote, and Sara won it. She is the winner of Big Brother Verão, taking 59% against Bóris in the closing duel. He finished second on the other 41%. The cheque was 45,400 euros. The final went out on TVI on Friday night, 4 September, hosted by Maria Botelho Moniz and broken up by live music. Nuno came third. João Ventura, the first contestant to secure a place in the final and safe in the…

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Rolling coverage of TVI's Big Brother Verão 2026: evictions, leaders, galas and the stories everyone's talking about, updated through the season.

This is our rolling coverage of Big Brother Verão 2026 — who's been evicted, who runs the house and what everyone's talking about, updated through the season. Instead of hunting down the day's recap, the essentials live here, with full episodes and live feeds always available on TVI's official site. Portugal's summer edition kicked off on 28 June with 18 anonymous contestants — nine men and nine women — locked into the country's most-watched house, with…

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"Coração de Mãe" starts on 7 September, replacing "Terra Forte", and lands on TVI Player and Prime Video the same day. Diogo Morgado and Paulo Rocha share the lead.

TVI has a date for its next big bet on Portuguese drama. "Coração de Mãe" premieres on 7 September, a Monday, taking the slot held by "Terra Forte". It is a Plural Entertainment production filmed in Lisbon, and it arrives on the channel, on TVI Player and on Prime Video at the same time. The casting brings Joana Solnado back to the station as a lead, alongside Diogo Morgado and Paulo Rocha. The scripts are by Sara Sampaio Simões, Elisabete Moreira and…

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O Jacaré premiered in competition at Locarno in August and reached Portugal on 3 September. Ninety-two minutes in Creole and Portuguese, built around €180,000 that vanished.

O Jacaré opened in Portuguese cinemas on Thursday. It is the new feature by Basil da Cunha, the Swiss-Portuguese director born in Morges, and it had its world premiere in August in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival — his third film in that section, after O Fim do Mundo in 2019 and Manga d'Terra in 2023. The story begins with a robbery that goes wrong. A car crashes inside the estate, the driver is arrested, and the €180,000 that…

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The Portuguese singer pulled everything off the platform in February over Daniel Ek's investment in defence AI. He says the reasons have not changed — the arithmetic has.

Salvador Sobral took his entire catalogue off Spotify in February. On Tuesday, in a video posted to his official accounts, he said he is putting it back. His reason is plain and not especially heroic, and he says so himself: he needs to reach people, and he needs to sell concert tickets. He called the platform a Goliath too strong to take on alone. Three things stacked up before February. The first was money — among the large platforms, Spotify pays…

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The 83rd Venice Film Festival opens on 2 September at the Lido. Clooney is the first of two lifetime achievement Lions this year, and the warm-up screening is a 1967 Italian thriller.

Every Venice opening ceremony has a moment where somebody walks on stage and explains why the statuette makes sense. This year that person has a name. La Biennale confirmed on Sunday that Laura Dern will give the laudatio for George Clooney on Wednesday 2 September, when he collects his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Clooney is the first of two. The second goes to Ellen Burstyn, still shorthand for the mother in The Exorcist to half the world, and…

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Warner Bros. Discovery shelved the finished film in November 2023 to claim it as a loss. Ketchup Entertainment bought the worldwide rights in March 2025, and NOS Audiovisuais put it in Portuguese cinemas on 27 August.

Films are usually late because of a director who cannot settle, or a shot that will not render. This one was late because of a spreadsheet. Coyote vs. Acme was finished when Warner Bros. Discovery decided, in November 2023, not to release it at all and to book it as a tax write-off instead. The backlash was loud and came from inside the studio as well as outside it. Months of failed talks with other buyers followed, until Ketchup Entertainment picked up…

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Kevin Parker's band is the first act confirmed for the festival's 19th edition, which runs 8, 9 and 10 July at Passeio Marítimo de Algés. They take the main stage on the closing night.

