Refinery29 Names Simone Oliver Global Editor-in-Chief

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios sells Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe”; ZDF commissions natural history series “Africa From Above”; “Married at First Sight” gets live wedding; ITV orders game-show format “Game of Talents”; travel format “Heads and Tails” goes to Spain; Jellyfish promotes Natalie Llewellyn; German Film Office opens in New York; and Monte-Carlo TV Festival sets 2021 dates.BBC Studios has secured several global pre-sales for Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen‘

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSir Harold Evans, a hard-charging British-American journalist and editor, died Wednesday at the age of 92. The cause was congestive heart failure.Evans and his wife, Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown, were at the epicenter of Manhattan media and literary circles for decades, injecting a trans-Atlantic mixture of brains and brashness into parties and salons.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNow United, the global pop group formed by “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller, has added a new member: 18-year-old Nour Ardakani from Lebanon.Ardakani will become Now United’s 16th member following a Pepsi-sponsored search for a new member from the Middle East and North Africa that began last year.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEarlier this summer, Paramount Pictures partnered with New Republic on “Mission Impossible: 7” and eight other movies.New Republic, led by veteran producers Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer, announced  that it had closed a co-financing deal that included “The Tomorrow War,” “Infinite,” Michael B.

Jamie Oliver and wife Jools have both shared heartfelt messages in honour of their eldest son Buddy's tenth birthday on Tuesday.GALLERY: 10 of Jamie and Jools Oliver's cutest family photosThe celebrity chef posted two photos of the birthday boy wearing his homemade paper crown [a birthday tradition in the Oliver household], while Jools uploaded a series of never-before-seen throwback pictures from their son's childhood.Sharing his pride, the doting dad gushed: "Happy 10th birthday my dear Buddy

Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin was three weeks into shooting season four of the hit Netflix series in Atlanta when COVID-19 shuttered production in March. For the past five months, the 18-year-old New York native has been laying low in the Georgia city with his family, waiting for production to resume.

recently reopened Orange County, furthering the trend of closure-adjacent markets getting a boost from residents in cities like Los Angeles and New York driving further to see a film.More to come…

NEW YORK -- Playwright-novelist Ayad Akhtar has been named the new president of PEN America, the human rights and literary organization.Akhtar, who assumes the presidency Dec. 2, succeeds novelist Jennifer Egan.“PEN America has its work cut out for it in an era when the quest for truth is challenged as never before,” Akhtar said in a statement Tuesday.

Katie Holmes is rumored to be dating New York City-based chef Emilio Vitolo. The two were spotted having dinner together and engaging in a bit of tableside PDA in new photos published over the weekend.Vitolo is an Italian-Peruvian chef who helms his family's star-studded SoHo restaurant, Emilio's Ballato.Katie Holmes might be getting close to someone new.

The war of words between Last Week Tonight host John Oliver and Danbury, Connecticut MayorMark Boughton may finally be coming to a close. On Saturday,Boughton saidhe would accept Oliver’s challenge to name the city’s sewage plant after the HBO host following Oliver's offer to donate $55,000 to local charities.

Katie Holmes was all smiles when she was spotted out to dinner with chef Emilio Vitolo just one year after her split from Jamie Foxx.Photos obtained by TMZ show the Dawson’s Creek alum, 41, grinning and laughing as she drank wine with Vitolo, 33, at Mediterranean restaurant Antique Garage in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan on Tuesday, September 1.The twosome dressed casually for the outing with Holmes wearing a tank top and jeans and the restaurant owner donning a white T-shirt and jeans.

Jane Fonda "regrets" not having sex with Marvin Gaye. The 82-year-old actress has confessed she was once approached by the late 'Sexual Healing' hitmaker - who passed away in 1984 - with an offer to spend the night with him, which she refused because she was married to Tom Hayden at the time.

Jane Fonda got a little revealing in her newest interview!

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterUniversal Music Group has named Eric Hutcherson, former EVP and chief human resources officer of the National Basketball Association to the newly created role of executive vice president and chief people and inclusion officer, which will see him working across the company’s record labels, publishing division and operating companies worldwide.Hutcherson, whose appointment is effective immediately, will serve on UMG’s Executive Management Board and report

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBroadway’s Second Stage Theater has hired Khady Kamara, the managing director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., as the New York company’s new executive director.Kamara will join Second Stage, which also includes Off Broadway productions, part-time beginning Sept. 14, then full time on Jan.