Новости за 20.04.2020

Louis Theroux is to interview celebrities for his first radio and podcast series, Grounded With Louis Theroux. The BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds show also happens to be the first commission for his newly-launched production outfit Mindhouse Productions, which last week inked a first-look deal with BBC Studios. Twenty years after his When Louis […]

BBC Two has commissioned blue-chip documentary producer Brook Lapping to make a 75-minute documentary on Pink Panther star Peter Sellers. Peter Sellers: A State Of Comic Ecstasy (working title) will be broadcast to mark the 40th anniversary of the British comic actor’s death this summer, and will explore his talent and complex personal life. It […]

Idris and Sabrina Dhowre Elba, who are recovering from mild cases of COVID-19, today helped launch a new global coronavirus relief fund on behalf of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) designed to lessen economic shocks caused by the pandemic. With $40M in seed money from IFAD, the multi-donor COVID-19 fund aims to […]

The BBC hosted the UK version of the One World: Together At Home concert on Sunday night, bringing a British twist to proceedings by supplementing performances from Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga with turns from Little Mix and Tom Jones. The two-hour broadcast on BBC One was produced by ITV Studios-owned Twofour and presented by […]

EXCLUSIVE: Matchlight, the Scottish production company behind the 2012 BBC Three documentary Russell Brand From Addiction To Recovery, has collapsed. Insolvency specialists at Quantuma have been appointed to wind down the Glasgow-based producer’s affairs after it was first set up more than a decade ago. It is not known if Matchlight’s demise is coronavirus-related after […]

The second season of Italian-language drama My Brilliant Friend: The Story Of A New Name is heading to China after Fremantle signed a deal with three of the country’s leading platforms. iQIYI, Youku (Alibaba) and Tencent Video have all bought the second season of the drama, as well as re-licensing the first. The deal marks the […]

The Ink Factory, the London and Los Angeles-based producer behind The Little Drummer Girl, Fighting With My Family and The Night Manager, has appointed Maggie Boden to the role of Director of Development. The hire follows news earlier this year that Endeavor Content had bought a minority stake in the business and was injecting development […]

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have continued their war with British tabloids, writing to the editors of The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Express to say they are severing ties with the newspapers. After stepping back from their royal duties, ending their reliance on public funding and moving to Los Angeles, the pair […]

Jodie Whittaker, David Attenborough, Danny Dyer, footballer Sergio Aguero and professor Brian Cox are to help the BBC educate children during coronavirus pandemic. With schools out during the COVID-19 crisis, the BBC has been stepping up its education tools to help parents homeschool their kids. Now, the corporation has enlisted a stellar cast of teaching […]

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver unpacked another “brutal week” of coronavirus dominating the news but saw a silver lining in Dame Judi Dench’s dance abilities on TikTok. That said, Oliver dove deep into the misinformation being spread about coronavirus. This includes claims that microwaving mail can kill the virus and that breast milk and […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took to Facebook Live on Sunday to give some sobering facts about the economic impact of the coronavirus on the city, but at the same time, gave a message of hope. Garcetti said that L.A. is under attack when it comes to the coronavirus. “Our daily life is unrecognizable,” he […]