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After a strong showing at the Golden Globes earlier this year, The Crown will be hoping for similar success at the Emmys in September. Netflix’s cultural phenomenon all starts with the words of Peter Morgan, who has penned every single episode of the royal saga. Below is his script for the Season 4 finale of The…

The Crown is having another royal evening – winning best drama series for the second time. The Netflix series won best drama series in 2017 and has triumphed again, albeit with a new cast. The drama beat Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Ozark and Ratched to win the top TV drama prize. Creator Peter Morgan had a…

Emma Corrin was not only thrilled by the six Golden Globe nominations for The Crown announced on Wednesday, including her own for playing Princess Diana, but said she’s also excited to see what Kristen Stewart with do with that same Royal role in Pablo Larrain’s new film, Spencer, and how Elizabeth Debicki will pick…

Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Princess Margaret in The Crown, has weighed in on the debate surrounding the Netflix show's dramatic interpretation of real-life events involving the British Royal Family. Speaking on the show's official podcast, Bonham Carter said she thought the series had a "moral responsibility" to…

Peter Morgan has changed his mind on bringing the curtain down on The Crown after five seasons, meaning that the Netflix show will now run for six seasons. Creator Morgan said: “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the…

When it first premiered in 2016, Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown was an instant smash. Aiming to tell the epic story of Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking spell as Britain's longest-serving monarch, starting with her marriage in 1947 and seeing her reign through to the earliest 20th Century, it caught the…

Netflix has launched a companion podcast for The Crown with creator Peter Morgan helping a deep dive into the royal drama. The digital platform has launched The Crown: The Official Podcast, a day after the third season of the Left Bank Pictures-produced drama began streaming. It is the latest scripted series to score…

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux, the cult British documentary maker behind the 2015 film My Scientology Movie, has parted ways with BBC Studios to set up his own production company. Deadline can reveal that Theroux has established Mindhouse Productions alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows, ending a contractual…

AFI Fest 2019 said Thursday that it will play host to “An Evening With Peter Morgan,” which will be followed by a gala screening of the Season 3 opener of Netflix’s The Crown. The event is set for November 16, the day before the Morgan-created hit series about the British royal family returns on the streaming service…

BBC director of content Charlotte Moore fired thinly-veiled shots at Netflix and Amazon at a gathering of some of the UK’s top writing, production and on-screen talent on Monday night. At a lavish party at London’s Sky Garden bar, overlooking some of the capital’s biggest landmarks, the BBC attempted to lay down a…

Netflix has signed a huge overall TV and film deal with The Crown creator Peter Morgan, in another sign that the streamers are prepared to spend tens of millions of dollars tying-up prominent British writing talent. We hear the pact is for at least four years. Three sources told Deadline that Netflix’s deal with…

EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies has closed a deal to play Prince Philip in Season 3 of Netflix's The Crown. This is the role that Paul Bettany had been in early talks to play before he abdicated for unspecified reasons. Menzies has signed on for the next two seasons, and begins shooting this summer in the UK. Menzies…