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If you think crypto is a bit of a messy subject, just wait until you see The Altruists. It will be a bit before you can see the story unfold as a limited series on Netflix, but we are learning a bit more about who will make up the cast.

The leads, who will play Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, will be Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner, respectively. The streaming giant announced they will join the cast on Thursday.

The story follows the real-life events of the ironically named Bankman-Fried and Ellison, who tried to remake the international financial system. In the process, the two stole as much as $8 billion. Bankman-Fried was the CEO of Ftx, and Ellison was his girlfriend and worked with Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund.

Leads for Netflix's The Altruists have been cast

Of course, a story involving anything crypto is quite timely now due...

Acorn TV’s captivating crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries, created by and starring Sally Lindsay, is set to return with a two-episode premiere on Monday, July 7 in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Additional episodes of the seven-episode fourth season will drop weekly on the platform.

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The fourth season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries returns to the wonderful world of Sainte Victoire, packed with unusual antiques and objéts d’art, murder, mystery, sunshine, and laughter.

Sally Lindsay returns as Jean White, who is navigating a fledgling romance with her sidekick Dom Hayes, played by Steve Edge.

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Co-writer Sue Vincent stars as mechanic Gloria Beaushaw, while Robin Askwith and Sue Holderness reprise their roles as eccentric married couple Jeremy and Judith Lloyd James.

Alex Gaumond is back as Chief of Police André Caron.

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Tony Robinson...

Exclusive: Laurie Kynaston, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell and Alex Lawther are toplining Leonard and Hungry Paul, a feel-good drama for the BBC and Ireland’s RTÉ, we’ve learned.

Based on Rónán Hession’s novel of the same name, filming has begun in Dublin on a six-part show and will continue through this month. We’ve got the news ahead of the BBC Comedy Festival in Belfast tomorrow, where it will be unveiled. In the UK, it will air on BBC Three and iPlayer.

Irish indie Subotica is producing for BBC Northern Ireland in association with BBC Comedy, Screen Ireland and RTÉ, with Avalon co-producing and distributing internationally. Richie Conroy and Mark Hodkinson adapating Hession’s book, which has sold over 300,000 copies since publication in 2019. Andrew Chaplin is directing.

The...

This bundle will allow you to stream favorites like ‘Modern Family,’ ‘Home Improvement,’ and many more for only $19 per month.

One of the most relaxing ways to watch TV with the family is to stream shows that reflect the issues we all face in everyday life, but with a humorous slant. Family comedy shows can help remind us of the absurdity of life, and that the issues we face aren’t insurmountable, even if they are difficult. Besides, who doesn’t love a good laugh?

We at The Streamable certainly do, and with that in mind, we’ve put together a list of three streaming services that offer excellent family comedy titles that everyone in your household will enjoy. Best yet, this bundle comes in at a price of less than $20 per month!

Disney+ and Hulu

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British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has firmly rejected proposals for a levy on streaming platforms operating in the U.K., despite recent recommendations from a parliamentary committee suggesting such a measure could help support the country’s television drama sector.

In an exclusive interview with Variety at the inaugural World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (Waves) in Mumbai on Thursday, Nandy underlined the U.K. government’s reluctance to impose additional financial burdens on streamers at a time when investment in British content is flourishing.

“We’re really excited about the prospect of attracting more investment into the U.K., particularly the big streamers have significantly increased the amount of content that they make in the United Kingdom,” Nandy said. “We don’t want to do anything to deter that investment. We want to make the U.K. the most attractive place in the world to invest.”

Nandy specifically highlighted the success...

Paul Mescal and Nicola Coughlan will make their National Theatre debuts in the theatrical institution's coming seasons, according to Baz Bamigboye of Deadline. Coughlan, best known for her roles in Derry Girls and Bridgerton, will lead The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge at the Lyttelton starting December 4. The production will also be directed by McLaughlin and co-stars Éanna Hardwicke and Siobhán McSweeney. Mescal will star in two productions at the Lyttelton Theatre in 2027. He will appear in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark, directed by Caitríona McLaughlin, and as Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, directed by Rebecca Frecknall. Mescal recently received acclaim for his stage work in A Streetcar Named Desire at...

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has railed against the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that defines a woman by biological sex.

In a passionate conversation at the Palais des Festivals during Canneseries this evening in France, Coughlan criticized the “hypothesized, made-up thing about trans women attacking women in bathrooms” and said this is “ridiculous because it is not something that is happening.”

