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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Tony winner Cherry Jones (Succession), Luis Guzmán (Shameless), Hong Chau (Watchmen) and Tony winner Reed Birney (Succession) have joined the cast of Peacock’s Poker Face, a mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Clea DuVall (The First Lady), Shane Paul McGhie (American Skin), Angel Desai (NCIS: New Orleans), newcomer Jasmine Aiyana Garvin and Leslie Silva (Women of the Movement) have joined the cast of Peacock’s Poker Face, a mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 was the big winner at the Edinburgh TV Awards, winning six of the 20 awards on offer, including Channel of the Year. The awards returned as an in-person event this year as part of the Edinburgh TV Festival, supported by Screen Scotland. Jodie Comer, who won the 2021 Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, won the best TV actor in a drama award for her performance in Jack Thorne’s Channel 4 drama “Help.” Actor, writer and director Diane Morgan received the 2022 Variety Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of her extensive body of work, which ranges from Ricky Gervais’ “After Life” to “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe” and includes fan-favorite “Motherland” and and her much loved character Philomena Cunk.

Apple TV+’s Pachinko and Netflix’s Sex Education are among the big winners at the Edinburgh TV Awards. Jodie Comer, Mo Gilligan and Sharon Horgan’s indie also scooped goings at the event, held this evening in Scotland’s capital as the Edinburgh TV Festival’s second day comes to an end.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRon Perlman, Nick Nolte, Charles Melton, and Tim Blake Nelson have all joined the cast of the upcoming Peacock series “Poker Face,” Variety has learned exclusively.Perlman (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Hellboy”), Nolte (“Warrior,” “Graves”), Melton (“Riverdale,” “American Horror Stories”), and Nelson (“Watchmen,” “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”) join the show’s already expansive cast. Natasha Lyonne will lead the series, with previously announced cast members including: Adrien Brody, Audrey Corsa, Benjamin Bratt, Chloe Sevigny, Danielle MacDonald, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Lil Rel Howery, Niall Cunningham, Nicholas Cirillo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Simon Helberg and Tim Meadows.

A thug was this week jailed for a year and eight months for crimes which included causing a disturbance in the close of a block of Alva flats.

Emily Longeretta Jamie Dornan says it was one of the hardest roles he had performed, but “The Tourist” was worth it. The six-part limited series, which debuted on BBC before dropping on HBO Max, follows Dornan’s character, who wakes up in the hospital after an accident with no memory of his past life, which was a messy one.Instead of homing in on the memory loss and the fact that, well, he’d done some things that have caused a lot of trouble and made a few people want to have him offed, “The Tourist” leans into the humor.“I think the way it plays with tones, often so abruptly swinging from drama to comedy,” Dornan notes about what sets the series apart — and about what kept him interested.

Clayton Davis After coming up short in the Oscar race for his role as Pa in Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Jamie Dornan is trying his hand at the Emmys for his work in the HBO Max series “The Tourist.” Assumed to be going into the brimming limited series categories, Variety has learned exclusively that HBO submitted the show in the drama categories for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards.The HBO series tells the story of a Northern Irish man who wakes up with amnesia in an Australian hospital. Following clues to his identity, he tries to find who he is, while his past threatens to catch up with him.

A man who swerved his Mini Cooper into the path of his estranged wife's car on a narrow road, before driving towards her at speed, has been jailed.

A man described as "a promising young footballer" before injury and medication led him into drug abuse is facing jail - after stealing a mobile from from a fellow patient in hospital. Edward Johnston's conduct was branded "particularly callous" by a sheriff.

A drunk driver who lost control of his BMW and ploughed across a motorway has dodged a jail sentence.

A dog owner who pelted a neighbour with mastiff food has been spared jail.

Charlotte McKinney stepped out in a form-fitting dress atLos Angeles Confidential Magazine's Women of Influence Luncheon in Beverly Hills on Thursday.The model, 28, donned a tight black dress that was slit down the side revealing the entirety of her right leg.She walked the red carpet in a pair of high heels and posed in a power stance with her hands on her hips. A woman of influence:Charlotte McKinney stepped out in a form-fitting dress at Los Angeles Confidential Magazine's Women of Influence Luncheon in Beverly Hills on ThursdayThe star's blonde hair was parted in the middle and fell down to the top of her chest.She smiled a large grin that showcased her bright white teeth, and her eyes glinted underneath the powerful lights.

