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Exclusive: The London Film School (Lfs) has been hit with a new round of senior managerial exits.

Dan Lawson, the school’s Chief Operating Officer, and Véronique Fricke, the longstanding Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment, have resigned from their positions. The pair announced their departures at a recent managerial meeting. The rest of the school and staff have yet to be informed of Lawson’s resignation.

Lawson will leave the school on October 31. An interim COO will be appointed. Veronique will leave on November 1 for a new position at a higher education institution. Senior Communications Manager Holly Blake will be appointed Acting Head of Marketing.

The exit of Lawson and Fricke comes shortly after Neil Peplow resigned from his position as CEO just ten months after taking the post. Peplow has been replaced by Chris Auty, who joins from the National Film and Television School, where he has been...

Jenna Coleman is one of the most talented and charming actresses working in the film and TV industry. The English actress made her TV debut with the 2005 British soap opera Emmerdale, and her first feature film role was a very small one but it was in Captain America: First Avenger. She recently starred in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s DC comics The Sandman as Johanna Constantine and she is currently starring in the Prime Vide thriller series Wilderness. So, if you also love Coleman’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jenna Coleman that should be on your watchlist.

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Synopsis: Room At The Top is a drama series based on John Braine’s classic book about Joe Lampton, a young man on the make in 1940’s Yorkshire.

9. Dancing on the Edge (Tubi & Prime Video...

No news is good news... until it's bad news.

Apple TV+ has canceled its Uma Thurman drama series Suspicion after a single season.

Deadline first reported the news a year and a half after its freshman finale.

"When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question," the logline teased.

"As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the F.B.I. to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted."

"Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?"

In addition to Thurman, the ensemble cast for Suspicion includes Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory...

Nearly 18 months after its freshman finale dropped, the crime thriller Suspicion has been cancelled at Apple TV+, according to our sister publication Deadline. Its Season 1 ender — which was released back on March 18, 2022 — now serves as a series finale.

Apple did not immediately respond to TVLine’s request for comment.

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Based on the Israeli drama False Flag, the eight-episode drama starred Oscar nominee Uma Thurman as Katherine Newman, a prominent businesswoman whose son was kidnapped from a New York hotel.

Exclusive: Apple TV+ has quietly axed its thriller series Suspicion after one season.

Suspicion was a remake of Israeli drama series False Flag, produced by Keshet Productions, the UK-based arm of the Israeli broadcaster, producer and distributor behind the original.

The show followed 21-year-old Leo’s abduction from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York, which is captured on video and goes viral. Four British citizens staying at the hotel swiftly become prime suspects and have their lives turned upside down as they fight to absolve themselves of suspicion.

Starring as Katherine Newman, Oscar-nominee Uma Thurman appeared in six of the eight episodes and wasn’t due to feature in any further seasons, we understand. She was joined in Season 1 by the likes of Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), Noah Emmerich (The Americans), Georgina Campbell (Black Mirror), Elyes Gabel (Scorpion), Elizabeth Henstridge (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Angel Coulby...

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has revealed the nominees for its Golden Nymph Awards. The festival will open June 16 with the world premiere of the first episode of “Harlan Coben’s Shelter.”

Hollywood producer and writer Howard Gordon will receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award, the festival’s highest accolade, bestowed on a professional for their contribution to the entertainment industry.

In the Fiction competition are “Poker Face” (U.S.), starring Natasha Lyonne, “The Warrant: Breaker’s Law” (U.S.), “Ten Pound Poms” (U.K./Australia), “The Seed”, “Chorus Girls” (Denmark), “Fence” (Japan), “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” (France), “Miró” (Spain) and “Trust No One” (Israel).

In the News and Documentaries competition section are “First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler” (Canada), “Hezbollah Inc.” (France), “Life on the Donbas Frontline” (France), “Nazanin” (U.K.), “Russia, the Stolen Children of Ukraine” (France), “The Last Border” (Portugal), “The Man Who Played With Fire” (U.

Homeland co-creator Howard Gordon will receive the 62nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival’s Honorary Golden Nymph, an award that honors renowned professionals for their extraordinary contributions to the entertainment and television industry.

