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All eyes will be on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles this weekend for the 92nd Academy Awards and we've picked out a 14/1-plus treble for punters to consider in our Oscars predictions. With this year's Golden Globe and BAFTA gongs already handed out, the search is on for where the value still lies. More...

As the latest series of Love Island gets under way, we’ve crunched the numbers from previous years to reveal how the winning couples differ from the rest. We’ve then used the data to score each couple and work out which are likeliest to be crowned the winners. More...

When the latest chart gets released this Friday evening we’ll know the identity of the UK’s 68th Christmas number one single since the charts were first compiled in 1952. We’ve combed through the patterns and trends in the data to predict who will be sitting at the top of the charts on Christmas Day this year. More...

With the latest instalment of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here sending 10 new contestants into the jungle, we’ve run the rule over the data from every previous series to predict the main storylines this time around. More...

The 10th series of the Great British Bake Off reaches its climax this week with just three bakers remaining. We’ve cast our eye over the data from every past episode of the show to work out which finalist has the best chance of success. More...

While the focus of Strictly Come Dancing will always be on crowning the best dancer, there is always an undercurrent of speculation on something less wholesome: the infamous ‘Strictly curse’. We’ve analysed the data from all 16 previous series to work out not just who might be crowned champion this year, but also which couples are most likely to make less savoury headlines. More...

The 71st annual Emmy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night and there are several British names amongst the nominees. What can the last 50 years of Emmys history tell us about what to expect? More...

As we enter the final stages of the latest series of Love Island, we’ve crunched the numbers from previous years to reveal how the winning couples differ from the rest. We’ve then used the data to score each remaining couple and work out which are likeliest to be crowned the winners in 2019. More...

As the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 gets under way, we’ve cast our eyes over the data behind every past iteration of the competition - all the way back to 1956 - to reveal what it takes to win and what to look out for in this year’s final. More...

It is 20 years since the UK last claimed victory in the Eurovision Song Contest and Lucie Jones can be backed at 50/1 to end that barren run in Kiev on Saturday night. That price suggests emulating Katrina and the Waves and other previous British winners Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood of Man, Lulu and Sandie Shaw More...

La La Land’s impressive haul of awards and accolades so far has had many wondering how impressively it could perform at this year’s Oscars. The current record for most Academy Award wins is shared by three films – Ben Hur in 1960, Titanic in 1998 and Return of the King in 2004, who all scooped More...

The recent announcement of the judging panel for the 13th series of The X Factor was greeted with bemusement as the producers operated to the rarely-adopted mantra of “out with the new and in with the old”. Gone were Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, the pair picked very deliberately to give the show a makeover More...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s continued quest for a Best Actor Oscar is well documented, with the 41-year-old actor seen by many as the most notable name missing from the list of winners. The Hollywood star has been nominated three times for Best Actor before the current ceremony, for his roles in The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The More...

EastEnders producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins confirmed this week that “someone will die on Christmas Day that we haven’t revealed to anyone”, but that secrecy couldn’t deter the bwin.com bookies from inviting you to punt on who will pass away. The early 5/2 frontrunner is Arthur “Fatboy” Chubb, followed by Charlie Slater at 5/1, Cora Cross at More...

Andy Murray and Tyson Fury have both shortened dramatically in the betting for BBC Sports Personality of the Year after a historic weekend for British sport. Murray is now 2/1-second favourite to land the accolade for the second time in three years after winning the Davis Cup for Great Britain virtually single-handedly. Readers of news.bwin.com More...

When the decision was made to bring back Mason Noise into the X Factor fold ahead of judges’ houses as a replacement for drop-out Tom Bleasby, the consensus was that this was merely to provide the show with some cheap headlines. Mason had criticised the show earlier in the competition for favouring other acts, based More...

Red-faced road rage sufferer Ronnie Pickering has become an internet celebrity after his foul-mouthed tirade against motorcyclist Steve Midz went viral. Such is the impression that Mr Pickering, 54, of Hull, has made on the viewing public that bwin have entered him into their betting ahead of the next series of I’m A Celebrity Get More...

After leaping his way to IAAF World Championship gold, Greg Rutherford has seen his odds to land the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award slashed. Crashing down in the sand at 33/1 from a 100/1 take-off point, the gravity-defying 28-year-old’s price has been subject to a sizeable shift, but barging Jess Ennis-Hill off More...

The WWE SummerSlam 2015 main event pits Brock Lesnar against The Undertaker in a match dubiously billed as being “too big for WrestleMania”. The Undertaker is bidding to avenge the WrestleMania 30 loss that cost him his 21-0 undefeated streak on the grandest stage of them all and he is a 2/5 favourite on bwin.com More...

The housemates in series 16 of Big Brother have been a mix of the dull, dislikable and the dull and dislikable, the result being that less than 48 hours before Thursday night’s finale, nobody has much clue who is going to win. Whereas usually only one or two finalists stand a chance of glory, five More...

Due to the musical presumption that new can never be better, Rita Ora’s arrival on the X Factor judging panel has been harshly treated as the “Adam Bogdan to Liverpool” of TV talent show transfers. Complaints include that her mainstream music career is a mere three years old, that she flopped on barely-watched BBC alternative More...

Former Arsenal centre-half and potential future Conservative party candidate Sol Campbell jovially suggested that most footballers are “probably” Tories in the Guardian over the weekend. It doesn’t take an awful lot of research to conclude that he’s probably right. This wasn’t always the case, even in recent years, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find More...

Allow us to stop you before your inevitable question asking why you should care about a soap opera dominated by men in pants. The answer is that WrestleMania is a money-making opportunity, with bwin.com offering odds on every contest on the main card. The headline bout sees Brock Lesnar defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship More...

Ten months of deliberation, of heated debates, of sleepless nights and second guessing ends this week, as the EastEnder responsible for the murder of Lucy Beale is unveiled on Britain’s favourite soap. It’s a mystery that has coaxed even the most ardent Coronation Street supporter into donning their deerstalkers in the hope of identifying the More...