The comic Janey Godley has revealed she is receiving end-of-life care after her terminal most cancers unfold.

The 63-year-old introduced she could be getting palliative care and going right into a hospice in a video shared on social media on Wednesday.

Godley thanked the NHS and those that have cared for her in addition to her household, associates and followers for his or her help. The Scottish comic stated within the video: “So I’m now in palliative care and I’m at end-of-life care now within the hospital. The chemo ran out of choices and I simply couldn’t take any extra of it and the most cancers has unfold.

“So it seems like this shall be getting to close the tip of it and it’s actually tough to discuss this and say to folks.”

Godley, who discovered viral fame together with her dubbed pastiches of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus information briefings in the course of the pandemic, revealed she had ovarian most cancers in November 2021.

She was given the all-clear in 2022. Nonetheless, she later introduced that one other scan had proven indicators of the illness in her stomach.

Earlier this month, she cancelled her forthcoming tour this autumn attributable to her stage 4 ovarian most cancers, which had been saved at bay via NHS remedy over the previous couple of years and had returned with a number of added problems.

Within the new video, she added: “It’s devastating information to know that I’m going through end-of-life however all of us come to an finish someday. I wish to thank everyone for supporting the household, particularly [her daughter] Ashley and my husband.

“The overwhelming help has been wonderful, and I don’t understand how lengthy I’ve bought left earlier than anyone asks. I’m not a TikTok. So I simply need you to know that I admire all of the love you’ve gave me and all of the help. Most cancers impacts two in a single folks, and it’s affected me.”

Many associates and celebrities replied to Godley’s submit supporting her, together with the TV chef Nigella Lawson, the comic Dom Joly and Sturgeon. The previous Scottish first minister wrote: “Sending you a lot love, my pal. You’re an inspiration.”

Lawson wrote: “Oh Janey, that is heart-breaking. Thanks for all you’ve given the world – and for being you.”

Born in poverty in Glasgow in 1961, Godley went on to turn out to be an everyday co-presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Free Ends, in addition to fronting BBC Radio 4 collection The C Bomb. The comic was photographed at Turnberry golf resort in Ayr, on the West Coast of Scotland, together with her notorious “unwelcome” signal for Donald Trump in 2016.

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Columbus se ha convertido en uno de los equipos que más partidos ha disputado en contra de clubes de Liga MX en el último año y medio.

El América buscará el título de la Campeones Cup en contra del Columbus Crew, equipo que buscará su segundo título en dos meses luego de coronarse campeón de la Leagues Cup 2024 y el tercero luego de levantar la MLS Cup en 2023.

El equipo amarillo y negro se ha convertido en uno de los equipos que más partidos ha disputado en contra de clubes de Liga MX en el último año y medio. Con un estilo de juego vistoso y ofensivo ha vencido a la gran mayoría de sus rivales mexicanos y este miércoles se medirán en contra de las Águilas en el Decrease.com Area.

Con un Columbus Crew midiéndose ante escuadras mexicanas en los últimos meses surge una pregunta ¿Qué lugar ocuparía la plantilla del Columbus Crew si jugaran en la Liga MX?

De acuerdo con el portal especializado Transfermarkt, Columbus Crew cuenta con un plantel valorado en 61 millones de dólares, dentro de la MLS se encuentran ubicados como el cuarto equipo más caro, mientras que el primero es el Inter Miami que vale 108 millones de dólares.

Si el Columbus participara en la Liga MX no estaría entre los cuatro primeros puestos y estarían ubicados hasta la séptima posición. El primer lugar dentro del futbol mexicano es América con un plantel valorado en 114.3 millones de dólares.

Detrás de las Águilas están los planteles de Monterrey y Tigres. Los primeros con un precio de 96.5 millones de dólares, mientras que los felinos están cotizados en 81.5 millones de dólares.

Incluso Toluca, Chivas y Cruz Azul tienen mejor valor que el equipo estadounidense. En México estarían apenas por delante del Pachuca, equipo que venció al Crew en la ultimate de la pasada edición de la Concacaf Champions Cup.

Los Tuzos tienen un valor en el mercado de 51.76 millones y perdieron 11 millones en su valor ante la transferencia de Erick Sánchez, quien fue vendido al América en casi 10 millones de dólares.

Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández es el jugador mejor valorado de la plantilla con un costo de 14.5 millones de dólares. El colombiano de 25 años ha sido una de las piezas más importantes en el éxito del equipo y su calidad ha sido pretendida por algunas escuadras como el Elche de España o el Watford, que participa en la Championship, Segunda División de Inglaterra.

‘Cucho’ Hernández sería considerado el futbolista más caro si participara en la Liga MX con un valor de 14.5 millones de dólares. Por detrás de este se encontrarían elementos como Juan Brunetta, Erick Sánchez y Sergio Canales, cuya cotización es de 11.2 millones de dólares.

Esta será la segunda ocasión que ambas escuadras disputen el juego por dicho título. América jugó en contra del Atlanta United en 2019 y sucumbió por marcador de 3-2. Por su parte, el Columbus jugó en contra del Cruz Azul en la edición celebrada en 2021. La escuadra de la MLS se impuso por marcador de 2-0. Esta podría ser la segunda ocasión que el Crew gane la copa.

El segundo elemento con mejor apreciación es el uruguayo Diego Rossi, quien tuvo paso por Los Angeles FC, Fenerbahce y desde 2023 regresó a la MLS con el Columbus y ahora tiene un costo de 7.8 millones de dólares.

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Sucker Punch nonetheless has numerous room for progress with Ghost of Yotei.

I’m in a minority of gamers who thought Ghost of Tsushima was fairly mediocre. Do not get me improper: Sucker Punch’s newest action-adventure sport was attractive, featured some implausible presentation, and had a world that was enjoyable to get misplaced in. For essentially the most half, although, I discovered Ghost of Tsushima to be a fairly cookie-cutter open-world sport that did not do something all that novel when in comparison with different video games in its style like Crimson Useless Redemption 2 and Elden Ring. With its sequel, Ghost of Yotei, having now been introduced, although, I am hopeful that Sucker Punch will select to take action far more this time round that can differentiate Yotei from its contemporaries. 

Exterior of its reveal trailer, there nonetheless aren’t many public particulars accessible for Ghost of Yotei. It is identified that the sequel will happen over 300 years after Ghost of Tsushima, can be set within the space round Mount Yotei, and can give attention to a brand new protagonist identified solely as Astu. Aside from this, Sucker Punch is remaining dodgy about its story and has stated even much less about its gameplay variations when in comparison with Tsushima, though it has promised that there can be “new mechanics, gameplay enhancements, and even new weapons.

To me, the place Ghost of Yotei actually must differ itself from Ghost of Tsushima is with the actions that litter its world. Petting foxes and writing haikus was initially gratifying in Ghost of Tsushima, however upon doing every over a dozen occasions, it grew to become mind-numbingly boring. A part of my very own frustration on this entrance may stem from the truth that I am an open-world completionist. I love to do all the things an open-world sport throws at me simply to get the satisfaction of seeing 100% completion. 

What hindered Ghost of Tsushima additional for me on this entrance is that the facet actions on the earth usually felt counterintuitive to progressing in the principle story. That is one thing that numerous open-world video games wrestle with because it’s onerous to marry the push of a throughline narrative with this skill to go off the crushed path and do meaningless duties.

A technique that I believe Ghost of Yotei might look to resolve that is to make its story extra open-ended. The sport’s debut trailer means that its principal character, Astu, can be looking down different ronin which might be unfold throughout Mount Yotei. Reasonably than taking down every of those adversaries in a selected order and making its storyline linear, Sucker Punch ought to simply dump gamers into its world and provides them a broad job that they’ve to finish nevertheless they select. That is one thing that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild did notably effectively, as Nintendo’s foray into open-world design tried to funnel gamers down a sure route whereas nonetheless giving them the liberty to go anyplace at any time.

In 2024, I really feel like we have advanced previous the purpose the place open-world video games are nothing greater than huge areas stuffed with key AOEs that gamers are supposed to work together with. That is one thing that Ubisoft popularized over a decade in the past with its personal video games, however it is time to transfer on. If Ghost of Yotei’s open-world construction was merely an growth on what was already seen in Tsushima, it might result in the sport feeling extraordinarily dated, regardless of how attractive it would look. 

Exterior of its open-world design, I believe Ghost of Yotei additionally must push for extra freedom within the realm of fight. Ghost of Tsushima provided a handful of various stances for gamers to make use of, however every stance had for use to take down particular enemies. It was a rock-paper-scissors-style preventing system the place you had been primarily compelled to make use of sure sword types to beat foes that had been weak towards these types. And when you tried to not abide by these guidelines, the sport itself would freeze and provide you with a warning with a message telling you that you should change your stance. 

