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Disaster strikes a Munich airport and rocks the sports world when a charter aircraft carrying the Manchester United soccer team crashes during take-off, killing eight players. Soon after the 1958 accident, a dispute pits German examiners against the plane's pilot, a celebrated RAF captain. Revisit the crash of BEA Flight 609 as investigators try to determine if it was an icy wing or a slushy runway that brought the plane and its pilot's career to a bitter end.

Lorraine Stanley Stars in Hampstead Theatre's WILDEFIRE, Beginning Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2014

The cast for Roy Williams' new play, Wildefire, which plays on the Main Stage at Hampstead Theatre today 6 - 29 November will be led by Lorraine Stanley as Gail Wildefire, with Cian Barry, Ricky Champ, Fraser James, Simon Manyonda and Sharlene Whyte (Biographies below) and Eric Kofi Abrefa, Danny Da...


Give the Gift of Amazon Prime this Holiday Season
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2013

(NASDAQ:AMZN) - Millions of members already enjoy the benefits of Amazon Prime. In the US, that includes unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 15 million items, instant streaming of over 41,000 movies and TV episodes through Prime Instant Video and over 350,000 books to borrow through the Kin...


A RAISIN IN THE SUN's Sophie Okonedo Joins BBC TV's THE HOLLOW CROWN
by BWW News Desk - May 29, 2014

The Daily Mail writes that Tony nominee Sophie Okonedo, currently starring in A RAISIN IN THE SUN on Broadway, will appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and others in BBC TV's upcoming trilogy THE HOLLOW CROWN, which includes Shakespeare's HENRY VI trilogy and RICHARD III....


Amazon Greenlights Pilot MOZART IN THE JUNGLE & More for Full Seasons
by Caryn Robbins - March 31, 2014

Amazon Studios today announced that The After, Bosch, Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, Mozart in the Jungle, Transparent and Wishenpoof! will become the next Amazon Original Series...


Feel the Heat When #EM3 Hits Redbox, 4/15
by Caryn Robbins - April 15, 2014

Sizzling thriller #EM3 (Eenie Meenie Miney Moe), chronicling the tense journey of a drug dealer, comes to Redbox on April 15, 2014....


Richard Eyre's GHOSTS, Starring Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden, Out Online Today
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2014

Digital Theatre is delighted to announce its next title; Richard Eyre's five-star, multi award-winning revival production of Ibsen's Ghosts starring Olivier Award-winners Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden will be available to buy and watch online around the world from today 18 September 2014....


Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment Developing ULTIMATE DJ Reality Show
by Tyler Peterson - April 29, 2014

SFX Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFXE), Syco Entertainment and T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) today announced they're joining forces to produce apioneering television show revolving around the booming electronic music culture and showcasing and cultivating fresh new EMC DJ/producer talent and creati...


BBC America's ORPHAN BLACK & More Now Available Exclusively on Prime Instant Video
by Caryn Robbins - March 07, 2014

Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing agreement that will make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming Season One and future seasons of Orphan Black....


Broadway's Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock Lead Kneehigh's BRIEF ENCOUNTER at the Wallis, Beg. Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 15, 2014

The Broadway Cast - led by Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock - will appear in the internationally celebrated Kneehigh production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which will have a 43-performance limited engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts today, February 15 to March ...


MTV to Broadcast Tomorrowland 2014 Across Its International Channels
by Caryn Robbins - April 02, 2014

MTV today announced it will be the exclusive international broadcast partner for Tomorrowland 2014, the world's premier electronic dance music festival....


Stephanie Ridings' UNKNOWN MALE Coming to Birmingham Repertory Theatre
by Tyler Peterson - December 19, 2014

A powerful and darkly comic play exploring the impact of a railway suicide on a train driver and her family premieres at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in January....


Amazon Orders New Pilots THE COSMOPOLITANS & HAND OF GOD
by Caryn Robbins - April 09, 2014

Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit two new pilots - the half hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one hour drama Hand of God...