The Derry Girls star said the only times she had felt threatened or scared had been by a “cis-gendered man, not a trans woman.” “It really upset me to see people celebrating people’s rights being taken away and I think there is something really wrong with that,” said Coughlan.

The UK Supreme Court earlier this month ruled that women can only be legally defined by biological sex, a ruling that has further divided those who are pro-trans rights and those in opposition.

Coughlan said she had taken the...

This Monday, “Bridgerton” star Nicola Coughlan was awarded the Commitment Prize by French media company Konbini at Canneseries, where she also gave a career talk. During the hour-long masterclass, the Irish actor spoke in depth about not only her work on shows like “Derry Girls” and “Doctor Who,” but also her support of causes such as abortion, trans rights, and Palestine.

“There is a factor of ‘it’s better if you say nothing’ because our job is to entertain you,” said the actor when asked about speaking in support of Palestine. “My dad was in the Irish Army, which is a peacekeeping force. My family lived in Jerusalem and Syria in the 70s, so it’s something that is in my bones. We are talking about right or wrong, about children being bombed in their beds. I wouldn’t accept that anywhere in the world.”

The actor, who was bestowed...

It’s a proud day for Ireland as two of its native sons, Hollywood actors Jamie Dornan and Conor MacNeill, launch the feature and television production entity Blackthorn Films.

The new venture will be based in the northern region of the country, where Dornan and MacNeill were born and raised. They met on the 2015 film “The Siege of Jadotville,” and have since co-starred in projects including “The Tourist,” “The Fall” and the Oscar-winning “Belfast.”

At launch, the pair hired producer Shauna Shivers-McAtamney to oversee Blackthorn’s film and TV slate. The company is a recent recipient of the BBC’s TV Small Indie Fund, which supports the growth of grassroots production shops across the U.K.

“Blackthorn films was born out of a shared desire to create indigenous stories from the island of Ireland that have a true global reach. The company’s aim is to produce work that flips...

Noting that nearly half of all viewing hours on Netflix happen with subtitles or captions on, the streaming giant is rolling out a new option for how text appears along the bottom of the screen.

Starting with Season 5 of You, which just went live today, Netflix is offering the option of original language subtitles displaying only spoken dialogue instead of all audio cues. Traditionally, viewers would select a language marked with “Sdh/Cc,” short for Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Those comprehensive representations of the sound of a show include audio cues like “[phone buzzing]” or “[dramatic music swells]” as well as the name of the character speaking.

Now, as Netflix explained in a blog post, viewers can see only the dialogue by selecting “English,” as opposed to “English (Cc).”

The option will be rolled out across all Netflix originals, with the Sdh/Cc version remaining available, in every language offered by the company.

Pedro Pascal made a visible statement at the London premiere of Thunderbolts, wearing a shirt that reads “Protect the Dolls” on the red carpet at Cineworld Leicester Square. The appearance came shortly after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biological sex, a decision that allows for the exclusion of transgender women from single-sex spaces.

The phrase on Pascal’s shirt originates from designer Conner Ives, whose piece was first introduced at London Fashion Week. In Lgbtqia+ communities, “dolls” is a term often used to refer to transgender women. Ives created the shirt as a response to recent political developments in the United States. In a statement to The New York Times, the designer said, “It was very reactive… I knew I wanted to say something, given what we’ve observed in the last few months with the U.S. government and the current political regime.

Jack Rooke has seen at least two U.S. producers reduced to tears in the middle of meetings.

Best known for the BAFTA-winning “Big Boys” — his acclaimed semi-autobiographical sitcom that straddles both out-and-out hilarity and serious matters such a grief, loss, sexuality and mental health — the British comedian and writer has been visiting L.A. and doing the standard tour of networks and production companies that most creatives make when they hit a certain level of success.

Following the unlikely yet uplifting friendship of recently out and (very) sexually inexperienced freshman Jack (Dylan Llewellyn) and horny, straight, mature student Danny (Jon Pointing), “Big Boys” is awash in gags, jokes and one-line zingers. In the second season, Jack gets poked in the eye by a penis after looking through a hole in a toilet cubicle.

But there are plenty of heavier moments too (the penis-in-eye scene actually happens in the middle...

Enthusiasts and industry insiders alike will be getting an exclusive peek behind the curtain of the world of television with the launch of Insiders: The TV Podcast, a brand-new ten-episode series from Expectation TV.

It will be hosted by two of the most influential figures in British television, Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville.

Peter Fincham joined TalkBack in 1985 and became Managing Director the following year. He executive produced many of their biggest shows including The Day Today (BBC Two), Brass Eye(Channel 4), I’m Alan Partridge (BBC Two), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two), Smack The Pony (Channel 4), Da Ali G Show (Channel 4). TalkBack enjoyed many successes in other genres including dramas such as The Lost Prince (BBC One) and Sword of Honour (Channel 4) and factual/factual entertainment programmes including Grand Designs (Channel 4) and The Apprentice(BBC One).

In 2000 TalkBack was sold to Fremantle and two years later Peter became CEO of TalkBack Thames,...

Two of the UK’s most well-known names in TV production arm making a podcast about the biz.

Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville will front ten-part series Insiders: The TV Podcast, in which they promise to take “enthusiast and industry insiders alike” an “exclusive peek behind the curtain of the world of television.” Fincham’s indie, Expectation, and Mulville’s Hat Trick Productions are making the show.

Each week, the pair, who bills themselves as “fierce friends and former rival TV bosses,” will deliver “personal stories, insider anecdotes and expert analysis on trends, triumphs and controversies that have shaped television over the decades and today.”

Fincham has been a commissioner and producer for the likes of Talkback throughout a four decade-year career. He began at Talkback in 1985, becoming its Managing Director a year later and exec producing the likes of The Day Today, I’m Alan Partridge and Never Mind the Buzzcocks for BBC Two,...

Bridgerton has turned out to be a widely popular period drama, full of scandal, drama, high-society intrigue, and steamy intimate scenes. Thriving on gossip and controversy, the storyline depends as much on these passionate moments as it does on the former, making sure fans remain entertained throughout the episode.

From giving us the iconic Duke and Daphne romance in the first season to the enemies-to-lovers Kate and Anthony romance in the second, Bridgerton has used these schemy plot devices to further the tale, as and when required.

Bridgerton | Credit: Netflix

Well, unfortunately for the star of Bridgerton season 3, Nicola Coughlan, these intimate moments ended up making her mother angry.

Nicola Coughlan’s breakout Bridgerton season had some ‘parental consequences’ Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton | Credit: Netflix

Nicola Coughlan stars as Penelope Featherington, aka Lady Whistledown, in Bridgerton. After two seasons of being in the shadows, observing from the sidelines,...

It’s easier than ever to be an Anglophile these days, largely thanks to streaming services like Netflix, which have brought a wider variety of titles than ever across the pond and right to our doors Love period pieces? You can now pick your preferred timeframe — from gangsters in the 1920s (Peaky Blinders) to the British Royal family in the 1960s (The Crown) and teens in 1990s Ireland (Derry Girls). Looking for a more fast-paced thriller? Binge Bodyguard or Collateral. Want to watch something buzzy and downright weird? Well, Black Mirror and The End of the F***ing World are here for you. There are even options for the British sci-fi fan that isn’t interested in Doctor Who. Here are the best British shows on Netflix.

Channel 5 is joining The Forsytes.

The Paramount network has taken UK rights on PBS Masterpiece’s splashy adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga, which stars Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson and Francesca Annis as formidable matriarch Ann.

Penned by British screenwriter Debbie Horsfield (Poldark), the series chronicles the lives of four generations of an upper-class family of stockbrokers, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving late-Victorian world. True Blood star Stephen Moyer (Sexy Beast) also features alongside the likes of Jack Davenport (The Morning Show) and Gibson.

This is the third Forsyte Saga adaptation. A version aired in 1967 on the BBC and 35 years later on ITV. The new show is made by ITV Studios-backed Mammoth Screen and is a rare example of a British show being greenlit by an American network, with Channel 5 coming in at a later date. Channel 5 also combines with PBS Masterpiece...

Nicola Coughlan will be honored at this year’s Canneseries festival with the Konbini Commitment Award. The Bridgerton and Derry Girls star will participate in an interview before receiving the award at the Lumiere Theater in Cannes’ Palais des Festivals on April 28.

The award, presented by French media group Konbini, recognizes talent whose work has artistic impact or social significance. Previous recipients include Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, American Horror Story actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Transparent showrunner Joey Soloway.

Coughlan gained recognition for her role in Derry Girls, a comedy set in 1990s Northern Ireland. The series won best comedy at the 2023 BAFTAs and the International Emmy Awards. She later gained international fame as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton, earning a Screen Actors Guild nomination for best female actor in a drama series.

She also appeared as Diplomat Barbie in Barbie, starred alongside Lydia West in Big Mood, and featured...

