10 Stories You Should Know: 09/14/2022

"Great British Bake Off" star reveals key part of show is faked

Here is a rundown of the stories that should be on your radar this morning:

Jason Priestley Joins Cast of Viaplay’s Biopic Series on Ice Hockey Legend Börje Salming (Variety)
Priestley portrays Gerry McNamara, the legendary Toronto Maple Leafs talent scout who discovered Salming and fellow Swede Inge Hammarström and helped launch their North American careers.

Disney Could Grab $700M From College Football Ads (Front Office Sports)
This season’s coverage should generate well over $700 million in combined ad sales from more than 350 advertisers across Disney’s linear and digital networks, sources told Front Office Sports. 

Disney has sold roughly 90% of its college football inventory for the season and signed 36 new sponsors including Vrbo, DoorDash, and Old Dominion Freight Line. 

Great British Bake Off Star Admits Key Part Of Show Is Faked (The Sun)
Amanda Georgiou - who was the sixth baker to leave last year's series after her showstopper pie fell apart in Pastry Week - says contestants are given a heads' up about what to expect each episode.

It means when the Channel 4 show shows the bakers looking surprised or worried about the task ahead - they already knew what to expect.

Amanda told  Johnny Seifert on the Secure the Insecure podcast: "We have a few weeks, I think it was about five or six weeks we got all the briefings, so we knew which week was cake week biscuit week, bread week, dessert week, German week so on.

Amazon Prime Signs Overall Deal With Nigerian ‘Gangs of Lagos’ Filmmaker Jade Osiberu (The Hollywood Reporter)
One of Nigeria’s best-known and most successful director/producers, Osiberu is behind such features as Isoken (2017) and Sugar Rush (2019) and is the creator/writer/director of Amazon’s highly-anticipated new Nigerian original movie Gangs of Lagos, which Amazon is screening at the Toronto Film Festival this year. The movie is set to launch as the first Nigerian original exclusively on Prime Video later this year.

The Crown Filming Continues After Production Was Halted Following Death Of The Queen (Daily Mirror)
Production on the sixth and final series was paused for one day after the tragic death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday (September 8).

Taking place in Barcelona, Netflix bosses halted filming for just one day when the monarch passed away – with another break planned for her funeral.

French Pay-TV Giant Buys Bigger Stake In DStv-owner MultiChoice (MyBroadband)
Seeing Canal+ buying up MultiChoice shares on the open market has caused speculation that Vivendi, through Canal+, could be looking to strike a deal with Africa’s pay-TV giant.

Vivendi is most likely eyeing MultiChoice Africa, which has around 12.8 million subscribers.

It tried to acquire MultiChoice Africa in 2017, but Naspers, MultiChoice’s parent company at the time, reportedly rejected the $1 billion offer.

Filmfest Hamburg Scraps Plan to Give Award to Ulrich Seidl (Variety)
German film festival Filmfest Hamburg has scrapped its plan to give the Douglas Sirk Prize to the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, following allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation against him and his film “Sparta.”

However, the festival has decided to continue with its plan to show “Sparta,” a statement released Tuesday by festival director Albert Wiederspiel and program director Kathrin Kohlstedde explained.

Egyptologist Rates 8 Ancient Egypt Scenes In Movies And TV (YouTube)
Egyptologist Anthony Browder rates eight ancient Egypt scenes from movies and television for realism.

Greece's Irene Papas, Who Earned Hollywood Fame, Dies At 93 (Outlook India)
Papas became known internationally following performances in “The Guns of Navarone” in 1961 and “Zorba the Greek” in 1964, acting alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn.

In all, she starred in more than 50 movies.

‘Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars’ And Shane Warne Event Drama Headed To Australia’s Nine Network (Deadline)
Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars is the latest adaptation of celeb chef and present Ramsay’s cooking competition format, which All3Media International sells globally, after the original Fox show and the UK remake on the BBC. Endemol Shine Australia and Studio Ramsay are making the show, in which Ramsay and business mogul Janine Allis will mentor and guide competing two teams, with each contestant vying for their food business idea to be invested in and taken forward.