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2013-14 Fox New Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 22, 2013 @ 1:41pm PDT

2013-14 Fox New Series
New Comedies — Fall

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — From Emmy Award-winning writer/producers Dan Goor and Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation”), and starring Emmy Award winners Andy Samberg (“Saturday Night Live”) and Andre Braugher (“Men of a Certain Age,” “Homicide: Life on the Street”), BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is a new single-camera ensemble comedy about what happens when a talented, but carefree, detective gets a new captain with a lot to prove. Detective JAKE PERALTA (Samberg) is a good enough cop that he’s never had to work that hard or follow the rules too closely. Perhaps because he has the best arrest record among his colleagues, he’s been enabled – if not indulged – throughout his entire career. That is, until the precinct gets a new commanding officer, Captain RAY HOLT (Braugher), who reminds this hotshot cop to respect the badge. Jake may have collared more criminals, but Detective AMY SANTIAGO (Melissa Fumero, “One Life to Live,” “Gossip Girl”) is close behind, and she’s keenly aware of how many arrests she needs to close the gap. Amy grew up with seven brothers who were all cops. She’s the first girl in the family to put on a police uniform, and suffice it to say: she’s extremely competitive…about everything. Also working cases in Brooklyn’s 99th precinct is Sergeant TERRY JEFFORDS (Terry Crews, “Bridesmaids,” “Everybody Hates Chris”), a linebacker of a man who’s lost his nerve, not because he’s a wimp, but because a year ago, his wife … Read More »

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UPDATE: Fox New Series First Looks — ‘Gang Related’, ‘Surviving Jack’, ‘Almost Human’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, ‘Dads’, ‘Enlisted’, ‘Rake’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’, ‘Us & Them’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 8:15am PDTTags: Fox, Upfronts

UPDATE, 8:15 AM: Fox has added trailers for Chris Morgan’s drama Gang Related and Christopher Meloni-starring comedy Surviving Jack.

PREVIOUS, MONDAY PM: Fox has unveiled most of its teaser trailers for its new series as it kicks off its upfront presentation right now in NY. Still AWOL is Gang Related and Surviving Jack, so keep checking back for updates:

Related: Fox 2013-14 Schedule

Gang Related — Drama
Produced by Chris Morgan Productions, Skeeter Rosenbaum Productions, Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television. From writer/executive producer Chris Morgan, director/executive producer Allen Hughes and executive producers Scott Rosenbaum, Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo:

Surviving Jack — Comedy
Produced by Doozer Productions in association with Warner Bros Television. From writer/executive producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumaker and executive producers Bill Lawrence and Jeff Ingold:

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Fox 2013-14 Schedule: Comedy Block And ‘Bones’ On Friday, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Monday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 5:00am PDTTags: Fox
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Male-friendly new comedy and drama series dominate Fox‘s new series picks. Fox is launching six new series in the fall — comedies Dads, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Enlisted and dramas, Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human — and one reality series, Junior Masterchef. Midseason will be as important with six new shows slated to unspool then: comedies Surviving Jack, Us & Them and animated Murder Police, dramas Rake and Gang Related and event series Wayward Pines, from M. Night Shyamalan. Without further ado, here is Fox’s 2013-14 schedule, with analysis and new show descriptions below it:

FOX FALL 2013-2014 SCHEDULE
(New programs in UPPER CASE; all times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8-9 PM Bones (fall) / ALMOST HUMAN (late fall)
9-10 PM SLEEPY HOLLOW (fall) / The Following (midseason)

TUESDAY
8-8:30 PM DADS
8:30-9 PM BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
9-9:30 PM New Girl
9:30-10 PM The Mindy Project

WEDNESDAY
8-10 PM The X Factor (fall) / American Idol (midseason)

THURSDAY
8-9 PM The X Factor Results (fall) / American Idol Results (midseason)
9-10 PM Glee (fall) / RAKE (midseason)

FRIDAY
8-9 PM JUNIOR MASTERCHEF (wt) (fall)
9-10 PM SLEEPY HOLLOW encores (fall)

Late Fall:
8-9 PM Bones
9-9:30 PM Raising Hope (late fall)
9:30-10 PM ENLISTED (new; late fall)

