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Figures from the world of fashion and celebrity have been paying tribute to Patrick Demarchelier, whose death was announced on Friday. The French photographer was best known for his photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, one of which appeared on the cover of Vogue's 1991 December issue and was credited with updating…

The inner life of Diana Spencer has been imagined effectively in several recent speculative dramas, from TV's The Crown to Pablo Larraín's Spencer. Sundance documentary The Princess invites us into her world by tracing the intense interest that followed her engagement to Prince Charles in 1981 — and it's riveting…

The ongoing pandemic can’t stall the fountainhead of cinematic creative bursting from the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 lineup, which was unveiled Thursday. Sundance festival director Tabitha Jackson told Deadline that the upcoming lineup of 82 features for the virtual and in-person Park City event is “doubling down…

After a charged premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín's Spencer has become one of this season's hottest contenders. A haunting study of one particular Christmas at Sandringham for Diana, Princess of Wales, as her marriage falters and the Royal fairytale turns grim, Spencer features a landmark performance …

Spencer director Pablo Larraín said Saturday that while he and screenwriter Steven Knight took different immersive paths when developing the film’s screenplay, the result was unlike any other he'd worked on: the finished script matched the final edit scene for scene. "The movie right now has the same order – exactly…

BBC director general Tim Davie and two of his predecessors, Tony Hall and John Birt, have eaten large helpings of humble pie under intense questioning from British lawmakers over the Princess Diana scandal. The three men appeared in front of British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMSC) on…

Martin Bashir was not rehired by the BBC in 2016 to cover up for the deception he deployed in securing an interview with Princess Diana two decades earlier, an independent review has concluded. Ken MacQuarrie, the BBC's former director of nations and regions, was asked by BBC director general Tim Davie to examine the…

BBC director general Tim Davie has announced that the corporation has launched an independent investigation into why Martin Bashir was rehired in 2016 amid concerns over his conduct in securing a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana. Davie told BBC Radio 2’s Today show that Ken MacQuarrie, the BBC’s former…

The BBC’s board has launched an investigation into the British broadcaster’s editorial culture and practices following last week’s damning inquiry into a 1995 Princess Diana interview. In a statement on Monday, the board said Lord Dyson’s report had been “profoundly sobering” after it concluded that former reporter…

Four days after the BBC published a brutal independent inquiry into a bombshell Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana, the recriminations continue, as the UK government ramps up its rhetoric against the broadcaster. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has already signaled his intentions to review the BBC’s governance…

Martin Bashir came forward on Saturday to respond to an independent inquiry, which found that his infamous 1995 interview with Princess Diana was secured through deceitful tactics. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the disgraced journalist said he is “deeply sorry” for the bombshell interview’s lingering effects…

The BBC is engulfed in one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history after an independent inquiry concluded that former reporter Martin Bashir deceived his way to a Princess Diana interview and the broadcaster failed to properly investigate his wrongdoing. Former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson’s inquiry elicited a…