‘Bridgerton’ & ‘Derry Girls’ Star Nicola Coughlan Set For Canneseries

Nicola Coughlan will be feted at Canneseries. The Derry Girls and Bridgerton star will receive the Konbini Commitment Award at the event, which takes place on the Cote d’Azur in late April. Coughlan will take part in a sit-down interview and then receive her accolade in the iconic Lumiere Theater in Cannes’ Palais des Festivals. Coughlan’s recent work includes a role in the Doctor Who Christmas special. She will next be seen as Silky the woodland fairy in the upcoming adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree alongside Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy.

‘Shin Chan’ Movies Set For India

A pair of films from TV Asahi’s Shin Chan franchise will be released in India. Shin Chan Our Dinosaur Diary and Shin Chan The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers In India will released locally through multiplex operator PVR Inox Pictures.

Irish actress Nicola Coughlan, known to hordes of Bridgerton fans as Penelope Featherington/Lady Whistledown and as Clare Devlin to Derry Girls enthusiasts, will be honored at this year’s French TV festival Canneseries with the annual Konbini Commitment Award.

The award, presented by the French online media group, honors talent who have distinguished themselves “by the artistic quality and societal, innovative and/or revolutionary dimension of their work.” Previous winners include Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, American Horror Story actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Transparent showrunner Joey Soloway.

Coughlan came to international attention with Derry Girls, a period comedy set in 1990s Northern Ireland in the final years of the Troubles. The series ran for three seasons on Channel 4 and became a global sensation when Netflix licensed the show worldwide. It won best comedy at the 2023 BAFTAs as well as the International Emmy Awards.

Coughlan followed it up with Netflix phenomenon Bridgerton,...

Margot Robbie leads the critically acclaimed Barbiemovie, and it features plenty of notable faces in the supporting cast as well. For the most part, the characters are directly inspired by toys that have been released over the years or are original Barbie movie characters. Of course, this means that the long-beloved Mattel toys Barbie and Ken are not just two people.

Instead, the Truman Show-esque Barbieland is populated with plenty of Barbies and Kens. Still, each character has its place in the story, and they all help make this version of Barbieland vibrant and memorable. Most of these characters are portrayed by familiar faces for fans to look for.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on March 7, 2025: Following the smash success of the first live-action Barbie movie in 2023, all eyes are on Greta Gerwig as she works toward making a sequel. While news on this front is still scarce, fans know...

The MGM+ survival thriller Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue makes a pretty bold statement. By the title alone, viewers know most of the show's characters won't make it to the end. What does that mean to the actors playing the survivors of a plane crash? And did any of them know the identity of the murderer?

In an interview with Cbr, stars Siobhàn McSweeney (who plays Lisa) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (who portrays Lisa's husband Travis) spoke about what drew them to the miniseries from Alex Rider creator Anthony Horowitz. They spoke about the show's very unique filming experience and how it helped them. Plus, how much of a departure is this from their past roles in other hits like Derry Girls and Severance?

Cbr: What was it about Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue that initially excited you about the miniseries?

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson: First of all, the name.

Nicola Coughlan has fans buzzing about her personal life!

The 38-year-old actress, known for her roles in Bridgerton and Derry Girls, has maintained a relatively private personal life.

However, some details about her relationships have surfaced over time, with the latest update involving a seemingly Instagram official confirmation of her latest romance.

Click through to find out who Nicola is rumored to have dated over the years…...

Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson will make her New York stage premiere this spring in Irishtown.

The play, written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, will make its world premiere at the Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 2, ahead of an April 13 opening night. The show, which also stars Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy), will play a limited Off-Broadway run through May 25.

In addition to Burton and Jackson, the play will feature Kevin Oliver Lynch (Purgatory, After Yeats), Brenda Meaney (Little Gem, Uncle Vanya), and Angela Reed (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), with voiceover work by Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption Two).

Directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey, Irishtown follows a Dublin-based theater company that begins rehearsals for their new play, only to discover that the playwright has made the story too dark and experimental, and not Irish enough. The company decides to take matters into their own hands...

Social media isn’t just a way for actors to connect with fans as it’s now influencing their careers in ways many wouldn’t expect. Actress Maya Hawke, known for her role in Stranger Things shared that she considered quitting Instagram but was advised against it by directors who explained how much it mattered in Hollywood.

Maya Hawke in Stranger Things | Credits: Netflix

Hawke isn’t the only one who has faced this reality. One social media user, named Joe Russo, claimed that in 2020, a Game of Thrones actor was not cast in a movie because he didn’t have enough Instagram followers.

Why was Maya Hawke told not to quit Instagram?

