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• Fremantle takes Baghdad to Cannes | News – C21Media
  Fremantle takes Baghdad to Cannes | News  C21MediaFremantle will be at MipTV next month with a slate led by a crime drama from writer Stephen Butchard, a Spanish series from Oscar winners Pablo and Juan de ... read more
  Published on 28-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Professor Tirthankar Roy – Telegraph.co.uk
  Professor Tirthankar Roy  Telegraph.co.ukComment: The East India Company's history is much more interesting than our simplistic, hero/villain narrative. Professor Tirthankar Roy. Premium. ... read more
  Published on 28-03-2019
  2 months ago
• The East India Company’s history is much more interesting than our simplistic, hero/villain narrative – Telegraph.co.uk
  The East India Company's history is much more interesting than our simplistic, hero/villain narrative  Telegraph.co.ukA forthcoming period drama is angering viewers before it has even hit the small screen. Beecham House, a new ITV show depicting a former East India ... read more
  Published on 28-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Beecham House: ITV India drama is made for the Gogglebox Malone family, says writer Gurinder Chadha – iNews
  Beecham House: ITV India drama is made for the Gogglebox Malone family, says writer Gurinder Chadha  iNewsGurinder Chadha, Bend It Like Beckham director, says new ITV India drama Beecham House is made 'for the Googlebox Malones.' She warns that Apple's ... read more
  Published on 27-03-2019
  2 months ago
• MIPTV round-up: Fremantle leads slate with ‘Beecham House’; Kew shops ‘Clink’ – TBI Vision
  MIPTV round-up: Fremantle leads slate with 'Beecham House'; Kew shops 'Clink'  TBI VisionFremantle will bring a packed slate of premium programming to MIPTV, including Gurinder Chadha's Beecham House. The distributor's scripted slate will include ... read more
  Published on 27-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Lost: all the mysteries explained, 15 years on – Telegraph.co.uk
  Lost: all the mysteries explained, 15 years on  Telegraph.co.ukThe US television drama Lost first aired in the United States on September 22, 2004 with the most expensive pilot in TV history. ... read more
  Published on 26-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Everything you need to know about Direwolves: How many are still alive and what are the theories? – The Telegraph
  Everything you need to know about Direwolves: How many are still alive and what are the theories?  The TelegraphA long, long time ago (circa the very first episode of Game of Thrones) the Starks stumbled across an orphaned pack of puppy direwolves and took it upon ... read more
  Published on 22-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Beecham House MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening as part of CANNESERIES – onscreenasia.com
  Beecham House MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening as part of CANNESERIES  onscreenasia.comBeecham House, Fremantle and Bend It TV's new original series from director and creator Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), will have its MIPTV World ... read more
  Published on 20-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Cannes Series festival line-up revealed – TBI Vision
  Cannes Series festival line-up revealed  TBI VisionFrench TV festival Cannes Series, which runs alongside next month's MIPTV, has revealed the line-up for its second edition, which will host companies such as ... read more
  Published on 14-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Cannes Series Festival Lineup Includes Netflix, Amazon, Starz, AMC, ITV; Diana Rigg, Steven Knight Masterclasses – Deadline
  Cannes Series Festival Lineup Includes Netflix, Amazon, Starz, AMC, ITV; Diana Rigg, Steven Knight Masterclasses  DeadlineCannes Series has revealed the lineup, jury and masterclasses for its second edition (April 5-10, 2019), which takes place alongside the MIP TV market on the ... read more
  Published on 13-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Leaving Neverland: the big unanswered questions about Michael Jackson, James Safechuck and Wade Robson – The Telegraph
