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*Alfre Woodard has found herself a steady gig on BBC America’s crime drama “Copper,” which is currently prepping for the summer premiere of its second season. As previously reported, the show is set in the Five Points area of New York in 1865, the year slavery was abolished. In season 2, Woodward has a five-episode [...]
Looking for a nice change of pace on TV? Perhaps a break from the reality shows? Consider BBC America’s first original scripted series “Copper,” a drama from executive producers Tom Fontana (“Oz,” “Homicide: Life on the Street”) and Barry Levinson (“Diner,” “Donnie Brasco”), set in New York’s Five Points, Fifth Avenue and emerging African American [...]
*BBC America has committed to co-produce and air a four-episode third season of the Idris Elba-led “Luther” this year reports The Chicago Tribune. The UK’s BBC One greenlit a third season a few months ago, the question remains when in 2012 they will actually get around to filming them, reports Dark Horizons. Though she was [...]
*If you’ve slept on BBC America’s intense mini-series “Luther,” the network is offering yet another chance to catch the latest season in its entirety, thanks to the Golden Globe win of its star Idris Elba. As previously reported, Elba won the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture for Television [...]
*Tessa Thompson, who appeared in the film “For Colored Girls,” has landed a co-starring role in the drama “Copper,” BBC America’s first original scripted series. British actor Tom Weston-Jones (“MI5”) has landed the lead, and Franka Potente (“Run Lola Run,” “The Bourne Identity”) will also co-star in the series co-created by Tom Fontana and Will [...]
*Idris Elba’s mini-series “Luther” – a show so intense and disturbing it makes FX’s new “American Horror Story” look like “Sesame Street” – wraps its second season tonight on BBC America with Det. John Luther hunting a serial killer that actually turns out to be two serial killers – twins. [Watch the season finale trailer [...]
*Andre Braugher, Laurence Fishburne, Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba were among the Emmy nominees revealed this morning. Braugher nabbed a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role in TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age,” while Fishburne and Elba face each other in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries [...]
*As previously reported, Idris Elba is returning to BBC America this fall for Season 2 of his critically-acclaimed series “Luther.” If you haven’t seen it, but love you some Idris and are planning to give it a try, you have until Oct. 5 to find BBC America on your cable system and get acquainted with [...]
*Idris Elba has a new gig hosting the new BBC America drama venture “Dramaville.” It will premiere Aug. 17 at 10 p.m. with an hour-long 1950s espionage-themed thriller, “The Hour,” and Elba’s “Luther” which is set its regular series debut on Oct. 2. “British drama has long been a standard bearer of great scripted television [...]
*In the wake of Idris Elba’s best actor win at the NAACP Awards on Friday night, BBC America has today confirmed it will co-produce the mini-series sequel of his critically-acclaimed drama, “Luther.” Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide America says: “It’s great to be involved once again with such a critically-acclaimed series and to [...]
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