The BBC will always be stuck in the complex embrace of the British state. The corporation operates under a royal charter, which is updated every ten years or so, and says it must be “independent in all matters.” But everyone knows that it’s more complicated than that. - The New Yorker
The marriage combines WarnerMedia’s premium assets, including HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and the Warner Bros. studio, with Discovery’s mainstream channels, Food Network, HGTV, Animal Planet, TLC and Investigation Discovery, among others. - Los Angeles Times
“Film has Cannes. Video games have G.D.C.,” Marie Foulston, a London-based curator and producer of video-game and digital-art exhibitions, told me. “It has become a nexus, or focal point, for video-game culture.” - The New Yorker
Hollywood-watchers say the academy is walking a tightrope: how can it take a stand now after failing to act against other members' misconduct for decades? - CBC
As of February 2022, there were more than 817,000 unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services in the U.S., with many of those titles featuring hundreds of individual episodes or chapters. Variety
WUNC is no. 1 in the ratings for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill radio market, has $20 million in cash reserves, devoted listeners ready to donate, a growing newsroom, and signals in several other parts of the state. What ambitious new plans can it, and will it, pursue? - The Assembly (North Carolina)
The regal properties are reporting a “Bridgerton factor” as people enchanted by the baroque interiors and bucolic gardens of the hit show decide to visit its real life landmarks. - The Guardian
WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had been removed from its websites because of plagiarized passages. Now Floyd says she's suing WNYC for racial, sex and age discrimination as well as defamation. - Columbia Journalism Review
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television station. … If the contract is approved, workers could be back on the job by Friday." - Robert Feder
The somewhat confusing case — earlier reports that the director had been convicted were later denied — concerns Farhadi's A Hero, an Oscar-nominee this year. A former student claims Farhadi stole the idea for his film from a documentary she made in a workshop he ran in 2014. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
The Golden Raspberry Awards, while rescinding Bruce Willis's nominations after his aphasia was made public, also took back Shelley Duvall's award for The Shining because director Stanley Kubrick "tried to keep his lead actress in a constant state of panic, and made horror a reality." - The Washington Post
"'I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon,' tweeted Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries." Channel 4 was created in 1982 as a public-service network for underrepresented audiences. - Variety
They're "movies you want to watch at home," according to Nicole Kidman - and they're hard to make without falling into sexist tropes, so studios just won't back them as theatrical releases. But streaming? Well. Even Fatal Attraction is up for a streaming series remake. - Vulture
The Chinese box office absolutely crumbled last week. "The current epicenter is Shanghai, where a megacity of 25 million people has been locked down in two phases for much of the past week." - Variety
