Pure Gym, Britain’s biggest health and fitness club chain, is close to abandoning a £1.5bn stock market listing amid growing signs of jitters among investors. Sky News has learnt that Pure Gym, which is majority-owned by the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, could decide as soon as this week to shelve its proposed
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The controversy over Netflix’s Dave Chappelle special The Closer continued today with allegations that employees had raised concerns about the doc before it debuted, reports of a planned walkout next week by and in support of the company’s trans employees and a leaked memo from company co-CEO Ted Sarandos maintaining that violent or abusive content
The EU has offered to cut 80% of checks on some goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland in an effort to avoid a post-Brexit trade clash. It has drawn up plans designed to ease the flow of items across the Irish Sea, including chilled meats, to put an end to the so-called “sausage
After airing on ESPN for the past 27 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee will have a new TV home within the E.W. Scripps corporate fold. The popular tournament will be shown in 2022 on ION and Bounce, two free over-the-air networks operated by Scripps. In an announcement, the company said the switch will make
UK economic growth picked up in August as bars, restaurants and festivals benefited from a first full month without COVID restrictions in England, official figures show. Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.4% month-on-month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – slightly below experts’ average forecast of 0.5% growth. However the report also
IATSE leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. “Despite our best efforts at the table, the pace of negotiations does not reflect the urgency of the situation,” Cathy Repola, national executive director of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700,
There are almost 10,000 fewer licensed premises across Britain since the start of the coronavirus pandemic – with a rush of closures taking place since the summer despite a reopening of the economy, according to a report. The latest market recovery monitor from industry consultants CGA and business advisory firm AlixPartners said the sector, including
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Imperioli is adding his voice to another project. The Sopranos star, who narrates feature prequel The Many Saints of Newark and co-hosts his own Talking Sopranos podcast, is to host and exec produce Kerouac and Me. The audio project, first revealed by Deadline in August, comes from authors and podcast hots Dave Wedge
The number of job vacancies hit a record high of 1.1 million in the three months to September, as the post-pandemic labour market continued to recover. The Office for National Statistics said the number of job vacancies increased by 318,000, with all industry sectors above or equal to the levels seen between January to March
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is moving forward with plans to bestow Golden Globe honors this movie season, even in the absence of the typical awards ceremony broadcast on NBC, Deadline has confirmed. A source said Monday that “the HFPA plans to recognize the performances of 2021 to celebrate the great work of the industry
Big Ideas live will explore the challenges facing the economy as we come out of the pandemic. It will look at how business can fire up the UK, but also at the challenges they face in doing so. What are the jobs which will be created, post pandemic, and where in the country? And with
Britain’s main carbon dioxide producer is to hike its prices under a government-brokered deal to keep supplies to key industries going without taxpayer subsidies. Ministers stepped in last month after a surge in natural gas prices prompted US-owned CF Industries to shut down fertiliser plants that also make 60% of Britain’s CO2 – a key
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 28 new deaths from Covid-19, along with 1,195 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s numbers brings the County to a total of 26,308 deaths and 1,469,790 positive cases. At time
The dish that gives this play its title was, we’re told more than once, a specialty of the late patriarch whose death has occasioned a very rocky family reunion, a get-together where the only consensus seems to be that grandpa’s traditional culinary contribution was beloved more for sentimentality than flavor. And so we’re handed an
A £50m cash injection will enable Liberty Steel to restart production in Rotherham, saving hundreds of jobs. The investment is part of a wider restructuring of Liberty’s owner, GFG Alliance, also involving Liberty Primary Metals Australia. GFG was forced to seek new funding when its key lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed. Image: The Liberty Steel plant
IATSE and the AMPTP have ended their fifth day of do-or-die contract talks and will resume bargaining for a new film and TV pact on Monday. But if a deal is to be reached, and a strike averted, it will have to be made soon. On Friday, Matt Loeb, the union’s president, said that either
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told Sky News that the price cap on consumers’ energy bills “will not be moved” this winter and he is “convinced” that the UK won’t suffer gas shortages in the coming months. Speaking to the Trevor Phillips On Sunday show, Mr Kwarteng said he was “convinced we will have full
EXCLUSIVE: The debate has begun over a WGA referendum that would give screen credits to hundreds of feature film writers who currently aren’t eligible to receive them. The referendum would authorize the use of an “Additional Literary Material” credit for all “participating writers” who work – sometimes for many months – on motion pictures but don’t
A pig farmer who fears he may have to destroy 80 animals a week due to a shortage of butchers says the army may need to be called in to help. Stephen Thompson, who keeps 2,000 pigs at Povey Farm in Norton, Derbyshire, described the situation facing the industry as “the biggest waste and mess
UPDATE, 8:33 PM PT FRIDAY: The Texas abortion law was at least temporarily reinstated as a federal appeals court considers a lower court judge’s ruling. The law bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, generally after about six weeks of pregnancy. That essentially restricts abortions in the state. Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge