Daily Recap: Entertainment — 4 November 2026

Entertainment news is split between sudden disruption and longer arcs of legacy and recovery. Live television schedules are thrown off by technical failures and injuries, while the industry also marks a major film death, preserves musical heritage and absorbs a notable game delay...

A power outage at ITV’s Covent Garden studios knocks several daytime programmes off air, disrupting the network’s usual morning and afternoon schedule. Lorraine Kelly, This Morning and Loose Women are all affected, with Good Morning Britain extended and other replacement programming used as ITV reshuffles its daytime lineup.

Italian director Tinto Brass dies in Rome at 93. He is best known internationally for the controversial 1979 film Caligula and for Salon Kitty, works that made him a prominent and divisive figure in European cinema, particularly through films that pushed sexual content and provocation into the mainstream conversation.

Anton Du Beke says his father stabbed him during a violent incident at the family home when he was in his mid-twenties, leaving him in hospital for four days. The Strictly Come Dancing judge describes his father as an alcoholic and says the attack led to a complete estrangement that lasted for the rest of his father’s life.

Jaime Winstone pulls out of this weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing live show after suffering an abdominal muscle injury in training. She is reported to have torn the muscle and been told to rest, meaning she will miss the scheduled performance while the programme adjusts around her absence.

Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan publicly address the stabbing at their Mumbai home and push back on conspiracy theories that spread online afterward. Speaking on Koffee With Karan, they describe the fear of the night itself and the emotional aftermath while answering speculation about who was present and what happened.

Santa Monica Studio delays God of War Laufey, moving the PlayStation 5 exclusive from February 16, 2027 to May 20, 2027. The shift pushes one of Sony’s higher-profile upcoming releases by just over three months and resets expectations for the game’s launch window.

Australia launches its National Songbook as a digital archive celebrating landmark songs, with an initial class of 10 entries. The first inductions include Midnight Oil’s Beds Are Burning and Yothu Yindi’s Treaty, setting up an expanding public record of tracks seen as central to the country’s cultural identity.

Apple TV begins rolling out Season 2 of Stick, with the first two episodes now available. The comedy-drama stars Owen Wilson as former professional golfer Pryce Cahill, and the rest of the season follows on a weekly release schedule that continues through December.