Tag: tv

Renowned Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek, who has become one of the most successful figures in Italian cinema, is preparing to stage famous Italian composer Guizeppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” in ...

Larry Hagman, who shot to worldwide fame for his portrayal of the oilman villain J.R. Ewing in theUS television series "Dallas," has died at the age of 81 after losing a ...

Academics gather to discuss the increasing popularity of historical TV series in Turkey, noting the distinction between fact and fiction is often misunderstood by audiences. “The fictional side needs much ...

Daniel Day-Lewis on Playing Abraham Lincoln. “NOW he belongs to the ages,” Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, said at the president’s deathbed. “And to the studios,” he could have ...

He was dubbed the real Slumdog millionaire after he became the first person to win the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Like the hero of the ...

The unprecedented popularity of the Turkish TV series ‘Yabancı Damat’ (Foreign Groom), featuring an intercultural love affair between a Greek man and a Turkish woman, seems to have opened the ...

Syrian state television is now broadcasting in six languages, including Turkish, daily Radikal has reported. The channel will now follow the events of the country in Turkish, Russian, English, Hebrew, Frenchand ...

A row has erupted in Greece's state broadcaster ERT over a decision this week to cut a scene showing two men kissing from the evening broadcast of award-winning British period ...

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the iconic 1974 eroticFrench film "Emmanuelle" and over 50 other movies, died in her sleep overnight after suffering from cancer, her agent said Thursday. ...

Veteran theater and cinema actor Erol Günaydın died on Oct. 15 at the age of 79 in Istanbul’s Kadıköy Acıbadem Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for some time.  ...