Gordon will be presented with the award on Tuesday, June 20, the closing night of the event. The 62nd Edition of the Fest runs June 16-20 in Monaco.

Gordon co-created with Alex Gansa the multiple award-winning series Homeland. He’s currently serving as executive producer on the second season of Fox’s Accused and he previously served as executive producer on the original Fox series 24 and reboot 24: Legacy, among numerous other credits.

Previous recipients of the honor include Darren Star Dick Wolf, Ted Turner, Jerry Bruckheimer, Anne Sweeney, Stephen J. Cannell, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner.

Additionally, it was announced today that Harlan Coben’s Shelter, a Prime Video Original series, will world premiere at the fest, with the...

Emmy-winning Roseanne star John Goodman will head up this year’s jury at the 2023 Monte-Carlo TV Festival, the festival announced Thursday.

The tireless and versatile film and TV actor, whose credits range from voicing Sully in Monsters, Inc. to supporting roles in several Coen Brothers’ films (Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski) to a phenomenally productive small-screen career that includes such series as Alpha House, Dancing on the Edge and Roseanne sequel The Conners, will head up this year’s fiction jury. Joining him are fellow jurors Camilla Rydbacken, senior vp, scripted content at Viaplay Sweden; Vikings actor Travis Fimmel; the Italian actress and presenter Francesca Chillemi; U.S. producer and Big Light Productions CEO Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle); and Marcus Ammon, managing director content for German production group Bavaria Fiction.

Acclaimed documentarian Tom Jennings (Apollo: Missions to the Moon) will head up...

Peacock’s upcoming gladiator drama Those About to Die has added seven names to its cast, with Marco Kreuzpaintner (Beat) now signed up as co-director and exec producer.

Lorenzo Richelmy, Tom Hughes, Sara Martins, Jojo Macari, Gabriella Pession, Dimitri Leonidas and Moe Hashim will join Anthony Hopkins in the AGC Television series, which Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) will co-direct with Kreuzpaintner. Robert Rodat is the writer.

The ambitious series, which is inspired by Daniel Mannix’s eponymous nonfiction book, is set in the complex and corrupt world of ancient Rome’s spectacle-driven gladiatorial competition and features an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire.

Oscar winner Hopkins was last month cast as Vespasian, Roman Emperor and head of the Flavian bloodline.

Hughes (The English, Dancing on the Edge) will play Titus Flavianus, the elder son and of Vespasian and apparent heir to the Imperial throne, and Macari (Sex Education,...

Uma Thurman is taking another stab at streaming TV.

The Kill Bill and Chambers veteran will headline the Apple TV+ drama series, Suspicion, which is described as a "heart-pounding drama."

The highly-anticipated drama is set to premiere Friday, February 4, with two episodes available on premiere day.

New episodes follow weekly.

As for what the series is about, check out the official logline:

When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question.

As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the FBI to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted.

Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of...

Apple TV Plus released a trailer for “Suspicion,” an eight-episode limited series starring Uma Thurman, premiering on Feb. 4.

Thurman plays a high-profile CEO living in New York City, where her son is taken by four mysterious, masked kidnappers at a hotel. As the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency set their eyes on four seemingly ordinary British citizens staying at the hotel, they scramble to prove their innocence — but not everyone can be trusted.

In the trailer, the four British visitors struggle to provide alibis, finding themselves in a trans-Atlantic game of cat and mouse.

Starring alongside Thurman are Kunal Nayyar (“The Big Bang Theory”), Noah Emmerich (“The Americans”), Georgina Campbell (“Black Mirror”), Elizabeth Henstridge (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Tom Rhys-Harries (“White Lines”), Elyes Gabel (“Scorpion”) and Angel Coulby (“Dancing on the Edge”).

Based on the Israeli series “False Flag,” “Suspicion” is led by showrunner and executive producer Rob Williams.

In Variety‘s Up Next, we asked four Oscar winners to pick the one person who represents the future of Hollywood.

