Can something high the success of Succession after the ultimate collection of the hit drama romped residence in triumph, sweeping up awards on the Golden Globes and Emmys this month.
Now the British author of the present, Jesse Armstrong, has landed a megabucks deal to give you a brand new concept for HBO.
Armstrong has three or 4 ideas in thoughts, however sadly for the present’s hundreds of thousands of followers it will not be a Succession spin-off — so no extra Tom Wambsgans and Cousin Greg (pictured). Sniff!
Armstrong, 53, was approaching the $1 million per episode stage for the ultimate collection, and it’s thought his new deal will likely be much more profitable.
Succession was written by a small group in workplaces close to Brixton Tube station. Armstrong would request that the heating was saved to an actual determine as apparently there’s a appropriate temperature for creating comedy.
He lives in a terraced home in South-East London together with his spouse Millie, who works for the NHS, and their two kids. Before Succession, he helped create Peep Show and The Thick Of It. This week, he donated £25,000 to Greenpeace, which is battling an intimidation lawsuit from oil big Shell.
Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans, left, and Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch in a scene from the collection Succession, written by Jesse Armstrong
Armstrong, 53, was approaching the $1 million per episode stage for the ultimate collection of Succession, and it’s thought his new deal will likely be much more profitable
Jesse Armstrong attends HBO’s post-Emmy reception at San Vicente Bungalows on January 15 in Hollywood
Riley Keough places her Bigfoot ahead in full costume
A contact of the absurd: Riley Keough
Riley Keough has gone from taking part in a pop icon in Daisy Jones & The Six to simulating intercourse with a dustbin whereas wearing a Bigfoot costume.
Keough, 34, stars in a brand new absurdist comedy, Sasquatch Sunset, and wears a full Bigfoot costume all through — together with prosthetics to offer her simian options. The movie, which additionally stars Jesse Eisenberg, tells the story of a household of Bigfoots.
There is not any dialogue or narration however numerous motion not for the squeamish, together with masturbation, childbirth, vomiting and, sure, Bigfoot intercourse. It premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, final week to combined critiques. One critic referred to as it: ‘The sort of film you might want to see to consider.’
Director David Zellner stated that he had labored with primatologists and anthropologists to organize for the mission and added: ‘Everything on this movie is 100 percent genuine to how Sasquatches are in actual life — even the bizarre stuff. Just belief us.’
Zellner revealed that they’d used a trash can as a stand-in when rehearsing the Bigfoot intercourse scenes. Keough, who was in Park City to attend the premiere, stated: ‘The costumes had been actually onerous to maneuver in. Jesse and I complained the entire time.’
The actress, who’s the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, attended the Golden Globes and Emmys final week after nominations for Daisy Jones, however got here away empty-handed.
She walked the purple carpet on the Emmys along with her grandmother, Priscilla, simply over a yr after the dying of Keough’s mom, Lisa-Marie.
Kerry Godliman, sensible because the spouse in After Life, returns to Trigger Point as Intelligence officer Sonya Reeves within the second collection of the ITV drama, beginning on Sunday. She says her teenage kids do not usually watch her on display screen as they like Squid Game.
13 the explanation why Oscars finally come calling for Nolan
Christopher Nolan, who already has a CBE for providers to movie, will likely be selecting up extra awards forward of his Oscars run this spring.
Nolan, 53, is to be given a BFI Fellowship, its highest honour, on February 14, shortly earlier than the Baftas (on the 18th) at which Oppenheimer is up for 13 awards, together with Best Film and Best Director, and fancied to take each these biggies.
He will then hop throughout the channel to gather an honorary Cesar — the French equal of a Bafta — in Paris, earlier than returning to LA, the place he lives, for the Oscars on March 10. Nolan has but to win a Bafta or an Oscar, nevertheless it appears a protected wager that that is about to alter.
