Laurence Fox, the British actor who has starred in Lewis and White Lines, has been fired from Gb News and arrested on the same day.
Gb News said on Wednesday that it had “ended its employment relationship” with Fox after he was suspended last week for a misogynistic rant about female journalist Ava Evans.
Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were both suspended last week pending internal investigations that have now concluded. As of today, Gb News has ended its employment relationship with Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson. The internal investigation into Dan Wootton continues.
— Gb News (@Gbnews) October 4, 2023
Fox’s Gb News rant, in which he claimed no “self-respecting man” would “climb into bed” with Evans, has become the most complained about moment on British TV since 2021. He has since apologized to Evans for his remarks.
Fellow Gb News presenter Calvin Robinson has also lost his job after declaring his support for Wootton,...
Gb News said on Wednesday that it had “ended its employment relationship” with Fox after he was suspended last week for a misogynistic rant about female journalist Ava Evans.
Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were both suspended last week pending internal investigations that have now concluded. As of today, Gb News has ended its employment relationship with Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson. The internal investigation into Dan Wootton continues.
— Gb News (@Gbnews) October 4, 2023
Fox’s Gb News rant, in which he claimed no “self-respecting man” would “climb into bed” with Evans, has become the most complained about moment on British TV since 2021. He has since apologized to Evans for his remarks.
Fellow Gb News presenter Calvin Robinson has also lost his job after declaring his support for Wootton,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The embattled Southern Poverty Law Center, which has won two Academy Awards for its documentaries and has advised numerous TV shows on hate crimes, has lost another top executive.
Richard Cohen, who headed the Splc since 2003, said Friday that a search for his successor is underway. His announcement comes a week after the nonprofit organization fired founder Morris Dees for unspecified misconduct. Cohen said his departure was “in order to give the organization the best chance to heal.”
Cohen’s decision comes on the heels of a scathing essay in The New Yorker delivered by Bob Moser, a former Splc staffer turned Rolling Stone reporter. In the essay, Moser called the organization a “highly profitable scam” that “never lived up to the values it espoused.”
Moser said the Splc was “ripping-off donors” while ignoring sex harassment and racial discrimination within its own organization.
Cohen accepted blame for any failings at the Splc.
Richard Cohen, who headed the Splc since 2003, said Friday that a search for his successor is underway. His announcement comes a week after the nonprofit organization fired founder Morris Dees for unspecified misconduct. Cohen said his departure was “in order to give the organization the best chance to heal.”
Cohen’s decision comes on the heels of a scathing essay in The New Yorker delivered by Bob Moser, a former Splc staffer turned Rolling Stone reporter. In the essay, Moser called the organization a “highly profitable scam” that “never lived up to the values it espoused.”
Moser said the Splc was “ripping-off donors” while ignoring sex harassment and racial discrimination within its own organization.
Cohen accepted blame for any failings at the Splc.
- 3/23/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
A controversial nonprofit organization that has won two Academy Awards for its civil rights documentaries and has been a consultant on hate crimes to many TV shows has fired its founder and leader today.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said it has fired founder Morris Dees, citing unspecified misconduct by the 82-year-old, who started the organization in 1971.
“As a civil rights organization, the Splc is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” said President Richard Cohen in a statement. “When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.”
Dees spoke to the Associated Press and said the firing resulted from a personnel issue, but didn’t provide details. He said he wished the organization luck.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said it has fired founder Morris Dees, citing unspecified misconduct by the 82-year-old, who started the organization in 1971.
“As a civil rights organization, the Splc is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” said President Richard Cohen in a statement. “When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.”
Dees spoke to the Associated Press and said the firing resulted from a personnel issue, but didn’t provide details. He said he wished the organization luck.
- 3/14/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
"I've always wanted to debate important ideas." The Orchard has released the first official trailer for a compelling new intellectual debate documentary titled Islam and the Future of Tolerance, which will be released on VOD platforms in December for those who may be curious. In a world riven by violence and misunderstanding, prominent atheist author Sam Harris and Islamist-extremist-turned-liberal Muslim Maajid Nawaz seek to provide a remedy to the polarizing rhetoric and obscurantism around the topic of Islam. It's a debate film, but it's more than that, an attempt to reconcile differences through conversation and discussion. To examine in more detail what's going on, along with different interpretations, and what's actually written in the Quran. What fascinates me the most is that the two intellectuals have been in heated debates before, and seem to mortal enemies, yet they put that behind them and came together to make this. Official trailer...
