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Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV announce new casting for Season 2 of “Alex Rider,” investment is approved for Bottle Yard Studios in the U.K., the BIFAs announce Tom Felton will host this year’s online ceremony, NENT Studios UK sells three formats in Vietnam and Cruchnyroll picks up “Tsukimichi – Moonlit Fantasy” for streaming outside of Asia.Eleventh Hour Films has announced expanded casting for Season 2 of its popular Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV series

Britain's Got Talent winner Jon Courtenay has revealed he was secretly battling skin cancer during his time on the show.The 48 year old rose to fame last year on the hit ITV show, beating children's sign language choir Sign Along With Us. But the musical comedian has now opened up on the secret ordeal he was dealing with behind the scenes of the show.

Britain's Got Talent will not return to screens until 2022 at the earliest, it has been confirmed. ITV's flagship weekend show has been axed for the year after ITV bosses realised they couldn't make it work as the global coronavirus pandemic rages.

Sony Pictures TV has signed 88rising, the emergent company that spotlights modern global Asian culture, to a first-look deal. The two will partner to develop scripted series centering Asian and Asian American culture, across all platforms, and 88rising has hired former Imagine and NBC exec Alex Lin to serve as its first development executive for film and television.

EXCLUSIVE: Tony-winner Rachel Chavkin is behind a new podcast series aimed at tweens based on Greek myths.

Britain’s Got Talent could be postponed until 2022, despite plans for it to go ahead in the summer, it has been reported. Producers of the show are said to be “almost certain” the programme could be scrapped for this year, with the series not likely to be put on air until spring 2022.

For “White God” director Kornél Mundruczó and his wife, screenwriter Kata Wéber, their latest collaboration, “Pieces of a Woman,” has been more dramatic than your typical cinematic endeavor. Inspired by the couple’s own miscarriage, the story of a woman attempting to deal with her loss went from a play to a screenplay to a movie set in the United States starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, and Molly Parker.

Simon Cowell did not pay himself any wages at the end of 2020 after his company lost profits of almost £30million, it has emerged.The 61 year old's former entertainment company SimCo Ltd, from which he stepped down from in September, reported profits of £5.8million between October 2019 and March 2020.This is down almost £30million from the six months beforehand, when the company behind Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor made £34.6million.

Prince Harry has opened up in a rare interview about the attack on the Capitol with Fast Company.

Indian streaming major Disney+ Hotstar has put the wheels in motion on major new project Special Ops Universe, a multi-series spin-off format of its recent espionage thriller Special Ops. Created by Neeraj Pandey, the project will span numerous incarnations, including Special Ops season 1.5: The Himmat Story, which will tell the back story of Kay Kay Menon’s character Himmat Singh.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Dennis Quaid and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen have signed on for the Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin-directed sports drama, American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story, along with Ser’Darius Blain, Adam Baldwin, Bruce McGill, Danny Vinson, Chance Kelly, and Hayden Zaller. The new additions join Zachary Levi in the role of Kurt Warner and Anna Paquin as Brenda Warner.

Hugh Grant wants to cast his ex Elizabeth Hurley in the next installment in the “Paddington” franchise! The 60-year-old British star, who played the delightful villainous actor Phoenix Buchanan in the 2017 film “Paddington 2”, had some fun with Hurley’s recent post.

Hugh Grant wants to cast his ex Elizabeth Hurley in the next installment in the franchise! The 60-year-old British star, who played the delightful villainous actor Phoenix Buchanan in the 2017 film, had some fun with Hurley's recent post. In the tweet, the 55-year-old actress shared a shot of herself holding up two jars of marmalade, writing, «Lockdown has turned me into a demented housewife: 47 jars of marmalade are nestling in my larder and another sack of Seville oranges await me.» Grant

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterLucinda Martinez, a veteran of HBO’s marketing department, has left the company. Martinez, who spent more than two decades at the company, most recently served as exec VP of brand marketing for HBO and HBO Max.Among her accomplishments, Martinez led marketing efforts directed toward African American, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities and worked to establish the HBO Latino brand.“This has been a year of reflection for me.

Regina King is all about the performance, not where an actor is from.

Russell T. Davies, the British TV creator behind Queer as Folk, the BBC's Doctor Who revival and recent hit Years and Years, has discussed only casting gay actors in the role of gay male characters.