The HFPA has backed widespread reform – but can the Golden Globes be saved?
The body behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has backed a new set of by-laws, in the first step towards
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Plans for major new film studio in Hertfordshire
American investors are planning to build a $1 billion dollar film and TV production studio complex in Hertfordshire, in what the UK government
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Strong British showing at US TV Academy Emmy nominations
After a year when most people across the world – and certainly in the US – have been stuck at home, watching the
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Time – Review
FEATURING: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Aneurin Barnard, Brian McCardie, Cal MacAninch, David Calder, Dean Fagan, Franc Ashman, Hannah Walters, Jack McMullen, James Nelson-Joyce, Jonathan Harden, Kadiff Kirwan, Kevin Harvey, Lee Morris, Nadine Marshall, Paddy Rowan, Siobhan Finneran, Sue Johnston, Terence Maynard – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 6th June 2021
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Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dominates TV BAFTAs
Michaela Coel was the big winner of the BAFTA TV Awards, with two of the top awards on the night to add to
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Line of Duty – Review
FEATURING: Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Ace Bhatti, Aiysha Hart, Anna Maxwell Martin, Anneika Rose, Brian McCardie, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, Daniel Mays, George Costigan, Gina McKee, Gregory Piper, Jason Watkins, Kate Ashfield, Keeley Hawes, Kelly Macdonald, Lennie James, Mark Bonnar, Maya Sondhi, Neil Morrissey, Nigel Boyle, Owen Teale, Patrick Baladi, Paul Higgins, Sacha Dhawan, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Shaun Parkes, Stephen Graham, Taj Atwal, Thandie Newton, Tommy Jessop, Tony Pitts – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 6 seasons 2012 – 2021
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Small Axe and The Crown dominate BAFTA TV nominations
No sooner are the year’s film awards out of the way, than TV awards season kicks in with BAFTA announcing the nominations for
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Bloodlands (Season 1) – Review
FEATURING: James Nesbitt, Lorcan Cranitch, Michael Smiley, Charlene McKenna, Ian McElhinney, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Lisa Dwan, Lola Petticrew, Peter Ballance, Susan Lynch, Valerie Lilley – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 21st February 2021
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Netflix dominates Brit-heavy Golden Globe nominations
The most nominated film and TV series at this year’s Covid-delayed Golden Globes are Netflix productions, with both the biopic Mank and drama
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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Death to 2020 – Review
FEATURING: Diane Morgan, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Lisa Kudrow, Samson Kayo, Samuel L Jackson, Tracey Ullman, Charlie Brooker, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery, Laurence Fishburne, Leslie Jones, Lily Sullivan – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 27th December 2020
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Mangrove – Review
DIRECTED BY: Steve McQueen – FEATURING: Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Shaun Parkes, Alex Jennings, Derek Griffiths, Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache, Jack Lowden, Jodhi May, Joseph Quinn, Jumayn Hunter, Nathaniel Martello-White, Richard Cordery, Richie Campbell, Samuel West, Steven O’Neill, Thomas Coombes
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The Queen’s Gambit – Review
FEATURING: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Annabeth Kelly, Bill Camp, Chloe Pirrie, Christiane Seidel, Dolores Carbonari, Isla Johnston, Marcin Dorocinski, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Moses Ingram, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Root, Russell Dennis Lewis, Ryan Wichert – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 23rd October 2020
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Roadkill – Review
FEATURING: Hugh Laurie, Anna Francolini, Danny Ashok, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Helen McCrory, Iain De Caestecker, Millie Brady, Nicholas Rowe, Olivia Vinall, Ophelia Lovibond, Patricia Hodge, Pip Torrens, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sarah Greene, Saskia Reeves, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Sidse Babett Knudsen – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 18th October 2020
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Schitt’s Creek, Succession and Watchmen dominate virtual Emmy Awards
The final season of the Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek has become the most successful comedy series in the history of the prestigious Emmy
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Us – Review
FEATURING: Saskia Reeves, Tom Hollander, Tom Taylor, Gina Bramhill, Giuseppe Bonifati, Iain De Caestecker, Sofie Gråbøl, Thaddea Graham – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 20th September 2020
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Des – Review
FEATURING: David Tennant, Barry Ward, Daniel Mays, Jamie Parker, Jason Watkins, Laurie Kynaston, Pip Torrens, Ron Cook, Tony Way – CHANNEL: ITV Player, ITV1 – FIRST SHOWN: 14th September 2020
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The Duchess – Review
FEATURING: Katherine Ryan, Katy Byrne, Rory Keenan, Steen Raskopoulos, Beau Gadsdon, Doon Mackichan, Geoff Norcott, Michelle de Swarte, Sophie Fletcher, Tony Jayawardena – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 11th September 2020
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Mandy – Review
FEATURING: Diane Morgan, Alistair Green, David Bradley, Iain Lee, Mark Silcox, Maxine Peake, Michael Spicer, Michelle Greenidge, Natalie Cassidy, Sean Lock, Shaun Ryder, Tom Basden, Tony Way – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC2 – FIRST SHOWN: 13th August 2020
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TV BAFTAs handed out at socially distanced ceremony with winners accepting from home
The mini-series Chernobyl, the comedy Stath Lets Flats and the drama The End of the F***king World were among the big winners at
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