I am not saying that sword types have to be eradicated solely from Ghost of Yotei, however they simply have to be integrated in a way that is not so forceful. The second katana that Atsu might be seen wielding within the Ghost of Yotei trailer is clearly going to combine up fight and can seemingly be one of many principal facets of the brand new mechanics that Sucker Punch will introduce. My need is to simply see the compelled nature of a few of Tsushima’s mechanics both finished away with solely or not less than tremendously diminished. 

Despite the fact that Ghost of Tsushima did not land with me in the best way I hoped it might, I am nonetheless very a lot on board with Ghost of Yotei. Sucker Punch has been one in every of my favourite studios since I used to be a child and I believe it is simply one of the crucial proficient firms in PlayStation’s first-party secure. In a yr of 2025 that’s already wanting stuffed to the brim with high-profile releases, Ghost of Yotei is already standing out amongst the gang and is a sport I will be taking part in the second that it launches. Hopefully, Sucker Punch can experiment a bit extra with this sequel and push the open-world style ahead consequently. 

A sequel online game to PlayStation‘s “Ghost of Tsushima” is ready from developer Sucker Punch Productions.

Titled “Ghost of Yōtei,” the sport will debut in 2025 and observe a brand new protagonist, Atsu, with an entire new storyline.

Launched in 2020, “Ghost of Tsushima” is an action-adventure recreation following Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to guard Tsushima Island through the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Jin should select between following the warrior code to struggle honorably, or through the use of sensible however dishonorable strategies of repelling the Mongols with minimal casualties.

“Ghost of Tsushima: Legends,” a multiplayer model of the sport, launched in October 2020 and launched as a separate providing in September 2021.

“After we got down to make a brand new ‘Ghost’ recreation, we needed to take care of the core pillars established in ‘Ghost of Tsushima’: taking part in as a wandering warrior in Feudal Japan, providing freedom to discover at your individual tempo, and highlighting the great thing about the world,” Sucker Punch Productions communications supervisor Andrew Goldfarb stated in a followup PlayStation weblog put up Tuesday. “We additionally needed to proceed to innovate. To create one thing recent however acquainted, we regarded past Jin Sakai’s story and the island of Tsushima, and shifted our focus to the thought of the ‘Ghost’ as a substitute. At Sucker Punch we love origin tales, and we needed to discover what it might imply to have a brand new hero carrying a Ghost masks, and uncovering a brand new legend. This led us to ‘Ghost of Yōtei’: a brand new protagonist, a brand new story to unfold, and a brand new area of Japan to discover.”

Per Sucker Punch, “Atsu’s journey takes place in 1603, greater than 300 years after the occasions of ‘Ghost of Tsushima,’” and “is ready within the lands surrounding Mount Yōtei, a towering peak within the coronary heart of Ezo, an space of Japan referred to as Hokkaido in current day. In 1603, this space was exterior the rule of Japan, and full of sprawling grasslands, snowy tundras, and sudden risks. It’s a far cry from the organized samurai clans who lived in Tsushima, and it’s the setting for an authentic story we will’t wait to inform.”

The announcement of the “Ghost of Tsushima” sequel recreation got here throughout PlayStation’s State of Play presentation Tuesday, throughout which Sony Interactive Leisure made a number of different first and third-party recreation bulletins, together with a Nov. 14 launch date for “Lego Horizon Adventures,” Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sega’s upcoming “Sonic X Shadow Generations” film pack releasing Dec. 12 for the sport’s Digital Deluxe version, a free growth pack for brand spanking new recreation “Astro Bot” coming quickly, a have a look at gameplay in EA’s “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” and extra.

The State of Play occasion was held on the heels of PlayStation revealing its subsequent console, the PS5 Professional, launching in November.

Watch the trailer for “Ghost of Yōtei” under.

The largest shock of the PlayStation State of Play showcase yesterday was the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima 2. The second largest shock is that it’s not Ghost of Tsushima 2, it’s Ghost of Yotei, a brand new journey starring a brand new lead in a brand new area in a brand new time interval. However nonetheless lots of swords.

