It is the band's 16th studio album and their first full-length record of new songs in nine years. Rosalía features on "The Mirror Maker", Brian Eno co-writes three songs, and "Torn", a country duet, is the last vocal Dolly Parton recorded before her death in August.

U2 will release their 16th studio album on 13 November, and it is called Carnaval De Luz. It is their first full-length album of new songs in nine years (they had already put out two six-song EPs this year, Days of Ash and Easter Lily), and the official announcement on U2's site carries the full 12-song list. The last track is the one people will talk about. "Torn" is a country duet written by U2 with Dolly Parton and Johnny McDaid, and the band describes…

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Paul Greengrass's "The Uprising" dramatizes the 1381 peasants' revolt against Richard II. It opened in the US to $3.25 million on a $20 million budget, and has been in Portuguese cinemas since 17 September.

"The Uprising" (in Portugal, "A Revolta") has been in Portuguese cinemas since 17 September, distributed by Medeia Filmes, after a US opening that fell well short of expectations. Paul Greengrass's film dramatizes England's Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a popular uprising against King Richard II in a country still recovering from the Black Death and squeezed by the taxes paying for the Hundred Years' War. Andrew Garfield plays the ploughman who ends up…

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Negócio Fechado is Portugal's own version of the German antiques format Cash or Trash, and premieres in RTP1's afternoon slot on 5 October, with Tânia Ribas de Oliveira swapping her afternoon talk show for a hunt through heirlooms and hidden fortunes.

After several years hosting RTP1's afternoon slot, Tânia Ribas de Oliveira is changing shows. From 5 October, weekdays at 3:15pm, she hosts Negócio Fechado, the Portuguese version of Cash or Trash, a German format created by ZDF Studios and distributed internationally by Warner Bros. International Television Production. Portugal is the 12th country to adapt it, following markets including Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Austria, Serbia and Croatia. The…

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The singer plays the Coliseu dos Recreios on 15 June 2027, eleven years after her last show there. Tickets run from 45 to 65 euros, on general sale from 25 September.

Patti Smith is back in Lisbon on 15 June 2027, playing the Coliseu dos Recreios with her band. Tickets run from 45 euros (standing stalls, balcony and gallery) to 65 euros (front first-tier box), on general sale from Friday 25 September at 9am, with a 24-hour presale for the promoter's newsletter subscribers starting the day before. Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm. More than five decades into a career that runs through rock, punk and poetry, Smith won the 2026…

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The singer and composer died on Monday night of cardiorespiratory arrest, his family and agency said. Portugal's President called him one of the great poets of the country's music.

Jorge Palma died on Monday night at the age of 76. His family and his agency confirmed the death in a statement, giving the cause as cardiorespiratory arrest. If you have lived in Portugal for any length of time, you have heard him without necessarily knowing it. "Encosta-te a Mim", "Deixa-me Rir", "Frágil", "Dá-me Lume", "A Gente Vai Continuar" — these are songs that a room full of Portuguese strangers will finish for you, word for word, at two in the…

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Zach Cregger's reboot runs alongside the Raccoon City night of the second game without using any of its characters. It reached Portuguese cinemas on 17 September, rated M/16, at 93 minutes.

Eight films across twenty-four years, two reboots, and this is the first one where nobody will recognise the lead. That is the point. The Resident Evil that opened in Portuguese cinemas on 17 September follows Bryan, a medical courier on his way to Raccoon City General when the outbreak starts. Not Leon, not Claire, none of the faces Capcom built over three decades. Zach Cregger, who wrote and directed it, set out the reasoning in an interview PlayStation…

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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…

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'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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards air on Monday 14 September from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Monday, because NBC shows Sunday Night Football and had no appetite for competing against itself. Hosting is Mariska Hargitay, the lead of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which is an unusual pick. It is the first time since 1993 that the ceremony has not been fronted by a comedian, reality host or light-entertainment personality, and the first woman in…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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