Hannah Waddingham Joins Tom Cruise in 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2'

hit Apple TV+ comedy series about a doofy college football coach who becomes an unlikely Premier League soccer club manager in the UK debuted during the first, trying year of the pandemic — in August 2020. And the initially excellent show, starring Jason Sudeikis, proved a cathartic break from the onslaught of bleak news and our 3 a.m.

For the first time in its history, the Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast live in cinemas across the UK. 

On social media, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie just announced that Rolf Saxon, the actor who played unlucky CIA agent William Donloe in Brian De Palma’s 1996 masterpiece “Mission: Impossible” will be returning for the eighth film, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part Two” (due out in the summer of 2024).If, for some reason, you don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise, in the first movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team, then comprised of Luther (Ving Rhames), Krieger (Jean Reno) and Claire (Emmanuele Béart), stage an audacious break-in at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. This involves sneaking into the “black vault,” an ultra-secure CIA database overseen by William Donloe, an analyst at the agency.

Jordan Moreau After 25 years, “Mission: Impossible” fans may finally find out whatever happened to William Donloe, the CIA analyst from the original movie who was supposed to be watching highly classified documents before Ethan Hunt drops from the ceiling and steals them in the now famous scene. On his Instagram account Wednesday, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” writer Christopher McQuarrie revealed that actor Rolf Saxon, who played William Donloe in the first “Mission: Impossible,” is returning in next year’s franchise finale, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two.” McQuarrie shared a photo of Saxon’s character, who is now sporting a beard after the events of the original “Mission: Impossible.” After Tom Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt suspended himself from a cable and dropped down from ceiling of the high-security CIA vault to steal the NOC list, Donloe was promptly fired and reassigned to a polar substation in Alaska.

SPOILER ALERT: The story below reveals major plot points from the Season 3 premiere of Apple’s Ted Lasso.

“Ted Lasso” Season 3 PremiereVillage Theater, WestwoodApple TV+ transplanted the “Ted Lasso” cast from London to L.A. and had a huge bash in the heart of Westwood to commemorate the Season 3 drop (on March 15).

Hannah Waddingham is making major career moves!The Emmy-winning star has joined the cast of, director Christopher McQuarrie announced on Friday.McQuarrie shared the news alongside a pic of the actress looking serious in a military-style jacket and cap, writing, «And Hannah Waddingham… #Godspeed #DeadReckoning.»A post shared by Christopher McQuarrie (@christophermcquarrie)will be the eighth and final film in the series, which stars Tom Cruise as secret operative Ethan Hunt. The film will also star Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales and more.Back in December, Cruise gave franchise fans an inside look as he prepared to complete the most dangerous stunt of his career — a motorcycle jump off of a cliff into a base jump — for .«I've wanted to do it since I was a little kid,» Cruise said of the stunt, for which he completed over 500 skydives and more than 13,000 motocross jumps during training.

Julia MacCary editor “Abbott Elementary” and “Top Gun: Maverick” received top honors at the 60th annual International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) Publicists Awards luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday. The awards honor individual publicists, unit still photographers and entertainment journalists who further publicity campaigns for film and TV. Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay and senior entertainment reporter Angelique Jackson each earned nominations from ICG. Quinta Brunson of “Abbott Elementary” received the TV showman of the year honor, and the producers of “Top Gun: Maverick” (Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, David Ellison and Christopher McQuarrie) received the honor on the film side, with Bruckheimer accepting on behalf of all four.

Tom Cruise‘s Ethan Hunt returns for the first part of the series send-off this July in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” The penultimate film in the franchise sets up the stakes for “Dead Reckoning Part Two” next summer, with the usual IMF crew, and Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Shea Whigham, and Cary Elwes also on board this time.

