Ian Cheshire Appointed Channel 4 Chair as U.K. Broadcaster Awaits Privatization Decision

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Calling all Rachel Zoe fans! The world-renowned stylist just launched her debut fashion collection with Express — and the line might just become your spring-summer uniform.

Talent agent Jack Whigham testified Monday in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, saying the impact of a Washington Post op-ed she wrote was “catastrophic” for the actor’s career.Whigham testified Monday remotely via video that in 2017 Johnny Depp had a very busy filming schedule. Depp filmed, “City of Lies”, “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald” and independent film “The Professor” in 2017, earning him $35 million.Whigham said he also negotiated Depp’s “Pirates of the Carribbean” 6 deal in 2017, which totaled $22.5 million. But in 2019, it became clear Disney had decided to “go in a different direction.”In 2018, Depp filmed “Waiting for the Barbarians” for $1 million.

Setting the record straight. Some Selling Sunset fans believe they caught Jason Oppenheim faking a phone call during season 5 of the Netflix series, but he says it’s not true — and he did a demonstration to prove it.

All shook up. Priscilla Presley revealed that she got to see a private screening of Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming Elvis Presley biopic and shared her honest thoughts on star Austin Butler.

A complicated (and fashionable) history. Kim Kardashian was the first member of the Kardashian-Jenner family to attend the Met Gala — but it wasn’t because Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour invited her.

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Olivia Wilde's new film,, officially dropped on Monday, giving fans a look at the upcoming thriller, which features Florence Pugh as Alice, a housewife who starts exploring the sinister side to her domestic bliss.You see, Alice is married to Jack (Harry Styles), and the couple live in an idyllic, retro-looking town where all the women stay home while the men work on something called the «Victory Project.»«We men, we ask a lot,» says Frank, played by Chris Pine, in the trailer. «We ask for strength, food at home, a house cleaned, and discretion above all else.»But the more Alice starts questioning her perfect life, and what little she knows about Frank and the Victory Project, the more the walls start to close in on her — literally, in one spine-chilling shot.«I don't trust him,» she tells Jack in another scene, close to tears, «and I don't want to be here anymore.»Watch the full trailer below.Wilde first debuted the trailer during a surprise appearance at CinemaCon in Las Vegas last week.

Katy Perry is flipping over the latest "American Idol" season.The pop star took a fall on the "Idol" set while dressed as "The Little Mermaid" on Sunday's episode. Video of the incident shows Katy kicking her feet up on the judge's table while Ryan Seacrest talks. Suddenly, as Ryan reacted to a loud bang, the camera panned to Katy, who was on the ground after tumbling off her chair. "Oh!" Ryan said while running over to Katy, her mermaid tail kicking up into the air.

A Lanarkshire woman is celebrating after winning a national prize for helping others.

BAFTA for defamation following its decision to suspend his membership amid allegations of sexual harassment and bullying.In an exposé published by The Guardian in April 2021, the Bulletproof actor was accused by 20 women of a variety of wrongdoings including bullying, sexual harassment and unwanted sexual contact.The claims emerged shortly after Clarke won the Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema award at the BAFTAs 2021. It was reported that the Academy had been made aware of the allegations prior to giving Clarke the prize but took the decision to proceed due to a lack of evidence.However, BAFTA subsequently suspended the award and revoked the actor’s membership.Clarke has denied all claims through his lawyers except for one, accepting that he once made inappropriate comments about one woman for which he later apologised.According to The Sunday Times (via Deadline), Clarke filed a defamation lawsuit against BAFTA at London’s High Court last week.

Taylor Swift will appear at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival next month to discuss and screen her All Too Well short film.Last year, the pop star released the 15-minute film to accompany the release of ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)’, which featured on the re-recorded version of her 2012 album ‘Red’.Tribeca Film Festival will host a special screening of All Too Well: The Short Film, which was directed, written and produced by Swift. After the screening, an “in conversation” event will be held where she will discuss her approach to filmmaking.The event will take place at New York’s Beacon Theater on June 11 and is one of a handful of music-related features at this year’s festival.Elsewhere, Pharrell will discuss his career at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on June 10, while Common will take part in a conversation with journalist Charles Blow.

The reality TV star gave Instagram fans a look at the new hair via her Instagram Stories. Jenner was seen taking a mirror selfie in a brown outfit that matched her hair color. Her signature was there without a trace of the ginger color she once had.

Glamour. Though Bayer has never faked her diagnosis, she was inspired by her own experience with a less explored side of sickness. “I used to take full advantage of the perks of it,” Bayer explains.

Born This Way era of the early 2010s. She wore her hair down and straight, along with what Julia Fox would consider to be light eye makeup.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTaylor Swift is bringing her short film “All Too Well” to the 2022 Tribeca Festival.Swift will make a rare appearance to host a special screening of “All Too Well: The Short Film,” which she wrote, produced and directed as part of her “Red” album re-release. The screening, which will take place on June 11 at the Beacon Theatre, will be followed by a conversation with Swift about her approach as a filmmaker.Pharrell Williams, Seth Meyers, Steve Aoki and Cynthia Erivo, as well as directors Tyler Perry, Adam McKay and Julian Schnabel will also participate in Tribeca’s talks series.In addition to special talks, Tribeca is organizing film reunions, and master classes with intimacy coordinators, music supervisors and more.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAMC CEO Adam Aron is a rock star to a very specific group of people.Those people, of course, are the 4 million non-professional investors who sent the company’s stock price soaring and currently own 80% of the movie theater chain. The new shareholders, who rescued the beleaguered chain from bankruptcy during the pandemic, call themselves the “Apes.” (The name is a reference to “The Planet of the Apes,” a movie in which primates overthrow humans.) And to them, Aron is the King Silverback.There’s perhaps nobody better to embrace the chaos than Aron, a Harvard Business School graduate with a flair for showmanship.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Cobra Kai” creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald have set up their action series “Obliterated” at Netflix, Variety has learned.The Netflix series orders comes nearly three years after it was originally announced the show was picked up at TBS. The show is described as an action-comedy that tells the story of an elite special forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that the bomb they deactivated was a fake.