Jared Leto loves a good transformation, as exhibited by his latest performance in Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” — where he’s unrecognizable under layers of prosthetics as Paolo, the black sheep of the fashion family. The Oscar-winning actor (who won an Academy Award in 2014 for “Dallas Buyers Club”) is a fan of “dancing on the edge” as he’s building a character. “Let’s try and fail here,” Leto tells himself before shooting a scene.

When he looks down the road, Leto chooses Kelvin Harrison Jr. as “Up Next.” The 27-year-old actor — who had breakout roles in “It Comes at Night” and “Waves” — can be seen in Joe Wright’s musical adaptation of “Cyrano” playing Christian. “He’s making interesting choices already,” Leto says. “I know he’s...

Could one of these familiar faces be responsible for the abduction of an American businesswoman’s son?

Apple TV+ announced Wednesday that new drama Suspicion will premiere Friday, Feb. 4. Based on the Israeli drama False Flag, the eight-episode series stars Oscar nominee Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction) as a prominent businesswoman “whose son is kidnapped from a New York hotel,” per the official logline. Soon after, “the eye of suspicion falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question.

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The Golden Globes’ TV supporting categories continue to be serious business. “Schitt’s Creek” stars Dan Levy and Annie Murphy lost their respective categories Sunday night, prolonging a decade-long drought for comedy performers.

Levy fell to John Boyega (“Small Axe”), while Murphy was defeated by Gillian Anderson (“The Crown”).

The last performers from a comedy to win Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were “Glee” stars Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, respectively, 10 years ago, as part of a big night for the Fox hit, which also nabbed Best Comedy/Musical Series. Since 2000, there have only been five supporting champs from a comedy across both catch-all categories: Robert Downey Jr. (“Ally McBeal”) in 2001, Kim Cattrall (“Sex and the City”) in 2003, Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) in 2008, Colfer and Lynch.

Since Colfer’s victory, the supporting actor Globe has gone to Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Ed Harris (“Game Change”), Jon Voight (“Ray Donovan...

Dan Levy and Annie Murphy won supporting Emmys as part of “Schitt’s Creek” 7-for-7 sweep in September, but they’ll have a way tougher time pulling off that twofer at the Golden Globes. That’s not just because “Schitt’s Creek” likely will not clean up at the Globes like it did at the Emmys, but because the Globes’ supporting TV categories are no laughing matter.

Should Levy and Murphy pull out wins, they’d be the first comedic performances in a deacde to win the catch-all supporting categories. “Glee” stars Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch were the last performers from a comedy to score the supporting Globes, giving the Fox musical two of its three wins in 2011, the other being Best Comedy/Musical Series. Since 2000, there have only been five supporting champs from a comedy: Robert Downey Jr. (“Ally McBeal”) in 2001, Kim Cattrall (“Sex and the City”) in 2003, Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) in 2008, Colfer and Lynch.

Crank up the Bowie: Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) has signed on to star in Paramount+’s series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The sci-fi series, first ordered by Paramount+ (currently known as CBS All Access) back in August 2019, centers on an alien (Ejiofor) “who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future,” per the official description. It’s based on the Walter Tevis novel of the same name, which inspired a 1976 film starring glam rocker David Bowie in the title role.

You’re probably already aware that Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”), Olivia Colman (“The Crown”), Regina King (“Watchmen”) and Octavia Spencer (“Self Made”), among others, landed Emmy nominations on Tuesday, but there are a handful of other familiar faces that joined the ranks in less-publicized categories. Most of these winners will be announced at the Creative Arts Emmys in two separate virtual ceremonies on Sept. 12 and 13, a week before the primetime telecast on Sept. 20. Check out the complete list of nominations here.

In the Best Narrator category, “12 Years a Slave” stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“The Elephant Queen”) and Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti”) reunite as competitors, the former of whom is a previous Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor nominee for “Dancing on the Edge,” while the latter is enjoying her maiden Emmy nomination six years after winning her first Oscar. Joining her as a first-time nominee is former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,...

Apple has ordered a new drama series, titled ‘Suspicion’, starring Academy Award-nominated actress Uma Thurman.

