This week on Current - Slumdog under fire, Secret Tweets & Broadband for all (26/01 - 30/01)

In the past week, the critically acclaimed film "Slumdog Millionaire" has come under accusations of child exploitation.

Medianhater said: "The film’s British director, Danny Boyle, has spoken of how he set up trust funds for Rubina and Azharuddin and paid for their education. But it has emerged that the children, who played Latika and Salim in the early scenes of the film, were paid less than many Indian domestic servants."

http://current.com/items/89758544/slumdog_child_actors_underpaid_still_live_in_s...

But "Slumdog's" director and producer are defending themselves against the attacks, saying they've done nothing wrong or inappropriate. See what they had to say for themselves in our Current TV featured video above.

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An interim report on Digital Britain was published on Thursday, where the UK government revealed plans to boost the digital and communications industries. Part of their 22 point action plan includes ensuring all homes in the country have access to broadband internet by 2012.

http://current.com/items/89765842/broadband_to_be_in_every_home_by_2012.htm

Secret Tweeting. Since Stephen Fry & Jonathon Ross talking about Twitter on Ross's first show back after Sachsgate, there's been a flurry of Tweeter activity in the UK. However, we know loads of you at Current are way ahead of the trend. Now with "SecretTweet" is the latest stop on the web where the cyber-nosy can delve into the private lives of unidentified tweeters as they spill their digital guts onto their computers.

abbeym0308 asks "What is it with anonymous confessions that's so addicting? I find that reading sites like this, or PostSecret, can sometimes leave me more depressed than when I signed on. But I still go back for more, as if somehow reading others' secrets validate my own. Do you read, or participate, in sites like this?"

http://current.com/items/89761518/now_you_can_tweet_your_secrets.htm

Finally, some Friday movie news. You've all been getting excited about the announcements of two films which haven't even been made yet. The A Team and Arrested Development will be coming to our screens!

SW2 and rnaber were quick on the skinny with this as you'll see from the links below

http://current.com/items/89765337/a_team_the_movie_coming_soon.htm
http://current.com/items/89767297/arrested_development_movie_is_on.htm


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