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Exclusive: Kylie Washington has just overseen the launch of three BBC television mega brands in Australia, and readily admits the pressure has been on. The BBC Studios Anz General Manager and Creative Director of Production knows new versions of Death in Paradise, The Office and Top Gear require full attention to succeed, especially with buyers hesitant to put their hands in their pockets and more willing than ever to pull the trigger on disappointments.

“From my personal BBC Studios perspective, we’re on a great run,” says the Sydney-based exec. “We have commissions across the majority of networks with a very broad mix of genres. You never know which runner will have its moment in the light, so it’s important to be the best at all of them, to play to your strengths.”

Return to Paradise, the Australia-set spin-off of British cozy crime drama Death in Paradise, certainly had a moment in the light,...

Is Europe going Fast, but the U.S. going FASTer? Fast, or free advertising-supported streaming television, and AVOD (advertising-based video on demand) services have been a key growth segment in the U.S. at a time when streaming has become a competitive amid a maturing market. Cases in point: Fox Corp.’s Tubi, Paramount Global’s Pluto TV, Amazon’s Freevee, or The Roku Channel.

Meanwhile, in Europe, where traditionally more free TV content has been available, Fast hasn’t made as much noise until recently. And MIPCOM in Cannes could in the coming days feature more talk and news about it. This summer, Tubi launched in the U.K., while Pluto TV struck a strategic commercial and editorial partnership with M6+, French TV company Groupe M6’s new AVOD platform, to “scale and expand their free streaming and digital businesses in France.” Sony Pictures recently launched a 54-channel Fast...

Chick-Fil-a has revealed more details about its move into the entertainment business.

Earlier this summer, Deadline broke the news that the fast-food company had started commissioning original content.

The chicken firm is launching Chick-Fil-a Play on November 18. It said that the service was “designed for parents and kids to share and experience together whether they’re enjoying a meal at home, in the drive-thru, or anywhere in- between”.

It will launch with a number of original animated shows, including Evergreen Hills and Chick-fil-A Cows, scripted podcasts including Hidden Island, a handful of cooking shows and interactive stories.

“Hospitality and fun have always been at the core of the Chick-fil-a family experience, whether inside our Restaurants and play areas, or through our Kids Meals,” said Dustin Britt, executive director of brand strategy. “The Chick-fil-a Play App is a digital extension of that experience and another way we’re reimagining play for our guests,...

Television personality Jeremy Clarkson recently underwent an urgent heart procedure after experiencing concerning symptoms while on vacation. The 63-year-old, known for hosting shows like “Top Gear” and “The Grand Tour,” said he struggled to exercise and felt unsteady on a trip to the Indian Ocean.

Upon returning to the UK, Clarkson’s condition deteriorated rapidly. One morning, he felt ill with dampness and chest tightness. More alarming, pins and needles emerged in his left arm. Clarkson quickly received medical care.

Doctors at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford ran tests, including an electrocardiogram, and discovered a serious issue. While not a heart attack, one artery had fully blocked blood flow to Clarkson’s heart. A second artery was also significantly blocked. A doctor told Clarkson this blockage could cause fatal problems within days if unaddressed.

Fortunately, the medical team intervened in time. They inserted a stent – a small tube used to...

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he recently underwent emergency heart surgery, including the insertion of a stent, after he was suddenly taken ill after returning home from holiday.

The star of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, both huge hits on the streamer Amazon Prime, wrote in his column for The Sunday Times newspaper that he felt clammy, with a tightness in his chest and pins and needles in his left arm.

He wrote: “I certainly wasn’t having a heart attack. But if it hadn’t looked that way, I never would have been sent to hospital.”

The TV farmer added that a few days before, while on holiday in the Indian Ocean, he had had to “take a moment to make sure my limbs were working properly” when he stood up, “struggled” with swimming, and could not descend a flight of stairs “without holding someone’s hand.”

“These...

Anyone who watches Clarkson’s Farm is entertained by Jeremy Clarkson’s right-hand man, Kaleb Cooper. Now, the farmer/reality star has his own Amazon Prime special. What is The World According To Kaleb: On Tour about?

Here are all the details.

Kaleb Cooper Clarkson’s Farm – YouTube What Is The World According To Kaleb About?

For five seasons, Amazon Prime gave viewers The Grand Tour. During that time, they added Clarkson’s Farm. This opened up a whole new world of farming. Besides Jeremy Clarkson and his girlfriend Lisa Hogan, viewers got to meet Chipping Norton’s own Kaleb Cooper.

For three seasons, he showed Jeremy how to farm. Moreover, he won over fans. This is Amazon’s biggest series in the UK.

