GMA Network’s latest summer campaign, called “Love Together this Summer,” features shows and specials over April and May. Sofia Pablo and Allen Ansay star in Raya Sirena, about Raya’s journey of self-discovery both as a human and mermaid, which will air every Sunday beginning April 24.

AFTER a 20-year career singer Michael Buble found a new focus for his 11th studio album, Higher.

THERE’s a good chance you’ve heard a song by Ed Sheeran called “Shape of You.” It’s been streamed over 3 billion times on Spotify and viewed over 5 billion times on YouTube.

FOR author, playwright, screenwriter, and film scholar Clodualdo “Doy” Del Mundo, Jr., evoking sadness in the reader of his books is never the goal. But writing which requires recollection sometimes inevitably involves sadness, especially if what is remembered is something that is lost.

LONDON —  A critically acclaimed revival of musical Cabaret and a stage adaptation of hit novel Life of Pi were the big winners at the Olivier Awards on Sunday, scooping the top prizes in Britain’s biggest night for theater.

THE 14th century is known for catastrophe. By midcentury, the first wave of plague spread through a Europe already weakened by successive famines and the Hundred Years War between England and France. And crises just kept coming. After the first wave, which has come to be called the Black Death, the disease returned at least four more times before 1400. All the while, fresh conflicts kept erupting, fueled in part by the rising number of soldiers available for hire.

WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in Hollywood star Johnny Depp’s legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard kicked off on Monday as a US defamation trial began over allegations Heard made about domestic abuse.

SINGER Britney Spears announced she is pregnant with her third child by posting a message on Instagram on Monday.

LONDON —  British actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing an eccentric doctor in the TV series House, brings what he says is his favorite Agatha Christie novel to the screen with his new TV show Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?.

ON EASTER Sunday, the Shangri-La Plaza will host a whimsical SpEGGtacular Easter Hunt as the Grand Atrium transforms into a tropical paradise on April 17. The egg hunt is open to children from one to 12 years old.

THE CULTURAL Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts will hold a necrological tribute for the late National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera on April 23.

THE PHILIPPINE Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) marks its 55th anniversary by streaming A Game of Trolls, Liza Magtoto’s martial law musical, on ktx.ph on April 22 and 23.