  Leaving Neverland: the big unanswered questions about Michael Jackson, James Safechuck and Wade Robson  The TelegraphHow did Michael Jackson become friends with Macaulay Culkin? Did Lisa Marie Presley ever address the abuse allegations? And did Wade Robson really burn ... read more
  Published on 12-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Leaving Neverland: James Safechuck and Wade Robson’s most shocking revelations – The Telegraph
  Leaving Neverland: James Safechuck and Wade Robson's most shocking revelations  The TelegraphWednesday night saw the first part of Leaving Neverland, the controversial HBO/Channel 4 documentary about Michael Jackson. ... read more
  Published on 11-03-2019
  2 months ago
• Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Beecham House’ to have its MipTV World Premiere as part of Canneseries – TelevisionPost
  Gurinder Chadha's 'Beecham House' to have its MipTV World Premiere as part of Canneseries  TelevisionPostMUMBAI: 'Beecham House', which is Fremantle and Bend It TV's new original series from director and creator Gurinder Chadha 'Bend It Like Beckham', will ... read more
  Published on 11-03-2019
  2 months ago
• International TV Newswire: Sky E.U. Deal, ‘Beecham House,’ Mediterraneo, Thousand Films – Variety
  International TV Newswire: Sky E.U. Deal, 'Beecham House,' Mediterraneo, Thousand Films  VarietySKY U.K. E.U. DEAL: A PANDORA'S BOX? Has outgoing European Competition Commissioner – and maybe next Commission president – Margrethe Vestager ... read more
  Published on 08-03-2019
  2 months ago
• PBS takes Fremantle’s ‘Beecham House’ to the US – TBI Vision
  PBS takes Fremantle's 'Beecham House' to the US  TBI VisionFremantle has struck a deal with PBS to launch Gurinder Chadha's six-part drama series Beecham House in the US on Masterpiece. From Bend It TV, part of the ... read more
  Published on 06-03-2019
  3 months ago
• PBS Masterpiece Picks Up Gurinder Chadhad’s ITV Period Drama ‘Beecham House’ – Deadline
  PBS Masterpiece Picks Up Gurinder Chadhad’s ITV Period Drama ‘Beecham House’  DeadlinePBS has picked up its latest British drama – Gurinder Chadha's Beecham House. The India-set series was produced by Bend IT TV for ITV and will now air on ... read more
  Published on 05-03-2019
  3 months ago
• Beecham House | Beecham House coming to MASTERPIECE | Masterpiece | Official Site – PBS
  Beecham House | Beecham House coming to MASTERPIECE | Masterpiece | Official Site  PBS(March 5, 2019) – Gurinder Chadha's ambitious new six-part drama series Beecham House will launch in the U.S. on MASTERPIECE on PBS, following a deal ... read more
  Published on 05-03-2019
  3 months ago
• Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Beecham House’ Finds Home With PBS – Hollywood Reporter
  Gurinder Chadha's 'Beecham House' Finds Home With PBS  Hollywood Reporter'Downton Abbey' star Lesley Nicol is heading back to Masterpiece in the U.S., with PBS having picked up the six-part drama 'Beecham House' following a deal ... read more
  Published on 05-03-2019
  3 months ago
• Fleabag, series 2 episode 1 review: an arresting return for this wonderfully tragic sitcom – The Telegraph
  Fleabag, series 2 episode 1 review: an arresting return for this wonderfully tragic sitcom  The TelegraphFleabag is called a comedy and, like the very best comedy – for instance, Withnail and I, another tale of a broken soul – I find it almost unbearable to watch. ... read more
  Published on 04-03-2019
  3 months ago
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review: Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Malawi famine drama has real electricity – Telegraph.co.uk
  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review: Chiwetel Ejiofor's Malawi famine drama has real electricity  Telegraph.co.ukDir: Chiwetel Ejiofor. Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda, Lemogang Tsipa. “Malawi is preparing for a very long hungry season”, ... read more
  Published on 28-02-2019
  3 months ago
• More Partridge than Partridge: how Tony Blackburn’s Poptastic! memoir inspired Alan – Telegraph.co.uk
  More Partridge than Partridge: how Tony Blackburn's Poptastic! memoir inspired Alan  Telegraph.co.ukA little quiz. Who said, “When the time comes, all I want engraved on my tombstone are just five words: 'I gave you time checks'”? Was it real-life Antony Kenneth ... read more
