TV presenter Laura Whitmore was corrected after she attempted to mock Tasha Ghouri on Saturday Kitchen. Love Island host Laura made a jokey jibe at Islander Tasha when she appeared as a guest on the BBC cookery show.
03.08.2022 - 11:21 / variety.com
Manori Ravindran International EditorBBC Studios will make its return to Cannes this fall, and will be honored at Mipcom with an inaugural Studio of Distinction Award.Created by Mipcom organizers RX France to mark “a landmark achievement by a global studio or platform,” the award will be presented to production-distribution powerhouse BBC Studios in the week that the BBC marks 100 years of public service broadcasting in the U.K. and in its 90th year of international broadcasting.Senior BBC Studios executives are set to give keynote addresses at both Mip Junior and Mipcom.On the opening day of Mipcom, Tom Fussell, in his first public address as CEO of BBC Studios, will take the stage to discuss the “rapid pace of change” at the studio, whose recent credits include “Frozen Planet II,” “Good Omens,” “Prehistoric Planet,” “Top Gear” and “Happy Valley 3.” He will also speak about the company’s next chapter.
TV presenter Laura Whitmore was corrected after she attempted to mock Tasha Ghouri on Saturday Kitchen. Love Island host Laura made a jokey jibe at Islander Tasha when she appeared as a guest on the BBC cookery show.
A BBC star defended Love Island's Tasha Ghouri after Laura Whitmore made a dig at her wine knowledge. Laura, 37, sparked a backlash when she tried to mock Tasha on Saturday Kitchen.The Irish Love Island host jokingly made a dig about Tasha on Matt Tebbut's BBC daytime show, Saturday Kitchen.
First Dates star Fred Sirieix headed for a curry in Hale as he partied with the stars of his new BBC show on a break from filming here in Manchester. Fred has just announced he is to host the new BBC2 show Master of Ceremonies alongside Dragon's Den star Sara Davies and Manchester events boss Raj Somaiya.
Eight films battled it out in competition at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, but Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s jury—including French director Lucile Hadžihalilović , Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Serbian actor Milan Marić and Israeli producer Katriel Schory—spread the love quite widely.
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Sir David Attenborough’s latest BBC natural history landmark is Wild Isles (working title), aiming to “do for the wildlife of Britain what the Planet Earth series has done for the wildlife of the world.”
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Johnny Depp is stepping out of court and back onto the big screen. The actor has been tapped for the role of King Louis XV in the forthcoming period drama . In the first teaser portrait, released by French film house Why Not Productions, Depp is fully-clad as the 1700s-era monarch.
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K.J. Yossman Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier is set to give a keynote address at Mipcom Cannes in October.Mipcom is set to take place at the Palais des Festivals in the French seaside town from Oct.
Naman Ramachandran Ana de Armas will be honored with the Hollywood Rising-Star Award at the Deauville American Film Festival (Sept. 2-11).
Big Brother fans were beside themselves when the news broke that the show WILL be making a big TV return. The reality TV programme aired for a whopping 18 years in the UK, on both Channel 4 and Channel 5, until it was axed in 2018.