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EXCLUSIVE: Olga Kurylenko (Black Widow), Jenny Seagrove (Another Mother’s Son), Anna Friel (Marcella) and Ben Miles (The Crown) have wrapped production on the under-the-radar psychological thriller My Sister’s Bones, whose first-look images we can reveal today. Bill Kenwright’s BKStudios is behind…

Susan Sarandon admits that that she knew nothing about country music before beginning work on Monarch, Fox’s upcoming sudser that the producers describe as “Empire meets Succession.” Sarandon plays Dottie Cantrell Roman, the matriarch of the first family of country music. She’s married to Albie, who is played by Trace…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired global distribution rights to the upcoming supernatural-psychological thriller series The Box, starring Anna Friel, from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak and Nordic Entertainment Group. The deal excludes the Nordics, Baltics and Poland, where The Box will premiere on NENT Group's streaming…

Susan Sarandon and Anna Friel are set to star in Fox's straight-to-series country music dynasty drama Monarch, produced by Fox Entertainment. Created by Melissa London Hilfers, Monarch is described as a Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America's first family of country music, the Romans. The Romans…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American distribution rights to Charming the Hearts of Men, an indie dramedy written and directed by S.E. DeRose. Kelsey Grammer, Anna Friel, Sean Astin, Aml Ameen and Dianne Ladd star in the pic, which will get a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release August 13…

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Friel, star of Netflix/ITV crime drama Marcella, is to front a television adaption of Karen Hamilton's novel The Perfect Girlfriend. The drama will be produced by Pulse Films, the Vice-owned company behind Sky/AMC drama Gangs of London, and co-produced by Friel's new production company Wonder Well…

EXCLUSIVE: Adi Hasak, creator of NBC series Shades Of Blue and USA Network thriller Eyewitness, is teaming up with Nordic Entertainment Group on supernatural anthology series The Box, which will star Emmy-winner Anna Friel (Marcella). The English-language series was green-lit off Hasak's series bible. Plot details are…

English actress Anna Friel is set to co-star opposite Kelsey Grammer in Charming the Hearts of Men, a romance set in the 1960's politically charged era. Susan DeRose wrote the script and is directing the film, which inspired by true events that altered the world for women in America and deals with the discrimination…

Marcella's Anna Friel, Little Boy Blue's Sinead Keenan and Howards End's Rosalind Eleazar are to star in ITV drama Deep Water. The trio are fronting the six-part series, which is an adaptation of Paula Daly's Windermere novels, which begins filming in the Cumbrian countryside this week. The series is a female-led…

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has set its nominees for the 2017 International Emmy Awards. Represented are 18 countries with notably strong showings for programming out of Japan and Brazil. The latter’s Justiça, a miniseries from TV Globo, scored double nominations for Drama Series and lead…

BBC Two has ordered Dave Allen At Peace, a dramatization of the life and career of the Irishman who was once considered Britain’s most controversial comedian. Game Of Thrones and Peaky Blinders‘ Aidan Gillen is set to star. The biopic of the Dublin-born Allen will be produced by Darlow Smithson Productions and written…

Netflix has acquired exclusive worldwide streaming rights to crime series Marcella from Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the original Swedish/Danish co-production The Bridge (Bron). The eight-part drama, sold by Cineflix Rights, premieres tonight on ITV in the UK and will be available globally, outside the UK and Ireland…