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The world’s leading true crime event, CrimeCon, is returning to London this month with a packed line up of leading experts.

Taking place at 113 Houndsditch on 21st and 22nd September, true crime enthusiasts, survivors, victims’ families, criminologists, authors, and law enforcement officers will come together to share their stories in a curious, supportive, and caring environment.

Partnering with leading factual entertainment channel and true crime destination, True Crime, the two-day programme is jam-packed with outstanding content from top-level documentary makers, investigative journalists, and popular podcasters.

This year, notable guest speakers include world-renowned child-predator catcher and investigative journalist, Chris Hansen, who will explore the world of online criminal behaviour and give a behind-the-scenes insight into how he has ‘taken down’ hundreds of predators across the US, in his session, The Takedown: Battling the Epidemic of Child Predators.

Also being featured is Dawn Dines, the CEO of Stamp Out Spiking, and...

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The U.K.’s ITV has signed an agreement with Glaswegian-based Anime Ltd, the largest independent anime licensor in the U.K., which will make its upcoming streamer Itvx the free-to-air home of 500 episodes and 200 hours of anime television series and films. The collection will include “Escaflowne,” “Lupin III Part 6,” “Megalobox,” Shinichiro Watanabe’s “Cowboy Bebop” and Hideaki Anno’s “Gunbuster.”

An additional deal involves the launch of True Crime U.K. from CBS Reality. Drawing from the library of CBS Reality, the factual entertainment channel in the U.K. popular amongst adult women, the service will provide Itvx with an additional 200 hours of true crime content at launch, and a further 50 hours in 2023. Titles include “Descent of a Serial Killer,” four series presented by renowned investigative journalist and criminologist Donal MacIntyre, two series of “The Real Prime Suspect” hosted by former detective Jackie Malton, the inspiration behind drama series “Prime Suspect,...

Helen Mirren is the kind of woman who invites fantasy.

She is so regal and classy, yet she doesn’t have a moment’s hesitation about shedding her clothes for a role. And you never quite know what she might say, which makes for very entertaining interviews.

For the March issue of The Advocate, the-woman-who-has-been-Queen talked about her relationship with Lgbt fans — especially lesbians. Here are some highlights.

On why Jane Tennison, the detective Mirren played in Prime Suspect, has become a lesbian icon:

Well, the character wasn’t a lesbian, but Jackie Malton, the person she was based on, was a lesbian. She used to say that she came out as a gay woman very early on in her police career because she didn’t want anyone to think that she’d f----d her way to the top. So she was quite a character herself, and it’s interesting...