BAFTA Winner Anil Gupta Joins Sky Studios as Creative Director for Comedy

You’ll be hard-pressed to find Anthony Weiner on a ballot again. The disgraced ex-congressman guaranteed in an interview on Monday that his comeback won’t extend to politics.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel, On The Come Up. The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Former Angie Tribeca star Hayes MacArthur is set as a lead opposite Lucy Liu in ABC’s Untitled Workplace Comedy (fka Kids Matter Now) pilot from Better with You creator Shana Goldberg-Meehan, CBS Studios and 20th TV.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten and executive produced by Goldberg-Meehan and to be directed by Christine Gernon (Speechless) the Untitled Workplace Comedy (fka Kids Matter Now) centers on a diva boss (Liu)

Naman Ramachandran Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer who became the first Indian to win an Oscar, for Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), died at her home in Mumbai Thursday after a prolonged illness. She was 91.Athaiya was suffering from a brain tumor for the last eight years, her daughter Radhika Gupta told news agency PTI.Athaiya was born in Kolhapur, western India, in 1929.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorWarnerMedia Pulls Plug On South Asia Channels WarnerMedia has announced that it plans to close its linear HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bangladesh from December 15.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBBC One has commissioned a high-profile TV drama on the infamous British sexual predator Jimmy Savile, who terrorized his victims in the corridors and dressing rooms of the British broadcaster.ITV Studios’ BAFTA-winning true-crime specialist Jeff Pope is overseeing the project, which has the working title The Reckoning.

Naman Ramachandran HBO Max will be the exclusive U.S. home for drama comedy “I Hate Suzie,” originally commissioned by the U.K.’s Sky Studios, with Bad Wolf (“His Dark Materials”) producing.

The Clooney’s are helping the arts in their neighbourhood survive.

Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner link arms for a day date in the Notting Hill section of London, England on Wednesday (October 7).

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAnil Gupta, the BAFTA-winning executive producer of the UK version of The Office, is joining Sky Studios in the newly-created role of creative director of comedy.Gupta will focus on boosting in-house comedy production at the Comcast-owned company and will report to Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ director of comedy.As well as Ricky Gervais’ The Office, his credits include Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at No.

Carrie Underwood has a very special guest on her new holiday album My Gift.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterVeteran Hollywood executive Terry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as executive vice president of communications.Curtin, who has previously held top jobs at Disney, Universal, and Fox, will report directly to Vincent Bruzzese, head of marketing and strategy at the upstart studio.

Naman Ramachandran Sophie Okonedo joins “Britannia”; Sony Pictures Classics takes “The Human Voice”; HBO Europe commissions two series; Viz Media takes Japanese animation; “Out of Love” renewed; BBC Studioworks launches talent plan; Laika and Park Circus team for repertory sales deal.“Ratched” actor Sophie Okonedo, Oscar nominee for “Hotel Rwanda,” has joined the cast of Sky original series “Britannia” for its third season.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor the second year in a row, the lead drama actress Emmy has gone to a fresh face: a first-time nominee and the youngest on the ballot: “Euphoria’s” Zendaya.And Zendaya has made history with this win, not only for becoming the youngest-ever Emmy winner in the category (she turned 24 just a few weeks ago; the incumbent winner Jodie Comer was 26 when she stepped on-stage to accept her statue in 2019), but also for being the first Black actor to take

Instagram stories, Amilia discussed what she found difficult about having her baby boy during the pandemic.She said: ‘I recently got asked to be part of a study on the difficulties of giving birth during the pandemic and it’s only reflecting on it now that I realize how hard and how traumatic it really was on both me and Conall looking back.’She continued: ‘The visits and scans alone.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIn December 2018, marking Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court, Focus Features released On the Basis of Sex, a biopic of the trailblazing Justice.