All3Media Acquires Nordic Entertainment Group’s NENT Studios UK

Emily Blunt slings her purse over her shoulder while arriving for a lunch date with husband John Kraskinski in London on Sunday afternoon (June 27).

COVID-19 pandemic tested positive for the virus.That’s according to new data released by scientists working for the UK government’s Events Research Programme (ERP), which was commissioned in February to help determine the roadmap out of lockdown restrictions.

East Kilbride losing out on its share of a £3 million funding boost.

iOS - Android In a leaked letter, the Friends of West End Park group said they had received several requests from ex-service personnel, veterans and their families, indicating “they felt it would be right that we gave consideration to a British flag” and they were “very saddened and surprised” that their upgrade to the flagpole was “somehow associated to a political/national cause”.However, Jim Cassidy, a former British serviceman, dismissed their reasoning and called on the Saltire to be

Naman Ramachandran The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed Denitsa Yordanova as head of the recently launched U.K. Global Screen Fund, reporting into Neil Peplow, BFI director of industry and international affairs.The fund is set up as an export booster, designed to help the U.K.

Nadine Shah has signed a book deal with Nine Eight Books, the new music-focused imprint  of publisher Bonnier Books UK.Nine Eight Books will release “memoirs, social histories, genre explorations and first person oral narratives”, and as Music Week reports, two titles in its pipeline are a non-fiction book by Shah and a memoir by Lush’s Miki Berenyi.Shah’s book will reflect on grief, fame and human behaviour in “hilarious but heartwrenching fashion”, according to Nine Eight Books.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Griff are challenging Olivia Rodrigo for the Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Parkland Entertainment has swooped on UK and Ireland rights to The Champion Of Auschwitz, Maciej Barczzewski’s drama about a boxer who fought for survival inside a Nazi death camp during the Second World War.

Red Planet Pictures, the UK drama producer behind BBC/PBS series Death In Paradise, has sold a majority stake to Asacha Media Group, the emerging Paris-based production group founded by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives. Financial details were not disclosed.

Amazon Studios has promoted its British unscripted chief Dan Grabiner to head of UK originals.

EXCLUSIVE: Miroma SET, a new branding and marketing firm, has been established through the integration of several companies previously managed by London-based Reach4Entertainment.

Podcast consolidation continues.

ITV Studios has backed entertainment producer Rollercoaster Television, which has been established by two producers from Banijay-owned Remarkable.

Princess Diana's younger brother says her grave is an 'oasis of calm'. Diana is buried at the Spencer family estate in Althorp, where she lived as a child.

Wolf Alice have scored their first UK Number One album with ‘Blue Weekend’ and have claimed the biggest opening week for a British group in 2021.The London band’s new album, which arrived last week (June 4), debuted at the top spot with over 36,000 chart sales – 14,700 of which were vinyl copies.In addition, the four-piece – who knocked Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ down to Number Two – overtook Royal Blood to claim the biggest opening week for a British group in 2021 so far.‘Blue Weekend’ was one of

Mubi has acquired all UK and Ireland rights for Leos Carax’s Annette which is due to open the Cannes Film Festival in competition on July 6, a day ahead of its French release. The distributor and streamer has set a theatrical UK and Ireland release on September 3. This is the second recent UK deal for Mubi on a Cannes title, following its pick-up of Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta last month.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American as well as UK/Ireland rights to Hannah Marks’ romantic comedy Mark, Mary & Some Other People, planning a theatrical day-and-date release later this year for the pic, which is having its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Macdonald Hotels and Resorts has launched a full-scale recruitment drive to fill a wide range of vacancies at their four and five-star hotels and resorts across the UK.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC Studios and See-Saw Films have partnered to co-produce the original series “Firebite,” which will debut exclusively on AMC Plus.The series will be filmed in Australia this summer for a planned debut on AMC Plus later this year. The series is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations.

AMC Studios has greenlit AMC+ original Firebrite, an Australian vampire fantasy series from See-Saw Films, the UK producer behind AMC’s Top Of The Lake.