[ad_1] Soap actor Ellie Leach and her partner Vito Coppola lifted the glitterball trophy on Saturday night as the two-hour finale of Strictly Come Dancing rounded off another wonderfully emotional series. Fellow finalists Layton Williams and Bobby Brazier put on equally impressive displays as each celebrity performed three routines with their professional partners. It was,…
[ad_1] As a television screenwriter and artist, Helen Black feels a strong responsibility to accurately reflect the lives of young people who have been through the care system. The lawyer-turned-novelist turned award winning screenwriter, co-wrote the second series of Time with Jimmy McGovern, a powerful drama set in a women’s prison. The drama features a…
[ad_1] This is the last significant opening of the theatrical year – and also arguably the biggest. David Tennant, a fine stage actor and notable Shakespearean performer, whose Hamlet for the RSC remains one of the finest pieces of theatre I have ever seen, assumes the role of the murderous Macbeth in the beguiling studio…
[ad_1] Who’d have thought that as we reached 2024, Madness would be back at the top of the charts? Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie gave Britain’s archetypical singles band their first ever number one album at the end of November. At the O2 Arena on Friday, suited and booted frontman Suggs, Madness’…
[ad_1] Screaming girls have anointed pop music heroes since Elvis first swung his hips in Memphis, and there was no mistaking the sound coming from the crowd at Wembley last night – from the second Hozier took the stage, there was a kind of delirium in the room. Certainly, standing six foot five with long…
[ad_1] Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Streaming now, Netflix It’s been a long, arduous 23-year wait since the first Chicken Run movie, but finally – finally! – Ginger (now voiced by Thandiwe Newton) and the gang are back for a new adventure. Now married to Rocky (Zachary Levi) and living in an idyllic bird…
[ad_1] The Serial Killer’s Wife is a new four-part drama series that explores the secrets and lies between a married couple. An adaptation of Alice Hunter’s bestselling book of the same name, the story considers what it means to really know someone. Starring Angela Griffin (Waterloo Road, The Suspect), Annabel Scholey (The Sixth Commandment, Being…
[ad_1] Piers Morgan will keep his £50m newspaper and TV contract with Murdoch-owned News UK despite a High Court ruling that he knew about, and was involved in, phone hacking when editor of the Daily Mirror, insiders have said. Mr Morgan insisted he had “never hacked a phone or told anybody else to hack a…
[ad_1] Clive Rowe has become an even grande-r dame than ever. For 16 years, the celebrated leading man-stroke-lady of the Hackney Empire panto, Rowe is now the director and co-creator of the script (with writer Will Brenton), as well as the star of the show. This is a joyous situation of a top performer being…
[ad_1] What manner of beast is this? Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad are all present and correct in Toby Hulse’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale of animal friends in the English countryside, but how shall we describe the show as a whole? For this is clearly not pantomime, nor really a Christmas production at…
