"(An) investigation was launched after the 84-year-old actor had been accused of sexual harassment, including making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set during work." - Deadline
Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton N. Minow called it in 1961) began earning regular comparisons to great cinema and literature. - The Atlantic
"Born in the late 1960s in the minds of two Canadian filmmakers looking to improve the documentary film-watching experience on the festival circuit, IMAX has now become synonymous with blockbusters that regularly achieve multi-billion-dollar box office results." - Quartz
For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in history. - London Review of Books
"The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service, CNN+, over the next four years. Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total." - Axios
The list usually includes what the LOC calls "sounds of history," and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and WSB-Atlanta's coverage of Hank Aaron's 715th home run, vividly called by legendary sportscaster Milo Hamilton. - NPR
They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also remained afloat, with some government underpinning, though it saw a dip in production of 12 per cent. - Toronto Star
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in the nation's living memory. This isn't merely life imitating art; it is art that seems to have created the conditions under which life imitated it." - The Atlantic
Two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers found surprising results. - The Guardian
"Until fairly recently, Kerry Jones's caravan lay rotting and forgotten about in her garden in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders — a home for discarded bric-a-brac. But during the COVID-19 lockdown the artist and filmmaker saw new potential in the (trailer) and resolved to turn it into a tiny, travelling cinema." - BBC
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
