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Beloved British spy thriller branded “gorgeous” and “compelling TV” lands new UK home

Beloved British spy thriller branded “gorgeous” and “compelling TV” lands new UK home

Published by Sam Flores

A spy thriller starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman has been added to a new streaming platform in the UK. BBC series The Night Manager, based on the 1993 book of the same name by John le Carré, has just become available to stream on a different platform in the UK. Currently streamable on BBC iPlayer and Sky, the series adapted by David Farr has just landed on Disney+, but there’s a catch. Only season 1 of The Night Manager is streaming for Disney+ as well as Prime Video subscribers based in the UK, with fans of spy stories having to turn to one of the other platforms to watch season 2. Premiered in 2016, the first season of the show follows Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine, a former military officer now working undercover as a night manager at a luxury hotel in Cairo whilst on a mission to bring down arms dealer Richard Roper, played by Hugh Laurie. Olivia Colman stars as Pine’s boss, Angela Burr, the Head of the Foreign Office’s International Enforcement Agency, with …

The Night Manager’s Hugh Laurie pays tribute to Apple TV+ series Tehran co-creator Dana Eden

The Night Manager’s Hugh Laurie pays tribute to Apple TV+ series Tehran co-creator Dana Eden

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Night Manager star Hugh Laurie has taken to X to pay tribute to Tehran co-producer Dana Eden, who was found dead in Athens on Sunday. The producer, 52, was filming season four of the spy thriller in Greece, where local police have reported she had taken her own life.  International production company Donna and Shula Productions released a statement clarifying the circumstances of her death. “This is a moment of great sorrow for the family, friends, and colleagues,” it read. “The production company wishes to clarify that rumours regarding a criminal or nationalistic-related death are not true and are unfounded.” Hugh, 66, joined the Apple TV+ Israeli TV series in season three as Eric Peterson, a South African nuclear inspector who becomes caught up in the action with leading Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan).  © Getty Images Hugh pays tribute to Dana Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Hugh paid tribute to Dana in a post that read: “Dana Eden, who co-created and produced ‘Tehran’, died on Sunday, seemingly by her own hand. It’s a …

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Tom Hiddleston knows that Night Manager viewers — much like his Jonathan Pine — will be left reeling after the season two finale of the Emmy-winning BBC and Prime Video series. Nearly a decade after The Night Manager earned the actor a Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations, Hiddleston has reteamed with writer David Farr for two more seasons of the spy thriller series. In the same vein as the first season, this second season and the forthcoming third installment both focus on the high-stakes, international game of cat and mouse between Hiddleston’s MI6 agent and Hugh Laurie’s morally corrupt arms dealer Richard Roper. Written by Farr and directed by Georgi Banks-Davies, the six-episode second season followed Pine as he journeyed to Colombia to secretly investigate a new arms operation headed by young businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Upon his arrival, Pine, under the alias Matthew Ellis, crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a Miami-based shipping broker connected to …

Hugh Laurie’s life off-screen with wife and 3 children who followed in his footsteps

Hugh Laurie’s life off-screen with wife and 3 children who followed in his footsteps

Published by Daniella Wilson

Warning! Spoilers lie ahead of The Night Manager season two…  Hugh Laurie shocked BBC viewers with his surprise return to The Night Manager as the villainous Richard Roper in season two. While viewers were led to believe Roper had been killed in the previous season, they later learned that he had survived capture and conned his way out, ultimately coming face-to-face with protagonist Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston). © BBC/Ink Factory/Des WillieHugh plays Richard Roper opposite Diego Calva as Teddy As the season finale airs on BBC One on Sunday night, with Hugh also serving as a producer on the series, we thought we’d take a closer look at the Blackadder, Sense and Sensibility and House star’s life off screen with his wife and children, who briefly followed in his footsteps. Who is Hugh Laurie married to? Hugh, 66, is married to Jo Green, with whom he has been for more than 35 years. While Jo reportedly worked as an administrator, she largely remains out of the spotlight. The pair are said to have met before Hugh …

Tom Hiddleston Returns on Amazon

Tom Hiddleston Returns on Amazon

Published by Daniella Wilson

When he originally adapted John le Carré’s The Night Manager for BBC One and AMC, David Farr reshaped a key narrative thread from the 1993 novel involving the covert arming of Colombian drug cartels in order to keep the action centered primarily in the Middle East. Presumably, that felt like a more geographically timely approach. A cerebral thriller boosted by the performances from Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager was a huge hit in the UK and a major awards player in the States, but the six-episode series’ March 2016 finale felt generally resolved. AMC moved back in the le Carré catalogue to The Little Drummer Girl, another contained six-parter that I actually preferred for Florence Pugh’s star turn and the flashy direction from Park Chan-wook, though it was less of a smash. The Night Manager The Bottom Line Gets good once it stops living in the past. Airdate: Sunday, January 11 (Amazon)Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Hayley Squires, Paul Chahidi, Indira Varma, Olivia ColmanCreator: David FarrDirector: Georgi Banks-Davies The BBC …