Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the cast of Gilmore Girls felt the heat when they were filming the show.
06.06.2023 - 21:15 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Lennie James is leading and EPing a BBC adaptation of Girl, Woman, Other scribe Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman.
The Save Me star will play Barrington Jedidiah Walker, or Barry to his friends, a Caribbean-born life-and-soul personality living in Hackney who has been harboring a secret for years. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, knows Barry has been cheating on her, but when it emerges that the affair has been going on for decades with his male best friend, Morris, their marriage goes into meltdown. Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.
Noughts + Crosses and The Outlaws scribe Nathaniel Price is penning the eight-parter, director is Hong Khaou (Baptiste) and production outfit is Fable Pictures, the Sony-backed indie that made Sarah Gavron’s Rocks. Sony Pictures Television is distributing globlly. More casting will be announced in due course.
Mr Loverman was published a decade ago and is British-Nigerian scribe Evaristo’s seventh novel. Evaristo is the author of Girl, Woman, Other, the hit novel that shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood’s Testaments. That novel is also being adapted for the screen by Potboiler Television, although it is yet to secure a buyer.
Evaristo said she “loves the idea of stepping beyond the pages of Mr Loverman into people’s living rooms and lives.”
BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt added: “Mr Loverman is a must-read novel and in the skilled hands of Nathaniel, Lennie and the Fable team it will soon be must-see television. I can’t think of a more perfect team to bring Bernardine’s exquisite story to the screen.”
James recently joined Joshua Oppenheimer musical The End and plays
Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the cast of Gilmore Girls felt the heat when they were filming the show.
With Aaron Sandford (James Craven) realising his wrongdoings in tonight’s episode of Coronation Street, he and dad Eric Sandford (Craig Cheetham) have officially left the cobbles. It’s been a difficult storyline to watch since the rape scenes aired earlier this year. Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) has been struggling in the aftermath, particularly as Aaron refused to accept the fact she did not consent.
After months of denying he raped Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) in scenes that aired in March when she was too drunk to consent, Aaron Sandford (James Craven) finally came to his senses in tonight’s episode of Coronation Street and realised his wrongdoings. In the episode, Amy, decided to write a retraction to the legal battle where Aaron’s dad, Eric (Craig Cheetham), was suing her for libel.The court case would have depleted the Barlow family life-savings so Amy decided to withdraw her statement. She showed it to Aaron, but when he pointed out it didn't make any sense, Amy lost it and suggested he write it himself.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Imagine you’ve been given a role in a pilot: The exciting news appears in the trades, you film the episode and take the cast publicity photos. Then your show is picked up! But there’s a caveat: Your role is being re-shot with a new actor. Devastating! Cue sad trombone sound effect. That’s why I like these kinds of stories better: The background actors, guest stars and recurring actors who eventually graduate to series regular status thanks to sheer persistence and talent. That’s the case this season for “Ted Lasso” standout James Lance, who plays Trent Crimm — formerly of The Independent, now just independent — on the show.
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EXCLUSIVE: A feature adaptation of John William Polidori’s classic 19th-century gothic novel The Vampyre, one of the first English language novels to feature blood-sucking creatures, is in the works at Milky Way Media and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and Derek Jacobi (Murder on the Orient Express) are attached to lead.
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Ryan Reynolds has brought back his cocktail recipe for “The Vasectomy,” this time with help from Jessie James Decker. For the past two years, Reynolds, 46, who shares four children with wife Blake Lively, has featured his Aviation Gin in the Father’s Day cocktail, which is made using gin, tonic, lemon juice, and cranberry juice. This year, Reynolds teamed up with Decker, 35, who shares three children with husband Eric Decker, for the “Decker Edition” of the drink, which sees the singer creating the cocktail for her partner while joking that the beverage gets its name from the procedure her husband has “refused to get”.
On their latest shows, Brett Goldstein and Theo James have created characters who unpeel deeper truths beyond their hunky appearances. Goldstein, who’s won two Emmys for portraying soccer player and coach Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso,” returned for the Apple TV+ comedy’s third season. (He’s also a co-creator and writer on “Shrinking,” about a therapist played by Jason Segel.) James joined the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” set in Italy and from creator Mike White, as a chiseled, privileged vacationer. THEO JAMES: How did you end up writing for “Ted Lasso”? BRETT GOLDSTEIN: I’d done a pilot for Bill Lawrence. The pilot didn’t get picked up, but we stayed in touch, and he knew I was a writer as well as an actor. When people ask me for advice, I’m always like, there’s no magic phone call. It doesn’t happen. But I did get a magic phone call here, from Bill, out of the blue, saying, “I think you’d be good for this football show.”
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She doesn’t smell snow! Melissa McCarthy starred on Gilmore Girls for seven seasons — but filming the beloved show wasn’t always an easy feat.