Big Brother exec Katy Manley has said it is “derogatory and disingenuous” for people to dismiss reality TV shows as “guilty pleasures.”
Speaking during an Edinburgh TV Festival debate titled TV’s Snobbery Problem, Initial bosss Manley, who is helming the ITV Big Brother reboot with Natalka Znak, blasted those who don’t respect shows in which “people say their opinions in their own words.”
“Maybe that is not as palatable for [the detractors],” she added. “Maybe it’s because they’re not watching polished TV professionals but I think it’s derogatory and disingenuous to say these shows are guilty pleasures. There are hundreds of people working on them.”
Part of “the snobbery” is a “British sensibility to dismiss people who don’t have a traditional talent like singing or writing a book,” added Manley. Big Brother will return to ITV – its third UK network – later this year, five years after...
Speaking during an Edinburgh TV Festival debate titled TV’s Snobbery Problem, Initial bosss Manley, who is helming the ITV Big Brother reboot with Natalka Znak, blasted those who don’t respect shows in which “people say their opinions in their own words.”
“Maybe that is not as palatable for [the detractors],” she added. “Maybe it’s because they’re not watching polished TV professionals but I think it’s derogatory and disingenuous to say these shows are guilty pleasures. There are hundreds of people working on them.”
Part of “the snobbery” is a “British sensibility to dismiss people who don’t have a traditional talent like singing or writing a book,” added Manley. Big Brother will return to ITV – its third UK network – later this year, five years after...
- 8/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The co-founders of UK Million Pound… indie Definitely have moved to Banijay stablemate Rdf to head up its creative team, with Definitely subsumed into Rdf.
Commencing in the new year, Rachel Arnold and Jon Green have also been given responsibility for Rdf sub-labels Little Wonder and Fizz. Fizz Creative Director Neale Simpson left earlier this month after forging a number of UK formats such as Channel 4’s Crystal Maze reboot.
Definitely will sit within Rdf, with Green retaining his role as Creative Director to oversee upcoming commissions. Definitely is behind the upcoming Gemma Collins: Self Harm & Me for Channel 4, the Million Pound … franchise for Channel 5 and four other shows set to be announced next year.
Arnold and Green will join Rdf several months after the departure of long-serving MD Jim Allen, who was recently replaced by Kitty Walshe. They will help develop a pipeline of global non-scripted hits...
Commencing in the new year, Rachel Arnold and Jon Green have also been given responsibility for Rdf sub-labels Little Wonder and Fizz. Fizz Creative Director Neale Simpson left earlier this month after forging a number of UK formats such as Channel 4’s Crystal Maze reboot.
Definitely will sit within Rdf, with Green retaining his role as Creative Director to oversee upcoming commissions. Definitely is behind the upcoming Gemma Collins: Self Harm & Me for Channel 4, the Million Pound … franchise for Channel 5 and four other shows set to be announced next year.
Arnold and Green will join Rdf several months after the departure of long-serving MD Jim Allen, who was recently replaced by Kitty Walshe. They will help develop a pipeline of global non-scripted hits...
- 11/29/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
This Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
Beheading, drowning, strangulation, throat-slitting, cannibalism, exsanguination, human sacrifice, dead babies… Practically nothing makes Inside No. 9 flinch. Let’s not forget, its first ever episode was a tale of historical child sexual abuse that ended in mass murder – which might explain why it took Bafta six series to finally award it ‘Best Comedy’.
It’s only the arrival of Inside No. 9’s first overtly political episode that marks out how apolitical the show has been until now. Of all the uncomfortable places it’s ventured, the state of the nation has stayed largely unexplored territory. Now it’s making up for lost time with a tale of Brexit Britain that belatedly takes up the full mantle of its 1970s Play For Today predecessor. In that strand, Barry Hines, Jim Allen, Ken Loach and others regularly put the country on screen alongside more fanciful,...
Beheading, drowning, strangulation, throat-slitting, cannibalism, exsanguination, human sacrifice, dead babies… Practically nothing makes Inside No. 9 flinch. Let’s not forget, its first ever episode was a tale of historical child sexual abuse that ended in mass murder – which might explain why it took Bafta six series to finally award it ‘Best Comedy’.
It’s only the arrival of Inside No. 9’s first overtly political episode that marks out how apolitical the show has been until now. Of all the uncomfortable places it’s ventured, the state of the nation has stayed largely unexplored territory. Now it’s making up for lost time with a tale of Brexit Britain that belatedly takes up the full mantle of its 1970s Play For Today predecessor. In that strand, Barry Hines, Jim Allen, Ken Loach and others regularly put the country on screen alongside more fanciful,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Hard Rock International, one of the world’s most iconic entertainment and hospitality brands, announced today its platinum-level sponsorship for “Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change” (Play On) benefit concert to bring awareness for transformational racial, social and food justice benefiting longtime partner WhyHunger and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (Ldf).
