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Top five TV shows coming in 2025

The new year in TV sees a host of favourites return along with new programmes set to thrill audiences.

Evening Standard

Gareth Southgate actor Joseph Fiennes has Euro 2024 final thoughts as he makes BBC One drama about manager

Dear England star is a big fan of Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate

WhatToWatch

The mysterious art of the casting director: ‘When you see the truth in front of you, it’s the right person’

Is it gatekeeping or dream-making? Art or science? As the Oscars get set to award casting directors for the first time, British theatre’s finest share the secrets of their trade

The Guardian - UK

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Jude Bellingham added to BBC’s Dear England adaptation after last-minute bicycle kick goal

Playwright James Graham says the length and ending of the BBC version will depend on England’s performance at Euro 2024

The Independent UK

Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

As his stage adaptation of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ transfers from the National to the West End, Britain’s leading political playwright – and busiest writer in the country – talks politics, football, Harvey Weinstein and work addiction with Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK

Dear England playwright to alter ending depending on Euro 2024 result

An England win at this summer’s tournament could affect the ending of Olivier-winning play

The Independent UK

Play about England football team to return with potential for new final act

Exclusive: Playwright James Graham says he will rewrite Dear England depending on outcome of Euros

The Guardian - UK

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How to watch Fiennes: Return To The Wild online and from anywhere

New two-part doc featuring Sir Ranulph and Joseph Fiennes on their trek across the Canadian wilderness. Here's how to watch Fiennes: Return To The Wild online from Sunday, May 26.

WhatToWatch

Olivier Awards: Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker among nominees

Annual British theatre awards will take place in April

The Independent UK

Olivier Awards: Full winners list as Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Boulevard dominates

Musical picked up seven wins

The Independent UK

Royal Kill List review – Joseph Fiennes, Sheila Atim and Jared Harris will give you a great, great time

This super fun, star-studded thrill ride tells the story of Charles II as he lusts for bloody revenge. Prepare to be educated, creeped out and incredibly entertained

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards Nominations: 'Sunset Boulevard' And 'Dear England' Lead

Discover the leading nominations for the prestigious Olivier Awards in London, celebrating excellence in theater.

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Olivier Awards 2024: nominations in full including nods for Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker

The National Theatre’s stellar year is recognised with 15 nominations

Evening Standard

Sarah Jessica Parker and David Tennant among 2024 Olivier nominees

Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings

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Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …

WhatToWatch

Dear England: everything we know

Dear England is based on the acclaimed National Theatre play about Gareth Southgate's Three Lions

FourFourTwo

Dear England review - the West End reimagining of Gareth Southgate’s England tenure is ‘So good! So good! So good!’

FourFourTwo visited the Prince Edward Theatre to watch the National Theatre’s dramatisation of Gareth Southgate and the modern day England team

The Guardian - UK

‘I woke up in a cold sweat thinking: Gwyneth in a moustache’ – how we made Shakespeare in Love

‘Judi Dench had to wear extra high heels to give her stature as Queen Elizabeth. I dubbed her Tudor Spice. She’s only on screen for a few minutes – but she still won an Oscar’

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The Independent UK

What’s in a game? ‘Dear England’ probes the nation through the lens of its soccer team

Outside of families, few relationships are as intense as those between sports teams and their fans

Evening Standard

Labour sink ‘Keir Royale’ cocktails as conference begins

Sue Gray also made a party appearance on the first night

Evening Standard

OPINION - Joseph Fiennes on West End transfer: “It’s my World Cup Final”: The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

This week we headed to Wembley to catch up with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares to play England football manager Gareth Southgate in the West End.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Danny Robins’s cultural highlights

The podcaster and playwright on satanic Scandi rock, low-budget lockdown horror and remodelling Star Wars in Lego with his sons

Evening Standard

OPINION - No wonder Londoners are flocking to Kent — I’ve never looked back

In the autumn of 2013 my husband and I moved to the wilds of East Kent from the suburbs of south London. We left because we wanted all the cliches every jaded Londoner wants: clear skies at night, a soundtrack of birdsong instead of sirens and a house that could…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review

Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Dear England: Cry God for Harry, England and our Gareth

Theatre audiences are gripped by James Graham’s story of Gareth Southgate’s team, and the first Ashes Test was almost unwatchably tense

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