Dara Ó Briain joked aboutMock the Weekbeing axed by the BBC in his recent appearance on Channel 4 comedy showThe Last Leg.
Earlier this month, it was announced that the BBC had called time on the satirical panel show after 17 years and 21 series “in order to create room for new shows”.
On Friday’s episode of The Last Leg (19 August), while talking about Ó Briain being touted as the possible replacement for Jeremy Paxman onUniversity Challenge (a job that went to former Independent editor Amol Rajan), host Adam Hills asked him: “How do you feel about your name being in the mix?”
“I think my name’s gonna be in the mix for everything. They fill out a list for these things and they’ll pick whoever’s been recently fired.”
He added: “It’ll be me and Richard Osman, just sitting at home in our pyjamas going, ‘Oh, I...
Earlier this month, it was announced that the BBC had called time on the satirical panel show after 17 years and 21 series “in order to create room for new shows”.
On Friday’s episode of The Last Leg (19 August), while talking about Ó Briain being touted as the possible replacement for Jeremy Paxman onUniversity Challenge (a job that went to former Independent editor Amol Rajan), host Adam Hills asked him: “How do you feel about your name being in the mix?”
“I think my name’s gonna be in the mix for everything. They fill out a list for these things and they’ll pick whoever’s been recently fired.”
He added: “It’ll be me and Richard Osman, just sitting at home in our pyjamas going, ‘Oh, I...
- 8/20/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
Good Afternoon International Insider team, Max Goldbart here with your mid-August dose of headlines, analysis and silly emojis. We’re taking a break next week but will be back with your favourite Friday lunchtime newsletter in a fortnight on September 2. For now, read on.
Johnny Depp’s Very International Comeback
Back in the director’s chair: Johnny Depp has had a decent fortnight. Last week, we revealed a first-look image of his eponymous role as King Louis Xv in Jeanne du Barry (his first film for three years) and this week focus pivoted to the director’s chair, where the once-disgraced star is due to return for the first time in a quarter of a century. Depp will sit behind the camera for Modigliani, a feature film about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Al Pacino is on board as co-producer with Depp and Barry Navidi, sources confirmed to Deadline’s Zac Ntim,...
Johnny Depp’s Very International Comeback
Back in the director’s chair: Johnny Depp has had a decent fortnight. Last week, we revealed a first-look image of his eponymous role as King Louis Xv in Jeanne du Barry (his first film for three years) and this week focus pivoted to the director’s chair, where the once-disgraced star is due to return for the first time in a quarter of a century. Depp will sit behind the camera for Modigliani, a feature film about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Al Pacino is on board as co-producer with Depp and Barry Navidi, sources confirmed to Deadline’s Zac Ntim,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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Warner Bros. Discovery is set to sell its stake in Gb News, the U.K. news channel that launched in June 2021 as a right-leaning alternative to the likes of the BBC and ITV News.
Discovery was one of the early investors in Gb News, which was hit by a string of issues and embarrassing ratings in its opening weeks, eventually losing its chairman Andrew Neil following a very public fallout.
“Following the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia earlier this year, our portfolio now includes several wholly owned news brands including CNN Worldwide, Tvn Group in Poland and Newshub in New Zealand. In light of this, and our continued evaluation of our global and local investment portfolio, we have exited our investment in Gb News and are no longer shareholders,” Warner Bros. Discovery said in a statement.
“Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News,...
Warner Bros. Discovery is set to sell its stake in Gb News, the U.K. news channel that launched in June 2021 as a right-leaning alternative to the likes of the BBC and ITV News.
Discovery was one of the early investors in Gb News, which was hit by a string of issues and embarrassing ratings in its opening weeks, eventually losing its chairman Andrew Neil following a very public fallout.
“Following the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia earlier this year, our portfolio now includes several wholly owned news brands including CNN Worldwide, Tvn Group in Poland and Newshub in New Zealand. In light of this, and our continued evaluation of our global and local investment portfolio, we have exited our investment in Gb News and are no longer shareholders,” Warner Bros. Discovery said in a statement.
“Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. has exited its investment in start-up U.K. news network Gb News.
In a brief statement, the company said: “Following the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia earlier this year our portfolio now includes several wholly owned news brands including CNN Worldwide, Tvn Group in Poland and Newshub in New Zealand. In light of this, and our continued evaluation of our global and local investment portfolio, we have exited our investment in Gb News and are no longer shareholders.”
“Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News, doing so prior to the creation of Warner Bros. Discovery,” the statement continued. “Gb News has built a growing and loyal audience in its first year, bringing another voice to British news broadcasting, and we wish the management and shareholders the very best in their future endeavours.”
Warner Bros. Discovery’s exit is the latest blow for Gb News,...
In a brief statement, the company said: “Following the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia earlier this year our portfolio now includes several wholly owned news brands including CNN Worldwide, Tvn Group in Poland and Newshub in New Zealand. In light of this, and our continued evaluation of our global and local investment portfolio, we have exited our investment in Gb News and are no longer shareholders.”
“Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News, doing so prior to the creation of Warner Bros. Discovery,” the statement continued. “Gb News has built a growing and loyal audience in its first year, bringing another voice to British news broadcasting, and we wish the management and shareholders the very best in their future endeavours.”
Warner Bros. Discovery’s exit is the latest blow for Gb News,...
- 8/18/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery has exited its shareholding in fledgling UK news channel Gb News.
A statement in the past few minutes from David Zaslav’s conglomerate said that, following the merger of Warner Bros and Discovery, the company had “evaluated our global and local investment portfolio” and is no longer a Gb News shareholder.
The company already operate the likes of CNN Worldwide, Poland’s Tvn Group and New Zealand’s Newshub.
The statement added: “Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News, doing so prior to the creation of Warner Bros. Discovery. Gb News has built a growing and loyal audience in its first year, bringing another voice to British news broadcasting, and we wish the management and shareholders the very best in their future endeavours.”
The channel launched last year with £60M (72M) of Discovery backing but has been beset with technical, audience and political problems.
A statement in the past few minutes from David Zaslav’s conglomerate said that, following the merger of Warner Bros and Discovery, the company had “evaluated our global and local investment portfolio” and is no longer a Gb News shareholder.
The company already operate the likes of CNN Worldwide, Poland’s Tvn Group and New Zealand’s Newshub.
The statement added: “Discovery was one of the first organisations to invest in Gb News, doing so prior to the creation of Warner Bros. Discovery. Gb News has built a growing and loyal audience in its first year, bringing another voice to British news broadcasting, and we wish the management and shareholders the very best in their future endeavours.”
The channel launched last year with £60M (72M) of Discovery backing but has been beset with technical, audience and political problems.
- 8/18/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ddp Studios general manager.Caroline Pitcher with senior colourist, Brett Manson.
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Deluxe.s Ddp Studios in South Melbourne has opened new sound mixing suites with associated sound edit and design suites..
Ddp Studios is a national business, with facilities based in Sydney and Melbourne offering complete integration with data Management, picture, sound post and VFX.
The Ddp Sound Melbourne team is led by sound designer, Paul Pirola, and includes experienced senior mixer Andrew Neil.
Ddp Melbourne.s sound team have completed works on International and Australian films such as, Truth (Cate Blanchett), local thriller The Pack, Oddball, 2:22, and independent film Pawno. They are currently working on Science Fiction Volume 1 for Shane Abbess.
Other recent television credits include Hunters, a highly conceptual television series for the NBCUniversal and Syfy cable network, produced by The Walking Dead.s Gale Anne Hurd..
Also, The Beautiful Lie, a major television series shot and...
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Deluxe.s Ddp Studios in South Melbourne has opened new sound mixing suites with associated sound edit and design suites..
Ddp Studios is a national business, with facilities based in Sydney and Melbourne offering complete integration with data Management, picture, sound post and VFX.
The Ddp Sound Melbourne team is led by sound designer, Paul Pirola, and includes experienced senior mixer Andrew Neil.
Ddp Melbourne.s sound team have completed works on International and Australian films such as, Truth (Cate Blanchett), local thriller The Pack, Oddball, 2:22, and independent film Pawno. They are currently working on Science Fiction Volume 1 for Shane Abbess.
Other recent television credits include Hunters, a highly conceptual television series for the NBCUniversal and Syfy cable network, produced by The Walking Dead.s Gale Anne Hurd..
Also, The Beautiful Lie, a major television series shot and...
- 5/12/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Ddp Studios general manager.Caroline Pitcher with senior colourist, Brett Manson.
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Deluxe.s Ddp Studios in South Melbourne has opened new sound mixing suites with associated sound edit and design suites..
