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The Directors Guild and the studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The deal comes on the 33rd day of the Writers Guild strike, and just four days before SAG-AFTRA sits down at the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – and two days before Monday’s

Rail strikes are set to cause further havoc today when train drivers walk out ahead of high-profile events including the FA Cup final, the Epsom Derby, and a Beyonce concert. Members of the Aslef union are taking industrial action in the long-running dispute over pay and working conditions. Read more: Everything you need to know

The Associated Press style guide – which sets the agenda for how most major media uses its words and phrases in reporting, thus shaping society views – has come out with new guidelines on gender. The AP now instructs journalists to respect LGBTQ subjects’ preferred pronouns and to avoid terms like “biological sex.” The new

The talent agency which managed Phillip Schofield until the disgraced TV star’s career imploded this week is this weekend facing questions about its own future after its lenders called in advisers to explore a financial restructuring. Sky News can reveal that YMU, which is owned by a private equity firm, has for weeks been involved

YouTube will no longer remove videos claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen. The video platform said in a blog post that it previously removed “tens of thousands” of videos that questioned elections since it implemented the policy in December 2020. Now, YouTube “will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or

Two of the country’s biggest banking giants have announced they are closing a total of 63 branches. Barclays said on Friday it will shut another 10 branches, on top of more than 70 closures this year that have already been announced. Meanwhile Lloyds Banking Group will shut the doors on 21 Lloyds Bank sites, along

In a defiant clarion call for continued solidarity and endurance as the Writers Guild’s strike enters its second month, WGA negotiating committee co-chair Chris Keyser says in a new video that the guild’s fight for a fair contract is not one that’s being fought for writers alone, but for the entire labor movement. “When you

As food inflation rises to 19.2%, its highest rate in 42 years, the European Central Bank has suggested it could be down to, in part, businesses profiteering from the cost of living crisis by increasing their prices for larger margins, a term known as “greedflation”. But what is the data behind the suggestion? On the

UPDATE: The Senate cleared the debt ceiling bill late on Thursday, the final hurdle for the U.S. to avoid default on its debt with a deadline approaching in just a matter of days. The bill, which passed 63-36, now goes to President Joe Biden. It ends the most precarious standoff over the debt limit since

The owner of British Gas is facing criticism from a leading City investor over the multimillion pound pay package handed to its chief executive after persistent criticism of windfall gains triggered by share price collapses during the pandemic. Sky News can reveal that abrdn, one of the London stock market’s most influential institutional shareholders, will

The new Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen will make its world premiere this fall as part of the 2023-24 season of New York’s Public Theater Off Broadway, the Public announced today. With music and lyrics by Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, Hell’s Kitchen will begin previews at the Public on October 24, with

House prices fell by 3.4% year-on-year in May, according to one of the UK’s biggest mortgage lenders. Data from Nationwide building society also showed a month-on-month decline of 0.1%, with the average cost of a UK home now said to be £260,736. The building society had said there were tentative signs of a recovery in the

Ari Emanuel believes artificial intelligence will help the entertainment industry, not destroy it. Speaking on the Freakonomics Radio podcast to author and host Stephen Dubner — an interview that took place before the Writer’s Guild of America strike, where AI issues loom large — Emanuel seemed to indicate that AI would be a useful tool.

Amazon and a subsidiary have agreed to pay millions to settle two separate privacy cases against its Alexa and Ring doorbell devices. Both cases were taken by US government consumer watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Amazon denies violating the law. In a case against the Alexa voice assistant, Amazon agreed to pay $25m

EXCLUSIVE: Unstoppable has, in fact, been stopped — at least for now. Production on the wrestling drama, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome, paused for the day earlier this morning following picketing at their shooting location near USC. Artists Equity, the new production company that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon co-founded with RedBird Capital, declined

CBI members are to begin voting today on the future of the business lobby group, following a series of scandals. The organisation was plunged into disarray after claims of serious sexual assault were made by CBI employees against colleagues. Today it will launch what it describes as an “ambitious ‘programme of change'”, with adjustments to

Amazon’s Alexa will no longer sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy. The e-commerce giant has stopped sales of celebrity “personalities” for Alexa. In a note on the product pages for the available celebrity voices, Amazon indicates that they are no longer available for purchase. “Melissa McCarthy’s Alexa voice is no longer available for

Having made tackling inflation a key policy aim, ministers are under pressure to get a grip on food prices, which are still rising at a robust pace. Among the proposals being considered is a cap on the price of basic food items. The British government is not the first to weigh up such a policy.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Australian actor James Mackay has signed with Elevate Entertainment. Mackay made his feature film debut in Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) starring alongside Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. In the remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name, a family moves to Rhode