Netflix & Amazon Poised For Meetings With BAME TV Task Force After Bombshell Letter

Truth Seekers – the new comedy show from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.The series is a supernatural dramedy focusing on a team of part-time paranormal investigators searching the UK for ghost sightings.Truth Seekers stars Frost and Pegg, alongside Malcolm McDowell, Samson Kayo, Susan Wokoma and Emma D’Arcy.A virtual panel about the show will be held as part of Comic-Con@Home later this week, a five-day virtual event featuring talks and previews for titles including His Dark Materials, The Walking

Netflix has plumbed the depths of teen TV. They have shows about autistic high schoolers and British sexuality and a girl who can explode football players with her brain.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.The streaming service will control the release of the movie in most territories outside of the USA, excluding Canada and China.It had originally been set to debut in cinemas in May, before the coronavirus pandemic forced a delay in its arrival.In the States, the movie has been earmarked to debut on premium VOD in the early part of 2021 before heading to Paramount’s sister streamer CBS All Access.According to Variety, Netflix is “not beholden to the 2021

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho pointed out, if you can conquer a one-inch subtitle, then entire worlds of storytelling will open up to you.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorNetflix has had to take down Season 2 of hit British comedy Derry Girls in the UK just days after uploading the show following a mix-up over rights.After tweeting last week that Derry Girls was ready to stream, Netflix today backtracked: “UPDATE: it looks like we were a bit early with this one so have had to take season two down for now. We’ll let you know when it’s coming back as soon as we can.

https://t.co/UQR5dZvqeb— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) July 14, 2020A third series of the show was due to start filming this month but the global health pandemic has halted production, delaying the whole project.‘We were meant to start filming around now,’ cast member Nicola Coughlan told Angela Scanlon on her podcast Thanks a Million.‘[…] filming has been put on hold for now which sucks, and we’re all really excited to go back and start again and see the scripts because we actually

Tom Grater International Film ReporterDespite finding his entire industry shutdown by this pandemic, Bollywood megastar Abhishek Bachchan says he has had a productive few months developing his own projects, recording an English dub for his new Amazon show Breathe: Into The Shadows, and most crucially, spending time with his loved ones.

In a new interview, Martin Luther King III, son of the acclaimed civil rights activist, reflected on the legacy of his father amid the current Black Lives Matter uprisings; he also got candid about the British media’s treatment of Meghan Markle. While speaking with British outlet iNews, Martin Luther King III said he was "greatly disappointed" with the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, once she became part of the British royal family.

In a new interview, Martin Luther King III, son of the acclaimed civil rights activist, from whom he got his name, reflected on the legacy of his father amid the current Black Lives Matter uprisings.King also said he was "greatly disappointed" with the racist reception of Duchess Meghan when she married into the British royal family.While speaking with British outlet iNews, Martin Luther King III said he was "greatly disappointed" with the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, once she became

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Scotland’s STV are joining forces to broadcast a short film that attempts to burnish the credentials of British free-to-air television at a time when U.S.

Jake Kanter, Peter White, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox.The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer Alexander Cary, Sony Pictures Television and ITV Studios.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSam Mendes, The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre and Netflix have established a fund to support beleaguered workers in the sector during the ongoing COVID-19 closures.The streamer is donating $620K (£500K) to launch the initiative, which will give out grants of up to £1K per person. To be eligible, applicants must have worked in theater between March 31, 2020, and the beginning of 2019.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new U.K. theater fund spearheaded by “1917” director Sam Mendes has been created with the support of Netflix, and the backing of Steven Spielberg and Armando Iannucci.Industry orgs Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre will set up the fund, which is supported by a £500,000 ($623,000) donation from Netflix.

Glasgow.In her letter, Christine, 60, from Kilmarnock, wrote: “The bravery Lewis displayed that day is not unusual, the British Police Service is renowned for it.

LONDON — Netflix said on Friday it will continue to stream the Polish film “365 Days” amid calls for its withdrawal including by British singer Duffy who said it glamorized “the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape.”

went public with a harrowing story about being kidnapped and raped, has publicly called out Netflix for showing Polish feature film “365 Days,” which she says “glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape.”The movie, which has been widely panned but is currently sitting at number 5 in the streamer’s UK top 10 today, is billed as an erotic drama and tells the story of a young Polish woman who is imprisoned by a Sicilian gangster who gives her one year to fall in love with