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The BBC has dusted off British playwright Alan Bennett’s famous series of Talking Heads monologues and is remaking them for the coronavirus age with a head-turning cast. Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer, Sherlock‘s Martin Freeman and the soon-to-be star of The Crown Imelda Staunton are among those attached to the…

The Crown is set to end with its fifth season with Imelda Staunton taking on the role of Queen Elizabeth. The surprise news comes just after the premiere of season three of Netflix’s royal drama and ahead of season four of the Left Bank-produced series. Staunton has been rumored to take on the role of Queen Elizabeth…

Apple has officially unveiled Trying, its first British scripted original, a relationship comedy starring Harry Potter's Imelda Staunton and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's Rafe Spall. The SVOD service is set to globally premiere the eight-part series on Friday May 1. The half-hour comedy has been rumored in the UK…

Updated with source confirmation: Imelda Staunton is in talks to replace Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II in seasons 5 and 6 of critically praised Netflix drama The Crown, a source has told Deadline. Netflix has refused to confirm reports about the casting, but it is understood that Staunton is in discussions with L…

After a summer full of comic book superhero movies, dumb comedies and action flicks, silly time is over and it is time for adults to return to the theaters. And that they no doubt will do this weekend for Downton Abbey, the big-screen version of the smash British TV series that ran six seasons from 2010-15. Like so…

The Girl and Vera Drake star Imelda Staunton, Cranford star Francesca Annis, Quantico and Years and Years star Russell Tovey and The Crying Game and The Honourable Woman star Stephen Rea are to front ITV family drama Flesh and Blood. The series is written by The Long Song writer Sarah Williams, who also wrote 2007…

EXCLUSIVE: Here are first look images of Golden Globe-nominated actress Romola Garai’s (The Hour) directorial debut Outside, starring Carla Juri (Blade Runner 2049), Alec Secareanu (God's Own Country) and Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake). Garai has also scripted. AMP International is continuing sales on…

Martin Freeman is a busy man; a day after revealing he is making a parenting comedy for FX and Sky, the Sherlock star is making a six-part drama for UK's ITV. Studiocanal's Urban Myth Films will produce A Confession, along with ITV Studios, with Imelda Staunton also starring. Written by Jeff Pope, the series tells the…

The movie based on the British TV hit Downton Abbey is nearing its production start, after Deadline broke the story in July that Focus Features was moving forward on a long-in-the-works feature film reuniting the main cast of the most nominated non-U.S. TV series in the history of the Emmys. Focus and producer…

In an open letter, the filmmakers and cast behind 2014 LGBT-themed comedy-drama Pride have said they “deplore” a recent ban on the movie in Turkey, which is cracking down on LGBT events. According to Reuters, authorities in the Turkish capital Ankara last week banned a screening of the BAFTA-winning film citing risks…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hour and Suffragette actress Romola Garai is to make her feature directorial debut on upcoming horror Outside, I can reveal. Carla Juri (Blade Runner 2049), Alec Secareanu (God's Own Country) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) will lead cast in the movie, which is scheduled to go into production this…

A feel-good British comedy in the vein of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the new film Finding Your Feet finds its own feet by presenting light and engaging fare employing veteran English actors in ways we rarely get to see them on the big screen. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), in these…