The primetime one-hour special airs Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 at 8 p.m. Est on CBS Network and will also be streaming on YouTube.
The benefit concert features a star-studded lineup of performances streaming from iconic music venues from coast to coast, including the Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Apollo Theater in New York City and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Performing artists include Andra Day, Bon Jovi, Jon Batiste, Gary Clark Jr., Machine Gun Kelly, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Yola with The Highwomen and Ziggy Marley, LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip, Sara Bareilles and Emily King,...
The primetime one-hour special airs Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 at 8 p.m. Est on CBS Network and will also be streaming on YouTube.
The benefit concert features a star-studded lineup of performances streaming from iconic music venues from coast to coast, including the Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Apollo Theater in New York City and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Performing artists include Andra Day, Bon Jovi, Jon Batiste, Gary Clark Jr., Machine Gun Kelly, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Yola with The Highwomen and Ziggy Marley, LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip, Sara Bareilles and Emily King,...
- 12/4/2020
- Look to the Stars
Veteran director talks latest film ‘Sorry We Missed You’.
The UK release date for Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You falls portentously on November 1 - that’s to say the day after Brexit (if it happens).
The 83-year-old UK director, who is a guest of honour at Filmfest Hamburg this week, is phlegmatic about the film coming out on such a day.
“I hope it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t think it means we are all going to be on the streets on November the first,” says Loach. “I guess people will have time to go to the cinema as well.
The UK release date for Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You falls portentously on November 1 - that’s to say the day after Brexit (if it happens).
The 83-year-old UK director, who is a guest of honour at Filmfest Hamburg this week, is phlegmatic about the film coming out on such a day.
“I hope it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t think it means we are all going to be on the streets on November the first,” says Loach. “I guess people will have time to go to the cinema as well.
- 10/4/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
The Four Sisters: The Hippocratic OathIn a review of Claude Lanzmann’s memoir, Adam Shatz observes that “self-flattery is characteristically Lanzmannian.” This sort of self-regard often manifests itself in interviews that the filmmaker grants to journalists and proved grating indeed in Napalm, a Lanzmann documentary screened as a “Special Presentation” at Cannes in 2017. During a recent trip to North Korea enshrined in Napalm—which offers a cursory look at the historical roots of the hermit kingdom’s totalitarian impulses—Lanzmann emerges as considerably more preoccupied with celebrating his youthful dalliance with a North Korean nurse during an earlier visit in the 1950s as a member of a leftist delegation. With Lanzmann, however, it’s often necessary to swallow a little of his self-aggrandizement in order to appreciate his genuine accomplishments. Contradictions abound inasmuch as his best work, such as the magisterial Shoah, is both formally audacious and historically focused while a minor work like Tsahal,...
- 11/14/2017
- MUBI
Louise Osmond’s documentary is an engrossing study of this mild-mannered giant of British social realism
Louise Osmond’s documentary tribute to Ken Loach could not have been better timed. His powerful, simple new movie, I, Daniel Blake, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and underlined a colossal international reputation. It’s an engrossing study of this gentle, mild-mannered director with a core of steely determination, who made his bones (as they say in Hollywood) in the BBC of the 1960s, which gave a new generation of working-class writers and film-makers their chance. This has excellent contributions from Tony Garnett and Alan Parker, though it could have given more space to the late Barry Hines, the novelist and screenwriter with whom Loach worked on Kes and other films. Loach emerges as diffident and almost donnish in interviews, although his uncuddly side is revealed in his continuing anger about the...
Louise Osmond’s documentary tribute to Ken Loach could not have been better timed. His powerful, simple new movie, I, Daniel Blake, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and underlined a colossal international reputation. It’s an engrossing study of this gentle, mild-mannered director with a core of steely determination, who made his bones (as they say in Hollywood) in the BBC of the 1960s, which gave a new generation of working-class writers and film-makers their chance. This has excellent contributions from Tony Garnett and Alan Parker, though it could have given more space to the late Barry Hines, the novelist and screenwriter with whom Loach worked on Kes and other films. Loach emerges as diffident and almost donnish in interviews, although his uncuddly side is revealed in his continuing anger about the...
