EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is trying out to become the next Sir David Attenborough after being signed up to narrate a major British wildlife series.

The actor, who most recently starred in Paddington 2, is to voice Wild Britain, an eight-part documentary series for Viacom's Channel 5. The show is…

CBS has completed its purchase of Australian broadcaster Network Ten, acquiring the main free-to-air channel as well as digital spin-offs One and Eleven and streaming service Tenplay. This comes after an ownership saga that lasted months, which saw a bidding war between CBS and News Corp executive co-chairman Lachlan…

Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to play Oscar winner Patricia Neal alongside Hugh Bonneville as children’s novelist Roald Dahl in John Hay’s Untitled Roald Dahl & Patricia Neal project. Goldcrest Films is financing, co-producing and handling worldwide sales, introducing the pic to buyers at the AFM. Principal photography…

Hugh Bonneville, Hope Davis and Alan Ritchson are attached to star in The Rock Pile for London-based banner Joejack Entertainment.

Directed by John Deery and written by David McBrayer, the film tells the story of British journalist Bob Hastings, a Time Magazine war correspondent who, after following traumatic events bo…

Pathé has dropped the first trailer and poster for Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House, which stars Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson and is based on the final months of British rule in India. They’ve set a March 3, 2017, UK release date.

Bonneville stars as Lord Mountbatten and Anderson as his wife, Lady Mountbatten…

Last year, Downton Abbey recruited George Clooney for a short to help promote ITV's annual Text Santa fundraiser (something Hugh Bonneville recalls fondly in the cheeky video above). In this year’s special short, Lord Grantham, Lady Edith and Isobel search for someone to play the Abbey’s new Santa. They are treated to…

Dan Fogelman is keeping the self-deprecating tone of his medieval musical comedy series Galavant intact in a big-scale opening number penned by the series’ songwriting duo of Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. It’s one of 32 new songs they have written for the 10-episode second season, which kicks off on January 3.

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Hugh Bonneville, Eric Stonestreet, Bonnie Hunt, Cary Elwes, Dean Norris and Ruth Connell have been summoned to Sofia The First‘s court to lend their voices to a special story arc that is set to debut October 12 on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. Hunt and Stonetreet will reprise their roles as Aunt Tilly and Sofia’s…

With Downton Abbey in the middle of filming its final run of episodes, the creators and some of the stars traveled to Los Angeles over the weekend to attend a panel discussion that gave fans a short glimpse of the upcoming sixth season, and a chance to discuss the show’s recent season. Held at the Writer’s Guid…

British broadcaster ITV held its annual Text Santa fundraiser on Friday night bringing in £5.5M to benefit UK charities. The star-studded show featured messages from Ben Stiller, Ricky Gervais and Rebel Wilson; musical performances; and taped appearances by Simon Cowell and Carey Mulligan. But the pièce de résistance…

The British Board of Film Classification has taken the curious step of giving Paddington, the Studiocanal family movie about the polite bear from deepest darkest Peru, a PG rating. The Parental Guidance certificate has surprised many in the UK, especially as it originally came with a warning of “dangerous behavior…

A jungle bear comes to London and perks up the lives of a local family in Paddington, a CGI/live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s books from Harry Potter producer David Heyman. Ben Winshaw voices the cuddly ursine creature who wreaks havoc while dispensing even greater amounts of cuteness. Hugh Bonneville…