The series is said to be a high-paced thriller about the kidnapping of the son of a prominent American businesswoman, played by Uma Thurman. Twenty-one-year-old Leo’s abduction from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York is captured on video and goes viral. Swiftly, four British citizens staying at the hotel become the prime suspects. But are they guilty of any more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

The series is directed by Golden Globe-winner Chris Long and will also star Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), Noah Emmerich (The Americans), Georgina Campbell (Black Mirror), Elyes Gabel (Scorpion), Elizabeth Henstridge (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Angel Coulby (Dancing On The Edge).

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Darin McLeod will produce while Rob Williams serves as showrunner.

Uma Thurman is coming to Apple TV+: The “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” star has been tapped to lead a remake of Israeli drama “False Flag.” The new thriller series, titled “Suspicion,” will kick off with the abduction of Thurman’s character’s son from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York, which is captured on video and goes viral. Swiftly, four British citizens staying at the hotel become the prime suspects. But are they guilty of any more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

The original Hebrew-language “False Flag,” which ran for two seasons, centered on a handful of ordinary Israeli citizens who discover they are suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and how the accusations upended their lives.

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Apple TV+ has ordered Uma Thurman-led thriller “Suspicion” to series, the streaming service announced Wednesday.

The drama is described as “a high-paced thriller about the kidnapping of the son of a prominent American businesswoman,” played by Thurman. “Twenty-one year-old Leo’s abduction from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York is captured on video and goes viral. Swiftly, four British citizens staying at the hotel become the prime suspects. But are they guilty of anymore than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?”

Along with the “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” star, the “Suspicion” cast includes Kunal Nayyar (“The Big Bang Theory”), Noah Emmerich (“The Americans”), Georgina Campbell (“Black Mirror”), Elyes Gabel (“Scorpion”), Elizabeth Henstridge (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Edward Bluemel (“Killing Eve”) and Angel Coulby (“Dancing On The Edge”).

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Exclusive: Uma Thurman is to star in a remake of Israeli drama False Flag for AppleTV+.

The Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction star will front Suspicion, a high-paced thriller about the kidnapping of the son of a prominent American businesswoman, played by Thurman.

Twenty-one year-old Leo’s abduction from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York is captured on video and goes viral. Swiftly, four British citizens staying at the hotel become the prime suspects. But are they guilty of anymore than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Thurman, whose last TV role was in Netflix supernatural series Chambers, is joined in the series by Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), Noah Emmerich (The Americans), Georgina Campbell (Black Mirror), Elyes Gabel (Scorpion), Elizabeth Henstridge (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Angel Coulby (Dancing On The Edge).

The series is produced by Keshet Productions, the UK-based arm of the Israeli broadcaster,...

Golden Globes winner Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge) has joined the cast of Birds of Paradise from Amazon Studios and Anonymous Content. Sarah Adina Smith wrote and is directing the film, which is based on the novel, Bright Burning Stars, by A.K. Small. The pic, starring Kristine Froseth and Diana Silvers, is set at a prestigious ballet school in Paris, where the new girl (Silvers) befriends a grieving dance prodigy (Froseth) as the dancers compete for the school’s ultimate prize: to receive a contract to join the Parisian Opera’s ballet company. As the pressure mounts and the girls are pushed to their physical and emotional limits, their bond is tested and they’re forced to ask themselves just how far they are willing to go to win. Anonymous’ Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon and Everything is Everything’s Jonako Donley are producing the film, which is currently shooting in Budapest.

Congratulations are in order for Patricia Arquette!

The actress was a big winner on Sunday’s 2020 Golden Globes, taking home the trophy for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television.

Her win came for the work she did in the The Act. She beat out stars Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown), Toni Collette (Unbelievable), Meryl Streep (Big Little Lies) and Emily Watson (Chernobyl).

Arquette used her speech to point out that in years to come, the awards handed out Sunday night likely won’t be remembered as...

After years away from the spotlight Renee Zellweger made a comeback this fall with her performance as Judy Garland in the biopic “Judy,” but her comeback actually started several months earlier with her starring role in the Netflix limited series “What/If.” We already know she’s a Golden Globes front-runner for “Judy” (and the Oscars front-runner too), but could she get a surprise second Globe nom for her role on the streaming series?

