Ted Sarandos Defends Controversial ‘Cuties’ Movie as "Misunderstood"

The average price of petrol has hit a new record high as the cost of oil soars due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Robert Rinder swapped his courtroom for a place on the Good Morning Britain desk as he made a return to the show.

K.J. Yossman Nikki Amuka-Bird (“The Outfit”) will play the lead in Will Gilbey’s “Jericho Ridge.”BAFTA award-winner Gilbey (“A Lonely Place to Die”) also wrote the screenplay for the feature, which is billed as a survival thriller.Amuka-Bird is joined by Michael Socha (“This is England”), Zack Morris (“The Fades”), Chris Reilly (“Wrath of Man”) Philipp Christopher (“Origin”), Solly McLeod (“Boxing Day”) and music artist Capital T. The film tells the story of North Washington county sheriff Tabby (Amuka-Bird), who finds herself alone in the sheriff’s office one night while her colleagues are out on patrol.

Piers Morgan doesn't shy away from confrontation and debate – and that extends to his family members!The TV host got into a little spat with his eldest son Spencer on Twitter this week as they shared their views on the appropriate response to the conflict in Ukraine.WATCH: Piers Morgan reveals unseen part of his London homeSpencer, a sports journalist, took to the social media site, writing: "If you aren't personally prepared to fight I don't think you can call for direct action that will most likely lead to world war 3."Piers quickly retweeted Spencer's post as he shared his opinion. "Strange mindset for a journalist… so only serving military can comment on whether military action is justified/necessary when a dictator illegally invades a democratic country?" Their differing opinions led to some confusion amongst fans, with one questioning whether they are father and son.

COULD this be the end for Chelsea as Gray Atkins traps her in upcoming episodes for pleading with him to tell the truth. Gray is being threatened by Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) who has found out the truth about his involvement in Tina's death. In a panic, he calls Chelsea, telling her to come home straight away as he is planning for them to get away from Albert Square for a few weeks.

THE Real Housewives of Cheshire has been left in chaos as bosses scramble to find new stars following a mass walk-out. In the last two years big names including Dawn Ward and Tanya Bardsley have quit the ITVBe reality show.

PEAKY Blinders' Oswald Mosley actor Sam Claflin looks VERY different to his alter-ego in real life. The actor, 35, took on the role of Minister of the Duchy of Lancaster in 2019.

Michelle Keegan has been snapped looking stunning as she joined Clara Amfo, Kara Tointon and many more the Vanity Fair Rising Star party on Tuesday evening. Former Coronation Street actress Michelle, 34, put on a stylish display as she rubbed shoulders with fellow celebrities at the event, which took place ahead of the 2022 BAFTAs at 180 The Strand in London.

“The night started out at the Student Union bar, but it was boring so we decided to go to a nightclub. We’ve been there a few times so I felt perfectly comfortable walking in with my friends, including my boyfriend, Aedan, 20, who’s also a student. It was just a regular night out, with the six of us.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could return to work as "part-time royals" when Prince Charles takes over the thrown, according to an author.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior members of the Royal Family in 2020 and overhauled their lives to start afresh in sunny California, where they live with children Archie, two, and baby Lilibet. Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, have been fairly successful in making their own way through their philanthropic work with the Archewell Foundation as well as their multimillion pound deals with streaming giants like Netflix and Spotify.

Naman Ramachandran Global rights management company Eccho Rights has licensed “Servant of the People,” the 2016 series created by and starring Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, to Channel 4 in the U.K., MBC in the Middle East, ANT 1 in Greece and PRO TV in Romania, in solidarity with Ukraine and Zelensky.Fredrik af Malmborg, managing director at Eccho Rights, said: “Eccho Rights stands in solidarity with our friends and partners in Ukraine. It is our position that the best support the global television industry can offer to Ukraine today is to share this story.”Three seasons of the series and feature film are available to license from Eccho Rights.Nicola Söderlund, managing partner at Eccho, said: “The series is a comedy but also an important document of where Zelensky comes from.

Cherry Bullet have premiered the music video for their newest single, ‘Love In Space’.In the elegant visual, the septet performs the choreography for their latest release in front of a birthday party venue. The scene later cuts to the girls dressed in sparkling cocktail dresses, following around a black cat.

Romeo Beckham is following in his family's fashion forward footsteps. The 19-year-old graced the fashion scene for the Yves Saint Laurent show on Tuesday in Paris, sitting front row alongside his model girlfriend Mia Regan.READ: Romeo Beckham takes right after dad David in stunning photosRomeo looked relaxed in an oversized baby pink knit jumper layered over a white T-shirt and blue jeans, accessorising with a chunky silver chain necklace and sunglasses.

