Новости за 16.03.2020

CBS News foreign correspondent Seth Doane tested positive for the coronavirus, and on Monday reported from his home in Rome where he is in quarantine. “I started to have a little bit of a cough that worried me,” Doane explained on CBS This Morning. “For the most part I feel OK. As we know this […]

NBC’s Today show is the latest to be affected by the coronavirus. An employee on the third hour of Today tested positive for COVID-19, co-host Savannah Guthrie told viewers this morning. She told viewers the network learned of the news overnight and co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker took the morning off “out of an […]

BBC dramas Peaky Blinders and Line Of Duty are the latest shows to fall foul of coronavirus. Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions have postponed production on Peaky Blinders, while World Productions has suspended filming on Line Of Duty. Both shows are in their sixth season. A BBC spokeswoman said: “In light of the spread […]

The BBC, in collaboration with the British government, has delayed plans to begin charging over 75 year olds for the licence fee because of the coronavirus crisis. British pensioners were due to start paying the £157.50 ($193.95) fee from June 1, but the controversial charge has now been pushed back to August 1 amid fears […]

BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, which was due to run March 18-29, has been cancelled just two days before it was due to open over coronavirus concerns. Organizers BFI said it was making the move with “heavy hearts”, but that “due to the scale and complexity of running a large international film festival with […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a coronavirus-related video message to his fans on social media: “Stay at home as much as possible. Listen to the experts, ignore the morons (foreheads). We will get through this together.” The movie star and former California Governor, aged 72, was in good spirits as he played in the clip with […]

Richard Wilkins, a veteran Australian entertainment journalist, has tested positive for coronavirus after an encounter with Rita Wilson. The 65-year-old Channel 9 reporter ran into Wilson at the Sydney Opera House on March 8, where she was performing songs from her album Halfway To Home in the intimate Utzon Room, with her husband Tom Hanks […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has halted production on The Witcher for two weeks, making it the first major TV show produced in the UK to be grounded by the chaos being caused by coronavirus. The Henry Cavill fantasy drama is made in-house by Netflix and is filmed at Arborfield Studios, which is around 40 miles west of […]

Channel 5’s The Jeremy Vine Show and ITV’s Loose Women are the first British TV shows to ditch their studio audiences amid the coronavirus outbreak. ITN Productions, which makes daily topical debate show Jeremy Vine for ViacomCBS broadcaster Channel 5, said: “As a precautionary measure we have taken the decision not to have a live studio […]

Olga Kurylenko, the Ukraine-born actress, is the latest film biz name to have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Quantum Of Solace, Oblivion and Hitman actress confirmed the news in a social media post. “I’ve actually been ill for almost a week now. Fever and fatigue are my main symptoms. Take care of yourself and […]

India is to shut down film and TV production from March 19-31, in a bid to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The move, which is likely to cost the country millions of dollars, was agreed by multiple Indian movie bodies, including the Producers Guild of India and India’s Director’s Guild, which posted the […]

Mubi and Sony Pictures Television have struck a content deal that will see the streamer get access to 100 Sony-owned feature films in India. Titles in the deal include Django Unchained, Dr Strangelove, Taxi Driver, Stand By Me, Big Fish, Volver, The Anderson Tapes, Punch-Drunk Love and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Mubi moved into India […]