#Tom Burke, Steve Coogan, Hayley Squires, Charlotte Ritchie Board Netflix Drug Gang Drama ‘Legends’

#Tom Burke, Steve Coogan, Hayley Squires, Charlotte Ritchie Board Netflix Drug Gang Drama ‘Legends’

Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Hayley Squires (Beau Is Afraid) have on boarded Netflix thriller series Legends. Inspired by one of the most remarkable criminal investigations ever conducted, the six-part drama follows a group of British Customs employees sent undercover to infiltrate some of the country’s most dangerous criminal…

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#Erin Doherty Unpacks Her One-Shot ‘Adolescence’ Episode: “I’ve Never Been a Part of a Project This Intense”

#Erin Doherty Unpacks Her One-Shot ‘Adolescence’ Episode: “I’ve Never Been a Part of a Project This Intense”

[This story contains spoilers up to episode three of Adolescence.] Everyone’s talking about Adolescence, and Erin Doherty knows why. The four episodes of Netflix‘s latest miniseries (hailed as “perfection,” a “masterclass” and “powerful TV“) are each filmed in one, consecutive shot, leaving audience members flummoxed at the stellar acting and trying to make sense of…

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#Banijay U.K. Inks Development Deal With ‘The Dig’ Producer, Acquires Rights to ‘Excellent Women’

#Banijay U.K. Inks Development Deal With ‘The Dig’ Producer, Acquires Rights to ‘Excellent Women’

Banijay U.K. has signed a development deal with Ellie Wood, producer of Netflix‘s The Dig and ITV’s Stonehouse, and her company Clearwood Films. The deal follows on from a first-look agreement between Banijay Rights, Banijay Entertainment’s distribution arm, and Clearwood Films, which ran from 2019. Banijay Rights will continue to distribute Clearwood projects. The first…

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#UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’

#UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’

A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly’s policies are “holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growth. “Mobile browsers are apps which provide the primary gateway for consumers to access the web on their mobile devices, and hence for businesses to reach them…

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#ARM to sign 0M chip deal with Malaysia

#ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia

Malaysia has become a hotspot for chip manufacturing due to increasing tensions between the U.S. and China, especially around the development of semiconductors used for AI applications. Predictably, tech firms around the world have been looking to diversify their source of chips, and ARM Holdings is now hoping to make the most of this opportunity….

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#BBC Gaza Doc Fallout Continues as Former Chief Accuses Corp of Being “Manipulated by Terrorists”

#BBC Gaza Doc Fallout Continues as Former Chief Accuses Corp of Being “Manipulated by Terrorists”

The fallout continues over the BBC’s airing of a documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas official. Earlier this week, the corporation apologized and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, about the lives of three children caught in the Israel-Gaza war, from its streaming service BBC iPlayer. It was discovered that one of the 13-year-old subjects, Abdullah Al-Yazouri,…

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