EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has joined the cast of Netflix's first live-action original musical Jingle Jangle.
Bonneville will star alongside Forest Whitaker in the holiday film about a toymaker and a magical invention. The cast also includes Keegan-Michael Key (Key and Peele), Phylicia Rashad (A Rais…
Cherie Blair will make her first foray into film-making as she serves as executive producer on Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) drama The Rock Pile.
The barrister and wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair is taking on her first producing role on the film, which will tell the story of Time magazine correspondent…
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…
Last year, Downton Abbeyrecruited 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.
Titled A…
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…
