Anya Chalotra / ‘I’ve tried to separate myself from this job’

 

Anya Chalotra

Interview

‘I’ve tried to separate myself from this job’: The Witcher’s Anya Chalotra on fan abuse, Henry Cavill and saying goodbye to the show

After seven years in Netflix’s fantasy epic, the actor has cast her final spell. She talks about the genre’s toxic fans, welcoming new boy Liam Hemsworth to the cast – and what sorcery really sounds like

 

Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel comeback breaks his YouTube monologue views record

Preliminary figures show 6.26 million broadcast viewers and more than 15m views on YouTube in first 16 hours

Adrian Horton
24 September 2025

So much for low viewership: Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback monologue is now his most-viewed one on YouTube.

 

Walton Goggins: ‘How would I like to be remembered? As one of a kind.’

Photograph: Alberto E Rodriguez

Interview

The White Lotus’s Walton Goggins: ‘Who do I most admire? My wife, because of what we have overcome together’

The actor on obsessive cleaning, missing his own teeth, and his sand and dirt collection

Rosanna Greenstreet

Saturday 10 May 2025

 

Review

MobLand review – Tom Hardy can pull off miracles! And this show needs a few

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Sure, this Guy Ritchie gangster drama is so cartoonish you could dismiss it as crass twaddle. But watching Hardy threaten people is irresistible

Jack Seale
Sunday 30 March 2025

Tom Hardy can be very persuasive. In Taboo, people did what he said because he’d growled something intimidatingly gothic at them; in Locke, they knew he’d only phone back later if they didn’t give in; in the Kray brothers biopic Legend, there were two Tom Hardys and they were both holding claw hammers. Whenever he’s the celebrity reader on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, meanwhile, half of the adults watching wouldn’t need any persuading.

 

British actor Jason Isaacs, on March 18, 2025 in Pollença (Mallorca).CATI CLADERA (EFE)

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Jason Isaacs: The villain who managed to dodge fame until ‘The White Lotus’

The British actor, with a decades-long career and iconic roles like Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter saga, managed to stay out of the media spotlight until his starred in one of today’s biggest television phenomena

 

‘Henry VIII is a serial killer and abuser’: why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors?

England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the Light?

Zoe Williams

Tuesday 12 November 2024

The TV adaptation of the third of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall novels – The Mirror and the Light – arrived on Sunday on BBC One to rave reviews. “Six hours of magic” was the Guardian’s verdict. The series had been eagerly awaited, but nothing like as eagerly as the book itself. Mantel’s legions of fans waited eight years from the publication of Bring Up the Bodies for the finale to arrive in 2020.

How James Gandolfini’s addictions to alcohol and drugs caused chaos during filming of ‘The Sopranos’

 

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.HBO

How James Gandolfini’s addictions to alcohol and drugs caused chaos during filming of ‘The Sopranos’

In a new book, the locations manager on the emblematic HBO series reveals the difficulty of working with the actor who, despite everything, was a beloved presence on set

 

Emma D’Arcy in ‘House of the Dragon’ and Morfydd Clark in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

‘Rings of Power’ vs ‘House of the Dragon’: Which show is winning the popularity battle?

Audience and social media data give a sense of the results of the confrontation between the two epic fantasies

NATALIA MARCOS

Madrid, 3 November 2022

It wasn’t a battle, but it was. It wasn’t, because there didn’t have to be a victor and a loser – both could have triumphed (and lost). But the simultaneous release of House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power inevitably pitted them against one another. Now that the voyages back to Middle Earth and to Westeros have ended, and the first seasons are over, which has won in terms of popularity.

Harry Collett, Emma D'Arcy and Oscar Eskinazi, in a scene from the second season of 'House of the Dragon.'THEO WHITEMAN

War comes to ‘House of the Dragon’: ‘It’s a story about two women and it will continue to be until the end’

The second season of the ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff delves into the confrontation between two sides of the Targaryen house. ‘We want to reward the audience for sticking with us,’ says showrunner Ryan Condal

NATALIA MARCOS
Paris, 18 June 2024

The Dance of Dragons is about to begin. On one side, the Black Council, with Rhaenyra claiming her place on the Iron Throne. On the other, the Green Council, with Aegon on the throne, backed by his mother, Alicent Hightower. The rifts within the very broken Targaryen family have turned into gaping divides, accentuated by painful deaths. Tragedy struck at the end of the first season of House of the Dragon, the series that has returned to the phenomenon that was Game of Thrones to tell the past of this saga of dragon riders. The Dance of Dragons, the civil war in the Targaryen, is imminent and inevitable.

What can we learn from Netflix’s biggest viewership data reveal ever?

Jennifer Lopez in The Mother. Photograph: Eric Milner

What can we learn from Netflix’s biggest viewership data reveal ever?

