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EXCLUSIVE: One year ago we told you that a second season of John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager was quietly being developed under the codename Steelworks.
Now, Deadline can reveal that the BBC and new co-pro partner Amazon have gone big on a supercharged double-season order of the thriller, with Tom Hiddleston returning to lead, Hugh Laurie coming back as EP and with a new director in I Hate Suzie’s Georgi Banks-Davies. David Farr returns as writer and Stephen Garrett is showrunner.
The Night Manager Season 2 will begin filming later this year and will pick up with Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine eight years after the explosive finale of Season 1, going beyond the original book, which was written by the celebrated British writer in 1993. Additional plot details are being kept under wraps and there is not yet confirmation as to whether EP Laurie’s Richard Roper, who was last seen in the back of a paddy wagon driven by arms buyers who were not best pleased with him, will return to star. Hiddleston will also EP and will discuss in more depth on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Produced by The Ink Factory in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Spanish partner Nostromo Pictures, The Night Manager Season 2 was sold to Amazon by Fifth Season. The first was co-produced with AMC.
New director Banks-Davies, a BAFTA-nominee who takes over from Susanne Bier, has credits including I Hate Suzie, Garfield and upcoming Netflix series Kaos.
The Night Manager Season 1 was a huge success, watched by millions and winning multiple BAFTAs, Emmys and Golden Globes including best actor for Hiddleston. Also starring Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman and Elizabeth Debicki, it followed Pine – who ran
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EXCLUSIVE: British actor and screenwriter Jamie Bacon has signed with UK agency United Agents.
David Gilmour has announced ‘Luck And Strange’ – his first solo album in nine years with the LP’s first offering being released later this week.The former Pink Floyd guitarist is set to release the album’s lead single ‘The Piper’s Call’ on Thursday (April 25) on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. The track’s accompanying music video will be released on Friday (April 26).‘Luck and Strange’ is set for release on September 6.
Late last week, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino shocked the film industry. All set to start shooting his tenth and would-be final film, “The Movie Critic,” or at least a handful of scenes to be eligible for a tax credit and then resume in 2025, the filmmaker pivoted, changed course, and then canceled the film.
Some shows are big cultural hits and juggernauts, and some quietly go on season after season; maybe not a huge critical giant, but there are enough ardent fans to justify their existence. And that’s probably where Apple TV+’s “Trying,” a heartwarming British comedy television series created by Andy Wolton (“The Amazing World of Gumball”), lands; it has its fans, and it keeps successfully chugging along, though to be fair, it does have its U.K.
“The Tortured Poets Department,” which dropped Friday, the pop star, 34, seemingly admits that she was more emotionally wounded from her breakup with British actor Joe Alwyn than it seemed at the time. In her song “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” the 13th track on the album, Swift says that she was only pretending to be happy following their split, which took place just before she started her Eras tour last year.Lyrics supposedly about the “Conversations With Friends” star include: “Cause I’m a real tough kid, I can handle my s—t / They said, ‘Baby, gotta fake it till you make it,’ and I did / Lights, camera, bitch, smile, even when you wanna die / He said he’d love me all his life.”Swift, who has since moved on to NFL player Travis Kelce, 34, also says in the song that she was “shattered” while crowds chanted “more” from her. Swift dated Alwyn, 33, for six years, from 2016 to 2023.
Ariana Madix‘s future on Vanderpump Rules is still unclear.
Swift dropped her highly anticipated album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Betches Media shared an Instagram carousel of images with a meme of “Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller holding up pieces of paper listing some of Swift’s famous exes.As her current boyfriend, Travis Kelce, was at the top of the pyramid, Taylor Lautner, Harry Styles, Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris, Joe Alwyn, Jake Gyllenhaal and Matty Healy followed.Notably, Harris, Alwyn, Gyllenhaal and Healy were the four on the bottom.Even more, Swift “liked” a “Hunger Games” meme that jokingly showed Alwyn as a dead tribute in the franchise. “Every time we get a new lyric the hunger games cannon goes off,” the tweet that Betches Media shared read.Swift actually collaborated with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games’ “Safe & Sound” in 2012.Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, meanwhile, began dating over the summer.
Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge has teamed up with Fender to share a new signature Starcaster, which he describes as “the coolest guitar ever made”.Announced today (April 16), the new collaboration between the pop-punk legend and the iconic guitar manufacturer comes after DeLonge was drawn to the model, and began taking it on tour with Blink-182 in 2022.Initially released in the ‘70s to offer versatile sounds for players, the design of the original model has been modified by the artist for his signature edition – now introducing more modern elements to make the look and feel unique to him.“I love this guitar, I really do. It’s the coolest guitar ever made.
Tom Hiddleston is sharing who he modeled his portrayal of Loki after!
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly took to the stage for the final Saturday Night Takeaway on Saturday 13 April and while the pair got emotional as they said their goodbyes - they had a ball at the afterparty. Having invited many famous faces back for the final show, lots of celebrities hit the town with the Geordie duo.
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event Saturday to discuss set design, character motivations and the potential future of the Disney+ series beyond Season 2.
Ariana Madix is hitting up the 2024 Coachella Music Festival!
BBC series The Night Manager is to return for two new seasons, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his leading role.As revealed by Deadline, the John Le Carré adaptation has been re-commissioned, with the BBC and Amazon Prime Video co-producing the two new seasons of the show.David Farr wrote the original run of episodes, and he will return as the showrunner, alongside lead producer Stephen Garrett, who also worked on the original. Hugh Laurie, who played arms dealer Dicky Roper, is set to be an executive producer this time around.Georgi Banks-Davies, known for her work on Sky Atlantic comedy I Hate Suzie, has been tapped to direct the new seasons.The first season, directed by Susanne Bier, followed Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and an ex-British soldier, who is hired by an intelligence officer to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle.Speaking about the return, Hiddleston has said: “The first series of The Night Manager was one of the most creatively fulfilling projects I have ever worked on.
Last year, it was reported that Tom Hiddleston would be returning for a surprise second season of the hit TV series The Night Manager.
After rumblings last year, it’s official: “The Night Manager” is back. Deadline reports that BBC and Amazon are developing not one but two new season sequels to the 2016 spy thriller, with Tom Hiddleston returning to star.
Tom Hiddleston is being honored!
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Clive Owen hopes to divide and conquer with his dual Emmy submissions this year. With two competing limited series in the Emmys race, the star will be submitting his two acclaimed performances in AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” and Hulu’s “A Murder at the End of the World” in separate acting categories, Variety has learned exclusively. For his work as detective Sam Spade in AMC’s neo-noir miniseries “Monsieur Spade,” he’ll remain as expected in the highly competitive lead actor in a limited series or TV movie race, where he’ll face potential contenders such as Jon Hamm (“Fargo”) and Tom Hollander (“Feud: Capote vs.
EXCLUSIVE: In recent years, comedian Tom Segura has taken to both his podcasts and the press to tease a pilot that he self-financed, produced and sold. And now, he’s revealed Netflix as the destination for the project, a six-episode dark comedy series that he’ll star in and produce.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and EventsThe official launch of Hulu on Disney+ was celebrated at a star-studded party at Mother Wolf in Hollywood on April 5.Hosted by Disney’s Dana Walden and Alan Bergman, with a special appearance by Bob Iger, the evening included a blue arrivals carpet and an exclusive cocktail reception.“Today, I think, consumers want not only quality but they want volume and they want convenience. And this is now all three in one place,” Iger told Variety about adding Hulu to Disney+. “It’s great to have this array of great content very conveniently located instead of having to close one app and go to the other app.