ITV Half-Year Revenues Dip 17% as COVID-19 Impact Bites

parents and children under normal circumstances, but post-lockdown can present many new challenges. With Covid-19 restrictions now part of everyday school life, with that comes new anxieties for children  - and new material for playground bullies.

A protest was held Aug. 11 at the state capitol. (Photo courtesy of the PBFC)

India will soon be celebrating its 73rd Independence Day and on the occasion National Geographic is all set to enthrall its viewers with a two-part special series titled India from Above. As the name aptly puts it, the docu-series will show Indian landscapes in a never before seen light and from up above.

In the latest financial quarter, entertainment giants' earnings reports revealed pain from the pandemic, but CEOs tried to focus on bright spots, touting streaming growth and signs that the TV advertising market isn't cratering as much as anticipated. On investor calls, industry chiefs acted largely as a chorus on advertising, with the tune being that companies held up better than feared and that April marked the low point.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLos Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that there were 19 new deaths reported in the region from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total in the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Pasadena to 4,996 since the outbreak began in March.The new total does not include delayed data from the state, which Ferrer says they have not received and have not processed.Still, the latest county coronavirus numbers released today

and YouTube, so there’s no excuse for not watching them.Here's a list of documentaries that can educate you on how we got here, and help you take your allyship a step further: The 13th amendment officially ended slavery in the United States back in 1865, and Netflix’s 13th, named after that amendment, delves into why slavery never really ended and was basically just replaced with mass incarceration.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Fox’s I Can See Your Voice, the mystery singing game show based on a Korean format, has resumed production.It is Fox’s first major non-scripted series to resume after filming was hit by the COVID-19 production shutdown in March.

U.K. TV giant ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, on Thursday reported a 17 percent revenue drop for the first half of 2020, including a drop at its production unit and "the most severe decline in the history of ITV" in advertising, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorLet’s get this over with. Live Nation, which makes a living on live events, saw revenue plunge 98% last quarter to $74 million and swung to a loss of $588 million from a profit of $176 million the year before.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will be returning this autumn, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.But it will not be the same as before - the coronavirus pandemic has meant that show bosses had to think of a major rule change.This is because they are not allowed to have a live studio audience, as this would break social distancing measures.So with no audience, players in the hot seat will no longer be able to "ask the audience" as a lifeline when they meet a real head-scratcher.Instead, contestants will

Alexandra Del Rosario editorLos Angeles County on Tuesday reported a total of 2,708 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 numbers, with the county’s Department of Public Health announcing 51 new deaths from the virus. It said it anticipates receiving a backlog of cases in the following days due to reporting delays, with three hospitals not reporting data today.With the new cases, the county has a total of 178,642 positive COVID-19 cases and 4,426 deaths to date.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBy now it is common knowledge that the coronavirus pandemic has been bad for cinema box office. New data for the Asia-Pacific region shows just how bad.Figures from S&P Global Market intelligence and OPUSData depict a 92% collapse between January and June, compared with the first half of last year.