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The Hollywood Reporter: Wentworth Miller, Orlando Jones Offered Roles on ABC Pilot ‘Identity’

The pilot revolves around an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. ABC has made offers to Wentworth Miller and Orlando Jones for a pilot presentation for Identity, according to sources. The show is a procedural, a milieu ABC has had little success with. It revolves around “an elite police unit…Continue readingThe Hollywood Reporter: Wentworth Miller, Orlando Jones Offered Roles on ABC Pilot ‘Identity’

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C21Media: ITV dramas head into US pilot season

ITV dramas head into US pilot season Identity, the UK drama about identity theft from Waking the Dead scribe Ed Whitmore, is the latest ITV format heading into US pilot season. The ABC network has ordered a pilot for a US series based on the drama, with Mark Gordon Company producing and Paul Buccieri, CEO…Continue readingC21Media: ITV dramas head into US pilot season

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BBC: Upstairs Downstairs recommissioned for BBC One

Upstairs Downstairs recommissioned for BBC One Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC One, confirmed today that Upstairs Downstairs has been recommissioned and will return with a 6 × 60-minute series in 2012. Danny Cohen says: “The return of Upstairs Downstairs was fantastically well-received but what drove us to recommission was the wonderfully imaginative and distinctive plans…Continue readingBBC: Upstairs Downstairs recommissioned for BBC One

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Broadcast: Upstairs extended for 2012

Upstairs extended for 2012 BBC1 has recommissioned revived period drama Upstairs Downstairs, doubling the run to six episodes. Controller Danny Cohen has ordered a 6 × 60-minute series, which will continue to follow the fortunes of the Holland family as they face social and political upheaval in the late 1930s. Though cast and production details…Continue readingBroadcast: Upstairs extended for 2012

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Digital Spy: ABC orders pilot of Identity remake

ABC orders pilot of Identity remake ABC has reportedly ordered a pilot of Identity. The project is based on the British drama starring Aiden Gillen and Keeley Hawes which aired in the UK last year. It focuses on a group of police officers who are involved in fighting identity theft. The project is being executive…Continue readingDigital Spy: ABC orders pilot of Identity remake

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Advert: Boots No7 Exquisite Curl Mascara

Show us your wink for the chance to win a No7 Exquisite Pampering Weekend! Watch our video to find out more. To enter go to http://www.facebook.com/No7?v=app_146679022053303 Entries will be judged by Keeley Hawes, Lisa Eldridge (No7 Creative Consultant) and Dawn Crooks (No7 Consultant). The competion ends on 15 February 2011. (Source: No7 Facebook, Best Tressed)Continue readingAdvert: Boots No7 Exquisite Curl Mascara

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Radio Times Covers Party 2011

Keeley Hawes and the Upstairs Downstairs gang – David has a big huh for Keeley. #rtcoversparty David Tennant and Keeley Hawes hugging!!! Another pic for you – Keeley Hawes says hi! #rtcoversparty http://yfrog.com/gy20qrjj Glimpses of Matthew Graham at 0:48, and Jean Marsh and Keeley Hawes at 1:18 and 1:19. (Source: Twitter RadioTimes, Radio Times 1,…Continue readingRadio Times Covers Party 2011

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Masterpiece 40th Anniversary Season

Saturday, January 8, 2011 12:00 p.m. Viennese Ballroom Buffet lunch followed by MASTERPIECE 40th Anniversary Season Now celebrating its 40th season, MASTERPIECE has enthralled audiences with the works of the finest classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world’s foremost actors. Featured in this panel are the CLASSIC series “Upstairs Downstairs” and the MYSTERY! series…Continue readingMasterpiece 40th Anniversary Season

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The Arts Desk: National Theatre 2011 Season

Double Shakespeare rations in an eclectic year: as Nicholas Hytner’s unfussy, modern Hamlet goes on tour round the UK with an authoritative Rory Kinnear as the Prince, a new Twelfth Night by octogenarian Sir Peter Hall stars his daughter. Two scientific men go astray — Mary Shelley’s monster creator Dr Frankenstein, who hits the boards…Continue readingThe Arts Desk: National Theatre 2011 Season

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News of the World: Well-heeled Keeley Unpeeled

The pictures posted in News of the World are in no way recently taken. They’re reprinted by various tabloids nearly every time Keeley Hawes is in a new TV role — Spooks, Tipping the Velvet, Ashes to Ashes, and now, Upstairs Downstairs. This was originally for the January 1997 issue of German Vogue. The one…Continue readingNews of the World: Well-heeled Keeley Unpeeled