In the latest #MeToo scandal to hit the entertainment industry, TV networks are yanking shows starring British actor Noel Clarke after the left-wing Guardian published accusations from 20 women who claim the star engaged in acts of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, unwanted touching, sexually inappropriate behavior on set, and bullying.
The Sky Group, the Comcast-owned British telecommunications giant, has pledged to reach 20 percent of its workforce to be black, Asian, or other minorities by the year 2025.
Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country
Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.
Sky News political anchor Adam Boulton has accused the Brexit Party’s ambition to be included in negotiations with the European Union as being “close to authoritarian fascism”.
LONDON (AP) — U.S. media giant Comcast offered Wednesday to buy British broadcaster Sky Plc for 22 billion pounds ($30 billion), topping a controversial bid from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.
The European Commission raided the London offices of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox as part of an investigation into a possible “cartel” involving sports broadcasting rights.
Investigators from the European Union Commission have raided the offices of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox UK offices and have seized computers and other documents.
LONDON (AP) – Comcast, the owner of NBC and Universal Pictures, has launched a bid for British pay TV broadcaster Sky that threatens to thwart the takeover ambitions of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
LONDON (AP) — 21st Century Fox has offered to insulate Sky’s news operations from the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his family to win approval of its bid to take over the London-based pay TV company.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Twenty-First Century Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky is “not in the public interest” and could block the acquisition.
Shares in media-entertainment giant 21st Century Fox surged to seven-month highs Friday after news it has been holding talks with at least three potential buyers for some of its television and film operations.
Sky has warned it could shut down Sky News if questions over the Murdoch family’s influence on Britain’s media landscape impede its purchase by 21st Century Fox.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has warned of “private monopolies” in British media becoming like “state monopolies” such as the BBC, as Rupert Murdoch vies to take control of Sky News.
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it would be assessing the proposed Sky takeover by Rupert Murdoch, as the acquisition could leave too much of Britain’s media in the hands of too few people.
The Guardian has reported on the comments of Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson who has written to the competition watchdog urging it to refuse the Murdoch takeover of Sky.
Sky News, the major rival to the publicly-funded BBC in Britain, has aired a show in which four out five panellists called for Brexit to be overturned by MPs or subject to a second referendum.
LONDON (AP) — The British government will refer Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.’s bid for satellite broadcaster Sky to the country’s competition regulator for further examination, in a blow to Rupert Murdoch’s takeover plans. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told lawmakers Tuesday
Britain’s government stalled Twenty-First Century Fox’s takeover of the Sky pay television and broadband network Thursday after regulators said the deal could give Rupert Murdoch and his family too much influence over the country’s media.
Some of Britain’s best-loved and most watched programmes, including EastEnders and Coronation Street, are to be monitored for their ethnic, gender and sexual orientation diversity as part of a new scheme to be rolled out eventually across the whole of
Israel supporters have said for years that there is an international media bias against the Jewish state.
Hollywood luvvies probably don’t know much about the European Union, but they’re sure about to. Whenever Hugh Jackman, or George Clooney, or whoever the kids like nowadays hear about the EU, it is likely in the context of some PR-effort. Something
