Netflix Format ‘Flinch’ Heads To Russia; ‘Man In The High Castle’ Exec Joins Mopar; Fremantle Sells ‘Kingdom Of Dreams’; Cameras Roll On ‘After The Verdict’ – Global Briefs

The £693 rise in energy bills this April will be a “hammer blow” for Scottish households, consumer campaigners and politicians have warned.

New Highway Code rules are expected to result in more ‘crash for cash’ insurance claims, according to a dash cam manufacturer.

Sitting it out. Anna Delvey shared her feelings about the upcoming Netflix series, Inventing Anna, and she isn’t looking forward to seeing how it tells her life story.

A cocktail-inspired ice cream and sorbet shop is becoming a permanent vendor at the thriving Sale Foodhall.

Spider-man actor Tom Holland and his girlfriend, actress Zendaya, have splashed out £3million on a luxury home in the UK.

Refresh for latest…: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home scaled fresh heights this session as it reached an amazing new milestone by crossing the $1B mark at the international box office. The offshore cume through Sunday is an estimated $1.003B for a global total of $1.74B.

Spider-man hero Tom Holland is swinging his way back to the UK to live in a £3million home with superstar girlfriend Zendaya. Hollywood’s golden couple are making Britain their home and have got the keys to a six-bed London semi-near a raft of celebrities. The 25-year-olds – who met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016 – have big renovation plans.

There’s a new thriller series on Netflix that is already gaining a large fan-base – In From The Cold!

Netflix is ready to get you on the edge of your seat.

You know, sometimes even elite Russian spies/assassins need to retire. We’ve seen it time after time in films, where the assassin is forced to come out of retirement for one more job.

Netflix’s stock is rising again after a very rough week, but the streamer took a hit today in court over The Queen’s Gambit.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Russian chess master who alleged that she was defamed in an episode of the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit.”Nona Gaprindashvili, who rose to prominence as a chess player in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, sued Netflix in federal court in September. She took issue with a line in the series in which a character stated — falsely — that Gaprindashvili had “never faced men.” Gaprindashvili argued that the line was “grossly sexist and belittling,” noting that she had in fact faced 59 male competitors by 1968, the year in which the series was set.Netflix sought to have the suit dismissed, arguing that the show is a work of fiction, and that the First Amendment gives show creators broad artistic license.

The Law & Order, Chicago and FBI franchises are set for a renewed global format push after Wolf Entertainment and Universal Studio Group set up a new sales unit to drive international business.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios has scored a raft of sales on all seasons of smash hit series “Sherlock,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Amazon Prime Video will take non-exclusive SVOD global rights to all four series of the series and the special, “The Abominable Bride,” excluding the U.S., Australia, and greater China. In China, the series will be available exclusively on Tencent Video, while Japanese broadcaster Mystery Channel has acquired the exclusive pay TV license for its AXN Mystery channel.

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle and HBO Max Nordic are getting behind the inaugural European edition of The Writers Lab (TWL), the program devoted exclusively to script development for women and non-binary writers over the age of 40.