  Published on 26-02-2019
  3 months ago
• This Time with Alan Partridge, episode 1 review: a sublimely excruciating return for a disastrously bad broadcaster – The Telegraph
  This Time with Alan Partridge, episode 1 review: a sublimely excruciating return for a disastrously bad broadcaster  The TelegraphIt's a terrific title for the BBC-comeback show of Steve Coogan's magnificent comic creation, Alan Partridge. “This Time”, gently mocks the sort of meaningless ... read more
  Published on 26-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Warren, episode 1, review: The final nail in the coffin for British sitcom – The Telegraph
  Warren, episode 1, review: The final nail in the coffin for British sitcom  The TelegraphIs the British family sitcom a thing of the past? Last year the dismal Hold the Sunset worked overtime to nail the corpse into the coffin. The latest comedy to scope ... read more
  Published on 25-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Leaving Neverland exclusive: ‘Lost boys’ accuse Michael Jackson of hundreds of acts of sexual abuse – Telegraph.co.uk
  Leaving Neverland exclusive: 'Lost boys' accuse Michael Jackson of hundreds of acts of sexual abuse  Telegraph.co.ukWhen James Safechuck met Michael Jackson he was 10. He claims the King of Pop began grooming him – and his family – in a campaign that culminated in ... read more
  Published on 25-02-2019
  3 months ago
• ‘Mick Jagger, what do you think about otters?’ Sorry, Alan Partridge –The One Show is beyond parody – Telegraph.co.uk
  ‘Mick Jagger, what do you think about otters?’ Sorry, Alan Partridge –The One Show is beyond parody  Telegraph.co.ukThe One Show should really be called “That One Show”. You know, that one that's on in the background when you get in, sweaty and exhausted? That one ... read more
  Published on 25-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Baptiste, episode 2 recap: Stratton shows his true colours, while a new character serves up a curveball – The Telegraph
  Baptiste, episode 2 recap: Stratton shows his true colours, while a new character serves up a curveball  The TelegraphTwists, tragedies and another house call from the killer gas man. Here are all the talking points from episode two of the sequel to the BBC's The Missing, titled ... read more
  Published on 24-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Top Gear, episode 2 review: Matt LeBlanc played the grump in Sri Lanka – but he did seem genuinely fed up – The Telegraph
  Top Gear, episode 2 review: Matt LeBlanc played the grump in Sri Lanka – but he did seem genuinely fed up  The TelegraphWhen Matt LeBlanc announced he was leaving Top Gear (BBC Two) at the end of the last series, he cited the extensive travel commitments as one of the ... read more
  Published on 24-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Culture’s last taboo: we all love a good snob – Telegraph.co.uk
  Culture's last taboo: we all love a good snob  Telegraph.co.ukLast month, Danny Dyer, the EastEnders actor, responded to critics in anticipation of his latest venture. Before it had even started, Danny Dyer's Right Royal ... read more
  Published on 24-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Baptiste, episode 2 review: has this thriller peaked too soon? – The Telegraph
  Baptiste, episode 2 review: has this thriller peaked too soon?  The TelegraphThe plot didn't so much thicken in episode two of Baptiste (BBC One) as turn limp and soggy. The first hour of this spin-off featuring the enigmatic detective from ... read more
  Published on 24-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Sleeping with the Far Right, review: Alice Levine’s attempt to play nicely with activist Jack Sen backfired – Telegraph.co.uk
  Sleeping with the Far Right, review: Alice Levine's attempt to play nicely with activist Jack Sen backfired  Telegraph.co.uk"I'm off to the seaside but not for a holiday,” said presenter Alice Levine at the start of Sleeping with the Far Right (Channel 4). ... read more
  Published on 22-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Curfew, review: this tooth-rattling, future shock-thriller roars off the starter-grid – The Telegraph
