Apple TV+ Lands Natural History Series ‘Earthsound’ From Offspring Films

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSky History, the joint-venture UK television channel run by A+E Networks and Comcast-owned Sky, has defended a contestant on its new reality competition series The Chop after Twitter users accused him of having a Nazi tattoo emblazoned on his face.Sky History tweeted a promotional clip of The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker on Monday, featuring participant Darren.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Three Tables Productions has partnered with London’s Royal Opera House to create a scripted drama series that will chart the story of the institution’s continuing evolution over centuries.The first season will focus on the Royal Opera House’s recovery from its complete destruction in the Victorian era, when it was hit by a catastrophic fire, to become the renowned institution it is today.The as yet untitled drama will draw on accounts from the diaries of Frederick

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe British Parliament is launching an inquiry into streaming services and whether artists are paid fairly by Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play and others, according to an announcement Friday.Julian Knight, committee chair of the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Spot said the growth of the streaming market “cannot come at the expense of talented and lesser-known artists,” according to the BBC.

Also on this day: The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, adopts a declaration of rights and liberties which the British Parliament ignored. British troops under Gen.

Also on this day: British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrender to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.Guglielmo Marconi begins offering limited commercial wireless telegraph service between Nova Scotia and Ireland.

RAF Lossiemouth in  .The plane - named the City of Elgin - parked outside a new £132 million facility which houses the pilots, engineers and personnel who will operate the high-tech submarine hunters.Nine Poseidon MRA1 aircraft have been ordered, the first of which landed on UK soil for the first time in February 2020.Since then, crews have been securing the seas on operational missions.Group Captain Chris Layden, station commander of RAF Lossiemouth, said: "Today is a proud moment for Team

Cinderella still hasn’t met her Prince Charming, but she seems to be having fun while looking for him. British actress Lily James, 31, was photographed being kissed by handsome The Affair actor Dominic West, 50, while dining al fresco in Rome on October 11.

Lily James has been linked to a handful of Hollywood’s hottest hunks — and fueled plenty of speculation along the way.The Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again star briefly sparked a romance with British actor Jack Fox in 2011, but the pair’s flame fizzled out after one year together. Her next notable relationship was with The Crown‘s Matt Smith, whom she met while filming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 2014.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorApple TV+’s adaptation of Sarah Perry novel The Essex Serpent has halted pre-production after Keira Knightley dramatically dropped out just weeks after Deadline revealed that she was to headline the series.The Atonement actress’ rep told the Daily Mail that she was not participating for family reasons related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Keira Knightley has dropped out of an anticipated project for Apple TV+ weeks before filming was scheduled to begin due to “family reasons.”

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSid Gentle Films, the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning producers behind “Killing Eve” and “The Durrells,” headed by Sally Woodward Gentle (pictured below), has acquired the rights to develop Cash Carraway’s “Skint Estate” for TV, and has lined up a lead writer for previously announced “Taking Up Space.” Both projects are in formal development with British broadcasters.“Skint Estate” is a darkly funny, searingly political, debut memoir from Carraway,

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the SXSW doc chronicling actor Arquette’s extraordinary life and return to professional wrestling, has been picked up for UK distribution by Blue Finch Films.The company has also acquired the project’s international sales rights ahead of the AFM.

Kim Kardashian West has finally launched Skims in the UK and has given a peek inside the launch, which even has a themed cafe.The reality star mogul took to Instagram to celebrate the shapewear brand arriving exclusively at Selfridges, with coffee named after her collection and sweet treats adorned with women in lingerie.