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Posted October 5, 2021 - No Comment

A pre-Oompa-Loompas Willie Wonka heads to the big screen with an amazing cast in tow!

Full disclosure. Re-makes tend to scare me, whether it’s big or small screen. Pre-Endeavour, prequels used to scare me too. Neither really ever came close to meeting expectations based on the original until Shaun Evans brought a young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse to life during his early career with the Oxford City Police CID.

While I’m reserving judgement on an announced 2023 release of Wonka, given it will be really hard to touch Gene Wilder’s definitive 1971 portrayal of the iconic children’s literary character, recent announcements as to casting may just have me looking forward to this one.

Posted April 26, 2021 - No Comment

Sir Anthony Hopkins takes home Best Actor Oscar in surprise win over Chadwick Boseman.

In what seems to be generating descriptive words such as shock, surprise and upset across the Internets, Sir Anthony Hopkins took home the Academy Award for Best Actor Sunday evening for his titular role in The Father, winning the Oscar over Chadwick Boseman. Boseman was widely expected to win the award for his final movie role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Posted September 21, 2019 - No Comment

‘The Crown’ returns this November as Claire Foy regenerates into Olivia Colman

At long last, season Three of The Crown, starring Oscar-winning Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II (replacing Oscar-nominee Claire Foy), arrives on 17 November. Giving us a glimpse of Olivia Colman playing Queen Elizabeth II for the first time, the recently released Netflix trailer shows that the creators definitely have a sense of humor or […]

Posted August 18, 2019 - No Comment

The Crown’s Olivia Colman has eyes for the one-and-only Homer during The Simpsons’ 31st season

Fresh off her current stint as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, the 2019 Best Actress Oscar-winner for The Favourite is headed to the animated world of The Simpsons as a ‘femme fatal’ who only has eyes for the one-and-only Homer Simpson.

Posted March 13, 2019 - No Comment

For one night, Idris Elba made ‘Saturday Night Live’ must-see TV again

For one brief moment in time, Idris Elba brought back memories of a time when SNL was so good you didn’t go out until it was over.

Posted February 25, 2019 - No Comment

Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman leads British Invasion of the Oscars by taking home Best Actress award

British actress Olivia Colman seemed genuinely gobsmacked at the thought she had just won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Anne in ‘The Favourite.’

Posted July 5, 2018 - No Comment

British Airways raises the bar, once again, with pre-flight safety video you will actually pay attention to!

They’ve got their Oscars, they’ve got their BAFTAs, but it seems what Britain’s top actors really want is a chance to get a line in British Airways’ in-flight safety video. Beginning this month, air travelers on British Airways will experience first hand the airlines newest pre-flight safety video created in conjunction with Comic Relief, the […]

Posted June 12, 2018 - No Comment

Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Watkins added to cast of ‘The Crown’ for series 3

Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter, Howard’s End, Ocean’s 8) and Jason Watkins (Twenty Twelve, W1A, Line of Duty, Hold the Sunset) have been added to the cast for the forthcoming series 3 of The Crown. Taking over the role of Princess Margaret from Vanessa Kirby, Bonham Carter will join the already overhauled cast of Olivia Colman as Queen […]

Posted January 11, 2018 - No Comment

Les Misérables — the latest ‘Masterpiece’ epic headed to PBS and BBC

When it rains drama, it pours these days as PBS and BBC have announced an epic new adaptation of the 19th Century Victor Hugo classic, Les Miserables with an all-star cast headed by Dominic West (The Affair, The Hour) and David Oyelowo (Spooks, Selma, A United Kingdom) in the iconic roles of Jean Valjean and Javert, the police inspector […]

Posted June 2, 2017 - No Comment

Sir Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench board the Orient Express for Agatha Christie’s whodunnit

As most P1’s of Tellyspotting are well aware, I’m not a huge fan of remakes. I’m all on board with prequels. Remakes, not so much. That said, the forthcoming November release of Kenneth Branagh’s ‘remake’ of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express may go a long way to alter my future close-mindedness. Sir Kenneth will not only co-produce and […]