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The power of TikTok can singlehandedly make a song, from reviving oldies to turning aspiring artists’ off-the-cuff samples into full-fledged songs. Over the past couple years, that power has proven particularly effective for indie artists who otherwise might struggle to get their stuff heard. Now, we’ve officially had the summer of indies on TikTok: 60% of the platform’s Top 10 hits this summer were independently distributed.

Most of these distributors make up what Music Business Worldwide refers to as “the middle class” of music-making. They’re not The Big Four, but they’re not artists totally DIYing, either. While labels of all sizes generally want to get their tracks on TikTok, these indie labels don’t have the same contentious history with the platform, have quicker turnaround times than the biggies, and many of them have embraced TikTok as the premiere method of advertising new artists and songs.

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UKTV’s crime drama channel Alibi has confirmed additional guest stars for its upcoming drama series Bookish, created by Emmy Award-winning writer Mark Gatiss. The series, set in London in 1946, features Gatiss as the unconventional detective Gabriel Book, who uses his vast knowledge of books to help the police solve mysterious crimes. Joining the cast […]

Alibi’s Crime Drama ‘Bookish’ Confirms Additional Guest Stars...

LeVar Burton is a jack of many trades, given that he’s an award-winning actor, director, and education advocate. While the actor has been a part of numerous movies and shows, he’s globally famous for playing Kunte Kinte in Roots and Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The show ran for a total of seven seasons, and Burton directed some episodes of it as well.

LeVar Burton in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) || Paramount Pictures

In the show, his character, Geordi La Forge, has been blind since birth, and to tackle this, he uses an advanced Visor instrument. However, this visual tool also had additional repercussions for the actor, compelling him to experiment with a different acting technique.

LeVar Burton tried out a new method of acting due to his Visor

The Visor was connected to the character’s optic nerve and further allowed him to see and perceive the world.

UK network ITV has posted Q1 revenues down 7%, as its studios division felt the impact of last year’s Hollywood labor strikes.

The commercial broadcaster’s total revenue was £887M ($1.1B), compared with £952M in 2023, with a recovery in the ad market offset by a 16% dip at ITV Studios.

The Media and Entertainment unit that houses its main network was up 2% at £505M, according to a trading update this morning. Earnings weren’t broken out.

Total revenue at ITV Studios, which makes the likes of Love Island and Mr Bates Vs the Post Office were £382M, down on the £457M in the same period last year.

According to ITV, this was “due to the phasing of deliveries which are heavily weighted to H2 and the expected impact from both the 2023 U.S. writers and actors strikes and the weaker demand from free-to-air broadcasters in Europe who have been holding back...

U.K. broadcaster ITV has reported mixed financial fortunes for the first quarter of 2024.

Its advertising revenue growth of 3%, with the second quarter expected to be up around 12%, is offset by the downturn in revenues from ITV Studios. Total revenue was down 7% to £887 million ($1.10 billion), between January and March, compared to £952 million ($1.18 billion) during the same period in 2023.

Within that total, ITV Studios revenues were down by 16% to £382 million (2023: £457 million), “due to the phasing of deliveries which are heavily weighted to H2 and the expected impact from both the 2023 U.S. writers and actors strikes and the weaker demand from free-to-air broadcasters in Europe who have been holding back spend until they see more certainty in the advertising market,” the broadcaster said.

During the quarter ITV Studios delivered “The Reluctant Traveller” for Apple TV+, “The Red King” for Alibi, “The Gathering” for Channel 4 and “I’m A Celebrity…...

Welcome to the island of St Jory, population: one less than there used to be.

A year ago, St Jory teenager Cai Prideaux went missing and the police did very little about it. Now there’s a new sheriff in town in Sgt Grace Narayan (Anjli Mohindra), an outsider with an unbending belief in the letter of the law that’s ruffling feathers among the locals. The islanders, you see, are used to running things their own way. The True Way.

That’s the Hot Fuzz-meets-The Wicker Man premise for The Red King, an original six-part series written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse and directed by Daniel O’Hara and Lisa Clarke. It’s a crime drama/folk horror mash-up that uses murder mystery trappings to tell a story about religion, insularity and national identity.

St Jory is your typical folk horror island in that there’s nothing typical about it.

