Media & Communication

President follows through on libel threat over report that said he sent Epstein ‘bawdy’ birthday note and sketchDonald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy note and sketch of a naked woman.Trump’s lawsuit on Friday, which also targets Dow Jones and News Corp, was filed in the southern district of Florida federal court in Miami. Continue reading...

Powerhouse brand is in disarray, raising questions about how to refresh format and what to do with new seriesWhen Banijay, the producers of MasterChef, held a dinner attended by its top executives, programme makers and presenters almost two weeks ago, the longevity of its wildly successful cooking show was among the achievements to be toasted, alongside its move to state-of-the-art studios in Birmingham.Yet just hours before guests arrived, a social media post from MasterChef’s erstwhile presenter Gregg Wallace began a nightmare fortnight that has left one of the BBC’s most important shows in need of not one, but two new judges. It has also left some in the TV world wondering if the show..

Journalist covered social care, criminal justice and other policy topics in a distinguished careerMalcolm Dean, who created the Guardian’s legendary Society section and wrote widely on topics from social care and poverty to criminal justice and the NHS, has died aged 86 after a long illness.He spent 37 years at the Guardian as a reporter, columnist, assistant editor and member of the paper’s governing body, the Scott Trust, between 1969 and 2006, before moving into academic research and sitting on working parties and commissions. Continue reading...

Writers Guild of America requests New York attorney general investigate ‘potential wrongdoing’ after shock cancellationThe Writers Guild of America has called on New York state officials to launch an investigation into Paramount following its sudden decision to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.In a strongly worded statement issued on Friday, the Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West asked the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate Paramount over “potential wrongdoing” after the company announced the cancellation of the Late Show on Thursday. Continue reading...

Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said would make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality.Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage. Continue reading...

Actor who started in the West End in Hair, and went on to TV dramas including Casualty, Holby City and Inspector MorseThe actor Judy Loe, who has died aged 78 after suffering from cancer, graduated from children’s television to popular dramas such as The Chief and Casualty – but she never escaped the tag of being the widow of Richard Beckinsale, the British comedy actor remembered for his roles in Rising Damp and Porridge. “I get annoyed at being continually presented as the brave little widow having a tough time,” she said in 1987, eight years after his death at 31 from a heart attack.Their daughter, Kate Beckinsale, went on to become a Hollywood star, while Loe enjoyed a satisfying..

California governor accuses Jesse Watters of lying about Trump phone call during anti-immigration raid protestsThe California governor, Gavin Newsom, and Fox News host Jesse Watters have locked into a political tit-for-tat after the network figure admitted to mistakenly claiming that Newsom lied about a phone call with Donald Trump during June’s anti-immigration enforcement protests in the state.On Thursday, Watters issued an apology on his program stemming from a $787m defamation lawsuit filed by Newsom against the host and Fox News, as the Los Angeles Times and other outlets reported. Newsom’s lawsuit claimed that Watters lied on air about the timeline of the governor’s conversations..

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closurePublic broadcast station leaders are condemning Donald Trump’s latest victory after Congress approved a bill to cancel all federal funding for public broadcasting programs including PBS and NPR.The House signed off on the bill early on Friday morning, after Wednesday’s key decision in the Senate to pass $9bn in spending cuts, slashing public broadcasting as well as foreign aid. The PBS president and CEO, Paula Kerger, said that the Senate’s approval of the package “goes against the will of the American people”. Continue reading...

The blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s epic has not finished filming and has no official runtime. But super fans – and scalpers – already have seatsThe first tickets to Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s Odyssey have gone on sale – before he’s even finished filming it and a year before the film is even out, in what is likely the longest pre-sale in cinematic history.The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon as the cunning Odysseus as he fights his way home after the end of the Trojan war, will be released on 17 July 2026. But on Thursday, Imax released tickets to the first screenings at the 26 Imax cinemas around the world that have the staff and equipment required to project in 1570..

The president is reportedly ‘on a warpath’ over a story in the Wall Street Journal – controlled by Trump’s top media allyFor days before the Wall Street Journal published its story about Donald Trump’s salacious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, the president was frantically working the phones.He reportedly put pressure on the paper’s top editor, Emma Tucker, and even Rupert Murdoch, who controls the paper’s business side, claiming that the alleged facts behind the story were nothing but a hoax, and threatening to sue the paper if it forged ahead.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

The president has threatened to sue the 94-year-old media mogul over a Wall Street Journal story but their relationship has survived previous tensionsA lawsuit. Angry calls to editors. Public denunciations. In the wake of the Wall Street Journal’s story claiming Donald Trump contributed to a “bawdy” letter to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – featuring a drawing of a naked woman’s silhouette around a typewritten personal message – the president’s relationship with the outlet’s proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, appears on the surface to have deteriorated from temperamental to terminal.Just a few days ago, the 94-year-old mogul was spotted among the president’s hig..

The long-running US television staple is coming to an end, signalling the slow death of late-night comedy and the worrying cultural power of TrumpThe idea that the political career of Donald Trump would be a goldmine for comedy died a long time ago, with the coffin accepting stray nails for the past five years. The latest and possibly last such nail is the cancellation of The Late Show, the CBS late-night talkshow hosted by Stephen Colbert since the fall of 2015, and originated by David Letterman when the network poached him from NBC in 1993. At this point, Trump hasn’t just made topical late-night comedy look outdated, hackneyed and an insufficient response to his reign of terror; he’s ..

Gabrielle Drolet had always dreamed of being a writer. But when disability closed down most of her opportunities, a strange career beganBy Gabrielle Drolet. Read by Kate Handford Continue reading...

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