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With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age – last year a matriarch in Three Tall Women, now theater’s ultimate patriarch in King Lear, opening tonight at the Cort Theatre. I’ve no doubt she could come…

Ruth Wilson came to TCA to talk about her three-part PBS Masterpiece project Mrs. Wilson, in which she plays her own grandmother. The drama follows Alison Wilson, who is happily married until her husband, popular spy novelist Alec Wilson (played by Game of Thrones‘ Iain Glen), dies and a woman turns up on the doorstep…

Just in time for the holidays, Idris Elba returns to his iconic role as the titular detective in BBC crime drama Luther. BBC One has dropped the first trailer for Season 5 which will air as part of the UK broadcaster’s Festive Season lineup, while BBC America says the series will be back in 2019. Check out the video…

Masterpiece has released the first trailer for Mrs. Wilson starring Ruth Wilson as her grandmother Alison Wilson, in a very personal drama series for Wilson inspired by the memoir of her grandmother. The drama follows Alison Wilson (Ruth Wilson), who thinks she is happily married until her husband, popular spy…

The Affair‘s Ruth Wilson, Game of Thrones‘ Pedro Pascal and Tony Award-winner Jayne Houdyshell will join Glenda Jackson in Broadway’s upcoming King Lear – starring, as previously reported, Jackson in the title role. The additional casting – which also includes Elizabeth Marvel, Aisling O'Sullivan and John Douglas…

Ruth Wilson has added another layer of mystery to her exit from The Affair. In a New York Times profile, when asked about her departure from the Showtime series, Wilson said "There is a much bigger story" to her exit than has been revealed. In a shocking twist, Wilson’s character Alison was killed off in the August 5…

SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this if you don’t want to know the climax of the electrifying Season Four of Showtime’s The Affair. Spoilers abound! In one of the final moments of The Affair season ender, Helen (Maura Tierney) says to Noah, the ex-husband who cheated on her in the opening season: “Everybody’s so fu*king…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of the August 5 episode of The Affair. The Affair star Ruth Wilson is revealing more details about her thoughts on her character Alison’s storyline, in what turned out to be her final episode and one that shocked viewers earlier this month. In an interview with Vulture on…

Ruth Wilson’s comments on her exit from The Affair in an interview Thursday on CBS This Morning raised questions and now Showtime has weighed in, saying it was a creative decision. "We can't speak for Ruth, but heading into season four everyone agreed the character's story had run its course,” Showtime said in a…

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details of the August 5 episode of  The Affair. In an interview Thursday on CBS This Morning, Ruth Wilson confirmed she wanted to leave The Affair, but there are still many questions surrounding her exit from the Showtime drama series. When asked by co-host Gayle King about…

EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Ruth Wilson is the latest A-list star to sign up to BBC drama His Dark Materials. The actor is signing up to play Marisa Coulter, one of the main protagonists of the eight-part drama and the former lover of Lord Asriel, played by James McAvoy. The character is one of the main characters in…

Ruth Wilson will star in Mrs. Wilson, a three-part drama inspired by the memoir of her grandmother, Masterpiece chief Rebecca Eaton told TV critics at TCA on Tuesday. Set in 1940s and 1960s London and 1930s India, the series follows Alison Wilson, who is happily married to her husband, who is a mystery writer…