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CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard There are many people in Hollywood whose work I grew up watching, many of whom turned me in the direction of loving movies and TV. One was Meryl Streep, another was Leonardo DiCaprio, and the last was Angelina Jolie. I grew up loving Angelina Jolie in all her films, thinking that she was one of the best actresses around. And, to this day, I still do, with her having taken on even more roles, from playing the iconic villain . However, there’s plenty more comin...

"I cannot stress how thrilled I am that its being by made by Working Title and the BBC." She added that this project is over four years in the making, and feels that with Working Title, its in "very safe hands". "BBC drama has made extraordinary TV over the last year and it is an honour to be on their slate of upcoming shows." Dolly also offered some reassurance to her former partners ahead of the shows release. Advertisement "Before every boy I dated a decade ago messages me today to breezily ...

Dolly Alderton's debut book, Everything I Know About Love, is being adapted by the BBC for a drama, which we're so excited about.

Theres a lot to love about We Are Lady Parts. From the shows joyful cast to its addictive soundtrack, Channel 4s new sitcom about a Muslim female punk band is essential viewing. And its also long overdue. Creator Nida Manzoor has been writing since she was a child — "Anything I wrote, my grandfather would keep it in a file and say You’ll be a great writer if you keep practising — but it wasnt until Channel 4 commissioned the show that Nida was finally able to bring her story to life on ...

6 new British dramas from producers behind Skins, This is England, Killing Eve.

BBC Unveils New Dramas: Michaela Coel, Candice Carty-Williams, Shane Meadows Lead Slate Manori Ravindran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “Queenie” author Candice Carty-Williams, “Everything I Know About Love” writer Dolly Alderton, “The Virtues” creator Shane Meadows and Michaela Coel are among the creatives delivering the next slate of dramas for the BBC. Piers Wenger, drama controller for the BBC, teased a new project with Coel on Tuesday during a showcase of the Beeb’s upcom...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Everything I Know About Love TV series: a guide to Dolly Aldertons BBC adaptation The journalist will be writing the screenplay from her award-winning memoir Dolly Alderton will be adapting her best-selling memoir Everything I Know About Love, a deeply personal and riotously funny account of surviving your 20s, into a television drama for the BBC. In her award-winning book, the journalist, podcaster and columnist...

Provocative: Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall in Drop Dead Fred Credit: Alamy On May 22 1991, American television saw an unlikely meeting of two great talents. The chat show host David Letterman’s guest was the British comedian Rik Mayall. He may have been a household name in his home country but Mayall was practically unknown, save to MTV viewers familiar with The Young Ones, in the United States. Their encounter made for excruciatingly embarrassing, car-crash television. Mayall had been invited...

Stacey Abrams’ book While Justice Sleeps will be headed to the small screen soon, and we couldn’t be more excited! According to Variety, after a pretty competitive bidding war, NBCUniversal-backed producer Working Title Television was able to snatch up the rights to Abrams’ new novel and plans to adapt it as a television series. Politician Stacey Abrams speaks onstage during The Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 Women in Entertainment at Milk Studios on December 11, 2019 in Hollywoo...

Font Size Failed gubernatorial candidate, possible illegal voter registration champ and former romance novelist Stacey Abrams is hitting the Hollywood circuit. NBCUniversal just announced a TV adaptation of Abrams’ latest crime novel.   The Hollywood Reporter wrote about the latest achievement from the former Georgia state representative, a crime drama novel called While Justice Sleeps getting the freaking Hollywood treatment. Well, if that’s not a sign of the revolving doo...