British Actors You Should Know
British Actresses You Should Know: Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman may have first established herself as a comedic actor, but she’s a full-fledged movie star now.
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British Shows Dominate The Emmy 2024 Nominations
The Emmys are the broadest of the big four American award categories, encompassing everything from feature films that air on TV to digital shorts on YouTube. But after a strike that took up the majority of 2023, the 2024 Emmys struggled. The absence of significant drama shows debuting before the
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British Actors You Should Know: Matt Smith
With his imposing physical presence and interesting, not quite handsome face, and trademark fall of dark hair, Matt Smith has played everything from artists to time lords, princes, and pimps. Smith was born in 1982 in Northamptonshire, and his first love was football. He signed on as a youth player
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Peter Morgan Reportedly Planning 'Patriots' Film for Netflix
When Netflix greenlit The Crown in 2014, it was still in its earliest phase of original programming, with high-flying claims about making shows that would never be canceled and projects aimed at proving itself the King of Prestige Television. However, nothing quite hit the heights of ambition like the
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'Peaky Blinders' Ballet to Perform at 2024 BAFTA TV Awards
Even before the BBC bought out BritBox International to make it the new streaming home of the British Broadcast Corporation, the service had gone all in on BAFTA, signing on to become the exclusive streaming home of both the annual Film and Television Awards, along with picking up the Oliviers
Actors and Actresses
Welsh Actors You Should Know: Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce is an actor almost everyone likely recognizes, yet who somehow has never reached the heights of fame he's likely deserved as a performer. Having starred in everything from prestige films, blockbuster franchises, and popular television series to Broadway musicals and West End Shakespeare, the man has
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'The Crown' Season 6, Part 2 Trailer Remembers Who The Series is About
Netflix's decision to split The Crown's final season in half was not really that hard to understand. The streaming service wanted to take advantage of the show's fanbase and get as many viewers watching the show as possible. Since it cannot actually admit that
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The First Look at 'The Crown's' Final Episodes Puts Will and Kate Front and Center
The end of an era is nigh: The final episodes of The Crown will debut on Netflix this December, bringing the streamer's lavish, incredibly expensive, and occasionally controversial drama about the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth II to an end. How exactly the series plans to
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'The Crown' Season 6, Part 1 is Sad for All the Wrong Reasons
Netflix’s The Crown is back for its sixth and final season, split into two parts for reasons Netflix refuses to explain. Whether it’s the material or an overly sensitive approach following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the first half of the final season (four episodes in all)
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'The Crown' Season 6, Part 1 Trailer Takes Us To Paris
There are few things that are assured in life. Death, taxes, and the U.K. monarchy seem to be three of them, though it takes a lot of work for the last of them to maintain that illusion. However, the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the remarkably smooth way
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The First Photos from Part 1 of 'The Crown's Final Season Bring Us Full Circle
Writer Peter Morgan's major career breakthrough came in 2006 with The Queen, the Helen Mirren tour-de-force, where she played the then-living Queen Elizabeth II, based on the real-life events in the aftermath of Princess Diana's sudden death in a car crash in
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The Final Season of 'The Crown' Will Be Split Into Two Parts to Close Out 2023
The end of an era is nigh. Netflix has announced the premiere date for the final season of its Emmy Award-winning period drama The Crown, meaning that one of the streamer's most expensive and groundbreaking series is about to come to a close. The ambitious series, which