In a strongly worded open letter to BBC leadership, a group of U.K.-based film and television professionals have condemned the broadcaster’s decision to remove the documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone” from its streaming platform iPlayer. High-profile signatories include Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Gary Lineker and Riz Ahmed. The letter, published by Artists
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Underscoring the breadth of its unscripted slate, Banijay Entertainment has unveiled two new formats, “Football Island,” which blends sports, survival and competition reality, as well as “Date on Stage,” weaving romance and comedy. Both formats are being presented by Banijay Entertainment at the London TV Screenings. A Dutch format, “Football Island” marks the first co-production
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ITV Studios has announced a series of international sales for the hit detective comedy “Ludwig,” which will air in 85 markets worldwide. Produced by Big Talk Studios and co-produced with That Mitchell and Webb Company, the series was the BBC’s biggest new scripted show of 2024, attracting over 9.5 million viewers. The show has been
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Drake has officially postponed the final four dates of his tour of Australia and New Zealand due to what is described as a “scheduling conflict.” “We are actively working on rescheduling these dates along with adding some additional shows,” the artist’s reps said in a statement to Rolling Stone Australia-New Zealand. A rep did not immediately
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The sequel to 2019 documentary “Leaving Neverland,” subtitled “Surviving Michael Jackson,” will be available to watch on YouTube in the U.S. and Canada. Little Dot Studios, an All3Media company, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the exclusive U.S. and English Canadian rights to the sequel and will premiere it on Real Stories, Little Dot’s
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Keshet International (KI) has secured two additional pre-sales for the upcoming  “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,” a three-part premium history docuseries co-developed with SandStone Global. Ahead of its debut at the London TV Screenings, the series has been pre-sold in Australia to publuc broadcaster SBS and in France to TF1’s Histoire TV channel, following
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A panel of Japanese media executives and international collaborators gathered at Mip London to discuss the evolving landscape of Japanese content in global markets across unscripted formats, documentaries, and scripted drama. The session highlighted how Japanese creativity is finding new pathways to international success through strategic partnerships and adaptation of content for global audiences. Fotini
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Prime Video India’s upcoming father-daughter dance drama “Be Happy,” starring Abhishek Bachchan, has locked in its global premiere date. The Remo D’Souza-directed feature, produced under Remo Dsouza Entertainment Pvt Ltd by Lizelle Remo D’Souza, centers on the relationship between devoted single father Shiv (Bachchan) and his quick-witted daughter Dhara (Inayat Verma), who dreams of competing
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Gary King, a star of Bravo‘s “Below Deck Sailing Yacht,” was accused in a lawsuit Tuesday of sexually assaulting a makeup artist on the show. The woman, Samantha Suarez, alleges that she and her then-boyfriend, camera operator Grey Duddleston, were both fired for speaking up about King’s alleged misconduct. The pair sued King, Bravo and
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Channing Tatum‘s axed Gambit movie was a “screwball romantic comedy,” Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum’s long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead, although details were scarce at the time. Tatum tried for years to get a Gambit movie off the ground. The project
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The battle between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni revolves around questions of harassment, consent, celebrity, and the rules of warfare over one’s public image. Little surprise, then, that it’s become chum for online content creators. And as bad as it’s gotten, it could get worse. That’s why, at the outset
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Roberto Orci, the writer-producer behind the late 2000s reboots of “Star Trek” and “Transformers” and creator of “Fringe,” died Tuesday in his Los Angeles home from kidney disease, Variety has confirmed. He was 51. With partner Alex Kurtzman, Orci co-wrote projects including 2007’s “Transformers” and 2009’s “Star Trek.” Orci’s other credits include producing work on
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Who wants to call the shots on “Star Wars“? No, really, because it’s kind of a thankless job. Of course, the intergalactic franchise is sacrosanct as a cultural institution, so the president of Lucasfilm — home to “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” — has one of the most prestigious posts in Hollywood. But there’s also
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Alexander Westwood, a 24-year-old British actor who worked on Netflix’s “Sex Education” in the background cast, has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail for 26 offenses including rape and sexual assault, according to the BBC. Westwood denied each offense when he was found guilty in December. For 11 of the offenses,
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John Lithgow confirmed in a new interview with ScreenRant that he will be playing Albus Dumbledore in HBO’s “Harry Potter” television series. Variety reported earlier this month that Lithgow was eyeing the role. Lithgow now follows in the footsteps of actors Richard Harris and Michael Gambon, who played the iconic Hogwarts headmaster in the “Harry
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Fumi Kitahara, a respected publicity executive who guided award-winning campaigns for studios including DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Netflix and Disney, died Monday of complications related to a rare blood cancer. She was 56. Among the features Kitahara helped publicize are the first three “Shrek” films, “Chicken Run,” “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” “How
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Chris Pratt is watching his brother-in-law Patrick Schwarzenegger in “The White Lotus” Season 3, which means he’s also watching his brother-in-law’s nude scenes. “I know where my eyes went — I’m not blood related to him, I was looking at that dick, bro,” Chris joked to E! News. “No, he looks amazing. Obviously, he’s a physical
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My Chemical Romance, Blink-182 and Deftones are scheduled to headline the Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival, taking place September 19-21 in Piedmont Park. Vampire Weekend, Lenny Kravitz, Cage The Elephant, Alabama Shakes, the Black Keys, Sublime, “Weird Al” Yankovic, the Marias, Public Enemy, Lucy Dacus, Devo, Pixies, the Backseat Lovers, TV On The Radio, the
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“Wicked,” “Moana 2” and holiday hits like “Mufasa: The Lion King” lifted quarterly earnings at AMC Entertainment. Revenues at the world’s largest movie chain hit $1.3 billion, up more than 15% from the $1.1 billion that it reported in the year-ago period. Losses at AMC narrowed from $182 million in the prior-year period to $135.6
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