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Gas supply this winter is “not a cause for immediate concern”, the UK’s business secretary has reassured, following reports that a spike in prices could threaten food production and other industries. Kwasi Kwarteng posted a series of tweets after holding meetings with senior executives from the energy industry to discuss the impact of high global

UPDATED: ViacomCBS has become the first major Hollywood film and television conglom to set a January date for all employees to return to the office. ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish made the announcement in a company memo last Friday, saying that the “Green  phase” of the return-to-office process “will now launch  no sooner than January 10,

Britain’s meat industry is warning of a shortage of carbon dioxide gas without which the food manufacturing process could grind to a halt. Representatives of the industry have been in emergency talks with the government over the crisis which is a knock-on effect of the Europe-wide surge in natural gas prices. CO2 is used to

SAG-AFTRA has filed an NLRB complaint against the producers of the TV and theatrical productions of Warner Bros.’ DC Universe that seeks compensation for the reuse of clips from their shows on DC Daily, Warner Bros. Television’s short-lived web series that featured in-depth looks at the DC Universe. The union, which has also filed a

A major relaxing of travel rules for people coming in and out of England have been announced by the transport secretary. From 4 October, the current traffic light system of red, amber and green countries will be scrapped and replaced with one red list only. Travel traffic light system scrapped – follow live updates Anywhere

Tom Freston, a founder of the MTV network, once observed: “What’s fascinating about the future is that so many people claim to understand it.” In 2006, Freston, then CEO of Viacom, was fired by Sumner Redstone, who explained that “Freston doesn’t understand the future.” As it turned out, Redstone had failed to understand the present.

Retail sales fell unexpectedly last month partly thanks to shoppers spending more money eating out than in supermarkets, official figures show. The 0.9% decline in sales volumes in August followed a downwardly-revised slump of 2.8% in July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – and was the fourth month in a row of

EXCLUSIVE: Transparent actress Trace Lysette has signed with Anonymous Content. Lysette is best known for her recurring role as Shea, a transgender yoga teacher, in Amazon Prime Video’s Transparent from 2014-2019. Other small-screen credits include Pose, Blunt Talk, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Midnight, Texas, and David Makes Man. She also appeared in the Netflix documentary Disclosure as

England’s 20 top-flight football club owners will be required to sign a nine-point plan designed to maintain the competition’s integrity in a bid to avert any future breakaway threat. Sky News has learnt that Premier League clubs were on Thursday sent a final draft of a new “Owners’ Charter” that their controlling shareholders will be

IATSE president Matthew Loeb said Wednesday that ongoing contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have reached a “critical juncture,” and that “if the mega-corporations that make up the AMPTP remain unwilling to address our core priorities and treat workers with human dignity, it is going to take the combined solidarity

Inflation rose to 3.2% last month from 2% in July – its largest ever recorded increase – the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation for August was the highest since March 2012 – though the ONS said much of the effect was likely to be temporary. That

An exhibition event to be held inside LA Coliseum next February will help NASCAR “bring the racing action to our fans” in a key market, an executive said during a press call today. The race, dubbed the Clash, kicks off the 2022 slate and will air on Fox. It comes just two weeks before the

Households are being urged to protect themselves from a surge in energy costs ahead of winter as a fire at a crucial power installation adds to growing worries about affordability in the months ahead. The blaze took out an electricity interconnector on the Kent coast – one of only two – which allows power to

Refresh for updates … Gavin Newsom is staying put as California governor after the state’s voters declined to oust him in the recall election today. The issue has been front of mind for Californians — and Hollywood — for months, especially the past few weeks, and social media was flooded with reaction to the results

Apple is launching a new-look iPhone 13 with diagonally aligned cameras and what it says is a 20% smaller notch in the front. This September’s launch event featured far less than the company announced last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic led to three separate special events to announce a range of products. But retained from

ViacomCBS CFO Naveen Chopra — asked Tuesday about Paramount’s management shakeup — said outgoing studio CEO Jim Gianopolus “leaves some very big shoes to fill. There is no doubt he has helped revitalize the studio both creatively and financially. But I think Brian [Robbins] is really the perfect person to take the reins from here.”

The energy watchdog has moved to reassure customers of two failed household suppliers as wholesale prices hit record levels, threatening a leap in bills in and after the winter months ahead. Ofgem said the demise of Utility Point – first reported by Sky News – and People’s Energy meant their respective customer bases, totalling more

Robin French, a talent agent who worked with legends including Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and later headed production at Paramount Pictures in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he had been in declining health for the past few months and died September 6 in Palm Desert, CA. “Dad left knowing that we

Two-thirds of travel sector employers with staff still on the furlough scheme are planning redundancies once the wage support is removed at the end of the month, the travel association ABTA has warned. The body said a survey of its membership showed that 69% of employers planned to let staff go after 30 September. It

EXCLUSIVE: Kyra Breslin, the granddaughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jimmy Breslin, is following in her grandfather’s footsteps, but in audio. She is launching Finding Lauren, a true-crime documentary podcast series that looks at the ongoing investigation of missing Indiana University student, Lauren Spierer. The series, which launches on September 20, explores the story of the