Coronation Street favourite Jack P Shepherd and his girlfriend Hanni Treweek have shared loved-up snaps from a romantic break in London.
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Manori Ravindran International EditorThe BBC is handing one of its juggernaut shows a multi-season renewal and moving production outside of London for the first time since 2001.Cooking competition series “MasterChef,” produced by Banijay U.K.-owned Shine TV, has been renewed for six more seasons, and is moving from London to Birmingham from 2024. The relocation is part of the BBC’s six-year “Across the U.K.” strategy, which was first announced in March 2021 and committed $978 million to expanding key services outside of London and further afield in the U.K.
The popular culinary show was filmed in Kent from 1990 to 2001, but has been shot in East London’s 3 Mills Studios since 2014.Alongside “MasterChef,” the BBC has also renewed “MasterChef: The Professionals” and “Celebrity MasterChef” through 2028, Variety has confirmed. These shows will also move to Birmingham from 2024, where they’ll be filmed in the new Digbeth Loc.
Studios complex, which was set up by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight. Meanwhile, the recently announced “Young MasterChef” for BBC Three has received a five-season deal, starting in 2022, and will also make the move up north in two years’ time, along with any of the brand’s popular Christmas specials.“MasterChef” is hosted in the U.K.
by chef John Torode and broadcaster Gregg Wallace. The show will mark its 18th season this year.BBC director general Tim Davie said: “We said we would create jobs and investment, bringing decision-making and productions to the West Midlands as part of our ‘Across the U.K.’ plans.
Moving one of our biggest program brands shows we are making that a reality. This is great news for Birmingham and the BBC.”Kate Phillips, director of BBC Entertainment, added:
.Coronation Street favourite Jack P Shepherd and his girlfriend Hanni Treweek have shared loved-up snaps from a romantic break in London.
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EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has entered into an overall deal with SRO Productions, the label founded by director Bartlett Sher (Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird), writer JT Rogers (Tokyo Vice) and producer Cambra Overend (Oslo). Under the two-year deal, Amblin will have first-look rights on SRO’s film projects.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee are continuing their tour around the world while promoting The Power of the Dog!
London Grammar have announced details of a new London show as part of this year’s South Facing Festival.The band will perform at the Crystal Palace Bowl amphitheatre in Crystal Palace Park on July 29, with support coming from George Fitzgerald and Tora-I + Oklou (DJ set).The show is part of the open-air concert series which began last year, and will this year run from July 29 to August 21.Tickets for London Grammar’s show go on general sale at 11am on Monday (February 28) and can be purchased here.We're over the moon to welcome @londongrammar & @georgefitzmusic to South Facing 2022!Tickets go on sale Friday 25th February.
EXCLUSIVE: Irish Film London, the London-based organization championing Irish film, TV and animation across the UK, has named Carey Fitzgerald as Chair Person of its Board of Directors.
Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has revealed that he visited various Birmingham boozers to help him perfect Tommy Shelby's accent.
Award-winning period drama Peaky Blinders - inspired by a real crime gang from Birmingham - has gripped the nation since 2013 and it’s back for its sixth and final season this year.The last nine years have been a wild ride for the cast, including lead actor Cillian Murphy who plays crime boss Tommy Shelby.The Irish actor is famous for his roles in 28 Days Later, Inception and Batman Begins, but even he had to admit transforming into Tommy was a tricky task. Cillian told Radio Times: “I’m not a physically imposing person. I have to eat a lot of protein and lift a lot of weights - that takes a while, which I hate.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .
BBC Celebrity MasterChef has signed up a string of stars for its new run of episodes. The BBC One favourite has signed up Lisa Snowdon, Ryan Thomas, and more. Among the names confirmed for the new series are a RuPaul's Drag Race star and actor Adam Pearson.
Eddie Redmayne is enjoying a day out in London.
The BBC has struck a six-year deal for the MasterChef franchise and is moving production from London to Birmingham.
Sonequa Martin-Green has taken over the captain's chair in the fourth season of, and the actress couldn't be more excited about the opportunity and her character's growth.«It was exhilarating, it was solidifying, it was cementing and fulfilling in so many ways,» Martin-Green shared with ET's Nischelle Turner. «I felt as if I had arrived, or sort of reached the pinnacle of what this season is about.»With her character, Michael Burnham, in command, she's become the first black female captain in the franchise's history.
Peaky Blinders fans rejoice! We only have 12 days to wait until the sixth and final season of the hit Birmingham-based show returns to our screens. Viewers of the BBC One show have been waiting for the new episodes for over two years, and will be relieved to know that the first episode of its final season will drop on Sunday 27 February at 9pm. Announcing the news on Tuesday 15 February, a tweet from the official Peaky Blinders Twitter account read: “Peaky Blinders series six.
Louis Theroux made a welcome return to our screens on Sunday 13 February with the first instalment of his new documentary series, Forbidden America. The three-part series sees Louis, 51, head over to the US and cover three different topics, with the first episode focusing on the far right. Speaking ahead of the release, Louis revealed that the aim of documentaries was to highly how social media "had affected people in America who are different ways involved in dangerous, extreme, or morally questionable lifestyles." The TV star has became wildly popular thanks to his informative documentaries over the years, and his latest appears to have also been a hit with viewers.
It's not long now until the sixth and final season of Steven Knight's gritty and violent drama Peaky Blinders returns to our screens.
BBC One has set the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders with the award-winning period gangster saga set to return on February 27 at 9pm in the UK. The date was made official this morning in Birmingham, home to the fictional Shelby clan, via a 42-foot high mural looming over Digbeth’s Old Crown (see it in full below).
Adele had quite a bit of fun this week at Heaven nightclub in London. Shortly after taping an appearance on, the 33-year-old British chart-topper stopped by the club, where she seemingly crashed the weekly G-A-Y Porn Idol stripping competition, which was being hosted by star Cheryl Hole. Adele took to the stage in a cream-colored pant suit and black bralette top, to share that she was a big fan of Cheryl, who was eliminated from the reality drag show in season 1, coming in in fourth place. «Cheryl, you know I love ya.
Naman Ramachandran The 36th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival will open with Alli Haapasalo’s “Girl Picture” and close with Kevin Hegge‘s documentary “Tramps!” “Girl Picture,” which won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance in January and will screen at the Berlinale next week, follows three girls at the cusp of womanhood. Over three consecutive Fridays, two of them experience the effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced – pleasure.Feature documentary “Tramps,” world premiering at the festival, looks at how in London in the 1980’s, an onslaught of art students arriving in the city resulted in a unique cross-fertilization of British art, fashion, music and film culminating in a group known as The New Romantics.