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Peaky Blinders'Helen McCrory is to play the British Prime Minister alongside Hugh Laurie in British drama Roadkill as PBS Masterpiece boards the four-part BBC series.
McCrory will be joined by Westworld's Sidse Babett Knudsen and Dublin Murders' Sarah Greene in the series, which is written by Collaterel's David Hare…
ITV and AMC have dropped a first look at Michael Sheen as TV host Chris Tarrant in their dramatization of the cheating scandal on Britain’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
The still from Left Bank Pictures-produced Quiz re-creates the moment Tarrant, who hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 16 years on ITV, arrived…
Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory, Poirot's David Suchet and U.S. comedian Cristela Alonzo are lending their voices to HBO and BBC drama His Dark Materials.
The trio are among those to sign up as voice actors for the the Philip Pullman adaptation, written by Jack Thorne and produced by Bad Wolf.
The first season of His Dar…
Ending a nearly two-year wait, the BBC has set the UK launch date for Season 5 of period crime saga Peaky Blinders. Episode one of the gangster epic will air Sunday August 25 at 9PM on BBC One as the series moves from its previous home on BBC Two. The shift to BBC One comes after Peaky won its first BAFTA for Best Dram…
BBC Two has dropped the first images for MotherFatherSon, the upcoming eight-part series that marks Richard Gere’s first major TV drama role. Created by Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story), MotherFatherSon also stars Peaky Blinders‘ Helen McCrory and On Chesil Beach‘s Billy Howle…
Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory has been set as the lead in ITV’s six-part contemporary drama, Fearless. Witten and exec produced by Homeland‘s Patrick Harbinson, it’s billed as a legal thriller that’s “set in the crash zone where law and politics collide." Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing for ITV…
In a discussion with journalists today at TCA, Showtime President David Nevins said he would like to keep “Penny Dreadful going as long as possible.” While a renewal order hasn’t been given, executive producer John Logan already has begun breaking story on a third season. The second season returns Sunday, April…
Broadway icon Patti LuPone will come aboard as a guest star for Season 2 of Showtime’s drama Penny Dreadful, which kicks off production this month in Dublin on 10 epiosdes to premiere next year. Meanwhile, Helen McCrory, who plays spiritualist Madame Kali, and Simon Russell Beale, who plays Egyptologist Ferdinand…
