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After closing a deal valued at $750 million to acquire its rival ICM Partners last June, the pieces of Creative Artists Agency’s megamerger are shaking out for Hollywood’s representation landscape. In the latest move, an ICM-owned talent agency is now breaking away after making a buyout offer to the Century City-based giant.

Primary Talent International, the U.K.-based music agency founded in 1990 and acquired by ICM just before the shuttering of major events and productions in March 2020, is exiting CAA and reestablishing itself under independent ownership, the firm said March 6. Nearly 460 clients, including The 1975, The Cure, Lana Del Rey, Noel Gallagher, Ziggy Marley, Mitski and Patti Smith will be staying with the newly independent Primary and leaving the CAA fold.

Primary Talent had been run as an indie agency until it was snapped up by ICM with an eye toward bolstering ICM’s international touring business. That...

When I see my latest energy bill, the price of petrol at the pump, the luminaries currently installed in government… well, living off the grid, away from the grip of society, looks rather appealing. That’s how Danny (Lewis Gribben) has spent the first two decades of his life in Pete Jackson’s Channel 4 drama Somewhere Boy, raised on nothing more than a diet of mini golf, gramophone records and Charlie Chaplin movies. It all sounds rather idyllic.

“Busy day tomorrow,” says Steve (Rory Keenan), Danny’s father, who has kept him locked up in their family home. “Danny?” he calls to his son, “love you mate.” Next thing we know, Steve has apparently shot himself, and Danny is packed off to live with his aunt, Sue (Lisa McGrillis) and her son Aaron (Samuel Bottomley). From there, Somewhere Boy is an examination of which is a more disastrous way...