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Investors looking to unite Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere?
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Virgin Media and the UK operations of Orange and T-Mobile are the target of an investment consortium looking to create a new entertainment giant, the Times reports. According to yesterday’s Times, the bidders are headed by Tom Alexander, former boss at Everything Everywhere which operates Orange and T-Mobile in the UK. The deal, which has…
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BBC One’s Merlin gains online game
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BBC One’s Merlin is to follow the channel’s sci-fi hit Doctor Who in spawning an online game off-shoot. Developed by Bossa Studios, creators of BAFTA-winning game Monstermind, offers real-time, co-operative play to ensure that when it comes to combat, no threats are ever faced alone. Fans of the Shine TV produced series will be able…
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Sky announces UK air date for Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
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Sky Atlantic says it will broadcast Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom from Tuesday 10th July. Jeff Daniels stars as a cable show news anchor, who, together with his staff sets out to put on a news show “in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.” The ten part series was created…
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Christopher Eccleston on Blackout
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Christopher Eccleston returns to BBC one in Blackout (previously announced as The Fuse) which follows Daniel Demoys (Eccleston), a stranger in his own life. Over the years he has gone from being an idealistic young man with a burning desire to make the world a better place, to a disillusioned and corrupt council official. His…
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The Dark Knight Rises film trailer
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Hot on the heels of the trailer for the mobile game, here’s the latest TV spot for The Dark Knight Rises film. The film sees Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman reprise their roles from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight whcih it’s set eight years after. It also introduces the characters…
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UK DVD and Blu-ray release for Emmerich’s Hell
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Roland Emmerich’s Hell comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 2nd July 2012. The German language film tells the story of a post-apocalyptic future where the sun has scorched the Earth and left it too bright to inhabit. It was once the source of life, light and warmth but now the sun has turned the entire world…