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Michelle Keegan has opened up on the heartbreaking toll her fame has had on her mum Jackie Anne Thornton as she admits she will no longer be spotted leaving public spaces such as restaurants with her.

Netflix show Fool Me Once, based on the 2016 novel by Harlan Coben, has been one of the biggest TV hits of 2024 so far.The eight-part series is just the latest adaptation of the mystery and thriller writer’s work that has been created for the streaming service.A synopsis reads: “When ex-soldier Maya (Michelle Keegan) sees her murdered husband Joe (Richard Armitage) on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.”The show also stars Adeel Akhtar and Joanna Lumley, and all eight episodes were released on Netflix on January 1.Fool Me Once is accompanied by a score by David Buckley and Luke Richards, who previously worked together on the music for the CBS legal drama The Good Wife.In addition to this, you can see a full breakdown of all the songs that feature in Fool Me Once below.The song that features in the opening credits in the majority of the eight episodes is ‘Inside’ by Chris Avantgarde, featuring Red Rosamund. The song was first released in 2020 by Avantgarde, a producer and composer originally from Germany, but now based in London.

Michelle Keegan has been busy promoting new Netflix series Fool Me Once over recent weeks, with her latest interview being on US entertainment show Extra TV.The 36 year old actress was interviewed on the show by host Billy Bush, 52, on 11 January, with the pair discussing all things Fool Me Once, which has reached number one in the world and across 60 countries on Netflix, despite only being released on 1 January. Michelle, who appeared on Extra TV via video link, shared a clip of her TV appearance on Instagram and said it was a "surreal moment" to be on the show. "Another surreal moment being on one of America’s biggest entertainment news shows @extratv chatting all things ‘Fool Me Once’ with the lovely @billybush Thank you for having me x," she penned.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance award-winning documentary “Beyond Utopia” has garnered the best documentary and best doc editing honors at the 24th annual Woodstock Film Festival. The documentary, which was recently acquired by Roadside Attractions, is vying for Academy Award attention.

Wolf Blitzer and director-producer Barbara Kopple will be this year’s Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday.

Propublica reported that Thomas has been treated to expensive luxury vacations by close friend and Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, but never reported them on financial disclosures. A few weeks later, it was revealed that Thomas made more than $130,000 when he sold several properties to Crow in 2014 – including the house Thomas’ mother currently lives in – far in excess of their market value.Most recently, it was revealed that Crow has also apparently been paying the tuition of Thomas’ nephew, which is more than $60,000 a year.

Propublica reported that for more than 20 years, Thomas was treated to expensive luxury vacations by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. The issue is, Thomas never once reported said gifts on his financial disclosures.

Propublica revealed that for more than 20 years, Thomas has been treated to expensive luxury vacations by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow but Thomas has never once reported these lavish gifts on his financial disclosures. Since the story came out, details about Crow have emerged that paint the major Republican donor in a very unflattering light, particularly his affinity for collecting Adolf Hitler memorabilia.

The Crown star Erin Doherty has boarded Steven Knight’s Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows.

With the Americana music scene thriving, and spawning some incredible new talent right now, it's an exciting time to be a fan of the genre.

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Morgan (Smile) will produce and star in the crime film Dixie Crystal, based on the real-life FBI Operation of the same name, from brother filmmakers Conor and Jake Allyn (No Man’s Land).

Clayton Davis The Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced its nominees where Sara Dosa’s lava-fueled love story “Fire of Love” led the field with seven nominations including best documentary feature and director. Co-distributed by National Geographic and Neon, the film’s Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” the moving reflection on the Mars rovers, received a hearty six-nom tally including editing and score. “This year’s nominees prove that documentaries of all lengths and formats are advancing nonfiction media like never before,” said Christopher Campbell, Co-President of the Critics Choice Association Documentary Branch.

