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ITV and AMC have dropped a first look at Michael Sheen as TV host Chris Tarrant in their dramatization of the cheating scandal on Britain’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The still from Left Bank Pictures-produced Quiz re-creates the moment Tarrant, who hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 16 years on ITV, arrived…

Prodigal Son is the chosen one, or at least first out of the gate. Two weeks into the Fall TV season, the Michael Sheen and Tom Payne-led serial killer family drama, which was the No.1 new program of Premiere Week in adults 18-49 (Live+Same Day, Live+3), has received the first full-season pickup of the new Fall TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, The Good Fight's Michael Sheen and Fleabag's Sian Clifford are to star in Quiz, a drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal, for AMC and ITV. The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An…

Prodigal Son isn’t your basic procedural. The Fox show, which is very much a father-son story with a serial-killer twist, brings family dysfunction to a whole new level. During the TCA panel for the new series, executive producers Sam Sklaver, Chris Fedak and Sarah Schechter were joined onstage by series stars Tom Payn…

In Neil Gaiman’s new Amazon series Good Omens the end of the world is fast approaching and the forces of good and evil  set out to find the Anti-Christ to stop Armageddon from happening. Good comes in the form of the charming angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the snide demon Crowley (David Tennant). The unlikely…

Former Masters of Sex star Michael Sheen is taking a dark turn with a lead role in Prodigal Son, Fox's police drama pilot from Deception creator Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros TV. Written by Feder and Sklaver and directed by Lee Toland Krieger, Prodigal Son is described as a fresh…

Amazon Prime Video is bringing the end of the world to SXSW and I feel fine. Neil Gaiman’s forthcoming limited series Good Omens is ready to celebrate the apocalypse at the Austin-based confab with multiple events starting March 8, the opening weekend of the fest. Based on the novel, Good Omens is set to debut on the…

The very busy Neil Gaiman came to TCA – again – to charm TV critics, explaining his utter delight in casting Welsh and Scottish actors Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the two extremely English starring roles of Amazon’s Good Omens. Sheen plays stoic and sensible angel Aziraphale, and Tennant is suave man-about-town…

The upcoming season of The Good Fight tackled the raging storm that is Donald Trump America, creators told TV critics at TCA. “This season is about finding out what the storm is…how the guard rails are coming off our institutions now” and “what does the resistance look like,” Robert King explained. In November, Masters…

Good Omens co-author Neil Gaiman is a Comic-Con deity and today at the San Diego confab he revealed that Frances McDormand will perform the self-described "voice of God" in the six-part Amazon adaptation. Coming on the speakers of Ballroom 20 to tell Gaiman he shouldn’t show any footage from the series and that he…

Jeff Goldblum has been cast in Price of Admission, the dramedy/thriller that will star Michael Sheen and Michelle Monaghan. Peter Glanz is directing the pic, which centers on a middling playwright (Sheen) amidst a mid-life crisis and failing marriage. His wife (Monaghan) is tired of being second fiddle to his work…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with additional castings: Outlander's Sam Heughan is set to join Vin Diesel in Bloodshot for Sony Pictures. The pic, which marks Diesel’s first starring superhero film, starts production in July with Dave Wilson directing and Neal H. Moritz producing. The film is casting up quickly, with Eiza…