BBC Studios Restructures Productions And Content Partnerships; Ralph Lee And Mark Linsey Land New Roles

Cruz Beckham is ready to be a star! The 17-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham is officially launching his new music career, after spending time in the recording studios of Miami, Los Angeles and London, the up-and-coming singer is about to start a new artistic journey.Beckham has been working closely with Justin Bieber’s songwriter Poo Bear, showcasing a new style and showing the world that he is ready to debut a new image and aesthetic for his music. During his latest photo shoot, Cruz shared that he already has some songs ready, and has been inspired to write about his “personal experiences, real experiences.”Apart from singing, he is also known for playing the guitar, piano, and drums, and he is even open to learning more instruments to expand his knowledge.A post shared by CRUZ (@cruzbeckham)“I don’t think you ever stop learning, but I’m taking my time seeing what happens,” Beckham admitted, adding that he “learnt how to play the mandolin for a song I wrote.”The singer detailed the moment when his family realized he could become a talented musician, after they heard him singing Beyonce’s ‘Love On Top.’ Now he has received the support of family friends, including Eva Longoria, who shared Cruz’s Instagram post, teasing new music.“I was still really little! My voice hadn’t really developed, so I could just sing that high!” he explained.

Naman Ramachandran Lorraine Burgess has been confirmed as chief financial officer at BBC Studios after serving as interim CFO since July 2021. Burgess will report into chief executive Tom Fussell.Producer-distributor BBC Studios is U.K. broadcaster BBC’s largest commercial subsidiary, which contributed sales of £1.25 billion ($1.7 billion) in the 2020/2021 financial year.

BBC Studios has appointed Lorraine Burgess, the former MD of Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures, as Chief Financial Officer.

K.J. Yossman As BBC Studios gears up for its annual showcase, where it introduces its upcoming hot projects to international buyers, U.K.-based Jonathan Blyth, BBC Studios’ director of comedy, and Kelly Miller, BBC Studios’ Los Angeles-based senior VP of scripted strategy, sat down with Variety to discuss what’s on their comedy slate, working with streamers and the biggest challenges they’re currently facing.What do you look for in a comedy?Kelly Miller (KM): It’s all about authentic storytelling, that lived-in experience, a talent who has something to say. Those are the comedies and the shows that are most resonant with audiences around the world, but particularly here in the U.S.Jonathan Blyth (JB): Talent is very much at the heart — front and centre.

K.J. Yossman Versa ABC, a new production facility owned and operated by Versa Studios, has opened in Manchester, England.One of its first clients is the BBC One’s Morning Live show, which will broadcast from the space.The 5,000 square feet TV and film facility is on the top two floors of Manchester’s ABC building, earning it the nickname “the studio in the sky.”Overlooking Manchester city center, the space offers production galleries, dressing rooms, production office and green rooms.

Paul Parker believes Manchester United's best solution to their struggles on the pitch is to appoint Ralf Rangnick on a permanent basis.

Framework Productions, whose work has included creating content for clients including Saturday Night Live, Warner Bros., CBS and Amazon, is rebranding as FP as it expands from a video production company into a full-service creative agency. FP is getting into talent representation and narrative feature films, including two films in development and eyed to begin principal photography this year.

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin, otherwise known as Anna Delvey, is working with Surviving R. Kelly producer Bunim/Murray Productions on a limited documentary series.

BLACKPINK fans have expressed their frustration towards the girl group’s agency, YG Entertainment, over the act’s lack of musical output.On Valentine’s Day (February 14), YG Entertainment announced that the quartet would be releasing their ‘2022 Welcoming Collection’ with a preview video on YouTube. While K-pop fans typically enjoy such special releases, some Blinks (BLACKPINK’s official fanbase) have voiced their dissatisfaction towards the agency’s decision to release new merchandise instead of music.As seen in the replies and quotes on YG’s tweet announcing the new collection, a number of Blinks have called for a boycott of the release, while others have decided to voice their displeasure by reporting the agency’s Twitter account.

BBC Studios has promoted Rebecca Glashow to the newly created position of CEO of global distribution.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, the commercial arm of U.K. broadcaster BBC, has promoted Rebecca Glashow to the newly created role of CEO, global distribution.

K.J. Yossman Fresh from appearing in Netflix hit Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Mark Rylance’s latest big screen outing is “The Outfit,” in which he stars as Leonard, a 1950s tailor. It is a role that could not be more dissimilar to the fictional megalomaniac billionaire Peter Isherwell, whom Rylance plays in McKay’s disaster movie.Written and directed by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning scribe behind “The Imitation Game,” “The Outfit” sees Rylance star as a Savile Row tailor who has fled across the Atlantic to escape his tragic past.

The Apprentice star Amy Anzel has given a glimpse inside her gorgeous London home where she relaxes away from the BBC series. The 48 year old, who is the founder of dermaplaning tool Hollywood Browzer Beauty, has shared snaps of her home to her 7,031 followers and has revealed in her Instagram bio that she was born in New York City but is now living in the UK capital. Amy, whose brand Hollywood Browzer already has almost 50k followers on Instagram and plenty of celebrity fans, has plenty of gorgeous backdrops to film social media clips to promote the award-winning beauty tool.

K.J. Yossman BBC Studios has consolidated and rebranded its production and content teams under the banner BBC Studios Productions.The move is intended to “create a single content powerhouse for all the commercial arm’s productions, talent relationships, and content investment.”BBC Studios Productions will oversee four genres – scripted, factual, global formats group and children’s – which will apply across all of BBC Studios’ wholly and partly owned labels as well as BBC Studios Productions and indies with which BBC Studios partners for content sales.CEO of BBC Studios Productions, Ralph Lee, will oversee the company’s productions and content investment, supported by COO Martha Brass, whose purview is business development, production operations and strategy.

An industrial cleaner who battered a man who had thrown him out of his flat on a New Year's Day morning has dodged a jail sentence.

After years of development and several release date delays, it appears Sony sort of lucked out with the current scheduled release of “Uncharted.” After Tom Holland appeared in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and earned record-breaking box office, now would seem like the perfect time to capitalize on that success and release yet another film with the young actor in it, right? READ MORE: Tom Holland Says Now Might Be The “Perfect Time” To Stop Playing Spider-Man After ‘No Way Home’ Success Well, that’s exactly what’s happening, and in the final trailer for “Uncharted,” we once again see how Sony is adapting the popular video game franchise into a modern “Indiana Jones”-esque adventure tale.

The inaugural class of Netflix, Tribeca Studios and Gold House’s Future Gold Film Fellowship has been revealed. Directors Lloyd Lee Choi, Erin Lau and Derek Nguyen have been named the program’s first fellows.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios has scored a raft of sales on all seasons of smash hit series “Sherlock,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Amazon Prime Video will take non-exclusive SVOD global rights to all four series of the series and the special, “The Abominable Bride,” excluding the U.S., Australia, and greater China. In China, the series will be available exclusively on Tencent Video, while Japanese broadcaster Mystery Channel has acquired the exclusive pay TV license for its AXN Mystery channel.