Ddp Studios is a national business, with facilities based in Sydney and Melbourne offering complete integration with data Management, picture, sound post and VFX.
The Ddp Sound Melbourne team is led by sound designer, Paul Pirola, and includes experienced senior mixer Andrew Neil.
Ddp Melbourne.s sound team have completed works on International and Australian films such as, Truth (Cate Blanchett), local thriller The Pack, Oddball, 2:22, and independent film Pawno. They are currently working on Science Fiction Volume 1 for Shane Abbess.
Other recent television credits include Hunters, a highly conceptual television series for the NBCUniversal and Syfy cable network, produced by The Walking Dead.s Gale Anne Hurd..
Also, The Beautiful Lie, a major television series shot and...
.
Deluxe.s Ddp Studios in South Melbourne has opened new sound mixing suites with associated sound edit and design suites..
Ddp Studios is a national business, with facilities based in Sydney and Melbourne offering complete integration with data Management, picture, sound post and VFX.
The Ddp Sound Melbourne team is led by sound designer, Paul Pirola, and includes experienced senior mixer Andrew Neil.
Ddp Melbourne.s sound team have completed works on International and Australian films such as, Truth (Cate Blanchett), local thriller The Pack, Oddball, 2:22, and independent film Pawno. They are currently working on Science Fiction Volume 1 for Shane Abbess.
Other recent television credits include Hunters, a highly conceptual television series for the NBCUniversal and Syfy cable network, produced by The Walking Dead.s Gale Anne Hurd..
Also, The Beautiful Lie, a major television series shot and...
- 5/12/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Great Gatsby dominated. Aacta.s technical and short films awards today, collecting gongs in all six craft categories for which it was nominated, plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects.
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
The co-production Top of the Lake bagged two TV trophies while Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys, created by Tony Ayres, was named best children.s TV series.
The TV documentary prize went to Redesign My Brain, which explores the revolutionary new science of brain plasticity, written and directed by Paul Scott and produced by Isabel Perez and Scott for ABC TV.
Writer-director Nick Verso's The Last Time I Saw Richard, produced by John Molloy, was honoured as best short fiction film. Developed and funded through Screen Australia.s Springboard program, the short is a prequel to the upcoming feature film Boys In The Trees, tracing the friendship between two teenagers in a mental health clinic in...
- 1/28/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The career of veteran war photographer Don McCullin, and his ambiguous relationship with conflict zones, is thoroughly documented here
It is perhaps a flaw in Jacqui Morris's excellent documentary portrait of war photographer Don McCullin that it implies he effectively retired in the early 1980s, having been alienated by the Sunday Times's new owner Rupert Murdoch and incoming editor Andrew Neil. In fact, McCullin (now 77 years old) was taking pictures of the war in Aleppo this month, for the Times. The 60s to the 80s were the high-water mark of McCullin's career: he found brilliant and searing images in pre-wall Berlin, Cyprus, the Congo, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon. His then editor, Harold Evans, is interviewed here extensively and says he is a "genius". It is hard to disagree. McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how...
It is perhaps a flaw in Jacqui Morris's excellent documentary portrait of war photographer Don McCullin that it implies he effectively retired in the early 1980s, having been alienated by the Sunday Times's new owner Rupert Murdoch and incoming editor Andrew Neil. In fact, McCullin (now 77 years old) was taking pictures of the war in Aleppo this month, for the Times. The 60s to the 80s were the high-water mark of McCullin's career: he found brilliant and searing images in pre-wall Berlin, Cyprus, the Congo, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon. His then editor, Harold Evans, is interviewed here extensively and says he is a "genius". It is hard to disagree. McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how...
- 12/28/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Roger Savage; photo by Zorro Gamarnik
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Sound Guild has announced the winners of.the 2012 Assg Awards.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
- 11/25/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
When Kate Met William – A Tale of Two Lives features the stories of two young people destined to be one of the world’s most famous couples and charts their lives from birth until their engagement.
It’s a romance you only usually read about in fairytales – a Prince meets a normal middle-class girl and they fall in love. But just how different are they? And was it always a relationship that was destined to be?
Using rare photos and archive footage the documentary tells the story of how this captivating royal love story came about.
Among those interviewed in the programme are: The Sun’s royal photographer Arthur Edwards; Prince William’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe; former editor of The Sunday Times and former lord rector at the University of St Andrews, Andrew Neil; Charlotte Todd who designed Kate’s famous see-through dress; royal correspondent Jennie Bond; biographer...
