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Dvizhon Studios Launches With Sex Education Series ‘The First Time’ A Featuring Puppet Presenter, Ukraine War Veteran & Social Media Star Tumazar
Ukrainian showrunner Yuri Dvizhon has launched Dvizhon Studios, a new London-based production house, debuting with a celebrity-led sex education series called The First Time. The five-part show has premiered on Eastern European streamer Megogo, blending entertainment with sex education content aimed at fostering open conversations about relationships and self-acceptance, and marks a notable example of…
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Elon Musk and Europe’s hard right figures hail AfD’s ‘historic’ election win in German state as leader predicts Chancellor Merz will fall by Christmas
Germany’s ruling coalition has been left reeling after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a landslide in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, a result that has rattled political leaders across Europe. Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted he was “deeply shocked” by the scale of his Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) defeat and said “deep reforms” were…
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Arte France’s ‘Tax Me (If You Can)’ Sells to Multiple Territories: ‘Getting Rich People to Talk About Money Was Tough,’ Says Director (EXCLUSIVE)
Paris-based The Party Film Sales has secured multiple new broadcasters for the French documentary “Tax Me (If You Can),” directed by investigative filmmaker Thomas Lafarge, ahead of its Arte France premiere. The deals, struck with pubcasters including Spain’s RTVE, Switzerland’s RTS, Slovenia’s RTV and Finland’s YLE, come as public broadcasters face funding pressures, making the…
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Europe wrestles with impact of historic regional gains for Germany’s AfD
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has secured a historic landslide in local elections in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, an outcome widely described as a watershed moment given it marks the first major electoral breakthrough for a hard-right nationalist party in Germany since 1945. Although Saxony-Anhalt is one of Germany’s smallest and least populous…
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Ukraine seeks to seize water company owned by billionaire family of British theatre mogul
Ukrainian authorities are seeking to seize control of IDS Ukraine, the country’s largest bottled water producer, in which a 34% stake is held by the Patarkatsishvili family, whose members include British theatre impresario Liana Patarkatsishvili. The dispute matters because it entangles a prominent UK cultural figure’s family fortune in a wartime battle over what Kyiv…
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Migrants cross Channel again as Dover blockade sparks disruption fears, Delhi hostel collapse kills three
Fresh Channel crossings and a far-right blockade near Dover overshadow Burnham-Macron pledges on small boats; elsewhere, a Delhi hostel collapse has killed three, two stabbings and violent crime cases hit UK courts, and Arsenal host Chelsea in a big Premier League clash.
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Classic Rock’s Tracks Of The Week: September 7, 2026
Loudersound’s weekly Classic Rock “Tracks Of The Week” column highlights eight new songs from across the rock spectrum, with Farnham trio Kit Trigg’s single Down To Earth named the week’s top pick, ahead of tracks from Danielle Nicole and Grace Potter. The feature is a curated recommendation list rather than a hard news story, spotlighting…
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SUE REID: Germany in shock as hard-Right party stands on the brink of power
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has finished the Saxony-Anhalt state election as the clear leading party, according to an exit poll giving it 44.5 per cent of the vote, putting it on course to control a regional parliament for the first time since the Nazi era. The result marks a watershed for German politics, delivering…
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Reform UK Faces Foreign Donations Row as Farage Defends £500k US-Sourced Payment
Reform UK has become embroiled in a controversy over funding sources following the release of undercover Channel 4 footage documenting discussions regarding a £500,000 contribution purportedly originating from the United
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Anglo-Russo peace push falters as Farage donor row deepens and rail chaos hits CrossCountry
US envoys Witkoff and Kushner met Zelensky in Kyiv after Moscow talks with Putin, while Farage battled a foreign-donations row engulfing Reform UK; also today, royal news, rail disruption, a new TfL calm pod, Celtic’s Asian Games blow, and tributes to Olivia Newton-John.