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EXCLUSIVE: Sir Lenny Henry’s Banijay-backed indie Douglas Road Productions is to spotlight Caribbean culture in the UK in an upcoming BBC2 arts documentary.

Senior Black and Asian UK creatives including Sir Lenny Henry, Afua Hirsch and Pat Younge have written an open letter to BBC Chair Richard Sharp seeking reassurances that “advocating for our industry to be diverse will not block people from being employed by the BBC.”

Read more The One Show viewers shocked as Lenny Henry debuts totally different look The show replaced ITV2's I'm A Celebrity : Extra Camp, which ran for 17 years, but will not return for the 21st series set to begin in weeks.

The Lord Of The Rings star Lenny Henry has revealed the forthcoming Amazon TV series will be more diverse than the Peter Jackson movies.The award-winning actor is set to play a hobbit, who is part of an indigenous tribe, in the show.The forthcoming series is based on JRR Tolkien’s book The Silmarillion.“What’s notable about this run of the books, it’s a prequel to the age that we’ve seen in the films and books,” he told BBC Radio 4.“It’s about the early days of the Shire and of Tolkien’s

K.J. Yossman BFI London Film Festival has revealed its line-up for its second Works-in-Progress showcase, including a documentary about Hong Kong’s draconian National Security law and a TV narrative feature starring Sir Lenny Henry and Malachi Kirby (pictured above).The showcase will take place on Oct.

Malachi Kirby (Small Axe) has been set to play the dual leading roles of brothers Charles Nancy and Spider in Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s bestselling novel Anansi Boys.

Dawn French keeps a fairly private life, but on Thursday she delighted her fans when she shared an incredibly rare picture of her daughter Billie from her childhood, to mark her 30th birthday.MORE: Dawn French's house with husband Mark could be a palaceDawn and ex-husband Lenny Henry adopted Billie when she was just two weeks old.WATCH: Dawn French reveals how her husband proposedIn the sweet picture, which was taken when Billie was just a baby, Dawn and her daughter had their heads close

The cast of The Witcher: Blood Origin is filling up!

The Witcher‘s upcoming prequel series Blood Origin has added a host of names to its cast, including Sir Lenny Henry.The upcoming six-part Netflix show will be set more than a 1,000 years before the main Henry Cavill-starring series, and it has already announced a number of names including Michelle Yeoh, Laurence O’Fuarain and Sophia Brown.Joining them will be Henry – who is also starring in Amazon Prime Video fantasy series The Lord of the Rings – in the role of Balor, and Black Books‘ Dylan

Jordan Moreau “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” Netflix’s live-action prequel series to the fantasy show starring Henry Cavill, is growing its cast even more with 10 new cast members.Mirren Mack will play Merwyn; Lenny Henry will play Balor; Jacob Collins will play Eredin; Lizzie Annis will play Zacaré; Huw Novelli will play Callan “Brother Death;” Francesca Mills will play Meldof; Amy Murray will play Fenrik; Nathaniel Curtis will play Brían; Zach Wyatt will play Syndril; and Dylan Moran will play

EXCLUSIVE: Lenny Henry (Lord Of the Rings Series), Mirren Mack (The Nest), Nathaniel Curtis (It’s A Sin) and Dylan Moran (Black Books) are among cast to join Netflix fantasy series The Witcher: Blood Origin, which is now filming in the UK.

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The Good Fight star Delroy Lindo has been set as a lead in Amazon’s adaptation of Anansi Boys.

Amazon has ordered a series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Anansi Boys.

