By Mike Fleming Jr
26.04.2020 - 17:39 / nme.com
The show debuted last year to mixed reviews
Turn Up Charlie, the Netflix sitcom created by and starring Idris Elba, has been cancelled after just one season, according to reports.
The show sees Elba playing a one hit wonder 1990s DJ who reluctantly becomes a nanny, and premiered in March 2019.
According to reports in the Daily Mirror, the show won’t be getting a second series, because “Netflix and Idris just didn’t see eye to eye on it.”
They quote an ‘insider’ as saying: “Idris had hoped to get
By Mike Fleming Jr
The song looks at mental health and enrichment
Idris Elba, who battled the coronavirus this year, has lent his voice to a new song about black men and mental health that will benefit pandemic relief efforts.
NEW YORK (AP) — Idris Elba, who battled the coronavirus this year, has lent his voice to a new song about black men and mental health that will benefit pandemic relief efforts.
Idris Elba, who battled the coronavirus this year, has lent his voice to a new song about black men and mental health that will benefit pandemic relief efforts.
In a tweet posted on Sunday, Elba said he had not meant an enforced lockdown, but rather a way of marking what people have been through during the COVID-19 outbreak.
By Nellie Andreeva
Idris Elba’s Netflix sitcom Turn Up Charlie has reportedly been axed after just one season.
Wendy Williams isn’t on board with Idris Elba‘s post-pandemic idea. The Dark Tower actor, 47, voiced in a new interview that he believes the world should go into “hibernation” for one week per year to “reflect” on the COVID-19 crisis. Idris — along with his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba — experienced coronavirus first hand after they both tested positive nearly a week apart in March. They’re both currently in recovery together in LA.
Idris Elba believes the escalating coronavirus pandemic should always be remembered. The 47-year-old actor was one of the first celebrities to reveal he tested positive for COVID-19 in March.
Idris Elba’s time spent quarantined after contracting the coronavirus has given him a new outlook on the pandemic.
Even though they only had mild symptoms, Idris Elba says he and his wife had their lives "turned around" after contracting the coronavirus, calling the experience "definitely scary and unsettling and nervous." "You know, everyone's sort of feeling the way we have been feeling, but it has definitely been sort of just a complete upheaval," he told the Associated Press late last week.