Now, Kaleb is starring in The World According To Kaleb: On Tour. According to The Futon Critic, this is a single episode of Caleb going on stage, as part of a big tour,...

Online physical media retailer Waxwork Records is releasing the score to “The Substance” on vinyl and digital.

Featuring original music from Benjamin Stefanski, better known by his recording alias Raffertie, the score from Coralie Fargeat’s body horror drama will be available Sept. 20 as a deluxe LP set. The album comes pressed to “Activator Green” colored vinyl and housed in a printed inner sleeve and heavyweight jacket wrapped in a custom printed kraft paper O-Card. The score will also be made available across all major digital platforms.

Stefanski is a classically trained musician who specializes in experimental electronic compositions. His composer credits include films like “One Way,” “Zone 414” and “Bull,” and TV shows such as, “99,” “The Continental,” “I May Destroy You” and “Top Gear.”

“The Substance,” starring Margaret Qualley, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid and Hugo Diego Garcia follows an aging celebrity who, in an attempt to revive her career,...

The Grand Tour featuring controversial motoring fanatic Jeremy Clarkson dropped its finale episode on September 13, and Top Gear fans love it. However, many Zimbabweans are thrilled because the iconic TV journalist showcased their country and claimed he’d “saved the best for last.”

Jeremy Clarkson, James May & Richard Hammond On The Grand Tour

Not deterred by those who slammed him for assaulting a BBC producer while filming Top Gear or those who wanted him canceled for dissing Meghan Markle, the famous tongue-in-cheek journalist went on and started Clarkson’s Farm. Aired on Amazon Prime, he won a lot of fans back.

The Grand Tour was another project put together through Amazon Prime, and motoring enthusiasts cheered. Premiering in 2016, the show featured Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. They brought motoring adventures from many countries and it streamed worldwide. But now, he claimed Zimbabwe was the “best” and they “saved” it “for last.

Two journeyman with ethnic roots from the African continent to the Orient in entertainment come together for Cinema. Afro Asian fusion with a mix of Black and Yellow soul birthed the name of the newly formed Kiirokuro Productions, however both production heads held a secret. They both had a deep love for movies. Asua Han and Kelvin are dynamic duo with enormous endeavours underway and we had a chance to sit with the Tyrese Gibson of this Fast & Furious team, Kelvin Taylor.

What inspired you both to start Film Fu?

Were both nerds and apart of Cinema fandom! My brother Michael had VHS Towers to the ceilings, that turned into a DVD man cave. Asua and I were both 80’s born with 80’s & 1990’s raised. So we grew up in the cusp of Modern Day Americana! The world was a much more united place bc of the fundamentals of family and saving the planet.

Jeremy Clarkson and the rest of The Grand Tour crew have said goodbye to the franchise with the release of One for the Road. 

Clarkson, along with his two co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, has called it quits after 22 years of being the predominant voices in automotive TV journalism.  

The trio worked together on BBC's Top Gear for 13 years from 2002-2015 before being ousted from the program thanks to an alleged assault by Clarkson and starting The Grand Tour (another tongue-in-cheek car-focused TV magazine) for Amazon Prime Video. 

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British TV boss Nicola Shindler has explained why Channel 4’s It’s a Sin took “a long time” to get made — and the reason is creator Russell T. Davies‘ own genius.

Shindler, executive producer and CEO of Quay Street Productions, spoke alongside Top Gear and Clarkson’s Farm producer Andy Wilman at The Royal Television Society’s London Convention on Tuesday.

Shindler is behind work such as the BAFTA-winning Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. She said It’s a Sin, which followed the HIV/Aids crisis take hold of a friendship group and extended queer community in 1980s London, took “a long time” to get made because Doctor Who writer Davies wanted the script to first focus on the characters.

“The minute we set out to do that, my job was to make sure Russell’s voice was heard from the very beginning,” Schindler said. “It was about, ‘I...

“The Grand Tour” producer Andy Wilman says the seeds for his success were sown at school — which he attended with Jeremy Clarkson.

“I went to school with him which is like, argh,” Wilman revealed. “But we didn’t plan any of this when we were at school, obviously not. We do have a synergy. Some of it did come from school… we never sat down and planned a hit because I don’t think we were clever enough to do that. ‘Top Gear’ became that big but it was by accident.”

Wilman co-created Jeremy Clarkson motoring show “Top Gear” before jumping ship with Clarkson when he was fired by the BBC, moving to Prime Video where they launched a new motoring show called “The Grand Tour.” Wilman also produces “Clarkson’s Farm” among other series.