Variety and Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit presented by Showtime Documentary Films, journalists, filmmakers, comedians and producers took part in extensive conversations about pursuing the truth in different formats like documentaries, news programming and comedy. The summit took place on Thursday in New York, and was additionally streamed to coincide with the launch of the Truth Seekers journal, a special issue collaboration between Variety and Rolling Stone. With keynote conversations, interviews and roundtables from the likes of Barbara Kopple, Lesley Stahl, W. Kamau Bell, Ramin Bahrani and more, here are our top takeaways from the summit:

Addie Morfoot Contributor In Barbara Kopple’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait of a Kentucky coal mining town in crisis, and for “American Dream,” a 1990 examination of a meatpackers’ strike at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minn. A pioneer of cinema vérité that got her start with the Maysles brothers (directors of “Gimme Shelter” and “Grey Gardens”), she was most recently nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy award for “Desert One,” a doc about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Kopple will be a keynote speaker at Variety and Rolling Stone’s Truth Seekers Summit on Thursday.

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and U.K. acting star Stephen Graham are reuniting on the 12-part original period drama A Thousand Blows, set against the backdrop of Victorian London’s illegal boxing scene, for Disney+ and Hulu.

Sarah Michelle Gellar made a surprise appearance at San Diego Comic-Con at the end of the panel in Hall H on Thursday, revealing the news that she is joining the Paramount+ offshoot as a star and executive producer. The alum shared that she was «excited» to join the family.Based on the Edo Van Belkom novels, follows a teenage boy and girl whose lives are forever changed when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. Gellar will play arson investigator Kristin Ramsey, a highly regarded expert in her field and no stranger to personal loss, brought in by authorities to catch the teenage arsonist who started a massive wildfire which may have also led to the reawakening of a supernatural predator terrorizing Los Angeles.She joins previously announced stars Armani Jackson as Everett, Bella Shepard as Blake, Chloe Rose Robertson as Luna and Tyler Lawrence Gray as Harlan.mastermind Jeff Davis will write and executive produce . The series is expected to premiere later this year in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Two top supernatural film-to-series franchises are coming together as Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar has been tapped to star in and executive produce Paramount+’s upcoming Teen Wolf offshoot series, Wolf Pack, from MTV Entertainment Studios. Gellar’s casting will be revealed today during Paramount+’s Teen Wolf: The Movie panel at the San Diego Comic-Con where Gellar will make an appearance as the surprise guest touted in the promo for the panel, I hear. Gellar is  Comic-Con royalty as Buffy the Vampire Slayer is hugely popular among convention-goers who organized a big fan event to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary at the 2017 Comic-Con.

The Umbrella Academy” Season 3, as Elliot Page’s character – formerly known as Vanya – comes out as transgender and introduces himself as Viktor in the season’s second episode.The transition is handled delicately and sweetly, and connects to a major plot thread from Season 2 that carries over into the newly released third season on Netflix. In Season 2, Viktor struck up a relationship with Sissy (Marin Ireland) who was married to another man.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Amazon YA pilot “Shelter” has added three new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, and Sage Linder have all joined the pilot, which is based on the first novel in Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book trilogy.

With 75 million copies of his novels in circulation around the globe, American author Harlan Coben has conquered the world of print with his popular brand of crime thrillers, including the Myron Bolitar series.

LOS ANGELES -- Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan's Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist said.

Jan Howard, country singer and songwriter and longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry, died on Saturday in Gallatin, Tennessee. She was 91.

Jan Howard, country singer and songwriter and longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry, died on Saturday (March 28) in Gallatin, Tenn., at the age of 91.Howard, born Lula Grace Johnson, began her career in music by singing on demos written by then-husband Harlan Howard that were recorded by Nashville acts like Kitty Wells and Charlie Walker, and had her first own country hit with "The One You Slip Around With" in 1960.Other notable singles she released as a solo artist -- which made Billboard's Hot

The Oscars shortlist were revealed yesterday outlining the contenders in nine categories, including best original song and score.