For many actors, social media can feel exhausting, but deleting it isn’t always an option. Actress Maya Hawke recently shared that, despite wanting to leave Instagram, she has been convinced to stay by several well-known directors.

Exclusive: Derry Girls star Louisa Harland is leading RTÉ’s adaptation of Marian Keyes’ The Walsh Sisters, which has unveiled cast including Debi Mazar.

Harland will play the troubled Anna Walsh and is joined by BAFTA nominee Máiréad Tyers, who led Disney+’s Extraordinary and has been cast as Helen. Making up the rest of the Walsh family are Stefanie Preissner, who plays Maggie and is also writing most of the show, Danielle Galligan (House of Guinness) bringing oldest sister Claire to life and rising talent Caroline Menton, who takes on sister Rachel.

Adding a dose of Hollywood to the line-up is Mazar, who plays Chaquie and is coming off the back of her starring role as Medusa in Netflix’s Kaos. Past credits include Entourage, Goodfellas and Little Man Tate. She is joined by Irish American actor Aidan Quinn (This is My Father). Quinn has been tapped to play...

There have been many TV shows focused on female friendships over the years. For this Galentines Day, you need to watch these excellent shows.

Galentines Day was coined thanks to Parks and Recreation. It’s celebrated the day before Valentine’s Day, and is a chance to celebrate the female friends in our lives. There is nothing better than a strong female friendship and being surrounded by women holding us up.

Too many shows have pitted women against women. It was the way of the world in the past, right? Well, now it’s time to see women supporting women, and you need these five shows to do that. Let me say that there are way more than five, though!

Derry Girls

Set during the 1990s, Derry Girls brings us a story of a group of Catholic teenage girls (and a boy) navigating the world of growing up in the midst of The Troubles.

Mediawan Group has named Max Wiedemann as its first Head of Artificial Intelligence.

The European production and distribution group said it had expanded German producer Wiedemann’s role within the company because the industry is “entering a new era driven by artificial intelligence, which is not only reshaping our world but also transforming the way we produce content.”

Wiedemann will remain Chief Production and Chief Business Development Officer For Mediawan-owned Leonine Studios. His new post will focus on integrating cutting-edge AI tech across the group’s activities.

He has been vocal about the usage of AI in production. Last year, he told the Munich Film Festival the the likes of Google and OpenAI should allow content owners to share in the upside from artificial intelligence tools.

Today, he said in a statement: “Both Mediawan and Leonine have already cultivated significant expertise in AI, and I am eager to collaborate...

Exclusive: Channel 4 has given the greenlight to Season 2 of Big Mood starring Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan.

Big Mood follows Maggie, played by Coughlan, a 30-year-old writer with bipolar disorder. Her best friend is Eddie, played by It’s a Sin star Lydia West. At the start of Season 2, it’s been a year since Maggie and Eddie last saw each other, without any contact between them. When Eddie suddenly returns for a wedding, she isn’t alone – Maggie has competition, in the form of an infuriatingly positive spiritual healer named Whitney. Maggie needs to work out if her special brand of chaos can find space in Eddie’s new life, or she fears she will lose her forever.

The first series from writer Camilla Whitehill was Channel 4’s most-watched new comedy launch since Derry Girls, according to the network. It reviewed well and attracted plaudits for its depiction of bipolar disorder on screen.

The BBC has revealed the first official images from This City Is Ours, an ambitious new crime drama set in Liverpool, with Sean Bean taking centre stage as gang leader Ronnie Phelan. Created by Stephen Butchard, the writer behind The Last Kingdom and The Good Mothers, and directed by BAFTA-winner Saul Dibb, the eight-part series promises an intense exploration of loyalty, love, and betrayal within a world of organised crime.

Filmed on location in Liverpool and Spain, the series follows Michael Kavanagh, played by James Nelson-Joyce, a lifelong criminal whose devotion to the underworld starts to unravel when he falls in love. After years of working under Ronnie Phelan’s leadership, Michael begins to contemplate leaving the business behind, dreaming of a future with Diana Williams, played by Hannah Onslow. But with tensions brewing within the gang and Ronnie hinting at retirement, Michael soon finds himself battling for survival.

The...

The Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso premiered in 2020 and aired for three seasons to critical acclaim. The show drew viewers in with exceptional performances, outrageous humor, uplifting tone, and more. There is much buzz on social media about a fourth season of the series. But until then, viewers continue to look for another series to fill the void.

Comedy fans are always searching for another intelligent comedy to keep them entertained. Ted Lasso set the bar fairly high, but the list below will certainly give fans some new series to keep them entertained.

