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Streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video and Paramount+ are “perplexed” by government threats to the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters (PSB), according to Sherwood scribe James Graham. Graham, one of Britain’s foremost TV and theater writers, flagged the example of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who broke…

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) won the best actress prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her West End debut performance playing a criminal barrister specialising in defending rapists — who is then sexually assaulted herself. Comer won critical and public acclaim for the solo role in Prim…

The BBC has greenlit a second season of Sherwood from Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz creator James Graham, immediately after the conclusion of the first. The first run of the whodunnit thriller ended on BBC One in the past few minutes and the network has committed, after millions of viewers tuned in each week to the…

The BBC's brand new six-part drama Sherwood, starring David Morrissey and Lesley Manville, premieres this week on Monday June 13. Dramatist James Graham, who wrote the award-winning Quiz and Brexit: The Uncivil War turns his pen to his hometown of Sutton-in-Ashfield near Nottingham's former coal mines, a place scarred…

The British TV industry is "losing the arguments around Public Service Broadcasting and hasn't yet found the words to make an effective case," according to Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz creator James Graham. Graham, who is also behind BBC1's upcoming drama Sherwood, said a "new case" needs to be forged to keep…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham, the writer behind Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz, is returning to his Nottingham roots for a BBC One crime thriller that he is making with House Productions. The writer is penning six-part series Sherwood, a fictionalized drama based on real-life events, set in the Nottinghamshire mining…

When you watch Quiz, the ITV and AMC drama on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal of 2001, you realize that is just such obviously fertile territory for television drama. A story about a million-pound heist, which played out on one of the biggest quiz shows ever made, featuring characters from everyday…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham is among a set of British writers enjoying something of a moment. Fresh from making waves with his Benedict Cumberbatch drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, he wrote a standout episode on Prince Charles for Season 3 of The Crown. He is currently on the publicity trail for his AMC/ITV drama Quiz…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s HBO movie Brexit, which is based on the 2016 UK referendum (and you know how that’s turning out).  "We want to return to a time when we knew our place, when things made sense, fictional or not," Benedict Cumberbatch says provocatively in Brexit, capturing both…

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the Broadway premiere next April of the West End hit Ink, a play about Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of UK tabloid The Sun. Ink was written by James Graham, an Olivier Award winner whose credits include Labour of Love and Finding Neverland. The production is directed by Rupert…

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Ingram, a former British army major, caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The incident has been turned into a stage play, Quiz, by rising British writer James Graham and is now set to make…

EXCLUSIVE: At a time when surveillance cameras and drones make the Big Brother concept more plausible than ever, Sony Pictures is setting up a new version of George Orwell’s dystopian classic novel 1984. Paul Greengrass is attached to direct, and Scott Rudin is producing with Gina Rosenblum. They’ve set as their…