“Doctor Who” producer Bad Wolf has increased its profits by 49% despite a drop in revenue year-on-year. Post-tax profits rose from £7,072,610 ($8.9 million) in 2023 to £10,554,620 ($13.2 million) in 2024, latest records show. Gross profits climbed from £11 million last year to £15 million this year. This is despite revenue dropping from £117 […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from Season 2, Episode 8 of “Bad Sisters,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Trust “Bad Sisters” showrunner and actor Sharon Horgan to finish the second season of the hit Apple TV+ series with a literal cliffhanger (which happens to be also be titled “Cliff Hanger.”) In the eighth and […]

Burt, the reptilian star of 1980s classic “Crocodile Dundee,” has died at the age of at least 90 years old. The croc’s death was announced by Australian reptile park Crocosaurus Cove, where Burt lived out his final years. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Burt, the iconic Saltwater crocodile and […]

Director Paul Feig has joined the chorus of voices speaking up for “It Ends With Us” star Blake Lively following her sexual harassment complaint against co-star Justin Baldoni. Feig, who directed Lively in “A Simple Favor” and more recently its sequel “A Simple Favor 2,” heaped praise on the actor and said she “truly did […]

A lawsuit brought by Nicola Adams’ mother over her Prime Video documentary “Lioness: The Nicola Adams Story” has been tossed out of court after the judge found it had “no real prospect” of success. Adams’ mother Denver Sorsetra Adams, known as Dee, filed the suit in London’s High Court against Prime Video U.K. owner Amazon […]

A legal challenge over the proposed redevelopment of ITV’s former London headquarters has failed. A group called Save Our Southbank took the U.K.’s housing minister to court seeking to overturn planning permission granted earlier this year over the 25-storey tower block on London’s Southbank, next to the River Thames. The site, which also included a […]

A second high-profile documentary is in the works about UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione. Two-time Emmy nominee Stephen Robert Morse, who produced Netflix documentary “Amanda Knox” and also directed “How to Rob a Bank” for the streamer — a true-crime documentary about prolific bank robber Scott Scurlock – is turning his attention to Mangione, […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from “Black Doves” Season 1, now streaming on Netflix. “Black Doves,” Keira Knightley’s first television series in more than two decades, has already proved a massive success for Netflix, which, knowing it had a hit, had ordered a second season from Knightley and creator/showrunner Joe Barton before the show even […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “The Day of the Jackal,” now streaming on Peacock and NOW. Despite some initial scepticism about rebooting a property as iconic as “The Day of the Jackal,” the ten-part series starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch has been a resounding success for […]

Soccer star turned TV producer David Beckham and Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria are set to headline U.K. confab MIP London. Beckham, who starred in last year’s hit docuseries “Beckham,” is co-founder of content studio Studio 99. His next project is another Netflix docuseries about wife Victoria Beckham. Beckham and Bajaria will speak onstage as […]

The Pokémon Company are teaming up with stop-motion animation studio Aardman for a new mystery collaboration. Billed only as a “special project,” it’s unclear whether it will be a feature film, series or something else entirely but promises that Aardman will bring “their unique style of storytelling to the Pokémon universe in brand-new adventures.” It […]

Sarah Jessica Parker has been appointed to the judging panel of prestigious U.K. literary award the Booker Prize. 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle will chair the panel, which this year is also comprised of novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, literary critic Chris Power and author Kiley Reid. Over the next seven months the panel will be […]

The Eurovision Song Contest has for the first time introduced an official code of contact for contestants taking part in next year’s competition. The code of conduct mostly codifies rules already in place in one document but will include some changes, including the introduction of no-filming zones backstage, more closed-door rehearsals and improved rehearsal schedules […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from “Polo” now streaming on Netflix. Prince Harry and Meghan’s latest effort for Netflix is “Polo,” a five-part docuseries following the sport’s U.S. Open, which took place in Wellington, FL earlier this year, and is co-produced by their prod-co Archewell. While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex hardly feature […]

James Norton looks set to defend the Anglo-Saxon throne from French invader Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the first glimpse from upcoming medieval drama series “King and Conqueror.” Norton plays Harold, Earl of Wessex in the series as he prepares to face Coster-Waldau’s William, Duke of Normandy at the famous Battle of Hastings. Also starring are Emily […]