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Original title: ‘Father Ted’ Co-Creator Graham Linehan Arrested Over Trans X Posts Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Monday after arriving on a flight from Arizona and faces an investigation over recent social media posts on X. “On Monday, 1 September at 13:00 hours officers arrested a man at Heathrow Airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight. The man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relation to posts on X,” the Metropolitan Police told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement on Tuesday. Linehan was not named directly in the statement, but multiple outlets, including the BBC, reported that Linehan was the person arrested. And Linehan himself wrote about the arrest on Substack. “After being taken to police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital. His condition is neither life-threatening nor life-changing,” the Metropolitan Police statement continued. Linehan was released on bail “pending further investigation” into three X posts in Ap ...

Original title: Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Receive 2025 Governors Award at Creative Arts Emmys The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be the recipient of the 2025 Governors Award at the Creative Arts Emmys, at which the Television Academy will recognize the organization’s five decades of “enriching America’s media landscape through funding and support for educational, cultural and public-interest programming,” the group announced on Tuesday. On Sunday, Sept. 7, the trophy will be presented to Patricia de Stacy Harrison, the longest-serving president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Harrison has led CPB since 2005 — through the complex streaming age, in other words. Unfortunately, an Emmy Award itself is not real, solid gold, which is what CPB really needs these days. In July, Congress voted to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NPR and PBS were the highest-profile victims. In response, PBS has sued the Trump administration. “The Governors Award recognizes and celebrates extraordinary contributions that transcend television ...

Original title: Fox, CBS May Want In on Local TV Station Buying Spree Are the big broadcast networks planning a local TV takeover? Some veteran media executives think so, and filings with the Federal Communications Commission suggest that the idea is very much top of mind in the C-suites … if the FCC lets them. To be certain, the local TV station business is already in dealmaking mode, with FCC chairman Brendan Carr making no secret of his desire to “delete delete delete” regulations that hold back broadcasters. Earlier this summer Byron Allen sold 10 of his TV stations for $171 million to Gray TV, and has another 18 stations on the market. E.W. Scripps and Gray engaged in a station swap of their own, expanding their local duopolies. Sinclair, led by CEO Chris Ripley, told shareholders on August 11 that it was launching a “comprehensive strategic review” of its business, “including acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and business combinations, with potential partners in the broadcast and the broader media and technology ecosystem.” And on Aug. 19, Nexs ...

Original title: Gérard Depardieu to Stand Trial on Rape Charges A French investigative judge has ordered veteran actor Gerard Depardieu to stand trial for an alleged 2018 rape and sexual assault of actress Charlotte Arnould. Arnould alleges that Depardieu, a friend of her father’s, raped her on two separate occasions in the summer of 2018 when she had visited his Parisian home to ask for advice. Arnould was 22 years old at the time. The Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac actor was 69. France‘s biggest film star facing a trial over rape and sexual assault allegations comes as the nation’s film industry grapples with its #MeToo moment. As part of an earlier trial and conviction, Depardieu was given a 18-month suspended prison sentence after two women accused the French acting legend of assaulting them on the set of French film The Green Shutters in 2021. The new trial over a complaint by Arnould will take place in a French criminal court, which has jurisdiction over serious crimes punishable by five years or more of imprisonment if a conviction is rea ...

Original title: Seth Rogen’s Surprise Appearance at Venice Film Festival Confirmed as Research for ‘The Studio’ Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s critically acclaimed Hollywood satire The Studio pulled back the velvet rope to let viewers inside high-profile industry events like the Golden Globes and CinemaCon. Hours after the Apple TV+ series tied the record for the most Emmy Award nominations for a comedy series, Rogen confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the team had zeroed in on other glitzy affairs to serve as episode backdrops for the upcoming second season that is currently being shaped. Though he remained mum on specifics, Rogen’s surprise appearance at this year’s Venice Film Festival all but confirmed that the Lido could figure prominently into Matt Remick’s next adventures. Rogen turned up at Monday night’s anticipated world premiere of Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as early UFC icon Mark Kerr opposite Emily Blunt. Though he tried to blend in with the black-tie clad attendees while hanging against a wall of photographers, Rogen was spotted by press, incl ...

