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  • UKTV reveals new look for Really

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    UKTV is to rebrand its Really channel as it seeks to “shift viewer perceptions.” The lifestyle-themed channel draws audiences of around 4.7 million each week and has seen audiences grow off the back of major US acquisitions including Hart of Dixie and CIA spy thriller Covert Affairs which stars Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly). The shows…

  • Trailer: Captain Phillips

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    This upcoming action-thriller from Columbia Pictures tells the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. The film stars two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks as Phillips and was directed by Oscar® nominee…

  • Trailer: Before Midnight

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    Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite for this follow-up to Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004). Nine years after the last film, Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) live in Paris as a couple, parents to twin girls conceived when they got together. Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his…

  • Barry Norman to host an evening of Oscar-winning music

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    Legendary film critic Barry Norman is teaming up with composer Carl Davis and the Philharmonia Orchestra to host an evening of Oscar-winning orchestral music. The concert takes place at the London’s Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 1 June 2013 and will feature music from a number of award-winning soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia, ET, The…

  • Trailer: Gravity

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    Gravity is an upcoming sci-fi drama film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts in a damaged space station. Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a medical engineer on her first Space Shuttle mission and is accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney), who is in command of the shuttle flight, due to be…

  • Samsung and ITV sign “exclusive” ITV Player app deal

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    ITV is to offer its “new and improved” ITV Player app for Android exclusively on Samsung handsets. The two firms have signed “an exclusive fixed term” deal to place the app, which provides catch-up content from ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV, on the new Galaxy S4, the Galaxy Note 8.0 and the Galaxy Mega.…