ITV is yet to find itself in a position where it is “turning stuff down because we can’t afford it,” according to programs boss Kevin Lygo, who nonetheless acknowledged “the middle ground has gone” from the the market due to massive hits like Netflix’s The Gentlemen. Addressing the Edinburgh TV Festival, Lygo attempted to calm […]
The London Film Festival (LFF) has set Elton John: Never Too Late as one of the gala screenings at this year’s festival, which is set to run October 9 — 20. The film will screen on Thursday October 10 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Directed by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, the documentary […]
Netflix’s One Piece has locked in two more actors for key Season 2 roles. In one of the series’ highest profile castings to date, Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy) has been tapped to play Dr. Kureha. Mark Harelik (Presumed Innocent) is set to play Dr. Hiriluk in an almost perfect actor-character last name homonym. The […]
UPDATE, August 21: Benson Boone, Halsey, Lenny Kravitz and LISA are joining the growing roster of global stars slated to perform at the 2024 VMAs LIVE on Wednesday, September 11 at New York’s UBS Arena. PREVIOUS, August 12: MTV has pushed the date of the VMAs to Wednesday, September 11, from originally scheduled September 10, […]
Journalists covering the Israel-Hamas war have spotlighted the extreme difficulties of covering the conflict in the face of bias and a lack of access, with a leading Palestinian reporter saying he has been shunned by his community simply for doing his job. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Yousef Hammash, who has reported from Gaza […]
Anya Taylor-Joy is leading a Netflix adaptation of Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family. The Mad Max: Furiosa star will play the murderous Grace Bernard, the protagonist of Mackie’s book. Synopsis reads: Grace is the forgotten child of Simon Artemis, a merciless billionaire. After a heartbreaking rejection, Grace decides to exact revenge. But will […]
Netflix’s UK content chief, Anne Mensah, has called on the TV industry to face up to its in-built biases and help allow diverse creatives to “find their truth.” In a spotlight session here at the Edinburgh TV Festival ahead of James Graham’s MacTaggart lecture, which is expected to focus on the industry’s issues with class, […]
Gordon Ramsay is cooking up his first show for Netflix. The MasterChef USA presenter will star in a docuseries that will chronicle his plans to open culinary experiences in London’s second tallest building, 22 Bishopsgate. Cameras have also been granted access to Ramsay’s family, including his wife Tana, as he juggles home life with professional […]
A live episode of CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from Chicago on Tuesday night was interrupted as protests spilled into the Auditorium Theatre. Colbert was interviewing former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi when outbursts were heard from the audience, leading the host at one point to admonish, “Please don’t interrupt my guests.” […]
Sky has restructured its content team in the UK following the exit of Zai Bennett. Meghan Lyvers has been promoted to Executive Director of Original Scripted and Phil Edgar-Jones has become Executive Director of Original Unscripted. Meanwhile, Poppy Dixon, the highly-rated docs chief, has been upped to Director of Documentaries & Factual. There have also […]
BBC presenter and DJ Lauren Laverne has received a cancer diagnosis, she has revealed. In an Instagram post, the Desert Island Discs host said the cancer had recently been detected during a screening test but was “caught early” and the she is expected to take a full recovery. She thanked the medical teams who had […]
Channel 4 wants the UK television industry to know: the dark days are over. The 40-year-old British broadcasting institution has suffered one of the most grueling periods in its history after a dramatic ad market slump brutally exposed its business model. Content was cut or delayed, more than 200 employees were fired, and Channel 4’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Payne has lambasted a report from earlier this year that the script for his five-time Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, which he directed from a script by David Hemingson, was plagiarized. “It was the stupidest thing in the world,” Payne told us at the Sarajevo Film Festival when asked about the Variety report earlier this year, […]
Only a politician as focused and high-minded as Barack Obama can make a joke about Donald Trump’s anatomy and it’s the other guy that looks crass. That’s what happened tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as the 44th President of the Untied States addressed a fired up United Center on why the insecure […]
Michelle Obama took the United Center stage on Night 2 of the Democratic National Convention and delivered a speech that fired up the delegates and the nation. The former First Lady of the United States appeared on stage supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for President and Vice President in the upcoming elections. Obama took […]
Conan O’Brien has an idea for The White Lotus and pitched himself for a role. In the latest episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the comedian said he encountered series creator Mike White while in Bangkok. “Before you guys started shooting The White Lotus, I ran into none other than Mike White […]
“This election is going to be close,” Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention tonight in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois of the rough race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The former First Lady has pretty finely attuned political antenna, but on the second day of the DNC her speech tonight was a landslide […]
Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman who may become the first, told the Democrats tonight of the personal side of “joyful warrior” wife Kamala Harris. The veteran Los Angeles entertainment lawyer recalled how he and Harris met on a blind date in 2013 and, less than a year later, got married. Then, he said, Harris blended […]
James Taylor is breaking his silence on why he didn’t perform at the Democratic National Convention despite being spotted rehearsing. The “You’ve Got a Friend” singer was expected to perform at Chicago’s United Center and was seen rehearsing his musical number, but he ended up getting bumped. “It was exciting to see and hear so many of the […]
Ian McKellen recalls his stage fall from Player Kings and says that the fat suit he wore for the role saved him from more severe injuries. “I was wearing a fat suit for Falstaff and that saved my ribs and other joints. So I’ve had a lucky escape really…,” McKellen said in an interview with Saga magazine. The […]
Recent Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce is attached to star in Loose Cannons, an action comedy in development at Lionsgate, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Lionsgate declined comment. Details as to the plot of the film are under wraps, and it’s expected that it’ll be some time before filming, as the new NFL season is […]
EXCLUSIVE: As delegates are holding a ceremonial roll call Tuesday to nominate Kamala Harris — perhaps the first with a DJ’s soundtrack — the vice president will be giving a speech in Milwaukee. Expect a split screen moment, including Harris beamed into the United Center from the must-win Badger State, according to a source in […]
A scene in one of Disneyland’s original rides is getting a modern makeover. Peter Pan’s Flight has been a staple at Disneyland since opening day in 1955, and is one of Walt Disney’s few original attractions that remains operational. One portion of the ride is getting a makeover, however. The so-called “Never Land Tribe scene,” […]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is shutting down the comparisons between Vice President Kamala Harris and her fictional Veep character, Selina Meyer. In a new interview, the star of the HBO comedy series explained why Selina Meyer is not like the Democratic Presidential nominee despite sharing a similar trajectory. “People might need reminding that Selina Meyer and Kamala Harris are […]
The second season of Apple TV+’s Pachinko arrives more than two years after the first season was released on the streamer. Based on the best-selling book by Min Jin Lee, the multi-generational family saga follows Sunja (Minha Kim) as she moves from Korea to Japan and starts a family that endures through World War II […]