“Jeremy and I are like a couple of old blokes who started a baker’s shop...

Jeremy Clarkson has denied that Top Gear ever scripted a scathing Tesla review after his successor Chris Harris claimed that the BBC show was “naughty” in its treatment of Elon Musk’s electric car.

In his weekly column in The Sun newspaper, Clarkson said he was wound up “something rotten” by Harris telling The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the 2008 Tesla review was effectively faked.

“Joe and Chris perpetuate the myth that my Tesla road test was unfair,” Clarkson wrote. “On Top Gear we cocked about and upset a lot of ­people over the years. But our road tests were always scrupulously fair.”

In the review of the Tesla Roadster, Clarkson said the battery died after 88km on a race track, that the vehicle’s brakes failed, the engine overheated, and that it took 16 hours to charge.

It was not all rude, however. In a drag race with a Lotus Elise,...

Top Gear presenter Chris Harris has ripped open the bonnet on one of the darkest chapters in the motoring show’s history — and it makes ugly listening for the BBC.

Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Harris revealed that he warned the BBC that “someone is going to die” on Top Gear unless health and safety standards were improved.

Harris said he made his concerns known months before co-host Freddie Flintoff suffered serious facial injuries during an accident at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on December 13, 2022.

“Three months before the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and said: ‘Unless you change something, someone’s going to die on this show,’” Harris told Rogan.

The automotive journalist said he felt a responsibility to the safety of his co-presenters, Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, because he was the most experienced driver of the three.

He continued: “I said: ‘If we carry on,...

Tissues at the ready, “The Grand Tour” fans – the last ever episode is gearing up to be a tear-jerker.

Prime Video has released a nearly three-minute-long trailer for the final episode, “The Grand Tour: One for the Road,” which sees hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May head to Zimbabwe on what is being billed as their last ever episode.

Set to Bonnie Tyler’s emotional ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the trailer gives fans a glimpse of what to expect when the special finally drops on Sept. 13, including crocodiles, sinking boats and some good old nostalgia.

In one scene, Hammond notes: “We never thought that what we do together would go on as [long] as it has” while May marvels at how long the trio have been working together: “22 years!”

Clarkson, Hammond and May first teamed up on BBC motoring series “Top Gear” in 2002. After Clarkson was fired...

The end is here. However, The Grand Tour fans may not be ready for the end of an era. The three Top Gear alums, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are finishing up the Amazon Prime series with a trip to Zimbabwe.

Just recently, the trio dissolved their company W Chump and Sons, ending their formal partnership. Now, fans get to see their one final excursion.

Here is the info on the final episode entitled One For The Road.

Richard Hammond, The Grand Tour – YouTube What The Grand Tour: One For The Road Is About

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are back for one last time. The final episode The Grand Tour entitled One For The Road is premiering soon. What is this new episode about?

In the Amazon Prime Preview Video, viewers get a hint of what is to come. The trio head to Zimbabwe, in Africa.

Andy Wilman has been reflecting on the turmoil in the weeks after Jeremy Clarkson punched a Top Gear producer and was fired by the BBC.

The BBC was plunged into crisis in 2015 when the Top Gear “fracas” paved the way for Clarkson and co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May to join Amazon Prime Video to launch The Grand Tour. Wilman, then Top Gear’s executive producer, also moved over.

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the executive producer revealed he had to “fight” the BBC to keep the trio of presenters together. The British broadcaster battled to lock down Hammond and May, with former creative director Alan Yentob playing a pivotal role in the talks.

Related: Jeremy Clarkson Says He Quit ‘The Grand Tour’ After Running Out Of Ideas & Becoming “Unfit, Fat & Old”

“We were fighting the BBC, and they wanted to keep Richard and James so that we would be broken up.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are planning to shuffle off the Amazon Prime Video stage with more of a whimper than a bang, according to The Grand Tour’s executive producer.

Andy Wilman said the final episode featuring the Top Gear alumni will be an “unplugged,” emotional affair when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on September 13.

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Wilman said: “They wanted to go a bit back to 2005 or 2006 … leave the dynamite and just go [to Africa] with shit old cars.”

He added: “Not much happens, I would say. Anyone who thinks they’re going to get Avengers: Endgame is going to be disappointed because it is deliberately gentle. But their camaraderie is next level.”

The final road trip was filmed in Zimbabwe and Botswana, the location of their first Top Gear special. Wilman said it is a nostalgic trip, with Clarkson, Hammond, and May...

The final ever episode of “The Grand Tour” is almost here and Prime Video is giving fans a sneak peak of what to expect — and when.

