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?
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.
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.
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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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, … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read more