Steve McQueens says British film industry “didn’t care enough” about Black talent

Sir Colin Callender, the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning producer behind hits including Wolf Hall and All Creatures Great And Small, has turned both barrels on U.S. streamers, saying they could inflict lasting damage on the UK television business.

Naman Ramachandran A fascination with Vice-President elect Kamala Harris could drive American audiences towards Mira Nair’s mini-series “A Suitable Boy,” the director says.Based on Vikram Seth’s epic 1993 novel, the series follows the Mehra family and their associates as they go about the process of finding a husband for 19-year-old university student Lata Mehra (newcomer Tanya Maniktala), against the backdrop of the 1951 general elections in newly independent India.The series aired on the BBC

British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.” The Sun newspaper ran photos of Ora and others, including models Cara and Poppy Delevingne, arriving at the Casa Cruz restaurant in London’s Notting Hill area on Saturday.

With the arrival of Alex Wheatle, the fourth of five installments that make up Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s adamant and penetrating series of roughly hourlong dramas centering on the Black immigrant community experience in post-World War II Britain, the emerging core concern is the hypocrisy involved in the nation laying out the welcome mat to newcomers in the first place while denying opportunity once they’ve arrived.

Somali-American model Halima Aden has announced that she is taking a step back from the fashion industry, saying the pandemic slowdown has allowed her to see instances when her desire to maintain a hijab was not properly respected.

told USA Today in an interview published Friday.As the holidays begin to take shape, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid down the law on travel. The organization is currently warning people to stay home rather than visit family and gather in large groups, which could potentially advance the new surges of COVID-19.

Steve McQueen's Small Axe took a long time to make it to television screens, but McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave and Widows among other memorable films, certainly hasn't underdelivered. Debuting nearly simultaneously on Britain's BBC One and Amazon Prime Video, the project began as a conventional TV series that would tell stories set in London's West Indian community.

No Time To Die.And like most British actors in the 25 to 35 age range, the Star Wars actor has been asked whether he'd be keen on the part.Speaking to MTV, he said: “Hey listen, [with] Steve McQueen directing, let’s do this. We could show them something different.“We’ll still bring that sophistication – you know, James Bond has to be James Bond.

Sacha Baron Cohen has reignited his feud with Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.The social media platform recently came under fire after it found that posts, in which Steve Bannon called for Dr Anthony Fauci's head to be put on a spike outside the White House, had not violated enough of its rules to warrant a suspension.Barack Obama says Trump's refusal to concede is not normalDr Fauci admits 200000 Americans may die of Covid in just the next four months aloneTrump supporters rally against

  Who knew we were going to have the longest election in the history of the United States of America?”Though Goldberg makes a valid point, she’s technically incorrect about this being the longest U.S. election in history.

Steve McQueen has commented on the British film and TV industry’s failure to embrace its Black talent.The 12 Years a Slave director made the comments ahead of his groundbreaking new film series, Small Axe, premiering on BBC One on 15 November.When asked by David Hare of Homeland fame, in a Guardian piece, why British Black actors continue to have to look to America in order to further their careers, McQueen said of the UK industry: “Because they didn’t care enough. That’s it, really.

Netflix has saved at least one of their original shows for another season – Space Force.

SAN FRANCISCO – Former U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins, a widely respected veteran of the state and federal benches was confirmed Tuesday to California’s State Supreme Court. He will become the first openly gay man on the California Supreme Court, and only the fifth Black man ever to serve on the state’s highest court. It has been 29 years since an African American man has served on the California Supreme Court.

might be less Trump-friendly right now than it had been before the election, Tucker Carlson is continuing to try to undermine American democracy by supporting Trump’s election conspiracy theories.Tucker started out the Monday episode of his Fox News show with a 23-minute rant about how we have to take every baseless and bad-faith claim of voter fraud seriously and investigate everything related to the election that any Republican might dream up.“In case you haven’t noticed, it’s hard to trust

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith the COVID-19 pandemic persisting, the American Film Market is launching its 41st edition Monday — and its first as an online-only event — with a record 562 exhibitors registered from 48 countries.The United States leads the way with 259 companies followed by Italy (59), the United Kingdom (46), Russia (25), Germany (20), France (19), Canada (17), South Korea (14), Japan (12), and Thailand (11).AFM, usually held at beachside hotels in Santa Monica, Calif., is

Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live in the wake of the US President’s election defeat.Baldwin has lampooned Trump on the sketch show since the tail-end of the latter’s 2016 election campaign.Memorable moments included the recreation of the presidential debate with Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton, during which Baldwin’s Trump frequently sidled up behind his opponent, echoing Trump’s actions in the real debate.He also more recently went head to head with Jim Carrey, who debuted his comedy

Jon Cryer took to Twitter with a lengthy message to "Trump voters" as Americans anxiously await the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The former "Two and a Half Men" star actor took to social media after President Trump made allegations of sweeping voter fraud Thursday night.