4 h. ago Netflix is removing James Norton and Lesley Manville's forgotten London

Netflix is removing James Norton and Lesley Manville's forgotten London-set drama this week  Yahoo News UK

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2 w. ago House of Guinness star James Norton eyed for 'tragic' role in four

James Norton is reportedly being lined up to join Sam Mendes' upcoming four-part biopic about the Fab Four

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2 w. ago House of Guinness star eyed for key role in project about British music legends

A major star from one of Netflix’s biggest new hits of 2025 may have just found his next project

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2 w. ago Tech, terror and Tom Hollander: Niamh Algar on her wild new TV thriller

The Irish actor started out with Shane Meadows but her career is now stratospheric. As she takes on big tech in The Iris Affair, she talks about nerves, AI nightmares – and battling a malevolent supercomputerExplosions weren’t a problem, nor were the guns, fire, multiple fights and a spell underwater – but dealing with cockroaches? The line was drawn. “That was the one stunt we weren’t allowed to do,” says Niamh Algar with a laugh, “because cockroaches are actually quite dangerous.” Plus, she says with a wry smile, you can’t train one not to bite. It’s not too much of a spoiler to say her character in the new Sky Atlantic show The Iris Affair has a run-in with a bug infestation – CGI it turns out, and fakes made by the props team – that makes her other encounters with corrupt police, internet sleuths and a potentially malevolent megaquantum computer seem tame.Algar, most recently seen in the ITV thriller Playing Nice with James Norton earlier this year, plays Iris Nixon, a genius wh...

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3 w. ago So much for the nicest guy in showbiz! The truth about James Norton and his 'vicious backstabbing' of his co

James Norton has a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in showbiz. Sadly, he's in danger of wrecking his halo.

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3 w. ago James Norton reveals he got 'nepo dad' a part in Netflix hit House of Guinness

Actor James Norton, who is best known for his roles in Happy Valley and Grantchester, has revealed that he got his father a small part in his new Netflix series

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4 w. ago James Norton unveils touching Rafferty detail House of Guinness fans would have missed

EXCLUSIVE: House of Guinness's Sean Rafferty was not based on a real historical figure, but is extraordinary nonetheless.

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4 w. ago Netflix is removing a large selection of movies and TV shows

It’s unknown whether they’ll ever return

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4 w. ago ‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents

From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?Putting on a good Irish accent is an art. In the same way that pouring Guinness is an art, actually. And as with all artistic feats, people think, “Well, anyone could do that!” before swiftly finding out that anyone could not, in fact, do that. An accurate Irish accent, for a non-Irish actor, takes dedication, research, talent. And as is the case with all art, failure invites utter brutality from the critics.In the canon of Irish TV and film, there are sadly more misses than hits when it comes to nailing the gift from God that is a true Irish accent. Bad accents become famous for being bad, remembered for reducing all Irish speech to a monolith. Brad Pitt as an IRA gunman in The Devil’s Own, for instance, was so bad that the year after it came out, the Troubles finally ended. Then there’s Gerard...

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last month House of Guinness's James Norton admits he was 'terrified' of being 'crucified' over crucial detail

EXCLUSIVE: House of Guinness stars James Norton as Sean Rafferty and the star opened up about getting into character.

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