Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Launches Content Creator Fund Initiative ‘The Accelerator’ (Exclusive)

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Launches Content Creator Fund Initiative ‘The Accelerator’ (Exclusive)

Goalhanger, Gary Lineker’s media and podcast production behemoth, is launching a flagship initiative in collaboration with the U.K.’s top content creators. The Accelerator will support digital creators across entertainment, sport, politics, science, tech, and finance. “Designed as a high-impact, three-month creative business incubator, it provides investment, training and mentorship and access to Goalhanger’s senior editorial,…

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Series Mania Hot List: 10 Standout International Shows at This Year’s Fest

Series Mania Hot List: 10 Standout International Shows at This Year’s Fest

Series Mania’s 2026 lineup spotlights a restless, risk-taking global TV scene including shows about a gritty outback procedural, a Belgian near-future dystopian drama, and an offbeat British comedy featuring Michael Palin and some soothsaying homunculi. Published on March 22, 2026 (clockwise from top left): ‘Anatomy of a Moment,’ ‘Dustfall,’ ‘Small Prophets,’ ‘The Best Immigrant’ Movistar+/Federation…

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How Korea Took Over the World

How Korea Took Over the World

Growing up in Toronto, Maggie Kang felt she needed to conceal her obsession with H.O.T., the mid-1990s idol group whose tightly synchronized choreography, chantable hooks and lurid crimson hair — sometimes topped with ski goggles — helped define the template for modern K-pop. “I had to hide that I liked K-pop,” says Kang, co-writer and…

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In ‘Homesick,’ a Director Explores Belonging as an Adoptee From Korea and Breaks the Silence About the Dark Sides of Living in “a Random Family”

In ‘Homesick,’ a Director Explores Belonging as an Adoptee From Korea and Breaks the Silence About the Dark Sides of Living in “a Random Family”

What is family? What are home and belonging? Who gets to decide about how those concepts apply to us? And what makes a good and a bad family or home? Those are some of the questions you will find yourself thinking about and struggling with when you watch director Taekyung Tanja Inwol’s (A Colombian Family)…

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German Distributor DCM Acquires Swiss Ascot Elite

German Distributor DCM Acquires Swiss Ascot Elite

Berlin-based independent producer/distributor DCM has acquired leading Swiss indie distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment, the two companies announced Thursday. In a deal between Swiss-born DCM founders Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel, Marc Schmidheiny and Joel Brandeis, and managing director Stephanie Candinas, and Ascot Elite owners Karin G. Dietrich, Ralph S. Dietrich and Stephan Giger, DCM will take…

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