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International Insider: UK Riots Reckoning; Disney Splashes Cash; Olympics Closes Out
UK Riots & Disney spend feature in this week's International Insider
A LinkedIn post from Meet the Richardsons producer Sohail Shah, a former BBC exec who is of South Asian descent, said it is “our job in the creative industries to highlight what it happening and to stand up together.” One indie boss I spoke with is concerned that TV commissioners’ continued desire to platform voices such as Nigel Farage, who was beamed out to millions on a daily basis last year on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! “Diverse world”: Zac is at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival this week, which kicked off with a screening of Neapolitan filmmaker Gianluca Jodice’s latest feature The Flood, a historical drama about the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s reign. Born to play the part: “He’s someone I’ve lived with all my life,” legendary Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce told our man Baz when mulling over his role as Prince Philip in Netflix’s now-completed royal saga The Crown.
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