NOS Alive already had its dates and its tickets on sale. What it did not have was a name, and Monday supplied one: Tame Impala will close the festival on 10 July 2027. Kevin Parker's Australian band is the first confirmation for the 19th edition, which runs on 8, 9 and 10 July at Passeio Marítimo de Algés. They play the main stage on the final night. For anyone who went in April this will feel soon. Parker played two shows under his own name in Porto and…

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The Dog Stars, released here as Na Companhia das Estrelas, adapts Peter Heller's novel about a world emptied by a pandemic. Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin share an abandoned airfield.

Ridley Scott is 88 and still makes two films in the time it takes most directors to make one. The next reaches Portuguese screens on Thursday, released here as Na Companhia das Estrelas by NOS Audiovisuais. Cinema listings already carry the 27 August date, IMAX screenings included. It is a return to science fiction without ships or empires. The film adapts The Dog Stars, Peter Heller's 2012 novel, set after a flu virus has wiped out most of the…

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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story lands on Netflix on 17 September, all eight episodes at once. Ella Beatty takes the title role, with Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps around her.

Netflix put out the trailer for the fourth season of Monster on 20 August, and with it the date and the full cast. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story arrives on 17 September, with all eight episodes dropping on day one. There is a structural difference between this season and the three before it, and it is not a matter of style. Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein had one thing in common: all of them were convicted. Lizzie Borden was not. In…

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Habeas Corpus follows a criminal review group trying to overturn a wrongful conviction, with Marjorie Estiano and Any Gabrielly leading and the Innocence Project Brasil behind the premise.

There is an organisation in Brazil that does something distinctly untelevisual: it rereads old case files looking for convictions that should never have happened. It is called the Innocence Project Brasil, and it is where Netflix's new series begins. Habeas Corpus arrives on 23 September with all eight episodes released at once. It is the first scripted legal drama Netflix has made in Brazil, which explains a fair share of the attention. The country has a…

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Coyote vs. Acme opens in Portuguese cinemas on 27 August through NOS Audiovisuais, with Will Forte acting for the plaintiff and Dave Green directing.

The joke has run since 1949 and the setup never changes. The Coyote orders something from ACME, the something detonates in his face, the Road Runner vanishes down the highway. Nobody ever asked whose fault that was. Somebody has now. Coyote vs. Acme opens in Portuguese cinemas on 27 August, distributed by NOS Audiovisuais. It blends live action with animation around a premise anyone who watched the cartoons as a child will grasp in a second: after decades…

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Clément Vandenkerckhove was legally recognised in February by Prince Laurent, younger brother of King Philippe, at a civil registry office. The story only surfaced this week. The title arrives without the allowance or a place in the succession.

Belgium acquired a prince this week. He is 26, his name is Clément Vandenkerckhove, and until recently he was selling cars. The recognition happened back in February, at a civil registry office, between Clément and Prince Laurent, younger brother of King Philippe. It sat there quietly for months. Only on 19 August did the story become public, and it travelled across Europe within hours. Clément was born in August 2000, the son of Laurent and Iris…

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Cinemateca Portuguesa restored Flora Gomes's 1992 Guinea-Bissau feature Udju Azul di Yonta. It gets its world premiere in the Venice Classics strand in September.

Look for Portugal at Venice and the instinct is to scan the competition list for a director. This year the Portuguese entry sits further down the credits, on the line that names who restored the film. Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema carried out the restoration of Udju Azul di Yonta, Flora Gomes's second feature, shot in 1992 as a co-production between Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, France and the UK. It is one of 19 titles picked for the Venice Classics…

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MTV has published the full list. One project — Confessions II - The Film — carries eight of Madonna's eleven nods, and the ceremony airs live from Los Angeles on 27 September.

The tally runs like this: 11 nominations for Madonna, nine for Taylor Swift, seven each for Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter. Bruno Mars, PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson take five apiece. What lifts Madonna's number is a single piece of work. Confessions II - The Film is up for video of the year, best dance, best direction, best art direction, best cinematography, best editing, best visual effects and best choreography — most of the craft categories in…

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Season six of the Gary Oldman spy drama premieres on Apple TV on 16 September, one episode a week through to 21 October. It adapts two Mick Herron novels, and this time the trouble starts inside MI5.

