The newest BBC lockdown comedy series is set to premiere on BBC One on June 10 at 10:45pm BST:
The six 15-minute long episode titles have been revealed on IMDb:
– Cachu Hwch;
– Up To No Good;
– Who the F#!k is Michael Sheen?;
– Bara Brith;
– Ulysses;
– The Cookie Jar.
The six-part lockdown production will also feature Georgia Tennant, Lucy Eaton Anna Lundberg and more guest appearances and will premiere in June. Watch the teaser:
Fox has also released a teaser video for the next season. Read more:
Ler maisExpect more blood after Fox picked up serial killer thriller Prodigal Son for a second season.
The network is likely to air the second season of the series, which stars Michael Sheen and Tom Payne, in midseason, as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown. The renewal comes after network unveiled its fall schedule last week and the renewal of The Resident and Last Man Standing earlier this week.
Prodigal Son, which was the season’s number two new scripted series after 9-1-1: Lone Star, follows Tom Payne’s Malcolm Bright, son of ‘The Surgeon’, played by Sheen, who as a child was responsible for enabling the police to arrest his father. He has not seen his father in ten years after joining Quantico. Now a profiler, formerly with the FBI, until he was fired, and currently consulting for the New York Police Department, Bright is forced to confront his father after a copycat serial killer uses Whitly’s methods of killing. He finds himself drawn back into constant contact with his father as he must both use Whitly’s insights to help the police solve particularly horrible crimes and battle his own inner demons.
Michael Sheen was invited to announce the winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, “one of the UK’s most prestigious literary prizes as well as the world’s largest literary prize for young writers. Awarded for the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under, the Prize celebrates the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama.”
The winner was Bryan Washington, 27, for his debut short story collection LOT, for which he won £30,000. More about his work here.
Watch the virtual ceremony in the video below:
Actors Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford and writer James Graham will also attend the event on May 27. Learn more:
The Variety Streaming Room will host an exclusive series premiere screening presented by AMC of the first episode from upcoming series, Quiz, on May 27 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET. Immediately following the show, Variety’s Michael Schneider will conduct a Q&A with stars Matthew Macfadyen (“Succession”), Sian Clifford (“Fleabag”) and Michael Sheen (“Good Omens”) along with writer/executive producer James Graham.
Quiz chronicles the infamous scandal of Charles Ingram, a contestant on the ITV quiz show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” While his first night on the show is a disaster, the second night, the unsuspecting Charles Ingram, played by Matthew Macfadyen, has a brand-new strategy and successfully moves all the way up the question ladder. Eventually, an increasingly suspicious production team launches an investigation that leads them to an incriminating pattern of coughs in the studio audience. Charged with fraud and persecuted by the public and press, Charles, his wife Diana and the alleged cougher head to court. At first it seems the trial is an easy decision, but as the case for the defense gets underway, the jury learns there is far more to the story than they realize.
AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series with “Mad Men” in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before “Breaking Bad” won it in 2013 and 2014. The network’s series “The Walking Dead” is the highest-rated series in cable history.
The Variety Streaming Room is dedicated to presenting virtual conversations that span from private screenings of upcoming projects in film and TV, exclusive Q&As with creators and talent and relevant B2B discussions with industry thought leaders.
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After playing the angel Aziraphale in Good Omens (Amazon), Michael will work again in a new audio drama based on Neil Gaiman’s comic book. Read more below:
James McAvoy is stepping into a dream role. The actor will voice star as Dream in Audible’s adaptation of Sandman, the classic DC/Vertigo comic book written by Neil Gaiman.
McAvoy, known for playing Prof. X in four X-Men films, will lead a cast that also includes Riz Ahmed, Justin Vivian Bond as Desire, Arthur Darvill, Kat Dennings as Death, Taron Egerton, William Hope, Josie Lawrence, Miriam Margolyes as Despair, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis and Michael Sheen as Lucifer.
Sandman originally ran for 75 issues from 1989-1996 and began with the accidental capture of Dream, the younger brother of Death, and the journey that begins when he is released seven decades later.
The first part of the Audible drama will debut July 15 and adapts the first three volumes of the graphic novel series (Preludes & Nocturnes, The Doll’s House and Dream Country).
“A truly exceptional cast of artists will be bringing this cultural phenomenon to life. We are honored to be working alongside Neil Gaiman and DC to create a truly immersive adaptation that we know fans and listeners will love,” Audible Originals editor in chief David Blum said in a statement.
Gaiman is narrating the series and is executive producing alongside longtime collaborator Dirk Maggs, who adapted the comics and is direct the series. More information can be found on Audible’s website.
The Sandman is scheduled to be released on July 15, 2020 and you can pre-order it here.
Missing Prodigal Son? Go to our photo gallery to see screencaptures from the first season that finished last April:
DAD, short play written by Gary Owen for Sheridan Theatre and performed by Michael Sheen, was released today and is available until May 18. Watch now:
We also invite you to watch Lynn Hunter in MUM, also available until next Monday:
Both plays can be watched for free, but if you can, please consider helping the Sheridan Theatre by donating here.
The Sheman Theatre announced today two short plays written by Gary Owen to be released on Monday, May 11. Read more:
From Monday 11 May we are delighted to share with you two short plays written and donated by award-winning playwright and Sherman Theatre Associate Artist Gary Owen. MUM and DAD are performed by two of Wales’s most celebrated actors – Lynn Hunter and Michael Sheen. Together these two plays amount to a beautiful, short theatre experience which can be enjoyed at any time of the day.
Sherman Theatre Artistic Director Joe Murphy has said “The donation of these two plays is an extraordinary, and characteristically generous, gift from Gary Owen. It is so amazing to see the support and community spirit of our artists and audiences in these strange and uncertain times. And that support is vital in allowing us to survive this crisis, and for us to be able to thrive once it’s over. Performed by two exceptional actors, I feel like these small pieces are a real treat and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.”
Gary Owen has said “MUM and DAD are two tiny pieces, near-verbatim records of stories told me by my mum and my dad about their lives growing up in Pembrokeshire. They’re too little to ever be put on as theatre pieces, so it’s a huge treat to have them performed now as part of the Sherman’s lockdown programme. They’re about things that happened before I was born, before my parents ever met. So to me they’re mythical, even though I know they’re real. Lynn and Michael are two actors who never, ever patronise the characters they play, whatever foolish or malicious things those characters might get up to. They make the characters they play real. And in these glorious performances, they turn these little legends back into real life again. I’m incredibly grateful to both of them, and to the Sherman for hosting the pieces.”
Thank you to everyone involved for their generosity and time to make this project happen.
With thanks to Curtis Brown.
The BBC and Amazon series adaption of Terry Pratchett and New Gaiman’s book was selected one of the “60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019”.
See below the other nominees in the “Entertainment” category:
Chernobyl;
David Makes Man;
Dickinson;
Fleabag;
Float;
Good Omens;
Our Boys;
Ramy;
Stranger Things;
Succession;
Unbelievable;
Watchmen;
When They See Us.
The awards ceremory, originally set to happen in June, is yet to be announced.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Good Omens!
EDIT: Update on the awards ceremony date as published on Deadline website:
The Peabody Awards, which had to postpone its scheduled June 18 winners ceremony in what was to be its first time held in Los Angeles, said Thursday it is now canceling the event. Winners instead will be announced next week and be accepted via video.
The plan calls for the Peabodys to reveal the recipient of its Career Achievement Award on June 8, with winners to be announced June 10.
