Netflix have vowed to “vigorously defend” a multi-million dollar lawsuit by Baby Reindeer’s real-life Martha.
21.05.2024 - 06:23 / ok.co.uk
When Stephen Merchant got the news that his show, The Outlaws, was being commissioned for a third series, he led with one bold idea – someone shows up with a dead body.
The group of misfits in Stephen’s creation have already been involved in their fair share of crime, but Stephen says these “ordinary” people dealing with murder is a whole other ball game. “I love a TV show when someone shows up with a dead body,” admits Stephen. “So that was the one thing I had when we started this.
I said to the writers, ‘Someone’s going to show up with a body – I don’t know who, or why, but it has to happen.’” The first and second series saw Greg (Stephen), Rani (Rhianne Barreto), Ben (Gamba Cole), John (Darren Boyd), Myrna (Clare Perkins) and Lady Gabby (Eleanor Tomlinson) thrust together as they served a Community Payback sentence in Bristol. Down on their luck, they thought things were about to change when they discovered a huge bag of cash. And it did, but for the worse as the true owner was revealed to be The Dean (Claes Bang), an extremely dangerous drug lord.
The only way of getting The Dean off their backs was to get him behind bars, so the group set him up.
Six months on and The Dean is awaiting trial, but problems arise when there’s a risk the case could collapse, and then Rani returns seeking help from the gang. “Rani has a dead body in the boot of her car,” says Stephen. “And Rani sort of disappeared at the end of the last series.
Netflix have vowed to “vigorously defend” a multi-million dollar lawsuit by Baby Reindeer’s real-life Martha.
Baby Reindeer's real life Martha, Fiona Harvey, is suing Netflix for a staggering $70 million in a huge US lawsuit. American lawyers acting for the Scottish law graduate have filed a Complaint against the streaming giant.
Baby Reindeer’s real life Martha, Fiona Harvey, is suing Netflix for a staggering $70 million.
Naman Ramachandran Nicola Coughlan, Nonso Anozie and Jessica Gunning have joined the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Enid Blyton‘s “The Magic Faraway Tree.” Coughlan (“Bridgerton”) will portray the woodland fairy Silky, joined by Anozie (“Ted Lasso”) as Moonface. Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”) takes on the role of Dame Washalot, with Dustin Demri-Burns (“Slow Horses”) as Saucepan Man. Mark Heap (“Friday Night Dinner”) will play Mr.
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls), Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth, Ted Lasso), and Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer) have signed on to star in The Magic Faraway Tree, the upcoming Enid Blyton adaptation from Neal Street Productions, Elysian Film Group and Ashland Hill Media Finance.
his show “Uncensored,” following Fiona Harvey’s interview in May. “I do feel threatened,” she said. “I always felt threatened by her because I just never knew what she was capable of.”The Scottish legal advocate explained: “I seem to have been her major obsession over all these years,” adding this had been “for many years, for longer than Richard Gadd.”Wray met Harvey through work, and Wray alleged, “She was dreadful … rude to staff.
A Scots lawyer has spoken of her fears that Baby Reindeer’s real-life Martha is moving back to Scotland to be close to her.
Lexi Carson “Baby Reindeer” was among the winners at the first-ever Gotham TV Awards on Tuesday evening, taking home the prize for breakthrough limited series. “I never thought in a million years that this dark, weird, messed up show would have brought in this universal love that it’s received,” said Richard Gadd, the show’s creator and star, in his acceptance speech. He also thanked Netflix, his team and his mom and dad for “messing [him] up enough to make [him] an artist.” Gadd went on to say, “It’s kind of weird also that a show as messed up as this has gone on to strike a chord with so many people.
Baby Reindeer, has said that she was “not doing an impersonation of a real person” in the show.The Netflix series, which has been a major hit, claims to tell the “true story” of struggling comedian Donny Dunn (played by the show’s writer/creator Richard Gadd, upon whose experiences the events are based), who is stalked maliciously by a woman named Martha.Fiona Harvey is widely believed to be the woman upon whom the Martha character was based, and she appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored earlier this month (May 9), her first television interview since the show aired.In the interview, which has been viewed over 10 million times, Harvey denied many aspects of the show’s narrative, saying that she did not stalk Gadd, attack his girlfriend, destroy the bar he worked in or contact his parents. She also strongly denied being convicted of any charges, which is the fate that befalls Martha in the show.But Gunning has said that she is not engaging with the real-world controversy surrounding the show.