Big ‘Dris himself joins us on the show this week, talking to Kay about Sonic spin-off Knuckles, which comes to Paramount+. Elsewhere, we’re back on the Baby Reindeer beat again this week, seeing as we made such a shambolic show of reviewing it on last episode, and now that everyone’s talking about it, we though it only fair to give it a proper viewing. Plus we revisit The Big Door Prize on Apple, and head off to hang out with the druids in The Red King on Alibi.

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Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss has discussed the potential for a Sherlock project, expressing his ongoing enthusiasm to bring the detective series back in a big way. Ideally, he wants the characters to reunite for a Sherlock reunion film.

Gatiss co-created the series with Steven Moffat and has previously voiced his ambition to adapt Sherlock into a movie, but emphasized that the right people need to be on board for it to happen. In a recent interview with Deadline, Palmer discussed the difficulty of getting the show's stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman together to film due to their busy Hollywood schedules.

Related Sherlock Star Rejects Comparisons Between Moriarty and 'Anti-Hero' Role in Netflix's Ripley Andrew Scott's upcoming series Ripley stars a con man, but doesn't want fans to believe he's playing another villain.

Gatiss stated, "We'd love to make a film, but gathering everyone together is quite challenging.

Sherlock co-creator and star Mark Gatiss has said he and the team behind the popular detective drama are still interested in adapting the series for the big screen.

Gatiss, who created the show with Steven Moffat, was quizzed on a Sherlock film adaptation last night by Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye on the green carpet at the 2024 Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

“We’d like to make a film but trying to get everyone together is very difficult,” Gatiss told Deadline, adding that if you want a concrete answer on a film you’ll have to “you’ll have to ask Benedict [Cumberbatch] and Martin [Freeman].”

‘The Motive and the Cue’ star Mark Gatiss, nominated for ‘Best Actor’ at the #OlivierAwards, talks about his new TV show ‘Bookish’ and returning to the Sherlock Holmes world pic.twitter.com/fyj4CIXNn7

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Gatiss expressed similar plans to...

Hurray for the Riff Raff dropped by CBS Mornings’ studio to perform three tracks from their new album The Past Is Still Alive for “Saturday Sessions.”

For the mini-concert, singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra — who uses they/them pronouns — delivered the first three songs from the recently released LP, “Alibi,” “Buffalo,” and “Hawkmoon,” accompanied by NNAMDÏ on bass.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Segarra broke down The Past Is Still Alive, an album informed by grief, like the death of Segarra’s father and, as on “Alibi,” a childhood friend who had become addicted to heroin.

Mark Gatiss will co-write and star in Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi, and here are the details of the new show.

It’s been several years since the last project by The League Of Gentlemen, and there is as of yet so sign of any further adventures for Sherlock. However, in the intervening years, Mark Gatiss has kept himself busy with a number of projects, from his annual Mr James Ghost Story For Christmas films, collaborating with Steven Moffat again on Dracula and directing Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend.

His next television project will be Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi he wrote with Matthew Sweet.

The synopsis reads as follows:

London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book (Gatiss) at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands...

Exclusive: Sherlock star Mark Gatiss is writing and starring in a British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes.

Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.

The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”

Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...

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The Walt Disney Company has agreed to license its catalog of six television series to UKTV Media for its streaming service UKTV Play and certain linear channels, the companies announced this week.

Two of the shows — “Alaska Daily” and “The Company You Keep,” both from ABC television in the United States — will air on Alibi in the United Kingdom, while two others — “A Small Light” and “Mike,” both from Hulu — will air on the TV channel Dave.

The remaining two shows — “Brothers and Sisters” from ABC and “Sons of Anarchy” from cable channel FX — will stream on UKTV Play.

“I’m thrilled to announce this deal with Disney for these premium dramas,” Melanie Rumani, one of the UKTV executives who helped broker the deal, said in a statement. “Growing our portfolio of content for UKTV Play, and providing Drama, Alibi...

Zdf Latest To ‘Race Across The World’

A six-part series based on Studio Lambert’s Race Across the World is set to air on German pubcaster Zdf in spring 2025. Planning is underway for casting and filming is set for the fall, with All3Media’s German producer, Tower, attached to make the show. Kirstin Benthaus-Gebauer will be the producer with Friederike Haedecke, Johannes Geiger, Thorsten Haas and Daniel Nemetschek the editors. The original BBC show has run to strong ratings in the UK for three seasons and one celebrity series. New seasons of both versions have been commissioned after the the first ep of the celebrity run drew 6.2 million viewers, consolidating the format’s position among the BBC’s top factual programs. The German deal, struck with distributor All3Media International, marks the fifth international version of the show, coming after three seasons on TV2 in Denmark, an upcoming production on MTV Katsomo and MTV3 in Finland,...