Jordan Moreau The worlds of “Mission: Impossible” and “Ted Lasso” have unexpectedly collided. Next summer’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” has cast Hannah Waddingham, who plays Rebecca Welton on Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso.” Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of the two upcoming “Dead Reckoning” films, revealed the casting on his Instagram account on Friday. He captioned the photo of Waddingham with a cryptic tease, writing “#GodSpeed #DeadReckoning.”A post shared by Christopher McQuarrie (@christophermcquarrie) Franchise star Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in this summer’s seventh, and penultimate, installment of his long-standing, action-packed franchise. Variety previously reported that he was filming the eighth movie aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, which is where the photo of Waddingham appears to be taken.

With Season 3 of Ted Lasso just weeks away, Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham has found her next feature project as she is set to join the cast of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2. Writer-director Chris McQuarrie confirmed her casting on social media as the film is in production.

post.“And Hannah Waddingham… #Godspeed #DeadReckoning,” he captioned an image of Waddingham on set, wearing a cap and standing in front of what looks like a naval base.The “Ted Lasso” star will make her debut in Paramount’s storied spy franchise on June 24, 2024. “Dead Reckoning Part One” is slated to release on July 14, 2023.

Tom Cruise was all smiles as he visited a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea this week.

Rumors abound that the third season of Apple TV+’s massive comedy hit “Ted Lasso” will be the last. Given the show won the Emmy for Best Comedy Series in its first two outings, the creators of this game-changing hit could go a perfect 3-for-3, getting out before the show dips in quality or popularity.

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 entry is set to be revealed tomorrow (March 9).The BBC have said an announcement will be made on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 breakfast show at 8.30am GMT.Among the favourites to represent the UK include Lymington singer-songwriter Birdy with odds of of 6/4, Rina Sawayama, Jessie Ware and Ellie Goulding.Following the same selection process as last year, the BBC has been working with a management company to pick the act.The UK is one of the last competing countries to reveal its song for 2023.

The stars of Ted Lasso are hitting the red carpet!

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham lifted up her arms and proudly showed off the bruises she received, not on the soccer field at AFC Richmond, but doing “kick-ass” stunts on David Leitch’s action movie The Fall Guy.

, but it doesn't necessarily mean that's the case for the show's beloved characters. ET's Nischelle Turner spoke with Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham ahead of the show's season 3 premiere, where they talked about their character's love lives and opened up about a possible spinoff to the hit Apple TV+ series.When asked if there's a possibility that Ted (Sudeikis) can win his estranged wife back — and if he wants to — and if Rebecca (Waddingham) is going to get back with Sam (Toheeb Jimoh), Sudeikis gave a blanket yes to both.«I mean, these are all things that we spoke about week one, two, or three of the writers' room. So, how about just a blanket yes to any of them?» Sudeikis offered.As far as if Ted and Rebecca will turn their long-standing tension into something more, Sudeikis said «sure,» with Waddingham playing a bit of devil's advocate, adding, «But there's always the 'could it' all over the place.»One love affair they were more open to talking about is the one between Rebecca and Keeley (Juno Temple).

K.J. Yossman Dan Harmon’s upcoming animated comedy “Krapopolis” hasn’t yet broadcast a single frame but, in an unprecedented move, Fox has already renewed the show for a further two seasons, president of scripted programming Michael Thorn revealed on Wednesday. “Krapopolis,” which features an all-star voice cast including Richard Ayoade (“The IT Crowd”), Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”) and Matt Berry (“Toast of London”) is set in Ancient Greece but, despite the olde-worlde get-up, it turns out Ancient Greece has a lot of similarities to the present day. Ahead of previewing the show at London TV Screenings on Thursday, Thorn sat down with Variety to discuss the show and why Fox is betting on it being a runaway hit.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are shooting flight scenes for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, which Cruise reached by helicopter from the Italian port city of Bari, where he jetted into on Saturday. Confirming Italian press reports, the head of the Apulia Film Commission Antonio Parente told Variety on Thursday that Cruise flew into Bari, which is the Apulia region’s capital city, on Saturday Feb. 25. After spending the night in Bari’s 5-star Hotel Delle Nazioni, Cruise on Sunday hopped on a private helicopter from the Bari airport to go shoot scenes for the eighth “Mission Impossible” installment on an U.S. aircraft carrier “which is probably the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, but we are not sure,” Parente said.