SATURDAY
7-10:30 PM Fox Sports Saturday
11 PM-12:30 AM ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF

SUNDAY
7-7:30 PM NFL Game (fall)
7:30-8 PM The OT (fall)
8-8:30 PM The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 PM Bob’s Burgers
9:00-9:30 PM Family Guy
9:30-10 PM American Dad Read More »

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Fox Picks Up Andy Samberg & Chris Meloni Comedies, ‘Us & Them’ And ‘Enlisted’, Almost Doubles New Series Volume

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: Andy Samberg, Big Deals TV, Chris Meloni, Fox, TV Pilots
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Having just ordered its new drama series for next season, Fox also has made its comedy pickups, ordering four new shows in addition to the previously ordered Dads, executive produced by Seth MacFarlane. They are the Andy Samberg starrer, now titled Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Surviving Jack starring Chris Meloni; Enlisted starring Geoff Stults; and Us And Them starring Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel. All have received 13-episode pickups. Additionally, the order for the Seth Green-Giovanni Ribisi starrer Dads, originally for 6 episodes, has been upped to 13. The new comedies join newly picked-up dramas Rake, Gang Related, Sleepy Hollow, and Almost Human. That is five new comedy series and four dramas, almost double the number of new scripted series Fox picked up last year (three comedies, two dramas). With American Idol on its last legs, the network clearly is stocking up on the scripted side and expanding its push in live-action comedy. Studio-wise, four of the new shows came from Fox sibling 20th TV, two each from Warner Bros and Sony and one from Universal TV.

Fox’s four new half-hour series choices came out of the five half-hour pilots that had been in contention from the get-go. Over the past week or so, the fifth, To My Future Assistant, began to fade as I hear it came in below exceptions. Meanwhile, Surviving Jack (formerly I Suck At Girls) has been steadily rising, buoyed by what I hear were stellar testing results for Meloni. The former Law & Order: SVU star originally turned down the project, and it took a lot of effort on the part of the producers to get him to do it. It was all worth it as the actor helped secure the pilot a series pickup. Also playing in the pilot’s favor is the fact that Surviving Jack comes from veteran comedy showrunner Bill Lawrence. It is shaping up to be a strong pickup season for Lawrence, whose NBC comedy pilot Undateable also looks very good to get a series order, along with Second Floor on TBS. Fun fact: Fox is reuniting Cougar Town co-creators Lawrence and Kevin Biegel, who is behind another newly picked-up comedy series, Enlisted.

With the pickups, Fox has a total of eight new and returning comedy series on tap for next season. Four of them are guy half-hours — cop show Brooklyn Nine-Nine (formerly Schur/Goor), Army comedy Enlisted, Dads and Surviving Jack — and female/family series New Girl, The Mindy Project, Raising Hope and Us And Them. While Us And Them, about a couple navigating their family and friends, would fit seamlessly into Fox’s existing Tuesday comedy block, it is unclear what the network would do with its guy shows, which could stand on their own as a block or get scheduled around Fox’s male-skewing Sunday animated comedies. Fox’s comedy pilots that didn’t make the cut are Assistant, Two Wrongs and The Gabriels. Overall, Fox didn’t throw curve balls in its series orders this season, largely sticking with pilots that had emerged as frontrunners. Here are descriptions of Fox’s new comedy series along with first-glimpse photos:

Related: PRIMETIME PILOT PANIC: Rumor Mill

Related: Fox Picks Up Dramas ‘Rake’, ‘Gang Related’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ And ‘Almost Human’
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Hulu Touts Record Revenue, Original Series At Upfront Presentation

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 9:30am PDTTags: Eva Longoria, Hulu, Hulu Plus, Seth Meyers

Hulu said today during its upfront presentation in New York that it set a revenue record in the first quarter of this year with $695M, and that Hulu Plus subscriptions passed 4 million subscribers after doubling in 2012. The service now has almost 2500 TV series and about 57,000 hours of content. Among the talent on hand was Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker to promote their animated superhero series The Awesomes, one of four original series that will debut this year. Among Hulu’s four announced exclusive series is the Eva Longoria-starring animated series Mother Up!, about a disgraced former music exec who must transition to a life of suburban motherhood. Other talent working up shows are Mario Batali, Carson Daly and Jay Mohr, who is toplining the new game show Money Where Your Mouth Is. Hulu also is streaming Prospect Park’s revamped soap operas All My Children and One Life To Live, which launched yesterday and were the two most-watched TV episodes of the day. Here is  Hulu’s descriptions of its new series: Read More »

