The jury will choose five nominees for the accolade, which will be voted for by the public. Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan and The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby have been announced as jury members for the EE Bafta Rising Star Award. Joining them to choose the five-strong shortlist of…

BAFTA winner Vanessa Kirby and 2019 EE Rising Star Award nominee Cynthia Erivo yesterday joined Gemma Whelan and Edith Bowman and the rest of the BAFTA jury for the 2020 EE Rising Star Award. Celebrating its fifteenth year, recipients of the EE Rising Star Award are some of the…

The Oscar winner is one of four new non-executive directors joining the board of the public service broadcaster. British media regulator Ofcom on Tuesday unveiled the addition of four non-executive directors to the board of U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4, including The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper. The Oscar winner’s…

The government has appointed Althea Efunshile, a former deputy chief executive of Arts Council England (ACE), to the board of Channel 4, in a dramatic U-turn after the culture secretary blocked her appointment a year ago in favour of four white men. Efunshile was the only one of five candidates for Channel…

FIRSTBORN is now available to purchase on iTunes and Amazon ahead of its global release on Netflix.

Screen canvasses industry opinion on Langan’s tenure and the prospects for one of the UK’s cornerstone funders. There have been warm tributes to Christine Langan as news broke yesterday of her impending departure from BBC Films to join UK production outfit Baby Cow. Attention is also now beginning to…