More than 25 years later, some of the biggest names in The Challenge history are going for gold once again to celebrate a major milestone for TV’s longest running reality competition series.
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UK drama The Gathering was the big winner at the Golden Nymph Awards, which were announced at the closing ceremony of the Monte Carlo TV Festival.
The series won the Golden Nymph for Best Series and triumphed in both acting categories; Eva Morgan scooped Best Actress and Warren Brown Best Actor. The World Productions’ drama centers on a violent attack on a teenage girl during an all-night rave. It won over the Festival’s fiction jury, which was headed by Seal Team star David Boreanaz.
Rachel Griffiths’ New Zealand-set drama Madam won Best Creation. It follows Mack, a woman who discovers her husband is seeing a sex worker, which sets off a chain of events that sees her setting up an ethical brothel.
Little Did I Know, based on two of Martina Haag’s novels, was named Best Film. The Public Prize went to dystopian drama Helgoland 513, rounding off a successful period for its German producer UFA Fiction, which makes Maxton Hall – The World Between Us, recently named Prime Video’s biggest ever international launch.
The Jury Special Prize was awarded to Israeli series Night Therapy, about a psychologist struggling to raise his two kids after his wife’s suicide.
The Festival has welcomed a host of drama producers and talent this week including several of the cast from the various NCIS series, Elsbeth lead Carrie Preston, Bridgerton star Simone Ashley, and Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Gray House.
There was also a healthy contingent of documentary and news producers in town and awards spanning several factual categories.
UK-produced Ukraine’s War: The Other Side won the coveted Best Documentary category while Spanish doc The Law of the Sea won the Monaco Red Cross Prize. France-Italy coproduction Broken Dream took the
More than 25 years later, some of the biggest names in The Challenge history are going for gold once again to celebrate a major milestone for TV’s longest running reality competition series.
Jon Voight is singing his praises for his daughter and granddaughter.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent TOLEDO Spain — “K-Dream” and “The Adventures of a Turbo-Folk Princess,” two scripted shows about young women chasing their dream of becoming pop stars, won big at Thursday evening’s Gala Awards at this year’s Conecta Fiction. Shot in Spanish and Korean, musical drama “K-Dream,” now in development and directed at teens, sees a Venezuelan-Spanish teenager, a victim of bullying, focusing on her musical career to achieve her goal: Creating her very own K-pop band in Korea. The eight part half-hour turns on her “discovering a non-label-able identity that doesn’t fit into her snobbish and classist environment,” stated creator Mi Hoa Lee, who also exec produces alongside Rosa Castro at Spain’s Angeli Pictures.
who died on June 20 at the age of 88 — had five children, and most of them followed in his footsteps and went into the entertainment business. Donald’s wife Francine Racette, 76, is also an actor. They met on the set of the 1974 film “Alien Thunder.”The late actor’s oldest child, actor Kiefer Sutherland, 57, announced his father’s death on social media.“I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film,” Kiefer tweeted.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland on Thursday remembered his late father, actor Donald Sutherland, in a touching message on social media.
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the back of her jury prize win in Monte Carlo, we can bring you first look images of Unorthodox star Shira Haas in yes TV‘s Night Therapy.
An industry debate about the blurred lines between reality and fiction was always going to take in the ongoing situation with Baby Reindeer – and so it was at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.
Princess Catherine‘s appearance at Trooping the Colour may have looked seamless, but it likely took a massive toll on her!
After the impressive display of The King's Birthday Parade in London at the weekend, another important royal procession will take place in Windsor today, Monday, 17 June.The Order of the Garter is the oldest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom and is the most senior knighthood in the British honours system which is only outranked by the Victoria Cross and the George Cross. It sees those members of the Royal Family who have been honoured, attend a service at St George's Chapel, Windsor, before parading in their eye-catching dark blue mantles and Tudor bonnets with ostrich feather plumes.
The new musical The Outsiders won the award for Best Musical at the 2024 Tony Awards and the show also gave an incredible performance during the event!
It was a Wicked union between Idina Menzel and Cynthia Erivo as the actresses and singers came together to close out the 2024 Tony Awards.
The cast of the Broadway musical The Outsiders is at the Tonys!
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A lot of bong water has passed under the bridge since “Reefer Madness: The Musical” first premiered at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd. in 1998. Like, legalization of the demon weed in most states… plus, about a million more camp musicals that have come down the pike since then, maybe lessening any obvious need to bring back a show satirizing long-bygone pot paranoia.
Ariana DeBose is opening up about hosting the 2024 Tony Awards.
Marta Balaga Rachel Griffiths wants people to start respecting sex workers. Now. “If we disrespect sex workers, we are disrespecting women.
EXCLUSIVE: Republic Pictures has snagged two more movies, taking global rights to Saoirse Ronan-starrer Bad Apples and international rights to horror rom-com Heart Eyes.
A princess by title, but she’s a true queen!!!
Marta Balaga The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has rolled out the blue carpet welcoming star guests for its 63rd edition, but it also has an eye on the future.“We’re always working towards expanding and developing the festival. Each year, we get better and better,” executive director Cécile Menoni says.Listing “fabulous highlights,” Menoni gushes over this year’s Crystal Nymph winner: Morgan Freeman.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Prince Albert II of Monaco opened the 63rd Monte-Carlo Television Festival Friday, accompanied by a panoply of stars led by Morgan Freeman, “SEAL Team’s” David Boreanaz and “Bridgerton’s” Simone Ashley. The opening ceremony took place under stormy skies at the Grimaldi Forum, where the world premiere of limited series “The Gray House” opened the event.
Is Princess Catherine getting her cancer treatment… in TEXAS?!