Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding received blanket positive coverage across media in the UK and around the world and it turns out that it also showed the power of linear television. Around 18M people in the UK watched the big day yesterday across a number of channels. BBC One, … Read entire story.
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Award-winning filmmaker Carlos Carvalho died after an accident while shooting the ITV series Wild at Heart. He was tragically killed when a giraffe attacked him while he was getting a shot of the animal. Carvalho had been working on the majority of the series about a British family who … Read entire story.
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U.S. streaming service BritBox is to air episodes of long-running British crime drama Midsomer Murders ahead of their debut in the UK – a surprising coup for the BBC and ITV-backed SVOD platform. This comes after BritBox snapped up a deal with All3Media International to acquire … Read entire story.
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UK TV and radio host Dale Winton, known for fronting popular shows including ITV’s Supermarket Sweep and BBC’s lottery program In It To Win It, has died aged 62. The host died at his home on Wednesday according to his agent Jan Kennedy. Winton spent nearly a decade hosting … Read entire story.
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Angelina Jolie is to star in a landmark documentary about the conservation efforts of The Queen. One-off doc The Queen’s Green Planet, which will air on British broadcaster ITV, features a unique conversation between Her Majesty and Planet Earth’s David Attenborough. The network has offered the first glimpse of … Read entire story.
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