‘Ms. Marvel’ Actor Asfandyar Khan Joins ‘Sapiens’ EXCLUSIVE: Indie filmmaker Junayed Alavi has set his debut feature, Sapiens, with Ms. Marvel actor Asfandyar Khan joining the project. Sapiens centers on two rival families who face each other in a cyborg colonized village in India. Khan is playing a narrator who experienced the apocalypse and …
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This year is shaping up to be yet another frenetic one in the international media landscape, with change incoming on numerous fronts. Here, our overseas team breaks down some of the issues we think will define the entertainment and news terrain in 2024. How Low Can The Market Go? HBO …
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Another year draws to a close, one in which we may have (almost) seen the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, a UK Prime Minister managed to stay in office for more than five minutes and audiences were dazzled by an array of TV shows and performances including a once-in-a-generation week …
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The new year is nearly upon us and it’s shaping up to be a hot one in TV land as more and more countries get in on the premium drama series act. Here, we round up 15 of the buzziest titles you’re set to hear much more about over the …
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Laurence Fox‘s highly misogynistic rant on Dan Wootton Tonight, which led to the actor and politician’s firing from GB News, was Ofcom‘s most-complained-about TV show of the year in 2023. The episode in September, in which Fox ranted about journalist Ava Evans – saying no “self-respecting man would climb into …
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Jared Harris, Joseph Fiennes & Sheila Atim Leading A+E/Sky‘s ‘Royal Kill List‘ Jared Harris, Joseph Fiennes and Sheila Atim are leading an A+E Networks/Sky series about King Charles I from Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films. Royal Kill List is Sky History’s latest docu-drama following in the …
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Good afternoon Insiders, here we go again with a busy old week in TV and film. Max Goldbart penning the newsletter. Read on and sign up here. Bad Times For The BBC BBC/Guy Levy Déjà vu: When you’ve been doing this for a little while, nothing gives off more of …
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ITV is to publish a talent “charter” setting out key standards expected from its high-profile presenters following the publication of the long-awaited Phillip Schofield review, which rejected the notion that there was a “toxic culture” on This Morning and that ITV knew anything of his affair. Led by Jane Mulcahy …
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British TV vet Samir Shah has been unveiled as the new BBC Chair, coming with a major decision on the licence fee imminent. Shah, who runs production company Juniper TV and used to be a senior BBC News exec, has been appointed by the government several months after the resignation …
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BBC Unveils Xmas Slate Including ‘Peaky Blinders‘ Dance Performance & Rebecca Ferguson Doc The BBC has unveiled its Christmas schedule featuring a wealth of pre-announced scripted content, a recording of the Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby live performance and a Rebecca Ferguson-narrated natural history doc about Scandinavia. The …
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Gaumont UK Lands Latest Channel 5 Thriller Locked In producer Gaumont UK is making The Wives for Paramount UK network Channel 5, a six-part mystery drama about the unravelling of a family. The Wives follows four sisters-in-law and their families who escape to their Maltese holiday apartments, as they’ve done every …
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Contributions by women writers and directors to British TV have gone in the wrong direction over the past six years, according to an alarming report from the broadcaster-backed Diamond project. Between 2016 and 2022, female British scribes saw their contributions to UK TV shows tumble by more than 10 percentage …
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