Fremantle Merges UK Factual Labels

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBBC Studios has closed a raft of global deals for Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated anthology drama Small Axe, which will premiere on BBC One in the UK and Amazon in the U.S.Australia’s Foxtel, France’s Salto, Spain’s Movistar+, Russia’s KinoPoisk, and Greece’s Cosmote TV are among the territories to have picked up the show.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Fremantle passes 130 territories sold for Samuel L. Jackson’s “Enslaved,” Lineup Industries is set to license NHK’s formats slate, Red Sea International awards more than $1 million in grants, and Walter Presents nabs five Nordic series.Samuel L. Jackson’s Epix docuseries “Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade” will air in 130 territories after Fremantle closed deals including France’s Histoire TV, History in Germany and Movistar Plus

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSamuel L. Jackson’s CBC/Epix slavery series Enslaved: The Lost History Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade has gone global after its premiere in the U.S.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsVeteran manager Andrea Simon has joined Los Angeles-based management service and production company Rain Management Group as a partner. RMG announced the addition on Monday and also shared that it will merge with Simon’s Andrea Simon Entertainment, effective immediately.“I am so pleased to have Andrea join us as a partner.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorCrispin Lilly, CEO of UK cinema chain Everyman, is stepping down at the end of this month after a six year stint to “pursue personal interests”. Executive chairman Paul Wise will take the reins until a new CEO is appointed.

Jay Weissberg A 17-year-old Parisian girl of Algerian parentage struggles to negotiate the conflicting tensions between desire, familial expectation, peer pressure and heritage in debuting writer-director Kamir Aïnouz’s intermittently successful “Honey Cigar.” Refreshingly empowering in how it foregrounds the female gaze together with the young woman’s ownership of her sexual urges, the film too often falls back on paper-thin characterizations that trip up the director’s ambitious attempt to

Kanye West pledged to assist Taylor Swift in her battle to regain the rights to past music catalog amid a Twitter rant against record labels and publishers.“I’M GOING TO PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT TAYLOR SWIFT GETS HER MASTERS BACK,” West, 43, tweeted on Friday, September 18.

Patti LaBelle is dishing on the shoe kick heard ’round the world.

Ted Johnson Twitter slapped labels on more of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Thursday, as he continues to misleading claims about mail-in voting.The big Unsolicited Ballot States should give it up NOW, before it is too late, and ask people to go to the Polling Booths and, like always before, VOTE. Otherwise, MAYHEM!!! Solicited Ballots (absentee) are OK.

Michael Stipe has criticised Donald Trump and urged for safer coronavirus management in his former hometown of Athens, Georgia.The former R.E.M.

battle may have been the most legendary yet. Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle reunited for the popular Apple Music and Instagram show, seeing each other for the first time in 10 years. «This was like a meet-and-greet that we both wanted,» LaBelle said in an interview with ET's Nischelle Turner.

Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle's Verzuz battle proved to be a timeless celebration of music.

Verzuz is getting ready to welcome two incredible iconic singers on Sept. 13 when Patti LaBelle, 76, faces Gladys Knight, 76, in a highly anticipated battle! The “Godmother of Soul” will listen to some of her biggest hits alongside Gladys at the Fillmore in the streaming special, which will be shown on Verzuz TV and Apple Music, and we can guarantee it’s going to bring back some seriously soothing nostalgia. Verzuz TV‘s Instagram announced the exciting news in a post on Sept. 8.

Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle will be the next to square off, in a contest for the heavyweight belters’ belt Sunday night.“Leave ya church clothes on all Sunday and pull up to the affair of all affairs. Y’all gotta get dressed up in ya Sunday’s best for this one,” Verzuz suggested in an Instagram post.The Fillmore in Philadelphia will host what the platform is calling “the ultimate Verzuz,” set to be webcast Sunday at 8 p.m.

Naman Ramachandran Fremantle U.K. is merging its factual label Boundless with recent acquisition Naked to create new unscripted company Naked Television.The new entity will be led by Naked’s recently appointed managing director and former Channel 4 commissioner Fatima Salaria.Naked Television will look to combine the best of Boundless’ formats and production infrastructure with Naked’s burgeoning slate in both the U.K.

Verzuz is getting ready to welcome two incredible iconic singers on Sept. 13 when Patti LaBelle, 76, faces Gladys Knight, 76, in a highly anticipated battle! The “Godmother of Soul” will listen to some of her biggest hits alongside Gladys at the Fillmore in the streaming special, which will be shown on Verzuz TV and Apple Music, and we can guarantee it’s going to bring back some seriously soothing nostalgia. Verzuz TV‘s Instagram announced the exciting news in a post on Sept. 8.

William Wallace was condemned as a traitor by King Edward I of England and was hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered.His incredible story, and his fight for Scotland's freedom, was the subject of the 1995 epic Braveheart, with movie star Mel Gibson in the title role.However, the star and director of the film has admitted in more than a few interviews that he made changes to some of the historical accuracy for dramatic purposes.Often voted in 'Most Historically Inaccurate Movie' lists,

In a post-COVID-19 world, ruminating upon memories seems like an everyday occasion—reflecting on the ways that that civilization functioned before the impact of an unforeseen global pandemic that robbed the globe of its perceived normality.