Sophie Bennett

Culture & Features Editor · The NE Times

Sophie Bennett is Culture and Features Editor at The NE Times, writing on film, television and music alongside lifestyle, health and wellbeing and the opinion pages. She has written more than 300 articles for The NE Times since March 2026, the longest run of any writer on the site, most of them covering entertainment. Her beat spans streaming and the platforms behind it, reality television, celebrity news, cinema and the UK screen industry, with recent pieces on Netflix release dates, a completed Wicker Man trilogy and why streamers turn hit shows into cinema events. She also reports on health stories that matter to readers, from NHS digital safety to food safety alerts. Health and wellbeing articles are for general information and are not a substitute for professional medical advice.

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