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SHOCKING: Edward bluemel - What They Never Told You

First look at Edward Bluemel as youngest-ever Hercule Poirot for new BBC series

Poirot has been portrayed by actors including David Suchet, John Moffatt, Peter Ustinov and Kenneth Branagh

The Independent UK

Edward Bluemel transforms into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot for new series

He stars as the Belgian detective in the forthcoming BBC six-part series Hercule.

Evening Standard

Princess of Wales named the best-dressed person in Britain for 2026

Fashion and lifestyle magazine Tatler has named Britain’s best-dressed figures.

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BBC casts youngest-ever Poirot for new Agatha Christie reboot

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New Hercule Poirot cast for TV show reboot – and he’s very young

Titled 'Hercule', the new six-part series will follow the famous Belgian detective as he solves his first-ever cases before becoming the world’s most iconic sleuth. Now, we know who David Suchet’s successor will be...

Euronews

Sex Education star Edward Bluemel cast as youngest-ever Hercule Poirot for BBC reboot

The actor will play Agatha Christie’s famous sleuth in a new BBC series

The Independent UK

My Lady Jane’s Edward Bluemel to star in major new Hercule Poirot TV series

Hercule will be made by Mammoth Screen for the BBC.

Evening Standard

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Can't wait for Celebrity Traitors UK season 2? The cast of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on Netflix is '100%' game to compete — but think it would be 'the worst two weeks of our life'

We've got The Traitors UK season 4 and Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on the go at once this week – but two of the Netflix cast would 'love' to appear on Celebrity Traitors UK season 2.

TechRadar

Victoria Siddall's guide to London: The Old Vic, karaoke and Toklas

The National Portrait Gallery director shares her insider guide to the capital, and stories of living in Camden through the Britpop era

Evening Standard

Born With Teeth: queer imagining of Shakespeare and Marlowe tale is also a play about plays

Currently playing to enthusiastic reviews at London’s Wyndham Theatre, Born With Teeth imagines a historic moment in playwriting in which Liz Duffy Adams illuminates how history can be presented from a queer perspective, while revealing precisely how a play actually functions.

The Conversation

Ncuti Gatwa: Shakespeare was 'unapologetically queer'

What went on in town this week, from hot Elizabethans to literati parties

Evening Standard

Born With Teeth at Wyndham’s Theatre review: seductively clever work from Ncuti Gatwa

4/5 Liz Duffy Adams blends intrigue and shifty eroticism with in-jokes and a discourse on creativity in this playful examination of Kit Marlowe and Shakespeare’s relationship

Evening Standard

Born With Teeth review – Ncuti Gatwa simmers in Elizabethan battle of the playwrights

Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams’ sizzling new chamber play

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

First look at Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in 'ferociously sexy' new play Born With Teeth

Liz Duffy Adams’ play imagines the relationship between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

Marie Claire

Meet the Cast of 'Washington Black'

Prepare to fall in love with this period drama co-starring and executive produced by Sterling K. Brown.

Marie Claire

Iola Evans Poured Everything Into 'Washington Black'

The talented newcomer stars in the Hulu period drama as Tanna, a woman determined to embrace her biracial identity in 1800s Nova Scotia.

The Guardian - UK

‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story

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Washington Black: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Sterling K. Brown series

Washington Black is a brand-new drama series based on the bestselling novel of the same name. Here’s everything we know about it.

Evening Standard

The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa to play Christopher Marlowe in West End play

Royal Shakespeare Company announces Gatwa has been cast as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Evening Standard

Ncuti Gatwa to star in 'dark, sexy' West End play about Shakespeare and Marlowe

Born With Teeth will be hitting the West End this summer, featuring Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in a “ferociously sexy” take on the relationship between the playwrights

Evening Standard

Ncuti Gatwa to star in play about rival playwrights Shakespeare and Marlowe

Born With Teeth follows Marlowe and Shakespeare as the pair collaborate in the backroom of a pub.

WhatToWatch

My Lady Jane season 2: everything we know

Will My Lady Jane season 2 be riding on to our screens in the future?

The Times of India

'My Lady Jane' star Edward Bluemel: 'Heath Ledger in 'A Knight's Tale' was a big influence; he embodies the archetypal fantasy, historical, comedy, romantic hero'

Craving a good old rom-com where history and fantasy collide? Then 'My Lady Jane' may just be the hot new web series you have been waiting for. Step into the Tudor court where true love, deadpan heroism and magical realism meet regicidal maniacs with devious intrigues. Swashbuckling swordfights, castles, and…

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