The women’s football World Cup is just weeks away from kicking off (July 20th), but a TV rights deal has not been done in five key countries – the UK, France, Spain, Germany and Italy. Yup, we may not be able to watch the European champion Lionesses here at home. Fifa president Gianni Infantino is […]
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And so, it’s happening. Disney announced that it will be joining other services in slimming down the amount of content it has available on its streaming platforms. On its earnings call, CEO Bob Iger said that the amount of new content being made will be reduced and less watched content will also be removed. (You
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Recently, I’ve been playing around with TikTok – posting some videos there, seeing what works, what doesn’t, and how it can be part of The Addition’s offering. I can’t pretend I’m pulling up trees, I haven’t had some big viral hit, but it’s fun making the clips and amazing to see how you can reach
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This is a spoiler-free review of “Ted Lasso” season three. I will update it after the finale. The opening episode of “Ted Lasso” season three neatly weaves in many of the factors viewers enjoy and expect from the show. There are indications of Ted’s family troubles, him being quirky and charming, and key motifs (the
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As I think I’ve mentioned elsewhere, BBC sports coverage tends to be the soundtrack to my weekend. It starts with “Fighting Talk” on Saturday morning and ends with “Match of The Day 2” on Sunday night. This is only really interrupted by watching a couple of live Premier League football matches, something the BBC does
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UPDATE 10 March Well, it turns out that Gary Lineker is, in fact, the story. He will not present “Match of The Day” this week. Sky News is reporting he did not agree to step back but was taken off air because he would not apologise for his comments regarding the Illegal Migration Bill. A
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It’s been a pretty horrendous week of news. In the UK, there is the ongoing search for Nicola Bulley, the murder of Epsom college’s head teacher Emma Pattison and her daughter Lettie, assumed to be by her husband who also took his own life, and the imprisonment of a former Met police officer for a
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Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, lost the Conservative Whip on Wednesday after posting a tweet that compared the widespread distribution of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. The tweet has since been deleted. It linked to an article purporting to show damage caused by vaccines and said: As one consultant cardiologist said to me,
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2022 was a big year for streaming and plenty will be going on in 2023 too. (Obviously, sign-up for The Addition newsletter and read updates on this blog to keep on top of it all!) I had the pleasure of joining Chuck Joiner on ‘MacVoices’ for an in-depth discussion on the state of streaming, including
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The first clue that The Daily Show host Trevor Noah might not know that much about the UK or its political culture was when he referred to Rishi Sunak as “England’s first Prime Minister of colour, of Indian descent.” Sunak is, of course, not England’s Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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