Doctor Who fans are getting excited at the prospect of Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan teaming up with Ncuti Gatwa for the new series.
27.04.2022 - 19:39 / ok.co.uk
Derry Girls fans went wild during episode three on Tuesday night after they spotted a Peaky Blinders star during a hilarious train scene. During the latest instalment, Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla (Louisa Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell) and James (Dylan Llewellyn) headed to Portrush with their family.
However, in typical fashion, things didn't go to plan when the gang accidentally left Clare at the station and James' rucksack got switched with a random passenger on the train, or so he thought... Viewers were left distracted during the scenes as they noticed that the random passenger, called Jordy, was played by Peaky Blinders star Packy Lee.
Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. Packy is best known for playing Johnny Dogs in Peaky Blinders, who is a close friend of Thomas Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy.Taking to Twitter, viewers shared their excitement over the cameo with one person writing: "Was that Johnny Dogs from Peaky Blinders in #DerryGirls tonight?!" A different account put: "Johnny Dogs!! #DerryGirls #peakyblinders." Another follower wrote: "#DerryGirls was such a hoot tonight.
Anybody else spot Johnny Dogs from Peaky Blinders on the train?" While a different viewer added: "Is that Johnny Dogs from Peaky Blinders on #DerryGirls?" Packy also took to Instagram to celebrate his cameo, sharing a picture of himself in character, he wrote: "Thanks You Derry Girls Aka Lisa. #derrygirls @lisafromderry steal the show @taralynneoneill." It comes after Derry Girls fans were left gobsmacked as Liam Neeson made a surprise cameo in the show.
Doctor Who fans are getting excited at the prospect of Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan teaming up with Ncuti Gatwa for the new series.
Doctor Who fans are getting excited at the prospect of Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan teaming up with Ncuti Gatwa for the new series.
EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson and Stranger Thing’s Joe Keery are set to star in Cold Storage. Jonny Campbell (Westworld and Doctor Who) will direct the sci-fi action film from a novel by David Koepp. Koepp, whose film work includes Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible, has written the script. Zombieland and Panic Room’s Gavin Polone is producing.
EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson and Stranger Thing’s Joe Keery are set to star in Cold Storage. Jonny Campbell (Westworld and Doctor Who) will direct the sci-fi action film from a novel by David Koepp. Koepp, whose film work includes Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible, has written the script. Zombieland and Panic Room’s Gavin Polone is producing.
Outlander fans couldn't believe their eyes when actress Jessica Reynolds appeared in Derry Girls last night, and looked completely different to her usual character Malva Christie.
EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson is set to star in thriller Thug, reuniting with his Cold Pursuit director Hans Petter Moland, who will direct the film for Sculptor Media and Electromagnetic Productions, with Mossbank and CAA handling international sales at next week’s Cannes market.
Derry Girls is set to air a flashback episode focusing on Mary and Aunt Sarah.For the penultimate episode of season three, the characters, played by Tara Lynne O’Neill and Kathy Kiera Clarke ,will be given a backstory to their school days.Creator and writer Lisa McGee told Digital Spy that the fifth episode would follow the titular Derry Girls’ parents and look at the “horrific” times they endured in the ’70s.“Writing this show, honestly – and this might sound a bit sentimental – it’s been a real learning experience for me as a person, not just a writer,” McGee said. “I don’t talk about a lot of the terrible things.“In Northern Ireland, you handle it with humour and you just crack on.
The latest episode of Derry Girls aired last night (Tuesday, May 3), and fans of the TV show are all saying the exact same thing. If you're a loyal fan of the show, you know Erin has been desperate for romance since the get-go, and in this week's episode she finally found it with one of the show's most lovable characters.
The DreamWorks animated heist movie “The Bad Guys” was the top film in U.S. and Canada theaters for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while the latest Liam Neeson thriller suggested the actor's particular set of skills may be wearing thin with audiences.“The Bad Guys," distributed by Universal Pictures, made $16.1 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, holding well with only a 33% drop from last weekend.
Derry Girls will return for an extended special following the third and final season.The 45-minute episode, titled ‘The Agreement’, will return to Derry one year later as the gang prepare for their final year of school against the backdrop of the Good Friday Agreement vote.A synopsis reads: “It’s the week of the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement and its timing couldn’t be any worse as the highlight of the year, Erin and Orla’s joint 18th birthday party, threatens to be overshadowed. While the family try to get their heads around the possible outcomes of the vote, the gang realise that they may not be ready for what the future holds.”The episode will premiere the same week as the Derry Girls season three finale, which is scheduled to air on Channel 4 on May 17.Speaking about the special, show creator Lisa McGee, said: “Like all the very best 90s bands, I couldn’t resist ending our farewell tour with an encore for our loyal fans.
