Some Coronation Street fans have said they are 'praying' for a reunion in Weatherfield after Daisy Midgeley discovered Bethany Platt's article about her recent love triangle.
20.02.2024 - 11:41 / deadline.com
The creators of Mr Bates Vs the Post Office and Dr Death, which are among the most meaningful TV dramas of recent years, have outlined the secrets behind their series.
During a panel session at the Berlinale Series Market chaired by Deadline, Mr Bates Vs the Post Office executive producer Patrick Spence outlined the weight his production team felt during the making of the ITV drama, which laid bare the story of the biggest legal injustice in British history.
He revealed the show’s 12 lead actors, who include Toby Jones as the real life campaigner Alan Bates, worked for “in some cases, a fifth of what they could normally get” because the story had affected them so deeply. “They did it because they were angry. They had to buy in,” he added.
The drama, from ITV Studios and Little Gem, told the story of how more than 800 sub postmasters, who ran post office branches for the service, were wrongly convicted of stealing money due to a faulty computer system. It has since emerged Post Office bosses were aware of the technical issues, but chose to ignore the scandal and continued to prosecute people using arcane British law, leaving many bankrupt or in jail.
Most are still waiting for compensation despite widespread public anger and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing legislation that will fast track payments. Some 13.5 million people have watched the series in the UK, making it commercial net ITV’s biggest drama in 22 years. Masterpiece will premiere it in the U.S. in April.
“It was a passion project for everyone,” said Spence. “Our guiding light was us saying that if we were this angry, and the story had been out there for ten years, why wasn’t everyone else? That’s the role of drama — and for the first time in 30
Some Coronation Street fans have said they are 'praying' for a reunion in Weatherfield after Daisy Midgeley discovered Bethany Platt's article about her recent love triangle.
Rishi Sunak will head to Aberdeen today to rally Scottish Conservative members as his party continues to slide in the polls.
The Simpsons has once again appeared to have predicted a current-day event – this time in the recent ‘Willy Wonka Experience’ fiasco in Glasgow.The Wonka-themed chocolate “experience” in Glasgow had been branded “awful” by furious parents and forced to shut just hours after opening.Dubbed as ‘Willy’s Chocolate Experience’, the event advertised “a celebration of sweetness and imagination”, inspired by the hit movie Wonka and the Roald Dahl book that inspired it.Tickets cost £35 and promised audio and visual effects, dancing Oompa-Loompas and chocolate fountains, but delivered little more than a barely-decorated warehouse with a smattering of plastic candy canes and a small bouncy castle.Now, fans of The Simpsons have noticed the similarity between the ill-fated event and an episode from season five, ‘Bart’s Inner Child’ when Homer explains to Marge that he plans to open a play park for children in the family’s back garden.Homer dreams of charging $50 to enter ‘Homerland’ which features ‘Trampoline World’ (one trampoline per hour children), ‘Mudville USA’ which is just a large puddle and ‘Fort Adventure’ – which turns out to be a pile of dirty mattresses.Check out the eerie similarities here:The Simpsons did it again
As U.S. policymakers try to bolster defense for Taiwan vis a vis mainland China, S. Leo Chiang, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary short Island in Between, talks of the “crazy gymnastics” that the country finds itself in between the two world superpowers.
Normani is speaking about her parents’ cancer battles.
Jessica Kiang With a title that itself feels like a soothing murmur, Hong Kong director Ray Yeung‘s “All Shall Be Well” returns to the social and lifestage milieu of his well-received 2019 later-life gay romance “Suk Suk,” and occupies a similarly melancholic, placatory register. But those hoping for a renewal, or maybe even an amping up of “Suk Suk”s restrained interrogation of internalized and externalized homophobia within Hong Kong’s economically advanced but culturally conservative middle class, may be a little disappointed. Although his fourth film revolves around a sixty-something lesbian couple, Yeung’s focus is broader, not sharper.
video to social media Friday showing the ailing monarch, who is battling cancer, opening fan mail sent to the establishment by thousands of people comforting him through snail mail. The lighthearted yet touching video starts with Charles, 75, reading a card with a cartoon dog wearing a cone pictured on it, playfully reading, “King Charles, at least you don’t have to wear a cone.” Text placed on top of the video claims, “The Correspondence Team at Buckingham Palace have received more than 7,000 letters and cards from across the world.”“The King has been sent a selection [of letters] in his daily red box of paperwork,” the video claimed, showing the King’s giant briefcase-looking personal mobile mailbox.“Many share their own experience with cancer.
