Friday, Oct. 2, 2020

In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" anthology is an unqualified main event. While many other filmmakers are on hold, the "12 Years a Slave" director has raced to finish not one but five new films.

The movies, spanning 1968 to 1985, are each...

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018

The BBC has failed to live up to its duty to pay men and women the same for equal work, a committee of British lawmakers said Thursday, in a damning indictment of the publicly funded broadcaster after years of pay scandals.

Parliament's media committee said in a report that BBC salaries...

Friday, Jun. 29, 2018

The BBC struck a deal Friday with a senior journalist who quit her post to protest the British media company's gender pay gap.

The broadcaster accepted that Carrie Gracie, the broadcaster's former China editor, had been told she would be paid along the same lines as the North American...

Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2018

"Howards End," the upcoming four-part miniseries adapted from E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, isn't Kenneth Lonergan's first foray into television. That would be the animated Nickelodeon kids show "Doug."

Before Lonergan was one of the most acclaimed playwrights and filmmakers of his...

Sunday, Jul. 23, 2017

Some of the BBC's most prominent female journalists and TV presenters are banding together to demand that the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately rather than in several years as management has proposed.

TV personalities including Clare Balding, Victoria Derbyshire and...

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