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At the INTV conference in Jerusalem last week, Deadline’s Peter White got the scoop that Claire Foy, star of Netflix’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning The Crown, had been paid less than her co-star in the first two seasons, Matt Smith. Producers were responding to a question regarding gender pay equality during the…

The producers of The Crown, Netflix's Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, sat down with Deadline's Peter White today in Jerusalem for a chat about the drama's success and what's to come. They also confirmed that “going forward, it’s really important for the Queen to be…

Ahead of its global launch on December 8, Netflix’s award winning period drama The Crown has bestowed upon us the first full trailer for the next step inside the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The story this time begins with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt, and ends with the…

Season 2 of Netflix’s heavily Emmy-nominated period drama, The Crown, has been set for a December 8 global release. The streaming service has also unveiled a first-look teaser for the next step inside the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The story this time begins with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith, best known for playing Doctor Who in that iconic BBC series, is taking on another larger-than-life figure. He has landed the lead role as avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic titled Mapplethorpe in the works from writer-director Ondi Timoner, the two-time Sundance-winning…

John Lithgow has been cast as Sir Winston Churchill in Netflix original series The Crown, and Claire Foy and Matt  Smith have been confirmed as Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, respectively, in Peter Morgan’s decades-spanning story of Queen Elizabeth II and Britain’s post-war Prime…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith will star in Screen Gems' Patient Zero opposite Natalie Dormer. Stefan Ruzowitzky is directing the Mike Le-scripted action thriller and Vincent Newman is producing. In Patient Zero, an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has resulted in the evolution of a new species driven…

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It's the end of an era as one Time Lord becomes another but yet stays the same. BBC America today released a full trailer for the Time Of The Doctor special set to run on Christmas Day. After over three years as Doctor Who, the special will mark the last appearance of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor is regenerated into P…

A musical adaptation of American Psycho is tuning up for a December launch in London’s West End. Almeida Theatre Artistic Director, Rupert Goold, will direct the take that has a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark, Glee) and music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik (Girls, Glee). Now in his last year…

Peter Capaldi is the Twelfth Doctor Who. The identity of who will next play the Time Lord on the next season of the BBC sci-fi series was announced today simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor aired at 11 AM PT on BBC America and 7 PM in the UK on BBC One. The actor will make…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TCA coverage. Fresh from a raucous, standing-room-only appearance at Comic-Con, the producers and stars of the BBC America series Doctor Who hit Beverly Hills and TCA this morning to promote the forthcoming mega-hyped 50th anniversary special coming November 23. There is a…