To celebrate the launch of the latest trend in coffee, Kenco Millicano, we’ve teamed up with actress Keeley Hawes to tell us about her favourite things and to help us track down the UK’s top Taste Setters. When she’s not treading the boards or starring in hit TV shows, actress Keeley Hawes loves catching up…Continue readingAll About You: Keeley Hawes’ favourite things
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SFX: Doctor Who sex change
Poll results revealed! Who should be the first female Doctor, and more… Tomorrow the relaunched SFX hits the newsstand, with a new look, new features and a new energy. On the cover is none other than Matt Smith — the Eleventh Doctor Who — and there’s a special, unique Doctor Who-related sonic treat awaiting you…Continue readingSFX: Doctor Who sex change
Angela Bassett signs for ‘Identity’ Angela Bassett has signed up for a lead role in ABC drama pilot Identity. The project, a remake of the UK series, will follow an elite police unit who investigate cases of identity theft and related crimes. Deadline reports that Bassett will play Martha, the special agent placed in charge…Continue readingDigital Spy: Angela Bassett signs for ‘Identity’
BBC Worldwide brings top titles to Showcase in its 35th anniversary year BBC Worldwide has made its first international sales of Top Gear USA, ahead of BBC Showcase — the UK’s biggest television export event and the only one of its kind in the world to be hosted by a single distributor. Top Gear USA,…Continue readingMNI Live: BBC Worldwide brings top titles to Showcase in its 35th anniversary year
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’
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
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
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
It’s Upstairs, Downton or how the BBC’s big new drama will have a familiar feel Downton Abbey has been gone from our TV screens for only three weeks, but still we feel bereft without its soothing Sunday-evening presence. Happily, there’s another aristocratic costume extravaganza on the way — the long-awaited return of Upstairs Downstairs on…Continue readingThe Daily Mail: It’s Upstairs, Downton or how the BBC’s big new drama will have a familiar feel