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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Capaldi, the former Doctor Who star, is to direct a comedy-drama pilot for Sky Studios about a mother who adopts five children. Capaldi will helm They F**k You Up, which is based on Sarah Naish's memoir But He Looks So Normal: A Bad-Tempered Parenting Guide for Adopters and Foster Par…

Former Heyday President Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction Staffs Up Former Heyday Television President Tom Winchester’s fledgling See-Saw Films-backed indie Pure Fiction Television has signed Euston Films and Urban Myths Films execs in its first major play. Euston’s Laura Klimke joins as Executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ drama Criminal Record has set the rest of its cast, with BAFTA 2022-winning Help star Cathy Tyson joining previously announced Peter Capaldi, Cush Jumbo and seven others. Tyson will play Doris Mathis, a woman relentlessly trying to clear her son Errol’s name. Alongside Capaldi and Jumbo, she is…

Apple TV+ has handed an eight-episode series order to Criminal Record, a one-hour London thriller starring Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo as detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction. The series hails from BAFTA Award nominee Paul Rutman (Vera, Indian Summers), Tod Productions and STV Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Melrose actress Jessica Raine and Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi have been cast as the leads in Amazon’s The Devil’s Hour, the latest series from Sherlock and Dracula producer Hartswood Films. From rising British writer Tom Moran, The Devil's Hour is a UK original that tells the story of Lucy…

With a filmography that includes satirical high points such as Veep, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin and The Thick of It, you might not have guessed that a Charles Dickens adaptation would be front and center for writer-director Armando Iannucci, but The Personal History of David Copperfield is an inspired choice…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Doctor Who actor and 1995 Oscar winner Peter Capaldi is boarding James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. We also hear that Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson has been in talks for a small cameo in the pic, and there’s a chance he’ll do it during breaks from SNL. That deal still is…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has preemptively acquired North American rights to The Personal History of David Copperfield, the Armando Iannucci-directed drama that makes its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, to be followed by its European premiere as the opening film of…

Peter Capaldi is to star in a Mark Gatiss-penned ghost story for the BBC. The Doctor Who star is to feature in Martin's Close, an adaptation of the M.R. James story, for BBC Four alongside Wilf Scolding, Simon Williams, Sara Crowe, Fisayo Akinade and Elliot Levey. Written by Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Gatiss, who…

A Private War star Rosamund Pike, Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi, Crazy Rich Asians' Gemma Chan and Kingsman's Taron Egerton have joined the voice cast of the BBC and Netflix's adaptation of Watership Down. It comes as the first images of the show are revealed. The quartet join the likes of James McAvoy, Daniel Kaluuya…

Yesterday’s Doctor Who Christmas special was the last episode for Peter Capaldi, who had played the 12th Time Lord since 2013 and earlier this year said he felt it was “time to move on.” The episode also marked the first (brief) appearance of Jodie Whitaker as the 13th doctor. The Broadchurch actress was cast with…

Doctor Who fans will get a double-dose of their hero for Christmas. BBC America will follow the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time, with an all-new special Doctor Who: Farewell to Peter Capaldi. The announcement was made with the release of a new Twice Upon a Time trailer. Narrated by…