Huw Edwards’ sentencing hearing is less than a week away and BBC boss Tim Davie has been questioning whether the corporation did the right thing in paying him nearly £200,000 ($260,000) between his arrest in November 2023 and his leaving several months later. Speaking to the Communications and Digital Committee this afternoon, the Director General […]
EXCLUSIVE: As Tom Petty said a long time ago, “the waiting is the hardest part” — especially if you are the state of Utah bidding to keep the Sundance Film Festival against five other determined contenders. “I just think, why would you uproot a festival with such deep roots here?” says Utah Film Commission director […]
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to writer-director Nick Hamm’s medieval action-drama William Tell, which has its world premiere tonight in Toronto. Starring are Claes Bang (The Square), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), Rafe Spall (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Emily Beecham (Little Joe), […]
The Jeremy Kyle Show should not be blamed for the death of one of its guests, a coroner has ruled. Hampshire coroner Jason Pegg has reportedly ruled that it would be speculative to link ITV’s Jerry Springer-style format to the suicide of Steve Dymond, 63, in May 2019. Per Sky News, Pegg concluded: “There is […]
Suits: LA is going to be filming in the City of Angels in no small part thanks to some hefty help from Sacramento. Along with the long-anticipated Community – The Movie, a look at Hulk Hogan’s pile-driving destruction of Gawker from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and a Shailene Woodley-starring Janis Joplin biopic, the Stephen […]
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the federal government will introduce legislation this year to restrict children from accessing social media. The government will soon trial age verification technology to restrict children from opening social media accounts by the end of 2024, blocking children from social media and other digital platforms up to a […]
EXCLUSIVE: HarperCollins imprint William Morrow has snapped up North American publishing rights to a new memoir from Jay Stratton, former Director of the U.S Government’s secretive UFO program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, who led investigations into UAP and non-human intelligence for 16 years. Also greatly enthused about this timely title is producer Dan […]
EXCLUSIVE: Former Keshet International SVP Limor Gott Ronen has reunited with Alon Shrutzman at 5XMedia. Gott Ronen has joined the management company and production house as partner/producer, working alongside 5X partner Ryan Lindenberg, the former Berlanti Productions exec who joined in June, to add to 5X’s scripted and premium docs slate. She will also continue […]
EXCLUSIVE: Orange is the New Black and Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan is to deliver a masterclass at Seriesly Berlin, the new TV festival launching in the German capital next week. The storied creator-showrunner will “share insights into her writing process, developing and pitching shows, handling feedback, and maintaining a strong creative voice,” according to the […]