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Slow Horses Showrunner on That Major Season 4 Death
British writer Will Smith, a veteran of sitcoms like The Thick of It (for which he won two Emmys), Veep and Avenue 5, is not the first person you might think of to adapt a series of spy novels to television. But when Smith was offered the chance to bring Mick Heron’s Slow Horses book…
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‘When the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Apple TV asked to stop writing the script’
Last week’s explosions targeting a memorial ceremony for slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani in Iran could easily be a scene in the espionage series “Tehran.” The Israeli show, about a Mossad agent working undercover in the Iranian capital, made a splash globally before the first season aired and even made the news in Iran:…
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The actors rumoured to be cast in the Harry Potter television reboot
Online speculation has been rife since it was confirmed that a television series about the adventures of the boy wizard is in the pipeline. It’s now been 13 years since the eighth and final part of the Harry Potter film series hit cinema screens – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in 2011.…
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Best TVs of CES 2024
The Super Bowl is the biggest television event of the year and it’s being played in Las Vegas next month. Right now the biggest televisions are being unveiled in the very same town at CES 2024, which I fondly think of as the Super Bowl of TVs. As CNET’s TV reviewer I’ve been coming to…
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Upgrade your LG TV – invisible and wire-free television is coming to homes soon
If you’re fed up with looking at the giant black screen sitting in the corner of your living room, LG might have the answer. The Korean technology firm has just unveiled its latest gogglebox at the CES technology show in Las Vegas which features a totally transparent design. That means you can place it in…
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Sony, Zee merger collapsing?
Sony’s India channels and studio division is reportedly on the brink of pulling the plug on its much-delayed merger with Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL). Sony is seemingly fed up with the failure by ZEEL to fulfil several pre-agreed conditions for the merger to take place. The merger itself has been due to be wrapped for…
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Prime Video Matter Casting to devices
At CES, Amazon announced that Matter Casting support is coming to its Prime Video app so users can cast content to Amazon hardware devices. The feature is available now for the Echo Show 15 — Amazon’s largest smart display that’s also a Fire TV — and Amazon says support is coming soon to Fire TVs,…
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Spain: Movistar, Vodafone raise sub fees
Movistar and Vodafone are raising their subscription fees in Spain to mitigate declining revenues. On average, the pair are increasing their fees by 3.1 per cent and 4.38 per cent, respectively. Movistar will apply the price hike from mid-January with subscribers to Fusión paying up to €4 more a month – €3 more a month…
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Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain top Netflix Speed Index again
Sixteen per cent of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) increased 0.2 Mbps and 83 per cent stayed the same during December 2023 on the Netflix ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. Three countries and regions were in the top performance tier for December: Hong Kong,…
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Formula E, WBD extend Europe broadcast deal
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship have announced an extended partnership that will scale coverage of every race of the electric racing series across 50 markets in Europe. The multi-year agreement will extend WBD’s relationship with Formula E beyond 12 years since Eurosport first broadcast race coverage from the…