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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Teams With Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company To Make Puppets For Stage Show Based On Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘My Neighbour Totoro’
Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics and visual effects studio, based in Los Angeles, has teamed with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce life-size puppets for the RSC's stage adaptation of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dominic West, who portrays British monarch in-waiting Prince Charles in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown, has told us that season six, which shoots from August, "will be as tumultuous as it gets", because it will explore the tragic death of Princess Diana.
Season five is already in the can and will…
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‘Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan To Direct Pilot Of ‘Bass Reeves’; David Oyelowo Discusses Playing The Enslaved Man-Turned Legendary Lawman
EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone co-creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan will direct the pilot of 1883: Bass Reeves, the six-part limited series starring David Oyelowo as the legendary Wild West lawman.
Sheridan cleared room in his busy schedule after the pilot script came in and Sheridan was so impressed that he called…
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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge Live: Stratagem will stream on Amazon Prime UK in the winter, Deadline can reveal. Chris Bird, Managing Director Prime Video UK, confirmed the news.
Alan Partridge Live: Stratagem toured the UK and Ireland this April and May, 14 years after the Coogan alter ego's last live…
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EXCLUSIVE: They have the best seats in the house.
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‘The Undeclared War’ Star Hannah Khalique-Brown Reveals She Sent 1,000 Emails To Agents & Casting Directors That Went Unanswered
EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Khalique-Brown, the lead actor in writer-director Peter Kosminsky's (Wolf Hall) six-part cyber-thriller The Undeclared War, — which starts June 30 on Channel 4 and All 4 in UK, Peacock in U.S. on August 18 — tells Deadline that she wrote 1,000 emails over a period of two years "begging" UK agents and…
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Kevin Spacey Granted Bail At U.K. Sexual Assault Hearing; Actor Appears In London And Case Now Set For Southwark Crown Court
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EXCLUSIVE: Toheeb Jimoh is feeling wistful. The actor who plays star mid-fielder, Sam Obisanya for AFC Richmond, the fictional soccer club at the heart of Ted Lasso on AppleTV+, is now filming season three, well aware it could be the show's last.
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