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.

By Lucy Bennett

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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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