After Chernobyl and Fleabagdominated the Emmy Awards last year, the Brits have had a quieter time in the 2020 nominations stakes.
There were snubs for new shows including ITV/AMC Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? drama Quiz and Season 2 of Netflix’s Sex Education, but there was better news for BBC/Hulu hit series Normal…
EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton will not make her bow as Queen Elizabeth II until 2022 as The Crown takes a filming break this year amid its final cast changeover, Deadline can reveal.
Left Bank Pictures won’t get cameras rolling on Season 5 of the Netflix franchise until June next year, meaning the streamer will be…
Peter Morgan has changed his mind on bringing the curtain down on The Crown after five seasons, meaning that the Netflix show will now run for six seasons.
Creator Morgan said: “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Lesley Manville’s secret is out. She’s had to keep quiet about playing Princess Margaret in The Crown for nearly a year, not even telling some of her closest friends. But after Netflix announced the news on Thursday, Manville is positively bubbling with pent-up excitement.
“It’s mind-blowing television,”…
Lesley Manville will become the latest addition to The Crown’s new cast, with the Oscar-nominated actress set to takeover from Helena Bonham Carter in playing Princess Margaret.
Netflix confirmed on Thursday that Manville has signed up for the fifth and final season of the lavish royal drama, which British producer…
To put it mildly, Helena Bonham Carter is a real hoot. Don’t miss this one, folks.
Zooming in from England for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, the veteran star and two-time Oscar nominee is in high spirits as we talk about her Emmy-buzzed current role as Princess Margaret in Seasons 3…
When it first premiered in 2016, Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown was an instant smash. Aiming to tell the epic story of Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking spell as Britain's longest-serving monarch, starting with her marriage in 1947 and seeing her reign through to the earliest 20th Century, it caught the…
Gillian Anderson is taking lockdown in her stride. "I'm an isolator," she tells me over a Zoom video from her home in London. "So, it suits me just fine. I'm not quite ready to be released into the big, bad world."
It might seem an odd admission for an actress who has loomed so large in the public consciousness for…
EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies’ performance as Prince Philip in The Crown was one of the highlights of Season 3. He captured the royal in all his belligerence and twinkling mischievousness, earning him a Golden Globe nomination earlier this year and putting him in contention for the Emmys.
The British actor, who has also…
EXCLUSIVE: Left Bank Pictures was trailblazing among British producers in forging strong ties with Netflix through The Crown — and now the company is on the brink of landing its first series with Amazon.
Deadline can reveal that Left Bank is closing a deal to adapt Louise Penny’s bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache…
The coming together of the creative brains behind two of Netflix’s biggest international hits, The Crown and Money Heist, certainly sounds like an eye-catching proposition on paper. For Netflix, it was irresistible.
Left Bank Pictures boss Andy Harries and Vancouver Media’s Álex Pina flew into LA in February 2018 to…
The Crown is one of the few shows that will not be blown off course by the coronavirus catastrophe currently gripping global television and film productions.
Left Bank Pictures has decided to forge ahead with a final week of filming on Season 4 of the Netflix royal drama, with the production company simply needing to…
