Just because Downton Abbey is on hiatus on both sides of the Atlantic doesn’t mean there’s no news being made by the hit British series and its cast members. The latest is word from BBC News and other sources that veteran British actress Sue Johnston, 70, will be joining the period drama for its fifth […]
Cue Billy Joel. Irishman Liam Neeson and Englishman Dan Stevens had to get into a New York state of mind for their starring roles in A Walk Among the Tombstones, a movie opening next fall. Neeson, in another of his brooding action hero turns, plays an ex-New York City cop turned private detective. He’s hired by Stevens, who portrays a narcotics […]
Only a week after reprising his best known role as brainy mutant Charles Xavier at multiplexes in the latest X-Men film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, James McAvoy turns super scummy as a gleefully corrupt cop in Filth, which opens Friday (May 30) in New York. It’s a major change-up for the Glasgow-born star, known for portraying sensitive, admirable […]
Birds do it, bees do it and, apparently, so do sloths. Unbeknownst to their supervisors at the London Zoo, Marilyn and Leander, a pair of two-toed sloths at the Zoological Society of London’s menagerie, were doing what comes naturally on the sly. The result: a baby sloth, the first ever born at the London Zoo, […]
Angela Lansbury, 88, loves that she’s able to turn back the clock on stage all the way to age 72. “The great thing about theatre, you see, is that it’s all about illusion,” the London-born actress told The Guardian while promoting the film version of a stage production of Driving Miss Daisy, in which she toured […]
Here’s the story in a nutshell: An artist has carved the faces of five famous British football players into Brazil nuts. (That’s football as in soccer.) Dave, a TV comedy channel broadcasting in the U.K. and Ireland, commissioned artist Quentin Devine to make the nutty portraits to hype a trio of soccer-themed specials that will air as […]
Call the Midwife ended its third season with a fond farewell for one of its major characters. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), who arrived at Nonnatus House in London’s impoverished East End as a young, inexperienced nurse-midwife in the show’s very first episode, is taking her leave. Intent on following a new calling, she departs Nonnatus House […]
Set your DVRs. Fox has announced that Gracepoint, its Americanized remake of Broadchurch, will air on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. EST beginning this fall. The original British whodunit series was hugely successful when it aired on ITV in the U.K. and on BBC America in the U.S. last year. The new show, which will feature Broadchurch’s David Tennant […]
It’s official: Benedict Cumberbatch is a classy guy. He got an official shout-out from Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Sarah Jessica Parker for wearing, and getting right, his white tie and tails outfit at last week’s fancy dress benefit for the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The invitation specified white tie and tails for men but it was […]
The latest, deliciously crammed episode (Season 3, Ep. 7) of Call the Midwife skillfully, and poignantly, interwove multiple stories that were, at their center, about creating a home or coming back to one. As with the best episodes of this British series (which ends its season next week on PBS), it deftly portrayed the overlapping lives, both […]
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