K.J. Yossman “Baby Reindeer,” the Netflix series that has taken the world by storm since dropping last month, boldly opens with the claim that “This is a true story.” (Unlike another Netflix series, “Inventing Anna,” which opens with the title card: “This whole story is completely true.
Scots comedian Richard Gadd is currently basking in the success of his Netflix series Baby Reindeer, which has become one of the streaming giant's most popular hits ever. The Fife-born comic, 35, portrays a fictionalised version of himself as he grapples with an unsettling stalker.
Janey Godley has claimed to fans that she has also received messages from Baby Reindeer’s real life ‘Martha’ Fiona Harvey.
A Coventry nightclub has sparked outrage online after claiming a 'world exclusive' public appearance by Baby Reindeer's real life 'Martha'.
The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer last night slammed the £250 offered by Piers Morgan’ s firm for her exclusive interview.
This has been an extraordinary year for Josh Finan.The actor from Merseyside became a household name with his role as Marco in the first season of The Responder, alongside Martin Freeman. His portrayal brought depth and humour to the character, making audiences empathise with him, despite his descent into a series of poor choices on the fringes of legality. Following his initial success, Josh has continued to shine, featuring in two major series this year – Netflix's The Gentleman and Baby Reindeer, where he played pub worker Diggsy.
Richard Gadd has said he has been shocked by the success of Baby Reindeer and his new-found fame amid blurring lines between the Netflix series and reality.
Netflix's smash hit Baby Reindeer has made household names of its stars including Richard Gadd, who plays Donny, and Jessica Gunning, who stars as Martha.The seven-part drama tells a fictionalised account of Richard's own years-long stalking nightmare, after he took bar work to pay the bills and kindly gave a lonely customer a cup of tea on the house. Over a terrifying three-year period, Martha sends Donny more than 41,000 emails, voicemails totalling 350 hours, dozens of social media messages, and 106 pages of letters, where she refers to him as 'baby reindeer' – hence the show's title.
“Baby Reindeer” did her first television interview to speak out against the alleged inaccuracies of the hit Netflix series. Fiona Harvey, 58, appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” and broke her silence on being the supposed inspiration for the unhinged lead character (played by Jessica Gunning) in Richard Gadd’s show. Harvey told Piers Morgan that she never stalked Gadd, 34, and slammed the series — which she still hasn’t seen — for being “completely untrue.” She claimed that her first encounter with Gadd didn’t happen as it was shown between Martha and Gadd’s character, Donny, on the show.According to Harvey, Gadd did not offer her a cup of tea after she walked into the pub where he worked when they met.
Baby Reindeer is one of the year’s most talked-about shows, but who is the real-life woman that inspired the character of Martha?The hit Netflix series was created by Richard Gadd, and claims to tell the true story of his experience of being obsessively stalked by a woman called Martha after he befriends her in the pub he works in.In the show, Martha has already served a four-and-a-half year sentence for a previous stalking conviction, and in the final episode she is given a further nine months in prison.After the show’s release, some viewers attempted to uncover the real identities of characters in the show, including Martha. Gadd subsequently urged viewers to refrain from speculating, saying: “That’s not the point of our show.”The woman chose to publicly reveal her identity this week in an interview with the Daily Record, after a flurry of speculation since the release of the show.She is Fiona Harvey, a 58-year-old Scottish lawyer, who in the interview described the show as “a load of rubbish”.Speaking about the decision to come forward, she said she did so “because people have to know what is going on.”*WORLD EXCLUSIVE*The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer breaks cover and gives me her first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix show.
Scots woman Fiona Harvey will go head to head with Piers Morgan in an explosive TV clash on his YouTube channel which airs tonight. They will discuss the "true story" behind smash hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which features lead character 'Martha', said to be based on Harvey.