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Sky Sports secures USTA and ATP rights
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Sky says it will show more live tennis than any other broadcaster after signing new deals to screen the US Open and ATP World Tour for the next five and three years respectively. The deal includes television rights to Andy Murray’s US Open grand slam defence at Flushing Meadows in August. Under the new deals,…
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Abrams – Sherlock landed Benedict Cumberbatch Star Trek role
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Star Trek Into Darkness producer JJ Abrams says he cast British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as the film’s lead villain after seeing him in the BBC series Sherlock. Mr Abrams, who is also overseeing a new series of Star Wars films, rebooted the Trek franchise in 2009, crafting an alternate timeline plot to give his team…
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Join Heineken as it heads to the UEFA Champions League final
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Heineken unveils new UEFA Champions League 2013 video campaign.
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Netflix to debut latest original drama in July
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Netflix says it will launch its latest original series Orange is the New Black on Thursday, 11th July 2013. Created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds), the comic drama starring Taylor Schilling is set in a women’s prison and is based on the U.S. best-selling memoir by Piper Kerman and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series follows…
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Adrien Brody joins Bombay Sapphire Imagination judging panel
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Oscar winning actor Adrien Brody has joined the judging panel of Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Series film competition. Now in its second year and presented in association with the Tribeca Film Festival®, the competition offers filmmakers the chance to have their own short film made. Entrants must interpret and build upon a script written by Academy…
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B&N drops NOOK UK price to just £29 in literacy bid
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NOOK owners Barnes and Noble are offering UK shoppers the bargain of the year, dropping the price of their NOOK Simple Touch ebook readers to just £29 for a limited time. The company has also slashed the price of its NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight to £69, down from £109. Both prices are available for a…