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Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset says she feels “unsympathetic” towards women who complained of harassment during the advent of the #MeToo movement, saying she feels women are partially to blame for their treatment.

In an interview with Page Six, the British actress who has made her home in the US for more than 50 years, said:

“I understand as an idea, it’s important that men behave, but I do really think it’s important that women behave, too. I think how you dress, what your subtext is very, very important. It’s very dangerous and not to be played with.”

She added: “You have to be very careful what you put out [there].”

Bisset said that she felt “very unsympathetic to these stories, these #MeToo things.”

The #MeToo movement gathered momentum in 2017 following a myriad of allegations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein had assaulted female employees and actresses.

Bisset began her film...

Early in 1987, producers Larry Gordon and Joel Silver were on the hunt for an action hero. They were working on a rollercoaster tale about terrorists hijacking a high-rise tower in Los Angeles and the script called for a muscle-bound bruiser.

For contractual reasons, Frank Sinatra was top of the list for Die Hard. Ol’ Blue Eyes had first refusal as he’d been the star of 1968’s The Detective, which like Die Hard was based on author Roderick Thorp’s thriller novels.

When the 70-year-old crooner confirmed his terrorist-fighting days were long behind him, producers went straight to the most obvious candidate: Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator, Commando and Predator star said no, preferring to try his hand at comedy alongside Danny DeVito in Twins. The rejections kept coming: Richard Gere, Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte, Don Johnson and Mel Gibson all passed.

Way down the list was Bruce Willis.

Yippie-ki-yay! Fans of the “Die Hard” movies can geek out with a new book that goes inside the entire saga with exclusive interviews with the cast and crew and and rare and unseen imagery including set photographs and concept art. Written by Variety senior producer David S. Cohen and James Mottram, “Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History” is available on Nov. 13 from Insight Editions.

In the first chapter, screenwriter Jeb Stuart tells how a fight with his wife helped him crack the central character of the story.

Part 1: Die Hard

“Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the a–.” —John McClane

Road Rage

Jeb Stuart needed a paycheck.

Things shouldn’t have been this tight. He was a writer on the rise. After five years of graduate school, he’d written a hot spec script that had landed at Columbia Pictures...

Chris Brown and model Nia, whom the singer has known for a number of years, reportedly have a ninth-month-old daughter together. Chris Brown Is A Father Brown, 25, and Nia, 31, who welcomed their daughter back in 2014, are not together but are on good terms, according to TMZ. Brown is reportedly happy to be […]

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Sherlock has been nominated for a 2015 Broadcast Award.

The BBC One show will compete for against Happy Valley, Line of Duty, Penny Dreadful, The Honourable Woman and Y Gwyll / Hinterland for the Best Drama Series prize.

Elsewhere, Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor' has been nominated for International Programme Sales along with Y Gwyll/ Hinterland, Downton Abbey, Line of Duty, The X Factor and MasterChef.

Nominated in the Best Documentary series category are Benefits Street, Bedlam, Life in Death Row, Long Lost Family, My Last Summer and Protecting Our Parents.

Best Soaps/Continuing Drama sees Casualty, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Holby City and Hollyoaks nominated.

Meanwhile, Gogglebox, Child Genius, Karl Pilkington: The Moaning Of Life, Pound Shop Wars, The Great British Bake Off and The Island with Bear Grylls are all up for Best Popular Factual Programme.

The Broadcast Awards will take place on February...

The National Television Awards 2015 longlist nominations have been announced and voting is now (October 14) open.

Hosted by Dermot O'Leary, the NTAs celebrate the best and most popular TV and are exclusively voted for by viewers. The 2015 awards take place at London's O2 on January 21.

The Nta shortlist will be announced in January when the final round of voting begins. Viewers can vote for free online at nationaltvawards.com or by calling the Nta vote form request line 0844 646 2060.

Full list of 2015 nominations:

Chat Show Host

Adam Hills

Alan Carr

Graham Norton

Jonathan Ross

Michael McIntyre

Paul O'Grady

Piers Morgan

Sarah Millican

Comedy

Benidorm

Big School

Birds of a Feather

Blandings

Boomers

Citizen Khan

Derek

Mrs Brown's Boys

Not Going Out

Outnumbered

The Big Bang Theory

The Wrong Mans

W1A

Daytime

Animal Saints and Sinners

Antiques Road Trip

Bargain Hunt

BBC Breakfast

Coach Trip

Escape to the Country

Father Brown

Fifteen to One

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Yvette Nicole Brown has been promoted to series regular on CBS’ ‘The Odd Couple” remake, a network representative told TheWrap. The upgrade comes just days after the actress departed NBC-turned-Yahoo's “Community” so she could give her sick father daily care. Also read: Yvette Nicole Brown Leaving ‘Community’ to Care for Father Brown plays Dani in the upcoming reboot of the '70s sitcom, adapted previously from the 1968 film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Dani is an assistant to Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry). The series, which Perry is also producing, will also star his “17 Again” co-star Thomas Lennon as Felix Unger,...

