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  • Scoring Bollywood’s ‘White Nights’ Adaptation

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    Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee, Saawariya (Beloved) is a new Bollywood musical based on the short story ‘White Nights’ by famed Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The film tells the story of a couple’s chance encounter and the advance of their parallel obsessions over four successive nights. An impromptu romance initiated in a…

  • O’Donnell Stars In BBC Two Spy Drama

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    Scent Of A Woman star and former Batman sidekick Chris O’Donnell stars as fictional hero Jack McAuliffe, a man caught in the dark underside of the American intelligence community, in a three part drama airing on BBC Two later this month. Based on Robert Littell’s gritty, best-selling novel about the CIA, ‘The Company’ comes from…

  • BBC Signs Adobe Video Deal

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    The BBC is to expand the availability of its iPlayer catch-up TV service by adopting Adobe’s Flash video technology to allow it to offer a streamed version as well as the current Windows XP only version. According to the BBC non-XP users will be able to use the service “by the end of the year.”…

  • Craig, Kidman Star in The Invason

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    Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman star in The Invasion, a nightmarish journey into a world where if you want to stay alive you need to stay awake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage and those who come in contact with it…

  • Miss Moneypenny Actress Dies

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    Lois Maxwell who played the original Miss Moneypenny in the the James Bond films has died in Western Australia aged 80. The actress first appeared in ‘Dr No’ alongside Seam Connery, last appearing in the 1985 adventure ‘A View To A Kill’ with Roger Moore with whom she appeared in two episodes of The Saint.…

  • Virgin 1 Launch Date Announced

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    Virgin Media’s new general entertainment channel Virgin 1 launches on October 1. The channel was developed after a breakdown in negotiations saw Sky One, Sky News and Sky Sports News exit the Virgin Media platform. Channel bosses have snapped up a number of big name acquisitions including Terminator spin-off The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The…