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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Loverman - What They Never Told You

From Manifesto to Mr Loverman: Bernardine Evaristo’s best books – ranked!

From the secret gay life of a British-Caribbean man to that controversial shared Booker win, the author has blazed a trail across the literary landscape. Here are seven of her top titles

The Guardian - UK

Lennie James says he stopped talking when he was a child after his mother died

Known for Mr Loverman and The Walking Dead, the actor opened up about his childhood and living in a children’s home with his brother.

Evening Standard

Dear England: BBC announces cast for series based on Gareth Southgate play

Joseph Fiennes will lead the programme following England’s journey to the 2022 World Cup

The Independent UK

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‘Danny Dyer deserved nothing!’ The biggest mistakes from the 2025 TV Bafta awards

Many incredible actors and veritable masterpieces took home awards … and then there was Danny Dyer. Look, everyone loves him – but there is no way he should have won for that show

The Guardian - UK

‘It spoke to the nation’ – Mr Bates vs the Post Office wins big at Bafta TV awards

The show is called ‘public service television at its best’, while Marisa Abela and Lennie James are among other winners

The Guardian - UK

Bafta TV awards 2025: the full list of winners

Who took home the most coveted prizes in British TV? Here are all the 2025 winners, from Marisa Abela to Ruth Jones, Mr Bates vs the Post Office to Mr Loverman

The Guardian - UK

BAFTA Television Awards are tonight, hosted by Alan Cumming—here's how to tune in on TV and online

Among this year's illustrious BAFTA TV Awards 2025 nominees are Slow Horses, Say Nothing, Bridgerton and Mr Bates Vs The Post Office

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‘We have so many talented black British actors who had to leave in order to work’: Sharon D Clarke on typecasting, industry tensions, and the truthfulness of Mr Loverman

As part of a Bafta TV special, the best actor nominated star talks about institutional racism, the remarks that made Cressida Dick look like a ‘fool’, and how Bernardine Evaristo’s coming out story reflected her own

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s a battle going on for the soul of America’: actor Lennie James on political turmoil, zombie terrors and being a black Brit in the US

As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor and Walking Dead regular on bringing Bernardine Evaristo’s hit novel Mr Loverman to the small screen, and splitting his time between London and LA

The Guardian - UK

Bafta TV awards 2025 nominations: full list

From Wolf Hall to Say Nothing, Alma’s Not Normal to Mr Bates vs the Post Office, here is every single nominee up for the year’s biggest British TV awards

The Guardian - UK

Our readers on their pick of 2024’s best films, music, TV shows and podcasts

From sci-fi epics to investigate deep-dives, the Guide readers have their say on the year’s finest culture

The Guardian - UK

Mr Loverman: a beautifully realised TV drama that is faithful to the novel – with a few subtle changes

The first episode of the TV adaptation of Mr Loverman is preceded by the quotation: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Those words, voiced by protagonist Barry, belong to writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, from his 1962…

The Conversation

Glasgow firm left 'floored' with requests from Hollywood

A GLASGOW-BASED firm has been ‘floored’ with requests from global film and TV productions...

The National (Scotland)

Sharon D Clarke: ‘When I first started being seen for TV roles it was just endless nurses’

The actor on playing Lady Bracknell at the National, the groundbreaking gay love story of Mr Loverman, and getting married on stage

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The week in TV: Rivals; Mr Loverman; Life and Death in Gaza; So Long, Marianne – review

The super-posh carry on like soft porn stars in a witty Jilly Cooper adaptation; Lennie James plays a man with a secret life; the day-to-day struggle of life in Gaza; and when Leonard Cohen met Marianne

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #161: Mr Loverman breaks new ground in golden age of Black British TV

In this week’s newsletter: Once deemed ‘too niche’ for telly, the adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel signals an exciting chapter for diverse, imaginative shows

The Guardian - UK

‘Beautiful, bittersweet’: black gay men respond to BBC’s Mr Loverman

Rare depiction of love between two elderly black men stirs emotions and realisations among its audience

The Guardian - UK

Mr Loverman review – magnificent TV that will tear your heart open

Lennie James and Sharon D Clarke are exquisite in this bold, spiky tale of a gay man who starts to regret living a lie. The awards are sure to flood in

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The Independent UK

Mr Loverman review: A moving testament to the enduring power of self-acceptance

Lennie James is as good as he’s ever been as the dapper, mercurial Barry in this new adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel

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How to watch Mr Loverman online: stream the Bernardine Evaristo adaptation from anywhere

Lennie James and Sharon D Clarke star in the eight-part BBC series. Here's how you can watch Mr Loverman online.

The Guardian - UK

‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman

Ahead of a BBC adaptation of her novel, the Booker-winning author reflects on failure, creative alchemy – and being consumed by her closeted seventysomething hero

The Independent UK

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I’m grateful I was the first – but a Black woman hasn’t won the Booker prize since me’

The author of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, who won the top literary prize in 2019, talks to Annabel Nugent about the moment in her career that made the world take notice, why she is channelling rage into energy, and her novel ‘Mr Loverman’ being adapted for the BBC

Evening Standard

What to know about Mr Loverman, the new BBC show set to be an autumn hit

Hold onto your handkerchiefs

The Independent UK

New BBC drama adapted from Bernardine Evaristo novel will star Lennie James

Mr Loverman will be an eight-part drama ‘about family, love, and being true to yourself’.

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