Helena Bonham Carter Joins BBC Comedy ‘The Cleaner’; Hayu European Growth; MTV Orders ‘Celebrity Bumps’ Series — Global Briefs

Video: Phil shows his passion for peas after not everyone agreed with his sandwich tastes (Liverpool Echo)Floral tributes for Queens Drive hit-and-run victimBlood Red: Jurgen Klopp says RB Leipzig win could boost Liverpool confidenceProfessor Chris Whitty explains why there is a five week gap between stages of lifting lockdown in EnglandBlood Red: Julian Nagelsmann comments on Jurgen Klopp links with Germany national team jobPiers Morgan storms off GMB set after Alex Beresford blasts his

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, Steven Knight’s “SAS: Rogue Heroes” starts shooting, Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan” cleans up at Czech Lion Awards, BBC Comedy hires “I May Destroy You” producer Tanya Qureshi, Content Catalyst Fund adds executives and reveals slate and George Takei’s “Allegiance” streams on BroadwayHD.Filming is underway on BBC One drama series “SAS: Rogue Heroes,” from “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight.

Laetitia Eido, the French actress known to fans of Netflix's Israeli drama Fauda as Dr. Shirin El Abed, has signed on to co-star in Nhiem, a new high-end television series set during the Vietnam War from New Zealand director Roger Donaldson (The World's Fastest Indian) and German production group Carte Blanche International.

Helena Deland and Ouri are now Hildegard. Named after German Benedictine abbess and composer Hildegard of Bingen, the Montreal experimentalists describe the project as "a testament to the intense and often mystical collaborative process; to losing yourself in one another only to emerge as something new." First up to bat is "Jour 2," a hypnotic composition that ebbs in and out of darkness, mining strength in synchronicity.

BBC will rerun every episode of Fawlty Towers - but racist remarks from one of the characters will be removed. All 12 episodes of the popular comedy series will air from March 15 as part of the broadcasters Festival of Funny.

Jessica Kiang However long ago your school days, you can still name your favorite teacher.

During the virtual 2021 Golden Globes ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the most cursory of acknowledgements to the mounting backlash over its lack of diversity. Three HFPA members stood socially distanced onstage to address the revelation in a Los Angeles Times investigative report last week that there are no Black journalists among its 87-person membership." We recognize we have our own work to do," said Helen Hoehne of Germany.

n both track & field and bobsled, said she needed to leave to focus further on training.And this extra training time was seemingly well spent. Jones won the first bobsledding competition of her career earlier this month at the IBSF Skeleton and Bobsleigh World Championships in Germany.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentGaston Pavlovich, famed for producing Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” and “The Irishman,” is joining Sophokles Tasioulis, producer of Terrence Malick’s “Voyage of Time,” to produce “The Hague.”The feature is set up at Tasioulis’ Sophisticated Films banner in Germany and Pavlovich’s Mexico-based international production banner Fábrica de Cine.“The Hague” is based on a story and treatment by Ilan Ziv, an Israeli who fought as a young man in the Yom

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Ivanir, the Ukrainian-Israeli actor who has starred in The Good Shepherd and Netflix series Away, has joined the cast of Season 4 of German crime drama Babylon Berlin.

Naman Ramachandran Director Christian Schwochow and writer Thomas Wendrich’s “Je Suis Karl,” due to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special strand in June, is a chillingly timely film.On Aug. 29, 2020, dozens of assailants from the far right attacked the Reichstag building, the home of German parliament in Berlin, the burning of which in 1933 heralded the rise of Hitler’s Nazi rule.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“News of the World” actor Helena Zengel has joined the ranks of Anna Paquin, Macaulay Culkin and Haley Joel Osment as one of the youngest Golden Globe nominees ever. At the age of 12, she landed a Globe, Critics Choice and SAG nomination in the supporting actress category, putting her on track for an Oscar nod.

They’re no strangers to reality TV, but now the likes of Love Island star Marcel Somerville, former Dancing on Ice champ Jake Quickenden and Ex on the Beach’s Charlotte Dawson are set to star in a brand new series.The trio have been revealed as part of the line-up for MTV’s Celebrity Bumps: Famous & Pregnant – a fly-on-the-wall series that shows their parenthood journey with their other halves.

BBC comedy The Cleaner.The new show, which is due this year, is based on long-running German sitcom Der Tatortreiniger.“I’m thrilled that this remarkable collection of actors has agreed to appear next to me on screen,” Davies said of the cast, which also includes Stephanie Cole, Game of Thrones‘ Donald Sumpter, Shobu Kapoor and more, in a statement.“Scrubbing up blood in a hazmat suit in front of them will be a pleasure.”A synopsis for The Cleaner reads: “Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead (Davies), is a

NBCUniversal International said Thursday that it has launched its subscription-based reality TV streaming service Hayu in 11 more countries. The all-reality, on-demand subscription video-on-demand service has launched in 11 additional European countries, "building on the on-going success of the service in other European markets, including the recent launches of the service in Germany and Austria on Amazon Prime Video Channels," the company said.

MTV has announced new reality show Celebrity Bumps: Famous & Pregnant following celebrity couples' journeys to parenthood. The new nine-part series includes six celebrity couples who are expecting new arrivals and how they cope with their impending life changes.

Charlotte Dawson, Jake Quickenden, and Kate Lawler are among the stars who have signed up for new show 'Celebrity Bumps: Famous & Pregnant'. The nine-episode MTV series - which begins on March 3rd - will follow six celebrity couples on their journeys to parenthood, including scans, baby showers and bringing their newborns home.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, BBC comedy “The Cleaner” sets cast; EFP’s ‘Producers on the Move’ program sets May dates; NBCUniversal’s reality streamer Hayu expands in Europe; Indian multiplex chain PVR announces release slate; and MTV International’s “Celebrity Bumps: Famous & Pregnant” to debut in March.Helena Bonham-Carter (“The Crown”) and Greg Davies (“The Inbetweeners”) lead the cast of “The Cleaner,” an adaptation of long-running German comedy series “Der Tatortreiniger”