One week before Alynda Segarra’s father died, he mailed them a package. It was a box of all the music Segarra had sent him over the span of nearly 20 years, ever since they’d left their childhood home in the Bronx to travel the country. Everything they’d recorded, from burned CDs for street and jazz bands they’d played in, to records from Segarra’s own band of more than a decade, Hurray for the Riff Raff, was in there.

“He had absolutely every single thing I’d given him since,...

It’s been a decade of reinvention for Hurray for the Riff Raff, the recording moniker of singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra. After years of street-busking and self-releasing acoustic records, Segarra cemented their status as an old-timey roots standard-bearer on 2014 Small Town Heroes. But over the course of their past two albums–2017’s The Navigator and 2021’s Life On Earth–Segarra chipped away at that artistic identity by exploring other musical lineages (everything from alt-pop to punk to Nuyorican folk-poetry) while carving out a truer artistic self. Their new album, The Past Is Still Alive,...

“Alibi,” the opening track of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s The Past Is Still Alive, embraces the sense of invincibility that comes from facing down the very worst that life can throw at you. “You don’t have to die if you don’t wanna die/You can take it all back in the nick of time,” Alynda Segarra sings. The arrangement, featuring organ and bursts of tambourine, imbues the song with a sense of resilience and liberation—a relentlessly forward-moving spirit that recalls the music of Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, and Waxahatchee.

The rest of The Past Is Still Alive is likewise informed by recollections of both a friend’s addiction and the passing of Segarra’s father, charting a determined, if sometimes uneasy, journey to make peace with uncomfortable truths. “Snake Plant” alternates between pleasantly mundane memories to direct addresses to a friend battling addiction (“I know...

Exclusive: John Simm and Nikki Amuka-Bird are leading a mystery thriller series titled I, Jack Wright for Federation Stories and UKTV.

Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones) will also feature.

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe scribe Chris Lang is penning I, Jack Wright, which Federation is producing and distributing via its UK arm. A number of deals have already been struck for Scandi public broadcasters Yle, Dk, Nrk and Srk. Deadline understands a deal with the BBC is close.

Shooting will begin this month on the series that stars double-bafta nominee Simm as Gray Wright. When the provisions of Jack’s final will and testament are made known, his third wife Sally (Amuka-Bird) and sons are shocked to discover they have been largely cut out of his enormous fortune. As Dci Morgan and DC Jones delve further into the case, they realize Jack’s cause of death was in fact murder.

Happy Valley and Endeavour may have ended for good last year, but there’s no shortage of top British TV crime drama coming to fill the gap they left behind. From complex true crime to cosy village-set murder mysteries and bonkers grisly thrillers, fans of British TV crime drama will eat well in 2024.

A few picks from the 30+ series below to get on your radar: spy thriller Black Doves, from the creator of The Lazarus Project and Giri/Haji, starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, is coming to Netflix this year. Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has a new folk horror crime mystery staring Anjli Mohindra that’s on its way to Alibi. Stephen Butchard, the writer behind The Last Kingdom’s TV adaptation, is going back to the history books for a new Tudor-set murder mystery in Shardlake. And Andrew Scott will be taking on the title role in Netflix’s Ripley,...

To celebrate the release of Dark Winds Season One on DVD and Blu-ray from 27th November and Digital from 19th October, we’re giving away a Blu-Ray copy!

Prepare to be blown away by Dark Winds– the smash-hit, stunningly shot, atmospheric new crime-thriller crafted by Jack Ryan creator Graham Roland and exec–produced by Hollywood titan, Oscar®-winning Robert Redford and the creator of Game of Thrones himself, George R. R. Martin.

Celebrated for its commitment to showcasing indigenous talent both on and off screen, this acclaimed six-part series – based on Tony Hillerman’s best-selling mystery novel series – stars Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon as two Navajo police officers battling forces of evil in the 1970s Southwest.

Following its run on Alibi, Dark Winds Season One is now set to arrive in the UK on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 27 November 2023, courtesy of Acorn Media International. Both discs include a...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Dua Lipa returns with an addictive new dance track, Jack Harlow is feeling the love, and Kodak Black gets boastful. Plus, standout tracks off new albums from Chris Stapleton, PinkPantheress, and The Kid Laroi.

