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All Creatures Great and Small has found its new Mrs. Pumphrey following the death of Diana Rigg last September. Miranda and A Very English Scandal actress Patricia Hodge will step into the role for Season 2 of Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece’s period drama, adapted from bestselling author James Herriot's cherished…

Dame Diana Rigg, who is best known for playing Emma Peel on TV's The Avengers, died this week at the age of 82. Rigg will be forever identified with the ’60s cool of that role and her turn opposite James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. But her career spanned 50 years and included challenges as diverse as as…

George Lazenby, whose sole turn as James Bond in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was blessed with the casting of costar Diana Rigg, dispelled those ancient tales of an on-set feud today, writing, ” Much was made of our supposed differences but that was the Press looking for a news story.” Rigg, who died this mor…

Refresh for updates Diana Rigg is being remembered today by co-workers and colleagues as a “blazingly talented” actress who conquered television, film and the stage. Game of Thrones costars including Nikolaj Coster-Waldau paid tribute. The Game of Thrones and The Avengers actress died Thursday at age 82. “Dame Diana…

English actress Diana Rigg has died at the age of 82, her representatives have confirmed. A celebrated and award-winning performer on stage and screen, Rigg was known for her TV roles in The Avengers and Game Of Thrones, and in film as Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Her theater work included a 1992…

Sally Hawkins (Paddington), Rob Brydon (Gavin & Stacey) and Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones) are lending their voices to BBC One and ZDF Christmas special The Snail And The Whale. UK production outfit Magic Light Pictures is behind the well-sold book adaptation about the epic journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the…

EXCLUSIVE: Alessandro Nivola and Gemma Arterton head a killer cast for a three-part adaptation of the 1939 classic Rumer Godden literary novel Black Narcissus, a tale of sexual repression and forbidden love. BAFTA-winning writer Amanda Coe (The Trial of Christine Keeler, Apple Tree Yard) wrote the three hourlong…

It’s been called the perfect musical, and if it’s not first on most lists of best Broadway shows, it certainly ranks in the top five: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady is returning to Broadway in the spring, staged by Bartlett Sher (a Tony winner for South Pacific and nominee for The King and I) with…

Diana Rigg, who recently played the shrewd matriarch of the Tyrell family on HBO’s Game of Thrones, has joined the cast of Masterpiece on PBS’ Victoria opposite Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes. Filming is underway on Season 2 of the period drama; the Season 1 finale airs Sunday on PBS. Rigg, an Emmy, Tony and BAFTA…

Doctor Who is coming out West, to Ancient Egypt and taking dinosaurs to space it was revealed at Comic-Con today. The British series (seen here on BBC America) has a Western episode coming this season. Today’s panel showed a brief preview of that as well as longer clip with a Cleopatra character and dinosaurs from…

Game Of Thrones will be back for its third season on March 31, 2013, it was announced today at Comic-Con. Also announced was that Diana Rigg has officially joined the HBO fantasy drama. Rigg, the star of 1960 TV spy series The Avengers, will play Olenna Redwyne the Queen of the Thorns and is one of several actors to…