BBC, ZDF & Other Euro Public Service Networks See Viewer Engagement Dwindling — Ampere Study

Mariana Downing, previously in a relationship with Marc Anthony, has recently been crowned Miss Dominican Republic. She is preparing to participate in the upcoming Miss Universe competition on November 18th in El Salvador.

PIXY have announced their upcoming 2023 ‘Last Night in the Dark City’ tour of Europe.Today (September 8), PIXY announced on social media that they will tour Europe later this year. Their new ‘Last Night in the Dark City’ Europe tour will feature 12 shows over late-November and early-December.The K-pop girl group’s forthcoming concerts will kick off on November 19 at La Sala in Madrid, Spain.

Prince Harry is back in the United Kingdom — but it looks like his return home won’t be an opportunity for any father-son time (or possible reconciliation) with his dad, King Charles III.

Even if the critical reactions have been mixed, Italian films have proven much stronger than usual at this year’s Venice Film Festival, with a notable resurgence of genre filmmaking in the likes of Adagio and Enea. Ironically, Matteo Garrone, the one local director in the selection whose actual stock in trade is genre of all stripes — gangster realism (Gomorrah, Dogman), satirical comedy (Reality), and baroque fantasy (Tale of Tales) — arrived this year with a blisteringly topical drama that might be his most traditional, and best, yet.

Mariana Downing, representing the province of Sánchez Ramírez, was officially crowned the Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2023. The 27-year-old half-Dominican and half-British beauty pageant will now travel to El Salvador and try to win a second Miss Universe title for the Caribbean island.

Guy Lodge Film Critic About 20 minutes pass in “Enea” before someone asks the young, handsome, splendidly attired title character what he does for a living, during which time audiences are likely to be wondering the same thing. This, to be fair, is not a negligent omission in writer-director-star Pietro Castellitto’s script, which tells us early on that Enea, the elder son of a wealthy Roman family, ostensibly manages a high-end sushi restaurant, atop an assortment of more underhand dealings.

Naman Ramachandran The European Film Academy has revealed the nominations for Lux – The European Audience Film Award. The nominated films are: “20,000 Species of Bees” by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain); “The Teacher’s Lounge” by İlker Çatak (Germany); “Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, Germany); “On the Adamant” by Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan); and “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” by Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland).

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The international trailer for “A Whole Life,” which will have its world premiere in the Gala section of the Zürich Film Festival (Sept. 28 to Oct. 8), has debuted with Variety (below).

Christopher Vourlias Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland follows the harrowing ordeal of a refugee family trapped on the margins of the E.U. in “Green Border,” a gripping drama from the prolific Polish director that plays in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It does rather feel as if the universe — or at least the French film industry — is trying to tell us something when 2023 has turned up not one but two loose Gallic adaptations of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle.” That 1903 novella was about a man, John Marcher, who fails to fully live his life because he’s seized by premonitions of catastrophe that never visibly come to pass. It feels glumly relevant in an age of climate change, artificial intelligence and other obvious but indefinite signals of human demise; perhaps we should count this highly specific cinematic mini-trend as another.

EXCLUSIVE: Roman Polanski’s dark comedy The Palace has sold to a host of key territories ahead of its Venice premiere, with distributors getting behind the film in spite of the controversy surrounding the director. 

Former Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea has posted a training montage on social media as he awaits the next chapter of his career.

Kanye West and Bianca Censori just got after it during a river taxi trip in Venice, Italy…

EXCLUSIVE: With Mipcom on the horizon, Sweden’s Eccho Rights is building out its sales team by hiring well-respected exec Tess Charman.

John Hamilton is a busy man in the lead-up to Pride.

Camila Alves McConaughey is opening up about her husband, Matthew McConaughey‘s, personality.

The UK spends a lower percentage of its GDP on financial support for disabled people and sick workers than any other country in north-west Europe, the SNP has claimed.

Manchester United are reportedly looking into the possibility of signing PSG midfielder Marco Verratti this summer.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has aimed a dig at football's schedulers for allowing other games which clash with the Women's World Cup final to go ahead.

Manchester United will accelerate their efforts to sign Sofyan Amrabat from Fiorentina, according to reports.