Some series curdle once they get big. This one has not, and it is back on 16 September. Season six of Slow Horses premieres that day on Apple TV, one episode at a time, weekly, through to 21 October. Six weeks of calendar, the format the show has always used, with no binge on day one.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone returns to the big screen in Portugal from 27 to 30 August, a limited run for the saga's 25th anniversary, with behind-the-scenes footage that was not in the original.

Some of the people who saw this in a cinema in 2001 aged ten will now be taking a ten-year-old of their own. That is the audience Warner Bros. is counting on, and the sums look about right: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone returns to Portuguese screens in a limited run from 27 to 30 August, part of the saga's 25th anniversary. Four days. This is not a rerelease with a commercial run behind it, it is a short window, which is the bit worth knowing…

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The EBU has approved three rule changes for the 2027 contest in Bulgaria: winners in conflict-affected regions can be barred from hosting, the minimum age for artists rises from 16 to 18, and the live-vocal rules have been spelled out.

Winning Eurovision has always come with a prize and a bill: the trophy, and the job of staging the whole thing twelve months later. The European Broadcasting Union has just made the second part conditional. Three rule changes were approved for the 2027 contest in Bulgaria. This is the one that matters. From 2027, a winning broadcaster is automatically ineligible to host the following contest where an armed conflict, a sensitive geopolitical situation or…

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The civil ceremony took place on Tuesday 11 August, private and heavily guarded, with the couple's children present. Nine years after they met in Madrid, the announcement ran to three characters.

Cascais, in the end. After a month of dates that never firmed up and venues that were denied almost as fast as they were reported, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez were married on Tuesday 11 August in a private civil ceremony, their children present, security tight enough that nothing leaked until the couple wanted it to. There was no statement. There was a photograph of two hands, two bands, posted to Cristiano Ronaldo's Instagram account with a…

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Camp Rock 3 premieres 13 August on Disney Channel and 14 August on Disney+. Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas return as Connect 3, while Demi Lovato stays off screen as an executive producer.

Sixteen years after the second film, camp reopens. Camp Rock 3 premieres on Disney Channel this Thursday, 13 August, and arrives on Disney+ the following day. The setup does its job: Connect 3 lose the opening act for a major reunion tour and head back to Camp Rock to find a replacement. The campers compete for the slot, and it turns into unlikely alliances, revelations and romances — the old machinery, with a new intake.

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Lanterns runs eight episodes from Monday 17 August, with Aaron Pierre, Kyle Chandler, Kelly Macdonald and Laura Linney, and a premise that swaps intergalactic spectacle for a case to solve.

There is an odd decision at the heart of Lanterns, and it is the reason to give the thing a chance. DC Studios took the Green Lantern Corps — an intergalactic police force whose rings can conjure anything the wearer can imagine — and shot a slow-burning investigation drama in the American middle of nowhere. Season one runs eight episodes and premieres on Monday 17 August on HBO Max. The trailer announcement came from the HBO Max Portugal press room, which…

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Wagner Moura and Greta Lee play the parents of a Seattle family who, mid-storm, find every door and window sealed shut. Louis Leterrier directs, it landed on Friday, and the reviews split down the middle.

The premise fits in one line, and it is the kind that gets you to press play: a family is shut inside their own house and nobody explains why. It is called The Last House, it arrived on Netflix on Friday, and it is the closest thing to a chamber science fiction picture the service has put out this year. The Delgados are four. Jason, the father, is an out-of-work engineer carrying the guilt of the family's money troubles. That is Wagner Moura, in the…

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Playback, directed by Sérgio Graciano, opened on 6 August in more than fifty cinemas. Newcomer Rafael Ferreira plays composer Carlos Paião across a decade running from medical school to the Festival da Canção.

