BBC
- News & Opinion
Showing 1 - 15 of 404 articles tagged "BBC"
-
Posted Wednesday 7/08/20 at 3:02PM EDT
Iris Elba: A Luther film is "this close" to happening
"There isn't a real formal plan for Luther at the moment," he said while promoting his semi-autobiographical comedy In The...
-
Posted Monday 7/06/20 at 9:49PM EDT
Michaela Coel rejected Netflix's $1 million offer for I May Destroy You after she couldn't secure 5% ownership of the show
In a profile of the Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You star and creator, Vulture's E.
-
Posted Wednesday 7/01/20 at 12:30PM EDT
BBC's iPlayer begins adding a warning for past shows containing offensive material in response to blackface controversy
Shows like The League Of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh will carry an "i" logo, carrying warning that the episodes...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
BBC's version of Dancing with the Stars to cut down on episodes due to the coronavirus crisis
Strictly Come Dancing usually runs 14 weeks, but BBC plans to reduce the number of episodes to a number yet...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT
BBC postpones The Apprentice UK for one year due to coronavirus
The Sir Alan Sugar-led British version of The Apprentice, which launched one year after the Donald Trump version in 2005,...
-
BBC commits $124 million on diverse shows in response to the death of George Floyd
In response to a letter signed more than 3,500 people including Michaela Coel, Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth,...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/17/20 at 1:43PM EDT
Here's the first look at Lena Dunham's HBO/BBC investment banking drama Industry
The London-based show set in the cutthroat world of international finance follows a group of recent college grads forced to...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/17/20 at 1:43PM EDT
AMC to air hit BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings
Starring Anne-Marie Duff, MyAnna Buring and Rafe Spall, The Salisbury Poisonings follows the fallout from the nerve agent attack in...
-
Posted Tuesday 6/16/20 at 2:31PM EDT
Rebel Wilson calls the pulling Little Britain over blackface "a bit crazy": "I'm not a fan of erasing things"
Wilson, who is Little Britain star and co-creator Matt Lucas' former roommate and Bridesmaids co-star, expressed disappointment with the sketch...
-
Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 11:23AM EDT
Little Britain creators apologize over their use of blackface
Matt Lucas and David Walliams again expressed regret after BBC, Netflix and Britbox pulled their sketch show last week.
-
Posted Saturday 6/13/20 at 2:35AM EDT
BBC will not pull Gavin & Stacey following complaints over offensive characters
James Corden and Ruth Jones' BBC comedy has faced a number of controversies, including for using homophobic slurs in its...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/10/20 at 1:17PM EDT
Netflix pulls four racially offensive comedy shows from Australian comedian Chris Lilley in blackface
The streaming service has pulled the four shows from its services in Australia and New Zealand that have previously sparked...
-
Little Britain removed from BBC, Netflix and BritBox over blackface sketches
Matt Lucas and David Walliams' 2003-07 BBC British mockumentary comedy series Little Britain and its 2010-11 follow-up Come Fly with...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 5:53PM EDT
Steve McQueen's BBC anthology TV series Small Axe will instead become five movies dedicated to George Floyd
Small Axe was announced a year ago as a six-episode anthology series starring John Boyega and Letitia Wright exploring a...
-
Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT
British soap opera Coronation Street to resume filming Tuesday after a 10-week coronavirus hiatus
Corrie, as the 60-year-old ITV soap is known, joins other UK shows in returning to filming with coronavirus-influenced measures.
