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Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike and Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd are set to star in a Stephen Frears-directed comedy series for SundanceTV. The pair are to front the short-form comedy series State of the Union, which will be a series of ten-by-ten minute episodes, to be produced by The King's Speech producer See-Saw Film…

Hugh Grant/Ben Whishaw-starrer A Very English Scandal has begun shooting in Britain, produced by Blueprint Television for BBC One in the UK and, now, Amazon Prime Video which has boarded for the U.S. Written by Russell T Davies, the three-part drama is directed by Stephen Frears. Check out a first-look photo above. As…

The little-known story of Queen Victoria and her beloved Indian servant Abdul Karim was once so little-known that Shrabani Basu, author of the 2010 non-fiction biography Victoria & Abdul, spent three days searching the graveyards of Agra in Utter Pradesh in order to find Karim’s final resting place. Happily, thanks to…

With Victoria And Abdul, Stephen Frears and Dame Judi Dench are returning to Venice for the first time together since 2013’s triumphant Philomena. This is also a reunion of another sort for Dench who is sporting Queen Victoria’s crown for the first time since her Oscar-nominated turn in Mrs Brown 20 years ago. Victoria…

Ben Whishaw has been set to star opposite Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal. Written by Russell T Davies, the three-part BBC One drama is directed by Stephen Frears. Davies announced Whishaw’s casting at the Edinburgh International Television Festival today. As Deadline revealed in May, Grant is playing MP Jeremy…

British helmer Stephen Frears is set to be honored at the Venice Film Festival with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory To The Filmmaker award. The award is dedicated to a personality who has made an original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema. Frears will be given the prize at a ceremony held on September 3…

“No one really knows what it’s like to be queen.” It’s 1887, and the British Empire is celebrating Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee — 50 years on the throne. Kings and princes are in attendance. So is Abdul Karim, who has traveled from his famine-ravaged India to the event to present the aging monarch with a ceremonial…

EXCLUSIVE: The recently announced BBC One drama, A Very English Scandal, is based on the true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder. Hugh Grant has now been set to return to British television for the first time since the early ’90s as the disgraced center of the…

Ten months into his new job, Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, unveiled his vision for the department on Thursday night in London, with an ambitious slate to boot including a three-part series of Little Women with Playground and PBS’ Masterpiece, a Stephen Frears-directed drama A Very English Scandal and an…

A frequent collaborator of director Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen), a master in translating the unbelievable true story to the big screen, costume designer Consolata Boyle entered into the rarefied world of 1940s, high society New York for Florence Foster Jenkins. Given the incredulity fostered by the story of…

Hugh Grant is back with Florence Foster Jenkins, coming out of semi-retirement to act opposite Meryl Streep in another surprising true tale from director Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Program). In the case of Florence, the facts are particularly startling and difficult to believe—starring Streep as the title…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features will release Stephen Frears’ Victoria And Abdul — the film that reunites the director with his Philomena star Judi Dench — on September 22, 2017 in a limited run before rolling it out the following weekend. The film, which also stars Bollywood actor Ali Fazal (Happy Bhaag Jayegi, Furious 7)…