“What/If” isn’t the kind of program you’d typically think of as awards bait. It’s a provocative thriller from Mike Kelley, who previously created the similarly sexy primetime soap “Revenge.” But the Globes often love a juicy soap. They awarded Best TV Drama Series to twisty relationship dramas like “Nip/Tuck” (2005), “Grey’s Anatomy” (2007) and “The Affair” (2015), and they gave Best TV Comedy Series to “Desperate Housewives” (2005-2006) and “Ugly Betty” (2007). “Revenge” also earned a 2012 Globe nomination for scene-stealing villainess Madeleine Stowe.

With an acting career that spans work for Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph Losey to Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, Russ Tamblyn’s creativity and longevity is proof that there’s life after child stardom. In Tamblyn’s case, there’s also been a bounty of juicy film and TV roles long after his legendary legs no longer kicked up movie musicals such as “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “West Side Story.” His decades in film and TV include all genres, from Robert Wise’s suspense classic “The Haunting” to George Pal’s colorful kidfare, such as “Tom Thumb” and “Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” and Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” series. It’s a career he explores in his upcoming memoir, “Dancing on the Edge.”

It was in 1948, eight years before the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. touted his arrival as “Most Promising Newcomer,” that Tamblyn first appeared in...

Little Island Productions, one of the producers of BAFTA-winning Patrick Melrose and Amazon’s forthcoming epic fantasy drama The Wheel Of Time, is looking to enter its next phase of growth with plans to open a base in La and ramp up its slate of originals.

This comes as its latest original series, Stephen Poliakoff’s period drama Summer of Rockets, is set to launch on BBC Two.

In an interview with Deadline, Little Island Managing Director Helen Flint has also opened up about its plans to grow its business of acting as the UK production partner on a raft of Hollywood studio-produced series and its latest novel adaptation.

It’s been a good fortnight for the company. Last Sunday, Patrick Melrose, which it produced with Michael Jackson’s Two Cities Television, won two BAFTAs including best mini-series and Benedict Cumberbatch as best actor. Flint revealed that the show had...

Golden Globe-winning actress Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge) and Kelly Blatz (Fear the Walking Dead) will star as the title characters in Loren and Rose, an indie film written and directed by Russell Brown. The story centers on a promising filmmaker and an iconic actress who forms a special bond over a series of lunches at the same otherworldly restaurant — only to face an untimely illness which threatens to tear them apart. Filming currently underway in Los Angeles. Valeria Lopez is producing for Wise Lars LLC. Bisset is repped by Kimberly Hines of Framework Entertainment, while Blatz is with Luber Roklin Entertainment and Innovative Artists.

Matt Cook from the CBS comedy Man With A Plan is set to lead the indie comedy, Film Fest. Marshall Cook will direct the film, which he co-wrote with Paul Alan Cope. It follows struggling filmmaker, Logan Clark...

There are plenty of things you can say about the upcoming remake of Disney's classic The Lion King, but "the cast sucks" certainly isn't one of them. The voice cast is chock-full of big-name stars, from Donald Glover as Simba to Beyoncé as Nala to John Oliver as Zazu. There's even a bit of casting nostalgia: the legendary James Earl Jones and his unmistakeable voice will be returning as Mufasa, the same character he voiced in the 1994 original movie. And if you've been to the movies at all in the past few years, chances are you also recognize the actor who's lending his voice to Scar, the villainous usurper at the heart of the conflict, voiced by Jeremy Irons in the original film.

Chiwetel Ejiofor began his career on stage in his native England, where he starred in several Shakespeare plays including Othello and Romeo and Juliet. He made...

British phenomenon Bodyguard has exploded on to the Golden Globes nominations with two nods including a somewhat surprising inclusion in the Drama category.

The Jed Mercurio-penned series led a good morning for Brits with Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal also scoring highly with HFPA members.

Bodyguard, which is produced by ITV-owned World Productions, is thought to be the first truly original BBC drama to be nominated in the Best Television Series – Drama category at the Golden Globes. The six-part show airs on Netflix in the UK and while the Svod service is understood to have been a partner since the show’s early production stages, it was picked up by Netflix’s co-licensing team.

