EX-Coronation Street star Sarah Lancashire was back in the TV spotlight as BBC film crews took over Marsden to film a new series. Villagers woke up yesterday to BBC trucks all over Peel Street as the national broadcaster began work on its latest romantic

An all-star cast has been brought together for the latest BBC drama to head to Heywood to film. The romantic comedy stars stage and screen veteran Sir Derek Jacobi and Upstairs Downstairs star Anne Reid in the lead roles. The six-part series is being sho

The quality of mercy is not Judge Jim Thomas. William Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616. Seven years later, two of his colleagues published the First Folio, containing 36 plays. Much wackiness ensued in England over the next several decades, but the

Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson was among the guests as the Queen hosted an event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Charles Dickens. The comedian, who also starred as Fagin in the West End's Oliver!, was joined by a host of other faces from TV and film at t

Scenes for a BBC One series are to be filmed in Craven this month. Antony and Cleopatra is a prime-time romantic comedy with a cast including Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire, Dean Andrews and Ronni Ancona. Key scenes, including a car chase, are

It’s interesting, of course, that Lester and Harewood — both coincidentally RADA trained — began their acting careers on the theatrical stage, and occasionally still return there (Lester is coming back next year to star as Othello at the National; Harewo

The document is one of the very few surviving to bear Shakespeare’s signature, and Bond – a Marxist – spins his speculative narrative around it. Stewart first performed the role in 1979 in Stratford, and has agitated for its revival ever since. “Every ti

Because Shearman’s play is very different to the usual run of Doctor Who Unbound. For the most part, the series follows a simple formula – what if the Valeyard (an evil version of the Doctor from the story Trial Of A Time Lord) had won? What if the Docto

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced plans for its 50th anniversary season. The theater will revisit Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which was part of its first season in 1962, in a production starring Roger Allam, Dervla Kirwan and Timothy West. Jeremy Herr

This year's 50th anniversary season at Chichester Festival Theatre will include the returns of Derek Jacobi and Penelope Keith, as well as Kim Cattrall reprising the role of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra on a UK stage after previously playing it in L

Chrissie RussellThere's been a new face in t'Rovers lately and Coronation Street producer Phil Collinson is said to be tickled pink about it. Hollywood legend Robert Vaughn has joined the ranks of celebrity guest starts, playing love interest to Roy Crop

Italy’s De Angelis Group has reached a worldwide television distribution agreement with event mini-series specialist Tandem Communications on the $30-million Titanic: Blood And Steel. Chris Noth, Neve Campbell, Kevin Zegers and Derek Jacobi star in the 1

Whatever happened to hell-raisers? If Nicol Williamson, he of the tremulous and whinnying voice, died a forlorn and forgotten figure, he only had himself to blame. He’d not worked since 1997, and had made something of a career out of turning down fabulou

The other morning, I was listening to a Professor Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University talking about the nature of coincidence. He explained that he was collecting people's stories about those bizarre incidents to which the only response would be: what

There Be Dragons is an epic action-adventure romance set during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. Boasting an all-star cast including Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Charlie Cox (Stardust), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Dougray Scott (Mission Im

A Cambridge don is appealing to the public for tales of striking coincidences – so he can analyse just how strange they really are. Professor David Spiegelhalter hopes the exercise will help him calculate the odds of such peculiar events occurring. The p

From Act II, Scene I of Congreve’s The Way of the World: “To Pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. Youth may

Anniversaries approach us like waves to watchers on the shore. Dickens, born 7 February 1812, is already foaming up the beach. Captain Scott, died 29 March 1912, follows as a roller that's yet to curve and form a white cap. The Queen, whose diamond jubil

WEST WYCOMBE, England - It was a love triangle that shocked Victorian England: a tale of passion and duty, tradition and freedom seething beneath corsets and waistcoats. Now it's coming back to life on screen, with a 21st century behind-the-scenes drama