EXCLUSIVE: European streamer Viaplay has picked up Nordic, Baltic, Dutch and Polish rights to UK comedy Hapless, which was also picked up by Netflix in the UK last year.
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Naman Ramachandran Discovery Inc will not have to sell its Polish business after all. On Monday, President Andrzej Duda vetoed a controversial media bill that was passed in the Polish parliament earlier this month that would have forced the U.S.
giant to sell its business in the country. Known as Lex TVN, the bill was designed to prevent non-European ownership of Polish media companies.
EXCLUSIVE: European streamer Viaplay has picked up Nordic, Baltic, Dutch and Polish rights to UK comedy Hapless, which was also picked up by Netflix in the UK last year.
Kate Bosworth has moved on from her estranged husband, Michael Polish, with Justin Long!
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LOS ANGELES -- When veteran TV producer Greg Berlanti was invited to adapt the novel “You" about a seductive charmer with a murderous streak, he immediately fixed on former “Supernatural” producer Sera Gamble as his collaborator.It may sound “horrible” but was the opposite, Berlanti explains.The book by Caroline Kepnes had "all the great things I love about Sera's writing. It's pulpy and addictive, but also highly intelligent and smart, and has something to say about our culture, our society,'" he said.“You,” starring Penn Badgley as the violent and disturbed Joe, became a worldwide hit for Netflix after a low-key U.S.
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Poland’s President Andrzej Duda Monday vetoed a media bill that would have silenced a Discovery-owned news channel there, noting concerns about straining U.S. relations and about damaging Poland international image as a place to do business.
Police Scotland has appealed to the public for help tracing a man who disappeared overnight.
The Bronx have announced the postponement of their upcoming European headlining tour dates.The Los Angeles-based punk band confirmed via social media that all existing tickets for shows across Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and France will remain valid for the new dates – originally set to take place in January 2022 – when they are rescheduled.The band’s UK shows, kicking off at Motion in Bristol on January 26, are due to go ahead as planned.“So stay tuned for the announcement, and rest
Henry Orenstein was a holocaust survivor and successful toy developer who helped launch Transformers. Henry Orenstein was a successful toy developer who is credited with helping launch the very popular Transformers by arranging a deal between Hasbro and the Japanese toy company Takara. Born in Poland, he and his brother survived various concentration camps during the Holocaust, coming to America in 1947.
WARSAW, Poland -- Poles marched in cities across the country Sunday to defend a U.S.-owned television network that is being targeted by the country's right-wing government and to protect media freedoms in a European Union nation where democratic norms are eroding.Many of the protesters were older Poles who decades ago resisted the country's communist regime. They fear that the democracy that they helped usher in is now being lost to them.
Discovery has blasted the Polish parliament’s decision to pass a bill that could ban foreign ownership of media companies in the European nation, which could mean it loses control of more than half of TVN Group.
Manori Ravindran International EditorIn a shocking turn of events, Discovery is facing a potential sale of its business in Poland following the parliamentary greenlight for a controversial new media bill.Known as Lex TVN, the bill looks to prevent non-European ownership of Polish media companies.
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The Wiggles have announced a double album of covers titled ‘ReWiggled’, which will see both the band themselves put their jaunty pop spin on a slate of other artists’ songs, and over a dozen Australian acts reinvent The Wiggles’ own classics.The first disc of ‘ReWiggled’ will comprise new takes on songs like ‘Hot Potato’, ‘Big Red Car’ and ‘We’re All Fruit Salad!’, with 13 bands – including DZ Deathrays, San Cisco, Luca Brasi and Polish Club – stepping up to the plate alongside solo artists like
study by University of Warsaw’s Centre for Research on Prejudice.
Johns Hopkins University reported late Monday that the United States had seen more than 50 million Covid-19 infections since the first confirmed cases stateside in January 2020. That’s more than the total population of countries like Spain, Argentina and Poland.