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President Trump has been futzing in the Middle East, opening the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Stephen Colbert told viewers. “Now we’ve just got to de-stabilize Antarctica, and we'll have Global Crisis Bingo,” Colbert snarked. But, according to our ambassador, moving the embassy to Jerusalem sends a message to Israel…

Fargo and The Punisher Dearbhla Walsh is to direct Channel 4's period espionage epic Jerusalem. Walsh is to make her first return to British television in three years, since directing Richard Curtis' Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman-fronted adaptation of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot for the BBC. In addition to her work on the…

Shape of Water and Call Me By Your Name star Michael Stuhlbarg and Friday Night Light's Matt Lauria have joined Channel 4's period espionage epic Jerusalem. The pair will join The End of the F***ing World star Emma Appleton and A Streetcat Named Bob actor Luke Treadaway in the six-part series, which was created and…

EXCLUSIVE: The End of the F***ing World star Emma Appleton and A Streetcat Named Bob actor Luke Treadaway have signed up to star in Channel 4's period espionage epic Jerusalem. I hear the pair are to front the six-part series, which was created and written by Masters of Sex and Boardwalk Empire writer Bash Doran. It's…

Countries around the world came together to collectively tweak President Donald Trump’s nose today. TV news networks took a break from their wall-to-wall tax-overhaul/government shutdown coverage to broadcast the largely symbolic gesture. The United Nations General Assembly voted, 128 to 9, to condemn his announcement…

Dry throat caused President Donald Trump to slur his words during Wednesday’s speech announcing he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted at Thursday’s press briefing. Sanders was walking off the podium after declaring a wrap on the briefing when…

President Donald Trump announced he officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and will move the U.S. embassy to the city. While TV cameras were trained on him, he signed a directive for the State Department to hire architects to come up with a new embassy in Jerusalem, which he said should be designed as “a…

Lionsgate Television UK has acquired rights to 2011 non-fiction bestseller Jerusalem which will be adapted as a drama in what marks the company’s first UK series development. Written by historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem is an epic biography of the city that ranges from King David’s establishment…

The 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival, which wraps this weekend, has announced its prizes. The winner of the inaugural edition of the international competition is Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV. The film world premiered in Cannes and stars French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun King struggling with his own…

Sizable crowds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protested against a big new multiplex cinema in Jerusalem that is staying open on the Sabbath, news outlets reported. Some protesters threw stones at police and broke windows during Friday night’s demonstrations in the religious, or haredi, neighborhoods of Romemah and Mea…