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Crazy Rich Asians' Gemma Chan is to star in an anthology drama series for UK's Channel 4, written by Dominic Savage, the writer of Gemma Arterton-fronted feature The Escape. Chan, who also starred in AMC and C4 co-pro Humans, will appear in the three-part series, as will Minority Report's Samantha Morton and This Is En…

Samantha Morton (Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them) is joining Season 9 of The Walking Dead as a new series regular playing iconic villain Alpha, leader of the Whisperers. Series creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman announced the casting Friday during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con. In the…

With battling brothel madams, anti-vice crusaders, ripping bodices and intimate transactional relations galore (carnal and otherwise), the March 29 debut of Harlots on Hulu delivers a very different look at the world's oldest profession. Led by a fantastic Samantha Morton as madam Margaret Wells, the eight-episode…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Morton (The Last Panthers), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) and Lesley Manville (Malificent) have been set to star in Harlots, a co-production between Hulu and ITV. The eight-part drama is getting a straight-to-series order. Harlots will air on ITV Encore in the UK and stream exclusively in…

BBC One has set Tim Roth and Samantha Morton to star in three-part serial killer story Rillington Place. Filming began this weekend in Scotland on the period project from BBC Drama Production and Bandit Television. It focuses on the true tale of murderer John Christie, his wife Ethel and their neighbor Timothy Evans…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton has signed with UTA. The English actress is shooting the first installment of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the spinoff trilogy from the hugely successful Harry Potter franchise. She will play Mary Lou in the David Yates-helmed feature, which marks the…

Season 12 of The Ellen DeGeneres Show will premiere October 20 on Lifetime Asia as a same-day telecast with the U.S. Airing at 8 PM weekdays Singapore/Hong Kong time, The series will now be available in Brunei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. "E…

EXCLUSIVE: After their collaboration on cross-Channel, bilingual series The Tunnel, the UK’s Sky Atlantic and France’s Canal Plus are reteaming for another international crime drama, The Last Panthers. The six-part hourlong thriller will star Samantha Morton, John Hurt and Tahar Rahim. It’s based on the notorious Pink…

The story of a determined woman with breast cancer and a pioneering geneticist comes to the big screen with a pretty impressive cast. Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt star as patient and doctor, respectively, in Decoding Annie Parker, which also features a long-haired Aaron Paul, Bradley Whitford, Rashida Jones, Richard…

The cancer-science drama boasts a heavyweight cast led by Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt. Entertainment One Films has set Decoding Annie Parker for a summer day-and-date release in theaters and VOD. Veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein is making his featuring directing debut on the film, which is based loosely on…

Samantha Mathis has been cast in AMC's pilot Line Of Sight, from creator Blake Masters and director Jonathan Demme. It tells the story of Lewis Bernt (David Morrissey), a National Transportation Safety Board investigator who survives a mysterious plane crash, bringing him on an emotionally disorienting quest to…

Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon have been cast as the leads of The Harvest, a psychological thriller to be directed by Wild Things helmer John McNaughton. Precious producer Elephant Eye Films is producing and handling international sales; Living Out Loud Productions will finance. The story centers on Katherine…