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France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak appeared to suggest in a radio interview on Monday that a further softening of the country’s strict media chronology rules could be on the cards for the global platforms. “We’ve already reduced it. It used to be 36 months,” she said in an interview on the RTL network, in answer to
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Brad Schwartz has been officially named as President, CW Entertainment. This comes less than a day after Deadline revealed that he was the main candidate for the top programming role following Nexstar’s acquisition of the network. Former Pop TV chief Schwartz will be responsible for programming strategy, creative and brand development, and day-to-day operations of
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Christina Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the filming of the third and final season of Dead to Me back in 2021. The Netflix show took a pause for about five months and the star is now recalling how she felt during that time. “There was the sense of, ‘Well, let’s get her some
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Simon Cowell is opening up about reviving The X-Factor in the U.S. as he says there are networks interested in bringing back the singing competition. Fox aired the reality show for three seasons in the U.S. between 2011 and 2013. Although it’s television run was short-lived, Cowell was able to discover the pop group Fifth
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UPDATED with SEC filing about board of directors. Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, has gotten rid of the entire board of directors for the company, designating himself as “sole director.” The action was not unexpected, as Musk immediately ejected several top-level execs on Thursday after closing his $44 billion acquisition of the struggling social media
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Sir Horace Ové, the pioneering filmmaker nicknamed the Godfather of Black British filmmaking, has had a $57,000 Film and TV Charity grant named after him to help people from ethnic minority backgrounds navigate their way through the industry. The Sir Horace Ové Grant launches next month and will aid in areas such as funding development
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Filmmaker, screenwriter and author Quentin Tarantino stopped by Real Time Friday night to talk with Bill Maher about his new book, Cinema Speculation, out on Tuesday. Tarantino went to a lot of sophisticated films as a young child, he admitted, sometimes viewing subject matter that he didn’t quite understand, like a certain infamous Ned Beatty rape
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As #TheSimonettaLeinShow continues its 5th season, the show welcomes Tyler Henry, the 26-year-old star of the Netflix series “Life After Death with Tyler Henry”! Tyler is the most sought-after clairvoyant medium both in the United States and around the world, having read Hollywood’s biggest stars, from the Kardashians to Lizzo. His first show, E Entertainment’s mega-hit “Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry”,
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Only Murders in the Building co-creator John Hoffman is taking on Siegfried and Roy for his next project. Apple TV+ is developing a limited series about the Las Vegas showman-magicians, based on the Apple original podcast Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy. Written and exec produced by Hoffman, it comes from Imagine Television. As revealed by Deadline
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EXCLUSIVE: Sex Education’s Connor Swindells said he felt privileged to land the lead role in the stonking BBC One/Kudos WW2 desert warfare drama SAS Rogue Heroes, and he praised director, Tom Shankland (The Serpent) “for considering me for this, because this isn’t something that comes my way.” The six-part drama, written and created by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight, is
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