The 78th ceremony runs on 14 September at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by Mariska Hargitay. Six categories were pushed to the Creative Arts weekend and two were merged, and the guilds pushed back.

By Lucy Bennett

Image: Television Academy (78th Emmys press room)

The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana's official calendar for the spring/summer 2027 women's season lists two Portuguese names with runway slots, both on Sunday 27 September. The last show on the grid, at 17:00, belongs to Miguel Vieira.

Milan Fashion Week opens on 22 September and closes on the 28th. Look at the official runway grid, though, and the last slot on it falls on Sunday the 27th, at 17:00, on Via Besana — and the name in that box is Miguel Vieira. Everything scheduled after it, on the Monday, is digital. This does not come from a press release. It is on the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana's Final Calendar, dated 8 September and updated on the 17th, the document the…

'A Memória do Cheiro das Coisas', by António Ferreira, beat five other titles in a vote of Portuguese Film Academy members. It follows a colonial-war veteran who moves into a care home and refuses to be looked after by a Black Portuguese carer.

A Memória do Cheiro das Coisas, directed by António Ferreira, will represent Portugal in the Best International Feature category at the 99th Academy Awards, on 14 March 2027 in Los Angeles. It is worth knowing what it is walking into. Portugal has entered this category every year since 1980, and we counted the run the academy and the category register keep between them: 42 entries across 46 years, not one of them nominated. No country has tried more times…

An APEL study with Nielsen GfK puts the reading rate at 78%, its highest in three years, up from 73% in 2023. Over the same period the share of people who bought at least one book fell from 65% to 62%, and the average per buyer dropped from 7.5 books to 6.9.

More people are reading. Fewer people are paying for it. Both sentences come out of the same study, presented this week at the opening of Book 2.0 at the Centro Cultural de Belém, and the gap between them is the interesting part. Start with the good news. The reading rate went from 73% in 2023 to 76% in 2024 and 78% last year, which is the share of people aged 15 and over who say they read at least one book that year, and the highest figure of the three.…

The 78th Emmys were handed out on Monday night in Los Angeles. Widow's Bay took six on the night and 14 across the year, a record for a comedy, and The Pitt won drama series again.

The 78th Emmy Awards were handed out on Monday night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by Mariska Hargitay, the first woman to front the ceremony in fifteen years. They ended with something the Television Academy had never recorded before. Jean Smart won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks, the fifth the show has given her, and became the first performer to win an Emmy for every season of a series. It is also her eighth…

Sunday brought the opening eviction night of TVI's returning-champions series. Luís Gonçalves was saved first on 43%; David Maurício managed 10% and left after a single week.

The first eviction night of Big Brother All Stars ended on Sunday with David Maurício leaving the house on 10% of the vote to save. He is the first housemate out of the run, which began on 6 September on TVI with Maria Botelho Moniz presenting. Four were up in week one: David Maurício, Diogo Cunha, Joana Sobral and Luís Gonçalves. Luís Gonçalves was saved first, on 43%, with Joana Sobral and Diogo Cunha following him. That left the name with the fewest…

Leiria Castle, Lisbon Cathedral, the Roman ruins of São Cucufate, the Usseira Aqueduct, the Olhão markets, the Tiago Cabaço Winery and the bishop's palace garden in Castelo Branco won the seven categories in Sintra on Saturday night. Nothing north of Leiria made the list.

Portugal has seven new wonders. Where they are turns out to be as interesting as what they are. The public vote closed on Saturday night at the National Palace of Sintra. Leiria Castle took the Castles category and Lisbon Cathedral won Religion. The Roman ruins of São Cucufate, at Vila de Frades in the Vidigueira district, won History, and the Usseira Aqueduct in Óbidos took Great Works. The Olhão markets carry the 20th Century category. The Tiago Cabaço…

Rubaiyat Hossain's The Difficult Bride took the Bisato d'Oro for best direction, awarded by independent critics. It is a Portuguese co-production, and it does not reach Portuguese cinemas until spring 2027.

Some films arrive in Portugal through the front door. Others arrive with a Portuguese signature on them that nobody was looking for. The Difficult Bride is the second kind. Rubaiyat Hossain's film won the Bisato d'Oro for best direction on Friday, the prize independent critics hand out alongside Venice's official awards. And it is a co-production between Bangladesh, France, Portugal, Norway and Germany, backed by Portugal's Instituto do Cinema e do…

Santo António – O Casamenteiro de Lisboa opened in Portuguese cinemas on Thursday. Rita Blanco and Joaquim Monchique play the city-hall staff who have run the Saint Anthony weddings for 25 years and are not about to let anyone modernise them.

Ruben Alves made his name filming Portuguese people in France. The film that opened in Portuguese cinemas on Thursday turns the journey around: France arrives in Lisbon, and wants to take charge of something no Lisboner thinks is theirs to take. Santo António – O Casamenteiro de Lisboa is a comedy built around the Casamentos de Santo António, the mass wedding the city stages every June for its patron saint. A French company wants the contract, and wants…

Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger follows the Live '25 tour and carries the first joint Liam and Noel Gallagher interviews in more than 25 years. Cinemas and IMAX get a limited run before Disney+ takes it.

One image travelled further than any setlist when the tour started: the two brothers standing side by side on stage, arms raised. It took sixteen years to happen. Now it is a film. Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger reaches Portuguese cinemas from Thursday, 10 September, IMAX screens included, for a limited engagement. Disney+ gets it exclusively afterwards, internationally. The band's own announcement confirms the title and the September window in cinemas…

The grand final runs on 12 September at the National Palace of Sintra, with three finalists in each of seven categories. Voting is by phone call or the TVI Pass app, and PwC audits every stage.

Portugal settles its new seven wonders on Saturday 12 September, at the National Palace of Sintra. Twenty-one sites reach the final, three in each of the seven categories being contested: castles, religion, history, great works, the twentieth century, the twenty-first century and tourism. Forty-nine candidates went into the national semi-final, held in the same palace. The competition itself opened with more than 600 entries from across the country, the…

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…

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…

"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…

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…