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If Jacks gets selected over Bashir on Sunday then surely this will be the first ever monosyllabic bowling attack in history ... Carse, Tongue, Potts, Stokes, Jacks (and Root)
Can you confirm??
EXC
UK actors union @EquityUK has threatened to go to the “courts if necessary” if actors' rights continue to be breached in the training of AI models
Letter sent to heads of BBC, ITV, Disney, Pact & others
https://t.co/AFviE1kjNl
EXC with @Jake_Kanter
The woman hired to clean up the UK TV industry's endemic bullying problem has herself been the subject of multiple misconduct complaints
Not a great start for the fledgling Action for Freelancers group
https://t.co/cTydsQM29k
EXCLUSIVE
Good timing on this one as ITV unveils a long-in-the-works phone hacking drama series starring David Tennant as top journo Nick Davies & Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger
Comes just a week after Rupert Murdoch's apology/settlement with Harry
https://t.co/ke5drwObIJ
EXC
The BBC and Ofcom were forced to amend the regulator’s record of how many Scottish people worked on Season 1 of The Traitors
Will fan the flames of debate kickstarted last week around use of local talent on the hit show and beyond
https://t.co/Nu5Z8MZwIK
EXC
@Jake_Kanter and I have written this morn about Disney's audacious bid to hire Charlotte Moore, the most powerful person in British TV commissioning
https://t.co/77UQeolHDX
NEW
BBC News boss Jonathan Munro has just revealed that the World Service's govt funding will rise from £104M this year to £137M next. This will comprise about a third of overall funding
The settlement only lasts for a year
EXC
The next 'Baby Reindeer'?...
Netflix is developing a limited series version of 'Weather Girl', the Edinburgh play from the producer of 'Baby Reindeer' & 'Fleabag' about a Californian weather woman reckoning with the end of the world
https://t.co/eVn7BAV27A
NEW
Ofcom has fined GB News £100,000 over the Rishi Sunak live show that it says is a serious breach of impartiality
GB News is challenging at High Court level and says direct attack on free speech
Unprecedented for Ofcom to fine a UK news network
https://t.co/CzJ5lrATRg
C4 programs boss Ian Katz has qualified why 'The Gathering' was axed earlier today despite being "quietly a massive hit" for the channel
https://t.co/DeIrnBorwe
“I had meetings with the BBC and ITV years ago when I didn’t have the rights and when I said, ‘Would you go for something like Jilly Cooper?’ they would look at me like I’d farted,” he said. “There’s a snobbery about her" https://t.co/r019GXvRKw
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+'s 'Rivals': The Inside Story Of How A Producer Overcame The "Snobbery" Of British TV To Bring Jilly Cooper To Screen https://t.co/F3dYyZgH3X
Tim Davie has banned the word "talent"
"You’re a presenter, I’m a leader of an organization, and we’re here to serve," he told Nick Robinson on Today this morn
https://t.co/crPbxGQ8o1
Grierson Trust Set To Withdraw Asif Kapadia's Patronage After Backlash Over Oscar-Winning Director's Israel-Gaza Social Media Posts https://t.co/VgtCm09hFj