The streaming platform has shared its most in-depth look at what their many subscribers have been watching

Jesse Hassenger

Wednesday 13 December 2013

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n news that will excite anyone who spent a substantial chunk of their youth poring over the purple “Life” section of USA Today for Nielsen ratings and box office reports, Netflix has released a large chunk of its often-secret viewership data. The streaming service has long displayed shifting top 10 lists on its homepage, showing what’s currently most watched among their film and TV offerings. But this new data dump is an 18,000-row preadsheet cataloging data for just about any movie or TV show over the course of January through June of this year.

Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind review – essential viewing

 

Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind review – essential viewing

A sweeping but gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the off-screen dramas that made prestige TV

Rebeca Nicholson

Friday 24 November 2023

Peter Biskind is a cinema man. Best known for 1998’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and other books about the meaty, macho movie business, he has turned his attentions to the growth of streaming services and what might be the end of the current golden age of TV. The swaggering Pandora’s Box attempts to wrangle a complex tale into some sort of order, from the early days of prestige TV, to the high-stakes and seemingly bottomless business of “content creation”. But in the acknowledgments that conclude the book, Biskind still offers a secular prayer for the return of his preferred medium. “Movies, I hope, will one day make a comeback,” he writes. For now, television will have to do.

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Caruso was spotted last month out in Los Angeles looking very different than his “CSI:MIami” character Horatio Caine.Jeff Rayner / Coleman-Rayner

‘CSI: Miami’ alum David Caruso looks wildly different in new photos since 2017

David Caruso, el protagonista de CSI Miami, luce muy cambiado tras seis años alejado de las cámaras

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Published Dec. 1, 2023, 1:08 p.m. ET

Retired actor David Caruso has resurfaced after stepping away from the Hollywood spotlight following his hit show “CSI: Miami.”

The 67-year-old was photographed out and about in a rare appearance on Nov. 15.

During the rare spotting, the “NYPD Blue” alum sported a denim jacket, a black tee and gray sweatpants as he pumped gas and took a walk in San Fernando Valley, California.

‘Cary Grant’s whole life was a civil war’ / The TV drama unmasking Hollywood’s permatanned icon

 

‘He was crippled by shame’ … Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant and Laura Aikman as Dyan Cannon in Archie. 

‘Cary Grant’s whole life was a civil war’: the TV drama unmasking Hollywood’s permatanned icon

The mansion-dwelling megastar was born Archibald Leach and grew up in a squalid Bristol terrace believing his mother was dead. The stars and writer of Archie talk about his rise, shame and redemption

Mark Lawson
Monday 13 November 2023

Freezing rain is lashing the roof of the movie-set trailer. Even with the heating on full, the conditions are still shivery. But Jason Isaacs is sporting the sort of deep tan that suggests months spent under fierce sun. Appropriately, given the role he’s playing, it’s fake. “They spray-paint me every single day,” the actor explains. “At the place I’m staying, I don’t know what the laundry thinks has been going on, with these dark brown sheets every morning.”

'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show

The graffiti on the left says: ‘Freedom … now in 3D’. The one on the right says:
‘Homeland is watermelon’ (which is slang for not to be taken seriously). 

Photograph: Courtesy of the artists

'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show

Street artists say they were asked to add authenticity to scenes of Syrian refugee camp, but took chance to air criticisms of show’s depiction of Muslim world

Three graffiti artists hired to add authenticity to refugee camp scenes in this week’s episode of Homeland have said they instead used their artwork to accuse the TV programme of racism.

In the second episode of the fifth season, which aired in the US and Australia earlier this week, and will be shown in the UK on Sunday, lead character Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, can be seen striding past a wall daubed with Arabic script reading: “Homeland is racist.”

Shaheen Baig / The mastermind casting director behind Peaky Blinders

Shaheen Baig

The mastermind casting
director behind Peaky Blinders

By Emma Brown

October 30, 2017

If you are a fan of contemporary British film and television—not the lace and pomp PBS period pieces, but those gritty, award-dominating independent dramas—you’re almost definitely a fan of Shaheen Baig. Originally from Birmingham, smack dab in the middle of England, Baig is the casting director behind all four seasons of Peaky Blinders and films like Control (2007), Lady Macbeth (2016), and God’s Own Country (2017).

And Just Like That / First trailer for Sex and the City sequel series

Best friends: Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis in And Just Like That. 
Photograph: HBO Max

And Just Like That: first trailer for Sex and the City sequel series

The return of the beloved HBO comedy drama will see the friends navigate a brave new world – but Kim Cattrall will not be there

Benjamin Lee
Friday 12 November 2021

The first look at the much-anticipated Sex and the City follow-up has arrived, a 10-part series called And Just Like That.

The latest installment of the hit franchise follows six seasons and two movies, telling the story of women dealing with sex, work and romance in New York, breaking new ground when it started back in 1998. And Just Like That reunites Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, but their fellow co-star Kim Cattrall decided not to return.