Playback reached Portuguese cinemas on 6 August, opening in more than fifty screens. Directed by Sérgio Graciano and written by Mário Cenicante, it is a drama about Carlos Paião rather than a documentary, and that distinction was clearly a deliberate choice. The film covers roughly ten years of the composer's life. The medical degree, which he finished. His marriage to Zaida Cardoso. The Festival da Canção appearances that made him a face the whole…

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Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live) runs 114 minutes, took 27 million dollars worldwide in cinemas and landed on Paramount+ in the United States on 6 August.

There is an unlikely pairing in this film's credits. Billie Eilish co-directed the record of her own tour with James Cameron, the man behind Titanic and Avatar, and what they produced runs 114 minutes. Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live) opened in cinemas on 8 May and took 10 million dollars in the United States and Canada, 27 million worldwide. For a concert film with no plot and no film stars on the poster, that is a respectable set of numbers. On 6…

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Ye, the artist who spent almost two decades performing as Kanye West, is at the Estádio Algarve on 7 August. It is his first show in Portugal since 2011.

Fifteen years after he last stood on a Portuguese stage, Ye is back on Friday. The show is on 7 August at the Estádio Algarve, outside Faro, and it is billed as his only Portuguese date. No second night, no Lisbon, no Porto. His last visit was in 2011, under the name most people still use. In between there has been a change of stage name, several complete reinventions of the live show, and a public trajectory that split his own audience down the middle.…

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Season four landed on Wednesday with the first of ten episodes, and Ted has taken charge of Richmond's second-division women's side. New episodes drop weekly until 7 October.

Three years after a finale that felt like a full stop, the moustache is back on the touchline. Ted Lasso returned to Apple TV on Wednesday, 5 August, with the first of ten episodes. The rest arrive weekly, every Wednesday, through to 7 October. Jason Sudeikis is back in the role, but the job has changed. Ted returns to Richmond to coach the club's women's team, a second-division side that grew out of a project Keeley had been pushing for two seasons. The…

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Filmed over two years with access to Mourinho himself, the series lands worldwide on the same day. Rui Faria, Luís Figo and Ricardo Carvalho are among the Portuguese voices.

It is called MOURINHO, it runs to three episodes, and it arrives on Netflix on 11 August everywhere at once. Two years of filming went into it, with access to the man himself, which already sets it apart from the rushed authorised biography. The clock it runs on is easy to read. Twenty years have passed since the night FC Porto won the Champions League and pushed a manager almost nobody outside Portugal could name into the middle of European football.…

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Institute figures to the end of June put Ivo M. Ferreira's Projecto Global at the top of the national box office. The revealing number is not the audience, it is the screening count.

Nine thousand two hundred and eight. That is how many people bought a ticket for Ivo M. Ferreira's Projecto Global, and this year it is also enough to make it the most-watched Portuguese film in Portuguese cinemas. The figures come from the national film institute and run to the end of June. The film, about the Forças Populares 25 de Abril in the 1980s, came out of the Rotterdam festival and took 60,222 euros. Behind it sits Pedro Cabeleira's…

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Several Portuguese feature films join the HBO Max catalogue in August 2026, including Mau Mau Maria, O Amor é Lindo… Porque Sim! and the historical drama 1618.

Portuguese films in an international catalogue are usually the pleasant exception announced once a year. In August, HBO Max opens the door to several at once: the comedy Mau Mau Maria, the Lisbon romance O Amor é Lindo… Porque Sim!, and the historical drama 1618, a co-production set during the Inquisition in Portugal. This deserves more attention than it tends to get. The average Portuguese film gets two or three weeks in cinemas, lives on the festival…

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Part 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude arrives 5 August with seven episodes and a special finale on the 26th. Outer Banks' final season drops on the 20th.

August is usually the dead month in streaming, the one where platforms assume everyone is at the beach. Netflix has gone the other way this year and is closing out two big stories at once. On 5 August, with seven episodes. And there is an unusual wrinkle: the adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel does not end there. The conclusion comes as a separate, standalone chapter running close to feature length, landing in the catalogue on 26 August. It is a…

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