PBS chief: Diversity efforts not all 'our best,' changes set

EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Raiff is set to direct, and 30WEST to finance The Trashers, a drama based on the true story of a Connecticut-based businessman who bought the city’s minor league hockey team in 2004 and assigned his teenage son to run it. The team’s unexpected rise ended when the teen’s father, Jimmy Galante, was arrested on 72 criminal charges. The hockey saga is profiled in an episode of Netflix’s new docu-series, Untold.

K.J. Yossman Emma Appleton (“The Witcher”) and Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) have nabbed the lead roles in Working Title Television’s forthcoming adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s memoir “Everything I Know About Love.”Appleton is currently filming FX series “Pistol,” about the Sex Pistols, where she plays the tragic Nancy Spungen, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious.

Japan’s Oricon News.According to Oricon, Chiba died Thursday in Chiba Prefecture Kimitsu hospital from pneumonia caused by COVID-19. He had been hospitalized since August 8.Chiba, a skilled martial artist, starred in dozens of films and television shows since the early ’60s.

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PBS on Tuesday introduced several new funding initiatives, revealed updated producing partner criteria and announced that it has hired an SVP Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

The Cajun chicken wasn’t the only thing that was a little bit spicy at Le Bilboquet on Saturday night. Claudine De Niro caused a scene at the fancy Hamptons restaurant, we’re told, by confronting a woman who she accused of taking her boyfriend Cuba Gooding Jr.’s phone number.

EXCLUSIVE: Beth Goddard (Manhunt) is set as a series regular opposite Samantha Morton in Starz’s The Serpent Queen, an eight-part period drama about Catherine de Medici. Additionally, Alex Heath (Home) recurs in the series from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), Francis Lawrence & Erwin Stoff. Production is underway in France.

Jean-Claude Van Damme is looking back at working on “Double Impact” and being a bit “crazy”.

EastEnders star Sid Owen, who played Ricky Butcher on the popular BBC soap, has revealed Hollywood megastar Al Pacino nearly adopted him when he was 13.The unlikely duo made a film together in 1985, and it turns out life could have taken a very different path for the London-based actor.The Godfather great played youngster Sid’s father in the period epic Revolution. After discovering his teen co-star’s mum had tragically died, the now 81 year old Al considered adopting him instead.

Sheridan Smith has been spotted sharing a playful kiss with her pal on the set of her latest series, No Return, amid her split with ex-fiancé Jamie Horn. The 40-year-old was seen planting a kiss on the cheek of her make-up artist Lesley Brennan on the set of the ITV drama, being filmed in Manchester.

Eastenders actor Sid Owen has revealed Al Pacino “considered adopting” him after working together in the 1980s.Owen starred alongside Pacino as his son in 1985 historical drama Revolution, and has said the pair developed a “close bond” while filming.The actor opened up about his connection to Pacino in his new book Rags to Ricky, reflecting on how his father left when he was six and his mother died two years later.“When I started on Revolution, there was a lot for us to work through together to

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has introduced a change this month that will have an impact on at least 200,000 self-employed people across Scotland and the rest of the UK currently claiming Universal Credit.

Here comes the bride! Kaitlyn Bristowe and fiancé Jason Tartick are not wasting any time two months after getting engaged.

EastEnders star Sid Owen has said he is ‘proud to be alive’ after wild cocaine and booze binges almost claimed his life.