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The critically-acclaimed Irish drama recently finished its first season, and has also been sold to Sweden’s TV4 and Finland’s MTV3.

Schule, 30, is taking a years sabbatical from acting in order to study film directing at the MetFilm School at Ealing Studios, and has been living in the capital since the autumn, after moving from Berlin.

After making his Bridgerton debut as Lord Corning, he is now to star in the eight-part BBC drama Marie Antoinette. His role? Louis XVI, of course.

On 2 March, 2002, BBC Four launched. In the 20 years since, alongside the channel’s commitment to specialist Arts, performance, history

Adding flavour to its growing bouquet of culinary programmes, UK public broadcaster the BBC has acquired award-winning series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy...

| 23 June 2021 In a coup for its on-demand and linear TV outlets, the BBC has acquired The Watch from BBC Studios, a high-concept drama inspired by characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett, and is bringing it to BBC iPlayer as a box set and also for BBC Two. The 8x45’ series follows an unlikely group, The City Watch, who are forced to find the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in the process. The series pits trolls, werewolves, wizards and other improbable heroe...