Given how a lot the unique sport is beloved and the way many individuals grew connected to Jin Sakai and his story, it was slightly sudden to see the mantle handed over to a brand new character, Atsu, a feminine Ronin. As for why Jin was left behind for Ghost of Yotei, Sucker Punch mentioned the reasoning in a PlayStation weblog submit:

“We additionally needed to proceed to innovate. To create one thing recent however acquainted, we appeared past Jin Sakai’s story and the island of Tsushima, and shifted our focus to the concept of the Ghost as an alternative. At Sucker Punch we love origin tales, and we needed to discover what it might imply to have a brand new hero sporting a Ghost masks, and uncovering a brand new legend. This led us to Ghost of Yōtei: a brand new protagonist, a brand new story to unfold, and a brand new area of Japan to discover.”

The article additionally confirms that that is really 300 years previous when Ghost of Tsushima came about, in 1603 Japan, although clearly we’re nonetheless slicing folks up with comparable weaponry. There have been fewer organized samurai clans then and extra roaming Ronin like Atsu, it appears.

Atsu can be voice by the prolific Erika Ishii, of their most important half but, and they’re additionally starring because the English voice of Rook within the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard subsequent month. I do know them finest from Future 2 the place they performed Ana Bray. Ishii has rapidly develop into one of the vital broadly solid voice actors within the business, a brand new Nolan North or Troy Baker, nearly. The approaching 12 months can be their largest but.

Ghost of Tsushima was my GOTY for 2020, so I can be seated day one for Ghost of Yotei (or earlier, hopefully, with a evaluation copy). I can’t wait to see what Sucker Punch has accomplished right here with a sport constructed for PS5 particularly and retaining the fight and sweeping artwork course of the primary sport, with hopefully some new improvements. All we all know is that Yotei is popping out in 2025, and hopefully we get a extra particular date quickly. I’d guess fall.

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Within the clip from the upcoming Channel 5 present, the 62-year-old will be seen settling in for the night time after his first day in Madagascar, which sees him establishing his tent, constructing a hearth and attempting to find meals.

In the midst of the night time he’s woken by a storm.

Within the clip, Schofield says earlier than going to sleep: “I wish to catch a fish that makes me really feel full. I’m actually going to sleep as I’m holding this.

“Anyway, there we go and I’ll see you tomorrow.”

The video then cuts to him waking up later within the night time and saying: “Bloody hell, catastrophe has struck, howling wind blowing by means of the whole lot, it’s taken out all of the entrance (of my tent).

“This (the tent) is about to tear itself to items and there’s nonetheless each risk that it’s going to. I wasn’t anticipating that.”

The three-part present, Phillip Schofield: Forged Away, will see the previous presenter marooned on a tropical island off the coast of the African nation with a handful of cameras, following his close to two-year absence from the limelight.

In an earlier trailer for the collection, the previous This Morning presenter acknowledged not disclosing an affair with a youthful colleague was “unwise” however questioned whether or not it ought to “completely destroy somebody”.

Within the teaser, he says to digital camera: “I’ve been solid away on a desert island, utterly alone, all I’ve is digital camera gear, and I can say no matter I would like about no matter I would like.

“It’s my likelihood to inform my facet of my story. I do know what I did was unwise however is it sufficient to completely destroy somebody?”

The sooner clip was interspersed with scenes of Schofield looking for meals and survive on the island.

Saying the brand new collection on on Instagram on Wednesday, greater than a yr on from his resignation from ITV final Could, he referred to as the present his “story of survival, each on a desert island and off it”.

The collection will see the previous presenter attending to grips with isolation throughout 10 days and 9 nights.

Channel 5 mentioned the expertise of Schofield being left alone permits him to “confront the challenges of complete isolation, the forces of nature and gives the time to battle inside his personal thoughts as he explores his personal controversial story”.

Talking about showing within the collection, Schofield mentioned: “That is most undoubtedly a primary for me and the one factor I felt compelled to do. It appealed to me on so many ranges.

“I’ve just lately had a whole lot of time to consider my life, what went proper and what went mistaken, however I’ve at all times had the secure arms of family and friends wrapped round me. This time it’s simply me, no telephone, no comforts, no crew and solely lip balm as a luxurious.

“I’m trying ahead to exploring the island, attempting to tie knots to safe my shelter and foraging and fending for myself within the wild … with no assist. Perhaps I’ll be Robinson Crusoe, or possibly I’ll simply be Tom Hanks’ Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder.”

