BBC Chair Richard Sharp: Staff Feeling “Beleaguered” Following Funding/Job Cuts, Crises And “Persistent Attacks From The Press”

Banijay UK Executive Chair Peter Salmon is to step down next year as the global producer/distributor completes its integration with Endemol Shine in the UK.

Cara Williams, the actress known for her Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones, her Emmy-nominated performance in CBS’ sitcom Pete and Gladys and more, died on December 9. She was 96.

J. Kim Murphy administratorCara Williams, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age and an Oscar nominee for her performance in 1958’s “The Defiant Ones,” died on Thursday.

Hailee Steinfeld rocks an edgy tuxedo look for the Ralph’s Club fragrance launch event on Thursday night (December 9) in Los Angeles.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs the spread of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant prompts uncertainty around how the winter film festival calendar will play out, two events in the Arab world — the Cairo Film Festival and Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea fest — have soldiered on, providing a measure of hope for the global festival circuit.Cairo, which kicked off Nov.

Jobs and earnings for SAG-AFTRA members set record highs in the first five months of 2021, rebounding from a near 40% decline last year in the number of members working during the Covid-19 pandemic. Not all members suffered equally last year, however, with freelance males who are 40 and older working 70% more jobs than their female counterparts.

Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey just added yet another accolade to her list.

has a new cast member.Cara Delevingne has been cast as a series regular in season 2 of Hulu's dramedy starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short, ET confirms.The model and actress will take on the role of Alice, a sophisticated art world insider who becomes enmeshed in the mystery. begins after a gruesome murder occurs inside an exclusive Upper West Side apartment building and brings three true-crime fans together to create a podcast detailing the case as it’s unfolding around them.

Cara Delevingne is joining Selena Gomez, Martin Short, and Steve Martin in season two of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building!

Kate Aurthur editorAfter Steve Burton caused his own ouster at “General Hospital” for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Variety has learned that there are no plans at this time to recast his character, Jason Morgan.Burton has played the character on the ABC daytime soap opera off and on since 1991, but on the Nov. 19 episode, a tunnel on Cassadine Island collapsed on Jason, and he’s now presumed dead.The vaccine mandate at “General Hospital” went into effect on Nov.

Ana Ivanovic has been nominated as a potential inductee for the 2022 International Tennis Hall of Fame but does the Serbian star deserve to be held in the same regard as the rest of the sports’ iconic names?The 34-year-old did not break many records during her career, nor was she particularly consistent on the WTA tour. But nonetheless, Ivanovic still enjoyed a 15-year-career packed with successful moments.

Alissa Simon Film CriticOne of three Arabic-language films in the Cairo Film Festival international competition, the feminist dramedy “Daughters of Abdul-Rahman” shows how many Jordanian women put the traditional expectations of their patriarchal society ahead of their own desires and the resulting collateral damage.

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