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…

Netflix’s The Crown is reportedly targeting Paul Bettany to play Prince Philip for its season three series. The British star, who also will appear in the films Solo: A Star Wars Story and Avengers: Infinity War later this year, would replace Matt Smith, who played the role in the first two seasons. Netflix had no…

Inspired by UK playwright Peter Morgan's critically acclaimed 2013 play The Audience—which enjoyed a brief but successful Broadway run in 2015—The Crown proved a surprise hit for Netflix when the series debuted in November of last year. Starting with the marriage of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip in…

Prolific British screenwriter and producer Peter Morgan is being awarded the BFI Fellowship, the org’s highest honor, for his contribution to the industry. With more than 30 awards to his name, Morgan is one of the UK's most influential screenwriters, who often uses the British establishment — its leadership and…

In the press room at the Golden Globes, The Crown‘s creator Peter Morgan teased out season 2 for the Netflix series. Tonight, the show took home best drama and best drama TV actress for Claire Foy who plays Queen Elizabeth II. “The danger of writing a story of someone with a long life is that the story goes on and on…

Launching on November 4, Netflix’s The Crown is an often glittering look at the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign that is worth bingeing with an "in for a penny, in for a pound" approach. However, the first 10-episode season of the streaming service’s $100 million drama series created by The Queen scribe Peter Mo…

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip are “very very aware” of Netflix’s 10-episode series The Crown, debuting November 4, the project’s writer Peter Morgan said this morning, kicking off TCA. “Through untraceable back channels, countless approaches have been made in a way that protects both sides,” he said of efforts…

With the UK's General Election last night ending in a surprise victory for Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party, Audience playwright Peter Morgan has quickly updated the show’s revived West End edition, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, to reflect the outcome. The play, whose Broadway stand is in the…

Sometimes I think we Americans worship the Royal Family as much as our British cousins do. Or maybe, as I say in my video review above, we Yanks just love watching the unsurpassable Helen Mirren play a royal. Mirren won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen back in 2006 (she…

EXCLUSIVE: Who owns history? In the run-up to the Oscars, the critiques playing out in the press over the "accuracy" of events portrayed in Selma, American Sniper and The Imitation Game have never had a more powerful purchase on the public conversation. Few contemporary writers have tangled with the issue as…

After months of speculations (and negotiations), Netflix tonight officially unveiled The Crown, Peter Morgan’s decades-spanning drama series that explores the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II and Britain’s post-war  Prime Ministers. The 10-episode first season will premiere on the streaming service in 2016. On the…

Actors Equity has given its OK for Brit thespians Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe, and Rufus Wright to accompany Olivier Award-winning Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II to Broadway in the spring. The Stephen Daldry production of  Peter Morgan’s play will run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre beginning…