Within the 2000 movie Forged Away, Tom Hanks’ character Charles “Chuck” Noland crashes within the Pacific Ocean and has to fend for himself for years with solely a volleyball for firm.

Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a shipwrecked sailor stranded for many years, and assembly mutineers and natives on an island.

Throughout the first season of Forged Away, comic Ruby Wax was left on an island within the Indian Ocean for 10 days and needed to doc her personal story with physique and hand-held cameras.

Oldham-born TV star Schofield receives a coaching day with a survival knowledgeable previous to arriving through boat, as he’s “left to navigate his new island residence alone, trying to scavenge for mangoes, discover a water supply and catch fish”.

Schofield may also “mirror on among the harder instances in his life” amid days “with none significant meals”.

Hungry, he’ll attempt to catch crab for dinner at nightfall earlier than getting misplaced “within the dense jungle with solely a headlamp and no concept of learn how to get again to camp”, Channel 5’s episode description says.

Schofield mentioned final yr he had “misplaced the whole lot” after admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had a “catastrophic impact” on his thoughts.

An exterior assessment, revealed in December, discovered that ITV made “appreciable efforts” to seek out out the reality about an alleged relationship between the presenter and a runner on This Morning in 2019 however was “unable to uncover the related proof” till Schofield’s admission in late Could 2023.

Carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC, and commissioned by ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall, Schofield “reluctantly declined” to participate due to “the danger to his well being”.

Holly Willoughby, who was a co-host of This Morning with Schofield for greater than a decade, left the daytime programme in October 2023 however continued at ITV by presenting Dancing On Ice with Stephen Mulhern, as an alternative of her former on-screen associate.

Phillip Schofield: Forged Away begins airing at 9pm on Monday on Channel 5, and can proceed on Tuesday and Wednesday on the identical time.

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A federal decide sentenced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend to 2 years in jail, citing her in depth cooperation with prosecutors that led to the conviction of the previous face of the cryptocurrency trade in one of many largest monetary frauds in US historical past.

Choose Lewis Kaplan cited Caroline Ellison’s “very, very substantial cooperation.”

Ellison informed the decide, “I feel on some stage my mind can’t even really comprehend the dimensions of the hurt it prompted. That doesn’t imply I don’t strive. I’m so so sorry.”

“I’m deeply ashamed of what we had carried out,” she added, sniffling and along with her voice cracking. Ellison’s dad and mom and two sisters sat behind her throughout the sentencing.

A fast recap:

Ellison’s testimony at Bankman-Fried’s trial final fall was essential.

In a memo to Choose Lewis Kaplan final week, prosecutors praised Ellison’s candor and “substantial help” within the investigation — a indisputable fact that performed a job in her sentencing regardless of going through the same checklist of prices as Bankman-Fried.

And on Tuesday, Kaplan famous Ellison incriminated herself whereas testifying and “pulled no punches.” He additionally drew comparisons with Bankman-Fried, who he sentenced to 25 years in jail, noting Ellison was culpable within the fraud, however mentioned what distinguished them is Ellison’s “outstanding cooperation.”

From the beginning, Ellison was the prosecution’s star witness — somebody who labored hand in glove with Bankman-Fried and who stored a contemporaneous diary chronicling the ups and downs of their enterprise and their often-rocky romantic relationship. And in a trial that centered on technical, advanced matters like digital belongings and decentralized finance, Ellison’s testimony supplied an emotional and relatable narrative.

Over three days on the stand, Ellison, who’s 29, repeatedly bolstered that all through her years at Alameda, the buck stopped with Bankman-Fried. When requested who directed her to hold out varied actions, prison or in any other case, she continuously replied “Sam did.”

In fact, some critics, together with Bankman-Fried’s protection legal professionals, have famous that Ellison may need been a compelling witness, however she was not a whistleblower.

“There is no such thing as a query she deserves leniency,” wrote Dennis Kelleher, president of the nonprofit group Higher Markets. However on the identical time, he mentioned, “she might have single-handedly stopped this fraud at any time, lengthy earlier than billions of {dollars} had been misplaced, a whole lot of buyers had been defrauded, and tens of hundreds of consumers had been ripped off.”

When FTX collapsed, clients had been locked out from their buying and selling accounts. However in a shock end result for a chapter, FTX property overseers mentioned that they had recovered sufficient belongings to pay most of its collectors again in full, with curiosity, due to a surge within the worth of its crypto holdings.

