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ESPN unveiled a new leadership team Monday as part of a restructuring of the network’s content division.

The new structure, which is designed to “improve collaboration, centralize functions, create better alignment and redeploy resources to areas of growth,” has taken input from nearly 75 company leaders at all levels, as well as organizational experts, since May.

Mike McQuade, a 37-year veteran of the network, was promoted to executive vice president of sports production, where he will be tasked with overseeing the network’s sports-specific production and studio shows. McQuade will relocate to ESPN HQ in Bristol, Connecticut.

David Roberts will transition to overseeing the sports, news and entertainment team, which will include non-sport specific studio shows like “SportsCenter,” “First Take,” “Get Up,” “The Pat McAfee Show,” “Ath” and “Pti.”

Kaitee Daley will lead a newly formed digital, social and streaming content team as the company streamlines the three teams and...

Jarvis Cocker’s Jarv Is… has released “Save the Whale,” the latest offering from the band’s upcoming debut Beyond the Pale, out July 17th via Rough Trade Records.

Cocker made the video from home while in lockdown; it features photos of the band’s performances from the last two years. “Take your foot off the gas because it’s all downhill from here,” he sings in an eerie drawl, sounding like a You Want It Darker b-side. “You are a manifestation of the universe/Your form is unimportant/But please come over here.

My friend Peter Richardson, who has died of cancer aged 51, was a graphic artist with a special talent for typography. Peter's designs were always elegant and considered, with a sensitive use of colour. His collage-based illustrations combined simple drawings, text and photographic elements. These varied design skills lent themselves well to animation, in particular the creation of TV titles and motion graphics, where Peter made his career.

He was born in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. After secondary school he started a degree in engineering at Manchester University, but then decided to transfer to an art foundation course at Bradford College, where he was encouraged by the tutors Grant Devine and Ian Taylor.

He went on to study illustration at Liverpool Polytechnic, where he developed his interest in drawing, collage, making handmade books, lino-cut printing and typography. While at Liverpool he played guitar for the Passmore Sisters, who released a number of...

The year's best musical and one of the year's finest animated films, this utterly delightful Spanish movie is an affecting, funny, historically accurate and at times pleasingly erotic story of the on-again, off-again love affair between Chico, a Cuban jazz pianist and composer, and the feisty Cuban chanteuse Rita. Chico, rather like one of the forgotten musicians in Buena Vista Social Club, looks back 60 years from the dilapidated Havana of 2008 to the frantic, swinging pre-revolutionary city of 1948, where he meets the gorgeous Rita. A gig with the visiting Woody Herman band sets the pair on a romantic and musical journey that takes them to New York, Las Vegas and Hollywood, through the postwar history of swing, bebop and Latin American music. Brushes with the mafia, the Us colour bar and the Cuban revolution lead to personal tragedies. The graphic stylisation, with its blocks of colour and hard black outlines, is elegant,...