Desperately want to like ‘Babies’ on BBC — it gets so much right — but the male characters on this show are so uneven and bizarrely written. Is it just me? Should I persevere?

Sad day in the TV trade world. New York-based Worldscreen is shuttering after 40 years covering international telly. And it comes nearly two years after Informa closed Television Business International (TBI). worldscreen.com/farewell-not...

Lads, you haven’t lived until you have creamy porridge projectile sneezed all over you during an on-camera editorial meeting. #journomum

Broadcast editor Chris Curtis analyses the rationale behind the appointment of the former Google exec to run the BBC

No more title music on BBC’s Gardeners’ World. It was only the anthem for the weekend. A true travesty.

Disney+ has just announced a UK doc feature on “Mercy” singer Duffy, who will be speaking for the first time about being “abducted, taken to another country and assaulted.” Horrific. #SeriesMania

Series Mania is not having much luck with its speakers this year. Fremantle cancelled yesterday, and now SkyShowtime, too. Yeesh.

The Ankler's Katey Rich and the BBC's Tom Brook examine what this year's Oscars reveal about the state of the movie industry.

Hollywood’s Middle East strategy is under pressure as war halts production, raises costs, and clouds billions in investment. Producers, lawyers, and financiers tell @manori-r.bsky.social what comes next theankler.com/p/hollywood-...

After waking me at 5am, my teething baby got hold of my phone and rang up a film distributor. Gen Beta is not messing around.

Starting to get The Fear that I’ll be sat here till 4am. And, this year, that my seven month old will wake up two hours later. #Oscars

Thank you, David Borenstein. Louder for the people at the back. #Oscars

I can’t remember such an extensive In Memoriam segment at the Oscars… This is a lot.

Paul Thomas Anderson's acceptance speech for his first-ever Oscar. "I wrote this movie for my kids, to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world we're handing off to them. But also for encouragement…” See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

So many standing ovations this year. Does this crowd think they’re at a film festival? #Oscars

I feel like Conan’s been a little hit or miss tonight but that Casablanca bit for the modern moviegoer was exquisite. #Oscars

The short categories, man. Best speeches. Every time. These guys dgaf, they’re going to call shit out. #Oscars

Absolutely love this casting presentation. Let it always have this level of fanfare. #Oscars

The ballet dancer right up front in that incredible Sinners performance was a masterstroke. #Oscars

In her acceptance speech, Amy Madigan said Oscar winners are advised not to mention specific names of people they want to thank on stage, which, if true, feels like the exact opposite of what the industry needs right now. #Oscars

Channel 4 chair Geoff Cooper tells me the broadcaster's new CEO Priya Dogra was the board's "unanimous choice" for the top job during the selection process. What needs shaking up at C4? Well, TV insiders sure didn't hold back in telling me... rts.org.uk/article/priy...

At least 59 English language news publishers now have 100k+ online subs: Exclusive new 100k Club ranking of top paid-for online news publishers. pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/big...

I once felt Timmy's pain, too. And I'm literally married to an opera singer. It's taken me years to come around. And there's still a lot about the classical music world that drives me crazy. But guess who now excitedly throws on a little 'Un ballo in maschera' while feeding our baby? This bish.

Looking forward to moderating this Prime Video session at Series Mania. Get in touch if you're heading to Lille! deadline.com/2026/03/seri...

Will Paramount Skydance's WBD acquisition be cleared by UK's CMA & European Commission? I spoke with an ex-CMA legal director: "This will have a lot of noise. Politicians will be involved. There’s going to be a lot of people opposing the deal from different angles." theankler.com/p/intl-brief...

Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. has Hollywood asking hard questions about jobs, streaming survival and even the company’s new name. “It’s going to be worse than you think,” one longtime exec tells @snoodit.bsky.social, who lays out 10 key questions and predictions theankler.com/p/10-burning...

This week’s report from @filmtvcharity.bsky.social highlights 74% of freelancers are considering leaving the industry, 43% have taken concrete steps to do so & 22% are experiencing “sustained worklessness”… this is an existential crisis for the UK screen arts. filmtvcharity.org.uk/assets/docum...

Scoop: Nearly 2 years since its UK launch, Gen Z hit Tubi is getting ready to dive into local content. But rather than investing in premium drama like its competitors, the streamer's tapping into Britain's creatorverse to super-serve its young audience. @theankler.com theankler.com/p/tubis-gen-...

A Lucy Letby doc on Netflix, a six-part Jesy Nelson docuseries on Prime Video... The UK contingents of the global streamers are moving fast and making really smart plays in factual. Back when the SVODs first landed in the UK, we'd say "they're going to steal the PSBs' lunch." And now, they are.

Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday. He was 96. nyti.ms/4qGpq55

Had the pleasure of meeting Frederick Wiseman twice in my career, and they remain some of my most memorable interviews. It's hard to imagine the world, let alone the documentary community, without him in it. www.reuters.com/business/med...

A deserving recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship. Universal's Donna Langley is the real deal. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

HBO Max confirmed March 26 launch date in UK/Ireland today. Sky divorce clearly underlined as JB Perrette says “the only complete offering is HBO Max.” Sky will have new series of HBO shows that premiered there pre-HBO Max UK launch, but not first seasons, ie. Sky will get Euphoria S3 but not S1&2.

I really enjoyed #QueenOfChess. Everyone should know who Judit Polgár is, just as we know Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Odd how this doc didn’t come out years ago alongside The Queen’s Gambit (way back in 2020). Netflix would never miss that trick now.

For @theankler.com, I wrote about #Disney's new bosses and why they have their work cut out for them internationally as Disney+ trails market leader Netflix. theankler.com/p/the-damaro... #JoshDAmaro #DanaWalden

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Harris Dickinson's sublime, timely, lyrical Urchin — and a standout performance from Frank Dillane — being completely shut out of the BAFTAs is a madness. What fresh hell went on there? The British Academy... always choosing violence. #BAFTAs

Fresh (?!) from mat leave and back at @theankler.com. Here's a scoop to kick things off: WBD’s separation — when the company splits into Warner Bros. for streaming and studios and Discovery Global for linear networks — set for July 1: theankler.com/p/the-global...

A DEFENSIVE CHEST PUFF FOR THE AGES #TheTraitors

Yes but was he silent or was he sil-enced? www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Well. Scheduling my return to work during the baby's sleep regression was certainly a choice.

C-sections now more common than vaginal birth & require min. 6 weeks’ recovery. (And that’s a generous estimation.) Yet paternity leave in the U.K. is up to 2 weeks. How are recovering mothers meant to function, let alone care for an infant solo? Make it make sense. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

What a movie. A transcendental delight that I sobbed my way through. And still want to watch again immediately. Bring tissues and hug your family before and after. #TrainDreams

I thought my proudest achievement was journalism-related but now I realise it’s managing to breastfeed my baby for months on end without tearing my hair out in despair. (Though, rest assured, I come close on an almost daily basis.)

These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance… 345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities 50 still missing Likely to traffickers How could this have happened? Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

Bereft by Diane Keaton’s passing. Dressed like her throughout university. Watched all her movies. She was my whole personality before it was even a thing. I simply can’t believe we’re to continue on without her.

Happy to report that one can actually half-sleep and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 643 times in a row to soothe a newborn. They’re finally nodding off. Just in time for it to be…7AM. #journomum

Rule Britannia at the Proms is now about as uncomplicatedly uplifting a tune to wheel out as a finale as the theme from Jim’ll Fix It.

My baby stops crying the minute a Stephen Sondheim song comes on. Chip off the old block. #journomum