‘I'm a travel agent - these are the top hotspots to escape the cold UK weather’

Drivers making journeys this Easter weekend are being warned to expect severe queues on roads, with up to 17 million leisure trips predicted to be made.

Brits who are travelling to France by ferry over Easter have been warned they could face “delays” this bank holiday weekend. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated its travel advice for the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Talent, the talent agency that boasts Jodie Comer and Bill Nighy among its clients, has revealed that it made £7.3M ($9M) selling its stake in Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle Films.

UK streamer ITVX is to look into the life of fake CIA agent and bigamist William Allen Jordan in a three-part doc series.

Although he is rightly judged as being in the vanguard of British independent cinema, Mark Jenkin nonetheless seems out of place in such company. Unlike his contemporaries—Peter Strickland, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, and Jonathan Glazer, among others—he is a strict formalist, creating expressions through the rhythms and combinations of images and sounds rather than through conventional narratives or theatrical gestures.

Airlines Ryanair and Jet2 have both warned passengers that they could face delays due to French Air Traffic Control (ATC) strikes. The walkouts, which are planned until Saturday, April 8, impact flights passing through French airspace.

It’s official: “The Night Agent” is a hit and Netflix has renewed its new action-thriller series for a second season.

APPOINTMENTSB2B streaming company Tuned Global has expanded its team with six new hires in the EMEA region, including the appointment of Jonas Norberg as a new Head Of AI. Norberg, who is also the co-founder of Pacemaker, the DJ mixing app recently acquired by Tuned Global, says: “My mission is to get Tuned Global to use its data and other relevant assets in combination with the latest AI developments to strengthen its platform and grow our customers”.Ticketing platform Dice has appointed Katie Soo as Chief Business Officer.

Social Security Scotland has announced that it has now processed all automatic payments of the new annual £50 winter heating bill support. Around 400,000 households are expected to have received the Winter Heating Payment by the end of March, however, in a new post on social media it said that some payments will have to be processed manually.

The Night Agent and popular K-drama The Glory are Netflix’s most-watched programmes this week.According to Netflix’s latest weekly lists of Top 10 most-watched TV shows and movies, The Night Agent amassed over 168million hours viewed on the streaming platform for the week of March 20 to 26. Series topped the most-watched English-language TV series for the week, ending a two week-reign for Season 4 of You.The Night Agent was released on March 23 and is based on the 2019 Matthew Quirk novel of the same name.

BreAnna Bell “The Night Agent” overthrew “You” Season 4 for the No. 1 spot on the English TV List with 168.71 million hours viewed following its March 23 premiere date. The action-thriller is currently the streamer’s most viewed title this week. Created by Shawn Ryan and based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, the series ranks third overall for premiere week of viewing across all Season 1 TV and appeared in the Top 10 in 93 countries. Last week, “You” Season 4 took the top spot among the list of English TV titles with 64.06 million hours viewed after releasing the second half of the season’s episodes on March 9. The series currently ranks third on the list. Most recently, Netflix renewed “You” for a fifth and final season.

The Night Agent snuck its way to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts for the week of March 20.

The Great Escape festival has today (March 28) added more than 100 new artists to its 2023 line-up, including Yonaka and Coach Party.The three-day festival is set to take place between May 10 and May 13 and will be based across over 35 venues across Brighton.In a new update, the festival organisers have today confirmed that 140 new artists will attend the mammoth event. The new additions will join over 250 musicians that have already been announced.Alt-rock band Coach Party are among the newly announced acts, as is the British rock four-piece, Yonaka.Other acts from across all genres are also now set to perform at the Brighton-based event – which provides a platform for emerging artists and underground acts.

UK travellers have been warned that a 24-hour transport strike is underway in Germany. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated its travel advice for the country.

Brits travelling to France have been warned to “avoid demonstrations” as protests erupt across the country. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has updated its travel advice after protests broke out in Paris and elsewhere.

The Night Agent is an action thriller series heading to Netflix this month.Created by Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and adapted from the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, the series follows FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) who is thrown into a vast conspiracy involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the US government.A synopsis reads: “The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centring on a low level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings – until the night it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.”The series is directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and Millicent Shelton, with the former also serving as an executive producer.The show spans 10 episodes in the opening season, which is released on Thursday March 23 on Netflix at 7am GMT in the UK.Netflix released a trailer for the series earlier this month – check it out above.Alongside Basso (The Big C), the show’s cast includes Luciane Buchanan, Hong Chau, D.B.

Paris-based Mediawan, Elefantec Global and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment are teaming up to co-produce a Spanish-speaking Americas version of the hit series Call My Agent!.

The Pretenders have announced a run of shows, which will take place in the UK and Ireland this spring.The band will release their 12th album, ‘Relentless’, later this year, although no release date has been given. It will mark the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Hate For Sale‘.They’ll begin their ‘Relentless Tour’ with a stop at The Great Escape on May 12, where they’re due to headline The Independent Stage as part of an exclusive set.

EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Agent Olive Uniacke has exited the agency.

The Home Office has warned travellers that they could face “disruption” when entering the UK on Wednesday, March 15 due to Border Force strikes.The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced industrial action lasting until around 7am on March 16.