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First, it was Keeley Hawes and Tom Riley. Now Doctor Who has added Cold Feet star Hermione Norris to its rapidly-expanding list of guest stars. Norris – who’s just finished starring in World War I drama The Crimson Field on BBC1 on Sunday nights – has landed a cameo in the new series of Who as the show heads for …
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The Call Centre’s Hayley the tea lady brews up a plan to hit the road
She’s turned making a brew into unmissable viewing and become a reality TV favourite, courtesy of her gaffe-prone office antics. But ditzy tea lady Hayley ‘Fierce’ Pearce from BBC Three’s The Call Centre is about to prove she’s no mug when it comes to cashing in on her cuppas. The Swansea-based 24-year-old has revealed that she’s bagged an opportunity to …
Read More »Eurovision Song Contest 2014: Live
The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen is upon us – make sure you don’t miss a nul points, a ludicrous score, a blatant bit of bias, a laugh or a tear
Read More »What are the new TV shows commissioned in the US that might hit our screens soon?
Out of the dozens of pilots made to air in late spring – the so-called “Pilot Season” – only a handful will get taken up by the major US television networks for a full series. The biggest scoop so far this season is Batman prequel Gotham starring Erin Richards from Penarth, in which she stars as the future wife of …
Read More »Eurovision: ‘One Direction would win it for the UK’
Pop superstars One Direction or Adele should be drafted in to represent the UK at Eurovision for us to have a real chance of winning, says a Cardiff-based academic. Lifelong Eurovision fan Paul Jordan is so enamoured of the annual song contest he is commentating on this weekend’s competition in Copenhagan for BBC Three. Paul – who is also known …
Read More »Review: Arms And The Man at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold
Why DO men go to war? And why do women urge them to it? George Bernard Shaw addressed the conundrum in 1879, and sugared the pill with a delightful romantic comedy. This new production at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, is directed by Emma Lucia, and with designer Mark Bailey she has created a glorious confection. Bailey has designed a set …
Read More »All shook up! Elvis’ life story taken from Porthcawl to Edinburgh as Shakespearean tragedy
The Porthcawl Elvis Festival is heading to the world famous Edinburgh Fringe to stage The King’s life story with a Shakespearean twist. The organisers of the annual Welsh festival, which has more than 30,000 attendees, has collaborated with The Bristol Old Vic. Et Tu Elvie is described as “a fusion of Shakespeare’s greatest hits with Elvis”, telling the American …
Read More »Rhys Ifans to play Dylan Thomas in new big screen biopic Dominion
Hoillywood star Rhys Ifans is to play Dylan Thomas in a new movie about the Welsh poet’s last days in New York. The 46-year-old Haverfordwest-born actor has been cast as Thomas in the Steven Bernstein directed drama Dominion, with John Malkovich expected to play John Brinnin, the playwright who persuaded Dylan to tour America. Mexican actor Diego Luna and 26-year-old …
Read More »TV review: Prey was a plod drama that didn’t plod along
I couldn’t shake the feeling while watching Prey, ITV’s new ‘framed cop-on-the-run’ drama, that I’d seen it all before. Then it occurred to me that I had – on BBC Two’s Line Of Duty not more than a few weeks earlier. In fact, there were more similarities between the two shows than Charles Bronson’s had prison dinners. First of all, …
Read More »Sir Anthony Hopkins on road to new screen villainy in Autobahn
Veteran movie star Sir Anthony Hopkins has once again proved he is one of the most prolific actors in the movie business by signing up alongside Sir Ben Kingsley to play a ruthless master criminal in new action-thriller Autobahn. Hopkins, 76, and Kingsley, 70, are the two latest names to have joined the cast list for the Eran Creevy directed …
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