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A new Radio 4 podcast, When it Hits the Fan will be hosted by David Yelland and Simon Lewis. David is a former editor of the Sun and Simon, former Communications Chief for the late Queen and Gordon Brown. The podcast takes a look at who is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Each episode goes behind the scenes of the latest news stories to find out how, where and when it all began to hit the fan.

The heart of London, small-town Wales, or beautiful Florence— the world is your oyster with BritBox! The best-of-British media streamer has announced its August 2023 slate with plenty of diverse titles to choose from— from the classic satirical comedy series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” the critically acclaimed Welsh drama “The Museum,” the beloved 1980s romantic drama “A Room with a View,” and more.

Here are the top five titles coming to the platform we are most excited about at The Streamable!

7-Day Free Trial $7.99 / month via Amazon Prime Video What Are the Best Shows and Movies Coming to BritBox in August 2023? “A Room with a View” | Aug. 17

New to BritBox this month, the beloved British drama “A Room with a View” stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman touring Italy with her older cousin (Maggie Smith). While at a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming, free-spirited George Emerson...

Cherie Blair is heading to the Monaco Streaming Film Festival at the end of May to discuss project The Rock Pile.

This one has been in development for a few years with Blair attached as exec-producer in her first film role.

The project has gone through some changes since we last wrote about it pre-pandemic. It will now follow a female Time magazine correspondent who while on assignment in Jerusalem uncovers a story of three young boys of different faiths who are brought together through soccer. Hugh Bonneville is no longer attached.

Alexandra Milchan, exec producer on The Wolf Of Wall Street and producer on upcoming Cate Blanchett movie Tar, is now producing.

John Deery (Conspiracy Of Silence) is still aboard to direct the English-language film and will attend the Riviera festival with Blair. David McBrayer (Beat The Drum) has scripted the project which is also produced by Deery for Joejack Entertainment,...

English-language drama revolves around three boys from different sides of the conflict united by football.

Cherie Blair has boarded UK director John Deery’s long-gestating Jerusalem-set drama The Rock Pile. The film explores the Middle East conflict through the tale of a jaded war correspondent assigned to city where he befriends three young boys divided by religion but united by soccer.

Hugh Bonneville, who previously worked with Deery on his 2003 Irish Catholic Church drama Conspiracy Of Silence, signed to play the lead role in 2017.

Blair has taken an executive producer credit and it marks a first foray into film for...

Cherie Blair will make her first foray into film-making as she serves as executive producer on Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) drama The Rock Pile.

The barrister and wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair is taking on her first producing role on the film, which will tell the story of Time magazine correspondent Bob Hastings (played by Bonneville) who while on assignment in Jerusalem uncovers a story of three young boys of different faiths who are brought together through soccer.

John Deery (Conspiracy Of Silence) is set to direct the English-language film with shoot planned to take place in New York and Israel. David McBrayer (Beat The Drum) has scripted the project which is produced by Deery for Joejack Entertainment, McBrayer for Z Productions and Haim Mecklberg for 2-Teams Productions (Sand Storm).

Also executive-producing are Charles Moore (The Lady In The Van), Gabriela Christian-Hare (The Pinkertons), Rick McCallum (Star...

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Endeavour delivers another enthralling, creepily memorable mystery in what has been its strongest series to date...

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More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter system of press regulation.

They join people who have been victims of press misbehaviour in arguing that charter will give "vital protection to the vulnerable" from abuse of power by the press.

The signatories include broadcasters Stephen Fry, Clare Balding, Gary Lineker and Rory Bremner. Actor Emma Thompson has signed, as have Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Jonathan Miller.

Several film directors are on the list, such as Stephen Frears, Alan Parker, Mike Leigh, Beeban Kidron, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Daldry, Bill Forsyth, Peter Kosminsky, Terry Gilliam and Michael Apted.

Among the writers and playwrights are Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, Monica Ali, Helen Fielding, Michael Frayn, Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, David Hare, Alan Hollinghurst, Jk Rowling, Salman Rushdie,...

Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote one of the classic tales of every girl's childhood when she wrote Secret Garden. With A Little Princess, Burnett further solidified her spot in literary history. Little girls everywhere fall in love with Sara Crewe as she wavers in between luxury and poverty in a school for girls in London. The 1995 film version of A Little Princess receives considerably more press than all the others, but of all the incarnations none receives as much credit for literary faithfulness as the 1986 made-for-tv version. A Little Princess (1986), while not a strong visual foray, takes the classic story and explores it in a way no version has matched since. Captain Crewe (David Yelland) served faithfully in the British armed forces and still found time to rain down adoration on his daughter Sara (Amelia Shankley). With his daughter off at boarding school, Captain Crewe decided to invest in a diamond...

LONDON -- Monica Lewinsky will speak on a panel discussing checkbook journalism at this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival, organizers said Monday. Lewinsky joins a panel headed BBC news anchor Sian Williams, alongside BBC current affairs head Peter Horrocks, ITV current affairs head Steve Anderson, former News Corp. tabloid newspaper editor David Yelland and agent Max Clifford. The panel will look behind the scenes at what many industry observers regard as the murky world of kiss-and-tell interviews.