Kourtney Kardashian holds hands tight with her new husband, Travis Barker, while out and about in Milan, Italy on Friday (May 27).
11.05.2022 - 20:53 / variety.com
Naman Ramachandran The BBC is investing an additional £10 million ($12.3 million) in developing comedy.Speaking at the BBC Comedy Festival in Newcastle, U.K., on Wednesday, BBC director of comedy Jon Petrie also revealed that the broadcaster will double the number of half-hour pilots made. BBC Comedy and BBC Sounds will co-commission up to four audio comedy pilots. BBC Comedy Short Films will launch in June, consolidating current short form strands to create a space for both new and established talent to experiment and develop new work.
Existing writing grants are being expanded into the BBC Comedy Bursary Collective initiative, which will give emerging comedy directors and producers a place to hone their craft. BBC also unveiled a revival, commissions and re-commissions. Jack Whitehall’s “Bad Education,” that ran for three seasons from 2012 through 2014, is being revived with a one-off 10th anniversary special, followed by a new six-part series written by a team of breakthrough writers.
Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones’s BAFTA-winning “Detectorists,” which ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2017, is being revived for a one-off special.Mawaan Rizwan’s comedy pilot “Juice” has been commissioned as a series, while new short form comedy “Mobility” has been commissioned from comedians Jack Carroll and Tom Gregory. An, hit series “Jerk,” “The Cleaner” and “Guilt” have been re-commissioned.Petrie said: “BBC Comedy is doing phenomenally well. Last year, iPlayer had 538 million requests for comedy shows.
Kourtney Kardashian holds hands tight with her new husband, Travis Barker, while out and about in Milan, Italy on Friday (May 27).
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have been spotted loved-up and laughing on their honeymoon in Milan. The pair had recently tied the knot at a Santa Barbara courthouse, celebrating their union with family and friends in Portofino, Italy, over the weekend.
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K.J. Yossman The BBC has set a release date for “Everything I Know About Love,” the adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s book of the same name.The full season will debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on June 7.The seven episode season, which was written and created by Alderton, was directed by China Moo-Young (“Pennyworth”).
No one was a bigger proponent for Joey and Pacey’s romance on “Dawson’s Creek” than Pacey himself, Joshua Jackson.
Zack Sharf Viola Davis joined Variety and Kering at the Cannes Film Festival for a powerful Women In Motion conversation in which she revealed a director once called her by his maid’s name. The Oscar and Emmy-winning actor was talking about Hollywood’s perception of Black actors and how the amount of roles she can play remains limited due to her skin color, even at her A-list stature.“I had a director who did that to me.
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Naomi Judd, the country music icon who died on April 30 at the age of 75, died of a self-inflicted firearm wound, her daughter, Ashley Judd, disclosed on Thursday morning.Ashley Judd made an appearance on “Good Morning America” to speak with Diane Sawyer about her mother’s death and how the Judd family has been coping in the weeks since. She said her family wanted to control the flow of information about the death before an autopsy was released.“She used a weapon…my mother used a firearm,” Ashley told Sawyer.
Naman Ramachandran Pay TV operator Sky is continuing to invest big in the U.K. The Comcast owned outfit has trebled its output of U.K.-originated content from 2019 to 200 originals in 2022 with an investment of $500 million, said Dana Strong, group CEO of Sky, on Thursday.Strong was bullish about the impending opening of the Sky Studios Elstree that will host Sky originals in addition to film and television content from the Universal group.
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’ murder mystery comedy The Afterparty has made another high-profile cast addition for its upcoming second season. Actor-comedian Ken Jeong is set as a new series regular on the hit show from Oscar winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord.
Bad Education will return to TV screens a decade after the show first aired, with a full spin-off series featuring a new cast to follow.Created and co-written by Jack Whitehall, who also starred in the show as Alfie Wickers, the acclaimed BBC Three sitcom followed the adventures of “the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system” and an accompanying group of unruly students.Bad Education ran for three series between 2012 and 2014, before returning for a movie in 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has committed big to comedy by adding £10M ($12BN) to the genre’s budget over the next two years, as Director Jon Petrie talks up U.S. co-pros and unveils a new season of Jack Whitehall’s Bad Education, a Detectorists feature and recommissions of The Cleaner, Jerk and Guilt.
Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster BBC has revealed a 4.2% pay increase for staff in August, followed by a further 1.% hike later in the financial year. Senior Leaders will not receive an automatic increase, and their pay is subject to a different process, the BBC said.The move comes at a time when the license fee, the BBC’s main source of income, has been frozen for two years and when inflation in the country is at 7%.
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