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On Middle Street, a culinary hub embodies an industry under siege A microcosm of the Portland food scene, the block of restaurants made bold decisions and banded together to stay in business. Share Middle Street, between Franklin Street and India Street, is a culinary hotspot in a city with a national reputation for food and drink. The owners of many of the restaurants there have collaborated to help one another weather the pandemic. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer This is the second of five pa...

Share Stay Close follows detective Broome (Nesbitt), working mother-of-three Megan (Cush Jumbo) and out-of-work photographer Ray (Richard Armitage) as they deal with the skeletons in their cupboards.   Viewers will also see Cutting It star Sarah Parish, Small Axe’s Daniel Francis and stand-up comedian Andi Osho play Megans friend Lorraine, her partner Dave and Simona, respectively. Stunned: Line Of Duty star James Nesbitt has found himself a new role after being killed off on the show duri...

February 26, 2021 "You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life." Another year, another Top 10. Better late than never, as they say! Though this usually happens with me, getting this list out takes a lot of time… It was a tough year to keep writing during 2020, despite watching films all the time. I saw over 400 films during the year, trying to watch as much as I could despite the lockdowns and the shut downs, and everything else going on. But here it is anyway - my personal l...

The number of ethnic minorities involved in watching or making US films increased in 2020.

BBC News By Manish Pandey image copyrightGetty Images 2020 was a strange year for Hollywood film releases but it was also, "the industrys most successful year on the diversity front". Thats according to a report by UCLA which also found movie watchers in the US are becoming more diverse and prefer content with greater diversity. The number of ethnic minorities involved in watching or making American movies also increased. The top 185 English-language films released were examined. Eight of the t...

Oz: HBO prison series reunion set for ATX Festival April 22, 2021 by: Oz reunion is planned for the 2021 ATX Television Festival. This years  Oz reunion was supposed to happen last year, but the Covid-19 pandemic threw that idea into solitary until now. The event will look back on the HBO prison drama with creator/executive producer Tom Fontana, director/actor Terry Kinney and cast members Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters, Harold Perrineau, and Kirk Acevedo. More guests are expected to be added t...

Last modified on Thu 22 Apr 2021 04.57 EDT On 11 April, midway between the Grammys and the Oscars, the US Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) held its 11th annual awards ceremony, celebrating the people “who help the director devise the musical strategy for the film and then execute it,” says Randall Poster, a two-time GMS winner whose credits include Boyhood, Zodiac and the Royal Tenenbaums. It was a good night for the people who worked on Soul, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Promising ...

Kate Atkinsons Life After Life Is Being Turned Into a Series With Fleabags Sian Clifford 0 Shares BBC will be adapting Kate Atkinsons bestselling novel Life After Life into a four-part series thats set for release on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The book was previously shortlisted for a Womens Prize For Fiction and won a Costa Book Award in 2013, so we know its going to be good. Starring Fleabags Sian Clifford, Small Axe star Joshua Hill, the story follows a main character called Ursula, who die...

Michael J. Fox to Be Honored at ATX TV Festival Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Michael J. Fox The fests 10th season will also include an Oz retrospective and panels with Ziwe and Small Axe creator and director Steve McQueen. Michael J. Fox will receive the ATX Television Festivals annual Award in Television Excellence. The honor is part of the first wave of programming for the festivals 10th "season" — which also includes a retrospective of HBOs Oz (initially planned f...

“ZIWE,” the upcoming Showtime late-night variety show from comedian, writer and internet personality  Ziwe. There also will be an in-depth look at "Small Axe," Amazon Prime Videos anthology series from filmmaker Steve McQueen. Hell be joined by "Miss Juneteenth" director Channing Godfrey Peoples for a conversation. Also announced on Thursday: • A screening and Q&A for Foxs new animated series, “HouseBroken”; the panel will include co-creator/actor/executive producer Clea DuVall (...