Paul Burrell has claimed he had a secret meeting with Prince William and Harry back in 2017.
10.05.2023 - 08:03 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: BBC boss Charlotte Moore, director Kevin Macdonald and Sky UK drama chief Meghan Lyvers are set to appear at an Edinburgh TV Festival conference on climate-focused content.
The pair will speak at the first Climate Content Summit in London on June 7 at the Barbican center. Other highlights include Richie Mehta, director of Apple TV+ series Extrapolations, holding a masterclass.
BBC Chief Content Officer Moore and The Last King of Scotland director Macdonald will have a sit-down conversation, while Lyvers will join an industry debate about networks and platforms’ response to the global climate crisis.
Alf Lawrie, Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4; BBC Head of Commissioning for Specialist Factual Jack Bootle; ITV Entertainment Commissioner David Smyth; Sky Commissioning Editor Tilusha Ghelani; UKTV Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment Helen Nightingale and Lucy Willis, Commissioning Editor at Channel 5/Paramount will also appear on stage. There will be commissioner-led round tables that all delegates can apply to join.
Also on the bill are Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee, who will deliver an opening address and take questions from industry participants. There will also be a conversation with broadcaster and meteorologist Laura Tobin, and specific sessions on drama, exclusive research and audience insight and discussion on how producers can ensure their content has a lasting impact.
“We want to understand what cuts through with audiences, identify the messages and themes that viewers respond to, and discuss how to make sure programming stays relevant as society and values are affected by climate impacts,” said Stewart Clarke, Creative Director, Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Paul Burrell has claimed he had a secret meeting with Prince William and Harry back in 2017.
If you thought Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had spilled everything there is to say about royal life, think again - the pair are said to be in talks for yet another tell-all feature, this time as a Netflix movie. They've already given a revealing look at their version of events of life inside the palace in their Netflix documentary series, Harry & Meghan, released in December, but they are now said to be keen for a repeat performance The new venture is likely to focus on their experience of living inside the palace and was reportedly inspired by Netflix's announcement that it's developing a film around Prince Andrew’s infamous car crash BBC interview with journalist Emily Maitlis.
Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford swung into Cannes on Thursday for the world premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” in one of the most anticipated events of the French Riviera festival.
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Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International MUBI has acquired all rights for Kevin Macdonald’s John Galliano documentary from Newen Connect. The film “High & Low — John Galliano” has sold to MUBI for North America, U.K. and Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America, Benelux, Turkey and India. The streamer and distributor will reveal its theatrical release plans and streaming dates in the near future. Macdonald’s credits include the Oscar-winning “One Day in September,” “Touching the Void,” “The Last King of Scotland,” “Whitney” and, most recently, “The Mauritanian.” Widely recognized as one of the most influential and successful fashion designers of our time, Galliano dressed the most beautiful and famous women in the world for almost 15 years at Givenchy and Dior. He reinvented the fashion industry by transforming his runway shows into immersive fantasies and helped turn high-fashion from an elitist niche into a multi-billion-dollar global business.
according to TMZ.There’s no indication if Prince Harry, Markle, or either of their two children — Archie, 4, or Lilibet, 1, — were home at the time of the arrest. Markle was in New York City on Tuesday evening alongside Harry and her mother Doria for the Ms.
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Meghan Markle has been accused multiple times of dropping people from her life after she began seriously dating Prince Harry. One of those people, British reality TV star Millie Mackintosh, has spoken out about her experience with Markle for the first time. On her podcast, "Mumlemmas & More," Mackintosh explained that she'd been asked about her friendship with the Duchess of Sussex several times by media outlets around the world, but she wanted to wait until she felt comfortable sharing her story and had a platform where she could speak directly without fear of being edited or her words being misconstrued.
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Durand (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) is the newest addition to the cast of the as-yet-untitled monster thriller that Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are directing for Universal.
EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Moore (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Camren Bicondova (Gotham) will topline Festival of the Living Dead, a Tubi film inspired by the classic 1968 zombie pic Night of the Living Dead co-written and directed by George A. Romero.
EXCLUSIVE: Lucy J. Mukerjee has joined Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith’s media company Firelight Media, geared toward nonfiction cinema by and about communities of color, as the new director of its flagship Documentary Lab.
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The BBC’s content chief has warned that employees face a moment of “great jeopardy” as the British broadcaster wrestles with funding pressures and fierce competition from U.S. streamers.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed funding last week for the state’s public television network, a decision he says was triggered in part by content he has deemed “indoctrination” of children.
Thanks to the success of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and its spinoffs, drag has hit the mainstream in recent years — and at the same time, is under attack in the U.S., with several Republican-run states having introduced legislation to ban drag while scaling back hard-fought LGBTQIA+ rights.
Is Meghan Markle gearing up for a Hollywood comeback? Some experts seem to think so. On April 27, the Duchess of Sussex became a crown jewel for WME and signed up for representation with the legendary agency, Variety reported. According to the outlet, numerous agency rivals attempted to land the former American actress since she and her husband Prince Harry moved to California in 2020.
EXCLUSIVE: Fiona Shaw (Andor), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Chaske Spencer (The English) have entered production in NYC on Park Avenue, a new indie drama from Sundance alum Gaby Dellal (On a Clear Day), who directs from her script written with Tina Alexis Allen.
Meghan's Markle former pal Lizzie Cundy is urging the Duchess to put the past behind her and mend her relationship with her sick father.
EXCLUSIVE: Lulu Wilson (The Wrath of Becky), Omari Hardwick (Power) and Trae Romano (Stargirl) are set to star in Xeno, a new film that writer, director and VFX Artist Matthew Loren Oates (Farewell Bender) will direct for Kevin Hart‘s Hartbeat, from his own script.