The Beatles‘ ‘1’ compilation album has been remastered for spatial audio by Giles Martin, the son of the band’s late producer George Martin.Giles said in an interview last year that he was a fan of the immersive 360-degree sound technology launched in 2021 by Apple Music, as well as the Dolby Atmos that it is built on, but said that it doesn’t always “sound quite right”.He revealed that he intended to remaster The Beatles’ 1967 album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ but has since worked on the band’s greatest Number Ones compilation album, which was released in 2000.Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about reworking ‘1’ in spatial audio, and how his father laid the foundations for his interest in pursuing modern audio tech.“My dad was a futurist and loved technology. When I was a kid, he built studios.

low approval ratings — even among people who previously voted for him in 2020 — Biden attempted to use his speech as a reset for his presidency, decrying Russia and its power-hungry President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine while offering praise and support for the Ukrainian resistance, and seeking to clarify his (and by extension, his party’s) positions on various domestic issues by calling for programs and bills that would make Americans’ lives easier, fight inflation, get the country back to “normal” following a two-year interruption caused by the pandemic, and calling on states and cities to deal with rising crime rates by fully funding police using money appropriated by the American Rescue Plan.But as he went through the litany of various domestic concerns, Biden seemingly hit on many of the issues and promises he had run on as a candidate for president, even though much of his priorities have been killed in the U.S. Senate, due to the inability to gain 60 votes to overcome the silent filibuster (exacerbated by the refusal of traditionalists to change Senate rules to either eliminate or reduce the 60-vote threshold, or require the minority to actively filibuster pieces of legislation, thereby calling attention to their opposition) as well as political posturing by conservative Democrats like Sens.

Global networks including the UK’s Channel 4 have picked up Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comedy series Servant of the People.

We can't get over Victoria Beckham's latest outfit! The stunning mother-of-four looked incredible at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.READ: I tried Victoria Beckham's go-to beauty products - this is what's actually worth itThe 47-year-old hit the FROW with her son Romeo to watch the Saint-Laurent Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022 show. What a duo, right?WATCH: Mum on the Run - HELLO!'s Fashion and Beauty News Editor Laura Sutcliffe tests Victoria Beckham's fave beauty productsVB decided to rock a stunning combination from her own label that was seriously daring.

Chris Hemsworth has written about his heartbreak after parts of his home country, Australia, were hit with devastating floods.GALLERY: 25 celebrities and their well-known siblingsThe Thor: The Dark World star shared photos from Queensland and New South Wales where houses were submerged, and the waters were getting so high to nearly rise over some bridges, while some people used jet-skis to help those in need. The area has been hit with torrential rains since last Tuesday with rivers bursting their banks due to the deluge.

Strictly Come Dancing's Janette Manrara has taken to Instagram to share her sadness at the current situation in Ukraine.MORE: Janette Manrara in tears during second wedding with Strictly's Aljaz Skorjanec – exclusiveTaking to her Stories, the professional dancer shared a statement in which she revealed her "thoughts and prayers" are with the country, which has been invaded by Russia.WATCH: Janette Manrara shares bittersweet story behind her career move from dancing to presenting"Although I am truly grateful for things in my life, there is still so much sadness in my heart knowing that there is so much hate and violence in the world right now. There are no words...

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepherd often open up about their longtime relationship both before they were married and since - but it turns out there's still plenty more their fans don't know. The dad-of-two made a reveal on his Armchair Expert podcast and detailed a romance he had pre-Kristen with a very famous celebrity. MORE: Kristen Bell debuts dramatic new look in knee-high bootsDax confessed that he dated Ashley Olsen and he had nothing but great things to say about the star. WATCH: Kristen Bell and Dax Shepherd's spacious living room inside Hollywood home The news came about while he was chatting about Ashley's clothing line The Row, which she founded with her twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen.He then said: "She's just the most wonderful person. She's fantastic," and admitted he dated her 15 or 16 years ago. LOOK: Kristen Bell looks gorgeous in daring red leather suitREAD: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen break silence after Bog Saget's death At the time she was working on her clothing line and he added that "she was putting all her energy and focus into launching that in a big way".

A man had to be cut from a car following a horror crash on a Scots road last night.

A super fit Balloch mum has completed her toughest marathon yet in Antarctica as part of a gruelling challenge to conquer marathons in all seven continents.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThere aren’t enough hours in the day for Ted Sarandos to watch every program on Netflix before it premieres on the streaming behemoth. And he’s okay with that.On the latest episode of Variety’s podcast “Strictly Business,” Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer discusses how the company manages the incredibly high volume of original content produced in multiple languages for its astounding 193 million subscribers from more than 190 countries.“It’s not unusual for shows to come on Netflix without me having seen any of it,” Sarandos says.

Odds are, unless you’re an avid film fan that pays attention to international cinema and early film festivals such as Sundance (basically, people who regularly read this website), you didn’t really know much about “Cuties” before the controversial release of the film last month. The French film about a young girl and her dance troupe ignited a social media firestorm before it was released thanks to Netflix’s poor marketing decisions and a rise in right-wing-based conspiracy theories about pedophiles in Hollywood.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAnna Winger’s “Unorthodox,” based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir about a young woman leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in New York to start life anew in Berlin, was not intrinsically designed to be an international darling.The mandate of Netflix’s German television group, says co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos, is simply to “make great TV” for the subscription streaming service’s German audience. But one function of Netflix over the years has been broadening the American palate for television and movies, offering non-U.S.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterTed Sarandos is not much for change, personally.It’s a funny thing to say about the recently minted co-CEO of Netflix, one of the entertainment world’s biggest disruptors, but as he points out, he’s had only “two cars and one job over the past 20 years.”“I am one of those folks who ends up doing things a long time, so I’m not one of these people who flips things easy,” he says with a laugh.His previous car, which lasted 11 years, was an Acura MDX; he drove around a Ford Explorer for a decade before that.

Netflix has said it is standing by the controversial film Cuties after it emerged the streaming giant is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the movie’s alleged “lewd” depiction of children.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA Lone Star state grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film.According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos-run streamer “knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”Facing some serious charges, Netflix weren’t backing down today as the 1-page indictment became public via a local Congressman’s Twitter feed.