I do ‘Evil’ with. I told them about the show. My wife and I had been watching it — for us, it’s a respite for the insanity of the world.
22.03.2022 - 16:37 / variety.com
Marta Balaga “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst takes on his childhood hero in “Billy the Kid.” Starring Tom Blyth as the legendary gunslinger, born Henry McCarty, the eight-episode series – co-produced by Epix Studios and MGM International Television Productions, in association with Viaplay – is currently screening at French TV festival Series Mania ahead of its April 24 premiere.“It’s probably true that you shouldn’t meet your heroes; I have met a couple of mine and it didn’t go particularly well. But what I want more than anything else is for people to love this Billy,” Hirst tells Variety in Lille.“Michael [Wright, president of Epix] allowed me to tell a story I wanted to tell, which doesn’t happen very often.
This show is saying to people: ‘You think you know Billy the Kid because you have heard his name.’ You think he is a bit of a rough guy, a gunman and a killer. But everything I am about to tell you is the exact opposite.” While most takes on the outlaw focus on his crimes and the alleged killing by Pat Garrett in 1881, the British writer wanted to show Billy’s difficult upbringing by Irish parents, forced to leave New York to look for jobs in the Midwest.
But there was nothing waiting for them.“We started calling it a ‘pre-Western.’ At that time, the West hadn’t really gotten going, so we rejected all these pre-built towns, creating our own houses on the edge of wilderness,” he says, calling his new creation “a story of immigration.”“You understand how lawless and primitive it was, how unfair and racist. But the figure that has emerged was very much like the figure Tom plays in the show: Very sensitive, very respectful.
I do ‘Evil’ with. I told them about the show. My wife and I had been watching it — for us, it’s a respite for the insanity of the world.
EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped on documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story about the life and career of Robert Englund who shot to fame portraying one of Hollywood’s most iconic horror characters: Freddy Krueger.
Siwa told late-night host Jimmy Fallon. “Of course, not everybody in the world is going to accept it right now, but there are so many people who are going to accept it right now.
Lisa Kudrow, 58, stopped by the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Monday and named one of her “Friends” co-stars as the person she would do anything for. The actress played a game filling in sentences with the first person that came to her mind. “I would do anything _____ asked me to,” one of the prompts read — to which Kudrow immediately shouted, “Courteney Cox.” Host DeGeneres was surprised by the answer and questioned why Kudrow chose her former costar over her 23-year-old son, Julian Murray Stern.
BBC's Holby City is coming to an end tonight after 23 years on screen. The drama series, which follows the highs and lows of staff and patients on the wards of fictional Holby City hospital, will air its final ever episode on Tuesday night.
Jon Burlingame editorBillie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the original-song Oscar for “No Time to Die,” the title tune for the latest James Bond film, at Sunday’s 94th annual Academy Awards.It’s the third consecutive Academy Award for music in the long-running spy franchise, following Adele’s win for 2012’s “Skyfall” and Sam Smith’s for “Writing’s on the Wall” from 2015’s “Spectre.”The two wrote the song nearly three years ago and it was released in February 2020.It was also a clean sweep for the brother-and-sister duo, as they had already won a Grammy and the Golden Globe, plus Critics Choice and Society of Composers & Lyricists awards, for “No Time to Die.”Eilish, 20, becomes the second youngest honoree in this category, after 19-year-old Czech-Icelandic songwriter Markéta Irglová’s win for “Falling Slowly” from 2007’s “Once.” O’Connell is 24. Eilish and Finneas wrote “No Time to Die” in late 2019, as post-production on the 25th 007 epic was underway.
Fans of Saturday Night Takeaway were treated to a performance by Canadian crooner Michael Buble as the popular ITV show returned following a week off. Last week SNT was paused because of the the Six Nations rugby.
French hip-hop series Le Monde de Demain has scooped the Grand Prize at the Series Mania International Competition.
Manori Ravindran International EditorThe world of James Bond is hitting the streaming world a lot sooner than you’d think.Amazon’s Prime Video has greenlit its first TV show based on the iconic British spy with “007’s Road to a Million,” a Bond-style spin on a race around the world.The show will be produced by Britain’s 72 Films (“The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty,” “All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur”) and Bond guardians and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, along with MGM Television.Sources tell Variety that the project has been in the works at Prime Video for around four years, long before the MGM deal was finalized, and it sits separately to any shows that are yet to come out of the pact.
The Tudors and Vikings creator Michael Hirst has branded his upcoming big budget Billy the Kid drama a “new kind of western.”
NEW YORK -- The new, splashy Broadway musical about Michael Jackson is going to moonwalk across America next year.“MJ,” packed with dozens of songs by the King of Pop and others, plans to hit 17 major cities over two years starting in 2023. It kicks off in Chicago at the James M. Nederlander Theatre on July 15, 2023.“We are thrilled by the Broadway response to ‘MJ,’ and that we are already deep in preparations to bring this exhilarating show to Chicago and across the United States," said co-producer Lia Vollack in a statement.
Series Mania boasts a plethora of riches, including, just for starters, the latest series from “The Wire’s” David Simon, and “Vikings’” Michael Hirst and “The Responder,” starring Martin Freeman, which is already being talked up as the European series of the year. And it bowed on BBC One in January. The following selection may well not rep the best 10 titles at this year’s Series Mania. Some of those will only be revealed in a final jury verdict, if then.
Paramount+. The ceremony shifted from Los Angeles to Las Vegas because of the rising COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing “too many risks” to hosting the performance-filled show at the time.Last year, the Grammys had a music festival vibe with parts of the show held outdoors in an intimate in-person setting with music artists mixed with pre-taped performances.
After tying the knot on June 4, 1970, actor and comedian Billy Crystal and his wife Janice Crystal settled down to welcome two daughters, Jennifer Crystal Foley and Lindsay Crystal. Although the family likes to keep things pretty laid back and out of the spotlight, both women have appeared on the red carpet with their father and worked in show business as well, following after both mom and dad’s footsteps.
EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is heading back to its old home at 733 11th Avenue in New York and will bring back a live studio audience for the first time in two years.
Channel 4. The show also got new presenters Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig after BBC hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins chose to leave following the move. In 2020, Sandi announced she would be leaving the show and was replaced by Little Britain star Matt Lucas.