  Curfew, review: this tooth-rattling, future shock-thriller roars off the starter-grid  The TelegraphArriving amid flaming gasoline drums of hype, Sky One's Curfew is a thrill ride with dodgy brakes and fluffy dice for brains. The setting is a dystopian London ... read more
  Published on 22-02-2019
  3 months ago
• The Abused, review: a difficult yet superb look at escaping domestic violence – The Telegraph
  The Abused, review: a difficult yet superb look at escaping domestic violence  The TelegraphAt one point in The Abused, an excellent documentary about domestic violence on Channel 5 last night, a man who had committed all manner of horrendous ... read more
  Published on 21-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Brit Awards 2019, review: Jack Whitehall saves the night with slick compering and caustic wit – The Telegraph
  Brit Awards 2019, review: Jack Whitehall saves the night with slick compering and caustic wit  The TelegraphA shock appearance from Meghan Markle, a feminist theme and the inevitable Brexit gags. The Brit Awards (ITV) might have been cursed by plodding ... read more
  Published on 21-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Flack, review: A sharp, whizzy, female-led drama, but we’ve seen it all before – Telegraph.co.uk
  Flack, review: A sharp, whizzy, female-led drama, but we've seen it all before  Telegraph.co.uk"Some fame-hungry twiglet with puffy lips and sad eyes is trying to sell a shag 'n' tell on our client. Bury it. Today.” Flack (W) is a whizzy new drama starring Anna ... read more
  Published on 21-02-2019
  3 months ago
• The Black Wedding backlash: how the rape of Sansa Stark taught Game of Thrones a brutal lesson – Telegraph.co.uk
  The Black Wedding backlash: how the rape of Sansa Stark taught Game of Thrones a brutal lesson  Telegraph.co.ukThe anguish all but rose from the screen when, on January 1 2008, George RR Martin took to his blog to update fans on the forthcoming fifth volume of his Song ... read more
  Published on 20-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Martin Clunes interview: ‘Just shut all the bloody zoos, let those animals die, the ones that can’t be rehomed’ – Telegraph.co.uk
  Martin Clunes interview: ‘Just shut all the bloody zoos, let those animals die, the ones that can’t be rehomed’  Telegraph.co.ukMartin Clunes would make a brilliant Bond villain. The Doc Martin star is impeccably dressed in a grey suit when we meet, and has that soft voice that sounds so ... read more
  Published on 19-02-2019
  3 months ago
• EastEnders Special, review: Lofty and Mary’s return in emotional episode did Doctor Legg proud – The Telegraph
  EastEnders Special, review: Lofty and Mary's return in emotional episode did Doctor Legg proud  The TelegraphThere's nothing quite like a funeral for bringing back familiar faces and fond memories. “Doctor Legg was one of life's gentlemen,” said dear old Dot Cotton. ... read more
  Published on 19-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Top Gear, episode one, review: the BBC has finally got the formula right – but is it too late? – The Telegraph
  Top Gear, episode one, review: the BBC has finally got the formula right - but is it too late?  The TelegraphNobody told Top Gear fans life was going to be this way. One moment Friends star Matt LeBlanc was bedding in comfortably as Jeremy Clarkson's big-head ... read more
  Published on 18-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Baptiste, episode one review: Like The Missing but with the air of a graphic novel – The Telegraph
  Baptiste, episode one review: Like The Missing but with the air of a graphic novel  The TelegraphThe lost and found specialists are back. The Williams brothers Harry and Jack alighted on a winning before-and-after storytelling formula with The Missing. ... read more
  Published on 18-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Letters: Shamima Begum must have grasped the consequences of her actions – Telegraph.co.uk
  Letters: Shamima Begum must have grasped the consequences of her actions  Telegraph.co.ukSIR – There is much talk about Shamima Begum, the 19-year-old who left her east London home in 2015 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), ... read more
