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Pamela Anderson Backs EarthDay365 Channel
Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is backing an environmentally-focused FAST channel coming out of the Netherlands. Alongside son Brandon Thomas Lee, the actress and activist has partnered with Amsterdam’s Static Waves Media Group and IMAX documentary film producer K2 Studios to create EarthDay365. The service launched earlier this month on PlutoTV and will roll out on Relax 2.0 TV, which is across TCL, Vestel and Skyworth Smart TVs and via Hisense’s VIDAA Channels. It will initially have 2,500 hours of content, with shows including Shark Heroes and Wonders of Wildlife along with a selection of IMAX theater docs. Anderson said EarthDay365 gives a “great opportunity to provide engaging and inspirational content that’s free and accessible,” adding: “It’s inspirational, hopeful — mostly about exploring and celebrating our world — and shines the spotlight on passionate people who are willing to put themselves out there to make a positive difference.”
UK Film & TV Workplace App Moves To Second Stage
UK film and TV workplace culture app Call It! has relaunched and will be translated into 11 languages. Forged with backing from ITV Studios in 2021, the app allows people working on productions to post anonymously about how they are being treated, which can be viewed by those monitoring the productions. The data forms a part of a production’s wider commitment to targeted support and training, psychological safety and collective accountability. The new version has added in optional questioning regarding workplace concerns and has been translated into 11 languages in partnership with German indie btf. Call It! has also renewed its partnership with ITV Studios. “Having ITV Studios’ ongoing
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Fox is doubling down on lifeguard dramas with a significant script plus penalty commitment to Baywatch, a reboot of the classic beach series. The new iteration is a co-production between Fremantle and Fox Entertainment.
ITV's Good Morning Britain has confirmed the first replacement for Ben Shephard, after he stepped down from the show. Long-standing presenter Adil Ray is set to take on the job as host of the popular morning programme. Ben, 49, was revealed as a new face of This Morning alongside Cat Deeley last month and will be taking over from Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.
Production is underway on the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building. We’re getting a first look in some on-set photos posted on the show’s Instagram account. You can see above and in the post below.
Lauren Goodger has officially confirmed her return to The Only Way Is Essex, as she shared some cosy snaps with show stars Amy Childs and Junaid Ahmed. In the photos shared to 37-year-old Lauren's Instagram page, the friends were seen smiling as they enjoyed dinner together.The stylish trio all appeared to have coordinated their outfits, with them all dressed in black. Lauren, who is mum to three year old daughter, Larose, captioned the post: The rumours are true! LG is back baby @towie," as she added a video camera emoji and "#towie #filming #essex #weback".
Disney on Thursday unveiled the first still from Tron: Ares, the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise, which went into production in Vancouver in January. Check out the pic below.
Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid clashed with an ITV viewer over Prince Harry's court case.The veteran presenter was branded "pathetic" in a social media exchange after she defended the Duke of Sussex during a segment on the morning TV show. On Wednesday, 28 February, it was announced that a judge had ruled against Prince Harry, 39, in a case brought by him to the High Court over his personal security. He lost the case, in which he had challenged a ruling that was made in 2020, but reportedly plans to appeal the decision.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Comic book author Brian Michael Bendis has set a first-look deal with Amazon is already developing three TV series under the new pact based on his previous works: “Jinx,” “Murder Inc.” and “Pearl.” “Jinx” is a crime-ridden love story unfolding on a high stakes treasure hunt, per Amazon’s series description. Our players are: Jinx Alameda, a bounty hunter at the top of her game who’s tired of her grimy life; Goldfish, a charming con man and wanted felon who falls head over heels for Jinx; and Columbia, Goldfish’s loose-cannon partner, who has big criminal dreams.
John Hartson has told Brendan Rodgers he shouldn't have made his "good girl" comment to Jane Lewis in the first place, and pointed out that he didn't hear an apology from him.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent European giant Beta Film, known for ambitious titles such as “Babylon Berlin” and “The Swarm,” has shared with Variety in exclusivity a first-look picture of 1o-part series “Rise of the Raven,” which it hails as “one of the most epic European TV productions of all time.” “Rise of the Raven” weighs in as a passion project of Hungarian-born and Canada-based producer Robert Lantos, behind “Sunshine,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Barney’s Version,” “Eastern Promises” and “Crimes of the Future.” A highlight at Beta Film’s showcase this Tuesday at the London TV Screenings, “Rise of the Raven” turns on the extraordinary feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi, played by discovery Gellért L. Kádár, who in 1456 won a bloody, brutal Battle of Belgrade against a vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were often farm labourers armed with just slings and patriotic fervor. Hunyadi largely halted a full Ottoman expansion in Europe for the next 70 years, allowing its Renaissance to lift off in Italy.
Tyrone Dobbs will be issued an ultimatum in Coronation Street next week as his wife Fiz finally returns. She left the cobbles in early 2023 as she landed a new job.
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment announced on Monday that Hard Miles, its cycling drama starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), will hit theaters nationwide on April 19. They also unveiled a series of first look stills, which you can view above and below.
Veteran TV presenter Eamonn Holmes has leapt to the defence Brendan Rodgers as the Celtic boss comes under fire over his “good girl” comment to BBC Scotland reporter Jane Lewis.
Aimee Lou Wood Comedy ‘Daddy Issues’ Rounds Out Cast
Kevin Macdonald Helming Klitschko Doc For Sky
is well aware of her beauty icon status.It's the reason she teamed up with Smashbox Cosmetics for its “Isn't It Iconic” campaign to celebrate the equally iconic Photo Finish Primer. Shot by Davis Factor, photographer and founder of Smashbox Cosmetics, the shoot brings together two ‘90s beauty legends: (the first-ever makeup primer to hit the market) and Anderson (actor, author, and bonafide beauty chameleon.)“Doing Smashbox was fun for me because it was kind of a wink to the past,” Anderson tells Glamour. “Let's just do something fun, like a link to the past, to the '90s, kind of when both of us kind of came alive and grew next to each other.”It turns out, Anderson and Smashbox go way back.
Our first look at Cate Blanchett in the Borderlands movie is finally here!
BBC Making Sarah Everard Documentary
Catherine Bray A low-budget romp set in contemporary London against a curdled cultural backdrop of racist politics, Bruce LaBruce’s “The Visitor” pays explicit homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sexually provocative last feature, “Teorema.” The cheeky Canadian director’s graphic reimagining sees various mysterious suitcases appearing here and there, each of which turns out to contain an identical naked man, all played by performance artist Bishop Black. The rest of the film follows one of these guys, the “Visitor” of the film’s title, as he inveigles his way into the home of a wealthy family, proceeding to seduce each family member in turn.
Carole Horst Highland Film Group shared a first look at “London Calling,” an action-comedy that reunites director Allan Ungar with star Josh Duhamel after the success of the action heist thriller “Bandit.” Film also stars Jeremy Ray Taylor (“It,” “and “It: Chapter Two”), Rick Hoffman (“Billions,” “Suits”) and Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) Written by Omer Levin Menekse and Quinn Wolfe, “London Calling” sees mediocre hit man Tommy Ward (Duhamel) go on the run and get stuck in L.A. after mistakenly killing a relative of London’s biggest crime boss (Gillen).