It’s a romance you only usually read about in fairytales – a Prince meets a normal middle-class girl and they fall in love. But just how different are they? And was it always a relationship that was destined to be?
Using rare photos and archive footage the documentary tells the story of how this captivating royal love story came about.
Among those interviewed in the programme are: The Sun’s royal photographer Arthur Edwards; Prince William’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe; former editor of The Sunday Times and former lord rector at the University of St Andrews, Andrew Neil; Charlotte Todd who designed Kate’s famous see-through dress; royal correspondent Jennie Bond; biographer...
- 4/26/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Today sees huge changes in the British media landscape. Jeremy Hunt, the UK culture secretary, has approved Rupert Murdoch’s controversial bid to buy the 61% of pay-tv broadcaster BSkyB he does not already own. Hunt has decided not to refer News Corp’s £7.5 billion bid to UK antitrust regulator the Competition Commission. News Corp has offered to spin off news channel Sky News into a separate company. Rival news organisations have complained that News Corp would control too many news outlets if it owns Sky News and newspapers. Murdoch has offered to keep the loss-making news channel going for another 7-10 years. Sky News loses around £20 million ($33 million) each year. This approval is quite a milestone in seeing Rupert Murdoch becoming even more powerful. News Corp has offered to establish Sky News as a separate company with an independent board, much in the same way as The Times of London operates.
- 3/3/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
The media mogul may be all smiles at Wednesday's launch for his iPad newspaper, The Daily, but he's depressed about his suddenly shaky prospects for gaining total control of something much more important-the $12 billion BSkyB. Howard Kurtz reports.
Controversy swirls around Rupert Murdoch like a cloud, from thunderclaps of overheated rhetoric at Fox News to the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World. But the 79-year-old mogul has a way of getting what he wants.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The journalistic establishment was aghast when Murdoch tried to buy New York magazine in the 1970s, the Times of London and Sunday Times in the 1980s, and The Wall Street Journal four years ago. In each case, the billionaire prevailed.
Murdoch's latest target is total control of British Sky Broadcasting, which would enable him to tighten his grip on the U.K.'s media machinery.
Controversy swirls around Rupert Murdoch like a cloud, from thunderclaps of overheated rhetoric at Fox News to the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World. But the 79-year-old mogul has a way of getting what he wants.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The journalistic establishment was aghast when Murdoch tried to buy New York magazine in the 1970s, the Times of London and Sunday Times in the 1980s, and The Wall Street Journal four years ago. In each case, the billionaire prevailed.
Murdoch's latest target is total control of British Sky Broadcasting, which would enable him to tighten his grip on the U.K.'s media machinery.
- 2/2/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which they awarded with a record breaking 18 nominations. Sure, the film is in danger of being way overhyped for people who are coming to it late (which is just about everyone given the sorry state of international distribution for dramas of virtually any kind) but for those who can slough off the "omg" raves, I guarantee you'll think it at least an insinuating and well executed crime drama.
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute Awards, followed by Beneath Hill 60 (12), Bright Star (11), Tomorrow, When the War Began (8), The Tree, Bran Nue Dae (7 each) and The Boys Are Back (4)
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
- 10/27/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
How would Sky Sports News react as the votes were counted on a tense election night?
Those of you familiar with Hitchcock's film The Lady Vanishes may remember the characters played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne continuing to obsess about cricket, as war clouds gathered over Europe, and little old ladies bizarrely were put in charge of important messages about troop movements. Well, on election night, I think I found the modern equivalent.
I thought it might be quite fun, as the marathon election programmes began, to turn to Sky Sports News to see if they were even acknowledging that an election was taking place; and blow me if they were not reading out county cricket scores. Having just switched over from some economic expert reporting that in New York the Dow Jones was falling faster than Vanessa Feltz on a bungee rope, it was strangely soothing to find...
Those of you familiar with Hitchcock's film The Lady Vanishes may remember the characters played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne continuing to obsess about cricket, as war clouds gathered over Europe, and little old ladies bizarrely were put in charge of important messages about troop movements. Well, on election night, I think I found the modern equivalent.
I thought it might be quite fun, as the marathon election programmes began, to turn to Sky Sports News to see if they were even acknowledging that an election was taking place; and blow me if they were not reading out county cricket scores. Having just switched over from some economic expert reporting that in New York the Dow Jones was falling faster than Vanessa Feltz on a bungee rope, it was strangely soothing to find...