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King Charles is getting all emotional over the wave of support he’s getting.
It’s apparently time to rejoice for those who thought the Coen Brothers had forsaken them and broken up for good. In a new Associated Press interview promoting “Drive-Away Dolls,” Ethan Coen confirms reports that he’s going to make a horror movie with his brother Joel Coen after he makes his next movie, “Honey Don’t.” “We talked about it for a long time, but we hadn’t actually written anything,” Coen said, the AP describing it as a horror film that they wrote fresh, not from an old screenplay.
Marry My Husband actress Song Ha-yoon has revealed why she isolated herself on the set of the hit Prime Video K-drama series.Marry My Husband follows ordinary office worker Kang Ji-won (Park Min-young), who gets a second chance at life after she dies at the hands of her cheating husband Park Min-hwan (Lee Yi-kyung) and treacherous best friend Jung Soo-min (Song Ha-yoon).In a new interview with South Korean media, Song Ha-yoon says that because of the villainous nature of her role, she “usually kept to myself while on set”, per SBS Star. The actress explained that it “didn’t feel right to form close relationships with other actors while playing the character”.“It was necessary because when actors are close to each other, it is noticeable in a scene.
EXCLUSIVE: Josh Close (Killers of the Flower Moon) has signed on to star in American Solitaire, an indie drama marking the first feature from writer-director Aaron Davidman.
Marta Balaga Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy – behind “Slumdog Millionaire,” “127 Hours” or “The Full Monty” – has joined “S.O.L.” The six-episode thriller, presented at Berlinale’s Co-Pro Series and developed with TV4, is produced by Warp Films (UK) and Rainy Days (Sweden). It was created by Ruth McCance. Diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, she died in December, aged 53.
K.J. Yossman “Bohemian Rhapsody” star Lucy Boynton smoulders as 1950s nightclub owner Ruth Ellis in a new image from upcoming ITV drama “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.” Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955 after she was convicted of shooting dead her lover, racing driver David Blakely. Boynton is joined by Toby Jones (“Tetris”), Laurie Davidson (“Cats”) and Mark Stanley (“Trigger Point”) in the four-part series, which promises to expose the British obsession with class, sex and death.
season of ?That's the question that appears to be boggling the minds of since Sydney Gordon's vendetta against Maria Georgas erupted earlier this season. Now, with Sydney out of the picture, it feels like Lea Cayanan is actively petitioning for this season's VillainTM by picking up where Sydney left off. That is, if Jess Edwards doesn't beat her to it…So, what is going on in the House of Joey? Well, here's a full explainer of what's gone down on the show so far, as well as each of these women's social media accounts.
EXCLUSIVE: ITV‘s drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, is gathering pace and we have an exclusive first-look image of Lucy Boynton in the title role. Scroll down to view it.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s hour-long ‘grilling’ on GB News is the right-leaning network’s latest to be probed by Ofcom.
Pulp‘s Jarvis Cocker has thanked fans for their support after his mother passed away at the beginning of this year.The frontman shared in a new Instagram post today (February 19) that his mum, Christine, died the day after Pulp performed a Hogmanay concert in Edinburgh to ring in the new year.“It’s 49 days since my mum passed away,” the musician captioned the post. “She died the day after Pulp played the Hogmanay concert in Edinburgh.
Business owners in Chorlton claim 'constant roadworks' are costing them thousands in lost trade. They have been driven mad by a flagship £13.4m cycle route that took a year to build.
People have been urged to look for a red flag warning sign of diabetes that develops in a person's eyes.