Gary Oldman On ‘Slow Horses’ Finale, Retirement, Peter Falk, & Why He Loves TV

Mark Owen has been showing off a new look as he reunited with his Take That bandmates. And the location couldn't have been further from Manchester, or the UK as they appeared in Cannes.

Take That singer Mark Owen looked virtually unrecognisable on Wednesday as he appeared alongside his bandmates in Cannes sporting a new look. The 50 year old pop legend had appeared at the city’s annual film festival alongside bandmates Gary Barlow and Howard Donald, with many fans perplexed by his new style choice.

Oldham council’s leader-elect has vowed to prove she is on residents’ side after Labour lost five seats -including her former boss - at the local elections. Councillor Amanda Chadderton - deputy to the deposed Arooj Shah over the last 12 months - was voted in as her group’s new leader on Monday night. Her position as new council leader will be ratified at the authority’s annual meeting later this month.

Photographs show the devastating aftermath of a huge fire at a warehouse in Oldham. More than 50 firefighters worked through the early hours to battle the blaze at The Tile Shop on Barry Street.

Stars of the stage and screen have made heartfelt tributes to David Johnson - the man who inspired generations to perform. Through Oldham Theatre Workshop, which he founded in 1968, David helped to kickstart the careers of a string of household names.

Slow Horses composer Daniel Pemberton admits he still hasn’t entirely wrapped his head around the fact that he got to pen the song “Strange Game” alongside Mick Jagger, which the Rolling Stones frontman sang for the Apple TV+ series.

Two Labour councillors have reportedly thrown their hat in the ring to replace Arooj Shah as Oldham's town hall leader. That's according to one Labour party source.

A delayed final report from a review examining allegations concerning child sexual exploitation in Oldham is now due to be published 'before the end of June', Andy Burnham has revealed.

The season finale of the new Apple TV+ series Slow Horses just premiered and the show has been confirmed to return for a second season.

British actor Gary Oldman (“Mank“) won a long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for the Winston Churchill biopic “Darkest Hour” and recently revealed he’ll have a small roll in Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer,” reuniting with the “Dark Knight” trilogy director. Oldman is now getting some buzz for his spy series “Slow Horses” which can be seen exclusively on Apple TV+ and is teasing potentially stepping away from acting in a new interview.

British actor Gary Oldman (“Mank“) won a long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for the Winston Churchill biopic “Darkest Hour” and recently revealed he’ll have a small roll in Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer,” reuniting with the “Dark Knight” trilogy director. Oldman is now getting some buzz for his spy series “Slow Horses” which can be seen exclusively on Apple TV+ and is teasing potentially stepping away from acting in a new interview.

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.

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EXCLUSIVE: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment-owned Halcyon Studios has signed industry vet Dara Cohen as Vice President of Scripted Entertainment.

Wayne Lineker has taken aim at his brother Gary Lineker for not wishing him a happy 60th birthday, declaring: “I am done”. Last week, the bar and restaurant entrepreneur took to Instagram to tell his 846k followers that he would love for his brother, Match of the Day presenter Gary, 61, to surprise him at his 60th birthday party at his world-famous O Beach Ibiza club.

Naman Ramachandran London-based sales agent MetFilm Sales has boarded feature documentary “Exposing Muybridge,” featuring Gary Oldman, about revolutionary photographer Eadweard Muybridge.Muybridge (1830–1904) was an English photographer known for his groundbreaking work in photographic studies of motion who played a seminal role in motion picture history. His images of running horses transformed the camera into a machine of unmatched powers of perception and persuasion, and set the course for the birth of cinema.

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has joined forces with his children Arron and Alicia to launch a new state-of-the-art gym in his hometown of Oldham. The Scholes family have invested £500,000 on the huge 10,000 sq ft development on Lees Road in the town.