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Exclusive: Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker are teaming on an ITV heist thriller about two skilled confidence tricksters separated by a 10-year prison sentence.

Gentleman Jack star Jones has created Frauds with Anne-Marie O’Connor, who she previously teamed with on ITV’s Maryland.

Jones will play Bert, who has spent the last decade in a Spanish prison cell with a burning desire to pull off one final job that will prove her worth. Doctor Who star Whittaker is Sam, her partner, who for the past decade has been content to live a life of quiet anonymity in the hills of Southern Spain. The story begins as Sam anxiously waits for Bert to be released from a maximum-security prison on grounds of compassionate discharge. On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost?

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Roxanne Rosedale, the glamorous model and actress who assisted host Bud Collyer on the 1950s game show Beat the Clock and appeared in the Marilyn Monroe-starring The Seven Year Itch, has died. She was 95.

Known professionally as Roxanne, she died May 2 in an assisted care facility in her birthplace of Minneapolis, her daughter Ann Roddy told The Hollywood Reporter.

Roxanne became a hugely popular TV star after she joined CBS’ Beat the Clock, from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, in 1950. She would introduce the contestants — who were tasked with completing complicated, outrageous stunts in an allotted time — snapped photos with a Sylvania camera and posed alongside the winners’ prizes. (Watch an episode here.)

While on the show, she made the covers of such magazines as Life, Look and (with Collyer) TV Guide and even had a doll named for her. The blue-eyed Roxanne Dolls featured a Beat the Clock...

Director Robert Montgomery's last is a war movie like no other, a study in leadership and command with no combat scenes. James Cagney uses none of his standard personality mannerisms; the result is something very affecting. And that music! You'll think the whole show is the memory of a soul in heaven. The Gallant Hours Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1960 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 115 min. / Street Date April 5, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, Walter Sande, Karl Swenson, Leon Lontoc, Robert Burton, Carleton Young, Raymond Bailey, Harry Landers, Richard Carlyle, James Yagi, James T. Goto, Carl Benton Reid, Selmer Jackson, Frank Latimore, Nelson Leigh, Herbert Lytton, Stuart Randall, William Schallert, Arthur Tovey, John Zaremba. Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Art Director Wiard Ihnen Original Music Roger Wagner Written by Beirne Lay Jr., Frank D. Gilroy Produced and Directed by Robert Montgomery...

Character actor Richard Carlyle appeared in numerous films and television productions from the early 1950s, but was perhaps best remembered for his guest-starring role as Carl Jaeger in the 1967 episode The Squire of Gothos of the original Star Trek series.

Carlyle was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, on March 20, 1914, and made his film debut in the 1951 feature Target Unknown. He was seen on television in episodes of such series as The Web, Lights Out, One Step Beyond, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Irwin Allen’s Land of the Giants. He was also featured in the 1977 supernatural tele-film The Spell.

Carlyle died in Los Angeles on November 15, 2009, at the age of 95.

Amanda Tapping and Richard Dean Anderson sign on to guest star on the upcoming "Sgu: Stargate Universe."

Some entertainment franchises refuse to lay down. “Stargate,” for example. That ‘verse just keeps on chugging, from “Stargate Sg-1” to its spinoff “Stargate: Atlantis“…and as of this fall, fifteen years after the original film’s theatrical release, “Sgu: Stargate Universe.” Now that “Star Trek” lives in theaters, “Stargate” is free to step in and boldly go where just about nobody else in TV is going anymore. With a number of relatively well-known actors in its cast, including Ming-Na, Lou Diamond Phillips and Richard Carlyle, it certainly seems to be higher profile than its predecessors were when they started.

Months ahead of its planned two-hour premiere in October, the cable channel already has…...