- 11/26/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Bill Maher has offered to support activist Maajid Nawaz as he sues advocacy organization The Southern Poverty Law Center for putting him on a list of “anti-Muslim extremists”. The offer came as the Muslim anti-extremism campaigner opened HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last night — explaining his viewpoint on the worldwide threat of jihadists. During his appearance he spoke about what he sees as the vexing issue of “well-meaning liberal white men” acting as Islamist apologists and seemingly refusing to allow him to criticize his own religion. Former Islamist Nawaz, the founder of counter-extremist thinktank Quilliam International, then revealed...read more...
- 6/24/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Bill Maher has been called everything from racist to an Islamaphobe for his heated debates over the nature of Islam, but Friday night he found himself on the same side of the issue when counter-extremism expert, Maajid Nawaz, guested on his HBO show, “Real Time.” Nawaz, who is also the founder of anti-extremist think-tank Quilliam, announced his plan to file a crowd-funded defamation of character lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (Splc), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights that put Nawaz on an “anti-Muslim extremists” list. “I’d like to be part of that crowd,” Maher said,...
- 6/24/2017
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Updated With Video Bill Maher and the Southern Poverty Law Center seem to be on opposite sides with regard to Maajid Nawaz, a British activist described by HBO’s Real Time host as the founder of the “world’s first counter-extremism think tank.” The Splc has included Nawaz on a list of anti-Muslim extremists. On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host offered to contribute to a crowd-funded defamation suit that Nawaz said he plans to file against the Splc. Saying he…...
- 6/24/2017
- Deadline TV
Maajid Nawaz told Bill Maher tonight that he plans to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation for listing him as an "anti-Muslim extremist."...
- 6/24/2017
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
The real “Teflon Bill” is back tonight, with Bill Maher’s HBO chat salon of thinkers and doers having had a contentious and controversial season thus far. This week Maher has another fascinating line-up of academics and experts. Up first is the top-of-show interview guest, Jewish News columnist Maajid Nawaz — the founding chairman of Quilliam, a London think tank on Islamic extremism. He recently penned an op/ed that excoriated the British government for flying the terrorist organization Hezbollah’s flag in London. He wrote of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in particular: “Polarised times such as these require leadership. “Savvy political statements...read more...
- 6/23/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Australian documentary, 'Waste Nation' , from producer-director Dan Goldberg, is one of 10 projects selected for The FACTory..
The Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) has announced the 10 docos selected for its pitching forum, The FACTory.
Presented by Film Victoria and Screen Australia, the forum will allow the selected filmmakers to pitch their projects directly to international buyers, commissioners, and distributors. The forum takes place in front of a live audience.
Over 25 commissioning bodies are set to attend the event, including Tribeca Film Institute, National Geographic, Foxtel, BBC Storyville, Al Jazeera English, Canal +, Nhk Japan, American Documentary | Pov, Discovery and Universal Pictures.
The best pitch on the day will receive a marketing and distribution deal from The Solid State and Fan-Force — including $5,000 towards a theatrical trailer, poster and website, and $3,700 of distribution and social media marketing support services..
Selected from over 60 entries from around the world, the 10 successful projects are:.
Waste Nation (Australia...
The Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) has announced the 10 docos selected for its pitching forum, The FACTory.
Presented by Film Victoria and Screen Australia, the forum will allow the selected filmmakers to pitch their projects directly to international buyers, commissioners, and distributors. The forum takes place in front of a live audience.
Over 25 commissioning bodies are set to attend the event, including Tribeca Film Institute, National Geographic, Foxtel, BBC Storyville, Al Jazeera English, Canal +, Nhk Japan, American Documentary | Pov, Discovery and Universal Pictures.
The best pitch on the day will receive a marketing and distribution deal from The Solid State and Fan-Force — including $5,000 towards a theatrical trailer, poster and website, and $3,700 of distribution and social media marketing support services..
Selected from over 60 entries from around the world, the 10 successful projects are:.
Waste Nation (Australia...
- 2/5/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Displaying a transparency that few filmmakers of his fame and / or caliber would even bother with, Steven Soderbergh has, for a couple of years, been keen on releasing lists of what he watched and read during the previous twelve months. If you’re at all interested in this sort of thing — and why not? what else are you even doing with your day? — the 2015 selection should be of strong interest, this being a time when he was fully enmeshed in the world of creating television.
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Friday night on HBO means one thing: Bill Maher and Real Time! October 25th sees Bill moderate a panel with Richard Dawkins, Maajid Nawaz, Valerie Plame, Michael Moore, and Al Sharpton. The salon allows Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, as the show includes an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests. Maajid Nawaz, co-founder of the think tank Quilliam, is the top-of-show interview guest. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, author Valerie Plame and talk-show host Rev. Al Sharpton. Dawkins has a memoir out, An Appetite for Wonder, the review is here. Michael Moore is allegedly hiding the...
- 10/25/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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