Dua Lipa, “Houdini” (YouTube)

Jack Harlow, “Lovin On Me” (YouTube)

Kodak Black, “Lemme See” (YouTube)

Chris Stapleton, “Higher” (YouTube)

Noah Kahan feat. Hozier, “Northern Attitude” (YouTube)

T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, “That’s How We Ballin” (YouTube)

2 Chainz,...

‘Prestige drama… gathering the force to be another True Detective’

Sunday Times

‘Gripping, gorgeously shot and propelled by superb performances… very good… very important’

Time Magazine

‘The landscape and the language make this a mystery unlike any other on TV’

Radio Times

Prepare to be blown away by Dark Winds – the smash-hit, stunningly shot, atmospheric new crime-thriller crafted by Jack Ryan creator Graham Roland and exec–produced by Hollywood titan, Oscar®-winning Robert Redford and the creator of Game of Thrones himself, George R. R. Martin.

Celebrated for its commitment to showcasing indigenous talent both on and off screen, this acclaimed six-part series – based on Tony Hillerman’s best-selling mystery novel series – stars Zahn McClarnon (Fargo, Doctor Sleep, Reservation Dogs) and Kiowa Gordon (Blood Quantum, Reservation Dogs, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) as two Navajo police officers battling forces of evil in the 1970s Southwest. Following its run on Alibi,...

Kenneth Branagh's supernatural thriller, A Haunting in Venice, is sparking a resurgence of Agatha Christie's works in Hollywood. James Prichard, Christie's great-grandson, believes Branagh could make more movies based on Christie's 33 Hercule Poirot stories if box office performances are successful. The enduring appeal of Christie's works lies in the universal love for great stories, as seen by the recent growth in the whodunit genre.

Thanks to Kenneth Branagh's latest supernatural thriller, A Haunting in Venice, legendary mystery novelist Agatha Christie is experiencing a resurgence in Hollywood, despite her passing nearly half a century ago.

While Branagh's Hercule Poirot trilogy currently has no confirmations of future installments, James Prichard, Christie's great-grandson and CEO of the Christie estate, affirms that the filmmaker could make as many movies as he wants. In an interview with Inverse, Prichard, who plays a pivotal role in ensuring the preservation and adaptation of Christie's writings,...

There’s no shortage of brilliant detectives in novels, film and television, but one of the greatest — or at least the one with the fanciest facial hair — is Hercule Poirot. The Belgian investigator, created by Agatha Christie, has appeared 33 novels, more than 50 short stories, and has been played by a variety of iconic actors.

But for whatever reason, Poirot has only sporadically appeared on the big screen, with many of his earliest movie appearances being lost to time, while some of his other noteworthy adventures were rewritten as vehicles for Christie’s other beloved creation, Miss Marple.

Here we take a look at the various theatrically-released adventures of Hercule Poirot, from the 1930s to today, and see which of his mysteries were truly worth solving.

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Honorable Mention: “Murder By Death” (1976)

Neil Simon’s wacky spoof of the supersleuth genre, directed by Robert Moore, features an all-star cast...

Mes enfants! A Haunting in Venice marks the third entry in Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie movie series, finally giving us enough evidence to sift through in order to solve the present mystery: who is the best screen Hercule Poirot?

Taking into account appearance, accent, mannerisms, brilliance of mind, vanity, theatricality, humour, pathos, and of course the all-important moustache, here’s our ranking from most unfortunately disappointing version of the detective, to Poirot perfection.

A bit of housekeeping: only English-language screen Poirots have been included, so no radio, animated, international or videogame versions appear below, nor do bit-part sketch comedy Hercules. The nine actors in contention range almost a century in time, several inches in height, and vastly in their take on what makes a proper Poirot.

9. Tony Randall in The Alphabet Murders (1965)

A sense of humour is key to Poirot. His fastidiousness and affectations have always made him a...

A Haunting in Venice, the third installment in Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot film series, marks a turning point for the film series, as while the first installment, Branagh’s 2017 remake of Murder on the Orient Express, was a box office success, the previous entry, Death on the Nile, was one of the biggest box office flops of 2022.

Unlike Branagh’s remakes of Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express, A Haunting in Venice is based on Agatha Christie’s previously un-filmed 1969 Poirot novel Hallowe’en Party, and the supernatural-themed A Haunting in Venice clearly represents an attempt, after the failure of Death on the Nile, to appeal to a broader and younger audience, including horror fans.

