Dawn French to vie for Bishop of Dibley in new Comic Relief sketch
Art will indeed imitate life in the Red Nose Day special, follow a recent decision by the Church of England to allow women bishops.
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Happy 80th – Dame Maggie Smith!
Fresh on the heels of one of the all-time greats of the acting world (Dame Judi Dench) turning 80 earlier this month on December 9, we now have the brilliant opportunity to celebrate another ‘Dame’ as she turns 80 today – Dame Maggie Smith. Although she has achieved worldwide recognition from her portrayal of Professor Minerva […]
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London Paramount – at the intersection of Hollywood glamour and British culture
Time to step aside Disneyland Paris, there’s a new sheriff in town that goes by the name of London Paramount Entertainment Resort. While it’s not quite time to pack your bags for Kent just yet, 2020 is just around the corner. Once you hear about the rides planned for the proposed £2 billion theme park, […]
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Big screen treatment of Dad's Army drawing top-notch talent
The big-screen adaptation of the classic BBC wartime comedy, Dad’s Army, is drawing some of the biggest names (outside of Benedict Cumberbatch) together as they begin to assemble the cast. The feature film treatment of the Jimmy Perry, David Croft iconic British comedy has landed one of the greats with the announcement that Bill Nighy, […]
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'Mr. Selfridge' adds (and subtracts) cast for series 3
As Planet Earth awaits the excruciatingly long-overdue return of Downton Abbey, lets not forget what’s on the horizon in early 2015 with the return of Mr. Selfridge, starring Jeremy Piven as Harry Gordon Selfridge, the man who changed the face retail by laying the groundwork for what we know today.
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The Craig Ferguson/Peter Capaldi 80's punk band connection
Who knew (or remembers) that the current host of The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson, and the newest Traveling Time Lord (Peter Capaldi) go way back. As the story goes, Ferguson began as a drummer in a rock band called Exposure. He then joined a punk band called The Bastards from Hell, which was later […]
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'Downton Abbey' heads to Hogwarts for S5
Platform 9 & 3/4, magically concealed behind the barrier between Muggle Platform Nine and Platform Ten, at King’s Cross Station in London will be a bit crowded this week as cast and crew of Downton Abbey headed to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. Filming at Alnwick Castle, which doubled as Hogwarts School of Witchery and Wizardry […]
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Sir Ian McKellen's Downton Abbey audition is 'Vicious'
As we reported this past Fall, Vicious, a.k.a. Vicious Old Queens, starring Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi, is making its way to PBS beginning June 15 (following the return of Endeavour on Masterpiece Mystery). The British comedy, which premiered on ITV this past Spring in the UK, tells the story of Freddie and […]
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Celebrity guests lining up for 'Kumars at No 42' return in January
As the Duck Dynasty-clan will, hopefully, soon disappear from both telly AND its place as one of the trending topics on Twitter, it looks like the Kumar-clan will soon return to television after a seven-year break. The International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy/talk show hybrid The Kumars At No. 42 will return beginning 15 January […]
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Moriarty (ok, Andrew Scott) added to cast of 'Frankenstein'
How do you pass the time between when the broadcast of Sherlock 3 is in our rearview mirror and preliminary production filming begins on Sherlock 4? If you’re Sherlock director, Paul McGuigan, you take on the newest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, obviously. McGuigan directed four episodes during the first two series of the runaway […]
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