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Hugh Grant is “on the shortlist” of actors to portray Prince Andrew in Scoop, a new film about the royal’s car-crash BBC interview.The film, written by Your Honor screenwriter Peter Moffat, will tell the story of how the BBC secured the interview with the duke about his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.According to Deadline, Grant is “one of the unconfirmed names in the frame” to portray Prince Andrew. In the bombshell interview, conducted by Emily Maitlis, the duke denied he had slept with Virginia…

In an unprecedented move, the heads of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the UK domestic security service MI5 jointly warned about imminent threats by the Chinese government's global espionage campaign.At a joint event at MI5 headquarters in London, FBI Director Christopher Wray and MI5 Director General Ken McCallum warned that the Chinese government is set on stealing your technology, reports the BBC."The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology -- whatever it is that makes your industry tick…

Freeview users across the UK have faced major changes over the past week with some channels changing names, others moving positions on the TV planner and around 10 services being taken off air for good. The disruption is all to do with one of the signals, named COM7, that was used by Freeview to beam content into living rooms being switched off to make way for improved 5G mobile data speeds.If you use Freeview you are advised to retune your set-top box or television immediately to make sure things are all up to…

Emma McIntyre / Getty Images J.J. Abrams needs to start learning to say no. The writer/director and head of Bad Robot Productions has signed on to a ton of projects over the last few years, leaving fans frustrated that he’s spreading himself way too thinly. Deadline recently reported that new Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav shares their annoyance, as despite their multimillion-dollar deal with Bad Robot for new movies and TV shows based on DC characters, none have entered full production. In what feels…

UPDATE: It appears the problems with BBC iPlayer were short lived.The number of reported issues with iPlayer on Down Detector is beginning to plummet, suggesting whatever was troubling users has now been fixed.ORIGINAL: BBC iPlayer reports are spiking today, with users experiencing issues with the app for the streaming service. Independent outage monitor Down Detector has recorded a rise in BBC iPlayer down reports which began after 2.30pm UK time. At the time of writing, Down Detector UK has registered hundreds of…

BBC Radio 2 Live is heading to Leeds’ Temple Newsom on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2022. The Saturday will be headlined by Simple Minds with support from Tears For Fears, Craig David, Bananarama, Ella Henderson, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Kaiser Chiefs, while the Sunday will be headlined by Nile Rodgers & Chic with support from George Ezra, Melanie C, Emeli Sandé, Mark Owen, Heather Small and Olly Murs. BBC Radio 2 Live in Leeds will be hosted by some of the station’s best loved presenters and, for…

BritBox is running a limited-time sale right now which slashes the price of the streaming service in half. The service from BBC and ITV - which has a library full of classic British shows including Poirot, A Touch of Frost and the new Spitting Image - usually costs £5.99 a month but right now is available for £2.99 a month for three months. This deal also includes a seven day free trial and will offer subscribers a tidy saving of £9 in total.If you've been thinking of signing up to Amazon Prime for awhile you can enjoy a…

Freeview is facing a dramatic shakeup later this month that will see numerous channels swapping positions on the TV planner and some disappearing for good. The changes are due to a broadcast signal - named COM7 multiplex - being switched off to make way for the latest 5G mobile technology. This COM7 service is currently used to beam a swathe of channels to millions of homes across the UK and once it's gone there will be much less capacity for the Freeview platform to use.One of the first and biggest casualties of the…

Euro 2020 is here — in 2021. Thank you, COVID-19. You might have thought they would have changed it to “Euro 2021” but no, UEFA — the European football body that organises it — is sticking to the Euro 2020 branding. Delayed a full year due to the pandemic, UEFA Euro 2020 will now run from Friday, June 11 to Sunday, July 11. It's a month-long football festival. But Euro 2020 is much unlike those that have come before, for more reasons than one. There is no single or joint host nation here. Instead, Euro 2020 will take…

Euro 2020 is nearing its end. Just eight teams — Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine — are left in the tournament now, with the first knockout round laying waste to the defending Euro champions (Portugal), a promising squad (Netherlands), and two previous World Cup champions (France and Germany). The last eight will contest the UEFA Euro 2020 quarter-finals over the weekend, starting Friday evening in the historic Russian city of Saint Petersburg and ending late Saturday night…