Richard Eyre's GHOSTS to Continue West End Theatre Series at Cinemas Across the UK and Ireland Today
by BWW News Desk - June 26, 2014

The WEST END THEATRE SERIES is delighted to announce its third title; Richard Eyre's five-star, multi award-winning revival production of Ibsen's Ghosts. The Almeida Theatre production will be screened in over 200 cinemas across the UK and Ireland for one night only, today 26 June '14 (www.westendth...


Josie Rourke's THE WEIR Revival Transfers to Wyndham's Theatre Tonight
by BWW News Desk - January 16, 2014

Josie Rourke's Donmar Warehouse production of Conor McPherson's THE WEIR will be transferring to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End, beginning tonight, January 16, 2014, for a January 22nd opening. The show stars Risteard Cooper, Brian Cox, Dervla Kirwan, Peter McDonald and Ardal O'Hanlon....


BOSCH Among Amazon Studios First Two-Hour Drama Pilots
by Caryn Robbins - October 31, 2013

Following Amazon Studios' pilot announcement earlier this month, Amazon today announced it has given the green light for the production of its first two hour-long drama pilots...


Amazon Studios Debuts 10 New Original Pilots Today
by Caryn Robbins - February 06, 2014

Seduction in the symphony…murder in the first degree…magic and ingenuity. Starting today, these are just a few of the stories viewers will be thrown into with 10 new pilots launching exclusively on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. and LOVEFiLM in the UK....


Eight Seasons of 24 Now Available Exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video
by Caryn Robbins - April 01, 2014

Prime Instant Video is now the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming all 192 episodes of the award-winning series 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as heroic agent Jack Bauer....


Amazon Studios Greenlights Season 2 of Original Comedy Series ALPHA HOUSE
by Caryn Robbins - March 31, 2014

After generating more than 6,000 five-star reviews, customers' beloved Senators-turned-roomies will once again be shaking hands, kissing babies and bunking up. A...


Avalon Landing Represents Las Vegas in Final Round of HARD ROCK RISING
by Diana Heisroth - April 30, 2014

With more than 10,000 bands entered worldwide, 418,000 votes submitted and 750 bands competing in live battles at 70+ Hard Rock Cafes around the world, the results are in and Las Vegas' own Avalon Landing has made it to the final round of Hard Rock Rising -the world's largest battle of the bands com...


Award-Winning HBO Programming Heading to Amazon Prime Instant Video
by Caryn Robbins - April 23, 2014

Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing agreement with HBO, making Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for select HBO programming....


Richard Eyre's GHOSTS, Starring Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden, Out Online Today
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2014

Digital Theatre is delighted to announce its next title; Richard Eyre's five-star, multi award-winning revival production of Ibsen's Ghosts starring Olivier Award-winners Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden will be available to buy and watch online around the world from today 18 September 2014....


A RAISIN IN THE SUN's Sophie Okonedo Joins BBC TV's THE HOLLOW CROWN
by BWW News Desk - May 29, 2014

The Daily Mail writes that Tony nominee Sophie Okonedo, currently starring in A RAISIN IN THE SUN on Broadway, will appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and others in BBC TV's upcoming trilogy THE HOLLOW CROWN, which includes Shakespeare's HENRY VI trilogy and RICHARD III....


Nickelodeon & Amazon.com to Launch Three Nick-Themed Boutiques for Holidays
by Caryn Robbins - November 26, 2013

Nickelodeon and Amazon.com celebrate the holiday shopping season with the launch of three Nick-themed boutiques inspired by Latina heroine, Dora the Explorer; pop culture phenomenon, SpongeBob SquarePants; and the crime-fighting heroes in a half shell, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....


Amazon Surpasses Hulu and Apple in Streaming Video Usage
by Caryn Robbins - April 08, 2014

Amazon Instant Video today announced that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage....


Alysha Umphress & Jeff Blumenkrantz to Celebrate Release of New Album at Birdland
by Tyler Peterson - December 18, 2014

Alysha Umphress, currently starring in the new Broadway revival of ON THE TOWN, and Tony Award-nominated composer and performer Jeff Blumenkrantz will celebrate their new album, I've Been Played: Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz with a concert at Birdland (315 W. 44th Street, New York, NY 10...






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