  Published on 18-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Cold Feet, episode 6 review: back to its best and soon may it return – The Telegraph
  Cold Feet, episode 6 review: back to its best and soon may it return  The Telegraph'I do.' They were the first words of Adam (James Nesbitt) in this current series of Cold Feet (ITV) and proved to be his last too. Neither were wedding vows, the ... read more
  Published on 18-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Baptiste, episode 1 recap: the twists have already begun in this spin-off of The Missing – The Telegraph
  Baptiste, episode 1 recap: the twists have already begun in this spin-off of The Missing  The TelegraphThe grizzled French detective from The Missing returned with his own spin-off series – and it promised to be another dark and tangled tale with a pan-European ... read more
  Published on 17-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Traitors, episode one review: Wobbly, claustrophobic and not that thrilling… yet – The Telegraph
  Traitors, episode one review: Wobbly, claustrophobic and not that thrilling... yet  The TelegraphLast week's kerfuffle over Churchill – John McDonnell dubbed him a “villain”, Nicholas Soames dubbed McDonnell a “Poundland Lenin” – was mainly ... read more
  Published on 17-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Joanne Froggatt interview: ‘Making the Downton Abbey movie was like a school reunion’ – The Telegraph
  Joanne Froggatt interview: ‘Making the Downton Abbey movie was like a school reunion’  The TelegraphHow tiny she is; neat and alert as a bird. And how steely. Joanne Froggatt's bright, expectant stare is a little unsettling. She seems to have been born knowing ... read more
  Published on 17-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Killing Eve series 2 trailer: Jodie Comer is bloodied but unbowed – The Telegraph
  Killing Eve series 2 trailer: Jodie Comer is bloodied but unbowed  The TelegraphJodie Comer's fashion-forward psychopath Villanelle returns in the first teaser trailer for BBC America's Killing Eve season two. ... read more
  Published on 15-02-2019
  3 months ago
• BBC’s This Week politics show to end as Andrew Neil steps down – The Telegraph
  BBC's This Week politics show to end as Andrew Neil steps down  The TelegraphThe BBC's long-running politics show This Week is to end after presenter Andrew Neil announced he was stepping down. ... read more
  Published on 15-02-2019
  3 months ago
• The Death of Aimee Spencer review: a would-be gritty true crime documentary let down by gratuitous celebrity packaging – The Telegraph
  The Death of Aimee Spencer review: a would-be gritty true crime documentary let down by gratuitous celebrity packaging  The TelegraphThere was a decent true crime documentary lurking inside The Death of Aimee Spencer (ITV) but it couldn't quite fight its way out of the gratuitous celebrity ... read more
  Published on 14-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Skint Britain: Friends Without Benefits, review: a gritty portrait of British life at the margins – The Telegraph
  Skint Britain: Friends Without Benefits, review: a gritty portrait of British life at the margins  The TelegraphSkint Britain: Friends Without Benefits (Channel 4) took a close and personal look at the Government's new benefits system, Universal Credit. Although UC is not ... read more
  Published on 13-02-2019
  3 months ago
• Beecham House: first-look images released for Gurinder Chadha’s upcoming ITV drama – Entertainment Focus
  Beecham House: first-look images released for Gurinder Chadha's upcoming ITV drama  Entertainment FocusA series of first-look images have been released for Gurinder Chadha OBE's upcoming six-part ITV series Beecham House. Set to air in Spring, the series stars ... read more
  Published on 13-02-2019
  3 months ago
• The Real Marigold on Tour, review: why this rumbustious series shows no sign of retiring – The Telegraph
  The Real Marigold on Tour, review: why this rumbustious series shows no sign of retiring  The TelegraphThe formidable Miriam Margolyes returned to our screens last night in The Real Marigold on Tour (BBC Two) and quickly showed that she has lost none of her ... read more
  Published on 13-02-2019
  3 months ago