Former ESPN President John Skipper, Dan Le Batard Launch Meadowlark Media

King Crimson‘s Robert Fripp‘s lauded lockdown covers series continues today (February 7) with a version of Jimi Hendrix‘s ‘Purple Haze’ – watch it below.The pair launched their virtual video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and more through Willcox’s YouTube channel.In the latest ‘Sunday Lunch’ cover, performed in their house as ever, the pair riff on a popular misheard lyric from the Hendrix classic.In place of the lyric: “Excuse me

EXCLUSIVE: Deon Taylor is set to direct Freedom Ride, a period drama that will be produced by The Hideaway Entertainment’s Matthew Rhodes (Cherry), INDE Companies’ Kim Leadford (The Butler), Mark R. Harris (Crash) and Hidden Empire Film Group’s Roxanne Avent Taylor (Fatale).

John Matze, chief executive of Parler, has been asked to step down, weeks after the conservative social media platform went dark.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe former editor of British tabloid The Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, could be next to lead U.K. media regulator Ofcom.According to The Guardian, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is close to appointing the journalist — who ran The Daily Mail from 1992 to 2018 — as chair of the powerful org, which regulates the country’s TV, radio and video on demand sectors.

Screen Media has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Senior Moment, a comedy directed by Giorgio Serafini that stars William Shatner, Christopher Lloyd and Jean Smart. The pic will hit theaters and on demand in March, and Film Mode Entertainment will shop it to buyers at this year’s European Film Market in Berlin.

Ashanti and Keyshia Cole finally went head to head in their “Verzuz” battle Thursday after numerous delays.

Former RTÉ commercial director Willie O’Reilly has defended the pay of the broadcaster’s top earners – saying what the presenters bring to the lives of their audience ‘has to be categorised as well’.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJohn Skipper and Dan Le Batard no longer work at ESPN, but that won’t keep them out of the scrum to dominate the world of sports content.Skipper, the former ESPN chief, and Le Batard, once one of the Disney-backed company’s most popular hosts, are launching Meadowlark Media, an independent content company that will initially focus on sports, with an emphasis on individual creators.

Auchterarder -based restaurant manager who has served a former US president and a number of Hollywood stars has set up his own hospitality consultancy which could help a local business for free for up to a year.

Jana Kramer is walking things back…

In a year that has stymied many of his peers, Riz Ahmed has been incredibly prolific, with two 2020 feature releases—Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal and Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli—as well as an album, The Long Goodbye, which came with a powerful short imagining life in a racist, post-Brexit Britain.

Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes previously lived in a stunning £2.5million townhouse in north London, before the couple split after four years together. It was believed that Tom continued to live at the property after The Serpent star Jenna moved to a flat five miles away, but Tom sold it in October 2020, when details of the house were revealed for the first time.

Jana Kramer didn’t hold back about her feelings towards “other women” when she interviewed Tiger Woods‘ former mistress Rachel Uchitel on her “Whine Down” podcast.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorOne of the first conversations cinematographer Douglas Koch had with director Deepa Mehta was about his using a handheld camera in shooting “Funny Boy,” a coming-of-age story set during the civil war in Sri Lanka.The plan was to allow complete flexibility as Koch worked with two actors — Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram — playing the role of Arjie from boyhood to adolescence as he discovers his sexual identity.

Six months after quitting the News Corp. board, James Murdoch is embarking on a new media and tech venture in India alongside Uday Shankar, the former president of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific and chairman, Star & Disney India.