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Subnormal is Steve McQueens latest documentary for the BBC on "educationally subnormal" schools during the 1960s and 1970s.

Steve McQueen praises black parents who exposed ‘subnormal’ schools ahead of new BBC documentary about the scandal

Director Steve McQueen and actor John Boyega on the set of Small Axe Small Axe, British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen will re-team with the BBC for a new three-part documentary entitled Uprising. Co-directed by producer James Rogan, the new series will focus on three important events all taking place in the year 1981: the January 1981 New Cross Fire, a fire at a party in the South London suburb that killed 13 young people; the Black People’s Day of Action two months later, the first ...

English Premier League Extends $7 Billion Rights Deal With Sky, Amazon, BT, BBC - Global Bulletin Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In today’s Global Bulletin, the English Premier League renews rights deals for three years; Stephen Graham-starrer “Boiling Point” sells wide; NENT Group sets terrorism drama “Red Election”; Endeavor Content strengthens management team; and Alchimie and All3Media International launch SVOD channel Inside Outside in the U.S. The English...

DMC Film/ Try Hard Whether you’re a bona fide film buff or just a sofa slug looking for some light evening entertainment, you really need to know about Vero. Specifically designed to make the experience of sharing online more like real life, the next-gen social platform boasts an in-built post type dedicated to film and TV (alongside the likes of music, books and places) that draws on the ultimate, authoritative archive of all big- and small-screen releases. As such, there are hundreds of tho...

Austin 360 ATX Televisions Festival on May 13 announced a partnership with HBO that will bring exclusive content to this years online event.  Highlights revealed by the fest (June 11-20) include: The premiere of “The White Lotus” starring Connie Britton, a show "set in an idyllic tropical resort where everything isn’t as it seems"; the screening and panel will happen closing night. The creative team of “In Treatment” will appear with cast members Uzo Aduba, Anthony Ramos, Quintessa...

The White Lotus at the upcoming ATX Television Festival. HBO and HBO Max are coming back to ATX Television Festival, but theyre bigger than ever, bringing the their new prestige series The White Lotus as this years closing night event. After leaping online last year as a pandemic response, the Austin celebration of all things TV is back for a second streaming year, and has already announced an initial lineup including special events for Steve McQueens Amazon Prime anthology Small Ax...

The Underground Railroad. Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios It is inevitably fraught for a white critic like me to discuss a work of art specifically about the Black American experience. There’s a risk of coming off as patronizing at best and appropriative at worst, of seemingly trying to relate the pain, trauma, and horror that often rests on Black Americans to the personal pains white viewers may face in day-to-day life. Great art tells universal stories out of specific experiences, and it is pos...

Boiling Point has been released. The upcoming film will see the actor take on the role of a head chef pushed to his limits, and has been confirmed for a release later in 2021. In the first picture, which you can take a look at below, we see Grahams character Andy Jones look rather authoritative in a heated kitchen environment. Vertigo Boiling Point was filmed in one-take, with production wrapping up just before the first lockdown. The full synopsis reads: "This is Magic Friday, the last Friday...

BBC News Published image captionEmergency officers at the scene of the New Cross fire in January 1981 The New Cross fire of January 1981 and the riots in Brixton that took place in April that year are to be examined in Sir Steve McQueens next TV production. The Black Peoples Day of Action held in March 1981 will also feature in Uprising, a "vivid and visceral" three-part documentary series for BBC One. Sir Steve said the London house fire and its aftermath were "momentous events in our nations ...