The brothers who co-founded fashion giant PrettyLittleThing have announced they are teaming up on a new business venture together.
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K.J. Yossman Wonder and Forest Sounds are set to launch U.K. original limited series “The Price of Paradise.” Hosted by Alice Levine (“British Scandal”), it tells the true story of two women battling over an island on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua.
One is a sun-seeking Brit; the other a local human rights lawyer. “One woman is swapping rural England for a sun-drenched utopia,” reads the logline. “The other is fighting for indigenous rights.
But it’s a battle that will end in kidnap, corruption and murder.” The story kicks off in 2000 when Hampshire-based mother-of-three Jayne Gaskin stumbles across a website selling private islands. Gaskin doesn’t hesitate to trade her village home for a tropical paradise and brings a production company along for the ride. The result is one of TV’s earliest reality shows called “No Going Back,” which aired on U.K.
network Channel 4. Perhaps unsurprisingly when Gaskin arrives she realizes all is not as it seems and the piece of paradise she purchased on “tropicalislands.com” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, partly because it’s at the centre of a centuries-old land dispute. Maria Acosta, a local human rights lawyer, soon launches a legal battle to reclaim the island for Nicaragua’s indigenous population but the story soon evolves into more than just a courtroom drama – ending in kidnap and murder.
“‘The Price of Paradise’ is the tale of two women whose dreams collide, in a clash over aspiration and culture, with both resonance and lessons for today,” said Jessica Radburn, head of international podcast content at Wondery. The series, which launches April 22 on all major podcast platforms, is the latest in Wondery’s U.K. original content slate, including “Ghost Story,” “The Spy Who” and
.The brothers who co-founded fashion giant PrettyLittleThing have announced they are teaming up on a new business venture together.
New ITV drama Red Eye is set between an all-night flight from London to Beijing, the streets of London and the corridors of power within Whitehall. The series has been described as a "brilliantly addictive thriller" by ITV bosses.
Lexi Carson How does a fight between a group of teenagers result in murder? Hulu‘s new true-crime series “Under the Bridge,” based on the late Rebecca Godfrey’s non-fiction book, portrays the before and after of 14-year-old Reena Virk’s brutal murder. The first two episodes, released on April 17, show the timeline of events leading up to Virk’s death and the investigation that took place. The show, created by Quinn Shephard, tells the story of the events that unfolded through the lens of Godfrey (Riley Keough), a journalist who grew up in Victoria and was working on a novel about teenage girls in her hometown when she found out about the murder, and Cam Bentland (Lily Gladstone), a local police officer who investigated and solved the case.
Taylor Swift‘s 11th album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, has arrived and fans have taken to social media to theorise what some songs mean, and who the albums was written about.Shortly after the album’s release earlier today (April 19), Swifties took to X (formerly Twitter) to theorise that despite her lengthy relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn, Taylor’s new album is seemingly more about her brief relationship with The 1975‘s Matty Healy. The pair were romantically linked for a short period time in 2023.According to fans, the title track ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ sees Swift reference Healy, with a lyric seemingly describing an ex-lover as a “tattooed golden retriever”.
EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics has locked in plans to release Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan‘s latest special, Tomfoolery, on platforms worldwide on April 30.
Fresh from his exit in Death in Paradise, much-loved star Tahj Miles has landed a huge new rule in an upcoming BBC drama.The 22 year old star is best known to fans for playing Officer Marlon Pryce in the Caribbean detective series, but in this new role, Tahj will be taking on a mysterious new character named Daniel in a production of Mr Loverman. Based on Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo's novel, Mr Loverman follows Barrington Jedidiah Walker, a 74-year-old man who is forced to hide his steamy affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris, from his wife of 50 years, Carmel.
There’s at least one extended scene from AMC‘s Parish that didn’t make it into the final cut of the series.
Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set.
“Franklin,” an eight-part series premiering April 12 on Apple TV+.“Franklin” tells the story of 70-year-old Ben Franklin’s secret diplomatic mission to France in 1776 to gain French support (money, arms) for America’s fight against the British in the Revolutionary War. There are a lot of moving parts here, so viewers would be apprised to pay attention as Franklin navigates French high society — and politics — in an effort to achieve his goal.The series is based on the book “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff.As the series opens, Franklin — commissioned by Congress to undertake his clandestine journey across the Atlantic — has no diplomatic experience.
