'Doctor Who': 'Sex Education' Star Ncuti Gatwa Named Next Doctor
►"The future is here." Ncuti Gatwa is to take command of the TARDIS, having been named the new Doctor in the BBC’s long running sci-fi series
Doctor Who. He replaces the outgoing Timelord Jodie Whittaker, who unveiled she was leaving last year. Gatwa, who was a breakout star in Netflix's popular teen drama
Sex Education, becomes the first Black actor to play the iconic figure.
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It's a sin, no really it is. It was a night of surprises at the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards, with some hot favorites missing out on honors as the ceremony saw statuettes handed to a broad spread of winners. Among the chief upsets was
It’s A Sin, Russell T. Davies' acclaimed series about the AIDS epidemic, which went into the evening with six nominations, left empty-handed.
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer expectedly claimed her second leading actress BAFTA.
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Casting news. Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and
The Good Doctor‘s Freddie Highmore are set to co-star in comedy Sinner v. Saints from director Tim Kirkby (
Fleabag). Set in the 1970s, the film is based on a real-life scandal involving an eccentric MENSA beauty queen who goes to extreme lengths to stop the Mormon church from stealing her sexual obsession: a nebbish Mormon missionary.
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Platinum peek. Previously unseen home movies from Queen Elizabeth II’s personal archive will be shown in a new BBC doc. The queen granted the BBC unprecedented access to hundreds of home movies shot by her, her parents and her late husband Prince Philip, as part of celebrations for her upcoming Platinum Jubilee.
The story. In other news... —Kendrick Lamar drops new song
“The Heart Part 5” —Wondery to
release podcasts in Dolby Atmos format —Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra
bring baby home after 100 days in NICU —Odette and Dave Annable
reveal pregnancy news on Instagram —
George Perez, legendary
Crisis on Infinite Earths,
Wonder Woman comic book artist, dies at 67
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Mickey Gilley, country singer who helped inspire
Urban Cowboy, dies at 86
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Dennis Waterman, actor in
The Sweeney and
Minder dies at 74
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Kang Soo-yeon, veteran Korean actress, dies at 55
What else we're reading... —Simon Hattenstone's wonderful profile of Sissy Spacek who talks acting, grief and making her sci-fi debut in Amazon's
Night Sky [
Guardian]
— Luke Winkie talks to Johnny Depp's army of committed online fans and asks them why they are so convinced he's innocent [
Slate]
—Mark Olsen interviews filmmaker Audrey Diwan the director of French abortion drama
Happening which has become a topic of discussion due to recent events [
LAT]
—Don't know what to think about this: "
New York Times swaps out Wordle word after Supreme Court leak" [
Axios]
—Second Wordle story of the day: "Wordle brought ‘tens of millions’ of new users to the New York Times" [
Bloomberg]
Today... ...in 1997, Luc Besson unveiled sci-fi actioner
The Fifth Element in U.S. theaters, days after the film premiered as the opening-night title at the 50th Cannes Film Festival. Starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, the film was a huge global hit, making $264 million and remains one of the highest grossing French movies ever.
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Today's birthdays: Rosario Dawson (43), Glenda Jackson (86), James L. Brooks (82), Billy Joel (73), Noah Centineo (26), Mary Mouser (26), Candice Bergen (76), Chris Diamantopoulos (47), Wendy Crewson (66), Grace Gummer (36), John Corbett (61), Julia Chan (39), Joe Carnahan (53), J.A. Bayona (47),
Daniel Franzese (44), Alley Mills (71), Chuck Russell (64)