Indeed, with A Haunting in Venice, Branagh has made a gothic horror film in which Branagh’s legendary Belgian detective Poirot visits a supposedly haunted mansion, where Poirot witnesses a Halloween-night séance,...

If you thought you'd seen the last of Hercule Poirot, think again. Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, who has appeared in countless of her mystery novels, returns in "A Haunting in Venice," which is set to premiere on Sept. 15. The movie is based on Christie's 1969 novel "Hallowe'en Party," which revolves around Poirot embroiled in another murder mystery. The original story takes place at a Halloween party, while the upcoming adaptation sees the detective at a séance.

"A Haunting in Venice" coproducer and director Kenneth Branagh is set to reprise his role as Poirot for the third time in the upcoming film. He first made his debut as Poirot in the star-studded 2017 film "Murder on the Orient Express." Five years later, he returned as Poirot in the 2022 movie "Death on the Nile," which also had a stacked cast. The third film in the Branagh trilogy will also feature huge stars...

Kenneth Branagh's potential return as Hercule Poirot in future movies opens up a vast catalog of Agatha Christie novels to explore. "The Big Four" offers a fresh and gripping entry in Branagh's Poirot universe with international settings and villains. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" provides an opportunity for Branagh to reinterpret this revolutionary and controversial crime novel with amusing results.

With Kenneth Branagh returning as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice, there has been much speculation as to what novel his franchise may adapt next. The director, screenwriter, and actor’s third outing as Poirot is interestingly based on one of Agatha Christie’s most polarizing novels, Hallowe’en Party. A voracious bibliophile, Branagh has always had a soft spot for literary adaptations. This is more than evident from the British multi-hyphenate's film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays like Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, and others. His obsession...

Producer James Prichard hints at the possibility of more Hercule Poirot films with Kenneth Branagh as the detective, due to Christie's extensive catalog of stories. Branagh's unique take on Poirot has reintroduced Christie's beloved works to a new generation and could make significant contributions to the mystery genre. The next adaptation of a Christie book could be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a widely acclaimed masterpiece that has only been adapted once before in a lost 1931 film.

A Haunting in Venice producer James Prichard has hinted that Kenneth Branagh’s detective Hercule Poirot could potentially return in many more outings to come. Officially marking the third time Branagh has played Agatha Christie’s iconic Belgian sleuth, A Haunting in Venice is the latest installment in a cinematic franchise that began with 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. Moving away from some of Christie’s better-known works, this latest film...

The first season sold widely around the world.

Iceland’s Glassriver is gearing up to shoot the second season of its hit series Black Sands, from showrunner Baldvin Z.

The partners again on board for the second season are Iceland’s Channel 2, All3Media, which handles international rights, Belgium’s Lunanime and Vrt, and Finland’s Yle.

The first season sold well – including to Viaplay with rights in several European territories and the US (where the show launched on July 20), Alibi for the UK, Disney+ for the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Canal+ for Poland, Sbs in Australia, Axn Mystery Channel in Japan,...

A Star Is Born is an emotional journey that's hard not to fall in love with. Bradley Cooper directed, starred in, and helped write this remake of the 1937 film and excelled in every role. A Star Is Born was critically acclaimed and was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture. However, the emotional core of the movie is the music, and it won for Best Original Song. Main characters Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and Ally Maine (Lady Gaga) both speak the truth through their songs and there are so many great lyrics in A Star Is Born to unpack.

There are so many great pieces of music throughout the film that narrowing down all the A Star Is Born songs down to just the best of the best is no easy task. The most powerful songs from A Star Is Born leave a distinct impression however,...

Agatha Christie is one of the best-known crime novelists ever. She published over 125 written works between 1924 and her death in 1976, including 74 novels. Her works have sold more than two billion copies, and she is the second best-selling fiction author ever, second only to William Shakespeare. Christie's stories are ripe for adaptation; the first film adaptation came in 1928 with the first non-English language adaptation coming a year later. Foreign filmmakers have taken a particular liking to Christie's work. Of the more than 30 film adaptations, 14 are non-English adaptations. The best adaptations of her work are wide-ranging and are made in many different countries.

Even today, Christie's mystery novels continue to be popular among readers all over the world. They are still being adapted into television series and movies whether they're stand-alone stories or part of the mysteries solved by Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. While miniseries and special presentations on television tend...

