Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio jokes it's good to work with Vicky McClure without Martin Compston 'in the way'

have criticised the show over its "celebrity" line up - after Jackie Weaver was on the programme. Jackie was among the celebs on the first episode of the new series, after shooting to fame on a parish council meeting last year.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentHere, Variety talks with Fernando León de Aranoa, director of the Javier Bardem-starring “The Good Boss” (“El Buen Patron”), Spain’s Oscar entry, which is a big box office hit on home turf and has scored more Spanish Academy Goya nominations than any other film in history.What does it mean to you to be shortlisted for the best international feature Oscar?I feel a mix of joy and responsibility. It means following the steps of some of the greatest Spanish filmmakers who have done it before, being among a group of brilliant directors from all over the world and having the opportunity of showing “The Good Boss” to a wider audience.What’s been the most challenging aspect of your campaign thus far?To make our film visible amidst the strong contenders.

Has any Broadway production in recent (or even not so recent) memory arrived with as much emotional baggage – or carried it as lightly – as the visually and sonically ravishing MJ? The Michael Jackson musical, as unlikely as such a prospect might have seemed a year ago, now appears poised to take Manhattan with the same hurricane force that the real Jackson funneled when he moonwalked into television history on Motown 25.

Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has said economic and geographical inequalities have led to a “polarized creative community” within the British TV and film sector.

Frank Rizzo Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration between Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera, those passions fly free, revealing the operatic heart of “Intimate Apparel” in a new opera adaptation of this story of a 35-year-old Black seamstress aching for love in 1905 New York.The tight construction of the play, with its spare two-hander scenes and focus on the lives of ordinary and overlooked people, makes it a natural as a stripped-down chamber opera.

Vicky McClure said what every Tigger Point viewer was thinking following episode two.

Holy cow, this may be the most direct repudiation Britney Spears has launched at her sister!

Vicky McClure lit up our screens as DI Kate Fleming on Line of Duty, but is now set to return to our screens as bomb disposal officer Lana Washington in ITV drama Trigger Point. Fans of the show are keen to get to know 38 year old Vicky off-screen as much as they do on – which has led to frantic Google searches to find out who her famous other half is. Vicky is engaged to fellow actor Jonny Owen, 50, and they have been in a relationship for nine years.The pair met in 2013 on the British comedy film Svengali where they played on-screen lovers – and started filming just months after Jonny’s separation from his first wife, Elenor Braines.

ITV's newest drama Trigger Point has been accused of being 'ruined' as the first episode aired.

Line Of Duty’s Vicky McClure heads the cast in this new series, which turns the spotlight on the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Unit. The show is produced by Jed Mercurio – the much-lauded writer of Line Of Duty – so with Vicky in the starring role, comparisons are bound to be drawn between the two dramas. However, the actress tells us her character – former soldier Lana Washington – is very different to Line Of Duty ’s Kate Fleming and the series is far more action packed.

Lourdes Leon shared a comfortable and casual, makeup-less selfie to her Instagram Story on Thursday January 20. The 25-year-old model, fresh off of modeling for the Savage X Fenty Valentine’s Day campaign, posted a mirror photo, where she rocked an oversized purple sweatshirt, and comfy-looking pair of sweatpants. Lourdes — who often goes by Lola — looked super relaxed, as she took the photo of herself with her hair tied back in a ponytail.

Britney Spears' fiery public feud with sister Jamie Lynn Spears continues. Spears 40, took to Instagram Wednesday to repost a statement she deleted quickly after posting Tuesday.

Britney Spears has hit out at her sister Jamie Lynn in a scathing rant on Instagram.The Toxic Singer, 40, said she should have "slapped" her sister and mum Lynne "across their faces". Singer Britney has been locked in a bitter feud with her 30 year old sister since the end of her conservatorship, as Britney unfollowed her sister on social media. Britney's latest post saw her claim her younger sister had an easier childhood.

NEW YORK -- André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was 73.Talley’s literary agent David Vigliano confirmed Talley’s death to USA Today late Tuesday, but no additional details were immediately available.Talley was an influential fashion journalist who worked at Women's Wear Daily and Vogue and was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe.

Britney Spears, 40, is taking a legal step when it comes to her public feud with her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears. The singer asked her attorney Mathew S. Rosengart to issue her 30-year-old sibling a cease and desist letter, which was obtained by Page Six, that demands her to leave her out of her book tour for her just released memior, Things I Should Have Said, and says that she “will no longer be bullied” for the point of book sales.