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The Queen's Gambit was one of 2020's most talked about series, earning huge streaming numbers and rave reviews. And now the Netflix chess drama is heading to Broadway, courtesy of production company Level Forward. Level Forward has obtained the rights to the Walter Tevis novel the awards-winning show was based on and is now developing a musical adaptation of the Anya Taylor-Joy-fronted limited series. Music to my ears: The Queen's Gambit is being adapted into a musical by Level Forward production company, which just acquired the rights to the book the series is based off of The company has a history on hits on stage, previously working on Alanis Morrissette's musical Jagged Little Pill and Jeremy O'Harris' critically-acclaimed Slave Play. The Queen's Gambit can surely bank on a built-in audience, boasting the title of Netflix's most watched limited series in November 2020. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Producers Guild Awards … [Read more...] about The Queen’s Gambit is being adapted into a musical… as Netflix hit continues to dominate during awards season

Some 5,000 jobs in the steel industry are in the balance after Greensill Capital, one of the UK's largest speciality finance companies, went into administration today. Greensill, whose advisers include the former prime minister David Cameron, is a major provider of finance to Liberty Steel - the UK's third largest steel company. Liberty, which is part of the GFG Alliance controlled by the so-called 'Saviour of Steel' Sanjeev Gupta, employs 3,000 people directly at 11 sites including Rotherham and Stocksbridge in south Yorkshire, Newport in south Wales and Hartlepool. It also supports at least 2,000 more jobs in the supply chain. The site at Stocksbridge, where 762 people are employed, is said to be under the most immediate threat. Advertisement At a court hearing today, to pave the way for Greensill Capital's administration, lawyers for the stricken company revealed that Greensill had an estimated $5bn worth of exposure to Mr Gupta's GFG Alliance … [Read more...] about Collapse of finance company Greensill Capital leaves thousands of steel jobs in the balance

THEIR hotly anticipated comeback had been almost a decade in the making when JLS finally told me last February they were hitting the road for a greatest hits reunion tour. But with the world on hold just a month later, the four-piece were forced to postpone their plans. Fortunately for fans, I can today reveal the band have put their time to good use anyway — signing a new deal with record giant BMG which will see them release new music this year to ­coincide with the ­rescheduled tour. And in a Covid-friendly Bizarre special via Zoom, the lads told me how they have already begun recording the record and are hoping to team up with a string of top writers, performers and producers including Ed Sheeran to get it finished. Marvin Humes told me: “We were absolutely devastated. We were riding such a massive high this time last year when we announced the comeback, and we did a couple of performances. “We were on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and that was the last … [Read more...] about JLS set to reunite for first time in a decade as they sign new record deal

It is a £7.25bn FTSE 100 giant that touches the lives of 14 million customers. So it is remarkable, in many ways, that the life company Phoenix Group is not better known among the general public. That may be about to change and for a couple of reasons. Firstly, following the completion of last year's £3.2bn acquisition of ReAssure, the UK arm of Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re, Phoenix is now the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. Secondly, while the company has traditionally focused on its so-called "heritage" business - managing life policies that are no longer being actively marketed to customers - it is increasingly focusing on so-called "open" policies to new customers, as shown by last month's £60m acquisition of the Standard Life brand . Advertisement It means Phoenix now owns the entire life and pensions business of Standard Life whose previous owner, Standard Life Aberdeen, has reshaped itself as a pure fund management business. … [Read more...] about Changes in assumptions about how long people live help Phoenix profits soar