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Colin Firth has boarded Young Sherlock, Prime Video's new series from Guy Ritchie, which tells the origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved detective. He joins previously cast Hero Fiennes, Zine Tseng, Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone. Written by Matthew Parkhill inspired by Andy Lane's Yo…

Watching characters from Bridgerton and other period dramas whirl their prospective love interests around the ballroom floor has inspired fans to take up Regency-era dancing themselves, a UK-based dance teacher reports. Historical dance teacher Lottie Adcock told BBC Radio York that she has seen a…

Slow Horses actress Catherine McCormack is to star alongside Colin Firth in Sky and Peacock’s retelling of the 1988 terror attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. McCormack will play Jane Swire, the wife of Firth’s character Dr Jim Swire. The couple lost their daughter, Flora, in the…

Colin Firth will star as a grieving father in Sky and Peacock’s true-life drama series Lockerbie. The The King's Speech and A Single Man actor has signed on to play Dr Jim Swire, a man who tragically lost his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on December 21, 1988. Swire and…

Empire of Light, written and directed by Sam Mendes, is a loving tribute to the power of cinema and a poignant story about the healing qualities of genuine human connection. The film follows the budding romance of two employees working at a grandiose but crumbling seaside cinema on the southern coast of England. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker, photographer and creative director Anton Corbijn has completed his debut feature documentary Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis) about the iconic album art design studio Hipgnosis, which was responsible for creating some of the most recognizable album covers of all time for artists…

It was a quiet year for British shows at this morning’s Emmy nominations, but major UK talent acting in U.S. hits including Brian Cox, Colin Firth, Andrew Garfield and Jodie Comer all secured noms, along with a number of British Ted Lasso stars. Cox unsurprisingly was nominated in the Lead Actor drama category for his…

A war of words has broken out between the filmmakers who have brought audiences two different versions, nearly two decades apart, of the real-life mystery behind The Staircase. French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's 2004 Peabody Award-winning documentary told the story of the fortunate Peterson family who lived in…

Colin Firth is tackling a character far removed from the British gentlemen he’s played throughout much of his career in HBO Max’s The Staircase, premiering in the Spring. The eight-episode limited series—based on a true story— sees Firth portray Michael Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Firth (Operation Mincemeat, Mothering Sunday), Toby Jones (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, First Cow) Crystal Clarke (Sanditon, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain) and Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches) have signed on to star alongside Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Empire of…

UPDATED, 9:59 AM: Sony Pictures Classics said today that its film Mothering Sunday will get a limited release on February 25 in Los Angeles and New York following its weeklong awards-qualifying run in November. The pic, which premiered at Cannes in July, will expand to other markets in the ensuing weeks, the…

In the Eva Husson-directed Mothering Sunday, based on Graham Swift’s novella of the same name, Josh O’Connor is the high-born Paul Sheringham, embroiled in a passionate affair with Jane (Odessa Young), the maid of a neighboring couple (Olivia Colman and Colin Firth). In Cannes for the film’s premiere, Husson and…