EXCLUSIVE: Absolutely Fabulous and Paddington actress Joanna Lumley is to feature in a truncated third season of Motherland, the BBC comedy co-created by Emmy-nominated Catastrophe star Sharon Horgan.
Lumley’s role is being kept under wraps, but she is likely to be a popular addition to the Merman and Twofour, which…
EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd Films has scored UK distribution and other key deals for TIFF Selects title Falling For Figaro, from director Ben Lewin (The Sessions) and starring Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) and Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$).
Entertainment Film Distributors has picked up the romantic comedy for the UK…
EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first image from Falling For Figaro, Ben Lewin's (The Sessions) upcoming romantic comedy set in the world of opera starring Joanna Lumley and Danielle Macdonald.
Deadline broke the news on the pic back in October. Macdonald will play a young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job…
Joanna Lumley, the star of Absolutely Fabulous and Paddington 2, is among a number of British actors to join the cast of ITV’s black comedy Finding Alice.
Made by Happy Valley producer Red Production Company, the six-part season was co-created by Line Of Duty star Keeley Hawes, who has previously been announced in the…
Graham Norton is to replace Joanna Lumley as the host of the BAFTA Film Awards next year.
Norton, who is best known for hosting BBC One talk show The Graham Norton Show, will preside over the event at the Royal Albert Hall on February 2, 2020.
It will mark his debut hosting the Film Awards, but he has a long…
Joanna Lumley, the Paddington 2 actress and BAFTA Film Awards host, is to embark on her latest adventure for ITV — this time seeking to get under the skin of the Caribbean.
ITV has commissioned Burning Bright Productions to make two-part Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana To Haiti, in which she will aim to…
Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards are being unveiled at BAFTA's London headquarters this morning. The announcement begins at 7:30 AM UK time. BAFTA Chair Dame Pippa Harris will be joined by Will Poulter and Hayley Squires to read off the list of this year's contenders. The BAFTA ceremony will be held…
We don’t have the nominees yet, but we do have a host. Ab Fab veteran Joanna Lumley has been set to front the EE British Academy Film Awards for the second year running. The actress, author and activist last year replaced longtime emcee Stephen Fry. The BAFTA Film Awards ceremony takes place on February 10 and will…
It's a big day for awards nominations… but before we get to the Emmy noms, The Crown, Peaky Blindersand The Handmaid's Tale are going head-to-head against German series Babylon Berlin in the Rose D'Or awards.
The four shows have been nominated for the European television awards, which cover a broad range of scripted…
A feel-good British comedy in the vein of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the new film Finding Your Feetfinds 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…
Ab Fab veteran Joanna Lumley has been set as the host of this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, following the departure of Stephen Fry who said last week that he was stepping down after fronting the ceremony 12 times. The announcement was made at this morning’s unveiling of nominations for Britain’s biggest movie prizes, with…
Ab Fab star Joanna Lumley has been set to receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards which will be held May 14 in London. This is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games…