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Line of Duty's Martin Compston and Kelly Macdonald will join other nominees including James McAvoy, Lawrence Chaney, Tilda Swinton, Jack Lowden as finalists at this year's Scottish BAFTA ceremony.

Kelly Macdonald is tipped to be the next Doctor Who after being named as one of the favourites to take on the role. Bookies have slashed odds on the Line of Duty star, 45, to replace Jodie Whittaker who this week announced she would be leaving the Tardis after four years.The Scots actress, 45, joins Olly Alexander, Michaela Cole, Michael Sheen and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as stars tipped to take over as the 14th Doctor Who.

EXCLUSIVE: George Mackay (1917), Kelly Macdonald (Line Of Duty) and Hugh Bonneville (Paddington) are set to lead cast in new Netflix thriller I Came By, which will be directed by BAFTA winner Babak Anvari (Under The Shadow).

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Warner Bros. announced Jan.

Warner Bros has set an awards corridor release in the UK and Ireland for Operation Mincemeat, the John Madden-directed war pic starring Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald, with the film set to land January 7, 2022.

After its success on Netflix, Call My Agent! is getting a UK remake and it’s coming to Amazon’s Prime Video which is good news for Irish viewers.

Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald have been confirmed as guest stars in the upcoming UK remake of Call My Agent!.Amazon Prime Video has also announced that it has bought the UK and Ireland rights to the series, which is based on the globally successful French comedy.The original show is about a struggling celebrity talent agency trying to stay afloat in Paris, which found a home on Netflix after first airing on the country’s terrestrial France 2 channel.Filming of the UK remake will take place

Naman Ramachandran Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”), Kelly Macdonald (“Line of Duty”) and Olivia Williams (“The Nevers”) will have cameos in the British remake of hit French series “Call My Agent!”.Amazon Prime Video will premiere the series exclusively in the U.K. and Ireland.BAFTA award winner John Morton (“W1A”) is writing and directing the first two episodes and executive producing the series.

Amazon Prime Video has locked UK and Ireland rights to the forthcoming British remake of hit French series Call My Agent!

The Season 6 finale of BBC police corruption drama “Line of Duty” snared over 15 million viewers — the century’s most-watched UK drama episode.Season 6 is now available on streaming service BritBox, with familiar faces Martin Compston (DS Steve Arnott), Vicky McClure (DI Kate Fleming) and Adrian Dunbar (Superintendent Ted Hastings) returning to investigate a murder case with sinister and far-reaching implications.

Irvine Welsh – the author of “the most shoplifted book in history” – has urged people to keep stealing copies of Trainspotting because he gets royalties when they are nicked. Welsh, 62, says he is paid even when his novels are stolen from shops due to stores having to cover the cost to publishers.

Kelly Macdonald has been praised by fans for her performance in last night’s dramatic episode of Line of Duty. The Scots actress, who plays DSI Jo Davidson on the show, came under intense cross examination from AC-12, in what was billed as the longest interview ever seen on the BBC cop drama.

Line of Duty fans are convinced that they know the identity of the man that Jo Davidson thought was her dad up until last night’s pivotal episode. In a particularly gruelling AC-12 interview scene, Davidson, played by Kelly Macdonald, was told the sickening truth that her Uncle, former OCG boss Tommy Hunter, was also her dad.

Line of Duty fans were left on the edge of their seats again after Sunday night’s episode, following a nail-biting face-off between DI Kate Fleming and corrupt PC Ryan Pilkington. And on top of all the drama unfolding, some viewers spotted a hidden clue which revealed just how exactly DCI Jo Davidson, played by Kelly Macdonald, is related to dead crime lord Tommy Hunter.

Brian McCardie might think he has the right to be questioned by, er, a journalist one rank senior, the editor’s busy, so he’ll need to make do with me, Paul English. The Glasgow-born actor’s work was the subject of heated debate around the country last week, as Line of Duty fans try to work out if his character, organised crime boss Tommy Hunter, is connected to Kelly Macdonald’s Jo Davidson in the smash series.

Line of Duty fans were left gobsmacked after the latest instalment when they found out DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) is related to one of the show's other characters. Needless to say, convincing fan theories are already doing the rounds.To help you through the seven-day slog to the next episode, we've got a gripping psychological thriller to sink your teeth into.

Kelly MacDonald could be set to play Doctor Who next, according to bookies Ladbrokes. The Trainspotting star is just 12/1 in the betting to replace Jodie Whittaker, having played a leading role in the latest series of Line Of Duty, while Kris Marshall and Michaela Coel continue to head the betting at 6/1 apiece.

She has joined the cast of Line of Duty as DCI Joanne Davidson tasked with the unsolved murder of journalist Gail Vella. But actress Kelly Macdonald has recently revealed that she had never watched an episode of the hit BBC drama before joining the cast for the much-anticipated series six.

Line of Duty has returned to our screens after an extended break and already, fans are abuzz with theories about what is going on.

Line of Duty actor Kelly Macdonald claims she gets as confused as viewers by all the quirky abbreviations on the hit cop show. Fans have already admitted they've spent ages looking up terms like CHIS, OCG, MIT and ARU after watching the gritty drama, which also stars fellow Scot Martin Compston.

Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald has revealed the creator of the BBC show thought her Scottish accent would 'mess with Martin Compston's head'. Series 6 has already had fans on the edge of their seat, with the Trainspotting actress joining the cast as a guest lead playing the mysterious Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson.

Line of Duty has returned to our screens after an extended break and already, fans are abuzz with theories about what is going on.

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Trainspotting actress Kelly Macdonald, 45, who joins the new series, said she was baffled by her lines and the police jargon. Kelly said: “It’s the kind of detailed forensic policing that, even when I’m saying the words, I’m only half aware of what I actually mean.”She joked that the cast read-through left her “a shell of a woman”.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has struck a big deal for the Colin Firth World War II movie Operation Mincemeat, we can reveal.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s bulletin, “Line of Duty” wraps filming; ViacomCBS and Morena team on “The Kellys”; Netflix is set to change its Spanish billing system; Woodcut and Spark merge; DAZN buys key soccer rights; and Berlin sets Shooting Stars jury.Jed Mercurio‘s hit police procedural “Line of Duty” has completed shooting its sixth season, complying with U.K. government COVID-19 protocols, and will debut on the BBC in 2021.Kelly Macdonald (“Giri/Haji”) is the next guest series lead.

The BBC have released the first images of Scots actress Kelly Macdonald's upcoming role in Line of Duty. As we reported yesterday, the sixth instalment of Jed Mercurio’s hit crime thriller - which resumed filming at the end of August - has wrapped up in Northern Ireland.

Line of Duty fans, it’s time to get excited.The hit BBC One crime drama has just finished filming it’s anticipated sixth series and the cast and crew have revealed it will be on our screens in 2021.To celebrate the big telly news, BBC One have since released some teaser images of the series’ next guest star Kelly Macdonald in character as Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson.

A reunion of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg—stars of the beloved comedy hybrids “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End”—should produce abundant joy, especially given the promising concept of Amazon’s “Truth Seekers” to once again blend humor with another genre. And yet this 8-episode comedy is a shocking misfire, a deadly dull affair that feels much longer than even its 4-hour total runtime and produces an unbelievably small number of actual laughs and thrills.