Naman Ramachandran Global rights management company Eccho Rights has licensed “Servant of the People,” the 2016 series created by and starring Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, to Channel 4 in the U.K., MBC in the Middle East, ANT 1 in Greece and PRO TV in Romania, in solidarity with Ukraine and Zelensky.Fredrik af Malmborg, managing director at Eccho Rights, said: “Eccho Rights stands in solidarity with our friends and partners in Ukraine. It is our position that the best support the global television industry can offer to Ukraine today is to share this story.”Three seasons of the series and feature film are available to license from Eccho Rights.Nicola Söderlund, managing partner at Eccho, said: “The series is a comedy but also an important document of where Zelensky comes from.
Meet Newton! Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley Recall Working With Kate’s Beloved Corgi
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The cutest Grosvenor Square pup has arrived! While many diehard Bridgerton fans are looking forward to watching how Lord Anthony Bridgerton’s love story with Kate Sharma will unfold, the duo have some scene-stealing competition from her “somewhat overweight” corgi.
“Newton is beloved, and I always wanted to include him in this season,” showrunner Chris Van Dusen told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Wednesday, February 9. “There’s a little arc for him that audiences can look forward to.”
Season 2 of the Regency-era drama, which premieres next month, follows Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me novel and, true to the book, Kate’s devoted pup, Newton, will prominently be featured. Kate (Simone Ashley) and her canine companion have a close bond in the story, which helped the 26-year-old Sex Education alum bond with the pooch.
“I’m really good with dogs, so he responded to me well,” Ashley told EW. “He was a little bit sass and goes off and does his own thing, but I like to think when we were together, he listened to me. Whenever we would do a line run and Newton was there, he would just get in the middle of the circle and roll on his back and be like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ That was quite cute.”
However, her onscreen love interest — Anthony, played by Jonathan Bailey — did not feel the same kinship to the acting dog.
“Austin played Newton and it’s a sterling, stunning performance, but do you know what? We didn’t get on,” the Olivier winner, 33, joked to the magazine. “He just loved the sausage and there’s nothing wrong with loving the sausage, but it was more the way we had to hold little crumbs of sausage in my hand to try and get him to jump in my lap. … It’s amazing that I got to work with him because he’s
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