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Christina Hendricks has seen an alien. Well, a UFO, really – but still. She’s even got a picture on her phone to prove it. I am told this story matter-of-factly by the Mad Men actor when I enquire as to whether she and Chris O’Dowd believe in extra-terrestrial life. “I think there has to be,” she says simply. It’s a relevant …
Your second year at Yale School of Drama, says Brian Tyree Henry, is the one that “makes or breaks you”. As well as rigorous Shakespeare studies – including staging the Bard’s works on a shoestring – Henry was also cast as a lead in a Yale Repertory Theatre production of Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A Play …
Much like the mysterious DB Cooper – if he were Scottish, famous, and a woman – Lorraine Kelly has disappeared. That’s the gripe, at least, among some fans of Lorraine, Kelly’s popular ITV morning show. In recent years, the presenter has been taking more and more time off from her regular hosting duties; a X/Twitter account called “Where is Lorraine?” …
Michael Sheen is visiting Bulldogs, a boxing gym in Port Talbot. He’s talking to the gym’s manager Ceri, a full-time worker and a single mum. Ceri has £12,000 worth of credit card debt and, at various points, has been forced to use food banks. She’d love to own her own home but, as you might gather, despite …
“If you start running out of leads,” the detective in ITV’s new six-part drama, Protection, muses, “maybe you missed something right at the start.” It’s a philosophy of sleuthing that doesn’t seem to be shared by the British TV establishment, who mostly ran out of ideas a long time ago. And Protection is – from its inception – …
On balance, the podcast revolution has been a negative for television. Whether it’s Homecoming on Prime Video (starring a confused Julia Roberts) or Dirty John on Netflix, hit podcasts have invariably made for watered-down TV. Something about the format’s chatty, informal style translates uneasily to the screen. For that reason, true crime fans could be forgiven for having muted expectations …
For decades, film versus television felt like Hollywood’s forever war. Cinema was dominated by the biggest stars, the greatest directors, who sneered at the lesser medium; yet television reached vast audiences and inspired more ardent fanaticism. As the years passed, the differences became smaller – actors and filmmakers switched format with fickle abandon – and, …
Erin Doherty didn’t expect to be scared of a boy almost two decades her junior. The 32-year-old actor has made a career playing formidable women; often enigmatic characters projecting a certain toughness, a sense of gradually fraying invulnerability. She was a young Princess Anne in The Crown. An unhinged internet stalker in the BBC’s Chloe. And, most recently, the notorious gang leader …
Siobhan Finneran reckons she’s “not very good with dates”. But she can remember exactly what she was doing the morning after the first episode of Happy Valley’s final season aired – because she ended up having to do an accidental victory lap of one of the North West’s least glamorous locations. “It was at the start …
Oh, how Netflix has been crying out for a series like Adolescence. Over the past few years, the company that kicked off last decade’s great “streaming revolution” has entered a qualitative nosedive. The content has kept coming, thick, fast and predictable; despite huge budgets and a ream of big-name stars, however, critical successes have been few and far between. …