BBC Studios Strengthens Diversity Commitment With Inclusion Rider For All New Commissions

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of U.K. broadcaster BBC, is launching ad-free streaming channel BBC Select on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app in early 2021.The service will offer programs from the U.K.

BBC Studios has pulled the curtain back on its latest global streamer, BBC Select, which will go live across the U.S. and Canada early next year and is being characterized as a TV service for “independent thinkers.”

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making homophobic comments about a colleague in the chat section of a Zoom class last month.The names of the teachers, all employees of Dumont High School in Dumont, N.J., were not made public, although the school district’s business administrator, Kevin Cartotto, announced the suspensions during a public meeting at the high school last Thursday.Cartotto said the district decided to hand out the suspensions following an investigation into the alleged comments, but had to continue to pay the

BBC Studios unveiled a new content catalogue deal Thursday with Lionsgate Play covering the streaming platform's presence in the vast India market. Under the agreement, five of BBC Studios recent scripted dramas have been selected for the service, with the shows subtitled into multiple regional Indian languages.

Amazon Donates $600,000 To Germany Amazon Prime Video has donated €500,000 ($600,000) to a German relief fund for entertainment industry workers who have been left without income by the coronavirus pandemic. Amazon, which counts Deutschland 89 among its German originals, has donated to Backstage Heroes, a fundraising campaign led by STERN magazine. Amazon’s support is part of a $6M commitment announced earlier this year to support the European production community.

Bleachers have teamed up with recent collaborator Bruce Springsteen to perform their song ‘Chinatown’ together.Jack Antonoff and co. filmed the full-band performance on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City.Watch the band and Springsteen play ‘Chinatown’ below:Bleachers and Springsteen released the collaborative single last month.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterProducers Stephen Robert Morse and Max Peltz are joining forces to launch a new production entity, Lone Wolf Studios.The full-service production, sales and financing film and television company will have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Bill Nye is reminding us all about the importance of wearing masks as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

NJ Advance Media. “Is that her adopted kid? Who is gonna be all fucked up growing up watching 2 chicks kissing and calling them both mom,” said another.Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno condemned the disparaging comments, saying in a Facebook post that the comments were ‘disturbing and extremely appalling” and calling on Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano to investigate the matter.LaBruno said in the post that after speaking to Triggiano, the superintendent assured him that the incident “is being taken

AMC Networks has appointed Aisha Thomas-Petit as the company’s first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAMC Networks has appointed its first ever chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer.The company has hired Aisha Thomas-Petit in the new role, which will see her look to build on the AMC’s current diveristy, equity and inclusion foundation.Thomas-Petit will play an integral role in developing and retaining a diverse and inclusive community of talent within the company’s workforce, as well as behind the camera and on-screen.“Diversity, equity and inclusion are more

BBC Studios, the BBC's production and sales arm, has beefed up its commitment to diversity by installing an inclusion rider for all new BBC and third-party U.K. commissions.

BBC Studios has introduced an “inclusion rider” for all new productions, which will mean that all new productions have to meet a 20% diversity target.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. production and distribution powerhouse BBC Studios has reduced its gender and minorities pay gap to below 10%, the outfit’s 2019/20 U.K.

Venice Critics’ Week Names New HeadVenice Film Festival independent sidebar Critics’ Week has hired Beatrice Fiorentino as its new General Delegate, replacing Giona A. Nazzaro who left earlier this year to take the reins at Locarno.

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David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only Black mayor during the 1990s, has died at 93. Dinkins' health aide found him unresponsive in his Lenox Hill apartment Monday night, the New York Post reported. The NYPD confrimed the report.