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The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal. Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Phelps, the British writer behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, has signed up to write the second season of the BBC and Amazon’s hit drama A Very English Scandal. The Radio Times reported last year that Phelps had been approached to pen Season 2, and now the…

EXCLUSIVE: A Very English Scandal producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins is just weeks into life at his new ITV Studios production label, but he is already spinning a number of projects since leaving Sony’s Blueprint Pictures. Deadline can reveal that Treadwell-Collins has picked up a project that topped this year's Brit L…

Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the executive producer of A Very English Scandal, is setting up a drama production label with ITV Studios. Treadwell-Collins is starting up at ITV Studios after more than three years as the head of television at Blueprint Pictures. He started his new role this week and will aim to create…

Hugh Grant, the star of A Very English Scandal and Notting Hill, is to reflect on his career as an actor in a special BBC Two documentary over the Christmas period. Entertainment One-owned production company Whizz Kid Entertainment and BAFTA Productions will make the 60-minute film, Hugh Grant: A Life On Screen, which…

Ben Whishaw appeared subdued as he accepted his Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Norman Scott, the disgruntled ex-lover of Liberal Parliament Member Jeremy Thorpe, in Amazon’s A Very English Scandal. Scott turned on Thorpe and started making threats when he broke…

Up for his first Emmy nomination for playing a murderous Member of Parliament in A Very English Scandal, Hugh Grant today took a killer aim at perpetually ruffled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the move to suspend the House of Commons and slide in a no-deal Brexit. The Golden Globe winning actor who played…

It seems unlikely that, at 58, Hugh Grant is celebrating his first Emmy nomination after a career spanning more than three decades, and which started on the small screen. Indeed, after his big breakthrough in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, he became such a big star that much of his earlier, lesser-known TV work…

Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose were the big winners at the BAFTA TV Awards in London. The BBC America drama, which was created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, took home the best drama series award as well as for Jodie Comer as best actress and Fiona Shaw for best supporting actress. In the main drama category, it beat…

A Very English Scandal, the BBC and Amazon co-production, scored three gongs at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards. The Hugh Grant-fronted mini-series beat two other high-profile U.S.-backed series, Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose, which both won two awards at the behind-the-scenes awards. The event was hosted by Episodes'…

Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal are leading the line at this BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards after scoring 26 nominations between them. The BBC America drama and the BBC/Amazon co-pro have scored the most nominations for the event, which takes place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 12 May. Killing…

Bleecker Street’s Leave No Trace took home the movie prize for best adapted screenplay and Russell T Davies and author John Preston won the TV award for BBC/Amazon’s A Very English Scandal tonight at the 31st annual USC Scripter Awards. The awards honor the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who…