Thandie Newton, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman and Hotel Rwanda star Sophie Okonedo are among the Brits to pick up a prestigious award as part of the New Year Honours List. The distinguished awards are handed out once a year and recognize the outstanding achievements…

Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo, Game of Thrones‘ Rebecca Benson, Arinzé Kene, Marc Warren and Rufus Jones are rounding out the cast of Flack, Pop TV’s first scripted drama series centered on the celebrity PR business that stars Anna Paquin. Production on six one-hour episodes kicks off this week in London. Good Girls Rev…

Hellboy is continuing to cast up. The third installment of the movie franchise, which serves as a reboot of the Guillermo del Toro-Ron Perlman pics based on the Dark Horse comics, has just added Sophie Okonedo, Brian Gleeson and Alistair Petrie. They join David Harbour as Hellboy and Milla Jovovich as the Blood Queen…

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Okonedo and James Harkness have joined the cast of Faye Ward's much-anticipated comedy-drama Country Music, which has just begun shooting. They will join stars Jessie Buckley (Taboo, War & Peace) and Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Paddington 2) in the tale about a young singer from Glasgow who dreams…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: The Tony Administration Committee declared Shuffle Along a new show, a decision I can't imagine anyone getting exercised over…

Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama The Crucible is a big play — big ideas, big cast, big emotions. In a season of multiple Miller celebrations (last October 17 was the hundredth anniversary of his birth), Ivo van Hove’s lucid and often mesmerizing production at the Walter Kerr Theatre honors all of those big factors without…

BBC America’s six-part original co-production, Undercover features lead character Maya, played by Sophie Okonedo, who is about to become the first black woman to hold the highest-ranking public prosecutor role in England. Then she discovers her husband (Adrian Lester), the father of her children, has been concealing a…

Political thriller Undercover and mystery Thirteen are BBC America’s first new co-productions developed since AMC Networks acquired a 49.9% stake and operating control of BBCA in October, as part of a wide-ranging partnership. Undercover, a six-part limited series from writer Peter Moffat (Silk, Criminal Justice)…

David Morse and Sophie Okonedo will co-star opposite Charlie Cox and Maggie Grace in CBS‘ untitled Wall Street drama pilot, executive produced by John Cusack. Set in the world of Wall Street power and money, the project centers on Jackson (Cox), a smart, sophisticated, hedge fund trader. Morse plays Conklin, a…