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.

By Lucy Bennett

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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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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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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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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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Ariana Grande's eighth studio album landed on 31 July: 12 tracks, all lowercase, no features, with Ilya Salmanzadeh on executive production.

One decision on petal says more than any lyric: there is not a single guest on the record. In an era when most pop albums read like a contacts list, Ariana Grande spends all 12 tracks alone at the microphone. It is Grande's eighth studio album, released on 31 July through her own imprint, BabyDoll Music, with Republic Records. Twelve tracks, every title styled in lowercase, recorded between January and April of this year. She co-wrote and…

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