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A union boss has accused Rishi Sunak of "silly posturing" instead of working to resolve industrial disputes across the country.

Rishi Sunak is set to scrap the privatisation of Channel 4 in a yet another Tory U-turn. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had planned to sell-off the station after 40 years of public ownership.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ is ready to give the greenlight to an adaptation of CJ Sansom’s bestselling Shardlake novels, depicting an unlikely detective working under Henry VIII’s reign.

Dame Vivienne Westwood has been remembered as an "icon" for thrusting modern punk and new wave fashion in decades of work after her death at the age of 81.

Scots hairdressing icon Rita Rusk has died at the age of 75.

Scotland's pubs are in a fight for survival because of soaring power bills, industry chiefs have warned. Paul Waterson, honorary president of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA), said that utility bills which are “outrageous compared to other European countries” are driving people out of business.

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay a record $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Facebook users who alleged that the company allowed third parties to access their personal data.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise) and Rose Williams (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) will topline Locked In, a contemporary psychological thriller from Netflix, which is currently in production in London and the UK. Others in the cast include Alex Hassell (Violent Night), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom) and Anna Friel (Monarch).

Waiting to exhale! Frances Fisher opened up about the constricting costumes she wore while filming 1997’s Titanic.

Rick Anderson, the co-founding bassist of the Tubes who was with the band for a half-century and played on “She’s a Beauty,” “Talk to Ya Later” and “White Punks on Dope,” has died. He was 75.

EXCLUSIVE: Sex Education producer Eleven is embarking on its next project, a TV series adaptation of up-and-coming creative duo Oliver Taylor and Dillon Mapletoft’s stage show Fix My Brain.

Still friends. Prince William attended the wedding of his first serious girlfriend, Rose Farquhar, to George Gemmell on Saturday, December 17.

Jeremy Clarkson has come under fire over a rant about Meghan Markle in his column in which he said he hates her more than serial killer Rose West.

EXCLUSIVE: Dutch docs indie Scenery is lining up a feature about a Ukrainian refugee ballet company.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with Isidoor Roebers and Lea Fels, partners at Dutch doc producer Scenery, a joint venture with Banijay Benelux that has served up artistic but commercial unscripted projects for everyone from local public broadcaster NPO to Netflix and Prime Video.

EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried is to be profiled in a documentary feature for web3 streaming platform Myco.

EXCLUSIVE: Released in August, Louis Koo’s sci-fi action thriller Warriors Of Future has become not just the highest-grossing local film in Hong Kong ever, but the highest-grossing Asian film ever released in the territory, with a gross of HK$81.7M (US$10.5M). The film also raked in $100m in China over the summer and is currently number four in Netflix’s global ranking of non-English language films after launching worldwide on December 2.

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