‘Peaky Blinders’ underwhelms in final season, with plenty left up in the air

The darkness is coming to an end.

Peaky Blinders and Cobra producer Joe Donaldson has set an indie, Magic Hour Television, and signed a first-look deal with All3Media International and All3Media-owned drama house New Pictures. Donaldson will develop a slate, funded by All3 and its international arm, and partner with New Pictures co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls to produce scripted TV.

Naman Ramachandran Joe Donaldson, producer of “Peaky Blinders” and “Cobra,” has launched new production company Magic Hour Television and signed a first look deal with All3Media and New Pictures.Donaldson will develop a slate, funded by All3Media and All3Media International, and partner with New Pictures co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls, to produce new scripted television content. He will also serve as executive producer for New Pictures on the upcoming third series ‘Cobra: Rebellion’ for Sky Max, which is due to start filming later this year.Magic Hour is set up to produce human stories about life in Britain and beyond, tapping into U.K.

The Late Late Show With James Corden has announced a star-studded line-up for its upcoming week of UK-based episodes.Broadcasting from Freemasons’ Hall in London, the new batch of special episodes will air on Sky Comedy from Tuesday, June 28 to Friday, July 1.The esteemed guests appearing on the show include President Joe Biden, Vin Diesel (Fast And Furious), Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, Jamie Dornan (Belfast), John Boyega (Star Wars), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Alanis Morissette, Sam Smith and Tessa Thompson (Thor: Love and Thunder, Westworld).A description for one of the episodes reads: “James Corden immerses himself into the heart of American politics in his most prestigious ‘Take a Break’ segment yet when he fills in as the assistant to President of the United States Joe Biden, among other important duties.”While appearing as a guest on the show, Lizzo will also feature in a new addition of Carpool Karaoke.The upcoming episodes will mark Corden’s final season as the show’s host, with the presenter previously confirming that he’ll return to the UK full-time once he finishes in spring 2023 [via Variety].Corden first announced his decision to leave the chat show back in April this year.“This will be my last year hosting the show,” he said in a statement at the time. “When I started this journey, it was always going to be just that.

When Manchester’s city council made a strategic decision back in 2013 to improve the infrastructure of its creative industries, it decided to put its money into bricks and mortar with the construction of the £35M ($42.7M) Space Studios Manchester. The purpose-built facility for high-end TV, film and commercial production, which sits in West Gorton, Manchester, features more than 85,000 square feet of sound stages and has housed high-end TV drama ranging from BBC’s Peaky Blinders to season 4 of The Crown to, most recently, Sony/Marvel’s Morbius.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystThe hit series “Peaky Blinders” is wrapping up its celebrated run, having just premiered its sixth and final season on Netflix in the U.S. and other territories earlier this month.But just because no more new episodes will be produced, doesn’t mean the show’s brand is going away.

Stranger Things 4 Vol.1 anded 102.26M hours viewed in its third full week of release. That was down from 159.2M in the second full week and 335M for the first. Twenty four days in, Duffer Brothers’ hit period series has amassed 883.30 hours viewed and may cross the 900M mark by the end of the 28-day window Netflix uses to measure viewership.

Maane Khatchatourian News Editor, Variety.comRenewals and trailers were on the agenda for Netflix this week and the strategy paid off with viewers. On Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of June 6 to 12, the streaming service secured eight of the Top 10 spots with overall mentions and engagements on Twitter.“Stranger Things” was this week’s overall winner with more than 638,000 engagements, continuing a three-week run at the top following the show’s May 27, fourth-season return.

Peaky Blinders movie.The long-running BBC show came to its conclusion earlier this year following the airing of its sixth season. Since then, creator Stephen Knight says he knows “exactly” what he wants to happen in a film based on the series.“I know what the story is and I’m writing at the moment,” he said recently, adding: “It’s a very specific story, that’s based on a true story from the Second World War and will be told in the Peaky way.”In a new interview with Deadline, Murphy – who stars as Tommy Shelby in the series – was asked about a potential film, saying: “I’d be as excited as anybody to read a script. But I think it’s good for everyone to have a little break.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the final season of Peaky Blinders.

Ellen DeGeneres’ emotional goodbye to daytime ended her flagship talk show on a ratings high note.The May 26 series finale of “Ellen” yielded a season high 1.8 rating among adults 18-49, according to live + same day Nielsen data. The number marks a 30 percent improvement from the ratings of the show at the same time last year, and a 64 percent improvement over ratings for the show from the week prior.

Neighbours' final scene has been revealed – and it will include two of the soap's biggest stars. Fans are going to have to say farewell to the Channel 5 soap, which is ending this August after more than three decades on air, and the soap's writers intend to do so in spectacular fashion.The Australian soap is going to end on an emotional note, featuring arguably the show's most famous couple; Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.The two will be returning for a special episode to finish off the soap, which was given the axe earlier this year after Channel 5 pulled out funding the programme, with another a broadcaster not coming forward to take over the show.

Johnny Depp is set to join Jeff Beck on stage as they tour the UK. A black Range Rover carrying the Boiling Point actor drove through the gates at the International Convention Centre as dozens of fans gathered hoping to catch a glimpse of Depp. The Pirates of the Caribbean lead has caused a stir in the city with hundreds of fans descending on the city centre.

Selome Hailu Brett Goldstein, who serves as a writer on “Ted Lasso” and stars as Roy Kent, has said that the show’s third season is being written as its last.“We are writing it like that,” he told Sunday Times when asked if Season 3 would be the end. “It was planned as three. Spoiler alert — everyone dies.”Goldstein’s comments are consistent with what other members of the “Ted Lasso” crew have said in the past.

Season 3 of Netflix’s Locke & Key will premiere August 10, the streamer revealed today as part of its annual Geeked Week. As Deadline revealed exclusively in April, the upcoming third season will be the supernatural thriller series’ last. Netflix also released a teaser trailer that gives a first look at Locke & Key‘s final chapter.

after five seasons. With the Amazon Prime Video comedy taking its final bow, the cast of the award-winning series, led by leading lady Rachel Brosnahan, spoke with ET about being in the midst of their farewell tour as they reach the halfway point of production on the final season. For some of them, it's been an emotional ride already.«I’ve already cried once today!» Brosnahan admitted to ET's Rachel Smith at an Emmy FYC event in New York City on Thursday evening.

Haynes, who played Arsenal, sidekick to the Arrow, originally said he wasn’t invited back after Season 7. It seemed to make sense, since he was only in about half of the 22 episodes that season.