Original title: Sheinelle Jones Sets Return to NBC’s ‘Today’ Show NBC Today anchor Sheinelle Jones will return to the morning show this week, nearly four months after her husband passed away from a rare form of brain cancer. Jones will return to Today on Friday, Sept. 5, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday morning. Guthrie taped an interview with Jones, which will also air Friday. Jones, the co-host of Today’s third hour, has been absent from the show all year as her husband Uche Ojeh battled glioblastoma. Ojeh passed away in May at age 45. “She and her family have been through so much after the devastating loss of her husband Uche, and we recently sat down together, we shared a really personal conversation, talking about how she has carried on and found the strength these past few months,” Guthrie said Tuesday. “She calls this experience a beautiful nightmare, and she has thoughts on grief that are so touching, she’s got a special message of hope to for anybody facing their own struggles, and we will share that with you, and we cannot wait to we ...

Original title: ‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs Doc Offers a Colorful but Unrevealing Insider’s Take Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs have been great friends and occasional collaborators since the 1990s. Fashion writers regularly call her his muse. Among other connections, she appeared in an ad campaign for one of his fragrances in 2002 and directed commercials for his Daisy line of fragrances in 2014. No one would expect Marc by Sofia, Coppola’s first documentary, to be anything but an admiring, affectionate look at a close friend’s career. But Coppola’s films are always full of fashion and style — most conspicuously in the candy-colored Marie Antoinette, but all the others as well. And Jacobs has been a major designer for decades, with a career worth exploring, so there is a lot to enjoy in this kinetic, colorful, although extremely limited film. Marc by Sofia The Bottom Line Super-stylish and lighter than air. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition) Director: Sofia Coppola 1 hour 37 minutes The slim narrative trajectory has Coppola following Jacobs in the 12 weeks leading up ...

Original title: Anna Wintour Taps Chloe Malle as Vogue U.S. Head of Editorial Anna Wintour has found her new U.S. editorial director for Vogue. Wintour has tapped protege and Vogue digital editor Chloe Malle as head of editorial content for the American edition of Vogue, taking the reins from Wintour, who ceded her role leading the publication in June. Malle reports to Wintour, and starts in the new role immediately. Wintour, who has led Vogue since 1988, remains global editorial director for Vogue, overseeing all of the publication’s global editions (including the U.S. version), and also continues to work as chief content officer for Condé Nast. Malle, the daughter of Murphy Brown actress Candice Bergen and Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Louis Malle, joined Vogue in 2011 as its social editor, after contributing to the publication for a number of years. She also hosts The Run Through with Vogue podcast. “I believe that warmth, joy, experience, and keen vision are what Vogue will thrive on through the years ahead,” Wintour said in a statement. “At a mo ...

Original title: Kathryn Bigelow Made Political Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ to Warn the World About Nuclear Annihilation Kathryn Bigelow says she made her latest political thriller, A House of Dynamite, to warn the world about the real and ever-present risks of total global nuclear annihilation. The Oscar-winning director swept into Venice, Italy on Tuesday to unveil her first movie in eight years in competition at the world’s oldest film festival. She described the much-anticipated film’s subject, nuclear weapons, as “a global issue,” and said she was motivated by a desire to “get that information out there.” “Hope against hope, maybe we will reduce the nuclear stockpile someday,” she added, “but in the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite.” Bigelow and her cast arrived at the Venice press conference with a wave of positive buzz at their backs after House of Dynamite played for the first time at two packed press screenings in the morning. The excited chatter surrounding the title suggests it could be a thrilling return to form for the filmmaker. A House of Dynamite is described as a ten ...

Original title: Sofia Coppola Prepares to Premiere Her Intimate Portrait of Friend Marc Jacobs in Venice, But “I Didn’t Want It to Be About Me” Sofia Coppola‘s intimate portrait of fashion designer and her long-time friend Marc Jacobs premieres in Venice on Tuesday, and the pair are nothing but full of praise for one another. Coppola and Jacobs were present at the press conference for Marc by Sofia on the Lido, fielding questions about the film from the press. “When they asked me to do a film on Marc, I thought, ‘No, I can’t do that. It’s too much pressure,’” Coppola admitted. “‘[It] would have to be good, because he’s my friend and I love him.’ And then I kept thinking about, oh, it’d be so fun to look through all the archives… we’ve been friends for 30 years, and [it would be fun] to get to revisit his incredible body of work that I grew up with.” The process reminded her of working on films with her brother in her 20s, she added. “Just my brother and me and a camera and a sound person — it was kind of made in the spirit of the way [I] started and I wanted this homemade, personal look.” Jacobs, who first met Coppola in the e ...