Media Diversity Champion Joanna Abeyie to Join BBC as Interim Head of Creative Diversity

John De Mol’s ‘Million Dollar Island’ Set For Australian Remake On Seven

Dan Stevens decided not to sit down with John Dean, Republican lawyer in the Watergate era turned news pundit and circuit speaker, ahead of playing him in the Starz drama Gaslit.

Camera are rolling on an ITV drama that tells the true story of Britain’s biggest ever police manhunt.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has set up a writers room for drama The Great Game, produced by CBS Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s studio-based Secret Hideout. It will be led by the project’s co-writers/executive producers John Hlavin (The Man Who Fell to Earth) and Matthew Newman (Chicago PD) with the goal of generating multiple scripts for a potential straight-to-series order.

EXCLUSIVE: Singapore-based Indian financier Vistas Media Capital has launched a North American division to be run by film industry vet Ben Waisbren.

Naman Ramachandran Kate Atkinson’s bestselling 2013 novel “Life After Life” has been brought to vivid life as a four-part BBC series by a heavyweight team. The story centers on Ursula Todd who dies one night in 1910 before she can draw her first breath.

Gentleman Jack returns this Sunday evening for its long-awaited second season. Suranne Jones once again takes the lead as Anne Lister for the BBC One hit period drama.

Scots TV presenter John Leslie was the focus of a Channel 5 documentary this week charting his rise and fall.

John Leslie was once a man who had it all.The first Scottish presenter of Blue Peter, onetime boyfriend to rising star Catherine Zeta-Jones and later co-host of ITV’s flagship daytime show This Morning. His future, and place on British TV, seemed assured.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCarla Woodcock and Callum Kerr are set to star in the Hulu pilot “History of a Pleasure Seeker,” Variety has learned.The project is described as a a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907, a tale of a charismatic young man’s explosive adventures through all the temptations of the Belle Époque.Woodcock will play Constance, the most magnetic girl in Amsterdam and the undisputed queen of the city’s gilded youth. Kerr will play Piet, tutor to a very troubled child and an extreme empath, with the confidence to back himself against the odds.

The BBC has hired media diversity specialist Joanna Abeyie on a short-term contract, a day after it emerged the corporation’s diversity chief June Sarpong is to depart later this year.

The Great British Bake Off presenter Matt Lucas has hit back at claims that he was shown ‘favouritism’ when he made his baking debut in the tent. In the most recent episode of the Celebrity Bake Off, Matt donned his apron and stepped in to compete against the likes of Example and Annie Mac when another famous face dropped out of the show at the last minute.The 48 year old was seen attempting to make glass window biscuits, and judge Paul Hollywood soon stepped in to give him a helping hand.

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Hoda Kotb has spoken out about raising her two young daughters and the questions she's being asked by them regarding their adoption.MORE: Hoda Kotb left frustrated live on air over missed opportunity with co-starIn her popular podcast, Making Space with Hoda Kotb, the mom-of-two chatting to country star Thomas Rhett, who adopted his oldest daughter, Willa Gray, in 2017.The conversation turned to their experiences raising their children, and the Today star asked the singer: "As you know I adopted two children and a lot of questions are already coming up that I get from Haley and that I will get from Hope too.VIDEO: Today's Hoda Kotb shares glimpse inside her incredible New York apartment "What questions is Willa Gray asking and how have you guys navigated that? I've got two kids from different countries and there are questions a pop."MORE: Hoda Kotb describes incredible chat she had with strangerMORE: Hoda Kotb left stunned by Jenna Bush Hager's spectacular on-air appearanceThomas replied: "It's hard as I think when you become a parent you think 'I'm a dad I have all the answers' or 'I'm a mom and I have all the answers,' and adoption is one of the most beautiful things in the world and I don't think that you go 'Oh in six years I'm going to start answering some really intense questions.' Today's Hoda Kotb opened up about her daughters and their questions about adoption"But I don't know if you felt like this at all, but what age? What age is the right age? The world is moving so fast and to have a conversation with a six-year-old about that, I might be too old school but I think 'Maybe we wait until she's ten'.MORE: Hoda Kotb shares sweet tribute to Jenna Bush Hager following career milestoneMORE: Hoda Kotb opens up about