EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in final negotiations to pre-buy rights to in-demand Cannes market package Saltburn, the next film from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman).
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Naman Ramachandran Oscar, BAFTA and Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen has said that broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 are an integral part of British identity. During the Virgin Media BAFTA TV awards on Sunday, McQueen said during his acceptance speech for winning best factual series for BBC documentary “Uprising” that BBC and Channel 4 have to be held tight and fought for every inch. Both broadcasters are facing an existential threat from the U.K.
government, with Channel 4 being privatized and the BBC’s funding being slashed in real terms. Addressing a press conference after his latest BAFTA win, McQueen said: “We’re British, it’s part of our identity, it’s who we are. As a working class guy, you put on the TV, it’s like the fire, you put it on, and it’s on – and it was the BBC and Channel 4.” “We don’t have much money in this country for television or films, but what we do have in the arts, in fashion, in lots of creative industries – we have ideas.
We have great ideas. That’s what we do,” said McQueen. “Other people have loads more money — the Americans — but we have great ideas, that’s what makes us who we are.
As British people, we can stretch a pound. That’s what we’ve always done. We’ve always been innovative in a way of how we create really great stuff with very little funds.” “And we need to the BBC and Channel 4 for to help sustain that and our identity – because I don’t want us to be, no disrespect, Yanks,” McQueen said.
The abiding theme of the BAFTA TV awards ceremony, held as an in-person event at London’s Royal Festival Hall, was support for the British broadcasters from the top creatives of the U.K. media industry. McQueen’s award-winning work includes “12 Years a Slave,” “Hunger” and “Small Axe.”
.EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in final negotiations to pre-buy rights to in-demand Cannes market package Saltburn, the next film from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman).
Waxworks of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been reunited with the British Royals in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.
EastEnders actors Danielle Harold, who plays Lola Pearce, and Jamie Borthwick, who plays Jay Brown, were pictured grabbing a cheeky fish and chip lunch during their break on Tuesday.The soap stars were snapped making their way back to the fictional Albert Square with their special cargo in tow. Danielle, 29, could be seen in a large puffer jacket, a zebra print skirt and her hair pulled back in a pony tale. Meanwhile, Jamie, 27, wore a grey jacket over a purple polo top and black jeans.
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Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall were beaming as they touched down in Canada as part of a three day tour.The couple arrived in St John's, Newfoundland, on Tuesday 17 May as part of a tour to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Charles and Camilla touched down on the island of Newfoundland, which was the first leg on their 72-hour visit which will see them travel a staggering 9,000 miles.
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Some of the UK’s biggest stars and creators issued passionate defences of Channel 4 at tonight’s BAFTA TV Awards in the wake of the UK government’s decision to privatize it.
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