The terror thriller was the biggest new drama hit for the British public broadcaster in over ten years with 11 million people tuning into live to its finale back in September. However, its inclusion in the U.

When it comes to TV at the Golden Globes, the newer the better. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association often awards shows when they’re shiny and new like first-year Best TV Drama Series winners “Mr. Robot” (2016), “The Crown” (2017) and “The Handmaid’s Tale” (2018). By that standard, the 55-year-old “Doctor Who” doesn’t fit the bill, but what’s old is new again. The show has gotten renewed attention thanks to its brand new cast led by the show’s first ever female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. As the show’s own marketing campaign has said, “It’s about time.”

“Doctor Who” is about a time-travelling alien who assumes different forms, but the 13 actors who previously played the title character over the course of more than five decades were all men, even though it was established in the show’s canon that he can change gender as well. When writer Chris Chibnall...

Lawson’s appointment rounds out the executive team.

London Film School (Lfs) has appointed Dan Lawson as chief operating officer, in a new role created in response to the growth of the school.

He joins director Gisli Snaer and chairman Greg Dyke on the Lfs executive team. Snaer and Dyke were appointed in June and April 2018 respectively.

Lawson’s responsibilities include leading the implementation of Lfs strategic initiatives, and acting as spokesperson on regional, national and international matters.

Two major plans he will support are the Lfs move to a new campus at London City Island; and a fundraising drive...

“It is striking that the actors went in and singled out Cameron Britton for a show that got no other nominations,” Tom O’Brien tells me and fellow Gold Derby contributors Charles Bright, Zach Laws and Amanda Spears in our slugfest about the Emmy race for Best Drama Guest Actor (watch above). Britton is now the odds-on favorite to win for his breakthrough performance in “Mindhunter,” but our group is skeptical about his front-runner status over fellow nominees F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”), Matthew Goode (“The Crown”), Ron Cephas Jones (“This is Us”), Gerald McRaney (“This is Us”) and Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”).

SEEour reactions slugfest on the drama nominations.

“Britton is a totally unknown actor, so they just nominated him off of the performance alone,” Laws adds. It might seem like a given that an actor would be nominated for his performance, but name-recognition often goes a long way at the Emmys,...

Golden Globe-winning British actress Jacqueline Bisset will pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Odessa International Film Festival.

She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.

Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.

Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...

Golden Globe-winning British actress Jacqueline Bisset will pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Odessa International Film Festival.

She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.

Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.

Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...

Sam Heughan is more than just a pretty face. He’s a skilled and talented actor whose portrayal of Jamie on “Outlander” should not be overlooked again by the Emmys, though he missed the cut in the first two seasons of Starz’s popular time-travel romance. Can he overcome the Emmys’ “Slap the Stud” curse?

The Emmys have had a long history of slapping handsome leading men — it took them eight years to finally give Best Drama Actor to Jon Hamm for “Mad Men” and six years to even nominate Kit Harington for “Game of Thrones.” But could the tide be turning? Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) won Best Drama Actor just last year and his co-star Milo Ventimiglia was nominated alongside him. And relative youth didn’t stop actors like Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) and Riz Ahmed (“The Night Of”) from collecting trophies. Heughan deserves similar consideration.

Emmy voters know a good bargain when they see one, so they’re often eager to reward two performances for the price of one. Sally Field (“Sybil”) and Toni Collette (“United States of Tara”) won for playing multiple personalities. And Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) prevailed as a combo platter of identical clones. Now Emmy voters could give the nod to J.K. Simmons for playing two versions of the same man in the Starz sci-fi thriller “Counterpart.”

The series premiered in December 2017 and stars Simmons as Howard Silk, a United Nations bureaucrat in Berlin who works for an agency whose purpose he doesn’t quite understand. It turns out his agency oversees a gateway to a parallel world with another version of Howard who crosses between worlds on dangerous field missions.

Now Simmons is an Emmy contender for Best Drama Actor for his performance. He has never been nominated for an...

Caitriona Balfe was shockingly snubbed at the 2016 Emmys for her tour de force performance in Season 2 of “Outlander.” It was one of those snubs that was so inexcusable, so unthinkable, that many fans and pundits still scratch their heads in disbelief to this very day. Hey, Emmy voters: Now is your chance to make amends for this inexplicable oversight and hand Balfe a deserving Iou Best Drama Actress nomination on July 12. You can do it!

