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Following a week of intense pressure, the UK’s Royal Television Society (Rts) has U-turned on its special award recognizing the work of journalists in Gaza and is “discussing how this will take place.”

The body sparked anger when it scrapped the award, telling jurors it did not wish to “add fuel to the fire” around Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, the BBC documentary that was pulled after it was revealed that the child narrator was the son of a Hamas minister.

But eight days on and following a letter signed by nearly 400 journalists and copying in King Charles, the award will now take place in some form.

“Following the decision to pause the presentation of the award, the Rts met this week as part of the Society’s previously announced review process,” a spokeswoman said. “The Society remains committed to recognizing the work of Journalists in Gaza...

Some of the best-known figures in the UK media sphere have signed a letter requesting a meeting with King Charles over the Royal Television Society’s (Rts) decision to scrap a special recognition award for journalists in Gaza.

The King is the Royal Patron of the Rts and the group of more than 300 people have asked to meet with him and “demanded transparency” about the body’s decision-making process around its journalism awards.

The letter has been signed by BBC heavyweights including Jonathan Dimbleby, Orla Guerin and Fergal Keane, along with the likes of Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Matt Frei. Dimbleby branded the Rts “cowards” over the move.

The saga started with the Rts’ shock decision to scrap a special recognition award for journalists in Gaza due to not wanting to “add fuel to the fire” around Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, the BBC documentary that...

A year to the day after Hamas’ attack on Israel that left more than 1,200 dead and saw 251 taken captive, the conflict in the Middle East has moved to new fronts and is spiralling into a new, more dangerous realm. For the journalists on the ground, the threat is real — more than 130 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7, according to Reporters Without Borders. The situation in Lebanon, meanwhile, is worsening as Israel bombards Hezbollah, while the world awaits Israel’s response to Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack.

Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Secunder Kermani, who is currently in Tyre in southern Lebanon, told Deadline that reporters on the ground are conscious of the threat to their safety from the Israeli army, which has issued warnings that no civilians should be travelling south of the strategically important Litani River in vehicles until further notice. In a BBC report yesterday, Orla Guerin...

Ahead of the trailer dropping for the film this week, Fox Searchlight Pictures has revealed the full list of celebrities set to make cameo appearances in the upcoming "Absolutely Fabulous" movie - a list that includes the likes of Kate Moss, Gwendoline Christie, Joan Collins, Barry Humphries, Jerry Hall and Jean Paul Gaultier.

In the film Edina and Patsy are blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party and become entangled in a media storm. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forevermore.

Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and June Whitfield lead the cast of the film, joined in major roles by Kathy Burke, Helen Lederer, Harriet Thorpe, Celia Imrie, Mo Gaffney, Chris Ryan and both Emma Bunton and Lulu as themselves.

The full list of celebs are: Abbey Clancy,...

Sergei Loznitsa’s fixed camera captures the tragedy of the protests in Kiev’s Independence Square with haunting intensity

This film from Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa it is a remarkable record of the popular demonstration in Kiev’s Independence Square (the Maidan Nezalezhnosti) during the winter of 2013-14, against the pro-Moscow presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. The protests led to his downfall, and to violent chaos, the deaths of 100 protesters and the start of the ongoing confrontation between pro-Russian and pro-eu factions. With no music or voiceover, Loznitsa captures the event with a series of long, uninterrupted shots of the crowded square and neighbouring places from (mostly) fixed camera positions. The hypnotic, deep-focus scenes look like images from some deadly serious, modern version of Les Misérables. The camera appears to have been positioned miraculously, almost invisibly, creating the impression of access to a vivid, unmediated reality. It utterly negates the grammar...