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Share this article Normal People has been nominated for a Golden Globe award. The series is based on Sally Rooneys novel is up for Best TV limited series and is up against The Queens Gambit, Small Axe, The Undoing and Unorthodox. Daisy Edgar Jones has been nominated for Best performance by an actress in a limited series for her role as Marianne. We are so proud to be nominated for Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture by #GoldenGlobes. Its not like this with other s...

Critically-acclaimed royal drama "The Crown" and Canadian comedy series "Schitts Creek" dominated the television categories at the 2021 Golden Globes nominations. The nominations for the Globes, which marks the beginning of Hollywood award season that culminates with the Oscars, were announced by actors Taraji P Henson and Sarah Jessica Parker virtually. It was a big day for streamer Netflix as it amassed 20 nominations across the TV categories with nods for the fourth season of "The Crown" ...

The Best Movies Streaming in February to Celebrate Black History Month On 2/1/21 at 6:56 AM EST February may see many viewers around the world stuck in their homes as the pandemic rages on, but that does not mean that they cannot still celebrate Black History Month. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and HBO Max are among the may streaming services who are offering movies this month that celebrate Black excellence. These movies are directed by great Black directors like Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coog...

I t’s been a long old year and it ain’t over yet, but one of the things that has got us through this mad time has been music. Two people who know all about that are the brilliant singer-songwriters Jorja Smith and Celeste (who released her debut album last Friday), and they’ve started a new series of programmes on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds to delve deeper into the healing and therapeutic powers of music. Here they pick 11 pieces of music for Evening Standard readers to find solace in.  ...

COMEDIAN Janey Godley, singer Karine Polwart and partners in crime writing Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman are among those joining 2020 Booker winner Douglas Stuart at Paisley Book Festival next month. This year’s event will be a digital forum but it means audiences will be able to listen in the comfort of their own homes to contributors from across the world. The theme, Radical New Futures, emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic and the resilience and fortitude that people and communi...

The film financing company behind the BBC’s Small Axe series will give investors the chance to tune into the streaming boom by floating a £200 million trust.Great Point Media, based in London and

LOS ANGELES - British actor Tamara Lawrance got on the phone from a movie shoot in Poland to discuss “The Long Song,” a miniseries she filmed in the Dominic

LOS ANGELES (AP) — British actor Tamara Lawrance got on the phone from a movie shoot in...

Rotten Tomatoes Predicts the 2021 Golden Globe Nominations! Get the jump on the nominations with our predictions for who will be nominated and why. (Photo by ©Focus Features) After much delay, awards season kicks into gear on Wednesday with the announcement of the 2021 Golden Globe nominations. Which of the past year’s movies and TV shows will earn the love of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) – and, for those in the film categories, move one step closer to Oscar glory? Well, ...

Black Power will chart the rise of the movement that grew out of the civil rights struggle, producing leaders and intellectuals such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X, who both visited the UK. The documentary, which will be helmed by Hard Stop director George Amponsah, will feature footage of African American figures in the UK but also black British leaders, including Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Darcus Howe and Roy Sawh. Jones-LeCointe and Howe were key figures in the British black power movement...