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Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) are leading the cast of Sky Original Movie Last Train To Christmas, which is being written and directed by Julian Kemp. Produced by Sky, Matt Williams for Future Artists Entertainment and Matthew James Wilkinson for Stigma Films, the title will…

Michael Sheen and David Tennant are returning for a second season of fantasy drama Good Omens. Amazon has ordered a six-episode Season 2 of the drama adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. In what originally was meant to be a limited…

Fox has opted not to renew drama Prodigal Son for a third season. It is unclear yet whether leading studio Warner Bros TV would be shopping the series elsewhere. Sibling streamer HBO Max, which has previous seasons of Prodigal Son, would be a logical destination for the serialized serial killer drama. Sophomore Prodiga…

Prodigal Son star Michael Sheen has revealed that he’s recovering from Covid. Sheen shared the news Monday on Twitter, saying he’d been battling the virus for the last few weeks. “It's been very difficult & quite scary,” he wrote. He also gave an International Women's Day shout-out to "all the incredible women" in his…

Michael Sheen, the Golden Globe-nominated star of The Queen and Masters Of Sex, has returned an honor from Queen Elizabeth II so he could disclose his views on the British monarchy without being branded a hypocrite. Speaking in a YouTube interview with Guardian columnist Owen Jones, the Welsh actor said he handed back…

The BBC has commissioned a second season of Staged, the lockdown comedy starring Good Omens actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen that secured pick-up from Hulu in the U.S. The first season of the Infinity Hill, GCB Films and No Mystery-produced show featured Tennant and Sheen mounting Zoom rehearsals for their…

EXCLUSIVE: Staged, the Michael Sheen and David Tennant-starring lockdown comedy that has been a breakout hit after broadcasting on BBC One in the UK, has landed a U.S. streaming deal with Hulu. Rainmaker Content, the recently launched international distributor specializing in drama, factual and special event…

Staged, the lockdown comedy series written and directed by Simon Evans which debuts on BBC One on Wednesday, has been boarded by the newly-launched Rainmaker Content for international distribution. David Tennant and Michael Sheen lead the cast of the six-episode show, which chronicles the cast of a play as they try to…

Good Omens stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen have signed up for a BBC lockdown comedy in which they will play the cast of a furloughed West End theatre production during the coronavirus pandemic. From Infinity Hill and GCB Films, Staged follows the cast as they try to keep rehearsals on track during lockdown, with…

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…