Authorized consultants had beforehand informed CNN it was unlikely Ellison would find yourself in jail.

Within the Southern District of New York, the place the case was tried, “the big majority of white-collar cooperators obtain zero jail time,” mentioned Jordan Estes, a former federal prosecutor who’s now a associate at Kramer Levin. And that’s significantly true after they have in any other case led a law-abiding life, she added.

Josh Naftalis, additionally a former federal prosecutor, famous that “a key subject that Kaplan will think about in sentencing Ellison is whether or not the scale of the fraud — billions of {dollars} in losses — nonetheless requires some time period of imprisonment.” Although Naftalis, now a white-collar protection legal professional at New York regulation agency Pallas, added that prosecutors’ description of her cooperation as “extraordinary,” prompt jail was unlikely.

Nonetheless, at Tuesday’s sentencing, the decide mentioned in a case this severe he couldn’t give her a get out of jail free card.

Different FTX executives’ circumstances are nonetheless in progress.

Ryan Salame, a former FTX government, was sentenced to greater than seven years in jail after pleading responsible to a marketing campaign finance violation and working an unlicensed cash transmission enterprise. Two different former executives, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang, who took plea offers and testified towards Bankman-Fried, are as a consequence of be sentenced this fall.

The three-part present, Phillip Schofield: Solid Away, will see the previous presenter marooned alone on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras following his practically two-year absence from the limelight.

Within the teaser, he says to digital camera: “I’ve been solid away on a desert island, fully alone, all I’ve is digital camera gear, and I can say no matter I would like about no matter I would like.

“It’s my likelihood to inform my aspect of my story. I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to completely destroy somebody?”

The clip was interspersed with scenes of Schofield looking for meals and survive on the island.

Saying the brand new sequence on Wednesday, greater than a 12 months on from his resignation from ITV final Might, he referred to as the present his “story of survival, each on a desert island and off it” on Instagram.

The sequence will air throughout three nights, from Monday till subsequent Wednesday, and can see the previous presenter attending to grips with isolation throughout 10 days and 9 nights.

Channel 5 stated the expertise of Schofield being left alone permits him to “confront the challenges of complete isolation, the forces of nature and gives the time to battle inside his personal thoughts as he explores his personal controversial story”.

Schofield stated: “That is most undoubtedly a primary for me and the one factor I felt compelled to do. It appealed to me on so many ranges.

“I’ve just lately had a number of time to consider my life, what went proper and what went incorrect, however I’ve at all times had the protected arms of family and friends wrapped round me. This time it’s simply me, no telephone, no comforts, no crew and solely lip balm as a luxurious.

“I’m trying ahead to exploring the island, attempting to tie knots to safe my shelter and foraging and fending for myself within the wild … with no assist. Possibly I’ll be Robinson Crusoe, or possibly I’ll simply be Tom Hanks’ Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder.”

Within the 2000 movie, Solid Away Tom Hanks’ character Charles “Chuck” Noland crashes within the Pacific Ocean, and has to fend for himself for years with solely a volleyball for firm. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a shipwrecked sailor trapped for many years, and assembly mutineers and natives on an island.

Channel 5 commissioning editor Man Davies stated: “This isn’t only a survival problem, it’s likelihood for Phillip to look again over the past explosive 18 months of his life, and discover what occurred.

“The viewers will find out how he feels now about tv and the long run, in addition to the previous. And it will likely be Phillip Schofield as we now have by no means seen him earlier than – unguarded, emotional and brutally trustworthy.”

Earlier than the announcement, the channel posted a brief clip of a thriller star strolling throughout a distant seashore, because it teased its “model new” desert island programme on social media.

Through the first season of Solid Away, comic Ruby Wax was left on an island within the the Indian Ocean for 10 days, and needed to doc her personal story with physique and hand-held cameras.

Govt producer and managing director at manufacturing firm Burning Vibrant Productions, Clive Tulloh, stated: “We’re very enthusiastic about this highly effective and emotional sequence. It’s much-watch TV. It provides a complete new that means to survival.”

Channel 5 listings say the primary episode sees Schofield “excited and optimistic” in regards to the problem forward, when he lands on the seashore, till a “gale drive” rips by way of his camp in the course of the evening.