Sharareh Drury administratorThe Australian Consulate-General of Los Angeles celebrated Australian women’s success in film and television on Thursday with a panel and networking reception featuring vetted and rising Aussie talent. The event, held in partnership with Variety, spotlighted the increase in international production in Australia and the historic number of Australian women who have been recognized by international award bodies for their contributions to the industry.Diverse representation in film, pushing boundaries on and off set, and becoming one’s own agent of change were featured topics during a panel held at the official residence of Consul General Jane Duke in Brentwood.

“Duel,” the 1971 ABC TV movie starring Dennis Weaver as a businessman terrorized by a tanker truck chasing him through the Mojave Desert — and trying to kill him for reasons unknown.But that’s where the similarities end.A few minutes into “The Tourist,” a six-episode series premiering Tuesday (March 1) on HBO Max, a British man (Jamie Dornan) engages in a high-speed game of cat-and-mouse with a trucker in the Australian Outback. The big rig runs his car off the road and nearly kills him, and he wakes up in a remote hospital with no idea who he is our how he got there.That sets the wheels (pun intended) in motion for “The Tourist,” as The Man, as he’s called — his real identity is disclosed in the final minutes of Episode 2 — tries to piece together his history, starting with a scrap of paper he finds in his pocket that leads him to a far-flung diner, an explosion there that’s meant to kill him, an ex-girlfriend, Luci Miller (Shalom Brune-Franklin), he doesn’t remember — but who has her own reasons for helping him — and a man who’s buried alive in an underground oil drum to whom The Man is somehow connected.

EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked Oscar winning writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producing partner Jaime Ray Newman.

The Tourist,” starring Golden Globe nominee Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”). Dornan stars as a British man who is pursued by a large tank truck in the Australian outback, ending with him waking up in the hospital with no memory of his identity. As people from his past follow him around, he begins to look for answers.The cast also includes Danielle Macdonald (“Dumplin’”), Shalom Brune-Franklin (“Line of Duty”), Damon Herriman (“Mindhunter”), Alex Dimitriades (“Total Control”), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“Eurovision Song Contest”), and Kamil Ellis (“Bushwacked!”).“The Tourist” was written by Emmy and Golden Globe winners Harry and Jack Williams (“Baptiste”), who also executive produce alongside Christopher Aird (“Liar”).

The Australian outback can be an unforgiving place, especially when you’ve got amnesia.

The official trailer for Jamie Dornan‘s upcoming HBO Max series The Tourist has been released!

 The star's father, who is a world-renowned obstetrician, died in March at the age of 73.He had gone into hospital to have a routine knee operation when he contracted coronavirus.Following his devastating loss, Jamie explained that he can relate to what so many other people have been through during the pandemic.He said: "It’s been a brutal time for lots of reasons and for lots of people."We’re all just trying to ride it out and come out the other side — and hope we’ve got our heads intact," he told The Sun.The award-winning star went on to explain how he has suffered "a lot of pain and loss" in his lifetime.Jamie lost his mother Lorna to pancreatic cancer when he was just 16-years-old.He credits his dad in helping him to cope with the loss, as he told him, "Don’t let this be the thing that defines you".Previously, the star opened up on the "extreme" filming conditions he faced when filming the BBC series, The Tourist.Jamie is the leading character who is hunted across Australia while trying to regain his lost memories.The star recently spoke about what filming was like, as he shared that it was the longest show he’d filmed in his career.“It was a huge commitment,” the actor began.“I had very little time off, so it was very extreme, but I loved it.”Despite being away from home, Jamie brought his wife, Amelia Warner, and their three daughters Dulcie, Elva and Alberta with him Down Under.Jamie is famously known for playing Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise.He will be joined in the new BBC series by fellow cast members that include Shalom Brune-Franklin as Luci, Damon Herriman as DI Lachlan Rogers, Danielle MacDonald as Helen Chambers, and Alex Dimitriades as Kostas.

In the eyes of most people, becoming an opera singer is tantamount to wanting to become an astronaut or a cowboy. It just seems highly unlikely and one of those pipe dreams that you quickly dismiss as you pursue your business education and begin a smart, sensible career.