Grantchester ITV

Casualty veteran Robson Green returns to TV this Fall in ITV’s new period crime drama Grantchester. The Geordie actor plays plain-speaking Inspector Keating who ably assists local Vicar and would-be sleuth Sidney Chambers (James Norton). Set in the real-life Cambridgeshire hamlet of Grantchester, the 1950s crime drama is a sort of latter day Father Brown. The series debuts in the UK in October but will also be aired in the Us since it was co-produced by Masterpiece Theatre for PBS.

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BBC Three has announced the cast of upcoming eight-part drama series Tatau.

Joe Layton (New Worlds, Father Brown) will play Kyle Connor, and Theo Barklem-Biggs (The Inbetweeners Movie, Silk) has been cast as his friend Paul 'Budgie' Griffiths.

Written by Richard Zajdlic, Tatau is co-produced by Being Human creators Touchpaper TV in partnership with New Zealand's South Pacific Pictures.

Layton said: "I'm thrilled to be part of this original British drama. With such a talented production team behind it I can't wait to help bring Richard's fantastic scripts to life."

Barklem-Biggs added: "I'm so excited to be a part of this unique project. The script is based on real Maori mythology, it has everything in it - romance, comedy, smuggling, mystery.

"I'm also really looking forward to working with such a great team - everyone from the producers to the directors, right down to the cast are spot on. Not...

BBC Daytime has announced its new line-up, featuring programmes from stars such as Len Goodman, Margaret Mountford and Shane Richie.

Unveiling a variety of shows from a number of different genres, BBC Daytime controller Damian Cavanagh praised the "rich mix of brand new programming".

Drama

New drama The Coroner - which follows a solicitor returning to her seaside hometown to work as the coroner after a messy marriage break-up - will join returning shows Father Brown and Wpc 56, which are both back for their third series.

Moving On, the acclaimed Jimmy McGovern drama, is back for a sixth series with new stars such as Hayley Mills, Lisa Riley and Peter Egan. Doctors also promises the arrival of a new nurse, goodbyes to familiar faces, a Halloween ghost story and a Christmas wedding.

Factual

Celebrity chef James Martin will head a campaign to bring communities together with his new show Meet The Street,...

Inspector George Gently

The latest batch of George Gently episodes come to DVD on 1 April and you’d be a fool to miss out on this boxset. As you will recall, season five ended with Gently and Bacchus, shot and wounded on the floor of Durham Cathedral. Would they recover? Would they ever work again? Well given that there is a season six I don’t think you can accuse me of releasing a “spoiler” if I tell you that the duo made a full recovery. However, it wasn’t an easy road, especially for Bacchus whose wallowing in self-pity eventually led him down an unhealthy path of booze and gambling. Older and wiser, Gently realized that work was the best therapy and he quickly got back to doing what he does best — solving murders.

Even by George Gently‘s own standards, season six features a lot of introspection as...

Give us three minutes; we’ll give you the costume world.

Amy Adams

Current actress of the moment and friend of costume designers everywhere, Amy Adams, is to be honoured at this year’s Cdg awards on 22nd February.

Totò a colori

Satin, peplums, artsy tortoiseshell spectacles and Sophia Loren with unshaven armpits. Superqueen explains exactly why we should all seek out Totò a colori.

Game of Thrones

Finally someone has realised it is All about the embroidery.

The Great Gatsby

Catherine Martin chats to HitFlix about “colour obsessed” Baz Luhrmann.

Easy to Love

Engrossing post by Kay Noske at Movie Star Makeover, all about Helen Rose’s fantastic colour combinations for Easy to Love star Esther Williams.

Sleepy Hollow

Kristin Burke takes more questions from the floor about her costumes for the hugely successful TV series.

And Here Kristin talks to the Go Fug Yourself team in about the...

In the wake of the eight Emmy nominations for Top of the Lake, the BBC is keen to embark on more co-productions with Australia.

Kate Harwood, the BBC.s Head of Drama Production, who will deliver a keynote address at the Spaa conference in November, says she is developing ideas for collaborations with Australian producers.

.I might have a couple (of projects) in my pocket,. Harwood told If on the line from London. .Co-production is the future. We aim to support more international productions and to support the authors. voices..

At Spaa, Harwood will give insights into how the BBC Drama department works and how it has managed to reinvent the model for making low-budget dramas following a severe £700 million ($1.2 billion) cutback in the corporation.s funding.

She says the typical budget for BBC dramas today is lower than it was 10 years ago. The Beeb has cut costs by shooting on HD instead of film,...

