Go to the photo gallery to check out screencaptures of Michael Sheen on BBC special The Assembly, aired on Friday April 5, where he was interviewed by 35 neurodivergent journalists:
The BBC TV special, which will feature around 35 interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent or learning disabled, is set to air in April and is based on French show Les Rencontres Du Papotin. More below:
Ler maisMichael and Sharon Horgan will be playing a couple in new four-part drama written by BAFTA-winner writer Jack Thorne, set to premiere next year. More below:
Ler mais“In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be the primary consideration”
-Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
This is a story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, Together) and Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Quiz) play married couple Nicci and Andrew, they have two daughters: Katie played by Alison Oliver (Conversations With Friends) and Marnie played by Niamh Moriarty (Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol).
Michael attended the AMC panel at the 2020 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour to promote the three-part drama Quiz, to be premiered in May. He gave via satellite some details about his role as Who Wants To Be a Millionaire host Chris Tarrant. Fleabag star Sian Clifford, who plays Diana Ingram in the miniseries, and writer and executive producer James Graham were at the event.
According to Deadline, Michael will play Chris Tarrant in a three-part drama about the quiz show cheating scandal. Read more:
EXCLUSIVE: Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen, The Good Fight’s Michael Sheen and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford are to star in Quiz, a drama about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal, for AMC and ITV.
The Breaking Bad broadcaster and the British commercial network have commissioned the TV adaptation of Brexit: An Uncivil War writer James Graham’s play from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures with A Very English Scandal’s Stephen Frears to direct.
This comes over a year after Deadline revealed that the Sony-owned producer was turning the play into a television drama.
Quiz tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major, who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It tells how Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.
Macfadyen, who is currently starring in the second season of HBO’s Succession, stars as Ingram; Sheen, who recently starred in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, plays Millionaire host Chris Tarrant; and Clifford, who played Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sister in hit comedy Fleabag stars as Diana Ingram.
Ler mais