To celebrate the release of the third season of Miss Scarlett and the Duke, which returns to Alibi this week, we sat down once more with the delightful stars of the show to find out about the new series.

The third series of Miss Scarlet and the Duke will continue to follow Kate Phillips as the fearless female detective Eliza Scarlet, and Stuart Martin as her childhood friend and will-they-won’t-they love interest, Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington.

Speaking to Phillips and Martin – the third time we have had the pleasure since the show started – we chat about the success of the show and its ever-expanding audience and fans, the challenges of keeping the show fresh and innovative going into the third season, their favourite moments, the excitement of finding out where the characters are heading and, WhatsApp groups, and, of course, romance and the “will they/won’t they...

There's one thing you can say about every single Academy Award nominee: whether they're good films or bad films, beloved or obscure, they are officially in the history books. Future movie lovers will read about them and, often, watch them out of either passionate interest or mild curiosity, decades later.

And that's a very good thing because a lot of the films that are nominated for the Oscars fall into obscurity pretty quickly. We may remember most of the Best Picture winners, for example, but what about the other films in contention? "Casablanca" won Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards and it's a film most people can quote directly, even if they've never watched it before. But there's a good chance that many of its fellow nominees that same year — films like "The Human Comedy," "The More the Merrier," and "Watch On the Rhine" — aren't nearly as well known today.

Lukas Nathrath’s One Last Evening Wins Locarno Pro’s First Look Prize

German filmmaker Lukas Nathrath’s debut feature One Last Evening, about a young couple who host a doomed farewell dinner for friends before moving to a new city, has won Locarno Pro’s First Look Award. The prize comes with €50,000 in post-production services from Swiss and Germany-based production house Cinegrell. This year’s First Look line-up showcased six upcoming movies from Germany. In further prizes, Le Film Français Award, offering advertising services worth €5,600, went to Arthur & Diana by Sara Summa. And the Kaiju Cinema Diffusion Prize, an award of €5,000 for the design of an international poster, went to Elaha by Milena Aboyan. The awards jury was made of BFI London Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle, International Film Festival Rotterdam artistic director Vanja Kaludjercic, and Busan International Film Festival festival director Huh Moonyung.

UKTV Seeks Comedy Scripts By Women,...

Exclusive: CBS has bought two more dramas from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, bringing to four the number of projects the company has sold to the network this cycle. The first of the two new additions, Out The Door, hails from 24 veteran Evan Katz. The second is Alibi, based on an New Zealand format, from the original series’ creators and MacGyver executive producer Craig O’Neill. Both Out the Door and Alibi are produced by CBS Television Studios, where Bruckheimer and O’Neill are under deals.

Written by Katz, in Out The Door, upon learning that his impending retirement is being pushed off by several years, an apathetic NYPD detective who just wants his pension so he can go off and live the good life decides to do everything in his power to get fired, but his bad behavior only leads to surprising success at solving cases.

Katz executive produces with Jerry Bruckheimer TV’s Bruckheimer,...

‘My Name Is Captain Thunderbolt (Sometimes)’.

Network 10 will launch an animated spin-off to Cjz’s My Life Is Murder tomorrow on 10 Play, My Name Is Captain Thunderbolt (Sometimes).

The six-episode series is based on a cat named Captain Thunderbolt, who wanders into the apartment of Alexa Crowe – the lead character in My Life Is Murder, played by Lucy Lawless – and takes up residence. Captain Thunderbolt appears in the television series. In the animated series, he has become a private detective, investigating Alexa’s life to decide if he should stay with her.

Written by Network 10’s digital editor Liz Galinovic and My Life Is Murder script editor Hannah Fitzpatrick, it is the first animated series made for Network 10’s digital platform.

Network 10 developed the series in partnership with the University of Newcastle’s animation school to enable a group of recent graduates to work on the project and bring Captain Thunderbolt to life.

Line of Duty’s Martin Compston, Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser, Cheat’s Molly Windsor and Travelers’ Jennifer Spence are to star in UKTV’s crime drama Traces.

The quartet will front the six-part series, which is written by Scott & Bailey and This Life writer Amelia Bullmore and based on an original idea from crime writer Val McDermid, whose Hill/Jordan books were turned into hit crime drama Wire in the Blood.

