Giovanni Pernice has left some of his fans in tears as he shared an important message with them. The dancer is currently busy preparing for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing which returns to screens next Saturday (September 17).
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When His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne stepped up to the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart podium last year in an audience-less room, he wanted to address an issue that had felt hopelessly ignored in the mainstream through past decades.
The prolific British scribe’s proclamation that UK TV had “utterly and totally” failed disabled people drew headlines across the country and moved the industry up a gear in solving deep-seated legacy issues both behind and in-front of the camera that impact a minority which makes up around 20% of the population.
“What Jack did so brilliantly was contextualize how the industry can conduct itself within a wider conversation around the country’s attitudes toward disability and treatment during the pandemic,” says Peter Bowker, acclaimed British TV writer of the BBC’s influential autism drama The A Word. “Presenting the wider context is smart as you challenge the industry by saying ‘Don’t feel too good about yourselves’. But the most important thing is that he put this at the forefront of people’s minds.”
One year on from Thorne’s powerful broadside, Deadline has spoken with top-tier changemakers including Bowker, Years and Years star Ruth Madeley, deaf Strictly Come Dancing winner Ruth Ayling-Ellis, Channel 4 Disability Lead Ally Castle and Thorne himself to assess where progress, if any, has been made. The quintet paint a rosier picture of greater opportunity for disabled talent, an improvement in attitudes and an equalization caused by the Covid pandemic, but speak of progress required in areas such as on-set accessibility, which is in parts atrocious. There remains, for example, just a tiny handful of accessible on-set trailers across the country.
Leading the plethora of improvements,
Giovanni Pernice has left some of his fans in tears as he shared an important message with them. The dancer is currently busy preparing for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing which returns to screens next Saturday (September 17).
Rose Ayling-Ellis has expressed her delight following her Strictly Come Dancing partner Giovanni Pernice's latest achievement.MORE: Rose Ayling-Ellis looks 'besotted' in new photos as Giovanni Pernice prepares for StrictlyTaking to Instagram on Tuesday, the professional dancer - who turned 32 earlier this week - revealed he is now officially learning how to do British Sign Language (BSL).WATCH: Rose Ayling-Ellis pens heartwarming message to Giovanni Pernice"Today I'm learning a new routine, can you guess what it is?" he told his fans, adding: "I'm learning some BSL. A journey I started last year after being partnered with Rose, who is now a close friend.
a series of hourlong radio documentaries on the history of the station. It was there that Howard Cosell launched his legendary broadcasting career with a Little League baseball show; radio host Curtis Sliwa angered the mob and was shot up in a cab as retribution; and conservative commentators launched their careers with pull-no-punches talk.
J.K. Rowling says she made the decision not to participate in the HBO Max reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which aired on New Year's Day. The 57-year-old author opened up about the decision over the weekend in an interview for with Graham Norton. «I wasn't actually [excluded],» Rowling told Norton, who assumed she had not been asked to join the special.
It was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.
Harry Potter 20th anniversary reunion special Return To Hogwarts, and wasn’t blocked from taking part.Return To Hogwarts saw Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) reunite with other cast members to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first film in the series based on Rowling’s books, Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone.Upon the show’s airing in January, many critics noted the absence of Rowling, who only appears in archive video clips. There was then speculation that the writer was shut out of the programme after her previous comments about the trans community resulted in a backlash.Speaking to Graham Norton on his Virgin Radio UK show this week, Rowling revealed that she was in fact asked to take part in the show, but decided not to.She said: “I was asked to be on that and I decided I didn’t want to do it,.
Alternative MacTaggart lecturer Rose Ayling-Ellis has revealed the crushing pressure of feeling like “the poster girl for the deaf community” as she urged the TV world to “be braver and have the courage to make changes.”
Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis has revealed her next career move after quitting EastEnders. Earlier this month the actress announced that she will leave the BBC One soap after two years of playing Frankie Lewis.
Rose Ayling-Ellis has announced a new TV project following her departure from BBC One soap EastEnders.The 27 year old actress, who recently shared a string of BTS snaps from her time on EastEnders, is set to front a new BBC documentary titled Signs For Change, which will focus on the daily challenges and barriers faced by deaf individuals. Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose will explore "positive movement for societal change" and inclusion for deaf individuals, while also using her own experiences pushing for change.
BBC are set to bring back the classic game show Gladiators next year. The popular game show originally aired on ITV between 1992 and 2000 and drew huge audiences in every Saturday evening.
EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s major broadcasters and streamers are taking a stand on “clear and disturbing” access issues impacting the industry’s disabled population and have demanded change from studios and post-production facilities.
Jack Harlow has announced details of new UK headline shows for later this year – see details below and get your tickets here.The rapper will head to these shores in November for the latest leg of his ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ tour, in support of his recent album of the same name.Harlow’s newly announced tour dates begin in Birmingham on November 2 at the O2 Academy, before the tour visits London, Manchester and Leeds, finishing up in Nottingham at Rock City on November 8.Tickets for the shows go on sale at 9am BST on Thursday (August 25) – see the full list of gigs below and get your tickets here.November2 – Birmingham, O2 Academy3 – London, OVO Arena Wembley4 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse7 – Leeds, O2 Academy8 – Nottingham, Rock CityThe announcement of the tour comes shortly after Harlow and Måneskin pulled out of this weekend’s Reading & Leeds Festival due to “scheduling conflicts”.The festivals fall on the same weekend that both acts will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards in the US, where Harlow will also co-host the show. Reading & Leeds said they were “saddened” by the choice, and announced Charli XCX and AJ Tracey as their replacements on the festival line-up.Harlow released ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ earlier this year.