“The Grand Tour: One for the Road,” a one-off special representing the conclusion of the long-running series, is set to launch on Sept. 13 on the streamer in over 240 countries. Producer Andy Wilman unveiled a first-look image (see above) and release date at the Edinburgh TV Festival, where he is appearing on a panel.

It will see Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reunite on a final road trip.

“In their last adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional...

Extra sauces and some unscripted content, please.

Chick-fil-A — yes, that Chick-fil-a — is looking to launch a streaming platform. The fast food chain has been working with Hollywood production companies and studios to create family-friendly, mostly unscripted original shows. The chicken house is also in talks to license and acquire content, according to a source that’s pitched a project.

One of such programs is a game show from Glassman Media (NBC’s “The Wall”) and Sugar23 (Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why”), which has been given a 10-episode order.

The budgets for unscripted are around $400,000 per half-hour, sources indicate. Chick-Fil-A is also considering scripted projects as well as animation. “Top Gear” and “The X Factor” alum Brian Gibson is leading the charge on programming.

While Chick-fil-a is, of course, known for its fried chicken sandwiches and waffle fries, the company is looking to break into the reality TV business,...

If you need more proof that we're living in some sort of bizarre, ad-sponsored version of The Sims, have we got a news bite for you. According to Deadline, Chick-fil-a is leaving the sandwiches in the coop and enlisting the streaming wars. The trade reports that the fast-food chain "has...

Ex-England cricketer Freddie Flintoff is on a rooftop terrace in Kolkata, talking to the nine young men he’s brought there on tour. “I was going to say we’re representing England,” he tells them. “But we’re representing something far bigger than that.”

Resilience, maybe? After all, everybody on this trip is a year older than they were meant to be, after Flintoff suffered serious injuries in a car accident while filming Top Gear. This delayed international trip is one of the few times he’s been out of his house in months. It’s the first time some of these young men, like 18-year-old Eli – a new recruit drafted in when two boys with Pakistani heritage were refused visas for this trip to India – have been out of the country.

Perhaps Flintoff’s about to say that they’re representing teamwork or family. The boys became both in...

A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs, with several executives exiting their roles, TheWrap has learned.

While it’s unknown just how many staffers are being impacted by the cuts, the cost-cutting measures have led to the departures of a handful of senior execs across Lifetime, History and A&e.

Amy Savitsky, who has served as Lifetime’s SVP of unscripted development and programming for under two years, will depart the company, alongside Lifetime VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez, who oversaw development on several Lifetime shows throughout their tenure.

Savitsky has been within the A+E Networks family for a while as she worked in a similar role at History overseeing series including “The Proof Is Out There” and “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” and, before that, worked at A&e overseeing series such as “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” and “Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole.”

Also exiting is Peter Tarshis,...

Exclusive: A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs today that has seen cuts across Lifetime and History’s programming teams.

Deadline understands that Amy Savitsky, SVP Unscripted Development and Programming at Lifetime, as well as VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez are out as part of the cuts.

There also are cuts across History and A&e with Zach Behr, VP Unscripted Programming, History, and A&e’s Peter Tarshis, who has worked for the company for over 30 years, also departing.

It comes on the same day that Paramount began laying off around 15% of its staff, a move that saw the shuttering of Paramount TV Studios.

“This is like Red Wedding week for television,” one source told Deadline.

Several divisions across A+E Networks are affected, but it’s not clear how many people are impacted.

“We’re enormously grateful to the contributions of the employees who are departing our company today,...

Former Top Gear host Andrew Flintoff has opened up about the high-speed crash that has transformed his life, saying: “I shouldn’t be here.”

Flintoff said he “struggles with anxiety,” has “nightmares” and “flashbacks” in comments trailed by BBC News that were filmed during the second season of his cricket series Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, which were recorded last summer.

These were the first comments Flintoff has made publicly about the crash, which has seen the BBC pay him £9M ($11.5M) in compensation following an investigation by producer BBC Studios and the popular show rested “for the foreseeable future.”

“I genuinely should not be here with what happened,” he said.

“It’s going to be a long road back and I’ve only just started. I’m going to need help. I really am. I’m not the best at asking for it.”

Flintoff, a previously affable England...

The reason we love The Apprentice is because we secretly (or not so secretly) think they’re mostly idiots and we could do better. We’d probably all win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Jeopardy in our heads. Certainly the Made In Chelsea gang would embrace us, and we could do with a flirty Gordon Ramsey to come and sort out our business, or someone to do up the house or the garden or the car, and storage hunters looks fun… But not that many of us could actually be arsed to apply.