Congratulations, too, to Shropshire lad Jos Dent-Pooley, who studied music at Cambridge and has simply landed an Oscar nomination for finest Original Score for Poor Things — the primary movie rating he has ever written.
Dent-Pooley, 28, who works below the moniker Jerskin Fendrix, was picked for the gig by Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos, who beloved his 2020 album of experimental pop music.
Hopefuls: Christopher Nolan, left, and Shropshire lad Jos Dent-Pooley
He’s up towards the late Robbie Robertson, for Killers Of The Flower Moon, and beloved veteran John Williams, who scored Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.
Williams is, at 91, the oldest particular person ever nominated for an Oscar; and that is his 54th nomination — additionally a document for a residing particular person. Walt Disney holds the all-time document with 59.
Completing the class are Laura Karpman for American Fiction and Ludwig Goransson for Oppenheimer.
Off The Fence journal says it has been listening to ‘numerous actually fantastic anecdotes’ about Tom Hiddleston, finest recognized for The Night Manager, taking part in Loki within the Marvel Universe and being Taylor Swift’s best-forgotten former boyfriend within the Taylor-verse.The magazine says: ‘The actor was at a sensible wedding ceremony, deep within the English countryside, and on the finish of the night time tried to cadge a taxi with the immortal line: “Would it help if I told you I was Tom Hiddleston?”‘
New twist in Cruel Adoption story of three equivalent Strangers
Channel 4 is following the smash hit documentary Three Identical Strangers — about triplets separated by an adoption company as infants, rising up unaware of one another’s existence till destiny intervened — by telling the story of unsuspecting feminine twins, given the identical therapy by the identical company.
The Secret Of Me will likely be a documentary function movie directed by Grace Hughes-Hallett, who additionally produced Three Identical Strangers for Netflix.James Rogan (artistic director at Rogan Productions), and Rogan Scotland, who’re making the movie, described the story as a ‘stunning and transferring’ story of a medical scandal.
The story behind Three Identical Strangers first got here to gentle in 1980, when three younger males found by likelihood, on the age of 19, that they had been equivalent triplets. Their reunion made headlines all over the world.
Reunited: The unique triplets, Eddy, David and Bobby within the Nineteen Eighties
Soon after, it grew to become clear there have been extra circumstances of ‘multiples’ who had been cut up up. All had been positioned in houses within the Sixties by the Louise Wise adoption company in New York.
It transpired that a minimum of ten units of toddler twins or triplets had been separated and positioned in separate households, with the company partnering with a gaggle of psychiatrists and psychologists to check what occurred subsequent — with out the data of the households or the youngsters concerned.
Novelist Jilly Cooper had Aidan Turner and David Tennant over for a non-public Riders occasion at her Cotswolds home in the course of the filming of the forthcoming TV present — based mostly on her bestselling bonkbuster — final summer time.
Cooper, 86, stated of the forged: ‘They all fell in love with Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds fully.’
She added: ‘David Tennant is heaven, Aidan Turner is heaven, they’re all heaven! And probably the most miraculous factor? A large forged who all adore one another.’ The eight-part present in regards to the amorous adventures of a bunch of libidinous horsemen and ladies — together with her nice fictional creation Rupert Campbell-Black — will come out on Disney+ later this yr.
Former Miss Moneypenny, Samantha Bond
Former Miss Moneypenny, Samantha Bond (proper), skinny-dips her method by way of her new Miss Marple-esque TV thriller The Marlow Murder Club — however says she hates wild swimming in actual life.
Bond, 62, stated: ‘I truly discovered swimming in an enormous river like The Thames, for The Marlow Murder Club, fairly scary — much less so in a few of the tributaries of The Thames that we used — and I’m not about to take it up as a interest. My husband, Alexander, swims in The Thames and completely loves it; however I do not go together with him.’
Samantha performs archaeologist-turned-sleuth Judith Potts within the present which arrives on UKTV channel Drama in March. The two-part thriller has been created by Robert Thorogood, the person behind world hit Death In Paradise.