Month: February 2022

Afternoon subscribers. Max Goldbart here with your weekly dose of International Insider news and analysis and it’s been as busy as ever over the past seven days. Scroll down for more. Of Paramount Importance Via-Who? ViacomCBS is no more. Paramount (or Paramount Global to be precise) is here and streaming is the name of the
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The BBC has struck a six-year deal for the MasterChef franchise and is moving production from London to Birmingham. MasterChef, MasterChef: The Professionals, Celebrity MasterChef and newly-announced BBC Three series Young MasterChef will air until 2028 and move to the UK’s second city’s Digbeth Loc in 2024. Produced by Banijay label Shine TV, the titles have established themselves as high-rating
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In The Goodbye Coast, author Joe Ide abandons his popular crime-solver Isaiah Quintabe in favour of a 21st century private investigator: Philip Marlowe. Yes, really! Raymond Chandler’s definitive detective has been reinvented by Ide and he’s working on two compelling missing persons cases at once.   In his acknowledgements, Ide quotes Chandler himself, who once
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Before this beaming little girl with a head full of red hair was responsible for some notable characters on big television shows like “Mad Men,” “The Good Wife” and “The Mindy Project” … she was just another southern belle smiling for the camera in Columbia, South Carolina. If you’re still having trouble putting your finger
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News Tame Impala Share New Song “The Boat I Row”: Listen A previously unreleased track from their collection of The Slow Rush B-sides and remixes By Evan Minsker February 18, 2022 Facebook Twitter Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker (Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Tame Impala have released their deluxe box set edition of The Slow Rush, which
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Both of FX’s awards stalwarts on the comedy side, Atlanta and Better Things, are coming to an end. Better Things co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Pamela Adlon announced that the upcoming fifth season will be her show’s last back in October; FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed at TCA today that Atlanta will end with
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The Oscars finally has a Covid policy. Presenters and performers at next month’s Academy Awards will not be required to show proof of vaccination, but nominees and guests will. People in the latter group also must have two negative PCR tests, Deadline has confirmed. In a story posted tonight, The New York Times quoted an Academy of
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In 2018, Neffatari “Neff” Davis received a strange D.M. from journalist Jessica Pressler. The New York magazine reporter (and later, V.F. special correspondent) told Davis she was investigating Davis’s close friend, Anna. Davis didn’t know who she was talking about. A year earlier, while Davis was working as a concierge at the luxury 11 Howard
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Actor and rapper Will Smith considered himself a coward for many years. As a boy, he was scared of his abusive, perfectionist dad from whom he wished he could protect his mom. He discovered that performing, both musically and as an actor, mitigated the risk of vulnerability with the chance to gain everything. His onstage
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All good things must come to an end—even Stranger Things. The hit Netflix sci-fi thriller, which first arrived in the summer of 2016, will conclude with its fifth season, which has no release date yet. The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, announced the news with a bittersweet letter to fans on Feb. 17. “Seven
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Following the debut of Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler, the victims from the documentary respond to the news of the Hollywood ambitions of alleged scammer Shimon Yehuda Hayut, also known as Simon Leviev. Directed by Felicity Morris, the true-crime documentary follows the story of three women who were victims: Cecilie Fjellhoy, Pernilla Sjoholm, and Ayleen Charlotte. Recently, the
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FX Chief John Landgraf provided an update at the network’s TCA winter tour panel today on Noah Hawley’s Alien series. “There are some big surprises in store for the audience,” exclaimed the network boss. But when asked by Deadline, he said Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley won’t be starring. FX Networks @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage “Alien takes
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