Film & TV

Elanna from Burry Port, a Bar Hansh contestant, standing on a Zante beach in a navy Bar Hansh T-shirt with the sea behind her
Bar Hansh

BURRY PORT: Elanna swaps the catwalk for the Zante strip in S4C’s bar-running reality show

She has walked runways and done a summer as a rep. Now Elanna has a bar to keep open, five…

Two photos side by side: a young woman in headphones and a pale blue shirt painting at an easel on a TV set as an audience watches, and the same woman standing in a studio beside a painting of a man in a red hoodie against a Marlboro cigarette packet design
Art

SWANSEA: Teen painter who started in a lockdown shed takes on TV’s Portrait Artist of the Year

The teenager picked up her mum's old brushes during lockdown, had a painting in a Royal Academy show the following…

Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in a scene from Love Actually
Christmas

SWANSEA: Love Actually is coming to the arena with a full live orchestra this Christmas

Swansea has the only Welsh date on the 14-stop UK tour. Miss it, and the nearest alternative is Bath.

Michael Sheen smiling in a portrait for The Celebrity Traitors, grey curly hair and beard against a green curtain
Andrew Jenkins

CELEBRITY TRAITORS: Michael Sheen starts as favourite to win, and the bookies think he’ll be handed a cloak too

The Port Talbot actor walks into the castle on Thursday night at 7/2, shorter than the 6/1 he opened at…

Film crew operating a camera crane on tracks inside the Guildhall's grand corridor in Swansea, with costumed actors beneath the honeycomb ceiling
Catherine Zeta Jones

SWANSEA ON SCREEN: The Civic Centre is a London police HQ, the Guildhall is a bank and No Sign Bar is a London pub in this year’s TV dramas

Ten productions have filmed in the city in the past year, a council report shows, from Netflix and Amazon to…

Derek Brockway in a dark suit and pale blue tie smiling beside a BBC Wales weather map showing temperatures across Wales
BBC Wales

DEREK THE WEATHER: The forecaster who walked Three Cliffs and the Llanrhidian marsh is signing off at Christmas

After nearly 30 years of "shwmae" and "nos da" on Wales Today, Derek Brockway says he will leave BBC Wales…

Close-up of Anthony Hopkins in a dark patterned robe and red cravat, speaking in dim light
Anthony Hopkins

ANTHONY HOPKINS: Margam-born star tells a tale from hell in first trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Wife & Dog

The 88-year-old plays the head of the wealthy Fairbank family, whose fight over the succession turns to betrayal and murder,…

Black and white studio portrait of actress Rachel Roberts smiling, with swept-back fair hair, hoop earrings and a white collar over a dark cardigan
BAFTA

RACHEL ROBERTS: Llanelli’s three-time BAFTA winner would be 100 next year, and the town is being asked how to remember her

She was born in a Baptist manse in Llanelli 99 years ago today, won British film's top acting prize twice…

A gold BAFTA Cymru mask trophy on a black plinth against a dark stage with blue and orange lights out of focus behind it
BAFTA

HENDY: Sex Education casting director Lauren Evans to get BAFTA Cymru honour

Seven months after her no-speech BAFTA win went viral, the Hendy casting director behind I Swear, Sex Education and Lost…

Catherine Zeta‑Jones in a red dress on the red carpet outside Brangwyn Hall, with Michael Douglas and their son Dylan, attending her Freedom of the City ceremony in Swansea.
Carys Zeta Douglas

SWANSEA: Catherine Zeta-Jones blasts ‘horrific’ nepo baby label as children follow famous parents

The Hollywood star has defended Dylan and Carys Douglas as they forge careers in entertainment, while recalling the decision she…

Sir Anthony Hopkins smiling in close-up, white-haired and bearded, in a still from Decca Classics' announcement video
Anthony Hopkins

ANTHONY HOPKINS: At 88, the Margam-born star is playing the villain again

The Margam-born actor will play Bryant, the man who built an authoritarian regime in a ruined future, in sci-fi thriller…