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We've officially reached the 100-day mark until the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and, as the title desperately insists, final big-screen installment* of the beloved franchise that began 15 years ago on ITV and PBS. A series that consistently surprised both producers
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Any questions about why there is barely any buzz around Paramount+’s MobLand, which like Netflix’s splashy The Gentlemen, was partially directed by British crime king Guy Ritchie (Ritchie created The Gentlemen, while Top Boy’s Ronan Bennett created MobLand) are swiftly answered by the premiere episode – no-one
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Downton Abbey is revving up for one more round of storytelling on the big screen, but after this, the story is done. Thus proclaims the third movie's new title, Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale, revealed by Focus Features along with the poster key art for the film. The
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The rush to get MobLand out by the end of March so that the finale would air before the 2024-2025 Emmy nominations eligibility period ended on June 1 has been edging on desperate. No one wants to admit defeat in the streaming wars, nor do they want to be
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Guy Ritchie was initially known in the U.S. for being the second husband of Madonna Louise Ciccone, whom he married after they met and fell in love on the set of one of his biggest misfires, Swept Away. Sure, in the U.K., the man was recognized as a
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I have been hard on Paramount and its forthcoming Guy Ritchie original series MobLand. But my anger doesn't stem from the show's bad quality or my irrational dislike of the storied studio. It's because I care. I wanted Paramount+ to succeed when it finally
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Since the success of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series The Gentlemen, the action-focused director has been all over the news, taking on everything from a Gentlemen sequel series to a spinoff movie Wife & Dog to a new Young Sherlock. However, throughout the fall of 2024, we kept
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It was early October 2024 when Deadline first reported that Guy Ritchie had signed on to a new project at Showtime, which would stream on Paramount+ with Showtime. Referred to as The Associate, the film would be a crime thriller, and Deadline had heard that Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Helen
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The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the
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It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as
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When will it no longer be too soon to dramatize the COVID-19 pandemic? That question has been one TV and movies have struggled with since March 2020. Some shows dove right in and made the current lockdown situation part of the ongoing storyline, especially hospital dramas and true-to-
Actors and Actresses
Joanne Froggatt is best known for playing the Crawley family's loyal maid. However, this North Yorkshire lass has portrayed various characters in her 20+ year career; many are not nearly as endearing as the compassionate and resilient Anna Bates, the role for which she won a Golden Globe