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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

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 …

10 of the most iconic celebrity green dresses for your St. Patrick’s Day inspo

10 of the most iconic celebrity green dresses for your St. Patrick’s Day inspo

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate! People around the country honor the holiday by drinking pints of Guinness, attending annual parades, and of course, by wearing their favorite green clothing item. From dying the Chicago River green to searching for your pot of gold underneath the rainbow, this is a holiday for the fun-spirited. As you prepare for your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, here is a roundup of the 10 most iconic green dresses from our favorite celebrities over the year. © Scott Gries Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez made history when she wore a plunging green, leaf-print dress by Versace. No, she literally made history. After the singer donned the iconic gown to the 2000 Grammys, Google created Google Images. Two decades after J-Lo first wore the gown, she once again made history at the Spring 2020 womenswear collection. © Getty Images Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones is known for her many iconic looks. But, we can’t forget the gorgeous emerald-green gown designed by Elie Saab she wore to the 76th Annual Golden Globes …

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Diego Calva always knew that Teddy Dos Santos’ story could only end one way on The Night Manager. In the long-awaited second season of the BBC/Prime Video spy thriller, Calva was introduced as Jonathan Pine’s (Tom Hiddleston) new antagonist, a young Mexican-Colombian arms dealer who turns out to be the biological son of Pine’s archnemesis Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). Following the suspicious death of his superior Rex Mayhew (Douglas Hodge), who had been investigating a potential high-level leak within MI6 connected to the shipment of weapons to Colombia, Pine secretly infiltrated Teddy’s criminal enterprise under the alias of Matthew Ellis. In Colombia, Pine crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), the woman he had tracked down and questioned in the wake of Mayhew’s death. Pine learned that Roxana was a Miami-based shipping broker whose company was owned by Teddy’s organization, and she had willingly participated in a suspicious shipment of machine tools between the U.K. and Colombia. Despite the fact …

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

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

[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 …

Sundance Heats Up With Standing Ovations for ‘Wicker,’ ‘The Invite’

Sundance Heats Up With Standing Ovations for ‘Wicker,’ ‘The Invite’

Long a mainstay of the European festivals, standing ovations have been gaining traction stateside at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It could be the feelings of nostalgia for the final festival in Park City. Or the spirit of cinema. Or maybe it’s just the altitude. No matter the reason, it is undeniable that the 2026 iteration of the Utah festival is overindexing on rapturous responses. On Saturday afternoon, the Olivia Colman fantasy drama Wicker received a double standing ovation. The audience first got on their feet when the film ended and as credits were rolling, and again when the filmmakers and cast were welcomed to the stage by Sundance director of programming Kim Yutani. Right after that premiere in the Eccles was the Olivia Wilde-directed dramedy The Invite, which also had the crowd on its feet. During that ovation, Wilde was seen wiping away tears from the Eccles stage. But these Saturday screenings weren’t the first of the fest to get the audience out of their seats. Earlier in the day, Australian children’s offering Fing! …

Olivia Colman & Alexander Skarsgard in Quirky Romance

Olivia Colman & Alexander Skarsgard in Quirky Romance

A strange person comes to (an also strange) town and teaches the set-in-their-ways locals how to live and love in the new fairytale film Chocolat. Well, no, it’s called Wicker, but Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s film does bear a faint resemblance to that Lasse Hallström confection of a past movie era, as it does to plenty of other films about a fish-out-of-water charmingly affecting their adopted community. Which isn’t to ding Wicker; while there is plenty of originality to be found in this spritely fable, it’s also nice to see something old-fashioned at a festival so commonly associated with envelope-pushing modernity.  That said, Wicker might have been something of a scandal back in the days of Chocolat, what with its frequent, bawdy talk of sex, of body parts and fluids and fetishes. The film, based on the short story “The Wicker Husband” by Ursula Wills, is decidedly for grown-ups, despite its fanciful whimsy, a cuteness that risks becoming cloying but never quite does. The mundane disappointments and insecurities of adult life are chief …

Olivia Colman’s ‘heartbreaking’ drama with Sherwood star should be on your watchlist

Olivia Colman’s ‘heartbreaking’ drama with Sherwood star should be on your watchlist

From her recent stint as Angela Burr in The Night Agent season two to her upcoming turn as Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Olivia Colman is booked and busy this year – and her latest project with a Sherwood star sounds like yet another gripping drama that should be on your watchlist. The award-winning actress is teaming up with Sherlock‘s Andrew Scott to star in Elsinore, a true-story drama that follows the life of Scottish film and theatre star Ian Charleson. The film also features Sherwood‘s Adeel Akhtar and has just announced that Billie Piper (Doctor Who) is also part of the cast. © Dave Benett/WireImageAndrew Scott will bring Ian to life Best known for his roles as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire (1981), Reverend Charlie Andrews in Oscar-winning film Gandhi (1982) and Hamlet at the National Theatre, Ian Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986 and sadly passed away just four years later at the age of 40. It was his wish that the announcement he had died of AIDS be made after his …

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

Tom Hiddleston Returns on Amazon

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 …