Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
24.05.2020 - 14:51 / variety.com
By Manori Ravindran
International Editor
BBC Director General Tony Hall has said the corporation has “learned” from its online experiment with youth-skewing brand BBC Three, which is again facing a linear future four years after it was taken off the air.
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning, Hall said: “We’ve learned. I think it’s absolutely right that an organization should learn. We took (BBC Three) off linear because we wanted to save money and because we thought we
Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Normal People actor Paul Mescal has raised €70,340 (£62,000) for charity by raffling off one of his personal chains.His character in the hit BBC Three series, Connell Waldron, gained notoriety for the silver chain he always wore – and so Mescal raffled one of his own to raise money for the Ireland-based suicide and self-harm crisis centre Pieta.“Congratulations Éadaoin !!!” Mescal tweeted, announcing the winner of the raffle.
Steve Clarke The BBC has appointed BBC Studios CEO and ex-marketing maven Tim Davie as the successor to Tony Hall.Davie is an experienced BBC operator and is believed to have been interviewed formally in the last week for the role, alongside other internal candidate, director of content Charlotte Moore.Hall announced his decision to stand down in January and throughout the appointments process, Davie, briefly acting as director general in 2012, has been the front runner.Davie becomes the 17th
By most accounts, “Normal People,” Hulu’s new drama series based on the novel by Sally Rooney, is a pretty big hit for the streaming platform. However, instead of being excited by the popularity and acclaim being given to the series, producer Ed Guiney is forced to contend with an issue that no one making the drama series predicted—Pornhub.
Normal People star Paul Mescal is raffling off his chain in order to raise money for a suicide prevention charity.
The Sally Rooney adaptation gave the channel its best ever ratings week on iPlayer this month
By Steve Clarke
Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are among the stars going head-to-head to play video game Mario Kart 8 for an online charity event.