Pearl Jam have announced a special ‘Dark Matter-verse’ event to take place in London on the same day as the release of their new album.‘Dark Matter’, the band’s 12th studio album, is set for release on April 19 via Monkeywrench Records, and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here. The band have already shared the title track and its follow-up single ‘Running’.And now, they have revealed details of the ‘Dark Matter-verse’, which will take place at Outernet in London on April 19, from 2pm to 7pm.
Annika Pham Picked by Variety as one of the hottest shows at MipTV, ZDF Studios’ comedy drama “The ‘Zweiflers” about a colourful, dysfunctional yet loving Jewish family in contemporary Germany, had a rapturous reception April 7 at its world screening in Canneseries. “It was a profound experience to see how much [the Cannes] audience loved it, not only because of the way it was done but because of the subject matter,” said Aaron Altaras (“Unorthodox”), cast as Samuel, grandson of the patriarch Symcha Zweifler (Mike Burstyn), torn between his Jewish origins and his love for his British Caribbean girlfriend and mum-to-be (Saffron Coomber).
EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s Keshet International (KI) has struck its latest co-development deal, a partnership with British presenter Bettany Hughes‘ indie SandStone Global.
THE BOYZ have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘Zeneration II’ world tour, featuring concerts in Asia, the US, Europe and more.Today (April 8), THE BOYZ announced the first batch of dates for their upcoming 2024 ‘Zeneration II’ world tour. The trek will follow their 2023 ‘Zeneration’ world tour, which had featured 24 dates in Asia.‘Zeneration II’ will kick-off in July with a three-date show in South, South Korea, before the boyband head to the US for a solo tour the first time since 2022.
an X thread with millions of views, the sordid saga came to light after scorned woman Ashley McGuire penned a Facebook post imploring the public to help her locate her hubby, who had been MIA for a year.“This is my husband, Charles Withers. He loves to be the center of attention but I’m not sure how much he’s going to like this,” the mother-of-two wrote in the post, which she uploaded to the popular Facebook group “Are We Dating the Same Guy” on Saturday.
Evil” will premiere Thursday, May 23, on Paramount+, the streamer announced Monday. Production recently began in New York City on the previously announced four bonus episodes. Season 4 will include 14 episodes premiering weekly.
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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Pure Fiction Television, the independent production company helmed by Tom Winchester (“Shogun,” “Clickbait,” “The Capture”), has secured the rights to bestselling author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy and the prequel, “La Cara Norte Del Corazón” (The North Face of the Heart), and is developing them into a returning, premium international TV series. The trilogy and prequel novel, which feature homicide detective Amaia Salazar, are gripping psychological thrillers infused with mystery, mythology and superstition, set in the beautiful Basque region of Northern Spain, as well as in New Orleans.
Scott Bryan There is a moment in “Mr Bates vs. the Post Office” that makes you as a viewer go “it cannot be real” — only for you then to remind yourself that what you are watching is a true story. Subpostmaster Jo Hamilton (Monica Dolan) — a small business owner who deals with the services and finances of their Post Office — finds that there is an accounting financial discrepancy in her computer of around £2,000 ($2,523).
Glass Animals have announced details of their new ‘Tour Of The Earth’, which will see them play live shows in the UK, Europe and North America later this year. Find ticket details below.The new dates come following the band sharing news of their highly anticipated fourth studio album, ‘I Love You So F***ing Much’ yesterday (April 3).
The Ting Tings have teased a new country-inspired track called ‘Dance On The Wire’ – check out the teaser below.The band shared the clip on their social media last week and the track seems to lean towards country, at a time when artists like Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Post Malone are all making country music albums.The indie-pop duo, made up of Katie White and Jules De Martino, hit top spot in the UK with their debut hit, ‘That’s Not My Name’. Upon its release in 2008, the song went viral and has sold over one million copies to date.Back in 2022, the song went viral once more – this time on TikTok after it became the soundtrack to videos by the likes of The Rock, Drew Barrymore and others.Speaking to Variety about the resurgence of the track at the time, White said: “We’re [not good] at social media.