PBS's Masterpiece has launched a campaign to raise $20M for a Masterpiece 50th Anniversary Fund in 2020. The fund has landed a lead gift of $5M from Darlene Marcos Shiley, chair of the Shiley Foundation, longtime public media supporter and the first face an average of 13 million Americans saw when they tuned in to Down…
Fans of PBS Masterpiece's Victoria can look forward to new faces, more drama and more intrigue in Season 3, Daisy Goodwin, creator, writer and EP said at TCA. They can also rest assured that Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) will remain on the scene for quite some time yet.
"It starts in 1848," Goodwin said of the new…
Michael Howells, a production designer for TV, film and theater who also worked on fashion shows for the likes of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, died Thursday. He was 61.
Born in 1957 in Staffordshire, England, Howells began his showbiz career as an assistant art director on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lo…
Laurence Fox (Lewis) and Kate Fleetwood (Harlots) are joining the third season of ITV’s hit royals drama Victoria(first look pictured), with filming now underway in the UK.
Produced by Mammoth Screen as a co-production with Masterpiece, and created by writer and producer Daisy Goodwin, the new series sees Jenna Colema…
Jenna Coleman's Victoria may have already ascended to the throne and married Prince Albert but ITV's royal drama shows no sign of slowing after the UK broadcaster ordered a third season of the big-budget series.
The new season will follow the next chapter in the monarch's eventful life and will see Coleman and Tom…
Daisy Goodwin, creator of ITV and PBS period drama Victoria, has alleged that she was sexually assaulted during a visit to No. 10 Downing Street. Goodwin, who previously ran Sony-backed production company Silver River, claimed the incident happened while David Cameron was Prime Minister between 2010 and 2016.
Goodwin…
ITV is looking to expand into the theme park business and has unveiled plans to build a mini theme park in London. According to the Evening Standard, the commercial broadcaster has said that it is looking for a site in the UK capital city that would give visitors a chance to "experience" its programs, such as Downton A…
Victoria Season 2 is set for a January 14, 2018 premiere on Masterpiece on PBS.
A strong ratings performer, Victoria drew more than 16.2 million viewers in its premiere season, making it the highest-rated drama on PBS in 20 years, second only to Downton Abbey.
Jenna Coleman stars as the young queen, wife, and mother…
Queen Victoria was on the throne more than 60 years, so there is “no shortage of stories” for umpteen seasons of PBS’s Victoria, according to the Masterpiece series’ creator, writer and executive producer, Daisy Goodwin, who happily added to TV critics at TCA, “fingers crossed!”
Goodwin did acknowledge that Jenna Colem…
"What if an 18-year-old girl who had been sheltered her entire life suddenly became the Queen of England, the most powerful woman in the world?" Masterpiece senior series producer Susanne Simpson asks rhetorically on the basic premise behind PBS' Victoria.
"When we started reading scripts for Victoria we were so…
The Monte Carlo TV Festival has unveiled the nominees for its 57th Golden Nymph Awards. There is a varied range of international fare in the mix, and also a crop of recognizable names — some of which haven’t found big awards attention domestically.
Notably, it’s interesting to see the CW’s No Tomorrow, which did only…
PBS’ Victoria, about the 18-year-old British queen’s ascension to the throne, was created by Daisy Goodwin after getting into a tiff with her own teenaged daughter and thinking, “What if my daughter was now the queen of England?” Masterpiece senior series producer Susanne Simpson explained at The Contenders Emmys…
