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final two seasons of, Lesley Manville is taking on another real-life saga: the 2004 murders in Nottinghamshire, England. And only ET has the exclusive first look at the series written by James Graham, who draws from his firsthand experiences of growing up in the mining village. In, Manville plays Julie Jackson, the wife of a former union activist, whose murder kicks off this drama about a small, fractured community shattered by two unexpected killings and the manhunt that followed.

EXCLUSIVE: David Harewood, star of stage and screen, was intrigued when an unsolicited short-film screenplay entitled Man to Man arrived in his inbox. “I literally read it in 20 minutes. I was moved by it,” he enthused of the script by youthful writers Selorm Adonu and Ignatius Kalule.

BBC crime drama Sherwood as Daphne Sparrow, the wife of Micky Sparrow. They are a married couple who run a drug operation, which they conceal behind their taxi business and archery range. The BBC One drama is penned by Quiz's James Graham, and is based on a true story and has kept viewers glued to their screens with its storyline of a double killing set in a town still scarred by the miners' strikes of 1984.

The BBC has greenlit a second season of Sherwood from Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz creator James Graham, immediately after the conclusion of the first.

Gentle Sinners – the new project from Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap and James Graham of The Twilight Sad – have shared the latest single from their upcoming debut album. Listen to ‘Landfill’ below.‘Landfill’ follows recent single ‘Face To Fire (After Nyman)’, which was released in March alongside the announcement of the album, ‘These Actions Cannot Be Undone’.The track is the album’s rousing finale, exploring the theme of mental health with a backdrop of synths and strings as Graham repeatedly chants “you’re an accident waiting to happen”.It arrives with a cinematic video, directed by Kieran Howe, who commented: “The music is so full of sobering honesty, as a director I felt I couldn’t shy away from my inner most feelings.

Donald Trump at the start of Mike Bartlett’s play “The 47th,” an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics.The title of the play, running at London’s Old Vic Theatre, refers to the next president of the United States.

Cabaret’s London stage revival has triumphed at the 31st Annual Critics Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three of this year’s top honors.

The Twilight Sad have announced that they will be joined by members of Mogwai and Frightened Rabbit for their pair of shows at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow this weekend.The Scottish band had originally been due to play the gigs back in April 2020, but they have been postponed a number of times since due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Twilight Sad will finally kick off the first of two nights at the Barrowland tonight (April 1), with a second show following tomorrow evening (April 2).Addressing their fans this afternoon ahead of the gigs, The Twilight Sad confirmed that they will be fielding a different line-up to normal. Guitarist Andy MacFarlane will not be performing this weekend “due to personal reasons”, so Mogwai’s Alex Mackay will be filling in in his place.A post shared by The Twilight Sad (@thetwilightsad)The continued impact of COVID-19 on international travel and touring has also ruled out drummer Sebastien Schultz, who is based in North America, from taking part in this weekend’s gigs.

Arab Strap and James Graham of The Twilight Sad have announced a new album together under the name Gentle Sinners, plus a punchy new single ‘Face To Fire (After Nyman)’. Check it out below along with our interview with the duo.The pair’s new album, ‘These Actions Cannot Be Undone’, will be released on May 13 via Rock Action, with a vinyl release to follow in September.

It’s a Sin exec Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions has doubled its number of staff, bringing in five individuals including Anansi Boys exec Richard Fee to oversee a slate of new commissions. 

David Benedict Like all historical plays, James Graham’s latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it’s written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 documentary “Best of Enemies” stages 1968’s legendarily vicious TV debates between the foremost public intellectuals of the day: left-wing novelist and screenwriter Gore Vidal and arch-conservative William F.

The Twilight Sad‘s James Graham has launched a new project under the moniker Gentle Sinners.READ MORE: The Twilight Sad on the legacy of Scott Hutchison and being Robert Smith’s favourite bandThe Scottish band, whose most recent album ‘It Won/t Be Like This All The Time’ arrived in 2019, took to Instagram today (November 18) to announce that their frontman is now part of a new project.The announcement comes with the release of the project’s first single, ‘Killing This Time’.“Am I telling you

The Twilight Sad covered Frightened Rabbit‘s ‘Fast Blood’ at their gig in Paisley last night (October 15) – see footage below.The band were playing a set in the Spiegeltent as part of the Spree music and arts festival.“We decided we wanted to cover another one of our friends’ songs,” frontman James Graham said before the performance. “I know most of you will know it, so please, please help me out.

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Former England captain James Graham has been left annoyed and embarrassed after seeing Australia and New Zealand pull out of the World Cup.

Former Wigan great Denis Betts has tipped St Helens star Jonny Lomax as a potential England captain ahead of this year’s World Cup.Betts represented England and Great Britain with distinction during his playing career and served as Wayne Bennett’s assistant at the last World Cup in Australia.Current national team boss Shaun Wane is weighing up his options as skipper following the retirement of legends James Graham and Sean O’Loughlin.Wane recently described O’Loughlin as “irreplaceable” as

Naman Ramachandran James Graham, creator of hit ITV, AMC and Sony show “Quiz,” and writer of Emmy nominated “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” has created crime drama “Sherwood” for U.K. broadcaster BBC.Inspired in part by real events, the six-part series is set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where Graham grew up.

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham, the writer behind Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz, is returning to his Nottingham roots for a BBC One crime thriller that he is making with House Productions.

The Twilight Sad have made their recent performance film available to watch on-demand and released a live album from the show.Singer James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane appeared in a performance film that was broadcast on December 5, 2020.The show was filmed at Glasgow music venue Òran Mór and saw the pair rework tracks from across the band’s back catalogue for the performance.

The Twilight Sad have announced a new “stripped-back” concert film, filmed and recorded from Òran Mór in Glasgow.Only vocalist James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane will be on stage, reworking songs from across their five albums.It’s set to broadcast globally on December 5 from 8pm GMT/9pm CET, with tickets on sale now. The show will not be available to view after the event.We are delighted to announce a stripped back performance film feat James & Andy which will be broadcast

UK theatres will need government help if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, actor David Tennant has warned.

The case at the center of AMC's Quiz relies heavily on confirmation bias, a barrister for the defense tells us in the finale of the three-part limited series. That means a lot to audiences in Britain, where Major Charles Ingram and his allegedly improper Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? triumph in 2001 were the subject of breathless newspaper headlines, a wildly popular TV documentary and the James Graham play thatQuiz is based upon.

The National Theatre is going to continue bringing the stage to the small screen and stream big-name productions for free on YouTube over the next two weeks.

Playwright James Graham has warned it might take a year for theatres to reopen.

By Variety Staff

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was the definitive quiz show of the early noughties.

The creator of Quiz says he has ‘doubts’ over whether Major Charles Ingram really did cheat on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

By Jake Kanter

The couple involved in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal came on set during the filming of a television series about the event, according to the writer of the programme.