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Principal photography begins in Ireland this month on Playground Entertainment’s adaptation of Little Women for BBC One and Masterpiece on PBS. As Deadline reported last month, Angela Lansbury is playing Aunt March in the three-part miniseries. Playground has now rounded out the cast with Emily Watson as Marmee, the…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Working Title may have found its Diamond Geezers. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone are in talks to play the unlikely gang of elderly London robbers who pulled off the bold Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015 in the Brit production powerhouse's upcoming caper…

ITV's upcoming legal conspiracy thriller Fearless has added Michael Gambon to star alongside Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory. Shooting on the six-part drama penned by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, is just beginning. Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing and has set further main cast…

To the pantheon of PBS projects about the Churchills, add Churchill’s Secret, which will star Michael Gambon as Sir Winston Churchill.  Lindsay Duncan co-stars as Clementine Churchill in this ITV project, based on Jonathan Smith's recently published book, The Churchill Secret: KBO. Stewart Harcourt (Love & Marriage, Tr…

If you are a fan of the Harry Potter author's 2012 grown-up novel, be prepared for something a little different in the adaptation airing April 29-30 on HBO: They’ve made some changes from the book. However, if you are a fan of seeing some top actors in near top form and watching a new talent take flight, then, as my…

The HBO Miniseries/BBC adaptation of J.K. Rowling's bestseller The Casual Vacancy is getting a two-night U.S. premiere in the spring. The premium channel has set the three-hour mini for 8 PM April 29 and 30. Rowling wrote The Casual Vacancy as her follow-up to the Harry Potter series. It is set in Pagford, a seemingly…

Sky Europe, flexing its multi-territory muscle since forming late last year, is to launch Sky Atlantic’s original drama, Fortitude, simultaneously to 20M customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. The release plan beginning January 29 is a first for a Sky original program. It will debut the same day in…

A jungle bear comes to London and perks up the lives of a local family in Paddington, a CGI/live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s books from Harry Potter producer David Heyman. Ben Winshaw voices the cuddly ursine creature who wreaks havoc while dispensing even greater amounts of cuteness. Hugh Bonneville…

Harry Potter star Michael Gambon is reuniting with the author on whose books the movies were based, J.K. Rowling. Gambon will topline the HBO/BBC three-part miniseries The Casual Vacancy, the adaptation of Rowling’s follow-up book to the Harry Potter series. Also starring in the mini are  Keeley Hawes (Line Of Duty)…

Jen Yamato is a Deadline contributor. EXCLUSIVE: Ira Sachs will direct Michael Gambon and Alfred Molina as a married couple in the NY-based relationship drama Love Is Strange. The follow-up to Sachs' semi-autobiographical drama Keep the Lights On similarly explores the romantic ups and downs of a gay relationship…

British Independent Film Awards To Honor Michael Gambon, Jude Law Sir Michael Gambon is to receive the Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards next month. The prize recognizes outstanding contribution to British film by an actor. Last year's recipient was Ralph Fiennes. Gambon's career spans six…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gambon, who is recurring on the current freshman season of HBO’s Michael Mann/David Milch drama Luck, has been upped to a regular for Season 2. Also joining the upcoming second season of the horse-racing drama is Margarita Levieva in a major recurring role. Gambon, who made his debut on Luck in…