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Posted Wednesday 6/10/20 at 1:17PM EDT
Netflix pulls four racially offensive comedy shows from Australian comedian Chris Lilley in blackface
The streaming service has pulled the four shows from its services in Australia and New Zealand that have previously sparked...
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Little Britain removed from BBC, Netflix and BritBox over blackface sketches
Matt Lucas and David Walliams' 2003-07 BBC British mockumentary comedy series Little Britain and its 2010-11 follow-up Come Fly with...
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Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 5:53PM EDT
Steve McQueen's BBC anthology TV series Small Axe will instead become five movies dedicated to George Floyd
Small Axe was announced a year ago as a six-episode anthology series starring John Boyega and Letitia Wright exploring a...
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Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT
British soap opera Coronation Street to resume filming Tuesday after a 10-week coronavirus hiatus
Corrie, as the 60-year-old ITV soap is known, joins other UK shows in returning to filming with coronavirus-influenced measures.
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Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT
Charlotte Rampling to star in BBC Danish crime series DNA
The BBC has picked up The Killing co-creator Torleif Hoppe's eight-part thriller about a Copenhagen police detective, played by Anders...
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Posted Friday 5/22/20 at 1:25PM EDT
David Tennant and Michael Sheen team for BBC lockdown comedy Staged
The friends and Good Omens co-stars will reunite in Staged, revolving around two members of a cast of a play,...
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Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 11:21AM EDT
Top Gear won't quarantine its hosts when it resumes filming next month
The BBC reality shot shot half its season internationally before the coronavirus shutdown.
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Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 5:10AM EDT
Watch Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe
Before Black Mirror, Brooker was known in Britain for his comedic news and pop-culture commentary Wipe shows, which started in...
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Posted Thursday 5/14/20 at 10:15AM EDT
BBC plans to resume filming of Top Gear and EastEnders by the end of June
"We’ve been looking very carefully at how we can safely put some of our shows back into production, and I’m...
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Posted Wednesday 5/13/20 at 1:53PM EDT
Steven Knight to follow up Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Great Expectations for BBC and FX
Like he did with A Christmas Carol, the Peaky Blinders creator will adapt Dickens' Great Expectations as a limited series...
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Posted Tuesday 5/12/20 at 6:04PM EDT
Coupling premiered 20 years ago today
The BBC2 comedy created by Steven Moffat about six singles -- three males and three females -- drew comparisons to...
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Posted Thursday 4/30/20 at 2:01PM EDT
BBC proposes quarantining actors and crews so filming on TV shows can resume
BBC's head of drama commissioning Piers Wenger proposed the idea during a virtual session of the Edinburgh television festival.
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Posted Thursday 4/30/20 at 2:01PM EDT
Jodie Whittaker pitched Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall on filming coronavirus lockdown messages
“I’ve just had a really random thought, and I don’t know how you feel,” Whittaker recalls of the voicemail she...
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Posted Wednesday 4/29/20 at 10:04AM EDT
Hulu picks up BBC coming of age comedy In My Skin
In My Skin follows a Welsh teenager who lives a double life as she tries to keep her mother’s mental...
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Posted Wednesday 4/29/20 at 10:04AM EDT
BBC cancels Simon Cowell's The Greatest Dancer after two seasons
The Greatest Dancer was Cowell's first show on the BBC after he found great success with Britain's Got Talent and...