12 h. ago Michelle Keegan confirmed to star in new ITV crime drama The Blame with Netflix star

Michelle Keegan will take on the lead role in new ITV crime drama The Blame, which promises to have viewers 'on the edge of their seats'

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29 h. ago In Flight on Channel 4: What's it about, full cast and where you've seen them before

The series boasts a Coronation Street legend in the lead role

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4 d. ago BBC crime drama hailed 'flawless' but viewers have one complaint about Scottish scenery

British television actress Nicola Walker steps into the lead role of this six-part BBC crime drama Annika, which has just released a second series.

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9 d. ago Netflix viewers 'can't wait' for new thriller thanks to actor stepping into lead role

The film adaptation is based on author Ruth Ware's best-selling thriller novel of the same name. It was first published in 2016 and sees a woman board a luxury yacht where she witnesses a murder

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1 week ago A particular set of skills: how Liam Neeson went from ‘master actor’ to deadpan Naked Gun spoofery

As his turn in cop-comedy reboot brings rave reviews, we look back on the actor’s varied career, from Schindler’s List to Star Wars and, of course, TakenLiam Neeson may have gained pop-culture immortality for his gravelly growl of a certain line of dialogue in the 2008 hostage thriller Taken – “I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills” – but the release of his new film, a reboot of the classic spoof cop movie The Naked Gun represents another remarkable turn in Neeson’s distinguished career, which has taken in heavyweight prestige dramas, historical biopics, blockbusting science fiction, superhero epics and head-cracking action cinema.In The Naked Gun, Neeson has for the first time taken the lead role in an out-and-out comedy. He plays Frank Drebin Jr, the police-detective son of Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin in the original. Created by the celebrated comedy team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, The Naked Gun was released in 1988, with...

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3 w. ago Dua Lipa's boyfriend Callum Turner 'in the lead' to take on James Bond role

A huge British actor, who starred in Masters of the Air, is a fan-favourite option to take on the role of James Bond in the upcoming instalment

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4 w. ago Pretty Yende on the raw power of music: ‘opera is literally soul food’

The soprano is singing the lead role of Semele this year, and her star is on the rise. She chats to India Block about getting in character and growing into her voice

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4 w. ago Peaky Blinders fans are just discovering star in 'masterpiece' period drama

Peaky Blinders star Sam Claflin is taking on the lead role in a period drama, which will be available to stream this summer and fans have already hailed it a 'masterpiece'

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4 w. ago British crime drama Adolescence receives 13 Emmy nominations

Other British nominees included Sir Gary Oldman as outstanding lead actor in a drama series for his role in thriller Slow Horses.

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4 w. ago ‘I wish I’d enjoyed my fame a bit more’: Jim Sturgess on regrets, romance and the art of the mix tape

He broke Hollywood in his early 20s, and found it all extremely scary. Now starring in a beautiful TV romance, Sturgess talks love, Walkmans – and why he might have just found his forever screen partnerLike all good love stories, this one starts with a chance meeting and ends with a reunion. It was 2008, pre-Hardy and Hiddleston, post-Bale and Grant; Jim Sturgess was a rising star and the latest handsome young Brit to break Hollywood. Having landed the lead role in casino thriller 21, Sturgess needed a love interest: cue a slew of chemistry tests with a roll call of beautiful young women, a process Sturgess remembers now as “the most exposed blind date you could ever possibly put yourself through, with five producers watching you from afar”.Kate Bosworth got the role, but one actor lingered in Sturgess’s mind: an effervescent Australian called Teresa Palmer. “When you do those chemistry tests, they put you through it, so we spent the whole day together,” Sturgess says. “I was really...

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