Nine Network 
Southern Cross Broadcasting 
It may be more than 15 years since “Love Actually” was released, but Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and Richard Curtis have finally opened up about one of the film's defining moments even as the movie made surprise election-related headlines in the U.K. this week.Grant, Firth and Curtis all feature in the career retrospective “Hugh Grant: A Life on Screen,” which is part of the BBC’s Christmas programming schedule. In a clip shared exclusively with Variety, Grant describes his famous prime...
Nine Network
Hugh
Marks
CEO
Australia’s broadcast TV sector is being squeezed on all sides: declining advertising, rising rights costs, encroaching regulations and especially competition from international streamers. The remedy foreseen by free-to-air broadcaster Nine was to acquire venerable publishing group Fairfax, a $3 billion deal in 2018 that caused outrage among those concerned for media pluralism in Australia and Nine’s commercial instincts. But with a style that’s far from the traditional image of Australia’s brash media tycoons, the unassuming, lawyerly Marks, with a reputation for being fair-minded, good at delegating and extremely sharp, is an effective peace broker and potentially an image rebuilder. He has already proved smart at making the most of Stan, Australia’s own streamer, which became wholly owned through the deal.
