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EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes and Sir Ranulph Fiennes are teaming up to journey down the Nile in a three-part documentary series for Nat Geo. The Handmaid's Tale and Shakespeare in Love star is teaming with the explorer, who is his cousin, in Fiennes: Return to the Nile. The pair will journey down the river in Egypt to…

The red carpet at this year’s Emmys wasn’t filled with Time’s Up pins, ribbons, or other accessories that supported a cause — but that doesn’t mean issues affecting Hollywood weren’t present on the minds of those walking into the Primetime Emmys. Black-ish star Jennifer Lewis took the carpet in glamorous athleisure…

Over the past two seasons of Hulu's dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, first-time Emmy nominee Joseph Fiennes has had the thankless job of portraying the closest thing to an archetypal villain—a man who commits endless crimes against women—at a politically charged moment when society is up in arms against just such…

The second season of The Handmaid’s Tale has just garnered nine Emmy nominations for its unapologetically raw, close-to-home take on topics like female submission and family separation. Among them is  Best Drama Series, a category it won last year. And with its Season 2 finale this week ending in a shock decision by…

In Hulu’s new series The Handmaid’s Tale—based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name—Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski portray members of a “scary theocracy,” bordering too closely on the world we live in today. In the dystopian near-future reality the series presents, the United States comes under the rule…

Deadline is holding its Tribeca Film Festival portrait and video interview studio at the festival hub in NYC, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Guests stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 3 included Andie MacDowell (Love After Love), Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale), El…

“My name is Offred and I intend to survive.” We’re getting the first look at Elisabeth Moss as Offred in the anticipated The Handmaid's Tale, based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling novel. Hulu just dropped the 30-second teaser that will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The Handmaid’s Tale, produced by MGM…

Following a backlash from Michael Jackson’s family, Sky has decided not to air the episode of its upcoming comedy series ‘Urban Myths,’ which contains controversial footage starring Joseph Fiennes as the late pop star. In a statement, a company spokesperson said: "We have taken the decision not to broadcast…

Joseph Fiennes is barely recognizable – as himself, anyway – in full Michael Jackson drag in this first trailer for Urban Myths, Sky Arts’ upcoming (and, judging by this clip, pretty hilarious) eight-episode comedy series based on bizarre celebrity tall tales. Debuting January 19 in the U.K., Urban Myths offers such…

The Handmaid’s Tale is especially relevant to the politics of this country now, EP/writer Bruce Miller told TV critics during a panel on the new Hulu series at TCA. The drama series, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what formerly was part of…

American Horror Story‘s Joseph Fiennes has been cast as the male lead opposite Elisabeth Moss in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the upcoming straight-to-series drama based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. Production on the 10-episode project from MGM TV is slated to start in the fall in Toronto ahead of a 2017…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: So Joseph Fiennes is playing Michael Jackson. While the Internet was justifiably pouncing on the news, I recalled a piece that…