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Manny Charlton, the founding guitarist of Nazareth who played on the Scottish rock band’s best-known records, including “Love Hurts”, its LP Hair of the Dog, and also produced early Guns N’ Roses demos, died today. He was 80. His grandson, Jamie Charlton, posted the news on social media with the caption “RIP Grandad.” Charlton cofounded Nazareth
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‘I May Destroy You’ Producer Various Artists Behind BBC Hen Do Comedy I May Destroy You producer Various Artists Limited has been greenlit for a BBC Two comedy about a hen weekend that goes wrong. Henpocalypse!, from Hullraisers creator Caroline Moran, takes five women who headed out on a weekend of a lifetime to celebrate Zara’s engagement only to
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Showtime’s Your Honor will end after its upcoming season, series star Bryan Cranston said today in an interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. Filming on Season 2 has just started, with Joey Hartstone, who was a writer on Season 1, as new showrunner, Deadline has learned. Additionally, I hear Keith Machekanyanga, who recurred heavily
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Netflix Greenlights Swedish Comedy ‘One More Time’ Starring Hedda Stiernstedt Netflix has greenlit a Groundhog Day-esque Swedish comedy film from Student Academy Award-winning Jonatan Etzler starring Beforeigners’ Hedda Stiernstedt. In One More Time, Amelia, played by Stiernstedt, is hit by a bus on the night of her 40th birthday and wakes up back in 2002, on her 18th birthday,
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WARNING, spoilers ahead: After Stranger Things 4 had its monster sized, two-episode finale on Friday, the series’ writers took to Twitter to reveal three moments from that finale that weren’t in the script. At one point, Winona Ryder’s Joyce sees off David Harbour’s Hopper, who’s on his way to battle the prison’s Demogorgon. She asks
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Finally, Miss Mississippi fans got some of the answers they have been craving. That’s not to say that P-Valley Season 2 Episode 5 was the last word on the relationship between Keyshawn and her abusive, cracker baby daddy, Derrick. As this episode pointed out, their union is complicated, putting it nicely. The biggest problem for this couple
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Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Faithless’ Adapted For TV By SVT & ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Director Tomas Alfredson Ingmar Bergman’s Faithless is being given the TV adaptation treatment by Swedish pubcaster SVT, with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy director Tomas Alfredson attached for all six episodes. Fremantle-owned The Rain producer Miso Film is behind the 6 x 45-minute adaptation of the 2000
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Hugo Speer, star of Disney+’s upcoming Full Monty reboot, has been removed from the show by the streamer after allegations of “inappropriate conduct.” Speer, who played Guy in the original and was reprizing the role alongside the likes of Robert Carlyle and Lesley Sharp, will no longer feature in the TV reboot. Disney+ said it had
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The champagne bottles must be popping at Netflix. It’s the Friday before the July 4th weekend, and Stranger Things continues to deliver bumper numbers. Nielsen announced Friday that the science-fiction drama was viewed for 7.2 billion minutes between May 30 and June 5. The numbers were up from the previous week, where the 1980s-set series
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Earlier this month Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman made a generous donation to Brandeis University, her alma mater. She pledged $4 million to establish an endowed professorship in the African and African American Studies Department there. In making the pledge Kauffman said, “It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic
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Tom Swift is not long for this world. The CW is pulling the plug on the Nancy Drew spinoff a month into its run. Deadline broke the news Thursday, confirming that the network will air the entirety of the season. The series got off to a mediocre start in the ratings in May, and is
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