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  • T-Mobile and Orange users to gain new mobile TV service

    T-Mobile and Orange users to gain new mobile TV service

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    T-Mobile and Orange users in the UK will soon be able to enjoy a new mobile TV service. Parent company Everything Everywhere has announced a new deal with Red Bee Media which will allow it to deploy Red Bee’s “next generation” media platform, RedPlayer™ The service, which will work on WiFi and 3G, will stream…

  • Guest cast announced for Kidnap and Ransom series 2

    Guest cast announced for Kidnap and Ransom series 2

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    Sharon Small, Sean Gilder and Chris Fairbank will guest star in the next series of ITV’s Trevor Eve drama Kidnap and Ransom. The series, co-produced by Eve’s production company Projector Pictures in partnership with Talkback Thames, sees the actor play international hostage negotiator Dominic King. The new series of Kidnap and Ransom is written by…

  • Filming underway on ‘Belfast godfather of punk’ biopic

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    Filming is underway in Belfast and the Republic of Ireland for Good Vibrations, a new movie about the life of Belfast music legend Terri Hooley. The film stars Richard Dormer as Hooley alongside Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Dylan Moran and Adrian Dunbar Hooley (Dormer) is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast. When the Troubles shut down his…

  • New digital Boy George remix single goes on sale

    New digital Boy George remix single goes on sale

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    Music label Decode have released a collection of remixes of the Boy George track Turn 2 Dust which first featured on his album Ordinary Alien. The track is Boy George’s response to intolerance towards gay men and women and includes the lyric “all hatred must turn to dust”. The remix collection contains 11 version of…

  • BBC commissions more New Tricks

    BBC commissions more New Tricks

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    New Tricks, the BBC One drama about a team of retired detectives investigating unsolved crimes, has been recommissioned for two further series. The show – now in its eighth series – is a regular ratings puller for BBC One and stars Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Amanda Redman.

  • Brad Pitt heads cast of Moneyball

    Brad Pitt heads cast of Moneyball

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    Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman head the cast of Moneyball, a new film from writer Aaron Sorkin. The film tells the story of Billy Beane (Pitt), general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who attempts to build a competitive baseball team on a tight budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Based on…