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EXCLUSIVE: Beth Goddard (Manhunt) is set as a series regular opposite Samantha Morton in Starz's The Serpent Queen, an eight-part period drama about Catherine de Medici. Additionally, Alex Heath (Home) recurs in the series from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), Francis Lawrence & Erwin…

EXCLUSIVE: After a worldwide talent search, Sennia Nanua has been cast as a lead opposite Samantha Morton in Starz’s The Serpent Queen, an eight-part period drama about Catherine de Medici, from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), Francis Lawrence & Erwin Stoff. Production is underway in…

Two-time Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton is set to star as the nefarious Catherine de Medici in the new Starz Original series The Serpent Queen. Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead) will play Catherine in the series described as “the dark legend centered on de Medici”  from writer and executive producer Justin…

It was blood sport all round on Sunday and not just that Pittsburgh Steelers win over the L.A. Chargers and the cable topping New York Yankees and Houston Astros game on Fox Sports 1. No, The Walking Dead and Succession both had sacrifices, new messy alliances and some telling ratings. For the AMC zombie apocalypse…

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…