SPOILER ALERT: This story features details from the first five episodes of Squid Game: The Challenge EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game: The Challenge may look like a hyper-saturated fever dream, but for the contestants who plunged themselves into the world of the Korean megahit, it all felt deadly real. Netflix welcomed 456 …
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EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 parents have written to Andrew Lloyd Webber-backed drama school ArtsEd to express their horror at bullying and misconduct allegations uncovered in a Deadline investigation. In a letter sent to every member of ArtsEd’s board of trustees, parents said the institution’s response to the accusations against principal …
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EXCLUSIVE: The UK government has been accused of interfering with the BBC’s independence after piling pressure on the broadcaster to grip the Huw Edwards scandal in July. Within hours of The Sun newspaper publishing allegations that Edwards paid a teenager for sexual images, a high-ranking official all but ordered the …
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EXCLUSIVE: ArtsEd faced a routine external inspection by the UK’s education regulator within days of Deadline publishing allegations of bullying and misconduct at the esteemed drama school. ArtsEd – which counts Andrew Lloyd Webber as its president — was told in May to expect the Ofsted review around this time …
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SPOILER ALERT: This news story features details from Season 6 of The Crown EXCLUSIVE: Netflix series The Crown has been accused of fabricating Mohamed Al-Fayed’s role in playing matchmaker to Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. Season 6 has dropped on Netflix and the opening episodes chronicle the burgeoning romance between …
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EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand’s last major television job in the UK ended with him being dropped after he was repeatedly accused of being a “sexual predator” during the recording of the show. Brand was booked as a judge on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in 2018, but only lasted a single season …
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The BBC has refused to say whether it received historical complaints about Russell Brand as the broadcaster is expected to face scrutiny over allegations about the comedian’s alleged conduct. Brand presented shows for BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to quit in …
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is actively weighing up whether it should replace Huw Edwards as the anchor of its flagship election night show amid continued uncertainty over the presenter’s future. Edwards has been suspended since July as the BBC investigates his conduct following allegations in The Sun newspaper that he paid …
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EXCLUSIVE: Small Axe star Shaniqua Okwok has criticized The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after the prestigious UK drama school failed to say whether it disciplined a teacher accused of a “racist incident.” Okwok, one of Royal Central’s most successful recent …
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Michael Parkinson, the British chat show king who was confirmed dead on Thursday, will be remembered as one of the outstanding interviewers of his generation. During his show’s 36-year run across the BBC and ITV, Parkinson sat down with some of the biggest stars of our time, attracting acclaim and …
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EXCLUSIVE: The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, a top London drama school, had a racist culture in which multiple Black students were called the N-word and were “suppressed” by white tutors, according to an external investigation. Guildhall, which counts Daniel Craig, Ewan McGregor, and Michaela Coel among its alumni, …
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In the first part of Deadline’s Drama Schools Uncovered series of stories, we revealed that 11 prestigious UK performing arts institutions were hit with nearly 100 complaints over sexual misconduct, bullying, and discrimination. The figures, disclosed through Freedom of Information Act requests, are the first real attempt to establish the …
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