3 d. ago Unpublished ‘Tupperware erotica’ novel prompts fierce contest for TV rights

Interest in Wet Ink by Abigail Avis is part of a trend for works by female authors among streamers and production companies A much-hyped novel about a housewife who uses Tupperware parties to secretly smuggle erotic stories to her friends and neighbours is causing a stir in the television world, igniting a fierce bidding contest over the right to adapt it for the small screen.Wet Ink, a novel by the 33-year-old London-based author Abigail Avis, is not scheduled to be published until the spring 2027, but industry insiders said a fierce auction between six major production companies had already taken place for the TV rights. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig

Roundhouse apologises after animation projected behind band appears to show Star of David entwined with swastikaA music venue in London has apologised after antisemitic imagery was allegedly displayed on stage during a Primal Scream gig.A video appearing to show the Star of David entwined with a swastika appeared to be screened during the Scottish band’s show at the Roundhouse in Camden on Monday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago London venue ‘appalled’ by antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig

London venue ‘appalled’ by antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Clare Balding leads mascots through London urging people to get cancer screening

Balding, who had thyroid cancer more than a decade ago, teamed up with Stand Up To Cancer.

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3 w. ago Ella Purnell Wore Giorgio Armani To The ‘Fallout’ London Screening

Ella Purnell Wore Giorgio Armani To The ‘Fallout’ London Screening  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 w. ago Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, & the ‘Fallout’ Screen Season 2 in London

Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, & the ‘Fallout’ Screen Season 2 in London  Just Jared

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3 w. ago Ella Purnell dazzles in sculpted midi dress as she attends London screening of Fallout S2

Ella Purnell was joined by cast members Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan and Justin Theroux at the screening at Picture House Central in London

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3 w. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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3 w. ago London Screenings cancelled following withdrawal of BFI funding

London Screenings cancelled following withdrawal of BFI funding  Screen Daily

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4 w. ago Queen Mary University of London studies low breast screening rates

Queen Mary University of London studies low breast screening rates  BBC

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4 w. ago IMAX 70mm Season At London Science Museum Extended With Additional Screenings

IMAX 70mm Season At London Science Museum Extended With Additional Screenings  Forbes

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last month Alexander Skarsgård & Harry Melling Attend ‘Pillion’ Screening in London

Alexander Skarsgård & Harry Melling Attend ‘Pillion’ Screening in London  Just Jared

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