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“Too Old And Lazy”: Official BBC Historian Slams Choice To Head British Regulator Ofcom
Michael Grade may be one of the British television industry's elder statesmen, but this does not necessarily make him the right person to lead the country's TV regulator Ofcom, apparently.
Professor Jean Seaton, the BBC's official historian, labelled the 79-year-old former producer turned TV executive "too old to be…
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Mohammed Fayed Mulls Bid For Pinewood
Mohammed Fayed, the controversial ex-owner of Harrods department store in London, has emerged as a surprise contender to buy Britain’s premier movie studio Pinewood Shepperton, best known as the production base for the James Bond franchise. Fayed says that he is considering making an all-cash offer for the studio…
Julian Fellowes Becomes A Tory Lord
Talk about life imitating art. Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning screenwriter and creator of ITV snob drama Downton Abbey, which PBS will show in January, has been made a Tory peer. Fellowes, who’s complained that the problem with success is that it’s very time-consuming, will now have even less time to pen the 2nd…
Michael Grade Buying 4 Theatres From Andrew Lloyd-Webber For $75M
Stage Entertainment, the London-based theatre chain, was also bidding but has now dropped out, I'm told. Grade has teamed up with theatrical agent Michael Linnit and private investors to acquire the New London, Her Majesty's, Cambridge and Palace theatres. Of the four, the New London needs the most renovation…
Pinewood Profits Fall 12% To $4.5M
First half operating profits after exceptional items have also fallen 3% to £3.2 million. Total revenue fell 6.4% in the first 6 months to £19 million. Film production revenue fell by 8.5% to £10.8 million, while TV shooting income fell 7.3% to £5.1 million. Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret was the biggest production to…
So, What Will Take The Place Of UKFC?
James Lee, former chairman of Scottish film agency Scottish Screen, has written to UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt proposing all £15 million of lottery funding be injected into a single distribution label. BBC Films and Film4 would be obliged to release all their films through this "British National Distribution…
Pinewood Debates Management Buyout
The publicly-quoted studio facility faces a renewed attack by shareholder Crystal Amber on Wednesday, when it announces its half-year results. Pinewood is expected to announce operating profits have fallen from last year's £3.3 million ($5 million). Crystal Amber thinks that all the value of the company is locked up…
Michael Grade Shrugs Off Call For Him To Quit As Pinewood Shepperton Boss
The former ITV chairman has survived a shareholder rebellion at this morning's annual general meeting of the company that owns Pinewood and Shepperton film studios.
Crystal Amber, an activist investment fund with 18% of the shares in Pinewood Shepperton has attacked Grade's "poor stewardship" as chairman of the…
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