- 5/10/2010
- by Martin Kelner
- The Guardian - Film News
Piers Morgan has hit out at Fern Britton after the ex-This Morning presenter criticised his recent interview with Gordon Brown. Writing in his weekly Daily Mail column, the Britain's Got Talent judge brushed aside Britton's comments on Andrew Neil's This Week. Morgan said: "On and on she droned, in a weird undertaker-style monotone, professing her outraged shock and horror at my 'tabloid' line of questioning. "This is, of course, the same Fern Britton who spent a decade on This Morning asking vacuous celebrities questions so 'tabloid' in their content that most tabloids would reject them as being (more)...
- 2/24/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Former Celebrity Big Brother housemate Lady Sovereign fled from a TV debate show only minutes before she was due to go on air this week and claimed that she had suffered a panic attack.
Sov had agreed to take part in a debate about self defence on the late-night BBC1 show This Week. But just before she was due to join the panel she disappeared from the studio.
Last night host Andrew Neil told The Daily Star: “I got a message in my ear while I was on air saying: ‘Keep talking because your next guest has gone missing.’
“When I finished the programme and was leaving, the doorman said to me: ‘Have you been upsetting people again? That girl couldn’t get out of the building fast enough.’
“I am told she got incredibly nervous about being on the show and bottled it.”
Last night a spokesman for Sov...
Sov had agreed to take part in a debate about self defence on the late-night BBC1 show This Week. But just before she was due to join the panel she disappeared from the studio.
Last night host Andrew Neil told The Daily Star: “I got a message in my ear while I was on air saying: ‘Keep talking because your next guest has gone missing.’
“When I finished the programme and was leaving, the doorman said to me: ‘Have you been upsetting people again? That girl couldn’t get out of the building fast enough.’
“I am told she got incredibly nervous about being on the show and bottled it.”
Last night a spokesman for Sov...
- 1/23/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
London -- U.K.-based content management group World Media Rights aims to grow revenue tenfold to £100 million ($166 million) within the decade, if plans to build a content rights/talent agency hybrid remain on track, chairman Andrew Neil said Wednesday.
Launched four years ago by Neil -- a former editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sunday Times who also played a role in the launch of Fox News -- Wmr aims to evolve the traditional agency model by cross-pollinating TV and literary talent across different parts of the business.
In addition to creating television and multimedia opportunities for its roster of historical, factual and political writers, Wmr aims to add talent representation for after-dinner speakers as well as film and theatrical talent to its books.
Wmr is also looking to put together deals that give it a stake in the intellectual property rights in lieu of the traditional commission model,...
Launched four years ago by Neil -- a former editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sunday Times who also played a role in the launch of Fox News -- Wmr aims to evolve the traditional agency model by cross-pollinating TV and literary talent across different parts of the business.
In addition to creating television and multimedia opportunities for its roster of historical, factual and political writers, Wmr aims to add talent representation for after-dinner speakers as well as film and theatrical talent to its books.
Wmr is also looking to put together deals that give it a stake in the intellectual property rights in lieu of the traditional commission model,...
- 12/2/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
News, like nature, abhors a vacuum and as the wire goes quiet on Roman Polankski’s incarceration at the hands of the Swiss Authorities, the director’s industry peers have jumped in to offer their own views on his probable extradition to the Us in connection to his 1977 conviction for raping Samantha Geimer, then 13.
Whoopi Goldberg astonished Guardian readers on Wednesday when she was quoted making a distinction between “rape-rape”, as in the classic definition most of us are familiar with and rape (formally rape-rape) which she’d confusingly rechristened “something else.”
Showcasing the understanding of legal distinctions for which the Jumpin’ Jack Flash actress is rightly lauded around the world, she told The View chatshow on Us television:
“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like,...
Whoopi Goldberg astonished Guardian readers on Wednesday when she was quoted making a distinction between “rape-rape”, as in the classic definition most of us are familiar with and rape (formally rape-rape) which she’d confusingly rechristened “something else.”
Showcasing the understanding of legal distinctions for which the Jumpin’ Jack Flash actress is rightly lauded around the world, she told The View chatshow on Us television:
“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like,...
- 10/2/2009
- by Ed Whitfield
- FilmShaft.com
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