Washington scored a nail-biting victory over Oregon on Saturday and, with it, claimed the most-watched college football game of the week.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Million Dollar Listing UAE,” the first adaptation outside the U.S. of Bravo’s long-running luxury real estate reality franchise, is going through the roof in the Middle East. The bilingual show, featuring five United Arab Emirates brokers wheeling and dealing lavish properties in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, has been breaking all previous viewership records “across originals as well as licensed shows” since its Sept.
15 launch on subscription streamer Starzplay Arabia, says its CEO Maaz Sheikh. In hindsight “it’s a no brainer” says Ben Ross, acting CEO of Image Nation Abu Dhabi, the government-owned studio that decided to license the show from NBCUniversal Formats after being approached by veteran Dubai-based real estate agent Ben Bandari, who initially tried to get the remake rights himself. Image Nation then brought it to Starzplay.
Until recently, Bandari’s claim to fame was achieving property sales exceeding 20 billion Dirhams ($5 billion). He now stars on “Million Dollar Listing UAE” along with agents Zay Brown, who is from the U.K. and is the show’s youngest broker; Nassira Sekkay, who drives a yellow Ferrari – she is known as “The Shark”; Rami Wahood, who sells units in Dubai’s Burji Khalifa, the world’s tallest sky scraper; and the perpetually smiling Riad Gohar, co-founder of Dubai’s BlackOak Real Estate whose moniker is “The Charmer.” “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star Josh Altman (pictured, above) and his brother, Matt, also feature in the first episodes of “Million Dollar Listing UAE,” creating a cultural bridge of sorts.
For the UAE version, Image Nation consulted closely with the original format’s U.S. production company World of Wonder. “We got their notes, we
.Washington scored a nail-biting victory over Oregon on Saturday and, with it, claimed the most-watched college football game of the week.
Layoffs have hit Bandcamp, according to multiple posts from current and former employees on Twitter, with as many as half of the platform’s workforce cut from their jobs. Bandcamp was sold by Epic Games in September to Songtradr.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Viaplay Content Distribution has partnered up with German broadcaster ARD Degeto to co-produce “Ronja the Robber’s Daughter,” an epic adventure series. ARD Degeto will join the series’ existing co-production partners, Filmlance International, Film i Väst and Ahil Films.
Offset knows how to make his wife’s day! Even her year!
Fans have jumped to the defence of Helen Flanagan and asked 'what's wrong with people' as she was hit with an 'inappropriate' complaint. The actress took to social media to share a sweet video of her spending quality time with her children on a recent break abroad.
EXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora Series, a hybrid film-series industry strand, returns this year for its sophomore outing with Paper Entertainment CEO and Tehran executive producer Julien Leroux serving as program consultant.
Ben Croll Brussels-based co-production and financing powerhouse Umedia — the backer of recent festival sensation “How to Have Sex” and French Oscar submission “The Taste of Things” — is branching out. Complimenting co-production, tax shelter fundraising and VFX services through subsidiary UFX Studios, Umedia has now launched a development branch to bring in-house productions to the screen.
A former 60 Minutes producer claims she was falsely fired from the long running newsmagazine show last year, and now she’s suing CBS, CBS News and parent company Paramount Global for discrimination – and naming a lot of names.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Red-hot British rapper Central Cee has signed with Wasserman Music for worldwide agency representation, the company announced Monday. The deal comes on the heels of a bidding war that found the artist signing a joint venture agreement with Columbia Records in partnership with Sony Music U.K. The West London native — who became the first-ever British male rapper to be included in XXL magazine’s influential annual “Freshman Class” list, in June — has long been an established artist in the U.K..
EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation is making cuts and slashing four percent of its staff. We understand that the cuts are due to the downward cyclical turn in the business, rising production costs and the strikes.
Less than a week after Charlotte Sena was found safe, we’re hearing more details about her alleged kidnapper’s possible motives.
Janelle Monae has dropped the uplifting remix of her song ‘Champagne Shit’ featuring Latto and Quavo.Taken off her recent album ‘The Age Of Pleasure’, which NME gave four stars, ‘Champagne Shit’ now has two brand new verses from the rappers. Monae has previously described the album as “our oasis made with love, rooted in self-acceptance, throbbing in self-discovery, and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you.” NME said of the record: “listening to Monae’s liberating latest album, you start to believe that pleasure is, too.”The album can also count former US president Barack Obama as a fan.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Anonymous Content enacted a small round of layoffs on Friday, representing about 8% of the workforce at a company of around 170 people. The talent management and production shop reduced staff across all divisions, including representation, television, motion picture, literary, media rights and branded entertainment. Insiders familiar with Anonymous cited the Hollywood labor strikes and a volatile larger entertainment marketplace as reasons for the job cuts.
A producer on Shudder’s Queer for Fear series has sued the streaming service, AMC Networks and Bryan Fuller for sexual harassment, a hostile work environment and retaliation. In response, a new suit for defamation and malicious prosecution could be coming soon, an attorney for Fuller says.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Will Ferrell wants to work with up-and-coming comedians on social media — who will get a chance to mentor under some big-name podcasters and be featured across iHeartMedia‘s audio outlets. Ferrell and iHeartMedia’s Big Money Players Podcast Network (BMP) announced the “Big Money Players Circle.” Ferrell has hand-picked “the coolest and funniest social sensations to join the BMP network and be showcased across iHeartMedia’s multiplatform ecosystem,” according to the announcement. The flagship show for the Big Money Players Network, formed in 2019, is “The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” featuring the comedian and actor’s “Anchorman” persona.
It seems like we’re always due our annual prestige WWII film or TV series, right? This year, that’s “All the Light We Cannot See,” the big-budget WWII drama series from Netflix. READ MORE: Fall 2023 TV Preview: Over 35+ Most Anticipated Shows To Watch As seen in the trailer for the series, “All the Light We Cannot See” tells the story of a young blind woman who is the voice of a pirate radio broadcast, giving hope to those who listen, as the Nazis make their way through France.
There’s no question that Melissa Etheridge is an inviting performer, whether she’s beckoning through her window or simply asking us to enjoy some of the great rock singing ever – and, yes, at 62 she is still a great rock singer, her raspy voice as rangy, powerful and, when she wants, as subtle as it was during her 1990s breakthrough days.
Since its debut in 2009, Shark Tank has featured over 1100 pitches, and several companies have achieved substantial financial success as a result.
Naman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for Indonesian filmmaker Yosep Anggi Noen’s “24 Hours With Gaspar.” The film will world premiere at the Busan Film Festival where it is in the prestigious Jiseok competition. Set in 2032 and based on the novel of the same name by Indonesian author Sabda Armandio, the film follows Gaspar, a private detective with 24 hours to live, who finds clues about the mysterious disappearance of Kirana, his childhood friend.
When the domestic violence allegations against Justin Roiland were made public earlier this year, Adult Swim was quick to announce that he would no longer be involved with the series he co-created, “Rick and Morty.” This was a huge announcement, as Roiland was the man behind the iconic voices of the title characters. What would the series do without Roiland? Well, the quick answer was that “Rick and Morty” was going to move on without Roiland and under the sole guidance of co-creator Dan Harmon.