Coverage of the latest tech and media.
It has been a rather chaotic day in British politics. Again. It started with the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman and the appointment of former prime minister David Cameron as foreign secretary (via the House of Lords). We now have the announcement that Esther McVey is heading back to government as a minister in […]
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It looks like the Hollywood strikes are over and everyone can get back to work! Deadline reported that on Wednesday the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union and the studios had come to an agreement. The industrial action will end at 12:01 am Thursday. The Hollywood industrial action is estimated to have cost the Southern California’s economy $6.5
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Carol Vorderman is leaving the BBC due to its new social media guidelines. The former “Countdown” presenter has hosted a Saturday show on BBC Radio Wales for five years. However, she revealed on Twitter that the new rules meant she could not continue to share her opinions online so she is moving on. Vorderman often
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Tim Davie, the director general of the BBC, will address the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee on Wednesday. The committee is a powerful group of backbench Tory MPs. News of the unusual arrangement was revealed by Huffington Post political editor Kevin Schofield: You can read the full story here. A source informed Schofield that they “thought
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The latest Netflix results revealed the company added 8.76 million from around the world in the third quarter of 2023. Wall Street had expected this to be a mere 5.49 million. Revenue was up to $8.54 billion from $7.93 in the same quarter the year before. Despite this success, the streamer has decided to up
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It has all been a LONG time coming, but Apple TV+/Paramount movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” actually exists. And there are clips to prove it. Apple TV+ has been releasing the latest ones over the last few days. This one is known as the “Coyote” clip”: There are also videos in which the actors
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Apple is reportedly looking to expand its sports coverage into the world of Formula 1. The news emerged via Business of F1 magazine and was picked up by Front Office Sports. I can’t pretend to be much of a Formula 1 aficionado. I haven’t watched any of it since the Max Verstappen vs Lewis Hamilton
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Ofcom has declared that GB News is once again in breach of its rules. This time the channel broke the regulator’s rules on impartiality. It happened on an episode of a show presented by Conservative MPs/couple Esther McVey and Philip Davies that included a pre-recorded interview with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. The episode in question received
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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for the movie “One Life”. The feature tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton. A stockbroker in London, a visit to Prague enlightened him about the conditions Jewish refugees from the Nazis were living in. He also realised these children needed to flee before the Nazis took power in
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It is the question that dominated much of “Succession season four – did Logan underline or cross out Kendall’s name in his will? Did he want the “eldest boy” (who isn’t actually the “eldest boy”,) to take over from him? The characters fought over this. Fans debated it endlessly. And now creator Jesse Armstrong may
