BBC Boss Tim Davie Warns Future of Public Service Broadcasting Globally Is Critical: ‘It’s Scary…It’s a Red Alert Situation’

New details have come out about Justin Timberlake’s driving while intoxicated arrest.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Sanaa Hamri, executive producer and director of the Prime Video fantasy series “The Wheel of Time,” feels like she’s just getting started. The Moroccan-born filmmaker began her career in the late 1990s directing music videos for artists such as Prince, Mariah Carey, Sting and Nicki Minaj.

Donald Sutherland made his final public appearance three years before his death at age 88.The actor’s death was confirmed by his actor son, Kiefer Sutherland, on Thursday. He died in Miami after a long battle with an unknown illness.“With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away.

BBC boss Tim Davie hosts regular talent events to charm the people who populate his airwaves, but it’s not often that talk turns to geopolitics. That changed in January when a list of stars, including Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay, gathered and the conversation crackled with a sound that has now become familiar to Davie: unease over Israel-Gaza coverage.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.

A large collection of belongings owned by the late Coronation Street actor John Savident is to be sold at auction.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.

One of the biggest-budget Czech drama series to date is getting a second run, with the focus on another real-life rescue mission.

After months of negotiations, Paramount‘s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has broken off merger talks with David Ellison‘s Skydance.

BBC Studios is working on big production and coproduction moves in Central and Eastern Europe as part of a long-term plan have a much deeper presence in the region. Bartosz Witak, General Manager for BBC Studios in CEE, was speaking at NEM Dubrovnik. He said that a push into production is part of wider plans to bolster BBC Studios’ business in Central and Eastern Europe with new strategic partnerships: “It can be considered a new chapter for us,” he told the NEM crowd.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Gillian Anderson wants the truth. After winning an Emmy for Netflix’s “The Crown,” Gillian Anderson is back in the royal realm, but this time she’s in the shoes of journalist Emily Maitlis in Netflix’s taut thriller “Scoop.” The film tells the story of the BBC news team that secured the explosive 2019 interview with Prince Andrew about his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Shari Redstone may have yet another offer on the table to buy National Amusements Inc., the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global — the latest twist in the months-long M&A drama swirling around the troubled media conglomerate. Erstwhile media mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr. is teaming with investment firm Bain Capital to put together an offer of up to $2.5 billion for Redstone’s National Amusements, sources confirmed.

Lada Guruden Singh Steps Down From Sony Pictures India Role

Shares of Paramount Global edged lower Thursday, day three in the red, amid lingering uncertainty around Skydance’s latest offer. With bigger than anticipated sweeteners for Class B shareholders, it was approved by Par’s special board committee and sent on to controlling shareholder Shari Redstone but with no announcement forthcoming.

More than 100 Jewish industry figures have signed an open letter to the BBC Director General and content chief expressing “disbelief” in the decision to engage a cricket world cup commentator who has been accused of fanning antisemitism on social media.

A town hall for Paramount Global employees originally scheduled to take place Wednesday has been delayed until June 25.

Public service broadcasting is in a “red alert situation” in “many many markets” around the world, according to the most powerful man in British broadcasting.

The BBC's beloved series Death in Paradise has inspired a new spin-off that's got everyone talking. A real-life look at Caribbean law enforcement, Policing Paradise is already in production, with an insider spilling to The Mirror: "It'll look at what the real life police get up to as opposed to the fictional ones in Death in Paradise - and there's quite a difference.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Paramount Global‘s months-long M&A drama may soon be coming to a conclusion. The special committee established by Paramount Global’s board of directors to evaluate M&A proposals has reached an agreement with David Ellison’s Skydance Media and his private-equity backers on the terms of a complicated deal that would merge Skydance and Paramount while keeping Paramount publicly traded, Variety has confirmed. Skydance and its partners, RedBird Capital and KKR, sweetened the original buyout offer to make it more attractive to nonvoting shareholders of Paramount Global.