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HBO confirms when Harry Potter series will start shooting amid casting speculation

The reboot series has seen 32,000 young actors audition for lead roles

The Independent UK

Black Mirror star has reportedly "been offered" the role of Severus Snape in HBO's Harry Potter TV show

Paapa Essiedu is allegedly being eyed to play Hogwarts' prickly potions master

Total Film

I May Destroy You actor Paapa Essiedu ‘offered’ Snape role in new Harry Potter TV series

Actor is said to have ‘been offered’ role of fan favourite character

The Independent UK

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Meet Paapa Essiedu: Versatile British Actor Eyed for HBO's Harry Potter as Snape

Paapa Essiedu, a versatile British actor, is reportedly being considered for the role of Snape in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series.

International Business Times UK

Babies: cast, plot and everything we know

Babies is an emotional BBC1 drama that sees Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen play a couple struggling to have a child.

WhatToWatch

Victoria Beckham, Sophie Turner and Ambika Mod: Inside the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards

Industry titans and rising stars were out in force to celebrate females who have inspired, entertained and impressed us over the past 12 months

Evening Standard

Mark Rylance among actors calling on Old Vic to cut links with fossil fuel investor

Paapa Essiedu and Stephen Dillane also sign open letter urging theatre to end Royal Bank of Canada’s support over its shares in fuel and arms

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Death of England: The Plays; Grapes of Wrath; Please Right Back – review

Thomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation monologues. Plus, slow-motion Steinbeck and 1927’s latest flight of fancy

The Guardian - UK

Death of England: Michael/Delroy at @sohoplace review – these raging, raw shows are exactly what the West End needs

The first two parts of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ exploration of the white and black working-class experience are full of swagger, banter and furious feeling

Evening Standard

Death of England: The Plays review – Brexit-voting bailiff electrifies this post-Boris revamp

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ riotous plays are a little unwieldy in this revival but the antagonised politics remains clear – and Paapa Essiedu is sensational

The Guardian - UK

Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

The actor on his challenging new West End role, sweating profusely on stage, and why he almost became a doctor

The Guardian - UK

The Scurry: cast, plot and everything we know about the movie with killer squirrels

The Scurry is comedy-horror about a band of killer squirrels and stars Ella Purnell, Rhys Ifans and Paapa Essiedu.

WhatToWatch

The BAFTA TV nominations in full: from Succession to Happy Valley

The Crown and Black Mirror are the 2024 season’s frontrunners

Evening Standard

The 40 best dressed Londoners of 2024 (and the 20 worst)

London has always punched above its weight when it comes to style and creative talent, but who are the purveyors of the very best looks? To mark LFW’s 40th year our fashion editors pick their 40 favourites... and those who miss the mark

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more

If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove

The Independent UK

Dachshunds and Danes! How the stars plan to spend Christmas this year

Rick Astley is off for a spot of holiday hygge in Denmark and it’s Secret Santa with all the family (and dogs) for Suranne Jones – what the celebrities are getting up to this Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Genie review – soulless Richard Curtis New York festive caper

Melissa McCarthy’s 2,000 year-old genie grapples with modernity while granting wishes galore to home alone dad Paapa Essiedu in this blandest of festive comedies

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: will eating beef become the new smoking?

A new Channel 4 documentary shows us just how much the beef industry is harming the planet. Plus: Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks grace Graham Norton’s sofa. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Independent UK

Richard Curtis on Christmas, creepy scenes and romantic surprises: ‘In the corner, fuming with anger, was Hugh Grant’

The man behind ‘Love, Actually’ and ‘Notting Hill’ sits down with Paapa Essiedu, his new leading man in ‘Genie’, to talk to Ellie Harrison about his romcom back catalogue, their new festive family movie – and whether Curtis’s daughter would approve

Evening Standard

The Effect's Taylor Russell opens up on Chalamet, the strikes and why all-black casts are crucial

The Emerging Talent nominee on her great London stage debut, working with Paapa Essiedu and what the future holds...

Total Film

Black Mirror renewed for season 7 – with production due to start later this year

The Netflix is returning for a seventh season

The Guardian - UK

Genie review – seasonal Richard Curtis comedy can’t save Christmas for anyone

This bafflingly bland offering wastes the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu – it’s as if they removed the laughs in case they offend

The Guardian - UK

The Lazarus Project series two review – the spectacular action scenes are worthy of Bond

This twisty time-loop thriller gets even more dramatic in its second outing. Paapa Essiedu’s George is a jittery joy in a smart, sharply scripted show that’s lots of fun to watch

WhatToWatch

Genie: release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

Genie is a new festive movie by Richard Curtis that stars Melissa McCarthy as a big-hearted wish-granter.

Total Film

The Lazarus Project creator teases how season 2 is "a very different beast"

Prepare to be bamboozled by season 2, which splices the show's temporal reset premise with proper time travel

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