See‘Outlander’ superstar Sam Heughan accepts Best Actor award from Gold Derby: ‘I shall treasure this forever’ [Watch]

In “Outlander” Balfe plays Claire Randall, a married nurse in 1945. After being mysteriously transported back in time to the rugged highlands of 1743 Scotland, she falls in love with rough diamond Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and they embark on a journey that will take them back and forth between centuries and continents.

Balfe has been lauded by fans and...

Exclusive: Toby Stephens (Black Sails), Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty), Linus Roache (Homeland) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) have been set to star in writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s (Dancing on the Edge) semi-autobiographical BBC Two drama Summer of Rockets, which is underway.

The six-episode hourlong series is set in the UK during the Cold War period of the late 1950s, a time when the UK, like much of the world, was dealing with the threat of international espionage and nuclear armageddon.

Helen Flint (Patrick Melrose) will executive produce for Little Island Productions and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The drama was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, and Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and will be distributed internationally by BBC Studios. Filming has begun in and around London and Oxford.

The series follows Samuel, a 40-something Russian Jewish émigré,...

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Laemmle’s Royal Theatre in Los Angeles will be presenting a 45th anniversary screening of Francois Truffaut’s 1973 film Day for Night. The 115-minute film, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and known in its native France as La Nuit américaine (The American Night), stars Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion, Jean-Pierre Léaud and François Truffaut and has been referred to as the most beloved film ever made about filmmaking. It will be screened on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 7:30 pm.

Please Note: At press time, Actress Jacqueline Bisset is scheduled to appear in person for a discussion about the film following the screening.

From the press release:

Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.com/ac.

Day For Night

Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.

Tobias Menzies said farewell to “Outlander” last season on his way to greener pastures — or, more golden pastures as least as he’s about to don “The Crown” as Prince Philip in season three of the Netflix series about the British royal family. Menzies played the devoted Frank Randall and his evil ancestor Black Jack in “Outlander” until Frank’s death last fall in the season three episode “All Debts Paid.” Now our readers think he deserves an Emmy nomination because “poor Frank is overdue for some love.” Scroll down for our complete poll results.

A whopping 93% of readers said Menzies deserves an Emmy bid for his final three episodes of “Outlander.” And it might just happen since being cast in a leading role in the Emmy winning “Crown” has raised his industry profile significantly. But he’s already been well known by his peers, even if he hasn’t always been a household name.

Tobias Menzies deserves a goodbye Emmy nomination for Best Drama Guest Actor for his last season of “Outlander.” Last fall Menzies ended his three-year run in the time-travel romance, in which he played dual roles as 18th century antagonist Black Jack and his 20th century descendant Frank Randall, the first husband of Claire (Caitriona Balfe). And the timing for Menzies could be just right since it was recently announced that he will be taking over the role of Prince Philip on “The Crown” from Matt Smith in its upcoming third season.

If you’re not familiar with Menzies by name you probably recognize his face as the character actor has worked in a number of award-winning shows. He’s appeared in the dramas “Rome” and “Game of Thrones” as well as longform programs “Black Mirror,” “The Honorable Woman” and “The Night Manager.” Menzies can also bring the funny as he...

In today’s film news roundup, Jacqueline Bisset has joined “Honey in the Head,” Freestyle Digital buys “Carter and June” and the editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio have unionized.

Casting

Jacqueline Bisset is set to join the cast of “Honey in the Head” opposite Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon and Emily Mortimer, Variety has learned exclusively.

She will play the mother of Mortimer’s character, and likes to playfully flirt with Nick Nolte’s character whenever she has the opportunity. “Honey in the Head,” the English-language remake of the 2014 German drama “Honig Im Kopf,” will start production in May in Germany, Italy, and the U.K.