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UPDATE: Fox Picks Up Three Drama, Four Comedy Pilots, Including ‘Sleepy Hollow’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 6:07pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Delirium, Fox, Sleepy Hollow, The List
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UPDATE: Fox has also picked up three more drama pilots, joining Greg Kinnear starrer Rake. They are the Ruben Fleischer-produced drama The List, Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci’s Sleepy Hollow and Karyn Usher’s Delirium.

The List, is from writer Paul Zbyszewski (Lost) and 20th TV, where Zombieland director Fleischer is based. The project centers on Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Shaker who, when members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, leads the hunt for the person who stole “the list” – a file with the identities of every member of the program. Zbyszewski and Fleischer executive produce.

Kurtzman and Orci‘s Sleepy Hollow, which had a put pilot commitment, has Underworld helmer Len Wiseman on board to direct. 20th TV and Kurtzman and Orci’s studio-based K/O Paper Products produce. Described as a modern–day supernatural thriller based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, it follows Ichabod Crane as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s local female sheriff to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. Kurtzman and Orci wrote the script with up-and-coming writer Phillip Iscove, on whose idea the project is based. Kurtzman, Orci and Wiseman executive produce Sleepy Hollow with K/O’s Heather Kadin, while Iscove serves as supervising producer. Another Sleepy Hollow drama is in contention at the CW. Read More »

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2013 Fox Pilots

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 4:25pm PST

COMEDY

DADS (multi-camera, six-episode order)
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox TV
TEAM: Alec Sulkin (w, ep), Wellesley Wild (w, ep), Seth MacFarlane (ep), Mark Cendrowski (d)
LOGLINE: Two successful guys in their 30s have their lives turned upside down when their nightmare dads unexpectedly move in with them.
CAST: Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi, Martin Mull, Peter Riegert, Brenda Song, Tonita Castro, Vanessa Lachey

ENLISTED (single-camera)
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox TV
TEAM: Kevin Biegel (w, ep), Mike Royce (w, ep)
LOGLINE: Based on Kevin’s relationship with his siblings, this comedy follows three very different brothers working together in the Army at a small base in Florida.
CAST: Geoff Stults, Keith David, Angelique Cabral, Parker Young, Chris Lowell

US AND THEM (formerly FRIENDS AND FAMILY) (single-camera)
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: Sony TV/BBC Worldwide Prods
TEAM: David Rosen (w, ep), Jane Tranter (ep), Julie Gardner (ep), James Corden (ep), Ruth Jones (ep), Henry Normal (ep)
LOGLINE: The original UK series, created by Corden and Jones, chronicled the long-distance relationship between a man from England and a woman from Wales who start off talking on the phone. They eventually decide to meet, and hit it off — but must navigate their eccentric families and friends. The U.S version will focus on the key life moments of the title characters, who try to maintain their relationship while combining their polarizing families’ lives. Based on UK series Gavin & Stacey.
CAST: Jason Ritter, Alexis Bledel, Jane Kaczmarek, Dustin Ybarra, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Kurt Fuller, … Read More »

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Exclusive Media Forms Television Division, Enters First-Look With FremantleMedia

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:16 UKTags: Exclusive Media, FremantleMedia

LONDON, December 13 2012 Exclusive Media, the filmed entertainment company based in Los Angeles and London, announced today that it has established a television division and inked a global first look development and distribution deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).

Exclusive Media Television (EMTV) will be run by Exclusive Media Vice Chairman and Hammer President Simon Oakes, and is already in active development on a number of high profile projects, which will be announced in due course.