So imagine a fantasy world where you can appear in a non-fiction show without any of the faff, totally by your rules in any capacity you like. Want to be on The Traitors? You can be Claudia Winkleman if you like! Want to travel the world with Travel Man – pick your destination and your traveling companion as you wish.

Now you get access to even more free content.

Sling TV has been working to make its ad-supported Sling Freestream service even better by adding tons of new channels recently. As spotted by CordCuttersNews, it appears as though Sling has just dropped another fresh batch of channel additions to the service, bringing the total to over 430 free channels you can stream content on.

The new channels added this week include:

Antiques Road Trip BBC Antiques Roadshow UK Baywatch BBC Earth BBC Food BBC Home and Garden BBC Travel BBC Doctor Who Farscape Fawesome Startalk TV BBC Top Gear

Freestream was first launched back in February 2023, and originally had just over 200 channels. Since then, Sling has more than doubled the number of channels available, all while retaining the free price tag.

The Sling Freestream service is totally independent of its Sling Blue and Sling Orange packages. You don’t need to...

The Grand Tour trio, James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson have gone their separate ways. What is the legal action that the former Top Gear hosts have taken? Here is the latest news.

Richard Hammond, James May, Jeremy Clarkson The Grand Tour – Instagram The Grand Tour Trio Go Their Separate Ways

This is the end of an era. The Grand Tour trio of James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson have called it quits. According to The Daily Mail, the three presenters and Amazon Prime reality stars have ended their 21-year-old television partnership.

The three stars have filed documents to dissolve their company W. Chump and Sons. That means that with the exception of the already filmed Zimbabwe episode, they will no longer be working together in this capacity. The company was successful with £6 million in turnover, and £ 3.8 in assets.

Not bad for three guys who transformed reality television.

Billie’S Bedtime Story

Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is joining the roster of celebrity readers for the CBeebies Bedtime Story slot on BBC pre-school network CBeebies. Eilish will read “This Moose Belongs to Me” by author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. The story follows Wilfred, a young boy who believes he owns a moose named Marcel. Eilish introduces the tale by sharing her love for both music and nature.

The narrative takes a turn when someone else claims ownership of Marcel during a woodland adventure, teaching Wilfred a valuable lesson. Eilish summarizes the moral, stating: “We need to look after beautiful, wild creatures like Marcel, but we also need to let them do their own thing.”

Eilish will make her debut on the popular children’s program on July 19. CBeebies Bedtime Story, a staple of British children’s television since 2002, airs weekdays on CBeebies and is available on BBC iPlayer. The...

Joe Egan, who co-founded Stealers Wheel with Gerry Rafferty and co-wrote and sang on the enduring hit “Stuck in the Middle with You,” died July 6. He was 77. The news was shared on the late Rafferty’s official Facebook page, but no details were provided.

“Very sad news that the other half of Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon with his nearest and dearest around him,” read the post on the page run by Rafferty’s daughter, Martha. “I will always remember him as a sweet and gentle soul. May he rest in peace.”

Egan — who originally dreamed of soccer stardom — and Rafferty met as teenagers at St. Mirin’s Academy in their hometown of Paisley, Scotland, and formed Stealers Wheel in the early 1970s. Their first two singles stiffed, but the third would become a rock and pop standard.

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A recent update could hint at when Season 4 of Clarkson's Farm will be released on Amazon Prime Video. 

The streaming reality series follows TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson (known for his work as the longtime host of automotive TV magazines Top Gear and The Grand Tour) and his family as they care for a 1,000-acre farm in Southwest England. 

Clarkson's Farm first debuted in June 2021, with Seasons 2 and 3 coming to the streamer in 2022 and 2024, respectively. Season 4 has been greenlit, but its exact release date remains unannounced. 

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Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, as it appeared in 2014.

BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has debuted a slate of free, ad-supported streaming television (Fast) channels on Paramount Global’s Pluto TV platform in Europe.

The content streams include three new Fast channels for the popular BBC series “Top Gear,” which will offer classic, road trip and challenge-based episodes of the program. It will complement the standalone BBC Top Gear channel that is already available on Pluto TV in Europe, particularly in the Nordic region.

“Expanding the Top Gear universe on Pluto TV further reinforces our commitment to give our audiences the content they love, curated for them to enjoy in unique and exciting ways,” said Katrina Kowalski, the Senior Vice President of International Content Programming and Acquisitions at Pluto TV, said in a statement. “At Pluto TV, we are continuously finessing our Fast strategy,...

Will.i.am, The Handmaid’s Tale producer Warren Littlefield and Clarkson’s Farm EP Andy Wilman will speak at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival.

