‘Happy Valley’ Star James Norton To Headline ITV, StudioCanal Baby Swap Series ‘Playing Nice’

Doctor Who returned last month for the first of three 60th anniversary specials with David Tennant returning in the lead role. The 52 year old actor is arguably the most popular Doctor Who ever - having played the tenth incarnation of the beloved character from 2005 to 2010 before coming back to star as the Fourteenth Doctor in November.

Geordie Shore: Hot Single Summer hit our screens in 2021, bringing together existing cast members and newcomers who were on a quest to find love. Now, one of the new cast members for that series, Roxy Hamedi, 29, from Scotland, has revealed in an exclusive interview with OK! that seeing her ex James Tindale, who she met on the show, at the reunion was tough. She'd assumed that everyone going into the show was single but James had a girlfriend and didn't tell her.

Swagger star O’Shea Jackson Jr. is speaking out about the Apple TV+ basketball drama’s cancellation after two seasons.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Amy Schumer has been set to produce and star in Kinda Pregnant, a new film that Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws) is directing for Netflix and Happy Madison.

EXCLUSIVE: Aislinn Clarke is set to direct Hellish Nell, the genre thriller for Studiocanal and The Picture Company.  

The Match Factory has posted a raft of deals for Michel Franco’s drama Memory, starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Saarsgard, who won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor in Venice following its world premiere there in September.

Happy Valley‘s James Norton and Game of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are teaming up for a new drama series, King and Conqueror!

James Norton (Happy Valley) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) are set to star in the new CBS Studios period drama series King and Conqueror from creator Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes). The series is based on the 11th-century figures Harold of Wessex (Norton) and William of Normandy (Coster-Waldau) and is set to begin production in 2024.

Game of Thrones is the sort of industry dominating, pop culture titan that comes around every so often and totally changes the game. And while the characters fought for the Iron Throne, the show made its stars very wealthy in real life.

Warren Christie is starring in the new Hallmark Channel original movie Holiday Road and you might be curious to know more about his personal life.

Gavin And Stacey comeback, saying the British sitcom is unlikely to return.Many fans hoped that co-creator and star James Corden moving back to the UK following his eight-year stint hosting The Late Late Show in the US would increase the chances of a comeback for the show. And after Corden was recently spotted meeting with fellow co-creator Ruth Jones in London, speculation was rife.However, Page, who played Stacey in the sitcom, says the chances of the hit comedy returning are low because it was left on a perfect cliffhanger in the 2019 Christmas special, with Nessa (Ruth) proposing to Corden’s character Smithy, and the episode ending before he could provide an answer.Speaking to MailOnline, Page said: “I can see them never doing any more because it was nice to leave it on a cliffhanger because it’s up to the viewer to imagine what would have happened.

Annika Pham In an exclusive sneak-peek of its 2024 program, Cia Edström, head of the Göteborg Film Festival’s leading drama showcase TV Drama Vision, has unveiled that British actress Sarah Lancashire will be one of the 50-plus speakers due on-stage. The star of BBC’s “Happy Valley,” Max’s “Julia” and Netflix’s forthcoming “Black Doves” will be joining Lars Blomgren, head of international at Media Res (“Scenes from a Marriage”) in a fireside chat where Lancashire will discuss her expanding career on both sides of the camera and new shingle Via Pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: Bombay Berlin Film Productions (BBFP) has revealed that August Diehl has been cast to play the role of German Olympic athlete Otto Peltzer in upcoming biopic The Distant Near. 

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been almost 13 years since James L. Brooks last directed a film and looks like fans of the Oscar-winning writer/director will soon have their wish granted as his next project nears production. Sources tell Deadline that not only as 20th Century come on to Brooks’ next film Ella McCkay but that Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Ayo Edibiri, Albert Brooks, Kumail Nanjiani and Spike Fearn are in negotiations to star in the pic.

Alison Hammond has told fans there are 'ups and downs' on This Morning in her latest Instagram post. The presenter, who fronts the ITV daytime programme every Friday alongside Dermot O'Leary shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse from her latest stint on Friday (Nov 17).

Never say never. Former Dukes of Hazzard stars John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Tom Wopat reunited with fellow castmates Byron Cherry, Jeff Altman and Rick Hurst at Gallatin Comic Con 2023 in Tennessee recently where talk of a possible reboot of the hit ’80s TV comedy series surfaced.

Simon Webbe has become the latest member of Blue to be hit with financial difficulties. Back in 2017 Simon's bandmate Duncan James filed for bankruptcy after the group's company Blueworld went into administration, and then in 2021 Lee Ryan claimed he was left with "no money" during the pandemic after he was fined by a magistrates' court.

Emmerdale star Alan McKenna quickly made his mark in the Yorkshire village after his debut as Rhona Goskirk's ex-husband Gus earlier this year. But before Alan, 57 joined the cast of the hit ITV soap he appeared in several other popular shows including The Bill, Waterloo Road and Happy Valley.The actor has also appeared in rival soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street where he played a dangerous villain.The soap star not only acts but has written, produced, and starred in his own underwater action film. Here's everything we know about Alan as his character continues to cause trouble in Emmerdale...

Savina Petkova A vampire with qualms about killing to survive is no longer a figure exclusive to the “Twilight” franchise, when a Canadian French-language debut places a teenage girl in a tricky situation, torn between what the world demands of her and what she herself wants. The film’s title is eloquent enough — “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” — and it already won Ariane Louis-Seize the best director prize at this year’s Venice Days, and was praised for a “strong directorial vision.” The film screened as part of the main competition at the Thessaloniki Film Festival last week.

Travis Barker has shared his memories of Taylor Hawkins, the late drummer for the Foo Fighters.Barker, the drummer for Blink-182, said to The LA Times that he had spoken to Hawkins shortly before his death. Hawkins was found dead in his hotel room aged 50 in March 2022, hours before Foo Fighters were set to headline a festival in the city as part of a South American tour. No cause of death was given.According to Barker, he and Hawkins both lived in the San Fernando Valley, where Hawkins suggested they ride mountain bikes together.