‘The Duke’ Review: Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren Give Heart to a Very English Heist Comedy

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFor “Fleabag” director Harry Bradbeer, green was indicative of gender when it came to building the world of the title character for “Enola Holmes,” based on the YA book series by Nancy Springer about the teenage sister of Sherlock Holmes.The film, which bows on Netflix on Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSomehow, the mysterious British R&B/electronic-ish combo Sault has managed to drop four richly diverse, socially confrontational albums, all of them good and two of them absolutely great, in just 18 months.

Mark David Having bought a larger, historic home in nearby South Pasadena, sketch comedian, actor and writer Anders Holm has put his former home, an updated 1920s English storybook Tudor on a slender, winding street in L.A.’s hipster-filled Silver Lake neighborhood, up for grabs at $2.1 million.

Jim Davidson has faced huge backlash after suggesting Diversity should do a dance on “mugging”.The 66 year old comedian made the comments in response to Diversity’s Black Lives Matter performance on Britain’s Got Talent, which ITV have strongly defended after 21,000 complaints to Ofcom. Jim has since shared his views in a YouTube video entitled, Who Needs Diversity.

Peter White Television EditorThe End, the British/Australian dark comedy drama starring The Crown and Succession star Harriet Walter and Mansfield Park’s Frances O’Connor, is heading to Showtime.The ViacomCBS-owned network has acquired the 10-episode first season of the drama, which is produced by Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films and was a co-production between Sky and Australia’s Foxtel. Endeavor Content handled the U.S.

Sir Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning British screenwriter of The Pianist and films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,The Dresser and Quartet, has died. He was 85.

A funny-moving story enjoyably retold with classic British understatement and just the right twist at the end, The Duke is the account of an incredible true event from 1961, when a man from the working-class north of England climbed through a bathroom window into London’s National Gallery one night and stole a valuable painting of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. His motive was charity.

You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell‘s “The Duke,” a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunks a gamely accented prestige cast into an appealingly milky true story like so many digestives into a warm, well-earned, early evening cuppa.

Manori Ravindran International EditorRoger Michell, the British director behind Venice competition title “The Duke” and films such as “Notting Hill” and “Venus,” says he feels “great sympathy” for the BBC and its ongoing tensions with the U.K.

NBCUniversal's Spanish-language division Telemundo Enterprises will bring its political information series'Politi¿QUÉ?, to Snapchat, in English. The show, to be produced by Noticias Telemundo and hosted by Miriam Arias, is part of Telemundo'sDECISIÓN 2020 news and civic engagement initiative.

The ugliness between these two never ends: as Johnny Depp’s UK lawsuit comes to a close, his US suit against Amber Heard is set to begin.

Amber Heard, who is already involved in two court cases filed by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, is reportedly bracing herself for another multi-million dollar court suit by the actor.A report in Daily Mail has claimed that Amber Heard's lawyers are preparing for a fresh clash with Johnny Depp, just weeks after the actress gave testimony against her ex-husband in the libel suit he has filed against a British tabloid over an article referring to him as a "wife-beater."The report said that Heard's

Peter White Television EditorHBO Max launched with a slew of British series and that shows no sign of slowing down as international originals chief Jen Kim outlined some of her upcoming projects for the nascent streamer.Kim, who is SVP for International Originals for HBO Max, was speaking on a virtual Edinburgh International TV Festival panel moderated by Deadline.She teased a few upcoming original projects including co-productions such as a six-part “action mystery thriller” and a reality