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"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" takes on new meaning in the upcoming ITV and CW drama Joan. Sophie Turner stars in the co-production that will begin airing on CW in October 2024, starring as Joan Hannington, a 1980s-ra mother-turned-jewel thief. The series starts when Joan
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Cillian Murphy won an Oscar for portraying the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Best Picture-winning film, Oppenheimer. But for his next major role --- and one that sure looks likely to earn him some additional awards buzz --- he's going back to his Irish roots.
Actors and Actresses
On September 27, 2024, Dame Maggie Smith’s two sons shared the news that their mother had passed away at the age of 89. “She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” her
Theater
Some of the biggest performers in the world regularly take to the stage in London's West End, and the city's booming, vibrant theater scene can often leave American Anglophiles feeling a bit left out when it comes to seeing their favorite British actors perform live. At
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The Great British Baking Show is back! The series returned to Channel 4 earlier this week and then rolled right over to Netflix for the weekend. Outside, climate change is producing hurricanes of ludicrous proportions; contentious elections are on, and war seems to be spreading. But here in the tent,
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Sherwood’s initial season, originally written as a stand-alone, covered the Northern Red Wall town’s brush with fame during the 2004 manhunt for a killer who killed a resident via a bow and arrow. One of the best shows of 2022, it was renewed as an anthology series shortly
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Dame Maggie Smith, titan of stage and screen, has left us. The Oscar-winning actress, who starred in everything from A Room with a View to Downton Abbey, passed away in London at the age of 89. The news was announced this morning by her two sons Toby Stephens and Chris
Movies
It was December 2022 when director Luca Guadagnino, best known for films like Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, and Challengers, announced his next film would be a film adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel Queer, with Daniel Craig (James Bond) in the lead. Queer, which was
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The titular building of The Tower still looms over everything as the series returns for its third installment, entitled “Gallowstree Lane,” after the Kate London best-selling series of the same name it is adapted from. Despite now having moved on from that initial tragic incident on a high rise, in
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It's been over two years since pandemic-era favorite Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators last aired a new episode and almost four since Season 4 was filmed in early 2021. However, fans of series creator Paul Matthew Thompson, the man behind Vera and Father Brown, know that sometimes a
Sundance Now
Streamers Sundance Now and Acorn TV are joining forces to bring the seven-part British sci-fi horror series The Midwich Cuckoos to the U.S. just in time for spooky season. Based on the perennially popular 1957 John Wyndham novel of the same name, the show originally aired on U.K.
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There's a major TV debut coming to the U.K. in October, one of those high-profile shows on streaming, adapted from a series of best-selling sexy novels. It stars major A-list talent and several hot men in period costumes, all of whom are now gracing the covers of