Babou Ceesay and Jill Halfpenny to Star in BBC One's DARK MON£Y
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 23, 2018 Bafta-nominated Babou Ceesay (Damilola, Our Loved Boy, Best of Enemies) and Jill Halfpenny (Three Girls, In The Club) are to lead the cast of a new thought-provoking four-part drama, Dark Mon£y for BBC One....
Fathom Events to Show DOCTOR WHO Season Premiere Event in Theaters Nationwide
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 27, 2018 BBC Studios Americas in partnership with Fathom Events, is bringing the Thirteenth Doctor to theaters nationwide on October 10 and 11, and screening the feature-length premiere of The Woman Who Fell to Earth, the first episode of the all-new series of BBC AMERICA's Doctor Who. The two-night theatri...
Photo Flash: First Look at THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM
by Stephi Wild - October 05, 2018 Multi award-winning star of screen and stage Jonathan Pryce will star as 'Andrei', and three-time Olivier award-winning Dame Eileen Atkins will star as 'Madeleine' in The Height of the Storm, in the UK premiere of a new compelling family drama by Florian Zeller, the internationally acclaimed writer ...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Receive Britannia Award For British Artist Of The Year
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 30, 2019 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) is pleased to announce that British actor, writer and showrunner Phoebe Waller-Bridge will receive the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. She joins previously announced honorees Jane Fonda, who will receive ...
VIDEO: The Cast of COMPANY Sings With the Orchestra
by Stephi Wild - September 20, 2018 Marianne Elliott's highly anticipated new production of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's Company opens at the Gielgud Theatre 26 September 2018. Get a first look at the cast singing with the orchestra in the video below!...
BBC America to Air BAFTA FILM AWARDS in Primetime
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 01, 2019 BBC AMERICA will air The EE British Academy Film Awards in primetime on Sunday, February 10 at 9:00pm ET/PT. The ceremony will be hosted by Joanna Lumley and will be held in one of the world's most beautiful concert halls, the Royal Albert Hall in London....
BAFTA-Nominated LINE OF DUTY Returns for Fifth Season on BBC One
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 25, 2019 Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution, part of KEW MEDIA GROUP INC. today confirmed that season 5 of hit drama Line of Duty will return on BBC One on Sunday, March 31....
AMC and ITV Commission Three Part Drama Series QUIZ with Michael Sheen
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 16, 2019 The extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an 'audacious heist' on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is to be told in a three-part drama, Quiz announced AMC and ITV today. ...
BWW Interview: A Fresh Canvas- Alfred Molina & Alfred Enoch Get Ready to Bring RED to the Big Screen; In Cinemas 11/7!
by Nicole Rosky - October 25, 2018 As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the critically acclaimed production of John Logan's Red with Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch will be screened in selected cinemas across the UK and North America on November 7 2018. Filmed at the Wyndham's Theatre, where it completes its run on July 28, the prod...
Florence Kosky's ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Selected for Raindance Film Festival
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 19, 2018 Director Florence Kosky All The World's A Stage is a film that aims to break down the stigmas surrounding suicide and mental health after the director experienced the loss of one of her friends. Since it's festival run, this wonderful film screened at the Oscar qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival a...
Cast Announced For THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Watermill Theatre
by Stephi Wild - April 17, 2019 The Watermill Theatre announces the cast for Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST which runs at the theatre from Thursday 23 May to Saturday 29 June. Wilde's most enduring play in which Victorian hypocrisies are laid bare is directed by Kate Budgen who says:...
The HBO-BBC Drama GENTLEMAN JACK to Premiere on April 22
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 18, 2019 The HBO/BBC drama series GENTLEMAN JACK begins its eight-episode season MONDAY, APRIL 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. Created, written and co-directed by Sally Wainwright (“Happy Valley,” “Last Tango in Halifax”), and starring BAFTA Award winner Suranne Jones (“Doctor Foster,” “Save Me”), GENTLE...
