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Naman Ramachandran BBC head of factual Tom McDonald is joining National Geographic in the newly created role of executive VP, global factual and unscripted content, reporting into Courteney Monroe, president of National Geographic Content.In the New York-based position, which he will take up in June, McDonald will work alongside Carolyn Bernstein, executive VP, scripted and feature documentaries. Reporting into McDonald will be Alan Eyres, senior VP, development and production, unscripted; Janet Vissering, senior VP, development and production, wildlife/natural history; and Michelle “Meesh” Upton, senior VP, production management.McDonald will be responsible for leading the development and production of all global unscripted series and specials across all programming categories and formats, which feed Disney Plus and National Geographic’s linear channels.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRooster Teeth recruited Adam Bersin to lead marketing for WarnerMedia’s fandom-focused entertainment division.Bersin most recently served as Amazon Studios’ global creative marketing lead for sci-fi, fantasy, superhero and adult animated content. While at Amazon, he headed up marketing for “The Boys,” one of Prime Video’s biggest franchises.Before joining Amazon Studios in September 2017, Bersin was marketing director for FX, where he launched campaigns for “American Horror Story,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Fargo” and other shows.

. After Usman decided that Kim was officially his girlfriend, he then decided to tell her about his ex-girlfriend, Zara — whom he was actually dating while he was communicating with Kim online — and not surprisingly, Kim didn't take the news well.On Sunday's episode, 50-year-old Kim said she was heartbroken since she felt everything was going well before 32-year-old Usman dropped the bombshell on her.

Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa have shared a fantastical music video for their new collaborative single, ‘Sweetest Pie’.The video – released on Friday morning (March 11) – was directed by Dave Meyers and conceptualised by Megan Thee Stallion herself. It sees the two artists fend off a horde of men in various fantasy settings, with the duo at one point burning a castle and men to ashes.Watch the music video for ‘Sweetest Pie’ below.‘Sweetest Pie’ serves as the first taste of Megan Thee Stallion’s upcoming album, per a press release.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has hired Brandon Shaw to serve as vice president of originals publicity, Variety has learned.In his new role, Shaw will report to Candice Ashton, who was recently promoted to senior vice president of originals publicity and events. Barrie Gruner is executive vice president of marketing and publicity for Hulu Originals, with Shannon Ryan overseeing the group in her role as president of content marketing for Hulu and General Entertainment.

Dua Lipa has responded to an Oscar Isaac fan-fiction story about her being read out on Saturday Night Live last weekend (March 5).On the latest episode of the long-running American sketch show, actor Oscar Isaac could be seen reading out a fan-fiction story about the pop star during a skit on the show.After hearing the story read, Dua Lipa responded on Instagram.“Adds to list of things I never thought would happen in my life”, she wrote, followed by several laughing emojis.A post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa)In the sketch, one of the characters Isaac’s played was Michael – a school janitor with an unexpected hobby of writing stories.Michael interrupts a writing class and starts to share a story he’s been writing on, called ‘The Apogee Of Midnight.’The story is about a janitor who is alone a school at midnight before he’s interrupted by a woman who is looking for him.“My name is Dua Lipa,” the woman in the story says. “I’m a big pop star, and I’m looking for a janitor here named Mike.”You can see a video of the sketch here:Last week (March 6), it was revealed that Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Dua Lipa on a new single.Posting on Twitter, the rapper shared an image that featured photos of her and the singer on the icing of four cakes.

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Dua Lipa surprised an 80-year-old superfan on The Tonight Show after he went viral on TikTok – check out the video below.Late last year, footage of Papa Richy receiving tickets for his 80th birthday to see Dua Lipa on her ‘Future Nostalgia‘ tour was uploaded to TikTok by his grandaughter. The clip, which sees Richy exclaim “Dua Lipa in concert? Are you shitting me?” soon went viral and has racked up almost 2million likes since.And earlier this week (March 3) Papa Richy got the chance to meet the pop star during her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.A post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa)“We reached out to him, pretending that we were a radio station in New York and told him that he won a contest for the number one TikTok video of the year — he believed this, he loved it,” Fallon explained to the audience.

 star Loren is opening up about how the Ukraine crisis is affecting her family. ET's Melicia Johnson sat down with Loren on Monday and she talked about her and her husband Alexei's personal connection to the crisis, given that Alexei grew up in Ukraine.Alexei lived in Ukraine before moving to Israel, which is where he met Loren, who was there on a Birthright Israel program trip.

star Natalie Mordovtseva, who hails from Ukraine, shared with her Instagram followers that her mother is safe amid the ongoing crisis in her home country.Natalie moved from Ukraine to the United States to marry her now estranged husband, Mike, and a big part of her story was her extremely close relationship with her mother, Nelia. Nelia was a big fan of Mike, although Mike and Natalie are no longer together or are on good terms.

A24 has made two splashy international hires in the shape of BBC executives Rose Garnett and Piers Wenger who will join the ambitious U.S. distributor and producer to oversee their growing international film and TV slate.

fend off Russian forces, Ukrainian's are finding determination and resolve with the help of a 1984 song by an American rock band.With lyrics such, "You don't know us, you don't belong," Twister Sister's classic "We're Not Gonna Take It" is being used as an unofficial battle cry in the under-attack European country. And, Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider loves every bit of it. "I absolutely approve of Ukrainians using 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as their battlecry.

Before the 90 Days star Mike feels he chose the “wrong time” to reveal his ADHD diagnosis to Ximena. During the January 30th episode of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days fans watched on as the New York native explained his condition to the Colombian single mother-of-two. Mike’s reveal came after Ximena criticized him, saying he needs to be “respectful” after blowing his nose and sticking his tissue in the back pocket of the car they were riding in.

Ethan Shanfeld Invisible Narratives has hired Apple Music veteran Julie Pilat as president of music.Founded by CEO Adam Goodman, Invisible Narratives is a shopping and entertainment company “at the intersection of the creator economy, the crypto economy and the entertainment business.”In her new role, Pilat will develop new partnerships across the music industry, empower musicians and fans and use storytelling and technology to monetize video content across fandoms. She will report directly to Goodman.Prior to joining Invisible Narratives, Pilat spent eight years at Apple Music as a key executive.

Emiliano Granada World premiering in the Berlinale’s Forum, “Dry Ground Burning” marks the second feature collaboration between directors Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós, after Pimenta DP-ed Queirós’ “Once There Was Brasilia.”So it’s no surprise that by this point the directorial couple have refined a common language that in “Dry Ground Burning” delivers a movie that’s stylistically refrained, while walking a fine line between documentary and a fiction with sci-fi and Western overtones.Produced by Cinco Da Norte and Terratreme with Pimenta once again behind the camera, the duo returns to their portrayal of the inhabitants of Ceilandia, a district on the periphery of Brasilia which has been a recurring subject in both filmmakers work. The film follows sisters Chitarra and Léa, leaders of an all female gang who refines oil drawn from an oil pipeline to sell to motor bikers in the Sol Nascente favela.