Dawn French is an incredibly proud mum to daughter Billie and delighted fans on Instagram this week when she shared a very rare snapshot of her only child.The actress shares Billie with her ex-husband Lenny Henry – the former couple were married from 1984 until 2010 – and prefers to keep her daughter out of the spotlight.MORE: Dawn French stuns fans with major change to trademark bob haircut WATCH: Dawn French reveals how her husband proposedBut on Monday, Dawn reposted an image previously sent

Naman Ramachandran Actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, radio personality Trevor Nelson, musician KSI and author Malorie Blackman are among the signatories on a letter by comedian Lenny Henry asking the U.K.’s Black population to take COVID-19 vaccination jabs.An Office for National Statistic survey shows that less than half (49%) of Black or Black British adults reported that they were likely to have the vaccine, and National Health Service (NHS) data shows that only 466,000 Black

KSI has signed a new open letter urging Black Britons to take the COVID-19 vaccine.The rapper and YouTube star is among the famous faces who have lent their support to the open letter, which has been written by comic legend Lenny Henry.Henry said that people should “trust the facts” surrounding the vaccine, with his message also being backed by Oscar-winner Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and DJ Trevor Nelson.The letter comes as statistics continue to reveal the gulf in vaccination rates

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, and David Harewood are among a group of influential actors who have signed an open letter from Sir Lenny Henry urging Black Britons to get a coronavirus vaccine.

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£52,025,485 million raised. The grand total was unveiled at the end of a five-hour fundraising telethon on Friday night (March 19), featuring one of the most star-studded line-ups in Comic Relief history.

Lenny Henry has left Comic Relief 2021 viewers amazed by how young he looked. The co-founder of the charity and actor-comedian, 62, made a return to present the bi-annual charity event and introduce a series of sketches and performances alongside other presenters such as Davina McCall, Paddy McGuinness and David Tennant.

EXCLUSIVE: Comic Relief is bringing back Red Nose Day in the U.S. for a seventh time with this year’s event featuring a celebrity-laden episode of The Wall on NBC.

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Sir Lenny Henry is also on board supporting the cause, along with comedians Mo Gilligan, Shappi Khorsandi and Joe Lycett. Read more: Lenny Henry unveiled as The Masked Singer competitorFor the launch, they've appeared in a short film discussing how comedy has helped them in their lives.

coronavirus pandemic. Over its 35-year history Comic Relief has raised more than £1.

The Masked Singer’s casting team – they did a great job getting some serious star bookings for this year’s series. So far, we’ve already seen comedy legend Sir Lenny Henry and actual Spice Girl Mel B unmasked – not to mention the fact that a certain Grammy-winning American R&B singer is still in the competition, if rumours are to be believed.

The Masked Singer has got the whole nation guessing who is behind the masks this series. Viking and Blob were unmasked in the first ever double elimination during the epic series.

the latest clues and performances from the remaining contestants. Following a double elimination, that saw Viking identified as A-ha singer Morten Harket and Blob unmasked as Sir Lenny Henry, there are only a handful of unmasked celebrities left.

The Masked Singer UK, returned for another round of head-scratching musical covers tonight (January 30). Lit up by guest judge Alan Carr, this week's instalment featured a dramatic double elimination, meaning seven celebrity singers were whittled down to just five.

The Masked Singer has lost two of its celebrity contestants tonight in a double eviction - Viking and Blob were unmasked as Morten Harket and Lenny Henry. Blob and Viking’s identities didn’t come as much of a surprise to many of the show’s fans, who had insisted that they were definitely comedian Lenny Henry and singer Morten Harket since the beginning of the series.

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Fans of the Masked Singer were convinced that Blob was Sir Lenny Henry – and it turns out they weren’t wrong! The star was unmasked on Saturday 30 January as the baffled panellists looked on. Blob had performed three times so far on the show, wowing the public with his renditions of Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk, Cameo’s Word Up and Pitbull’s Hotel Room.

A new synopsis from Amazon’s ridiculously expensive “Lord of The Rings” series has made its way online. First posted by The One Ring, it has been authenticated by Deadline and IGN.

BBC risks losing “large parts” of its BAME audience forever due to worse representation than streaming services such as Netflix.Speaking in his new book Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond (via The Times), Henry says the high-profile death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, which sparked worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, made him realise that “systemic change” is needed in the film and TV industry.“A lot of the time at work, I am lonely.

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