Stephen Robinson insists focus is firmly on St Mirren amid Northern Ireland job link

Screenwriter and executive producer Muirinn Lane Kelly has died aged 50.

Sending a message? Khloé Kardashian appeared to chime in as Kanye West continues to face backlash for his anti-Semitic remarks.

Interest in Keanu Baccus is growing after Cardiff City became the latest club to watch the Australian international.

Welcome back to Insider, Jesse Whittock guiding you through this time around. It’s been a week of excitement from the international TV industry in Cannes and another one of utter chaos at Downing Street in the UK. All the latest news and views follow, so let’s go.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is on board Irish-Belgian drama series co-production Northern Lights.

Northern Ireland has long been known for its bewitching locations from its dramatic coastlines to its abundant forests and its rugged mountain scenery. Couple that with a well-reputed crew base and it’s not hard to see why HBO’s Game of Thrones called the region its home for nearly a decade.

When Netflix was looking to shoot its Paul Feig-directed fantasy-adventure The School for Good and Evil, at its Shepperton Studios hub just outside of London in 2020, there was no space to house the ambitious young adult project in the Surrey-based facility. In a first, the busy streamer decided to cross the Irish Sea and film the Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington starrer in Northern Ireland. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment is taking ElectricNow, its AVOD channel and app, into international markets for the first time. The rollout outside the U.S. starts in early November with outreach into Australia. Los Angeles-based indie, Electric Entertainment has previously licensed its content to local distributors and channels at international markets. When it launched the OTT channel in 2019 it did not seek to build global operations, which would have entailed undoing, or waiting for the expiry, of some of those deals. The company , headed by Devlin and partners Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson, says that ElectricNow will soon be rolled out in other English-language territories, Canada and the U.K, but did not specify a timetable.

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Selome Hailu Marin Ireland has been cast in “Sinking Spring,” the upcoming Apple TV+ drama series from Peter Craig. Ireland plays Kristy Lynne, a fiery, foul-mouthed woman entrenched deeply in a high-intensity drug trafficking area in rural Pennsylvania, who survives a life-threatening assault. As she reclaims her voice and health, she becomes obsessed with finding the culprits and unraveling the plot that nearly destroyed her. She joins previously announced stars Brian Tyree Henry and Michael Mando. Based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel “Dope Thief,” “Sinking Spring” follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.

EXCLUSIVE: Marin Ireland is set as the female lead opposite Brian Tyree Henry and Michael Mando in Apple TV+’s crime drama series Sinking Spring, from Top Gun: Maverick writer Peter Craig. The series is directed and executive produced by Ridley Scott via his Scott Free Productions, with Henry also executive producing.

death of the "Murder, She Wrote" actress, fans publicly mourned her passing and many shared run-ins and anecdotes of their experiences with the on-screen legend. One of the most interesting stories came from writer and photographer Christopher Moloney, who recalled Angela moving her family to Europe to keep her kids away from Charles Manson."Angela Lansbury told a story about her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat," he tweeted. "He would pick the girl up from school and get her to steal money and food from her parents for him.

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is to delve into the shocking murder of British student Meredith Kercher back in 2007.

Princess Catherine, AKA Kate Middleton, wasn’t going to let one heckler break her composure during her visit to Northern Ireland this week!