BBC, Blink Films & Sony To Celebrate 40 Years Of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a little Christmas treat for Wham! fans.Tom Hardy, Director Kelly Marcel Always Planned For 'Venom' To Be A Trilogy: "We Knew It Would End Like This" The BBC has picked up an hourlong Blink Films and Sony documentary special on the everlasting impact of “Last Christmas” by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, one of the best known festive tunes of all time. WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped will tell the story of how the band turned the track into a cultural phenomenon. It will present a number of those involved with the song including new interviews with Ridgeley, while there will...
BBC Coverage of Liam Payne’s Death Criticized by Former Anchor, Who Called Him ‘A Drugged Up, Faded, Boy Band Singer’
Former BBC anchor Michael Buerk has criticized the extensive media coverage of Liam Payne’s death, calling him “a drugged up, faded boy band singer.”ScreenSkills Teams With BBC, Channel 4 on Five-Year Plan to Boost U.K. Screen Industry Workforce Buerk, who was the face of BBC News for almost 30 years until his semi-retirement in 2002, was speaking on Radio 4 show “Today” about how foreign reporting had changed over the past four decades. “I think it’s really, really different,” he replied. “There was more of an appetite for seriousness. It was only last week that I think this program decided that the...
Wildscreen Awards: ‘Billy & Molly’ Wins Golden Panda as National Geographic, BBC Studios Takes Top Plaudits
Produced by Silverback for National Geographic UK, directed by Charlie Hamilton James and with Jeff Wilson taking producer credits, “Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story,” won Wildscreen Festival’s Golden Panda for best production, as well as Panda Awards for producer/director and scripted narrative.David Attenborough's BBC Series 'Asia' Sells to China as Shanghai London Forum Eyes British Content Quota Boost Other Panda Award winners included BBC Studios’ ‘Wild Isles: Ocean’ (cinematography), Nat Geo-Wildstar’s ‘Queens’ (best series and production management team), Juli-Perpetuo’s ‘Patrol’ (impact), BBC Studios’ ‘The Watches 2023 (sustainability) and Netflix’s Chimp Empire (editing and music). “Billy & Molly” had its world premiere...