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The Crown star Erin Doherty has boarded Steven Knight’s Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows. Doherty, who attracted plaudits for her portrayal of Princess Anne in the Netflix royal drama, will play Mary Carr, the leader of the Forty Elephants. She stars opposite Malachi Kirby, who Deadline revealed…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s small screen Boiling Point sequel has found a sous chef. Walking Dead star Steven Ogg will play Nick in the upcoming drama, which will pick the story up six months after the conclusion of the BAFTA-nominated Stephen Graham-starring indie pic. Ogg is best known for playing Simon…

Sky is developing a third season of BAFTA-winning Lennie James hit Save Me. Save Me Three is at script stage, revealed Director of Content Zai Bennett at a BPG event this morning, and the speed at which it gets to screen is dependent on the availability of creator James, who plays the…

EXCLUSIVE: Help and The End of the F***ing World producer Jenny Frayn has joined the BBC drama commissioning team on a temporary basis. Deadline understands Frayn joined recently to work on certain existing titles and some upcoming, mostly from the slate of Peaky Blinders producer Tommy Bulfin, who…

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) won the best actress prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her West End debut performance playing a criminal barrister specialising in defending rapists — who is then sexually assaulted herself. Comer won critical and public acclaim for the solo role in Prim…

Newcomer Elliott Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, singer-songwriter Paul Weller (his film debut) and Kathy Burke have joined the cast of Steve McQueen's next film Blitz from Apple Original Films. Saoirse Ronan is also on board with McQueen writing, directing and producing the…

A Labour MP who was the target of a far-right murder plot depicted in Jeff Pope’s Stephen Graham-starring ITV drama The Walk-In has lambasted the broadcaster for its “stupid, stupid, stupid series.” Speaking in the UK’s House of Commons yesterday, Rosie Cooper said she has had death threats since the…

Boiling Point, Philip Barantini’s hit British indie one-shot film starring Stephen Graham, is to be made into a BBC TV series charting events six months after the movie took place. Graham and co-star Hannah Walters’ Matriarch Productions is behind the five-part sequel about the cut-throat world of…

EXCLUSIVE: eOne has struck a multi-year first-look deal with BAFTA-winning writer-director Paul Andrew Williams. The deal will see Williams, who won a BAFTA for BBC Three single drama Murdered for Being Different, forge scripted TV shows for all platforms, working closely with Sharon Hughff, the…

Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, and Lashana Lynch passed through the London Film Festival on Wednesday to discuss their new film Matilda The Musical, directed by Matthew Warchus. The musical is having its world premiere tonight as the opening-night film. The musical is a modern take on Roald Dahl's…

Stephen Graham To Star In ITV Neo-Nazi Drama ‘The Walk-In’ ITV's has ordered a five-part drama, The Walk-In, a true story of how a Neo-Nazi plan to kill an MP was foiled by an inside man. Stephen Graham (This is England, Time, The Virtues) will star in the ITV Studios series from writer Jeff Pope as activist Matthew…

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and U.K. acting star Stephen Graham are reuniting on the 12-part original period drama A Thousand Blows, set against the backdrop of Victorian London's illegal boxing scene, for Disney+ and Hulu. Knight takes creator, writer and executive producer credits while Graham stars and…