Discovery Cautiously Celebrates Polish Senate Ruling But Warns Of Further Difficulty

Three regions in Poland have voted to cancel resolutions declaring themselves to be “LGBT-free zones.”With local authorities seeing pushes for gay rights as an affront to traditional Catholic family values, nearly 100 regions in Poland passed anti-LGBTQ resolutions in 2019, which the EU said violated discrimination laws.The European Commission later threatened to pull up to $150 million in funding for five local governments if they didn’t cancel the resolutions.In response, Podkarpackie,

The Polish voivodeships (provinces) of Podkarpackie, Lubelskie  and Malopolskie voted on September 27 to repeal their self-designated labels as “LGBT-free zones” after the  European Commission threatened to pull €126 million in funding.  The funds were earmarked to the regions as part of the European Union’s REACT-EU program.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Fever dream” has lately become an overused term in film marketing and criticism alike, often generically applied to anything faintly strange or surreal with fractured storytelling trickery and a lick of gauzy ambience.

J Balvin and girlfriend Valentina Ferrer are having a night out on the town.

Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott are enjoying a day at Disneyland!

Liza Foreman Paco Plaza, director of the Spanish horror film “La Abuela” (“The Grandmother”), remembers distinctly how Coco Chanel’s favorite model, Vera Valdez, who co-stars in his latest film, responded before boarding a plane to Paris to sit out the pandemic when their production shut down early last year: “I will stay alive.” Although they did not know, at that time, if they would be able to shoot again, Valdez’s promise gave him hope that the film would continue.Born in 1936, the Brazilian

Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Christine & The Queens believe the three singers are working on an upcoming track together.Charli has worked with both Polachek and Christine separately in the past, and a new Instagram post from Charli has fans speculating about a three-way collaboration in the near future.Sharing a host of images on social media yesterday (September 22), Charli shared the photo in question, which sees the trio posing in what looks to be footage from a music video, with the

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s broadcasting regulators extended the license of Discovery Inc.-owned TVN24 at the last moment Wednesday but also adopted a resolution to pressure the American company to sell its majority stake in the TV news channel, which airs coverage that is critical of Poland’s government.The National Broadcasting Council, known by the Polish acronym KRRiT, had delayed the renewal of TVN24's license for almost two years.

Naman Ramachandran John Malone’s multinational telco Liberty Global — owners of “Fleabag” and “1917” producer All3Media and joint owners with Telefonica of the merged Virgin Media and O2 – has reached an agreement sell its Polish operations to the iliad group’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play.Liberty Global has agreed to sell UPC Poland for a total enterprise value of PLN 7.0 billion ($1.8 billion).

NBC has ordered the thriller “The Endgame” from executive producers Julie Plec and Justin Lin.The series stars Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathe as a criminal mastermind and the FBI agent trying to stop her plan. Plec will executive produce with Nicholas Wootton and Jake Coburn, who will both write the series.

NBC has handed a series order to bank heist drama The Endgame starring Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathe.

Liza Foreman Spanish producer Piluca Baquero (“Lo que sé de Lola”) is teaming with former BTF Media executive Miguel Bueno to launch Ramen Story & Content Studio, a new – and ambitious – TV-film production venture.Also on board areMiguel Arnas, José Antonio Bosch and Jesus Gómez, Baquero will serve as an executive producer on titles, Bueno, who worked making commercials for much of his career, is director of content at Ramen.Ramen is focusing on two projects to begin with but “we are not

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Connor Saeli’s official relationship status? Single. But when it comes to his connection with Jenna Palek? It’s complicated. The Bachelor Nation alum got real about the TikTok star on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast.

Viewers of Celebrity Masterchef have a bone to pick with the judges as they complain it must be “fixed” following Joe Swash making it to the final.The 39 year old former Eastenders star had previously shocked viewers of the BBC One competition as he failed to boil an egg. But while Joe made some mishaps throughout the show, his final dishes still managed to impress judged Greg Wallace and John Torode, securing his place in the final.

Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir centering on Vance’s own upbringing in Appalachia, the cultural values of the region, and the financial distress and high levels of poverty that have resulted from the loss of blue-collar jobs like factory work.The 37-year-old Vance has sought to style himself in the mold of former President Donald Trump by appealing to cultural conservatives and blue-collar white voters.

English pop star Dua Lipa dropped her earth-shaking sophomore album Future Nostalgia in March 2020, just as the pandemic was leaving the world's future very much in doubt. Now, with a vaccine available in North America (and a strict new policy from concert conglomerate Live Nation), pop stars like Lipa are able to start planning out tours again.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSince 2017, when it released its first original production, “Velvet Collection,” Movistar Plus has produced and aired 45 original or returning series in Spain.Now it’s looking to raise the ante, investing more in original production than ever before, says Movistar Plus president Sergio Oslé.“Original production is a brutal anti-churn driver.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Leave No Marks” would be a more apt translation from the Polish title of “Leave No Traces,” referring as it does to a horrifying command from one police officer to another, heard early on in this marathon fact-based drama: “Hit the stomach so you leave no marks, not on the back.” They’re in the middle of administering a merciless, unprovoked beating — a hard rain of combat boots and handheld batons — to a very soft target in 18-year-old student Grzegorz Przemyk, holding

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's Senate voted on Thursday to reject a media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned television network's ability to keep broadcasting independent news that is often critical of the right-wing government.However, the Senate has no power to stop the bill altogether, as it will now return to parliament's lower house.