Television

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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Prime Video will collaborate with the Emmy-winning show Uninterrupted The Shop to introduce yet another (TNF) alternate stream offering. Titled “TNF in The Shop,” executive producers LeBron James and Maverick Carter and cocreator Paul Rivera will welcome special guests when Prime Video presents live coverage of Thursday Night Football on November 17, as the Tennessee
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Starz has renewed The Serpent Queen for an eight-episode second season ahead of the drama’s freshman finale airing on Sunday. The series, based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda, is a contemporary spin on the life of Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton) who against all odds, became one of the most
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EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials star Simone Kirby has become the latest to board Apple TV+’s drama adaptation based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel The Buccaneers. Kirby joins the likes of Christina Hendricks, Kristine Froseth and Alisha Boe and will play Miss Laura Testvalley, the American’ girls English chaperone. She is responsible for inviting girls to
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EXCLUSIVE: Keshet UK scripted boss Howard Burch has departed, replaced by Keshet International-owned Greenbird CEO Jamie Munro in an expanded role. Experienced former Kudos exec Burch left several months ago and Munro had been filling in temporarily, before recently becoming the permanent Keshet UK MD. He is tasked with building up the Israeli powerhouse’s scripted
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