Netflix in the UK, BritBox in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand are among the buyers to have picked up US streamer Hulu and Irish public broadcaster RTÉ's dark comedy coproduction Obituary from producer and distributor APC.
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. For left-of-center policy wonks, this is shaping up as a banner week. Here in Washington, the journal Democracy is holding a “Middle-Out Economics” conference, featuring a host of progressive economists, Biden administration appointees, union think-tankers, and political consultants who grapple with the conundrum of how to… Source
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland, Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so. “Paul Bettany called me after...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda says it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the
HARRY Redknapp saw Britain’s worst football team win for the first time — and said it was just as exciting as the Champions League. The former Premier League boss, 77, has been helping Cwm Albion a
A BRAIN tumour boy who last night reduced Britain’s Got Talent judges to tears will give the £250,000 prize to charity if he wins. Ravi Adelekan’s version of A Million Dreams got the golden buzzer
Pruitt Taylor Vince will play Pa Kent.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the marathon, sending off a field of nearly 30,000 runners.
NEWS BRIEF: Netflix is set to debut a new documentary series this summer, America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, produced by One Potato Productions and Boardwalk Pictures in association with Campfire Studios.
Speaking at the WNBA draft, Collingswood-born commissioner Cathy Engelbert name-dropped her "hometown" first on a list of cities the league has talked with.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Umar