Grammy-winning music artist and The Voice coach Will.i.am will be a headline speaker in a new Frontiers strand that will bring together the traditional TV sector with leaders from others, such as podcasting, tech and digital.

He will be in conversation with Dr Alex Connock, the TV-producer, Oxford University lecturer and AI expert. Will.i.am is the founder and CEO of Fyi, a Web 3.0 AI platform aimed at harnessing the technology for creative production. The pair will discuss the future of creativity and what role AI will play in content creation, distribution and audience engagement.

Littlefield, the former network chief who oversaw the creation of NBC’s ‘Must See TV’ era, will discuss his career on both sides of the commissioning line. After overseeing...

Will.I.Am and “Clarkson’s Farm” executive producer, Andy Wilman are among the lineup at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival it was confirmed today.

They will be joined at the festival’s 49th edition by “The Handmaid’s Tale” producer Warren Littlefield.

The lineup, which will be further announced in due course, was put together by the festival’s new creative director Rowan Woods.

“It’s such an exciting moment for me to be able to unveil our first session announcements for the 2024 Festival,” said Woods. “They hint at three of our key priorities this year: expanding our international programming, reflecting the increasingly porous boundaries between TV and other sectors and the creative opportunities this brings, and celebrating the success and impact of U.K. talent and programme making. We have lots more news to share in the coming weeks and look forward to convening the industry in Edinburgh...

Holy cow, May is almost over! That means June is almost here, bringing with it summer. While there are plenty of summer activities one can do outdoors, let's not forget the ultimate summer vibe: sitting inside watching TV. Hey, it gets hot out there! You could go outside and sweat a lot, or you could sit on your couch with the air conditioner blasting, watching Netflix. As is their custom, Netflix will be kicking several titles to the curb as the month rolls over, which means you better act fast to watch some of these films and TV shows. Below, we're highlighting some of best titles leaving Netflix in June 2024. 

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The fans are surprised as the 64-year-old Jeremy Clarkson has received the title of UK’s Sexiest Man Alive for the second consecutive year. The notable television presenter and journalist has defeated some significant Hollywood stars like Tom Holland, Cillian Murphy, and Idris Elba.

Jeremy Clarkson in a still from Clarkson’s Farm I Amazon Studios

Although the list comprises names from the worlds of entertainment, sports, and politics, it was startling to see Henry Cavill not even making it to the Top 10. The closest to Jeremy Clarkson is the Spider-Man fame Tom Holland at second.

Surprisingly, Clarkson has retained his position as the UK’s Sexiest Man even after being in the headlines for his numerous controversial comments.

How did Jeremy Clarkson become the UK’s Sexiest Man?

Tom Holland as Spider-Man in the MCU I [Credit: Columbia Pictures/Marvel Studios]In an annual poll conducted by an online dating site for married people,...

Exclusive: Andy Wilman looks like a man who’s not seen sunlight for a while. Peering down the barrel of a Zoom call, he’s got a touch of man flu after a spell in his editing bunker. Wilman is perpetually “in an edit.” He’s currently honing the final episode of The Grand Tour, but he could just as well be looking at rushes from Clarkson’s Farm Season 4. It is his happy place.

We talk just days after Season 3 has been confirmed as Amazon Prime Video’s highest-rated UK original, sitting acres ahead of lavishly-budgeted series including Fallout and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not bad for a show in which the centerpiece storyline is the birthing journey of a pig named Baroness. Clarkson’s Farm was, in Wilman’s words, conceived as Clarkson’s “solo album” away from Richard Hammond and James May, but...

Sitting at a capacious round table filled with half-a-dozen entertainment reporters, Gary Oldman describes himself as a fan of television. “Some of the best stuff you see is on your television screen,” he said. “I love long-form.”

Frankly, this isn’t the first time a movie star who’s new to television has praised the medium printing his paychecks. But Oldman — in a winding, hourlong conversation pegged to “Slow Horses,” his first TV role as a series regular — really does seem to love the visual art of serialized narratives. During the December luncheon (hosted by Apple in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood), he brought up a dozen shows, often unprompted, and even quoted his favorite line from “Succession” off the cuff.

“God, [Brian] Cox had one of the greatest lines when he said, ‘What is that smell in here? It’s like a cheesemonger died and left his cock in the brie,...

It's hard to imagine a show like Clarkson's Farm becoming one of the top-rated shows on Prime Video. In February of 2023, it broke viewing records in the UK, and the 2024 season has already snatched the top spot from Baby Reindeer, with only four episodes released.