He may also obtain a coaching day with a survival knowledgeable previous to arriving through boat, as he’s “left to navigate his new island residence alone, making an attempt to scavenge for mangoes, discover a water supply and catch fish”.

Schofield may also “replicate on a number of the more durable occasions in his life” amid days “with none significant meals”.

Hungry, he’ll attempt to catch crab for dinner throughout nightfall, earlier than getting misplaced “within the dense jungle with solely a headlamp and no thought of how one can get again to camp”, the episode description additionally says.

Schofield stated final 12 months he had “misplaced the whole lot” after admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had had a “catastrophic impact” on his thoughts.

An exterior overview, revealed in December, discovered that ITV made “appreciable efforts” to seek out out the reality about an alleged relationship between him and a runner on This Morning in 2019 however was “unable to uncover the related proof” till the presenter’s personal admission in late Might 2023.

Carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC, and commissioned by ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall, Schofield “reluctantly declined” to participate due to “the danger to his well being”.

Holly Willoughby, who was a co-host of This Morning with Schofield for greater than a decade left the daytime programme in October 2023, and continued at ITV by presenting Dancing On Ice with Stephen Mulhern, as an alternative of her former on-screen companion.

– Phillip Schofield: Solid Away begins airing at 9pm on Monday on Channel 5.

Within the collection, Mitchell performs John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, a reclusive puzzle setter who’s recruited by his sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin) when his similar twin brother James goes lacking.

This requires Ludwig to imagine his twin brother’s id with a view to attempt to uncover clues about his whereabouts.

Nonetheless, attempting to adapt to his life as a extremely revered DCI inside Cambridge’s busy Main Investigations Workforce will trigger fairly just a few points.

The Radio Occasions provides: “Ludwig takes on a case of the week format, with an overarching storyline of John persevering with the investigation into James’s disappearance working alongside a homicide he has to resolve every episode.”

Talking in regards to the collection, Mitchell stated: “I’ve all the time beloved homicide mysteries. A few of my happiest viewing reminiscences are as a baby watching Miss Marple with Joan Hickson – I imply, she was in it, she wasn’t within the room – and Inspector Morse, and that type of factor. I really like that type of program.

“I feel when it may possibly have a comic book spin as effectively, that is even higher. As a result of I like a homicide thriller type of puzzle, a whodunnit, however I do not love watching issues which are horrific and gritty and type of remind you of the frailty of the human life.

“I am going with the Agatha Christie route – the person who was murdered, we do not meet them, we’re not invested in them, so it is nice.”

Mitchell additionally revealed that the thought for the collection got here to him as a pitch doc from author Mark Brotherhood pre-Covid and that he instantly discovered the thought “humorous and intriguing”.

He defined: “I imply, the beauty of the dual factor is it is excessive idea, but it surely means you could have a type of basic comedian situation of John, going right into a scenario the place he is an entire fish out of water, the place you possibly can maximise the extent to which he’s not coping, however he is not found as a result of he has the superpower of trying completely similar to somebody who belongs there.

“So it offers super comedian scope, and I assumed that was a fantastic concept. And I beloved the thought that it could be a weekly homicide factor. So that you get the overarching narrative, however you additionally get the reward of a puzzle, a homicide every week. So I assumed it was a fantastic concept.”

BBC Ludwig full forged checklist

• David Mitchell as John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor
• Anna Maxwell Martin as Lucy Betts-Taylor
• Sophie Willan as Holly Pinder
• Dipo Ola as DI Russell Carter
• Gerran Howell as DC Simon Evans
• Izuka Hoyle as DS Alice Finch
• Dylan Hughes as Henry Betts-Taylor
• Ralph Ineson as Chief Constable Ziegler
• Dorothy Atkinson as DCS Carol Shaw
• Jakub Bednarczyk as Younger John & James Taylor

The collection can even characteristic just a few visitor stars, together with:

• Derek Jacobi
• Hammed Animashaun
• Rose Ayling-Ellis
• Felicity Kendal
• Karl Pilkington
• Paul Chahidi
• Allan Mustafa

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When will Ludwig be on TV?

The primary episode of Ludwig will air at 9pm on Wednesday, September 25 on BBC One.

General, there will probably be six episodes, with the remaining 5 airing in the identical timeslot over the approaching weeks.

Ludwig will probably be obtainable to observe on BBC One and Participant from 9pm on Wednesday, September 25.