Timothy Spall Joins Lesley Manville In PBS/BritBox Crime Series ‘Magpie Murders’

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorDavid Thewlis has signed on to star opposite Olivia Colman in “Landscapers,” HBO’s four-episode limited series from Sky Studios about a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an investigation when dead bodies turn up in their yard.Will Sharpe, who worked with Colman in the offbeat 2016 British comedy series “Flowers,” has signed on to direct all four episodes.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterForest Whitaker has joined Tom Hardy in the upcoming Netflix crime drama film “Havoc,” Variety has learned.The film hails from writer, director, and producer Gareth Evans, the first under a new exclusive multi-year deal to produce and direct films for the streamer.In “Havoc,” after a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDianne Wiest is set to star opposite Jeremy Renner in the Paramount Plus series “Mayor of Kingstown” from Taylor Sheridan, Variety has learned.The series follows the McLusky family – power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.

BritBox, the BBC and ITV’s joint-venture streamer, has acquired ITV’s John Simm drama Grace for the U.S. and Canada. The service will premiere the drama on April 27.

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Kremelberg (The Trial Of the Chicago 7) has been tapped as a key series regular opposite Bill Pullman in the upcoming fourth season of USA Network’s crime anthology series The Sinner.

North West is growing up so quickly! The daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may only be seven years old, but she’s smart beyond her years. Kim took to her Instagram Story on March 16 to reveal little North had created a “leprechaun trap” ahead of St.

Hilaria Baldwin revealed the funny photos she sends husband Alec Baldwin in order to diffuse their "immature arguments."  The duo married in 2012 and recently announced the arrival of their sixth child together, Maria Lucia, alongside Eduardo "Edu" Pao Lucas, 5 months, Romeo Alejandro David, 2, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 4, Rafael Thomas, 5, and Carmen Gabriela, 7. Alec is also the father to 25-year-old daughter Ireland.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTom Hiddleston will star alongside Claire Danes in the series adaptation of the Sarah Perry novel “The Essex Serpent” at Apple, Variety has learned.The one-hour drama series follows newly widowed Cora (Danes) who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.

Leonardo, the upcoming drama series exploring the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, starring Poldark's Aidan Turner as the famed Italian inventor, scientist and artist, is heading to Amazon Prime in the U.K. and Ireland.

Ireland’s own Aidan Turner had been entertaining the masses with his stellar turn in the series Poldark and now he’s back to try and entrance us once more with his new show, Leonardo.

Amazon has taken the UK and Ireland rights to Aidan Turner series, Leonardo, following a deal with Sony Pictures Television. The series on Italian master Leonardo da Vinci will premiere on April 16.

As a nation we’ve become quite successful when it comes to crime dramas, with the latest Irish offering, Calm With Horses, yesterday receiving four Bafta nominations.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (When They See Us) is set to recur opposite Rose Rollins, Josh Lucas and Jeff Schine in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

Paramount+ docuseries “For Heaven’s Sake.”The eight-episode arc follows creators and stars Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe as they probe at the 1934 disappearance of Mike’s great-great-uncle, Harold Heaven. “It really was just a campfire story my entire life,” Mildon, 26, told The Post. “I don’t remember exactly how old I was [when I first heard Harold’s story].

Kate Aurthur editorTimothy Spall will star alongside Lesley Manville in the Masterpiece, BritBox UK and Eleventh Hour Films adaptation of “Magpie Murders,” Anthony Horowitz’s international bestseller. Spall will play detective Atticus Pünd in the mystery-within-a-mystery in “Magpie Murders.” In the story, book editor Susan Ryeland (Manville) sits down to read the latest manuscript written by her popular author, Alan Conway, the writer behind the popular Atticus Pünd mystery series.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Schine (SEAL Team) is set as a series regular opposite Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

Canon Tom White has joined a legal action with other church leaders against the Scottish Government.He has previously told how he was spat on, verbally abused and threatened with a baton as an Orange Walk passed his church in the east end of Glasgow.The Daily Record and Sunday Mail have always been at the forefront when it comes to reporting crime in Scotland.But did you know all the ways you can stay informed of the top crime and courts headlines?We share live crime news and exclusive court

Paul Marquess and Susanne Farrell, who worked together on long-running British cop drama The Bill, have teamed up on a new British crime drama for the BBC and BritBox North America.

Naman Ramachandran BritBox North America, the BBC Studios and ITV-backed SVOD service specializing in British content, and the BBC have commissioned crime drama “Hope Street.”The ensemble serial is set in the fictional town of Port Devine in Northern Ireland, and will focus on its police department, and the mysterious arrival of English detective constable Alimah Khan, the first Muslim police officer in the town’s history.The cast includes Brid Brennan (“Brooklyn”), Des McAleer (“The Crown”),

Ireland Baldwin is “in full support of her dad [Alec Baldwin] and stepmother [Hilaria Baldwin]” after they reportedly welcomed baby No. 6, a source close to the Baldwin family EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.