James Corden is to give his first industry interview since leaving the Late Late Show and returning to the UK at the Rts Cambridge Convention next month.
Corden will speak about future plans and around the theme of the annual Convention, which is Too Much to Watch.
The former Gavin and Stacey star made his name in the States in the Broadway play One Man, Two Guvnors before fronting The Late Late Show, as his star rose enormously. He left the CBS gig earlier this year after nearly a decade and almost 2,000 episodes and the show is not continuing.
Corden is the latest to join a buzzy lineup for the Channel 4-sponsored confab that includes the likes of CAA Co-Chairman Bryan Lourd, Piers Morgan, Warner Bros. Discovery international boss Gerhard Zeiler and the heads of all the major broadacsters and Sky. Lourd will speak to British star Emma Thompson.
Corden will speak about future plans and around the theme of the annual Convention, which is Too Much to Watch.
The former Gavin and Stacey star made his name in the States in the Broadway play One Man, Two Guvnors before fronting The Late Late Show, as his star rose enormously. He left the CBS gig earlier this year after nearly a decade and almost 2,000 episodes and the show is not continuing.
Corden is the latest to join a buzzy lineup for the Channel 4-sponsored confab that includes the likes of CAA Co-Chairman Bryan Lourd, Piers Morgan, Warner Bros. Discovery international boss Gerhard Zeiler and the heads of all the major broadacsters and Sky. Lourd will speak to British star Emma Thompson.
- 8/30/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC’s main primetime news presenter Huw Edwards and his family are receiving advice from former News of the World tabloid editor Andy Coulson, The Guardian reports.
The paper states that Edwards’ wife Vicky Flind – herself a TV producer – consulted Coulson before issuing her statement identifying her husband on Wednesday evening.
The presenter is currently in hospital, according to his wife, following allegations that he had paid £35,000 for inappropriate pictures from a teenage user of crack cocaine.
Coulson runs a PR agency specialising in crisis management. He previously edited News of the World between 2003 and 2007, and went on to become then-prime minister David Cameron’s director communications. He was jailed in 2014 for hacking offences.
His support for Edwards puts him in opposition to his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, boss of News UK and owner of The Sun newspaper, which first published the allegations but is facing backlash in some quarters,...
The paper states that Edwards’ wife Vicky Flind – herself a TV producer – consulted Coulson before issuing her statement identifying her husband on Wednesday evening.
The presenter is currently in hospital, according to his wife, following allegations that he had paid £35,000 for inappropriate pictures from a teenage user of crack cocaine.
Coulson runs a PR agency specialising in crisis management. He previously edited News of the World between 2003 and 2007, and went on to become then-prime minister David Cameron’s director communications. He was jailed in 2014 for hacking offences.
His support for Edwards puts him in opposition to his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, boss of News UK and owner of The Sun newspaper, which first published the allegations but is facing backlash in some quarters,...
- 7/15/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise Films is developing the first major television drama series on the phone-hacking scandal that shook the very foundations of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the early noughties.
Rise Films, which made Oscar-winning Netflix doping documentary Icarus, will use the series to provide an insider’s perspective on the industrial-scale illegal information gathering at British tabloid newspaper, the News Of The World, after securing exclusive access to the journalists and private investigators who intercepted the voicemails of Hollywood stars, politicians, and murder victims.
The series will be penned by Luke Neal, the breakout writer behind ITV’s David Tennant drama, Des, which told the story of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen and was the broadcaster’s highest-rated drama of 2020. Saul Dibb, the helmer of The Salisbury Poisonings, BBC One’s most-watched drama in six years, has been attached to direct the phone-hacking series.
Rise Films, which made Oscar-winning Netflix doping documentary Icarus, will use the series to provide an insider’s perspective on the industrial-scale illegal information gathering at British tabloid newspaper, the News Of The World, after securing exclusive access to the journalists and private investigators who intercepted the voicemails of Hollywood stars, politicians, and murder victims.
The series will be penned by Luke Neal, the breakout writer behind ITV’s David Tennant drama, Des, which told the story of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen and was the broadcaster’s highest-rated drama of 2020. Saul Dibb, the helmer of The Salisbury Poisonings, BBC One’s most-watched drama in six years, has been attached to direct the phone-hacking series.
- 1/28/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Read the star's full written statement to the inquiry detailing incidents of press intrusion and alleged phone hacking
The Leveson Inquiry
Witness Statement for Part 1, Module 1
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Witness statement of Hugh Grant
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I, Hugh Grant, c/o Collyer Bristow Llp, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4Df will say as follows:
Documents referred to
1.
I make this statement in connection with my role as a Core Participant in the Leveson Inquiry.
2.
Save where the contrary appears, I make this witness statement from facts within my own knowledge and belief and which I believe to be true. There is now produced and shown to me marked "HG1" a small paginated bundle of documents. Where I refer to page numbers in this statement, I am referring to pages in "HG1".
Introduction
3.
I'd like, if I may, to make this statement wearing four hats. First as a normal person who used occasionally to buy and read popular newspapers.
The Leveson Inquiry
Witness Statement for Part 1, Module 1
_____________________________________
Witness statement of Hugh Grant
_____________________________________
I, Hugh Grant, c/o Collyer Bristow Llp, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4Df will say as follows:
Documents referred to
1.
I make this statement in connection with my role as a Core Participant in the Leveson Inquiry.
2.
Save where the contrary appears, I make this witness statement from facts within my own knowledge and belief and which I believe to be true. There is now produced and shown to me marked "HG1" a small paginated bundle of documents. Where I refer to page numbers in this statement, I am referring to pages in "HG1".
Introduction
3.
I'd like, if I may, to make this statement wearing four hats. First as a normal person who used occasionally to buy and read popular newspapers.
- 11/23/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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