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James Corden To Star In Working Title’s ‘School For Santas’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 13:52 UKTags: Working Title

Working Title is developing holiday film School For Santas as a vehicle for actor James Corden. The movie will reteam Corden with One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean who is scripting. A director has yet to be named. School For Santas follows a down-on-his-luck dad who needs to find his inner Father Christmas to win back his kids. Shooting will take place next year in New York and London. Corden won a Best Actor Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors earlier this year. Since then, the Gavin & Stacey co-creator and star has booked roles in Keira Knightley pic Can A Song Save Your Life? and in David Frankel’s One Chance, playing Paul Potts, the British cell phone salesman who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007. Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier is producing School For Santas and One Chance.

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Fox Developing U.S. Version of British Comedy ‘Gavin & Stacey’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Fox
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Gavin & Stacey Fox TV SeriesFox has closed a deal to develop Gavin & Stacey, an adaptation of the 2007 British romantic comedy series. The script will be written by David Rosen, creator/executive producer of the MTV cult comedy I Just Want My Pants Back, which also was based on source material — a book. BBC Worldwide Prods. and Sony Pictures TV are producing with the company behind the UK series, Baby Cow Prods. The original series, created by James Corden and Ruth Jones, chronicled the long-distance relationship between a man from England (Matthew Horne) and a woman from Wales (Joanna Page) who start off talking on the phone. They eventually decide to meet, and hit it off — but must navigate their eccentric families and friends (watch a clip below). It ran for three seasons plus a Christmas special and aired in the U.S. on BBC America.

The Fox version of Gavin & Stacey focuses on the key life moments of the title characters who try to maintain their relationship while combining their polarizing families’ lives. Rosen is executive producing with BBC Worldwide Prods’ Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner, Corden, Jones and Baby Cow’s Henry Normal. Read More »

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Hulu & BBC Worldwide Americas Re-Team For ‘The Wrong Mans’ Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 8:58am PDTTags: BBC Worldwide Americas, Hulu

The six-part comedy-thriller comes on the heels of the companies’ first co-production deal for the fourth season of The Thick Of It. Branded a Hulu Exclusive Series, The Wrong Mans stars James Corden and Mathew Baynton as two office workers who become caught up in a deadly criminal conspiracy after one answers a ringing phone at the scene of a horrific car crash. It is directed and produced by Jim Field Smith (Butter), and executive produced by BBC In-House Productions Head Of Comedy Mark Freeland and Hulu’s Charlotte Koh. It is set to premiere next year in the U.S. on Hulu and the Hulu Plus subscription service. “BBC Worldwide Americas has been an invaluable partner for us as we build a strong library of popular UK series that U.S. viewers can find only on Hulu and Hulu Plus, and we are extremely happy to expand our relationship with this series”, Hulu’s Andy Forssell said.

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Tony Winner James Corden Lands Paul Potts Pic And ‘Can A Song Save Your Life?’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 18, 2012 @ 11:01am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Can A Song Save Your Life?
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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from his Best Actor Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors, James Corden has booked two strong film roles. Corden has signed on to join the John Carney-directed Can A Song Save Your Life, which stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld and Adam Levine. Corden will play the best friend of Knightley’s character, who plays a singer who moves with her boyfriend to New York to pursue music careers and she gets dumped as soon as he makes it.

Corden is also set to star as Paul Potts in One Chance for The Weinstein Company. Potts is the schlubby British cell phone salesman who showed up onstage to sing opera on Britain’s Got Talent in 2007, and left a hosting panel that included Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan with their jaws on the floor. David Frankel is directing that film, as Potts won the competition and is now a successful opera singer. In case you’ve forgotten Potts, below is a refresher course (I never get tired of watching this clip). Corden is repped by WME and Ruth Young at United Agents in the UK.

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Mike Nichols, Scott Rudin Win Tonys

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 8:56pm PDTTags: Mike Nichols, Scott Rudin, Tony Awards

Death Of A SalesmanDeath Of A SalesmanArthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman added to Mike Nichols and Scott Rudin‘s previous Tony hauls, taking nods for best direction of a play for Nichols and best revival of a play for Rudin. Nichols and Rudin, who most recently won for last year’s best musical The Book of Mormon, now have won nine Tonys each. For his movie work Nichols was nominated five times for Oscars, winning best director for 1967′s The Graduate. Rudin has also been nominated for five Oscars, winning Best Picture for 2007′s No Country For Old Men. Once, a musical based on a 2006 Irish movie, took the award for best musical plus seven others out of 11 nominations. Newsies, based on the 1992 Disney movie musical of the same name, won awards for choreography and best original score written for the theatre.