K.J. Yossman “Peaky Blinders” star Aimee-Ffion Edwards and “This is Going to Hurt’s” Kadiff Kirwan are set to join season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses,” Variety can exclusively reveal.Although it has not yet been confirmed which parts Edwards and Kirwan will play, season 2 of the show about a group of MI5 no-hopers is understood to be based on “Dead Lions,” Mick Herron’s second book in the “Slow Horses” novels, which sees the addition of two new Slough House recruits: Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge.The logline for the “Dead Lion” novel reads: “As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London’s newest, tallest skyscraper…” As well as playing Esme Shelby opposite Cillian Murphy in “Peaky Blinders,” Edwards has appeared in “War of the Worlds,” “Blithe Spirit” and the “Four Weddings and a Funeral” television series.Kadiff, meanwhile, is best known for Netflix’s “The Stranger,” which also features Richard Armitage, and recently starred as Julian alongside Ben Whishaw in “This is Going to Hurt.” Apple hasn’t given any indication of when season 2 might drop but most of the Slough House gang from the first season – including Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, Dustin Demri-Burns, Saskia Reeves and Christopher Chung – are set to return as well as Kristin Scott Thomas and Freddie Fox as Slough House nemeses Diana Taverner and Spider Webb.Edwards is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant while Kadiff is repped by McEwan & Penford and Grandview.
Derry Girls burst onto our screens in 2018 with an utterly hilarious first series. The show - created from the brilliant mind of Lisa McGee - is the dark comedy coming of age show (it's like The Inbetweeners for gals) we need in our lives, starring Saoirse-Monica Jackson as main character Erin.Over the series, we see Erin and her friends navigate Northern Ireland in the 90's during 'the troubles'.As the third and final series is currently all we can think and talk about, we thought we'd delved into the REAL life of main character Erin, played by Saoirse-Monica, and guess what, she's as amazing in real life as she is in the show.She's an Irish actress who is probably most famous for playing Erin Quinn in Derry Girls.The actress has been very open in how close the show is to her own upbringing.
K.J. Yossman “Slow Horses” star Christopher Chung and “The Witcher’s” Paul Bullion have signed with More/Medavoy Management for representation.Australian-born, U.K.-based Chung is currently starring as Roddy Ho opposite Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ spy series “Slow Horses,” which has been adapted from the Mick Herron books of the same name.
Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell refused to answer a question about her age on a recent talk show, calling it “misogynistic”.The actor, who plays Michelle in the beloved Channel 4 sitcom, appeared on Ireland’s The Late Late Show on Friday and refused to tell host Ryan Tubridy her age.Tubridy said it “might be a rude question” and “you don’t have to answer,” before adding: “Can I ask how old you are?”O’Donnell then replied jokingly that she was 17 years old, but was “very, very wise”.Tubridy then asked the question again, saying, “Would you consider telling me what age you are?” to which O’Donnell said: “This gets on my nerves a wee bit.“It’s always quite misogynistic even if it’s not intentionally misogynistic, because men don’t get the same scrutiny.”Tubridy said he “definitely” would ask a male actor the same question, adding that O’Donnell plays a teenager “so well” and there’s “a compliment in there”.Tubridy then said they could “move on to something else, because I can read a mood when I see it”, to which O’Donnell replied: “I was going to give you a hilarious anecdote, but go ahead.” In a five-star review of the first episode of Derry Girls season three, NME wrote: “Though Derry Girls will be greatly missed when it wraps up for good at the end of this season, the first episode at least proves that the funniest, sharpest sitcom on TV is also bowing out on a high.”Derry Girls now airs every Tuesday on Channel 4, with a catch-up option on All 4.
Anya Taylor-Joy has commented on the end of Peaky Blinders, reflecting on her experience as a cast member.The actor, who played Gina Gray in the beloved BBC series, recently told NME that working on Peaky Blinders was “so much fun”.When asked for her thoughts on the much-awaited series finale, Taylor-Joy said she couldn’t reveal plot details as she didn’t “want to get in trouble”.“It’s a show that is so stylised, the sets are so beautifully created and everybody is so pleased to be there, we’ve had such a great time,” she went on.“It was really really good to go and wrap it up in a particular way.”Watch the full interview here:Her co-star from The Northman, Alexander Skarsgård, then joked that Anya Taylor-Joy’s character could potentially be the main antagonist.“I kill everyone. I murder everybody,” Taylor-Joy jokingly said.In a five-star review of The Northman, NME wrote: “And yet for all the weirdness, Eggers’ gruesome ode to Hamlet packs its biggest punch during the fight scenes.
“Star Wars” fans are excited to see Ewan McGregor reprise the role of everyone’s favorite Jedi master in the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” limited series helmed by director Deborah Chow. While the show also includes the return of McGregor’s prequels co-star Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, fans have long assumed that Liam Neeson would return as Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan’s own master that was struck down by Darth Maul in “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.” Sure, Qui-Gon Jinn is dead, but that’s what Force Ghost appearances are for.
Emmerdale has cast Peaky Blinders star Jack Parr for a major new storyline in the soap.The actor - who played Dougie Bill in the last series of the BBC1 series - is going to be making his debut on the soap next week. He will arrive in the village as a character called Jordan and quickly become involved in the lives of several villagers. A TV source told The Sun : "Jordan will arrive in the village in a shocking way and end up pitting neighbour against neighbour.