Former Holby City star Tom Chambers has claimed that he was turned down for a part in Downton Abbey because he wasn't posh enough.

The actor, who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2008, revealed he auditioned to be Lady Mary Crawley's (Michelle Dockery) love interest but was turned down.

Speaking to What's On TV, he said: I was told I didn't have enough blue blood in me to join the series. It was disappointing but you have to be thick-skinned when things don't come your way."

Chambers, who is now starring in BBC drama Father Brown, said: "If I had got the job, I wouldn't have been able to do this, so it wasn't so bad in the end. I'm delighted to be joining such an exciting series."

Downton Abbey's fourth series begins on ITV in the autumn. It will air in the Us on PBS in the New Year.

Timothy Spall in The Syndicate. BBC

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The Syndicate Series 1

The Syndicate, Series One is the pick of Acorn Media’s late April DVD releases. The show is a fascinating character study involving the mundane staff members of a humdrum low-end British supermarket. In the normal course of events, there is nothing particularly intriguing about this group but that all changes when they win the national lottery. When millions of pounds are involved, personal relationships, work rivalries and previously undetected misdeeds suddenly become a lot more important. While the show doesn’t exactly portray the lottery as a bad thing, let’s just say that Kay Mellor’s scripts show us that every silver lining has a massive dark cloud attached to it.

The cast for The Syndicate is top notch and the biggest star among the talented ensemble is Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall. He plays the store manager Bob.

Call the Midwife

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Spring 2013 will be one to remember for U.S. based of British TV, as PBS, BBC America, Animal Planet and Acorn TV have put together an impressive line-up full of the best dramas and the biggest stars. Now is the time to prime the DVR, load up on popcorn and brew a nice cup of tea because we’ve put together a comprehensive list of the Must Watch British TV shows that are set to hit your screens starting this weekend.

Easter Weekend

The now traditional Easter Doctor Who episode will air on Saturday 30 March at 8pm E.T. on BBC America. The Bells of Saint John is written by series producer Steven Moffat and it includes the official introduction of the Time Lord’s new companion Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman). The duo must unravel a mystery involving alien attempts to hijack London’s Wi-Fi systems.

The...

Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but Gk Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown stories are the best the genre has ever seen

If there is debate about who is the greatest literary detective, there can be no dispute as to who is the most recognisable. An IMDb search for adaptations of Gk Chesterton's Father Brown stories yields one 1950s film, two television series (one of which has just started on BBC1), a clutch of American Masterpiece Mystery shows, and an American TV movie. A similar hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes turns up an immediate 200 hits, with many more following: there's Young Sherlock, Robert Downey Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Billy Wilder, as well as the Baker Street Irregulars, all the spoofs, the debunkings, the modernisations, and so on and on. Even Tom and Jerry have met Holmes.

The reasons for Holmes's on-screen triumph over the diminutive...

Mark Williams has been cast in a new BBC One crime drama. The Fast Show and Harry Potter actor will lead the cast of Father Brown, which will begin a ten-part run next year. The series is based on the short stories by Gk Chesterton, following a priest who accidentally finds himself as a crime detective. Father Brown is set in the parish of St Mary's Catholic Church in Kembleford in the Cotswolds. Each episode will see Father Brown investigate different crimes in the area, which all seem to fall into his lap. However serious the crime, he believes that there is always a scope for forgiveness and redemption. Father Brown will be assisted in each episode by Parish Secretary Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) and the extravagant Lady Felicia (Nancy Carroll). They are also joined by reformed criminal Sid Carter (more)...

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Who is the greatest fictional detective? Holmes? Marlowe? Marple?

Philip Marlowe didn't solve all his crimes; his main business was doing what his clients wanted and getting beaten up occasionally. He never sorted out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep (unsurprisingly, because Raymond Chandler, when asked, didn't know either). So it must be one of the other two, and I don't know whether to prefer Holmes because he did it with cocaine or Marple because she did it with knitting. Could we compromise on Father Brown?

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For me, the greatest fictional detective is the virtually unknown Nigel Strangeways, created by Nicholas Blake (which was the pen name of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis). If you're into detective fiction I highly recommend checking him out (secondhand only, though, as just about all the books are out of print,...

Leonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genre

The best novelists create a world around the reader. You can feel it bubbling up in irrepressible invention. So we have "a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year old super-dude twice convicted felon" in his Jacuzzi when the telephone rings. No one answers it, and Booker gets out of the Jacuzzi. At the other end of the line, a woman, Moselle, asks him to sit down. When he does, she informs him that he's triggered a bomb in the chair – "when you get up, honey, what's left of your ass is gonna go clear through the ceiling". The bomb-disposal boys arrive in their nonchalant way: "Booker said 'Another one goes hmmmmm. I'm sitting here on high explosives the motherfucker goes hmmmmm.'" Is there a bomb?...