Lessons in Chemistry

This is a period drama with some comedy sprinkled in, but it is an exceptionally underappreciated series from Apple TV+. Based on the bestselling novel by Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry follows a brilliant chemist, Elizabeth Zott, who hosts a feminist cooking show in the 1960s where she teaches housewives scientific topics. Sadly, there...

World’s Most Dangerous Roads is a series that sends celebrities out to explore places known for having some of the most dangerous roads in the world. The show first aired from 2011 to 2013 on BBC Two, and was rebooted in 2023 for another round of nerve-wracking travels. It was in that reboot season that we got one of the most frightening episodes of the show, for multiple reasons. Jamie-Lee O’Donnell and Saoirse-Monica Jackson, stars of the hit comedy series Derry Girls, are brought on to traverse the dangerous roads of Romania. Full of winding mountain roads and narrow ones at that, their entire journey was perilous. It was also chock-full of horror movie-worthy, including references to some of the most famous, as the pair travel into Transylvania and visit Dracula’s castle.

There have been a number of fantastic teen shows in recent years, including Heartstopper, Maxton Hall, and The Summer I Turned Pretty. There is something about that stage of life that lends itself to television that is both relatable and over-the-top, balancing the many emotions and experiences associated with those ages. From teen dramas like Yellowjackets and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, to teen comedies like Never Have I Ever and Derry Girls, the intensity and amount of change during those years makes for great television.

Actress Nicola Coughlan has secured a six-figure deal with Neutrogena after the success of her recent campaign for Kim Kardashian’s Skims.

The 38-year-old – known for her roles in Bridgerton and Derry Girls – is set to front a new campaign for the skincare brand.

The Irish star—who is said to have already shot her first campaign for Neutrogena—will join a growing list of stars, including Jenna Ortega and Nicole Kidman.

A source close to Coughlan told The Sun, “Nicola has filmed her campaign for Neutrogena and is thrilled to be on board with them.”

They added, “The deal is worth six figures, which is a great payday for Nic to kick off 2025. Away from Bridgerton, Nicola has become a huge star in her own right. Getting signed up by Kim for Skims was massive for Nicola in building her CV, and when Neutrogena came knocking, she jumped at the chance.

Jack Rooke’s sweet, award-winning sitcom Big Boys is returning for a third series, and here’s the trailer for it.

Big Boys, Jack Rooke’s autobiographical sitcom about his experience at university, has been one of the comedic treats of the last few years.

Derry Girls star Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing play two disparate young men, Jack and Danny, who find themselves as roommates in their first year of University. The former is closeted and sensitive, the latter is full of boorish bonhomie, but despite their differences they form a touching, tender bond, and Rooke’s writing covers everything from Jack exploring his sexuality to Danny’s mental health.

The show received critical acclaim for Rooke’s refusal to adhere to the usual masculine stereotypes seen on TV and for highlighting mental health struggles.

It proved to be a hit for Channel 4, who quickly ordered a second series,...

The BBC is moving closer to approving its next big sitcom, and Deadline has just released information on which production companies are being considered.

Last May, Jon Petrie, the head of comedy at the BBC, announced that his team would fund writers’ rooms for fresh sitcom ideas. Deadline learns that BBC Studios, Big Talk Studios, Various Artists Limited, Roughcut, and Hat Trick have been selected.

These companies are behind some of the most popular British sitcoms of recent times, like Derry Girls, Two Doors Down, Friday Night Dinner, Stath Lets Flats, and Such Brave Girls, all of which have won BAFTAs.

While details are under wraps, it’s confirmed that these writers’ rooms are now open and assembling their teams. Each company is expected to develop a pilot script, episode outlines, and a full writing team. There’s potential for more than one new sitcom to hit our screens.

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Exclusive: The BBC is inching towards greenlighting its next big sitcom and we can reveal which producers are in the running.

The corporation’s comedy boss Jon Petrie said last May his team would fund writers’ rooms for original sitcom ideas, which we understand have been awarded to BBC Studios, Big Talk Studios, Various Artists Limited, Roughcut and Hat Trick.

Between them, these storied outfits have made some of the biggest British sitcoms of recent years including Derry Girls, Two Doors Down, Friday Night Dinner, Stath Lets Flats and Such Brave Girls, securing many a BAFTA along the way.

Projects are being kept under wraps but we are told writers’ rooms have opened and are beginning to staff up. The indies are tasked with coming up with a pilot script, episode outlines and a writing team ready to go. More than one idea could make it to screen. When he...

Exclusive: The BBC assembled some of the UK’s finest drama and comedy producers to discuss the scripted funding crisis currently gripping the industry, we can reveal.

