The Crown
‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Peter Morgan on How ‘The Sopranos’ Influenced ‘The Crown,’ Writing All 60 Episodes of the Show and Meeting Tony Blair
Peter Morgan is a playwright, screenwriter and TV series creator and showrunner who has been described by The Guardian as “Britain’s leading contemporary screen dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There is no one who works quite like him. Actually, there might be nobody who has worked quite like him in British drama since […]
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Dominic West Is Happy He Doesn’t Have to Answer Questions About the Royal Family Anymore
Dominic West is a first-time Emmy nominee for his lead role as Prince Charles in The Crown, Peter Morgan’s historical drama about the royal family that garnered a total of 18 noms for its sixth and final season. “I talked to Jonathan Pryce first, because I said, ‘You’re being a bit greedy having been nominated […]
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Emmys: Best Drama Series Field Almost Entirely Different From 2023
The 2024 Emmy Awards will feature a best drama series field that’s almost entirely different than the nominees for the last awards. But rather than a wholesale changing of the guard, the nearly unprecedented turnover is more a function of the way TV works now. Of last year’s eight drama series contenders, two — HBO’s Succession […]
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‘The Crown’ Star Meg Bellamy Reveals Online Criticism Said She Was “Too Fat To Play Kate”
Meg Bellamy, the young British actress who portrayed Kate Middleton in season six of Netflix favorite The Crown, has revealed an onslaught of “torment” from social media trolls who said she was “too fat” to play the Princess-to-be. Bellamy, just 21 years old, was tapped to take on the role for the show’s final ever […]
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The Secret Sauce to Impersonating Capote, Dior, Prince Andrew and Dodi Fayed
Khalid Abdalla The Crown Abdalla’s first question after being cast as Dodi Fayed in The Crown felt like a simple one: What did Princess Diana’s lover sound like? “The extraordinary research team had just one thing that they were able to send me, which was of Dodi calling in to Larry King to ask Burt […]
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Mariska Hargitay, Peter Morgan and Lulu Wang Tapped for Gotham TV Awards Tributes
Mariska Hargitay, Peter Morgan and Lulu Wang are set to be honored at the inaugural Gotham TV Awards ceremony on June 4. Hargitay will receive the Anniversary Tribute for her work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay has played Captain Olivia Benson in more than 550 episodes. In addition to honoring Hargitay’s career, […]
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‘The Crown’ Showrunner Peter Morgan Says After Queen Elizabeth Died, “I Didn’t Really Want to Do it Anymore”
The Crown showrunner Peter Morgan reflected on the series’ final season at a Netflix FYSEE event on Monday, touching on how Queen Elizabeth’s death affected his desire to continue the show. In a conversation with LA Times critic Robert Abele, Morgan noted how he always thought of the show “as a story about the two […]
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BAFTA TV Awards: ‘Top Boy,’ ‘Happy Valley’ Win Two Each as ‘The Crown,’ ‘Black Mirror’ Miss Out
Happy Valley and Top Boy shared the BAFTA love on Sunday night at the British Academy’s prestigious Television Awards in London’s Royal Festival Hall. Sarah Lancashire took home the top prize for her performance in Sally Wainwright’s Yorkshire-based police thriller, and fellow Briton Timothy Spall beat Succession‘s Brian Cox to win the equivalent award, best […]
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BAFTA TV Craft Awards: ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Slow Horses’ Among Winners
Black Mirror, The Last of Us, and Slow Horses were among the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024, which were handed out in London on Sunday. Silo, The Witcher, coverage of the coronation of King Charles III and the Eurovision Song Contest were also among the winners. The craft award for best drama […]
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The End of Peak TV “Could Be a Good Thing,” Says Sony International TV Boss Wayne Garvie
The end of “peak TV” — the never-ending expansion in the number of drama series being produced worldwide — could be a good thing, according to Wayne Garvie, President of International Production at Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Speaking at a keynote at TV festival Series Mania on Wednesday, Garvie noted that despite the sharp decline […]
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BBC Orders ‘The Ministry of Time’ From A24, Dramas With Aimee Lou Wood, Rebecca Hall, Joseph Fiennes
The romantic comedy-drama Film Club, co-written by and starring Sex Education star and The White Lotus season 3 cast member Aimee Lou Wood, an A24 TV adaptation of the novel The Ministry of Time, Rebecca Hall (The Town, Vicky Christina Barcelona) as the star of The Listeners, an adaptation based on the novel by Jordan […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Reacher’ Still Big in Second- Season Debut
Reacher began its second season with big viewing-time numbers, cementing its status as one of the most popular shows on Amazon’s Prime Video. The series based on Lee Child’s novels had 1.69 billion minutes of watch time for the week of Dec. 11-17; season two’s first three episodes debuted Dec. 15 (viewing time for the […]
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