It marks the first original commission for UKTV’s Alibi and is produced by Happy Valley and Safe producer Red Production Company.

Laurie Brett (EastEnders), Vincent Regan (The White Princess), Michael Nardone (Shetland) and John Gordan Sinclair (Ill Behaviour) round out the cast. Directing are Rebecca Gatward (Grantchester) and Mary Nighy (Silent Witness).

Traces is set in Scotland and explores the world of Sifa, the Scottish Institute of Forensic Science. The drama follows female characters – Emma Hedges, played by Windsor,...

If A Star Is Born left you wanting more, an extended cut of the Bradley Cooper directed smash hits Blu-ray and Digital on June 4. A Star Is Born Encore features nearly 12 minutes of extended performances with Cooper and Lady Gaga as well as all-new scenes.

Songs such as “Black Eyes,” “Alibi,” and an acapella [...]

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Discovery, Inc. and BBC Studios have struck a “multi-million pound global content partnership,” the companies said on Monday, which will bring BBC’s “Planet Earth,” “Blue Planet,” “Life,” “Dynasties” and other natural-history titles to Discovery’s Svod platforms.

The 10-year deal, which should close in late spring, relies on Discovery launching a new global streaming service for natural history programming by 2020 that will operate outside the U.K., Ireland and China.

In addition to the hundreds of hours of already existing content, Discovery and BBC Studios will develop new landmark factual content together. The two companies will co-fund a dedicated development team within BBC Studios.

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Discovery will now also take full ownership of UKTV’s “lifestyle” channels, like Good Food, Home, and Really, while BBC Studios gets the “entertainment” ones. Following completion, James Gibbons will manage the lifestyle channels as part of Discovery’s U.

Discovery and BBC Studios have inked a nearly $400 million programming deal that will see high-end natural history programming from the latter play on a new Discovery global streaming service set for launch by 2020. Under a decade-long deal, Discovery has acquired a raft of BBC content for its new Svod service and will work with BBC Studios, the U.K. pubcaster’s production and distribution unit, to develop new programming across natural history, travel, science and other factual genres.

Discovery CEO and president David Zaslav said the new, as-yet-unnamed streamer could launch for under $5 a month.

Separately, the two companies have untangled ownership of the UKTV channels group, with Discovery set to take the lifestyle networks and BBC Studios the entertainment channels in a deal that will see BBC Studios pay the U.S. firm £173 million ($226 million).

The announcement Monday of Discovery’s upcoming factual streaming platform comes as the...

If you've asked yourself, "How long until 'Shallow' isn't stuck in my head?" we have some good news for you - there's a new Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper love song to listen to on repeat!

On Wednesday, it was announced that A Star Is Born is returning to 1,150 theaters starting Friday, March 1 with 12 minutes of never-before-seen footage. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the rerelease of the movie includes extended performances of "Black Eyes," "Alibi," and Gaga's grocery story a cappella rendition of "Shallow," as well as footage from Ally and Jack's wedding.

This version of the movie will also include a brand-new song titled "Clover," and a look at the on-screen couple writing it. Yes, it's as magical and romantic as you would imagine. And yes, we're going to assume they read our minds after begging for more music following their Oscars performance of "Shallow." Watch the captivating clip of the new song above,...

You might have naively assumed that because Lady Gaga won an Oscar for A Star Is Born and also gave a performance at the award show with costar Bradley Cooper that left the world collectively swooning, that the buzz for the musical drama was officially over. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, we're still very much in the midst of the Born-aissance.

Cooper's Oscar-nominated film will be rereleased in over 1,150 theaters with 12 minutes of new footage included, starting on Friday. The special edition of the film is apparently being shared to celebrate Gaga's Oscar win for best original song for the film's hit, "Shallow." (A Star Is Born was also nominated for best picture.)

So, what will these 12 never-before-seen minutes of footage entail? If it were up to me, it would just be an extralong montage of Cooper's Jackson Maine playing with his dog, Charlie, in the yard. But since it's not,...

If Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper didn’t have enough to celebrate after their emotion-filled, breath-taking performance of ‘A Star Is Born’s’ “Shallow.” Now, The movie which won an Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’ and nominated for ‘Best Picture’ on Sunday is returning to theaters for a special one-week event showing. It will play in 1,150 theaters across the country starting on Friday (March 1st), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

‘A Star Is Born‘ first got released in cinemas in early October 2018, has gross over $425 million in the worldwide Box Office. This rerelease special edition ‘encore’ edition contains a extended performances of their songs “Black Eyes” and “Alibi,” as well as an impromptu a cappella performance of Lady Gaga’s “Shallow.” Viewers will also see brand new footage of Lady Gaga’s character, Ally, performing “Is That Alright?” to Cooper’s character, Jackson Maine, in the wedding sequence; Jack in...

