EXCLUSIVE: Persephonica, the producer behind hit daily news podcast The News Agents, has signed with WME in a bid to win more work across the pond.
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EXCLUSIVE: ITV may have balked at All3Media’s £1B ($1.3B) price tag last month, but Deadline hears that the British broadcaster is yet to fully walk away from a deal for The Traitors producer.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Liberty Global’s sale of All3Media was a source of chatter at the Edinburgh TV Festival this week, with senior UK industry insiders saying that ITV’s interest lingers.
ITV has not re-engaged in formal talks with WBD and Liberty Global, but lines of communication remain open. The WBD and Liberty Global deal team has in recent weeks been gathering informal expressions of interest ahead of an official All3Media auction next month.
Sources close to the process say that there has been plenty of interest in the British super producer and ITV is far from the only game in town. But there remains a feeling at All3Media and ITV that an agreement to bring the companies together would make strategic sense for both parties.
There is a gap between the two sides on valuation, but this is not unique to ITV. Other potential suitors have privately said All3Media is overpriced and weighed down by its £760M debt pile.
The U.S. strikes have not helped this perception, sources said. The industrial disputes have also failed to spark a rush to unscripted, an All3Media strong suit given its ownership of companies including Studio Lambert.
ITV signaled to shareholders last month that it had not abandoned the deal, telling investors that it would continue to “monitor” the situation, even if it was “no longer actively exploring” an acquisition.
Other interested parties are thought to include Banijay and Sony Pictures. RTL-owned Fremantle is not said to be in the race.
All3Media, which has around 50 production labels, has
EXCLUSIVE: Persephonica, the producer behind hit daily news podcast The News Agents, has signed with WME in a bid to win more work across the pond.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have arrived at St Davids Cathedral to mark the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s with a small private service.The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at the cathedral in St Davids, the smallest city in Britain, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on Friday - exactly a year after the nation’s longest-reigning monarch died peacefully aged 96.The couple, whose visit was delayed due to foggy weather, were cheered by around 300 well-wishers who had gathered in the grounds of St Davids. During their visit, William, 41, and Kate, 41, will join a short private service at the cathedral, which will include a commemoration of the late Queen’s life.
Days after welcoming her first child, a beautiful baby girl named Bonnie, Love Island star Laura Anderson has laid down some strict rules for her Instagram followers.Taking to social media last night to share the exciting news with her fans with a gorgeous reel, capturing the most adorable moments of her daughter's first few days, Laura insisted she doesn't want to hear any questions about her romance with the father. Bonnie's dad is Hollyoaks star Gary Lucy, whom blonde beauty Laura met when the pair were both contestants on last year's series of Celebs Go Dating, after which a whirlwind romance saw them getting pregnant before splitting soon after. Captioning the heart-warming Instagram video - in which Gary, 41, features heavily in sweet pictures with his baby girl - Laura, 34, wrote: "B O N N I E.
If you are struggling to find new TV shows or films to watch a new Disney+ deal could be a lifesaver for streaming fans.To celebrate the launch of The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey on the streaming platform Disney has cut the price of the monthly subscription to under £2. Disney+ might have exactly what you are looking for with the streaming platform launching an incredible limited-time deal that offers endless hours of shows, movies and documentaries for under £2.
Justin and Hailey Bieber are stepping out on a dinner date.
her third bout with COVID-19 — but apparently, according to Joy Behar, some viewers hatched their own ideas about her whereabouts.“People write, ‘Well, she got the vaccination, how come she still gets it?’” Behar, 80, said on Wednesday’s episode before showing a video message from Goldberg. “Because she’s not dead, she’s just a little bit under the weather!”“If you don’t get [the vaccination] and you get the disease, you might die … this type of irrational talk drives me nuts,” Behar told co-hosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.The “Sister Act” star also squashed nonsense theories herself, explaining in a video taped in her bedroom, “I am not at Burning Man.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Flannery O’Connor saw folks in a way few writers did. She saw through them, past their petty prejudices and hollow pieties, to the less civilized selves they so desperately tried to keep under wraps.
