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Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English media personality, actress, television presenter, singer, and author. She has judged on the television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent since the show began its run in 2007 on ITV. As an actress, Holden played the role of Mel in Kiss Me Kate (1998–2000), Geraldine Titley in The Grimleys (1999-2001), Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2008), Lizzie, the Ring Mistress, in Big Top (2009), and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Netflix Pacts With European Producers Club on Women Producers Initiative

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentParis-based lobbying group the European Producers Club (EPC) is launching an initiative in tandem with Netflix to help create new opportunities for European women TV drama producers in attempt to balance the gender gap in Europe’s industry.This new initiative, launched at the Series Mania TV festival, comprises a pitch contest for fiction series as well as a workshop run by Netflix about how to best pitch a project.Producers of the six selected best projects will get the opportunity to pitch to Netflix.

The three best pitches will receive awards of €50.000 ($55,000), €20.000 and €10.000 respectively to take their projects to the next development stage.

The pitching competition is reserved for EPC producers in 33 EU countries working for women-owned companies (women must have a minimum of 50% ownership).Pitching teams must include at least one female producer and either a woman writer or director.

The Netflix workshop is open to all of the EPC’s 170 member companies that include Italy’s Cattleya, Germany’s Constantin, Spain’s Morena Films, and Norway’s Yellow Bird.Said EPC managing director Alexandra Lebret: “I believe it’s time to look into our own field when it comes to diversity: women producers are scarce, and even more so if you look at the ownership of production companies.”“Gender balance has to be fairly improved at every level of our industry” Lebret added.

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