A Star is Born will return to theaters for one week with 12 minutes of new footage, including extended musical performances, Variety reports. The film will be rereleased in more than 1,150 theaters across North America starting Friday, March 1st.

Warner Bros. teased the rerelease with one of the additional scenes, in which Lady Gaga’s Ally and Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine share an intimate moment on an empty stage while working on a previously unreleased song called “Clover.”

The re-release will also include extended performances of the film’s opening number,...

Attention, moviegoers! You'll be able to take another look at A Star Is Born in theaters very soon. For one week only, starting this Friday, March 1, Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing an "encore" version of the film, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, in theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada. This special edition of the movie will contain extended performances of song "Black Eyes," as well as "Alibi" and Ally's (Lady Gaga) impromptu a cappella performance of "Shallow." Moviegoers will also be treated to never-before-seen footage of Ally singing "Is That Alright?" to Jack (Cooper) in the wedding sequence, as well as Jack in his studio...

Warner Bros. is celebrating its big Oscar win for “A Star Is Born” by bringing the Bradley Cooper-directed music drama back to theaters for an exclusive one-week engagement. The release will feature an extended edition of the movie that includes 12 minutes of new footage, all featuring music that was originally edited out for the movie’s theatrical cut. As Warner Bros. described it, the “A Star Is Born” extended cut is made up of “longer takes of songs and one entirely new song not previously heard in the film or on the soundtrack album.”

Add-ons to “A Star Is Born” include the full performance of the opening song “Black Eyes” and the full performance of “Alibi,” the song Cooper’s Jackson Maine is heard singing right before he launches into “Shallow” and brings Gaga’s Ally onto stage for the first time. Gaga’s song “Is That Alright?” was...

Warner Bros. has set a one-week release of “A Star Is Born” with almost 12 minutes of additional footage, including extended musical performances, on 1,150 screens in North America.

The film won the Academy Award for best original song for “Shallow” for Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. The “special encore engagement,” which will begin Friday, will include never-before-seen footage and extended performances of the opener “Black Eyes”; “Alibi”; and Lady Gaga’s Ally in her impromptu a cappella performance of “Shallow.”

Bradley Cooper and Gaga performed “Shallow” during Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies. The additional footage will also include footage of Ally singing “Is That Alright?” to Jackson Maine in the wedding sequence; Jack in his studio singing “Too Far Gone”; and Jack and Ally writing a new song together, entitled “Clover.”

The Academy Award for “Shallow” was the only one that the romance-drama scored on Sunday out of its eight nominations,...

Warner Bros. is releasing an “Encore” version of Bradley Cooper’s Oscar winner A Star Is Born this Friday which will have 12 minutes of never-before-seen footage.

The special edition of the film contains extended performances of such songs as opener “Black Eyes”; “Alibi”; and Lady Gaga’s Ally in her impromptu a cappella performance of “Shallow,” which won the Oscar for Best Original Song last Sunday.

There is also fresh footage of Ally singing to Jack “Is That Alright?” in the wedding sequence; Jack in his studio singing “Too Far Gone”; Jack and Ally writing a new song together, entitled “Clover”.

A Star Is Born, off a $36M production cost, earned $425.4M at the global box office.

A Star Is Born was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture.

A Star Is Born is not the only Oscar contender headed back to theaters this weekend: Universal is raising Best Picture...

Following its Oscar-winning turn for Lady Gaga’s Best Original Song “Shallow,” the Bradley Cooper-directed film “A Star is Born” is returning to theaters for one week starting on March 1.

But the new “encore” version that Warner Bros. is releasing will feature 12 additional minutes of footage, including extended takes of songs and one entirely new song not previously heard in the film or on the soundtrack album.

The encore version of “A Star is Born” now kicks off with the full performance of “Black Eyes,” the rock/country jam as performed by Bradley Cooper and written by Lukas Nelson that opens the film. It also has the full version of another Cooper and Nelson collaboration, “Alibi,” which is performed just before Gaga’s Ally first takes the stage with Cooper.

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