Nicki Minaj has revealed that she regrets having Kanye West feature on ‘Blazin’ instead of ‘Right Thru Me’ – saying it was the “dumbest fucking decision I ever made.”Earlier this year, the New York rapper announced that she will be dropping her fifth studio album ‘Pink Friday 2’, the follow-up to her 2010 debut album ‘Pink Friday’.The record featured many rap titans such as her then-mentor and label boss Lil Wayne, labelmate Drake, Rihanna and even Eminem. Another big name to rap alongside Minaj was Kanye West, who lent his talents to the synth-pop-inspired track ‘Blazin’.In a recent TikTok live broadcast, Nicki Minaj replied to a fan who said they loved the Kanye West-assisted track.
Popular Channel 4 series, The Traitors, will soon be returning as filming gets underway at Scotland's Ardross Castle.The show proved a hit over the Christmas period last year when 22 strangers competed for a £100,000 prize in a game of subterfuge and drama in the Gothic castle. Aerial photos of the castle show black cars arriving as this year's contestants make their way to the place they'll be staying for the next few weeks as the murder mystery game gets underway.
alum posted a short Instagram video Tuesday apologizing for any pain that the post may have caused, and he claimed he's the victim of «a cruel joke» after someone hacked into his account. He said he has been desperately trying to gain access to his account over the last 24 hours.While Josh, who turned off the comments on the post, never explained why it took him nearly a full 24 hours to dispel what would turn out to be a death hoax, Josh, 36, said he's going to get to the bottom of who hacked into his account and mocked his past struggles with mental illness.«Hey, guys, as you can see I am alive and well.
Yesterday, it was announced that former Bachelorette contestant Josh Seiter had passed away at the age of 36. Well, he just made a video on his account clarifying that he is NOT dead.
Be a 'smarty plants' this weekend, and every night of the week, with these wondrous creations from the BOSH! boys. Best friends Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, from Sheffield, were self-confessed meat eaters every night of the week but something clicked, and now they run BOSH!, the biggest planet-based online channel in the world.Their recipes have been viewed by over half a billion people, they've sold over 1 million of their best-selling cookbooks and have delicious products in major supermarkets across the country. And even better, they've given OK! some delicious meat-free, plant-based meal ideas that are so authentic and mouthwatering, you'll be hard pushed to taste the missing meat.
The producers of The Blind Side are finally speaking out.
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are speaking out amid Michael Oher's bombshell conservatorship lawsuit against Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, defending the 2009 film and sharing exactly how much they paid its real-life subjects. In a lengthy statement issued to ET on Thursday, Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove defended the film's integrity while shining a light on the nature of the 2006 business negotiations that resulted in securing the rights to the story.
Sophia Scorziello editor Producers behind “The Blind Side” have issued a statement affirming the authenticity of Michael Oher’s story as told in the film, responding to Oher’s recent allegations that the Tuohy family fabricated his adoption and instead placed him in a conservatorship that he is still restricted to. “We feel it is now important for us to respond to some recent media reports, which include many mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions,” Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, “Blind Side” producers of and co-founders of Alcon Entertainment, said in a statement Thursday.
Jennifer Aniston is making it clear that she is not a fan of cancel culture and is opening up as to why she feels like that.
Barbie has been released featuring Ryan Gosling performing ‘I’m Just Ken’ – check out the clip below.In the video, unseen footage from filming on Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy is spliced between Gosling’s performance – charting the track’s translation to the screen.Along with Gosling’s co-stars Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa, the video features clips from the recording of ‘I’m Just Ken’, including writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt in the studio, and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash who plays on the song.Check out the behind-the-scenes footage below.Since it was released last month, Barbie has become the second highest-grossing movie of the year so far. It was only recently knocked off the US box office number one spot by Blue Beetle, after it spent four weeks at the top.Earlier this month, Barbie surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight to become the highest-grossing film in Warner Bros.
In his 16th weekly installment of the Deadline Strike Talk Podcast, Billy Ray continues to explore ways that the shifting sands of the entertainment business can settle in a manner that pleases shareholders of the corporations paying for content, and the talent responsible for creating it with the traditional understanding they share in the upside of success. Joining him are two titan producers who make films and TV on independent and blockbuster levels. Gale Anne Hurd’s credits range from the universes of The Walking Dead and Terminator, and many others. Glen Basner’s FilmNation has been a cornerstone catalyst of independent and studio films and TV. Also, Billy Ray has decided that the word “producer’ no longer belongs in the AMPTP, because these cohorts in content creation are not the ones he and other writers and actors are striking against. He explains why, from now forward, the collection of signatories should be called something else.