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A couple from Stockport managed to bag a city break to Porto for just £20.68 thanks to Jet2holidays’ ‘Bid for a Break’ competition. With the campaign holidaymakers can win a trip by entering the lowest unique bid.

Over three days of testimony this week, Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan has spawned subplots inside and outside the courtroom. 

In the late 1990s Joker writer-director Todd Phillips, then applying his trade as an underground documentary filmmaker shot a non-fiction project titled Frat House, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance before being promptly acquired by HBO Films. 

An exasperated Bill Maher, notorious for not having his own children, asked on Friday’s ‘Real Time’ why he is the one who is always left trying to defend them.

The Athletic‘s Editor-in-Chief for UK and Europe is joining the BBC to run its sports coverage.

In searching for a great moisturizer, we came across Victoria Beckham‘s amazing recommendation, which she calls her “body secret.”

Karlie Koss and Joshua Kushner are relaunching LIFE.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Entrepreneur and model Karlie Koss, together with her husband, billionaire investor Joshua Kushner, is bringing LIFE back to life, more than two decades after the more than century-old iconic photo magazine ceased regular publication. Kloss and Kushner’s Bedford Media on Thursday announced a deal to bring LIFE Magazine back to print and digital distribution, as part of an agreement with Dotdash Meredith to relaunch LIFE as a publication on a regular cadence and vibrant media property. IAC formed Dotdash Meredith after the it bought Meredith was acquired by for $2.7 billion coming after Meredith had acquired Time Inc.

Alex Ritman In the same week that the BBC faced backlash from viewers for using artificial intelligence in promotional material for “Doctor Who,” the head of the public broadcaster has revealed that it has bold plans for the use of AI going forward. In a major speech in London held by the Royal Television Society on Tuesday, director general Tim Davie outlined the “future direction of the BBC and its role for the U.K.,” which he revealed would include utilizing the new technology.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel has only appeared once on NBC News programming in her new capacity as a political news contributor, and already, senior executives are gathering to conduct a review. Top executives from NBC News were expected to meet Tuesday to hash out the growing controversy around her recent hire, according to two people familiar with the matter, in a bid to stop a growing insurrection by the NBCUniversal unit’s editorial staff.

Long considered the destination where Hollywood gets its breaking news, Deadline has announced several key promotions across our editorial department. Deadline continues to build on rising audience and traffic metrics, and the promotions are meant to recognize the rising stars who make Deadline the leader in breaking news day in and day out.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC presenters have been told to challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia after the broadcaster admitted that news items on JK Rowling fell short of its editorial standards. 

The BBC has a duty to “be nice” amid the fraught debate about transgender rights, according to the UK broadcaster’s director general.

Kensington Palace is facing fresh questions over image editing after Getty Images added an editor’s note to a picture of Queen Elizabeth II taken by Kate Middleton.

Sports Illustrated‘s owners said that they have partnered with Minute Media to be the new publisher of the venerable brand’s editorial operations.

Naman Ramachandran Robert Schildhouse will serve in an expanded role at streamer BritBox International following the departure of global CEO Reemah Sakaan. Schildhouse, who previously had stints with Hulu and CBS, joined the streamer in 2022, with his most recent position being general manager, North America, and group editorial for BritBox International, where he was instrumental in driving the service’s business growth in the U.S. and Canada.

Modeling can bring in the big bucks.

Ellise Shafer “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” the new series from “Derry Girls” creator Lisa McGee, has moved to Netflix from Channel 4. Produced by Hat Trick Productions, the comedy thriller will start shooting in Northern Ireland later this year. The project was announced by Channel 4 in August 2023.

One of the biggest struggles when heading on holiday is finding the right suitcase to actually fit all your belongings and stay intact during the journey. Luckily for us, Antler is having a spring sale and its large Clifton case has been reduced from £240 to £180 here. Available in a gorgeous woodland green shade, this case has more than enough room to fit all your clothing, toiletries and shoes, while also being lightweight and easy to move around thanks to the four wheels.

Jeff Zucker‘s Abu Dhabi-controlled investment group RedBird IMI is likely to be blocked by new legislation that bans the ownership of U.K. newspapers and news magazines by foreign governments.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Sports news and commentary Deadspin has been sold again — and its entire staff has been laid off. Deadspin, once owned by Gawker Media, became part of G/O Media in 2019. In a memo to company staff Monday, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that Deadspin was sold to European firm Lineup Publishing.

Catherine, Princess of Wales (aka Kate Middleton) was photographed once again in a very rare sighting.

Kate Middleton is speaking out in a new statement after it was discovered that her Mother’s Day photo was digitally altered before being sent to press.

After the palace released a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales (AKA Kate Middleton) and her children amid growing speculation about her whereabouts, there’s only more conspiracies brewing.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Studiocanal, the European powerhouse behind “Paddington,” has created a genre label dedicated to the development, production and distribution of horror, thriller, sci fi and action films and TV series. The company has hired Jed Benedict, a well-known executive who previously worked for the U.K. distribution banner Elysian Film Group, to run the new label.

StudioCanal said today that it has set plans to launch a new film and TV genre label led by Jed Benedict, who will rejoin the company to lead the brand. 

Ofcom has said it has “significant concerns about GB News’ editorial control of its live output” after rapping the network for Laurence Fox‘s highly misogynistic rant on Dan Wootton‘s show.

Sonia Rovai and Annamaria Morelli have been named as the new bosses of Wildside and The Apartment, respectively.

NBC News announced that it has expanded the leadership roles of three executives.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety has promoted Rachel Seo to Social Media Editor, recognizing her considerable contributions to the growth of the brand’s editorial activity across major social media platforms. Seo joined Variety in July 2022 after working in event marketing for ViacomCBS’ VidCon live media division.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Gemma Garcia has been named the new head of Noticias Telemundo, Telemundo’s news division, a move that puts an executive with deep experience in digital content and distribution in charge of the company’s news operations She will report directly to Luis Fernández, chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. Garcia will oversee Noticias Telemundo’s news programming, editorial units, digital news properties, newsgathering and bureaus in the United States and Latin America.

Subrata De, one of the most high-ranking executives at Vice Media, is leaving as the youth-skewing company.

So many celebrities went from the 2024 BAFTAS to the British Vogue And Tiffany & Co. Celebrate Fashion And Film Party 2024 on Sunday night (February 18).

Catherine Bray In the grasslands of Southern Ukraine, between Crimea and mainland Ukraine, a natural history researcher named Yura (Dmytro Bahnenko) is hoping to track down and photograph a groundhog. If he succeeds, the land can be protected as a European reserve. This apparently simple premise — the kernel at the outset of “The Editorial Office” — can’t begin to hint at the rugged tapestry of thematic and topical threads that Roman Bondarchuk’s second narrative feature proceeds to weave together, the unique product of both the director’s vision and ambition, and also of the circumstances under which it gestated.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor Batman comic book writer James Tynion IV announced the launch of a new independent multimedia production company, Tiny Onion, with plans to create content across television, film, animation and publishing. The company will seek to assemble top talent in the realm of behind-the-scenes comic book creation — their goal is to establish an independent editorial and design team to enhance their clients’ work via curation and packaging before presenting them to various publishing partners throughout the industry.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Spotify is leaning into catalog programming with the launch of its first-ever catalog hub, Spotify Classics, curated by the streaming service’s editorial team. The program, which will be highlighted as a hub on the platform starting today, seeks to define more recent albums that the editorial team has deemed as streaming classics.