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With inflation hitting record levels, a looming energy crisis and rising interest rates, the whole of the U.K. has been left reeling. But for the domestic television industry, which was already dealing with a post-covid skills shortage and industry-wide inflation prompted by the streaming wars, the situation has now become critical.

“We are facing a horrific winter,” said John McVey, CEO of Pact, a trade body representing producers. “Borrowing costs have gone up massively, operational costs as a consequence of that have all gone up, gas has gone up, heat has gone up. If you’re having to film on location in multiple locations around the U.K., and you have to transport a lot of people, they have to be fed, watered, accommodated.”

Steve Wynne, CEO of production company Strawberry Blonde, agrees, citing higher energy bills in the office, the skills shortage and freelancers upping their rates as...

Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula.' Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at 77: Best remembered for cult horror classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula' Actress Yvonne Monlaur, best known for her roles in the 1960 British cult horror classics Circus of Horrors and The Brides of Dracula, died of cardiac arrest on April 18 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Monlaur was 77. According to various online sources, she was born Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille Bédat de Monlaur in the southwestern town of Pau, in France's Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, on Dec. 15, 1939. Her father was poet and librettist Pierre Bédat de Monlaur; her mother was a Russian ballet dancer. The young Yvonne was trained in ballet and while still a teenager became a model for Elle magazine. She was “discovered” by newspaper publisher-turned-director André Hunebelle,...

Mubi's retrospective The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk is showing February 12 - June 18, 2017 in the United States and in many other countries around the world.The late 1970s marks a stylistic departure for Walerian Borowczyk, as the Polish director moved away from a controlled, painterly style and toward a ‘corporeal’ style, wherein changes in aesthetic choices allowed him to explore the human body in greater depth than in his previous films. While the liberal portrayal of sex and sexuality (lending itself to the liberal portrayal of bodies, human or otherwise) is present in Borowczyk’s live-action films as early as his anthology Immoral Tales from 1973, the preoccupation with the body specifically comes to the fore with the films Behind Convent Walls (1978), Immoral Women (1979), L’armoire (1979), Lulu (1980), and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981). It is in this four-year period that the viewer will notice Borowczyk's moving away...

How did Bravo end up "Tardy to the Party" in releasing a gay version of "The Real Housewives"? After all, aren't they the network that got its biggest boost from its gay programming, including "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," which put the network on the pop culture map, snagging Newsweek and EW covers to boot?

Rumors have been swirling that Bravo will start production on its own version of Logo's "The A-List: New York" and despite the network's typical "no comment," our buddies at Access Hollywood have been sorting through the hot mess to find out what's really going on.

Playfully nicknamed "From The Bottom To The Top" by New York City gays, that title has apparently never officially been attached to Bravo's production as Vice President of Original Programming and Development, Andy Cohen, denied on Twitter.

"The A-List: New York" was one of Zap2it's guilty pleasures of...