BBC America Announces New DOCTOR WHO to Premiere on October 7th
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 05, 2018 BBC AMERICA's Doctor Who is blazing a global trail to match Jodie Whittaker's revolutionary first season as the Doctor. The network's US premiere will start at the same time as the UK debut on-air on Sunday, October 7th (time to be announced), followed by a special encore in its new regular primetim...
Katherine Parkinson, Sara Gregory & Richard Harrington Lead West End Transfer of HOME, I'M DARLING
by Stephi Wild - January 07, 2019 As rehearsals begin, casting is announced for the West End transfer of the National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd's critically acclaimed co-production of Home, I'm Darling, a new play by Laura Wade, directed by Theatre Clwyd Artistic Director Tamara Harvey, featuring Katherine Parkinson, which begins per...
CALENDAR GIRLS Comes to Storyhouse
by Stephi Wild - September 06, 2019 Calendar Girls The Musical is heading Storyhouse in Chester this Autumn when Gary Barlow and Tim Firth take this heartwarming story from screen to stage....
No Audition Charge And Reduced Annual Fees At London's Newest Full-time Drama School
by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2019 The newest drama school in London, the Pauline Quirke Full-Time Academy of Performing Arts, has waived audition charges and has also reduced its annual fees, in a bid to make its vocational training at 16+ accessible to more aspiring young performers....
MY WHITE BEST FRIEND AND OTHER LETTERS LEFT UNSAID Comes to The Bunker
by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2019 Could you put your white best friend on stage and remind them that they're part of the problem? Writer Rachel De-Lahay and director Milli Bhatia have commissioned eleven writers to pen letters that say the unsaid to the people that matter most. This March the week-long festival of letters, My White ...
BBC America Presents Halloween Week Programming 'BBC AAAAAAMERICA'
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 17, 2018 Starting Friday, October 26th, get in the spooky spirit with BBC AMERICA's Halloween Week of programming featuring movie marathons, a takeover of The X-Files, and hours of Hitchcockian horror. 'BBC AAAAAAMERICA' is here!...
Shakespeare's Globe Announces Casting For The Winter Season
by Stephi Wild - September 19, 2018 Shakespeare's Globe has announced casting for the Winter Season 2018, its plans for a year-long cycle of history plays from February 2019, and Globe Associates, to include Sean Holmes, who is to become Associate Artistic Director....
BBC Studios Developing Adaptation of RUNESTAFF Novels
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 13, 2019 BBC Studios will develop a TV adaptation of Michael Moorcock's Runestaff fantasy novels. They have secured rights to four books in the series: The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God's Amulet, Sword of the Dawn and The Runestaff. ...
Filming Begins on BBC One's GOLD DIGGER
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 11, 2018 Julia Ormond (Sabrina, Legends of the Fall) and Ben Barnes (Westworld, The Punisher) have begun filming the distinctive domestic noir drama Gold Digger, produced by Mainstreet Pictures coming soon to BBC One....
Netflix Announces Additional Casting for CURSED
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 04, 2019 Devon Terrell (Barry), Gustaf Skarsgård (Westworld, Vikings), Daniel Sharman (Fear the Walking Dead, Medici), Peter Mullan (Ozark), Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The State, Our Girl), Sebastian Armesto (Poldark, Broadchurch), Emily Coates (Flack), Catherine Walker (Versailles, T...
Sky Renews TIN STAR for Third Season
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 20, 2019 An explosive third and final series of Sky Atlantic's critically acclaimed drama Tin Star has been commissioned. Tim Roth, Genevieve O'Reilly and Abigail Lawrie return as the Worth family in the final chapter of the trilogy, produced by leading independent producers Kudos and Gaumont UK and created ...
BBC America and Women's Media Center Launch Strategic Alliance with Research Study on Impact of Female Representation
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 27, 2018 BBC AMERICA and WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER have entered into a strategic alliance, with the goal of expanding both the diversity and representation of women in media. In the coming months, BBC AMERICA and WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER will partner on initiatives to enrich, engage, and enlighten through proprietary... |