What makes Clarkson's Farm so compelling, however, is the imbecilic, blundering buffoon that headlines the series, Jeremy Clarkson, along with his deadpan sidekick, Kaleb Cooper.

The thing is, Clarkson isn't a fool. He's simply in over his head, diving headlong into an immensely complicated livelihood, far more than anything he has ever encountered. Clarkson's journey from Top Gear to the difficulties of full-time farming is relatable.

Apart from establishing an intimate link between the audience and the show, it makes for some hilarious moments throughout the series. Authenticity is the name of the game here, and it's the beating heart behind the colorful characters that inhabit Chipping Norton,...

The wildly popular NBC series Friends was still four years into the future when one of its biggest stars began appearing in music videos for Jon Bon Jovi. In 1990, Matt LeBlanc was trying to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry when he was tapped to star in a video for Jon Bon Jovi’s first solo project, Blaze of Glory. He would go on to film a second one at the height of his Friends fame as well.

The video starred Jon Bon Jovi, but Matt LeBlanc got the girl

The premise of the “Miracle” music video centered on Jon Bon Jovi and his pals as they took a motorcycle road trip. En route to an undetermined location, they enter a small Mexican town and are welcomed by locals.

During a fiesta following a wedding, LeBlanc sees a beautiful young woman. They lock eyes.

After guitar riffs...

Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm premiered recently, and Amazon Prime fans were concerned about Gerald Cooper, but Jeremy Clarkson gave an update. If you don’t know, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The former Top Gear star brings a lot of humor with his show, but there’s nothing remotely funny about the disease that struck Gerald, the security manager.

Jeremy Clarkson Makes People Laugh & Fans Love Gerald

Gerald Cooper has a broad West Country accent and on occasion, when he gets excited, his boss can’t understand a word he says. However, he mostly just gets himself laughing so hard, he almost cries. Gerald became a favorite because he’s astute, sharp, and has the understated British humor down to an art form. Kaleb Cooper, the recently promoted farmhand, and his reality TV boss want Gerald well and back at work.

Gerald Cooper On Clarkson’s Farm Amazon Prime YouTube...

When Amazon Prime released Clarkson’s Farm Season 3, it was only the first half of the episodes. Therefore, when will the streamer release Part 2? At the beginning of the third season, Jeremy promoted Kaleb Cooper as his farm manager. Then, they agreed to a contest. Kaleb would farm the regular farmland, while Jeremy would farm the parts of the land they have not used. However, the streamer only aired four episodes. When are the remaining four dropping?

Viewers love Jeremy Clarkson’s farm series. This season has shown the Top Gear alum dealing with a cornucopia of obstacles. This ranges from the forced closure of the Diddly Squat’s restaurant to the challenges of raising pigs.

Here are the details of when fans of the show will get the Season 3, Part 2 episodes.

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When Amazon Prime dropped Clarkson’s Farm Season 3 on Friday,...

Free Streaming

Freely, the new free streaming service backed by Britain’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) that delivers live TV over broadband, has launched. The initiative is from Everyone TV, the organization which runs free TV in the U.K. and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Paramount Global’s Channel 5. Announced last year, the service allows viewers to browse and watch live TV channels together with on-demand content streamed to their smart TV via the internet. Freely will be built-in to the next generation of smart TVs and features a lineup of public service broadcaster content and other free-to-air channels.

Content from Stv and S4C, free-to-air public service broadcasters for Scotland and Wales respectively, is also available on Freely. Hisense, previously announced as the first Freely smart TV partner, brings Freely TVs to market today. TiVo will be offering Freely as part of its TiVo Os platform.

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed the secret to his curmudgeonly, grumbling character that helped propel his shows Top Gear and The Grand Tour to worldwide success – it was all an act.

Clarkson, whose hit series Clarkson’s Farm returns to Amazon Prime’s global platform on May 3, told The Guardian newspaper he had deliberately made “a comic creation.”

He said: “Everyone assumes the character they see on motoring shows is me, but it’s exaggerated. To think that I was like I was on Top Gear is the same as thinking that Anthony Hopkins is a cannibal.”

And he said that, as a working farmer whose challenges and triumphs are all captured on camera for his hit show, he feels no pressure to be controversial any more:

“I don’t have to think, ‘Right, I’m going to say something stupidly provocative now.’ That’s relaxing. Also, you don’t wake up...

Amazon Prime has just released the Clarkson’s Farm Season 3 video trailer. The new season promises some competition between The Grand Tour star and fan-favorite Kaleb Cooper.

What does it all reveal? Moreover, when should viewers of the hit reality show expect to see it drop?

Here are all the details.

