Joe Lycett is reverting to his own name after officially changing it to Hugo Boss as an act of protest against the company.
31.03.2020 - 13:09 / deadline.com
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Joe Lycett is reverting to his own name after officially changing it to Hugo Boss as an act of protest against the company.
We don’t want to criticize, but this sounds like the worst worst-case scenario plan of all time.
British comedian Joe Lycett, who changed his name to taunt a fashion brand Hugh Boss, has revealed he is returning to his original name.
It would be "wrong", he said, for the brand to take credit for victories in his Channel 4 consumer TV show
Germany's 2020 summer of rock is no more. New coronavirus restrictions mean every music festival on the German summer circuit, from giant events like Rock am Ring and the Wacken heavy metal fest to electronic dance music festival Parookaville have been called off for this year.
Germany's 2020 summer of rock is no more.
Dieter Laser, a veteran German actor best known to international audiences for playing the evil Dr. Heiter in cult horror film The Human Centipede, has died.
A German court on Tuesday proposed ending a criminal trial resulting from a fatal mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival, citing questions over when the proceedings could resume in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Chris Brown is quarantined at his home in Los Angeles amidst the coronavirus crisis, while his four-month-old son, Aeko Brown, overseas in Germany with mom, Ammika Harris. Even though Chris is missing his little boy, he’s accepted the fact that they’ll have to be apart for now.
European fans of spandex, spangles and pop kitsch will not be denied.
Farce is not a genre we commonly associate with the Germans, but then, as “Curveball” reminds us at the outset, this wildly atypical Teutonic satire — which plays like a cross between “Wag the Dog” and “Dr. Strangelove” in its portrayal of incompetence at the highest levels — is “A true story.
Rammstein rocker Till Lindemann is reportedly in a stable condition in hospital after suffering from a serious case of coronavirus.
MADRID — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.
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Germany’s Beta Film, a prime mover of this and next week’s virtual TV marketplace, has sold “Cryptid,” produced by Dramacorp for the Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay SVOD service, to Joyn, the new German AVOD venture launched in 2019 by Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1.