Described as a “gathering of the families,” BBC director general Tim Davie and content chief Charlotte Moore invited the group of seasoned executives to a lunch meeting at London’s Charlotte Street Hotel in late November.

Deadline is disclosing details from the private talks for the first time after Jane Featherstone, the Black Doves producer who was in attendance last year, told British Parliament yesterday that the BBC is struggling to fund “multiple” series on its books.

Others at the BBC meeting included The Crown producer Andy Harries, Ludwig maker Kenton Allen, The Traitors producer Stephen Lambert, and Jimmy Mulville, the maker of Derry Girls. Tim Hincks, producer of Alma’s Not Normal, was also in attendance.

Sources familiar with the gathering said the talks were constructive and pragmatic,...

Netflix could have a huge 2025 ahead, with some of the streaming platform's most popular shows making their comebacks, and an exciting batch of new shows making their debuts. Although many of these shows don't have release dates set in stone, it's been confirmed that Stranger Things, Wednesday, Black Mirror and more are all coming at some point in 2025. This is huge news, especially since some of these shows have been away for three years.

As well as these returning juggernauts, Netflix is set to release some intriguing new shows in the next 12 months. The creators of Derry Girls and BoJack Horseman both have new shows coming to Netflix soon, while Robert De Niro is set for a rare TV appearance in a political thriller. Netflix could well have some more surprises in store for 2025, but it's exciting to see so many interesting shows as the streaming platform's release calendar gradually takes shape.

Big Brit stars including Tom Hiddleston, Tamara Lawrance and Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln are set to grace the small screen next year. Here, we round up the biggest shows coming out of the UK in 2025, as The Night Manager returns, Steven Knight’s latest drops and, just maybe, the next big hit launches. Read on, and feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments section.

‘The Night Manager’

Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine is back baby, and he’ll be on TV for a little while. A supercharged double-season order of one of the shows that defined TV’s golden era was actioned earlier this year and Season 2 will land in 2k25 with a brand new director in I Hate Suzie’s Georgi Banks-Davies and new American co-producer in Prime Video, which replaces AMC. Last seen in the back of a paddy wagon driven...

“Written by Steven Moffat”. On Christmas Day! My god, how we’ve missed those words. Did any of us truly, in our wildest dreams, think that was something we’d ever get from Doctor Who again? It’s like thinking you’ve had all your presents only to spot a mountain bike with a ribbon around it behind the sofa. The writer responsible for some of the show’s best festive outings returns for a story that hits all the usual Moffatty timey-wimey buttons: clever, funny, emotionally punchy and, occasionally, absolutely exasperating. His previous Christmas specials have ranged from the sublime to the flaky, and ‘Joy To The World’ sits somewhere in the middle — though thankfully closer to the former than the latter.

As so often happens to the character at Christmas, we find Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor alone after bidding farewell to his latest companion, Ruby Sunday, back...

Nicola Coughlan, one of the stars of Doctor Who's upcoming 2024 Christmas special, recently spoke about working on the project and praised showrunner Russell T. Davies. Coughlan also talked about reuniting with co-star Ncuti Gatwa after the two filmed Barbie together.

The Doctor Who holiday special stars Ncuti Gatwa's fifteenth Doctor on an adventure in space with Bridgerton and Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan. The new episode is written by former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, and Collider recently spoke with Coughlan about joining the long-running franchise and working with Moffat, Davies and Gatwa. "It was amazing, honestly, because I love Russell T Davies. He is the nicest man in television," Coughlan said. "And when he called me to be like, 'Come do this,' I was like, 'No-brainer, of course.' And I'm such a fan of Ncuti as well, so I was like, 'Definitely.'"

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Just like Santa, BBC sci-fi behemoth Doctor Who is returning on Christmas Day to deliver a special gift: “Joy to the World.” The hour-long, annual Christmas special this year features Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan when it reteams the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and writer Steven Moffat with showrunner Russell T Davies.

The Sherlock writer is back to pen his impressive ninth Christmas special for Doctor Who. “Joy to the World” is set within the Time Hotel — a hotel where every door is a portal that can transport you anywhere and anywhen. For Christmas, the Doctor (Gatwa) meets Joy (Coughlan) and discovers dinosaurs, dangers and a sack full of more (yule have to wait until the big day to find out what else). Meanwhile, a deadly plan is unfolding across the Earth, just in time for Christmas. The special releases Dec. 25 on Disney+.