- 6/2/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
London Short Film Festival | Jim Allen Retrospective
Both those bemoaning the lack of new British film-makers and more optimistic glass-half-full talent-spotters will be spoilt for choice here, possibly overwhelmingly so. There are 38 programmes of new British shorts alone, not to mention international work and documentaries. It’s all helpfully organised by genre (sample titles: Lo-Budget Mayhem, Femmes Fantastiques, God’s Lonely Men, Wtf?), which could bring anything from gang-related conker fights to an operatic love story between a jar of jam and a slice of toast. There are also events dedicated to film-makers just off the radar (Jarman collaborator Richard Heslop, Norway’s Joern Utkilen and British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland), and a few very much on it (a Harmony Korine weekend, a retrospective of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Aka Beastie Boy Adam Yauch). There’s even a night dedicated to films about cats.
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Both those bemoaning the lack of new British film-makers and more optimistic glass-half-full talent-spotters will be spoilt for choice here, possibly overwhelmingly so. There are 38 programmes of new British shorts alone, not to mention international work and documentaries. It’s all helpfully organised by genre (sample titles: Lo-Budget Mayhem, Femmes Fantastiques, God’s Lonely Men, Wtf?), which could bring anything from gang-related conker fights to an operatic love story between a jar of jam and a slice of toast. There are also events dedicated to film-makers just off the radar (Jarman collaborator Richard Heslop, Norway’s Joern Utkilen and British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland), and a few very much on it (a Harmony Korine weekend, a retrospective of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Aka Beastie Boy Adam Yauch). There’s even a night dedicated to films about cats.
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- 1/8/2016
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Shortly before news broke of British auteur Ken Loach’s latest production (a surprise since his 2014 title Jimmy’s Hall was intended to be his last film) his 1990 film Hidden Agenda received a Blu-ray release. An interesting footnote in Loach’s extensive filmography, the film is a definite departure from a director whose work is usually invested in portraits of British Socialist realism. Sandwiched between 1986’s Fatherland (a co-production with West Germany, also seeing a Blu-ray release this November courtesy of Twilight Time) and 1991’s Riff-Raff, Loach tried his hand at a political thriller based on actual events. It took home the Jury Prize at that year’s Cannes Film Festival (of the many times Loach has competed for the Palme d’Or, he’s won this particular distinction three times, and the Palme itself in 2006) and caused a significant furor in the UK thanks to its blunt references to...
- 11/10/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jim Allen, chairman of the Republican Party in Montgomery County, Illinois, has resigned after controversy erupted over an email he sent blasting Republican Congressional candidate Erika Harold.
The Associated Press reports that Illinois Republican Party chairman Jack Dorgan accepted Allen's resignation on Thursday (June 20) afternoon.
Allen -- a supporter of Harold's primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis -- sent an email published on RepublicanNewsWatch.com that railed against Harold as a "love child of the D.N.C." who will lose the election and work "for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires."
Harold graduated Harvard law school and was crowned Miss America in 2003.
Davis had called on Allen to step down and Allen's name has been removed from the Davis campaign's list of supporters.
The Associated Press reports that Illinois Republican Party chairman Jack Dorgan accepted Allen's resignation on Thursday (June 20) afternoon.
Allen -- a supporter of Harold's primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis -- sent an email published on RepublicanNewsWatch.com that railed against Harold as a "love child of the D.N.C." who will lose the election and work "for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires."
Harold graduated Harvard law school and was crowned Miss America in 2003.
Davis had called on Allen to step down and Allen's name has been removed from the Davis campaign's list of supporters.
- 6/21/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
ITV2 has commissioned a three-part special from Rdf Television entitled Jedward: Home Alone, which will follow X Factor’s twin phenomenon as they take their biggest step yet – leaving home.
Jedward: Home Alone is an access-all-areas pass to their private lives as, following their success on the X Factor, the duo leave the room they share at their family home. The series will film their trial run at cutting their aprons strings and attempting to set up home by themselves for a week. And in their new flat, in the heart of a hip part of Dublin, they will live in separate rooms for the first time in their lives.
The cameras will capture an intimate look at Jedward’s lives as they try to fend for themselves and cope with simple tasks that come with living on their own. Without any help from their mum, the duo...
Jedward: Home Alone is an access-all-areas pass to their private lives as, following their success on the X Factor, the duo leave the room they share at their family home. The series will film their trial run at cutting their aprons strings and attempting to set up home by themselves for a week. And in their new flat, in the heart of a hip part of Dublin, they will live in separate rooms for the first time in their lives.
The cameras will capture an intimate look at Jedward’s lives as they try to fend for themselves and cope with simple tasks that come with living on their own. Without any help from their mum, the duo...
- 7/6/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
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