Manori R.

Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. has Hollywood asking hard questions about jobs, streaming survival and even the company’s new name. “It’s going to be worse than you think,” one longtime exec tells @snoodit.bsky.social, who lays out 10 key questions and predictions theankler.com/p/10-burning...

This week’s report from @filmtvcharity.bsky.social highlights 74% of freelancers are considering leaving the industry, 43% have taken concrete steps to do so & 22% are experiencing “sustained worklessness”… this is an existential crisis for the UK screen arts.

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Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up SCOOP: Its Creators program heads to Britain as its GM explains strategy — and the HBO Max threat

Tubi will be licensing local UK creator content, as well as commissioning creator-led originals. Why should the talent care? Because, generally, AVOD CPMs > FAST CPMs > YouTube CPMs 💸💸💸. theankler.com/p/tubis-gen-...

Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up SCOOP: Its Creators program heads to Britain as its GM explains strategy — and the HBO Max threat

Scoop: Nearly 2 years since its UK launch, Gen Z hit Tubi is getting ready to dive into local content. But rather than investing in premium drama like its competitors, the streamer's tapping into Britain's creatorverse to super-serve its young audience. @theankler.com theankler.com/p/tubis-gen-...

A Lucy Letby doc on Netflix, a six-part Jesy Nelson docuseries on Prime Video... The UK contingents of the global streamers are moving fast and making really smart plays in factual. Back when the SVODs first landed in the UK, we'd say "they're going to steal the PSBs' lunch." And now, they are.

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.

Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday. He was 96. nyti.ms/4qGpq55

Frederick Wiseman, American documentary filmmaker, dies at 96 Wiseman made immersive, dispassionate explorations of how institutions work.

Had the pleasure of meeting Frederick Wiseman twice in my career, and they remain some of my most memorable interviews. It's hard to imagine the world, let alone the documentary community, without him in it. www.reuters.com/business/med...

A deserving recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship. Universal's Donna Langley is the real deal. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

HBO Max confirmed March 26 launch date in UK/Ireland today. Sky divorce clearly underlined as JB Perrette says “the only complete offering is HBO Max.” Sky will have new series of HBO shows that premiered there pre-HBO Max UK launch, but not first seasons, ie. Sky will get Euphoria S3 but not S1&2.

I really enjoyed #QueenOfChess. Everyone should know who Judit Polgár is, just as we know Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Odd how this doc didn’t come out years ago
alongside The Queen’s Gambit (way back in 2020). Netflix would never miss that trick now.

Telling insight from one Disney source on why #Rivals wasn't embraced by the US mothership in the same way it might have been at Netflix: "They didn’t make it, it’s not their budget. I don’t know that anyone championed Rivals in the U.S.”

Disney vs. Netflix on Int'l: The D’Amaro–Walden Test One company talks up global ambition. The other already built a global playbook

For @theankler.com, I wrote about #Disney's new bosses and why they have their work cut out for them internationally as Disney+ trails market leader Netflix. theankler.com/p/the-damaro... #JoshDAmaro #DanaWalden

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Harris Dickinson's sublime, timely, lyrical Urchin — and a standout performance from Frank Dillane — being completely shut out of the BAFTAs is a madness. What fresh hell went on there? The British Academy... always choosing violence. #BAFTAs

Netflix, Warner Bros. and the Global Fallout Begins U.S. upheaval is ripping through Europe

Fresh (?!) from mat leave and back at @theankler.com. Here's a scoop to kick things off: WBD’s separation — when the company splits into Warner Bros. for streaming and studios and Discovery Global for linear networks — set for July 1: theankler.com/p/the-global...

A DEFENSIVE CHEST PUFF FOR THE AGES #TheTraitors

Brooklyn Beckham breaks silence on feud with ‘controlling’ parents Sir David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son says acrimony started as he and the heiress Nicola Peltz planned their wedding in 2022

Yes but was he silent or was he sil-enced? www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Well. Scheduling my return to work during the baby's sleep regression was certainly a choice.

I had a C-section & “speedy” recovery. But only because I forced myself to be OK, to be strong, so I could look after my son. I didn’t have a single day in bed recovering with my child because my partner was back at work in a matter of weeks. We need to bring paternity leave out of the dark ages.

C-sections are now more common than ‘natural’ births About 45 per cent of births in England were caesareans, while only 43 per cent were spontaneous, NHS data reveals. Obesity and older mothers are said to be factors

C-sections now more common than vaginal birth & require min. 6 weeks’ recovery. (And that’s a generous estimation.) Yet paternity leave in the U.K. is up to 2 weeks. How are recovering mothers meant to function, let alone care for an infant solo? Make it make sense. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

What a movie. A transcendental delight that I sobbed my way through. And still want to watch again immediately. Bring tissues and hug your family before and after. #TrainDreams

I thought my proudest achievement was journalism-related but now I realise it’s managing to breastfeed my baby for months on end without tearing my hair out in despair. (Though, rest assured, I come close on an almost daily basis.)

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…

345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities

50 still missing

Likely to traffickers

How could this have happened?

Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.

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the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

Bereft by Diane Keaton’s passing. Dressed like her throughout university. Watched all her movies. She was my whole personality before it was even a thing. I simply can’t believe we’re to continue on without her.

Happy to report that one can actually half-sleep and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 643 times in a row to soothe a newborn. They’re finally nodding off. Just in time for it to be…7AM. #journomum

Rule Britannia at the Proms is now about as uncomplicatedly uplifting a tune to wheel out as a finale as the theme from Jim’ll Fix It.

Great book! Required reading at journalism school in Canada. Nice to see it’s popular across the pond, too.

My baby stops crying the minute a Stephen Sondheim song comes on. Chip off the old block. #journomum

I’ll take an earnings call over a cluster feed any day of the week. #journomum