Posts by Nathan Pine
International Sales Of French TV Programs Crash To A Ten-Year Low
The latest French TV export numbers make for tough reading for Gallic program-sellers with sales collapsing to a ten-year low. International sales of French shows for 2025 fell to €164.2M ($190.7M), down 21.6% on the €209.6M recorded in 2024. The sales for last year were just above those for 2015. French distributors are enduring a…
Read MoreArlington Cemetery webpage criticizing Confederate Memorial changed
The Trump administration has removed language from Arlington National Cemetery that described the dismantled Confederate Memorial as presenting a “nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy” and offering “highly sanitized depictions of slavery.” The edits, made to both a cemetery marker, as reported by The Washington Post, and a Department of Defense webpage, strip references to…
Read MoreBBC Comedy ‘Small Prophets’ Renewed For Season 2
The Homunculi spirits are set to commune once more. The BBC has renewed Small Prophets for a second season after the comedy became a breakout hit for the British broadcaster, drawing up to 9.2 million viewers. Apple TV acquired worldwide rights to Season 1 last month. Created by Mackenzie Crook, star of the UK version…
Read MorePrime Video YA Retreat First Looks: Boys of Tommen & Our Fault London
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has gotten the YA gang together, with a campus-style retreat in the Bavarian alps. Off Campus, Boys of Tommen, Love Me Love Me 2, Maxton Hall and Our Fault: London were to the fore in Germany, and we’ve got this year’s class photo (above), showing many of those in attendance. There were also…
Read MoreMalaysia’s data centres guzzling more power as temperatures soar
Published Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 05:31 PM [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia’s data centres are consuming more power as temperatures rise, leaving a 9 gigawatt gas-fired capacity gap for the government to fill by 2032, officials said on Tuesday (Sep 8). The share of data centres in overall power consumption surged to a record 9.3 per…
Read MoreJames Bond Writer Steven Knight Refuses To Deny That 007 Has Been Cast
The plot thickens. After Gary Oldman claimed that the new James Bond has finally been chosen, the film’s writer Steven Knight has playfully stonewalled questions on the subject. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today show on Tuesday morning, Knight was asked if a casting decision had been made after Oldman threw his support…
Read More“Zero hour”: Intercepted comms signaled an imminent terror attack
In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: September 7 saw the terrorists en route to their 9/11 departure points. The four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 were the earliest team in position. September 8, 2001: The National Security Agency (NSA), the nation’s…
Read More‘A Time In Eternity’ Starring Leila Hatami Lands Sales Rep — TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Eyes Film & Distribution has acquired worldwide sales rights to A Time In Eternity, the latest feature from writer, director, and producer Mehdi Norowzian, starring Leila Hatami (A Separation). The company will introduce the project to international buyers at the TIFF Market. Set in contemporary Tehran, A Time In Eternity follows Maryam, a…
Read MoreHurricane Lowell: list of school closures in Hawaii as storm hits
Hawaii officials have closed schools and government offices across parts of the state as Hurricane Lowell approaches the islands, bringing the threat of hurricane-force winds, flash flooding, damaging surf and possible tornadoes. As of Monday night, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Lowell was located about 135 miles southwest of Lihue, Kauai, with maximum sustained…
Read MoreChina’s car exports stay strong in August but domestic sales decline more
Passenger vehicle exports jumped 77.5% from a year earlier to 894,000 units in August Published Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 04:09 PM [BEIJING] China’s car exports stayed robust in August as BYD and other automakers shipped a record number of vehicles overseas, in sharp contrast to a sluggish domestic market where their sales fell for…
Read MoreTrump Fires Shots At UK Plan To Boost BBC & ITV Content On YouTube
Donald Trump‘s administration has taken exception to UK government plans to compel online video giants like YouTube to promote “public service media” content from outlets like the BBC. In a submission to Britain’s consultation on the proposals, the U.S. government said the plans would be state meddling in the algorithms of American companies that could…
Read MoreAustralian shares log biggest fall in over three months
Published Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 03:56 PM [SYDNEY] Australian shares recorded their biggest fall in more than three months on Tuesday (Sep 8), led by weakness in financials and mining stocks, as higher oil prices stoked inflation concerns and drove risk-averse sentiment among investors. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index fell 1 per cent to…
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