Christopher Eccleston Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Plans have been lodged to build a huge new car park with more than 1,000 spaces at a popular national park just outside Greater Manchester. A planning application has been submitted by Land Studio Ltd, working with the National Trust, to relocate the car park at Lyme Park and to improve access and facilities for visitors.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is reviewing its commissioning practices in its Children’s & Education department following a two-year period of sweeping change.

Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc, and Joel D. Montgrand have joined HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, starring alongside leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis for Season 4 of the crime anthology series.

Scots actor David Tennant is returning as Doctor Who after a shock exit from Jodie Whittaker on Sunday night.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has struck a deal for hit BBC drama The A Word and spin-off Ralph & Katie with Keshet International.

Ncuti Gatwa has made the cut for Time's Top 100 Next list among a heap of other stars.

True Detective season four, according to reports.Eccleston, known for roles in Doctor Who and The Leftovers, will star in the fourth season as Ted Corsaro, described as a “regional chief of police and a political animal,” as reported by Variety. Killing Eve actor Shaw will play Rose Aguineau, a “survivalist with a past full of secrets”.Other new cast members include John Hawkes (Deadwood) as Hank Prior, a police officer with “old grudges hiding under a quiet surface”.

In March, HBO announced that “True Detective: Night Country” was in the works, with Issa López writing the series ilot and Barry Jenkins on board as executive producer. Then in May, Jodie Foster joined the cast in a starring role, with Kali Reis signing on in June.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “True Detective” Season 4 is building out its main cast with the addition of five actors, Variety has learned. John Hawkes (“Deadwood,” “Winter’s Bone”), Christopher Eccleston (“Doctor Who,” “The Leftovers”), Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve,” “Harry Potter” franchise), Finn Bennett (“Domina,” “The Nevers”), and Anna Lambe (“Three Pines,” “Trickster”) have all joined the new season alongside previously announced leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Officially titled “True Detective: Night Country,” the official description for the new season reads as follows: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.

HBO is rounding out the cast for True Detective: Night Country. John Hawkes (Deadwood, Winter’s Bone), Christopher Eccleston (The Leftovers), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Finn Bennett (Domina) and Anna Lambe (Three Pines) are set as leads alongside Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in Season 4 of the crime anthology series.

K.J. Yossman “Dodger,” the high-octane family drama based on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” is set to return to the BBC for three specials. Production has just wrapped in Bristol on the three one-off episodes, which include a Christmas-themed offering, with Christopher Eccleston (“Doctor Who”) returning as Fagin and Billy Jenkins (“Peaky Blinders”) returning as the eponymous child pickpocket. Also returning for high jinks in Victorian London are Ellie-May Sheridan (“Call The Midwife”), Aabay Ali, Connor Curren, Mila Lieu, David Threlfall (“Shameless”), Alex Kingston (“Doctor Who”), Rhys Thomas (“The Fast Show”), Javone Prince (“No Time To Die”), Lucy Montgomery (“Disenchantment”), Saira Choudhry (“Life”), James Fleet (“Vicar of Dibley”), Lenny Rush (“A Christmas Carol”) and Sam C Wilson (“Hanna”).

Anita Dobson has landed a role in children's show 'Dodger'. The 73-year-old actress - who is best known for her role as Angie Watts in 'EastEnders' in the 1980s - will appear in a Christmas special of the series, which serves as a prequel to the events of Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist', but she has remained tight-lipped about her character. She said: "My next big role is in 'Dodger' in the Christmas special so that's quite nice.

EXCLUSIVE: The Wonder Woman franchise actress is joining the Studiocanal, Picture Company and Amazon Prime Video movie Role Play opposite Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo and Bill Nighy.

Line of Duty, BBC’s Bleak House, and ITV’s Hollington Drive. In recent years she played a leading role in Motherland, a Netflix sitcom with three series. The actress lives in Hertfordshire and has two daughters Maggie and Nancy.

A new independent cinema will open in Leigh this summer. The inside of Leigh Film Factory is currently under development and the public can get a small glimpse of what is to come after the team decided to offer a sneak peek.

British actor Christopher Eccleston believes that white, middle-class, male, straight actors like him are “the new pariahs of the industry.”

Naman Ramachandran Nicholas Pinnock (“For Life”) will play world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali in “A God Amongst Men.” The film, co-written and to be directed by James Newton (“2:Hrs”), also stars Christopher Eccleston (“Dodger”), and is based on the true story of Ali’s visit to Tyneside, U.K., in 1977. The film is co-written by Ian Skelton (“Hey Duggee”). Newton said: ” ‘A God Amongst Men’ is based upon the true story of how one man, Johnny Walker, outrageously claimed that he would bring Muhammad Ali to Tyneside in 1977 to save a boxing club from closure.