Fast X” from Justin Lin, Variety has learned. The decision comes less than a week after Lin’s surprise departure from the helm of the 10th installment in the main “Fast and Furious” movie franchise.Leterrier, who beat out numerous candidates for the job, per sources, is Universal picture’s first choice, and schedules are still being hammered out.

chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II from the 1940s through modern times. “Okay, you all are bullying me into actually doing this,” penned Dixon in the caption of a trending TikTok post with millions of likes, which featured side-by-side snapshots of her and Middleton, 40.

Warning: “Grace & Frankie” spoilers ahead.Good heavens!Friday marked the series finale episode drop of Netflix’s golden years comedy “Grace & Frankie” — one of the most successful senior-centered shows on television since “The Golden Girls.”With the series coming to an end after seven seasons, stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have blessed fans with a guest appearance by icon and friend Dolly Parton.The country queen joined her “9 to 5” co-stars for the ending of their beloved show, portraying “Heaven’s Gatekeeper.”The finale sees Fonda and Tomlin’s characters (Grace and Frankie, respectively) party with their friends and family for Frankie’s son Coyote (Ethan Embry) and fiancée Jessica’s (Christine Woods) commitment ceremony. However, while Grace sips away at her signature martini she drops it onto Frankie’s microphone, and fatal electrocution sends the two women straight to the pearly gates.

Time flies for the royal tots!

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have been having fun in the sun.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has sharply criticized detractors of her plan to sell broadcaster Channel 4. The plan was decried by several leading media industry unions and filmmakers.

plans to sell Channel 4 don’t “make any business sense” and undermine the channel’s “tremendous economic and cultural achievement”.The Scottish filmmaker criticised the government’s proposals to privatise the publicly owned channel, which he clarified does not cost the taxpayer any money as Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wrongfully claimed last year, because it’s paid for by ad revenue.Iannucci, known for TV shows including The Thick Of It and I’m Alan Partridge as well as feature films such as The Death Of Stalin (2017), wrote in a The Guardian op-ed that the move has been ill-thought-out as he questioned why a broadcaster that “puts billions into the economy and promotes British culture and values internationally” should be sold off.“It doesn’t make any business sense, and it’s certainly not patriotic,” he wrote. “I regularly get asked by international broadcasters why the UK government has such a destructive agenda against the country’s main television networks.“Dorries tweeted yesterday that ‘government ownership is holding Channel 4 back’, which perhaps explains part of the problem, that she sees the network as some manifestation of the Big State.

stop the privatisation of Channel 4 has reached over 50,000 signatures.On Monday (April 4), Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted her intentions to privatise the broadcaster under the belief that government ownership is “holding Channel 4 back” from competing against streaming platforms.She said selling the channel to a private owner would give it “the tools and freedom to flourish and thrive as a public service broadcaster long into the future”.The government is hoping to raise close to £1billion by selling the channel, with the money potentially being used to boost creative training and independent production companies.A Change.org petition has been launched in response by E.L McNally to stop the plans, which has received over 50,000 signatures at the time of writing.https://t.co/7WAxfcwBBn pic.twitter.com/WOpVXzjiYk— Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) April 4, 2022The petition, which has been shared by Matt Lucas, Edgar Wright and Neil Gaiman, reads: “I am appalled at the Government’s intention to privatise Channel 4.”It adds: “To privatise Channel 4 would seriously undermine programming aimed at all the communities, across generations, that make up this country.

Tory plans to sell-off Channel 4 are facing a furious backlash led by former Scottish party leader Ruth Davidson.

Channel 4, which would result in the broadcaster being sold off after 40 years in public ownership.As reported by The Guardian, the government is hoping to raise close to £1billion, with the money potentially being used for creative training and for independent production companies.Last year, former Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said that the privatisation of Channel 4 was “needed” in order for it to “compete with the streaming giants”.“Without [more money], Channel 4 won’t have the money to invest in technology and programming, and it won’t be able to compete with the streaming giants,” he said, according to Sky News.Earlier in the year Ricky Gervais spoke out against the potential sale of Channel 4, calling it “a real shame”.“For almost 40 years, Channel 4 has been a launch pad for new ideas and new talent,” he wrote on Twitter. “It’s been able to do that because of its remit and not-for-profit structure and it would be a real shame if that was destroyed by selling off the channel.”Channel 4’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, revealed the news to staff on Monday (April 4): “We have been informed in the last hour that the government will shortly announce that the secretary of state has decided to proceed with the proposal to privatise Channel 4,” she wrote in an email.“In our engagement with the government during its extended period of reflection, we have proposed a vision for the next 40 years which we are confident would allow us to build on the successes of the first 40.

Channel 4 is to be privatised by the Tory government in a move set to spark furious backlash.

The UK government is pushing ahead with plans to privatize Channel 4.

Naman Ramachandran June Brown, who memorably played the role of Dot Cotton in long-running BBC soap “EastEnders,” died on Sunday. She was 95.Brown’s family said she died “very peacefully” at her home. A cause of death was not provided.An “EastEnders” spokesperson said: “There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at ‘EastEnders,’ her loving warmth, wit and great humor will never be forgotten.

The new chair of UK broadcaster Channel 4 has been appointed. Media regulator Ofcom has confirmed that businessman Sir Ian Cheshire will be joining the board of the channel on April 11, taking over from interim chair Dawn Airey.