Departing STV Boss Simon Pitts To Become Global CEO

Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman could barely contain a wry giggle as he conceded his side got away with one against Scotland - despite dishing out a drubbing in Amsterdam.

Prime Video is in post-production on UK Original romantic-comedy, Picture This, starring Simone Ashley (Bridgerton) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After).

Naman Ramachandran Prime Video is launching U.K. original romantic comedy film “Picture This,” starring Simone Ashley (“Bridgerton”) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (“After”). The film is based on Prime Video’s Australian original film “Five Blind Dates,” written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park.

Delphine Ernotte-Cunci, the CEO of France Télévisions, has called the collapse of the French broadcaster-backed streamer Salto “a strategic mistake.”

Nicolas de Tavernost, the outgoing boss of M6, did not hold back today during what will likely be his last on-stage appearance after a near-40-year career with The Traitors France network.

Former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby has been open about her struggles with mum guilt in the past. And now the TV presenter has landed a new gig hosting a high-profile show for Netflix, in which celebrities attempt to beat survival expert Bear Grylls, she is no doubt feeling torn over spending time so far away from her children. Holly, 43, who is mum to son Harry, 14, daughter Belle, 12, and eight-year-old son Chester, will be jetting off to Costa Rica to film the show.

Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire, according to Sony Pictures Classics, which said Wednesday that it has acquired all worldwide rights to the pic.

Netflix EMEA boss Larry Tanz has criticized local quotas for “stifling creativity” and said the streamer remains “all in” while competitors “dial back.”

EXCLUSIVE: YMU, the UK agency that reps Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, and Nicole Scherzinger, has confirmed its sale to private equity company Permira under a £60M ($76M) deal.

Prime Video Greenlights Psychological Thriller Starring ‘Vigil’ Duo

Steven Naismith hailed Hearts for setting up another semi-final crack at Rangers - then promised his stars are hungry to avenge their last Hampden meeting as they eye cup glory.

Simon Cowell is a man rarely lost for words. But as the host of the recent Together For Short Lives Ball, he struggled to speak when faced with a mother’s heartbreaking account of losing her beloved son.The moving moment came during the OK !-sponsored event for the charity, which provides vital support for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families.The glamorous evening, held at London’s Grosvenor House hotel, raised more than £300,000 with help from a host of celebrities including Christine McGuinness, Kelly Hoppen, Claire Sweeney and Vanessa Feltz, who all turned out to support the cause. But it was the testimony of one mum that really hit home for the Britain's Got Talent supremo, who has been a patron of Together For Short Lives for the last 15 years.

It was the reality tv show which was the centrepiece of Saturday night television for families up and down the country for years. At one point an average of 14 million of us tuned in to watch The X Factor as would-be stars were put through their paces by a team of judges which included Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue, Cheryl, Gary Barlow and Nicole Scherzinger The show ran for around 445 episodes finally bowing out in December 2018 but not before catapulting many of the acts featured, including JLS, Little Mix and One Direction, to fame and fortune.

Livingston boss Davie Martindale reckons his players deserved better than a 4-2 Scottish Cup quarter-final defeat to Celtic this afternoon.

K.J. Yossman When U.K.

Almost four years after Marc Helwig joined Miramax as Head Of Worldwide Television, he walked the London red carpet Tuesday for the global premiere of the company’s Guy Ritchie series for Netflix, The Gentlemen, alongside celebrity guests like David Beckham and Jason Statham.

Alex Ritman Wednesday’s announcement that the British government would be introducing the new Independent Film Tax Credit sparked a response that was nothing short of jubilant across the entire sector. The incentive — a 53% expenditure credit that equates to a tax relief of approximately 40% for U.K.

STV boss Simon Pitts is exiting the business after six years.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is rumoured to have fans back at his old club Ajax, despite recent scrutiny of his role at Old Trafford.

extremely humiliated,” the Daily Mail reported, after a tranche of intimate messages, allegedly sent by Horner, the principal of Red Bull Racing, to a female colleague, were leaked.The texts were sent to nearly 200 people — among them, journalists and motor racing bosses including FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali — in a large Google document.The file was quickly shared. By late Thursday night it seemed the document had, embarrassingly, been seen by most of Britain and was making its way around the world.In it: Nearly 80 images of screenshots which revealed schoolboy demands to know what a woman was wearing.“I keep thinking about Spanx,” the woman is asked in one message.