Saint Maud leads nominees for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with 17 nods. Scroll down for the full list of nominees.
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has finalized a strategic investment and partnership with Turbine Studios, home to Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology series.Turbine is a UK-based film and television production outfit headed by “The Crown” producer Andrew Eaton, “Small Axe” producers Tracey Scoffield and David Tanner and “The Fall” producer Justin Thomson.Under the deal, unveiled Thursday, Turbine Studios will work closely with Bron to develop, package, and produce original IP
.Saint Maud leads nominees for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with 17 nods. Scroll down for the full list of nominees.
Naman Ramachandran Rose Glass’ psychological horror “Saint Maud” leads the charge at the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with 17 nominations.“Saint Maud” is up for best British independent film, screenplay and director, and also features in the debut categories — producer, director and screenwriter. Morfydd Clark is nominated for best actress and Jennifer Ehle for supporting actress.
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The news that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the United Kingdom – with the Astrazeneca Oxford vaccine hopefully to follow - is a bright spot in the winter days as we head towards an uncertain Christmas.It looks too as if the UK Government has been far sighted in ordering 350 million vaccine doses from six different companies.I hope the Oxford vaccine joins the approved list quickly.
direct to your inbox The government could ease coronavirus restrictions once most vulnerable people have received a vaccine, it has been suggested.
direct to your inboxMatt Hancock has predicted that people will be allowed to stop wearing face masks and coverings next year. The health secretary said he didn't 'imagine' people would be wearing masks as they do now by the end of 2021 - on the day the first coronavirus vaccine begins to be rolled out across the UK.
Bryan Adams has announced a tour of UK outdoor gigs for summer 2021 – see the full list of dates below.The shows include a gig at the Eden Sessions programme in Cornwall, where Adams will join the likes of My Chemical Romance and Lionel Richie.Adams will play the Eden Sessions on Monday July 5, 2021. Tickets are available for members today (December 7) with a general sale next Monday (December 14) from 4:30pm GMT.
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe portmanteau of five roughly hourlong films centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK wraps up with Education, which, at the end of the day, is what the series is all about: education in terms of the efforts of different segments of the population to begin understand each other, to cast off ill-informed presumptions and long-entrenched prejudices, creating more opportunities and learning that the “other” should ideally create more possibilities than
prime minister predicted that Scots would vote to remain part the UK in another referendum but warned it would be a "hard battle" to keep the union together. Brown also described Boris Johnson as “completely out of touch” after the Prime Minister said Scottish devolution has been “a disaster”.
EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in Scotland on under-the-radar UK horror The Origin, starring Chuku Modu (The 100, The Good Doctor), Kit Young (star of Netflix’s upcoming fantasy series Shadow And Bone), Iola Evans (The 100), newcomer Safia Oakley-Green, Arno Lüning and Luna Mwezi (Platzspittzbaby).
ViacomCBS’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have confirmed that period veterinary drama All Creatures Great And Small will return for a second six-part season.
With the arrival of Alex Wheatle, the fourth of five installments that make up Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s adamant and penetrating series of roughly hourlong dramas centering on the Black immigrant community experience in post-World War II Britain, the emerging core concern is the hypocrisy involved in the nation laying out the welcome mat to newcomers in the first place while denying opportunity once they’ve arrived.
Matt Lucas revealed all his hair fell out when he was six-years-old, two years after he was knocked down by a car in Portugal. Matt, 46, who hosted The Great British Bake Off this year, explained he found a few strands of hair on his pillow after waking up.
coronavirus lockdown ends.
has landed a gigantic £830million payout - one of the biggest in British history - after share prices soared.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.A joint statement issued by the four UK governments said they had been working closely together to find a way for family and friends to see each other, recognising it must be “limited and cautious”.Boris Johnson warned families they must make a “personal judgement” about the risks of coronavirus to vulnerable loved ones when forming a Christmas bubble.“We can’t afford to throw caution to the wind.
Jake Kanter International TV EditorNordic Entertainment Group is in the process of selling NENT Studios UK, a little more than a year after the production and distribution business was established.The studio, which is currently in production on Viaplay/Channel 4’s Connie Nielsen and Christopher Eccleston drama Close To Me, has received 20 expressions of interest.