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Everyone loves Clarkson’s Farm. This humorous and dramatic reality show centers around Top Gear alum Jeremy Clarkson’s farm called Diddly Squat. Moreover, this series represents the struggles farmers have to produce the world’s food. On Thursday, Amazon released the Clarkson’s Farm Season 3 trailer. What should viewers expect this season?

Firstly, Jeremy promotes his right-hand man Kaleb Cooper to farm manager. Next, Jeremy puts on a competition. He is going to farm some wild land that takes up about half of his property.

‘After the Party’ in the U.K.

Channel 4 has acquired U.K. rights to the acclaimed New Zealand drama “After the Party” from Lingo Pictures.

The six-part series, co-created by and starring Robyn Malcolm (“Black Bird”), follows Penny Wilding, a mother, teacher and environmental activist, whose life imploded five years earlier after she accused her husband Phil, played by Peter Mullan, of a sex crime and nobody believed her.

When Penny’s now ex-husband returns to town, her daughter pressures her to let go of her accusations and move on. As her old furies rise to the surface, Penny must decide what’s more important – the truth or rebuilding her relationships with the people around her.

Co-created by Dianne Taylor, “After the Party” was produced by Australia’s Lingo Pictures and Luminous Beast in New Zealand as an original commission for New Zealand’s Tvnz in association with and distributed by ITV Studios.

Exclusive: The race to replace Ralph Lee at the helm of BBC Studios Productions is underway, with the studio signaling its ambition by approaching some of the UK’s top unscripted executives.

Lee will step down as the CEO of BBC Studios Productions next month after a six-year stint to “pursue a new challenge” but Deadline is told that headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates is already scoping out successors.

The successful candidate will run a production unit that contributed heavily to BBC Studios’ £1.6B ($2B) content revenue last year, overseeing hits including Good Omens, Strictly Come Dancing, and David Attenborough’s natural history tentpoles.

Deadline understands that Russell Reynolds has held tentative early conversations with potential candidates including Stv Studios managing director David Mortimer, ITV Studios unscripted director Angela Jain and Karl Warner, Channel 4’s outgoing head of youth and digital.

Fatima Salaria, who previously ran The Apprentice producer Naked,...

Max and discovery+ will get MotorTrend content, but streamers like Peacock, Prime Video and Netflix also carry titles gear heads might have interest in.

Car lovers everywhere grimaced at the news that Warner Bros. Discovery was planning to shut down its MotorTrend+ streaming service in March when it broke this week. MotorTrend+ is one of the top places to find automotive content, from car makeover shows to series featuring big-name celebrities and their favorite rides, and much more. With access to MotorTrend+ about to end, where can gearheads find and stream new and legacy titles relating to automotive topics?

Netflix and Prime Video offer excellent on-demand titles like “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” and the BBC’s “Top Gear.” ESPN+ and Peacock are perfect for viewers who want to enjoy live auto racing from F1 and NASCAR. Viewers can head to Max and discovery+ to find content formerly housed on...

It’s the end of the road for Warner Bros. Discovery’s MotorTrend+ automotive streaming service.

The media company announced that MotorTrend+ will be shut down after content from the service is fully migrated to Discovery+ and Max at the end of March. The majority of current MotorTrend+ subscribers will be automatically switched over to Discovery+’s ad-free plan by the end of March, retaining their same subscription price. The company said eligible MotorTrend+ subscribers will receive email instructions on how to access Discovery+. MotorTrend+ subs who signed up through certain third-party partners will not be moved over.

MotorTrend+ subscriptions had cost $5.99 per month or $54.99 per year. The ad-free version of Discovery+ is $8.99/month in the U.S.

Beginning Friday, Feb. 23, 1,000 hours of MotorTrend’s programming is being added to Discovery+ (in the U.S. and Canada) and Max (in the U.S.). Thousands of hours of additional MotorTrend content...

Prime Video has debuted the trailer for the upcoming adventure with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, ‘The Grand Tour: Sand Job.’ Which is perfect timing to present our extended interview with one the its stars – Richard Hammond.

Colin Hart sat down with the presenter to talk about the new series, the lure and appeal of the show as it has evolved and what was the spark in the original Top Gear meetings that helped spawn these huge shows.

Trailer Time!

Jeremy, James and Richard head to Africa for their penultimate adventure, and given they are entering the end game, they make sure this outing is a spectacular one.

In the remote African country of Mauritania, the trio follow in the footsteps of the legendary Paris-Dakar rally. Instead of bespoke Dakar racers, the boys must complete their journey in cheap modified sports cars. Their journey begins with the world...