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The MUBI Weekly Digest | 25th January 2020
January 25, 2020 | David FarnorJanuary means one thing: the return of MyFrenchFilmFestival, the annual online showcase for new French cinema. MUBI joins in this week with To the Ends of the World, as well as journeying to Rotterdam for past festival favourites and popping … Read More
73 million households have watched The Crown
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor73 million households have watched The Crown to date, according to Netflix statistics.
The streaming giant has traditionally been tight-lipped about its viewing figures, but as third party content increasingly departs the service and rivals launch their own competing platforms, … Read More
My World: Angelina Jolie teams up with BBC for global news series
January 25, 2020 | David FarnorAngelina Jolie is teaming up with the BBC and Microsoft for My World, a weekly news series for young audiences.
The global show aims to explain the stories behind the news, providing facts and information for viewers aged 13 and … Read More
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 returns to Netflix UK this February
January 25, 2020 | David FarnorRuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 has officially got a release date, with episodes set to arrive on Netflix UK this February.
Drag Race has become a veritable phenomenon in recent years, with RuPaul finally giving fans a UK version of … Read More
Amazon scraps People Just Do Nothing US remake
January 25, 2020 | David FarnorAmazon is doing nothing with its plans to remake People Just Do Nothing for the US.
The series, which was announced in 2018, is based on the hit BBC Three mockumentary, which follows pirate radio station Kurupt FM.
The remake … Read More
The Runaway: Doctor Who VR special lands on YouTube
January 25, 2020 | David FarnorMore Doctor Who fans can now step inside a VR version of the TARDIS as the BBC’s hit virtual reality experience Doctor Who: The Runaway comes to the Doctor Who YouTube channel and launches internationally.
The VR experience stars Jodie … Read More
BBC renews Baptiste for Season 2
January 24, 2020 | David FarnorBBC One has ordered a second season of crime drama Baptiste.
Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) will return as retired police investigator, Julien Baptiste, and will be joined by Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve, Fleabag) for a case which will take viewers … Read More
Apple TV+ inks overall deal with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
January 24, 2020 | David FarnorApple TV+ has inked an overall deal with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Louis-Dreyfus, who first made her mark on Saturday Night Live, has become a mainstay of US TV comedy, recently completing a seven-season run starring in HBO’s Veep.
The star and … Read More
Luke Evans to star in ITV’s The Pembrokeshire Murders
January 24, 2020 | David FarnorLuke Evans is heading to ITV for new series The Pembrokeshire Murders.
The true crime drama, produced by World Productions, is a three-part mini-series depicting the pursuit of a cold-blooded serial killer.
Two unsolved double murders from the 1980s … Read More
Star Trek: Picard: Boldly going to new, old frontiers
January 24, 2020 | David Farnor“I came here to find safety, but one is never safe from the past.” Those are the words of Jean-Luc Picard, 18 years after we last saw him in action as the captain of the USS Starship Enterprise in the … Read More