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Irish broadcaster RTÉ has tapped “Derry Girls” star Siobhán McSweeney to host its upcoming adaptation of “The Traitors,” set to premiere on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player in 2025.

The psychological reality competition format, which has found popularity in territories including the U.K., U.S. and the Netherlands, will be produced by Kite Entertainment under license from All3Media International.

The series will film on location in Ireland following a national casting call conducted earlier this year. The format features 22 contestants competing for a potential prize of €50,000 while navigating a game of trust and deception. A subset of players, designated as Traitors, attempt to eliminate other contestants without detection while the remaining players, known as Faithfuls, work to identify and remove the Traitors.

McSweeney, known for her role as Sister Michael in “Derry Girls,” said: “Like everyone, I am a huge ‘Traitors’ fan so when I was asked to host the...

If you’ve ever been a Bridgerton binge-watcher, then you know that Nicola Coughlan is a name that has stuck like a good cup of Earl Grey tea on a lazy Sunday.

From being a wallflower in Bridgerton to the hilarious Clare Devlin in Derry Girls, Coughlan has done more than just steal hearts—she’s effortlessly shown the world that talent doesn’t need to shout, it speaks softly, yet powerfully.

Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in Bridgerton | Credit: Netflix

However, have you ever stopped to wonder, “Who’s the woman behind those stunning Regency gowns?” Or, more intriguingly, “Where is she really from, and what’s her heritage?” Sure, we all know Penelope, but how much do we truly know about Nicola Coughlan? Her character in Bridgerton is a secret writer and a master of the perfect tea-drinking posture, but there’s so much more to this Irish gem than meets the eye.

Nicola Coughlan Bridgerton Intimate Scene Reaction ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Bridgerton’s popularity stems from various factors: the casting, the chemistry, the costumes, the dynamic between all the characters, the background score, and the intimate scenes between couples. Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington in the show, was okay with the nudity and filming all the intimate scenes, but her mother wasn’t.

Bridgerton first premiered in December 2020 and has become a top-rated and loved show. Season 3 of the Regency drama focused on Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington’s love story. It also featured steamy scenes between Coughlan and Luke Newton, who plays Colin. The former has opened up about her mother being mad at her for those scenes.

Was Nicola Coughlan’s Mother Mad At Her For Intimate Scenes In Bridgerton 3?

While appearing on Graham Norton’s show, the Derry Girls star said she was 35 and realized she had never played an adult role.

Nicola Coughlan best known for ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Derry Girls, roles says she can’t reveal much about her role in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special for a hilarious reason. While she hasn’t been asked to keep it a secret, she admits that she was confused by the show’s plot since she had never watched it before.

Coughlan is one of the few people who hadn’t watched ‘Doctor Who’ before agreeing to appear as a guest star. In the Christmas special titled ‘Joy To The World,’ she plays a character named Joy, who meets the 15th Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, after checking into a London hotel for a peaceful break. She ends up joining the Doctor on a mission to save Christmas everywhere at once.

The actress admitted on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ that she had no previous connection to the show. She explained that she didn...

The Doctor Who universe will welcome Nicola Coughlan, well-known for her appearances in Derry Girls and Bridgerton. In the upcoming special, she lends her distinct charm to this beloved sci-fi series despite initially finding its complicated world daunting.

During an interview on The Graham Norton Show, Coughlan admitted that she was unfamiliar with the legendary BBC series. Growing up in Ireland, she had never seen Doctor Who. She got a crash course on the show from Wikipedia to prepare for her role, comparing it to “reading War and Peace—confusing with monsters and time travel.”

Coughlan plays Joy, a character, in the holiday episode “Joy to the World.” She joins Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor on a time-travel journey through human history. Despite her initial bewilderment, Coughlan indicated enthusiasm for the encounter. “I had a great time, and the experience was enjoyable. “If they want me back, I’ll do it again,...

Despite Nicola Coughlan playing the companion in Doctor Who's 2024 Christmas special, the actor admits that she had no experience whatsoever prior to being cast in the role. Coughlan's breakout role was in the Channel 4 historical sitcom Derry Girls as anxious teen Claire, before joining Netflix's period drama Bridgerton as the third season's romantic lead, Penelope Featherington. Set following the events of Doctor Who season 14, the Christmas special "Joy to the World" sees Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor travel across human history in a hotel offering rooms from throughout time and space.

Though Christmas will see Doctor Who air its 18th seasonal special, Coughlan admitted during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show (via Pa Media) that she had no prior connection to the long-running sci-fi series. Coughlan explained that she did not watch growing up in Ireland, leading to her needing to do research upon being cast.

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