EXCLUSIVE: The excitement surrounding Steven Knight’s upcoming big-budget BBC war thriller Rogue Heroes has ramped up another notch with buyers in Europe, Canada and Australia acquiring the drama.
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who died in 2018 at the age of 76, treasured a blackboard that became smothered with cartoons, doodles and equations at a conference he arranged in 1980. But what all the graffiti and in-jokes mean is taking some time to unravel.
The blackboard – as much a perplexing work of art as a memento from the history of physics – goes on display for the first time on Thursday as part of a collection of office items acquired by the Science Museum in London. The hope for Juan-Andres Leon, the curator of Stephen Hawking’s office, is that surviving attenders of the conference on superspace and supergravity held in Cambridge more than 40 years ago swing by and explain what some of the sketches and comments mean.
“We’ll certainly try and extract their interpretations,” Leon said. Joining the blackboard in a temporary display called Stephen Hawking at Work is a rare copy of the physicist’s 1966 PhD thesis, his wheelchair, a formal bet that information swallowed by a black hole is lost for ever, and a host of celebrity memorabilia, including a personalised jacket given to him by the creators of the Simpsons for his many appearances on the show.
“People don’t have much of a glimpse into what everyday life was like for Stephen Hawking, and because he was a theoretical physicist, it’s hard to convey what he might do on a random Monday,” said Leon. Gallery: These are the oldest words in the English language (Espresso)“The office provides a lot of material and I think people knew that this was more than the collection of its parts, that it really reflects what made Stephen Hawking unique,” he added.
EXCLUSIVE: The excitement surrounding Steven Knight’s upcoming big-budget BBC war thriller Rogue Heroes has ramped up another notch with buyers in Europe, Canada and Australia acquiring the drama.
Matt Hancock hit out at host Steven Bartlett on his Diary of a CEO podcast as things turned awkward when the latter began quizzing the former Health Secretary on his "contradictory" behaviour during his affair with now-girlfriend Gina Coladangelo.The 43 year old politician previously said he had looked forward to engaging in a relaxed chat with the Dragons' Den star after spending much of his political career being aggressively questioned on the likes of Good Morning Britain. After a lengthy discussion about his upbringing, and decisions during the pandemic, the topic changed to his mistakes in his family life.
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 6 premiere of Peaky Blinders.. After a long wait, Peaky Blinders is back, just having premiered the first episode of the final season on BBC One this evening in the UK, and after the tragic loss of one of the show’s most important players, Helen McCrory (Aunt Polly), who passed away in April last year. Show creator Steven Knight and executive producer Caryn Mandabach sat down with Deadline this weekend to discuss the Season 6 premiere, the impact of losing McCrory on a personal and storyline level, and what’s ahead for the Shelby family (yes, there is a movie being plotted).
Emma Willis is hopeful that 'Big Brother' will return to the UK one day. The 45-year-old TV star presented 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother' between 2013 and 2018, as well as the spin-off series 'Big Brother's Bit on the Side' between 2011 and 2015, and like Rylan Clark, who won the 2013 celebrity series and also hosted 'Big Brother's Bit on the Side', Emma would love to see the reality show back on air. She told Metro.
Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin has been nominated six times for the UK’s prestigious Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards next month, with Jeremy Clarkson, Olivia Colman and Stephen Graham also picking up nods.
The British gangster series “Peaky Blinders” is coming to an end with Season 6 set to end the show, but luckily for fans of the show, the universe will continue on with plans for a feature film and even potential spinoffs that could help keep things going beyond the flagship series. Series creator Steven Knight recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly and has given a timeline for the upcoming “Peaky Blinders” movie as the series wraps up with Season 6.
Kate Garraway emotionally admitted that she feels "terribly lonely" and that she still hopes for a "happy ending" with her husband Derek Draper during her powerful documentary Caring For Derek on Tuesday.The ITV show is a follow up to the Good Morning Britain presenter's, 54, award-winning first documentary Finding Derek and it followed Derek arriving home ten months ago up until now. Derek, 54, returned home in April 2021 after spending a year in hospital fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus in 2020, which has since left him battling a number of ongoing health issues. In one emotional moment, Kate tearfully admitted that she is "really struggling" and that despite hoping for a "happy ending", it feels "unsustainable".
Nope – the secretive new horror film from Get Out and Us helmer Jordan Peele – has landed online ahead of its premiere during the Super Bowl LVI later today.Billed by Universal Pictures as an “expansive horror epic” and “a new pop nightmare”, the film’s storyline remains shrouded in mystery. What we do know, per an official synopsis, is that Nope will terrorise an ensemble cast (led by Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun) as they “bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery” in “a lonely gulch of inland California”.Towards the end of the trailer, Palmer’s character – supposedly the great, great, great granddaughter of the man featured in The Horse In Motion (believed to be the first moving picture) – is flung into the atmospheric force teased to be at the film’s core.Check out the trailer for Nope below:Nope was formally announced last July, following months of speculation that Kaluuya would reunite with Peele for a clandestine horror.
Logan Paul claims that he has some unfinished business with Floyd Mayweather.
Naman Ramachandran BritBox has picked up “Reel Britannia,” a documentary series on the history of modern British cinema, for the U.S., U.K., Canada and South Africa. The deal was closed by Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, who acquired worldwide distribution rights to the series from director Jon Spira and producer Hank Starrs of Canal Cat Films.
Loch Leven NNR in Kinross-shire is a safe bet to see a range of migratory birds but recently efforts have been made to encourage a rare duck to stick around and breed.
Pleasing, but fans continue to be fascinated by his rumoured romance with Olivia Wilde. Yes, 2021 Hollywood news kicked off with reports that boyband star turned critically acclaimed artist and international mortal of affection Harry Styles and respected feminist and all-round cool girl actress/director Olivia Wilde are dating. The rumour mill went into overdrive in January when the pair were spotted together.
Dancing On Ice fans believed they spotted a 'change' in Holly Willoughby as she hosted Dancing On Ice.
What she wants. As Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the British throne —she opened up about her wishes for the future of the U.K. monarchy.