Related: Mike Fleming Interviews Director Mike Nichols On ‘Death Of A Salesman’

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‘Once’ Dominates Tony Award Nominations

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 9:59am EDTTags: Tony Awards

It’s a big day for the musical Once, but not for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, in the Tony Award nominations out this morning. Once — a romantic comedy involving a flower seller, a street musician, and a vacuum cleaner repairman — received 11 nominations including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, and Best Actress in a Musical. The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess also fared well with 10 nominations, including Best Musical. But the troubled Spider-Man production is only a candidate for two awards, for scenic design and costume design. The awards will be broadcast June 10 on CBS. Here are the nominations:

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And In Other British Film/TV News…

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:23 UKTags: Movie Deals, Movies, TV, TV Deals, UK TV

Channel 4 Boss Talks Film
David Abraham, CEO of Channel 4, will speak about his channel’s filmmaking for the first time at the British Screen Advisory Council (BSAC) Film Conference on March 3. Ed Vaizey, the UK arts minister, will be giving the other keynote speech.

James Corden Starts BBC Comedy Pilot
The comedian and actor, who co-created hit BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, is filming The Wrong Mans, a single-camera half-hour pilot for the Beeb. Corden has written the show with co-star Matthew Baynton, who was also in Gavin & Stacey. The director is Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League), who’s just come off Hugh Jackman-starrer Butter for The Weinstein Company.

U.S. Broadcasters Sniffing Round ‘Misfits’
It looks set to be the next Channel 4 drama out of the UK to be adapted for US TV. Murray Ferguson, who produces the show for youth channel E4, tells me there’s been considerable interest in a possible US remake from both US networks and cable channels. Ferguson, CEO of prod co Clerkenwell Films, says nothing’s been decided yet. Showtime is slated to premiere the US version of Shameless January 9. And MTV is developing another Channel 4 teen drama, Skins.

Pathe/Film4 Take On Brit Thriller ‘Sister’
Corinna Faith, a TV director making her feature debut, is attached to write and direct. The producer is Lisa Williams of Free Range Films, and the executive producer is Kevin Loader (Wuthering Heights), who tells me shooting could … Read More »

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Murdoch Holds Annual Summer Bash

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:37 UKTags: Big Media, Celebrity, Foreign, London, Politics

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha attended, as did rival Labour politicians Ed and David Milliband (they’re brothers and both competing to lead the Party). Peter Rice, head of Fox Broadcasting, was there, as was son-in-law Matthew Freud and daughter Elizabeth. Not many celebrities apart from comedian James Corden and TV presenters Jeremy Clarkson and Mariella Frostrup. This year’s event was held in the Orangery at Kensington Palace, Princess Diana’s old home.

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Our Man In London Reviews BAFTA Awards

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday, 22 February 2010 03:05 UKTags: Awards, Foreign, Movies

From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: No matter how banal you imagine the Red Carpet presenters at an award ceremony are going to be, it’s never quite banal enough. Here in Britain, we had a former member of a boy band doing the interviewing live on TV. Like the Oscars which the UK film awards are supposed to portend, the BAFTAs have become half-awards ceremony, half-awards show. The screaming from behind the crush barriers has ratcheted up a notch because HRH Prince William, the newly appointed president of BAFTA has arrived. Inside the venerable Royal Opera House, HRH segues first on stage and gets into the spirit of the show, quipping that he’d been told to keep his speech short unless he wants Mickey Rourke wrestling him off it. Jonathan Ross, the bad boy of British TV, is our rather unfunny host. But instead of focusing on Ross, the broadcast keeps cutting to Robert Pattinson in a play for all those Twihard viewers.

Ross begins his lame patter – “Watching The Hangover made me wonder if anybody’s ever woken up with a tiger in their room – apart from half the cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas, that is” – and then starts having to explain his punchlines. Always a bad sign. James Corden, a British TV comedy actor, gets a big laugh when he says that it may be the BAFTA awards but “backstage it looks like the MILF awards. That Kate Winslet, she’s got to be a front runner”.

Once reclusive Terry Gilliam, the auteur director, presented … Read More »

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