3 h. ago 'Brilliant' new BBC drama starring Suranne Jones hailed a 'must watch' by fans

The BBC drama which dropped last month has been described as an "understated gem".

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17 h. ago Emmerdale fans speechless over Ray Walters star's 'forgotten' ITV role

Emmerdale fans were left stunned after they spotted Ray Walters star Joe Absolom in a beloved ITV drama

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18 h. ago Emmerdale fans speechless as they spot Ray Walters star in beloved ITV drama

Emmerdale star Joe Absolom previously appeared on a beloved ITV medical drama

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23 h. ago David Duchovny shares unexpected reason he joined Prime Video's Malice cast

David Duchovny stars in the new Prime Video drama Malice alongside Bad Education star Jack Whitehall.

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25 h. ago The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror

A grim, grave-faced look at Jesus realising he is in fact the son of God is a bafflingly acted and messily made boreIt’s hard to know how seriously one should take a film that casts Nicolas Cage as Joseph, the carpenter who acted as the adoptive father of Jesus. One might expect, with the actor still relying on his trademark California intonation and histrionic outbursts, that this would be another one of his late-stage career larks, like playing Dracula or himself. But in The Carpenter’s Son, a bafflingly serious stew of horror, drama and fantasy, it slowly starts to dawn on us that this is in fact, not a joke. What it is I couldn’t tell you but entertaining it most definitely isn’t.The film, from Egypt-born, London-raised writer and director Lotfy Nathan, is inspired by the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a text seen as heretical by some, which offers highly debated “insight” into the early years of Jesus. Nathan begins by clueing us into the fact that this isn’t your vicar’s Sunday sch...

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28 h. ago Cardi B gives birth to fourth child and first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs amid NFL star's paternity drama

Cardi B has given birth to her fourth child - and first with NFL player boyfriend Stefon Diggs.

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37 h. ago Trailer for Kate Winslet’s directorial debut Goodbye June has fans ‘bawling’

Winslet stars in new holiday drama alongside Helen Mirren, Toni Collette and Andrea Riseborough

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41 h. ago Netflix fans urged to watch new thriller hailed 'a slam dunk of a show'

The new thriller has left fans threatening to "forget sleep"

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43 h. ago Last Samurai Standing Netflix cast including popular boyband star

Last Samurai Standing is already catching Netflix viewers' attention, but who is in the star-studded cast of the new period drama?

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44 h. ago Never Too Late cast in full as Play For Today returns on Channel 5

Channel 5's Play for Today has been revived for a new slate of episodes, with one of them, Never Too Late, airing tonight. But who stars in the drama?

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59 h. ago Shetland Lewis Howden's famous sister you might recognise from popular drama

Shetland star Lewis Howden has been part of the BBC crime drama since it first aired in 2013 but he's not the only famous face in his family

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60 h. ago Who is Marciano? Vanderpump Villa star at centre of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season three will explore what really happened between cast member Jessi Ngatikaura and Vanderpump Villa star Marciano Brunette

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63 h. ago Shetland star details show first as BBC bosses change series location

The crime drama did something a bit different with its 10th series which started earlier this month

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2 d. ago Keala Settle and Hal Fowler to star in Mary Todd Lincoln drama Mrs President in central London

Keala Settle and Hal Fowler to star in Mary Todd Lincoln drama Mrs President in central London  WhatsOnStage

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3 d. ago ITV medical drama hailed 'incredible' by fans 'shelved' after two series

ITV has reportedly decided to 'shelve' the medical drama Malpractice, which starred the likes of Tom Hughes and Jordan Kouamé.

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3 d. ago Unlicensed review – boxing meets dodgy City trader in tale of prizefighting redemption

Mark Hampton wrote, directed and stars in this drama, but his easy onscreen charisma can’t overcome a shaky, soap opera-style plotFinancial traders in the movies are usually hubris personified, while boxers are a sure-fire vehicle for an underdog story. Writing, and playing, the role of reformed city fraudster turned pugilist Danny Goode, as well as directing the low-budget British drama that results, Mark Hampton sets up a potentially fertile collision of these two opposed elements. But cornering himself into an ultra-earnest tale of redemption, he lets his film absorb a few too many cheap cliche shots.Danny is released after a three-year stretch for cooking the books; and, as a former high-rolling member of a late-night/early-morning gambling crew called the Breakfast Club, he now must accept diminished circumstances. This means a poky rental flat and, after his licence to trade is revoked, a restaurant job washing dishes arranged by an old friend, Jon (Mark Tunstall). His ex-wife...

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4 d. ago 'Scotland is the best country in the world' Summerwater star praises incredible locations

Dougray Scott is starring in Channel 4's new Scottish drama Summerwater

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4 d. ago ‘Most horrific death you could imagine’: the truth behind Netflix’s Death by Lightning

The streamer’s new historical drama looks back on the often forgotten story of US president James Garfield whose progressive political career was cut horribly shortThe descendants of James Garfield, the 20th US president, were proud of his life but rarely spoke of his death. “We knew what had happened, that he was shot in a train station,” says James Garfield III, his great-great-great grandson. “We read about the story in books but, in one way or another, we just glanced over it.”That changed in 2011 with the publication of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, a book by Candice Millard that revived interest in Garfield’s unfinished life. Her work has now inspired a Netflix drama, Death by Lightning, starring Michael Shannon as the president and Matthew Macfadyen as the drifter who gunned him down. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago David Tennant's chilling ITV drama based on true story drops on Netflix

David Tennant starred in the harrowing ITV drama Des, which is now available to watch on Netflix, and tells the story of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers

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4 d. ago Donald Trump threatens BBC with legal action as chair says edit of speech in film was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates

BBC confirms it has received legal letter from US president threatening legal caseWe have heard from Culture, Media and Sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage, who has suggested that the outgoing BBC director Tim Davie ignored an internal dossier into bias at the BBC (see post at 09.06 for more detail on the dossier).She said Davie “ignored” concerns raised in Michael Prescott’s report over the way the speech by Donald Trump was edited for Panorama.I’m very sad about Tim Davie stepping down. I think he was an effective leader at the BBC.I think he was a great champion for public service media, but there is no escaping the fact that he was very slow to act on this particular issue. But this isn’t the first time and on this particular issue, Michael Prescott’s report, he just didn’t take it seriously until it was too late.I would like to say it has been the privilege of my career to serve as the CEO of BBC News and to work with our brilliant team of journalists.I stepped down over th...

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