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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…

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…