The original movie, produced by Barefoot Films, was directed by and starred Til Schweiger as the son of a retired veteran suffering from Alzheimer’s disease who convinces his widowed father (played by Dieter Hallervorden) to move in with him. The film, co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

E.M. Forster‘s classic 1910 novel “Howards End” was most famously adapted into a 1992 Merchant Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It earned nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director (James Ivory), and it won three including Best Actress for Thompson. That’s a tough act to follow, but now, 26 years after that film, Forster’s novel has now been adapted into a four-part limited series on Starz that is garnering its own rave reviews. It’s rated 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and has scored 89 on MetaCritic, indicating near-universal acclaim. So now it has the potential to be as big a hit at the Emmys as the film was at the Oscars.

The series stars Hayley Atwell in the role that won Thompson the Oscar. She plays Margaret Schlegel, who seeks love and purpose in turn-of-the-century England. It’s directed by Hettie Macdonald, a BAFTA TV Award...

Exclusive: Marcus Henderson, who appeared in Jordan Peele’s horror-comedy blockbuster Get Out from Blumhouse/Universal, has joined Alfre Woodard in Juanita, with The Wire director Clark Johnson attached to helm. Adam Beach, Ashlie Atkinson, Tsulan Cooper and Kat Smith also have been cast in the film adaptation of Sheila Williams’ novel Dancing on the Edge of the Roof. The drama follows Juanita (Woodard) who is fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban…...

Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool), Jacqueline Antaramian (Madame Secretary), Liv Lisa Fries (Zurich), Christiane Paul (The Wave), General Hospital alum Ingo Rademacher and Marco Khan (10,000 BC) have joined Counterpart, Starz's upcoming spy thriller, in recurring roles. From Mrc, Anonymous Content and Gilbert Films, Counterpart is the story of Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency who discovers that the agency he…...

The U.K. could soon lose another one of its acting talents to the lures of the U.S.

Ariyon Bakare, after a career spanning two decades on British TV in shows such as Doctors, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Dancing on the Edge, alongside some acclaimed stage performances, has Hollywood in his sights.

While the Londoner has already notched up a number of smaller roles in some major blockbusters — most notably The Dark Knight and Rogue One (playing Blue Squadron pilot Blue Four, no less) — in Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi thriller Life, released by Sony on Friday, he’s found...

Dubois Records, in cooperation with Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece will release the Victoria – Original Soundtrack digitally on all music streaming platforms to coincide with the Us release of the television series on PBS this coming weekend. The album features the limited series’ original score by multi-bafta and Ivor Novello winning composer Martin Phipps (Woman In Gold, The Keeping Room) and Ruth Barrett (City Of Tiny Lights, Whitechapel) with vocals from the Mediaeval Baebes. Victoria was first aired on ITV in the UK on August 28, 2016.

Phipps says: “The idea was to give Victoria a dynamic voice, an explosive theme through which we could rejoice in her strength & courage. The Mediaeval Baebes were the perfect sound for this. With one foot in the classical world & one in the commercial, they gave Victoria the mixture of refinement & attitude I was after.”

Barrett says: “I started composing from episode 2, weaving in some of Martin...

Continuing its dive into originals, Acorn Media Enterprises has partnered with All3Media International and the BBC as the North American co-producer on period drama Close To The Enemy. Jim Sturgess, Alfie Allen, Alfred Molina, Angela Bassett and Freddie Highmore star in the seven-part series from Stephen Poliakoff (Perfect Strangers, Dancing On The Edge). Coinciding with the BBC broadcast, the drama will make its U.S. debut on streaming service Acorn TV in…...

ITV's upcoming legal conspiracy thriller Fearless has added Michael Gambon to star alongside Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory. Shooting on the six-part drama penned by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, is just beginning. Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing and has set further main cast including actor-comedian John Bishop, Emmy nominee Robin Weigert (Jessica Jones), Jonathan Forbes (Catastrophe), Wunmi Mosaku (Dancing on the Edge) and…...

ITV's upcoming legal conspiracy thriller Fearless has added Michael Gambon to star alongside Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory. Shooting on the six-part drama penned by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, is just beginning. Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing and has set further main cast including actor-comedian John Bishop, Emmy nominee Robin Weigert (Jessica Jones), Jonathan Forbes (Catastrophe), Wunmi Mosaku (Dancing on the Edge) and…...