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Kenneth Branaghs Boris Johnson transformation for This Sceptred Isle complete The Belfast actor is taking on the role of the Prime Minister for a new Sky Original show This Sceptred Isle Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson in new a Sky Original drama set for release later this year (Image: Sky) Never miss a thing from Belfast and beyond - sign up for FREE newsletter direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the informati...

▶︎ Sound of Metal is scheduled for UK release on 17 March. Riz Ahmed was having a moment of introspection. It was the autumn of 2018 and, from the outside, his career was riding high. He’d won an Emmy for 2016’s The Night Of, played a space pilot in the same year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and now Jacques Audiard, the so-called French Scorsese, had him playing a chemist hunted by gold prospectors in The Sisters Brothers. It was the type of role actors are suppos...

Check out the first photo of Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson Michael Winterbottoms series about the COVID-19 pandemic is coming to Sky next year (Credit: Getty) The first photo of Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson has just been released – check it out below. Branagh is set to play the Prime Minister in Michael Winterbottom’s forthcoming series  This Sceptred Isle, airing next year. Advertisement This Sceptred Isle.” No, you’re not seeing things. That’s Kenneth Branagh as U.K. Prime...

Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021 13:59 This Sceptred Isle (Kenneth Branagh, pictured) is due to premiere in autumn 2022 Photo: Sky UK The first photo of actor Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Covid-19 drama This Sceptred Isle has been released. The five-part Sky drama charts the Johnson governments handling of the first wave of the pandemic in early 2020. It is due to premiere in autumn 2022 on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. Michael Winterbottom is directing Belfast-bo...

This Sceptred Isle - First Look of Kenneth Branagh as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Sky Original Drama

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Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh’s incredible transformation into Boris Johnson in the forthcoming drama This Sceptred Isle. Branagh will portray the UK prime minister in the TV series set during the pandemic. It will be based on testimony from real people living through the crisis, including hospital and care home workers. The official Twitter account for Sky TV teased a glimpse of Branagh in character on the first day of...

Stuff Entertainment? Supplied image for London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year. Less about the wall and more about the people whose lives it dominates, Michael Chiklis plays a former US Border Patrol agent who switches codes to smuggle people into America in Coyote (from Wednesday, February 10, TVNZ OnDemand). From highly acclaimed director Michelle Maclaren ( Breaking Bad, Westworld), this ten-part series is being dropped in one fell swoop for those partial to the odd binge. Meanwhile, there i...

The UK’s Sky TV to ramp up investment in feature films Henry Lawfull in one of the Sky Original films, A Boy Called Christmas As more and more legacy media outlets attempt to get into the streaming game, the UK’s broadcasting giant Sky TV is the latest to expand its commitment to this model. It will launch 30 new Sky Original feature films this year, increasing to one a week from 2022 as it looks to become “the best home cinema service in the world”. Together with the films...

Photographed by David Needleman by Tatiana Siegel January 19, 2021, 6:00am PST With his buzzy performance in Sound of Metal — which required him to learn sign language and drumming — plus a new wife and a booming company, the soft-spoken actor and rapper is having his loudest year yet. Back in summer 2018, Riz Ahmed was preparing for a classroom scene for his latest film, Sound of Metal, and his American Sign Language coach, Jeremy Lee Stone, was becoming increasingly annoyed. Stone had ...