Sasha Urban editorYasmin Finney is joining the cast of “Doctor Who” in the role of the Doctor’s companion Rose Tyler, BBC announced Monday. Her role will debut in 2023, coinciding with the show’s 60th anniversary.“Life on ‘Doctor Who’ gets brighter and wilder, how can there be another Rose?” said “Doctor Who” showrunner Russell T. Davies in a statement.

Ncuti Gatwa will become the 14th Doctor, after Jodie Whittaker announced last July she will be leaving the long-running science fiction series. But Whovians still have some time to wait before they will get to see the Sex Education star in command of the Tardis.

Ncuti Gatwa has been announced as Jodie Whitaker's replacement for the new season of Doctor Who.

A new Time Lord will be firing up the TARDIS, with the iconic British sci-fi series announcing Ncuti Gatwa has been cast as the next iteration of The Doctor.

Scotland-raised Gatwa, 29, will be the first Black actor to helm the quintessential British sci-fi show, but he won’t be the first Black Doctor — Jo Martin has played “Fugitive Doctor” in several episodes.Whittaker became the 13th Doctor — and the first woman to play the central galaxy-hopping, extraterrestrial Time Lord who regenerates into new bodies — in 2017, when she took over from Peter Capaldi. Her last episode of “Doctor Who” is expected to air later this year.The original run of “Doctor Who” spanned 1963 to 1989.

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Eccleston (The Leftovers) has signed on to star alongside Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Graham in Disney+’s upcoming film Young Woman and the Sea, from Kon-Tiki director Joachim Rønning, which is currently in production.

Acting stars Christopher Eccleston and Matthew McNulty are among five big names to back a new independent cinema coming to Leigh. Built by community volunteers, Leigh Film Factory is set to become a reality in the next few months as Leigh Film Society implement their long-term vision at Spinners Mill after a two year delay as a result of the Covid pandemic.

When the 13th Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, departs the Tardis later this year, she will be joined for a final adventure by some familiar faces from the long-running series.

David Tennan t and Peter Capaldi are hotly tipped to be returning to Doctor Who as the time travelling sci-fi show looks forward to its 60th anniversary.

It's not often that a television show comes along and the director can genuinely say: "We're changing the world." Ralph & Katie is a spin-off to the hugely popular BBC One series The A Word, which won praise for raising awareness of autism as it followed a family as they came to terms with their son's diagnosis. Now, the spin-off will – for the first time in British TV history – see two actors who have Down’s Syndrome take the lead roles.

BBC One’s The A Word spin-off Ralph & Katie, which was created by a group of disabled writers overseen by Peter Bowker, has entered production in Manchester and the Lake District.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios Exec Mark Freeland is hoping his upcoming CBBC Oliver Twist spin-off Dodger can land as a rare, traditional family hit, while he revealed plans for “another epic idea with family appeal.”

Cheryl Fergison has opened up to fans about her relationship with her brother, who she met for the first time just 11 years ago.The 56 year old, who is best known for playing Heather Trott in the long running BBC soap EastEnders from 2007 to 2012, posted a sweet snap of herself and her sibling as they spent quality time together. She captioned the picture: “So my brother is coming up for a visit today we are like two peas in a pod … there’s always laughs & fun times when we get together.” Cheryl then explained that the siblings found each other in 2011, describing their story as “amazing” and “emotional”.

Christopher Eccleston and David Threlfall will face off in the new CBBC show "Dodger", a ten-part family adventure set to air next year.

‘The Ice Harvest’ but I don’t think I’ve played a wife this way. You really get to go through so many stages of her life with her over those six episodes.

After an accident causes her to lose the memory of the entire past year, a woman attempts to reintegrate back to the life she once had. The problem is, was that life actually what she thought it was? READ MORE: Fall 2021 TV Preview: 38 Series To Watch So goes the set-up for “Close To Me,” an all-new six-part mini-series set to hit Sundance Now and AMC+ this winter.

After an accident causes her to lose the memory of the entire past year, a woman attempts to reintegrate back to the life she once had. The problem is, was that life actually what she thought it was? READ MORE: Fall 2021 TV Preview: 38 Series To Watch So goes the set-up for “Close To Me,” an all-new six-part mini-series set to hit Sundance Now and AMC+ this winter.

Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city

Doctor Who former companion Billie Piper has hinted to fans that she would reprise her role of Rose Tyler if the circumstances are right. Billie who acted alongside both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant's in their Time Lord role between 2005 and 2013 revealed the exciting news on her Cameo app.