After Bruising Week, BBC News CEO Deborah Turness Tells Staff: “It’s Always Difficult When The BBC Becomes A Story”

After Bruising Week, BBC News CEO Deborah Turness Tells Staff: “It’s Always Difficult When The BBC Becomes A Story”

EXCLUSIVE: BBC News’ top boss has acknowledged it’s been a testing week for the UK broadcaster. In an email to staff on Friday (full text below), Deborah Turness provided something of a pep talk for journalists after a string of bruising revelations about BBC News’ output. Turness, the former president of NBC News International, said:…

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Rory Scovel To Star Opposite Rachel Bloom In ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Do You Want Kids?’

Rory Scovel To Star Opposite Rachel Bloom In ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Do You Want Kids?’

EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Zilbalodis. Actor-comedian Rory Scovel (Physical, You’re Cordially Invited) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Rachel Bloom in ABC‘s half-hour pilot Do You Want Kids?. The single-camera comedy, from 20th Television, is about a married couple, Rosie (Bloom) and Alex Zilbalodis (Scovel). The show delves into how their lives are dramatically altered…

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Meryl Streep & Sigourney Weaver Lead NYC-Set Thriller ‘Useful Idiots’ From Fifth Season, Black Bear

Meryl Streep & Sigourney Weaver Lead NYC-Set Thriller ‘Useful Idiots’ From Fifth Season, Black Bear

Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver are teaming to star in Useful Idiots, a New York-set thriller from director Joseph Cedar, Fifth Season and Black Bear. The pic follows Diane Castle (Streep), a veteran journalist who covers the New York luxury property market. She’s disillusioned with writing puff pieces about the wealthy elite and regretful that she…

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Kiefer Sutherland, Al Pacino & Ever Anderson Thriller ‘Father Joe’ Heads To AFM With Kinology & CAA Media Finance

Kiefer Sutherland, Al Pacino & Ever Anderson Thriller ‘Father Joe’ Heads To AFM With Kinology & CAA Media Finance

EXCLUSIVE: Kiefer Sutherland, Al Pacino and Ever Anderson action-thriller Father Joe will be on sale at the AFM with Kinology handling international and CAA Media Finance handling domestic. Currently in production, the film is written and produced by Luc Besson with Barthélémy Grossmann directing. Set in 1990s Manhattan, 24 star Sutherland plays a man of…

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‘Outlander’ Sets Premiere For Eighth & Final Season

‘Outlander’ Sets Premiere For Eighth & Final Season

Starz has set Friday, March 6, as the premiere date for Outlander‘s eighth and final season. New episodes will be available to stream weekly on Fridays via the Starz app and all its streaming and on-demand platforms. The first seven seasons of the passionate love story set across time are available to stream now. In…

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Leila George Joins Netflix Limited Series ‘All The Sinners Bleed’

Leila George Joins Netflix Limited Series ‘All The Sinners Bleed’

EXCLUSIVE: Leila George has joined the cast of Netflix‘s All the Sinners Bleed. She joins the previously announced leading cast Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, John Douglas Thompson, Nicole Beharie, Daniel Ezra and Andrea Cortes. From Joe Robert Cole, who adapted S.A. Cosby’s novel of the same name for TV, All the Sinners Bleed follows Titus Crown (Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff…

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Chrishell Stause Shares Update on IVF Journey Amid Selling Sunset Exit

Chrishell Stause Shares Update on IVF Journey Amid Selling Sunset Exit

Chrishell Stause is holding onto hope. The reality star—who announced that she’s leaving Selling Sunset after nine seasons following season nine’s Nov. 5 reunion—shared an update on her and partner G Flip‘s IVF journey as they strive to grow their family. “It was really hard going through IVF through the process of filming Selling Sunset,” Chrishell—who…

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