Edinburgh TV Festival Picks 105 Candidates for Talent Schemes (EXCLUSIVE)

Thania Garcia A stage collapse due to high winds killed one man and injured several others at the Medusa Festival near Valencia, Spain on Saturday.According to reports by CNN and the Associated Press, the main entrance and the main stage of the festival collapsed at around 4:18 a.m. local time “due to a strong gust of wind.”At the time of the incident, DJ Miguel Serna was on stage and there were around 50,000 people in attendance.

Paul Mescal shows off his mustache at the premiere of his latest film, Aftersun, during the 2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival held at OMNI Centre on Friday (August 12) in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken word.CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on ‘Black Sheep’, a show described by its creator Livia Kojo Alour as “an experimental theatre piece including physical performance, song and spoken word – it’s a lively genre crossover with smooth transitions through music”.We spoke to Livia to find out more about the show. Click here to read the interview.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken word.CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on David Ephgrave – the actor, musician and comedian whose new comedy show ‘Good Grief’ explores the events of a difficult childhood, but mainly the life – and death – of his father.We spoke to David to find out more about the show. Click here to read the interview.

Arctic Monkeys have teased what songs fans can possibly expect from their upcoming Reading and Leeds Festival headline performances, after playing their first live show in over three years in Istanbul.

Marta Balaga Millie Brady, known for the BBC/Netflix series “The Last Kingdom” and recently seen in Apple TV + offering “Surface,” will play the lead in Filip Jan Rymsza’s “Object Permanence,” Variety has learned exclusively. The actor is cast as Brooke Brooks, a former supermodel who becomes a highly successful lifestyle mogul and the first person to ‘IPO’(Initial Public Offering) herself.“Having commodified herself, Brooke is forced to confront her sense of self and the identity she has created,” said Rymsza, whose last film “Mosquito State” with Beau Knapp was shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it was noticed for Eric Koretz’s cinematography.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken word.CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on ‘Unwanted Objects’ – a collection of stories and songs presented by David Head and Matt Glover as part of the Edinburgh Fringe – which is a follow up to 2018’s ‘A Good Service On All Other Lines’, which was also released as a podcast.We spoke to both performers to find out more about the show. Click here to read the interview.

“Arnold Is a Model Student,” Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan’s debut feature – premiering in Locarno’s Cineasti del presente section over the weekend – is a lighthearted satire highlighting Thailand’s recent Bad Student movement and authoritarianism in the country’s schools.The film centres around the titular Arnold, a gold medal Mathematics Olympiad student, whose studies abroad have earnt his model student status in the eyes of his school administrators.An international co-production between Thailand, the Netherlands, Singapore, Germany and France, “Arnold” international sales rights are handed by Square Eyes.The film has also had its eight-year journey impacted by filming challenges relating to the pandemic, but its story also evolved in response to contemporary political events in Thailand. “The Bad Student movement came in 2020 and it affected the script a lot,” Prapapan reflects, “it was a perfect match.” Objecting to disciplinary methods such as policing hair, dress codes and physical punishment including caning, the movement published a pamphlet about surviving the school system.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken word.CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on The iDiOT Circus – a theatrical four piece band who specialise in the darkly comic, the macabre, the murderous and the ridiculous – and their Fringe show ‘Death Is Coming’.We spoke to the band’s Nick Court to find out more about the show and the songs it features. Click here to read the interview.

K.J. Yossman Veteran interviewer Emily Maitlis is set to deliver this year’s James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival in Scotland.As a senior member of the BBC’s news team for over a decade, she has covered elections, interrogated Prime Ministers and interviewed numerous celebrities as well as anchoring evening news show “Newsnight” and hosting pdocast “Americast.” In her lecture she will address “the complex world of modern journalism where the threat to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe, comes not just with intimidation and outright censorship, but in more nuanced ways with language and normalizing the extraordinary,” according to the festival.

Emily Maitlis, one of the most respected British news broadcasters of the past two decades and the notorious Prince Andrew Newsnight interviewer, is to deliver this year’s prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken word.CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on musician and composer Mark Glentworth who is staging an autobiographical one man musical at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Edinburgh Festival is now underway with three weeks of great theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, musicals, opera, dance, physical theatre, film, visual art, talks, debates and spoken worCMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is covering it all and here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some highlights from this year’s coverage.Today, we put the spotlight on the comedy show ‘How To Record The Greatest Album Of All Time’ from Tom GK, a former music critic who changed course as a result of hearing loss.We spoke to Tom to find out more about the show and the man himself. Click here to read the interview.

Courtney Reed is currently playing the lead role of Satine in Moulin Rouge‘s National Tour production and we caught up with her to learn some fun facts that fans might not know.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Benjamin Wallfisch’s score for Ron Howard’s survival drama Thirteen Lives, which is slated for release on all major digital platforms via Milan Records tomorrow, as the film becomes available for streaming on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe Locarno Film Festival’s artistic director, Giona A. Nazzaro, has rejected calls to ban Leon Prudovsky’s “My Neighbor, Adolf,” which world premieres Aug. 4 in Locarno’s Piazza Grande, after a controversy was sparked regarding its funding.

new cocktail bar 63rd+1st have teamed up with celebrity chef Tony Singh to create a limited-edition food menu to its city centre restaurant, just in time for the city's busiest time of the year. Having recently opened on Frederick Street, in the heart of the capital, 63rd+1st have already built up a huge following, offering seasonal cocktails within a Manhattan-style venue.