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Naman Ramachandran Newly appointed U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries delivered the opening keynote at the London Tech Week conference on Monday with a promise of “stable digital regulation.”Dorries, whose full official title is Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said that she would deliver on the U.K.
government’s digital regulation ambitions, set out in July by her predecessor Oliver Dowden. Broadly, the regulation aims to actively promote innovation; achieve
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Nadine Dorries was told “it doesn’t matter whether you’re from Harrow School or Hartlepool” after claiming that working class youngsters are being frozen out of leading TV roles by “posh” actors. Contrasting her own upbringing in a deprived area of Liverpool, Ms Dorries said it was now almost impossible for anyone without a privileged background to break into entertainment.
Damian Lewis has announced the news that he will be leaving his hit show Billions after season five.
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Strictly Come Dancing’s brand new judge Anton Du Beke has made his debut on launch night - and fans of the BBC show already can’t get enough.
Boris Johnson‘s significant cabinet reshuffle yesterday (September 15), Dorries has taken on the job as head of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), replacing Oliver Dowden.Following Dorries’ appointment, many across the music and culture industry have been sharing previous opinions and comments from the new chief, including when she claimed that comedy was being killed by “left-wing snowflakes” and that the BBC was “a biased left-wing organisation which is seriously failing in its
DEALSSony Music Publishing has signed Tiago PZK to a worldwide agreement. “Tiago is a leading voice within the new generation of artists coming from Argentina and making their voices heard around the world”, says Jorge Mejia, CEO of Sony Music Publishing US Latin and Latin America.
Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, has said the broadcaster needs “a really serious dialogue with government” in the context of Nadine Dorries replacing Oliver Dowden as the UK’s new Culture Secretary.
Naman Ramachandran On a tumultuous day at the Royal Television Society convention at Cambridge, Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon and the U.K. government were very much in disagreement over the proposed privatization of the channel.Moments before Mahon took the stage, Oliver Dowden who was due to speak immediately after, was replaced as Culture Secretary by Nadine Dorries, in what was an equally tumultuous day at No.