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If you had any doubt that the awards season was in full swing, Sunday night’s 15th Annual Governors Awards ceremony answered it.

Get ready to laugh for a good cause! Comic Relief's Red Nose Day is happening this Friday, marking 40 years since the charity was co-founded by Richard Curtis and Sir Lenny Henry.Tune in for a hilarious evening of entertainment live from Media City UK in Salford on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7pm on Friday 21 March, as celebrities engage in comedy sketches, live performances, and more to support vital causes across the UK and around the globe. What's in store for the night? Here are all the details. Presenters Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall, Joel Dommett, Alison Hammond, Rylan Clark, and Alesha Dixon will be your charismatic hosts on BBC One from 7pm until 10pm, then Tom Allen and AJ Odudu will continue the fun on BBC Two after 10pm.

EastEnders is gearing up to mark its 40th anniversary on 19 February. The popular BBC One soap first graced our screens back in the 80s, with its inaugural episode airing on 19 February 1985.

Gavin and Stacey fans rejoiced as a surprise drop of never-before-seen footage from the iconic fishing trip featuring Uncle Bryn and Jason aired during the special, Gavin and Stacey: A Fond Farewell.

Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell had fans buzzing with excitement on New Year's Day over formerly unseen footage revealing a glimpse into Uncle Bryn and Jason's infamous fishing trip.The behind the scenes special featured the cast's reflections, led by creators and stars James Corden and Ruth Jones, on their journey since the show's debut in 2007.The documentary also included appearances from celebrity enthusiasts like Minnie Driver, Richard Curtis, and Lena Dunham who shared their adoration for the cherished BBC sitcom. But it was an unexpected clip in the closing credits, seemingly from over 30 years ago, that truly got tongues wagging.

Gavin and Stacey: A Fond Farewell delighted fans with a surprise reveal of never-before-seen footage featuring Uncle Bryn and Jason on their infamous fishing trip, a long-standing joke throughout the sitcom.

It's that time of year when Love Actually becomes the go-to Christmas film for many, but not for its star Keira Knightley. Despite playing the beloved Juliet in the 2003 hit, Keira has confessed to only watching the film once.

Love it or loathe it, there's no doubt that Love Actually is a Christmas classic. Even the biggest Scrooge would find it impossible not to smile at the sight of a dancing Hugh Grant effortlessly shimmying down the staircase of 10 Downing Street, or at the delightfully chaotic school nativity featuring sea creatures, Spiderman, and Mariah Carey. It's pure joy!

Nicola Walker is reprising her iconic role as Hannah Defoe in the eagerly awaited BBC special of the popular legal drama The Split. The new episodes kick off with a lively Spanish fiesta set against a sun-drenched weekend backdrop.The storyline delves into themes of love, legacy, and contemporary marriage through a cast of familiar characters.

Carolyn Giardina Chris Sanders’ “The Wild Robot” from Dreamworks Animation leads the feature competition of the 52nd Annie Awards for animation with 10 nominations, followed by Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” and Aardman and Netflix’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” with seven apiece; and Locksmith Animation and Netflix’s “That Christmas,” with six noms. All four movies are nominated for best animated feature, alongside “Kung Fu Panda 4” and “Ultraman: Rising,” while noms for best independent animated feature went to “Chicken for Linda!,” “Flow” (Latvia’s international feature Oscar contender), “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” “Look Back,” “Mars Express” and “Memoir of a Snail.” The rest of the categories combine studio and independent productions.

Love Actually might have been one of the films that helped Keira Knightley break through, but she’s revealed that it’s not in her movie rotation over the Christmas period.The star, who most recently played undercover assassin Helen Webb in the Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves, revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she’s never seen the holiday classic since its premiere.On Monday (December 9), Fallon mentioned that she was one of the stars of the Richard Curtis-directed movie, which he described as “one of the greatest holiday films of all time,” and asked her if she ever watches it during the holiday season.“No,” she replied. “I saw it on the premiere when I was 18, and I’ve never seen it since.”She continued: “This is nothing about Love Actually – I don’t really watch anything I do.

Love Actually shoot was “a catastrophe” and required six months of editing, director Richard Curtis has said in a new interview.The plot of the film contains several interwoven narratives and the director admitted in a new interview with IndieWire that it was so complex, it nearly ended in disaster for the film.“The strange thing about Love Actually is, when we finished the movie, it was a catastrophe,” he told the outlet, saying it took a further six months of editing to make the film work.Curtis continued: “When I wrote Love Actually, and we had the read-through, and it sounded great, I thought you would probably do ‘A, B, C, D, E, F, G’.“But actually when you’re doing multi-story, the danger is you don’t commit to any of the stories and the audience never feels engaged, so you kind of end up doing ‘A, B, C, C, A’, so you get into the story and then you introduce a surprise and then you end one story earlier than the others.“So I learned a lot about the complexity of multi-story construction in trying to save Love Actually in how bad it was in the assembly,” he recalled.Curtis’ latest film is an animated family comedy for Netflix called That Christmas, which tells a series of different festive stories that are all interwoven.For the film, Ed Sheeran wrote and recorded a new song called ‘Under The Tree’.Speaking about the song earlier this year, Sheeran said: “I’ve been mates with Richard Curtis for years, and we’ve done a load of fun work for charity, and then both were heavily involved in the movie Yesterday. He came to me two years ago to play me the rough of That Christmas.

Netflix still has several holiday flicks on the way before 2024 ends and Christmas fades away. Richard Curtis’ book-based animated film That Christmas, directed by Simon Otto, arrives early on in the month, and Sabrina Carpenter has a musical holiday comedy special also out early in December.

Ed Sheeran has revealed that he has already finished his new album, and teased what fans can expect from the project.The singer-songwriter released two studio records in 2023 with ‘−’ (‘Subtract’) and ‘Autumn Variations’. Both LPs saw Aaron Dessner of The National take on production duties.NME described the former as a “doleful and downbeat, melancholy and heartfelt” collection, and said the latter was “a limp ending to this unique and curious creative cycle for Sheeran”.During a new interview with Variety, the star confirmed that his next album is finished, and hinted at another stylistic shift.“[‘−’ (‘Subtract’)] was obviously a completely different record that didn’t really call for big pop stuff,” he told the publication.He was then asked what’s in store for fans on his forthcoming record.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Love Actually” director Richard Curtis and songwriter and musician Ed Sheeran go way back: Sheeran’s first girlfriend even babysat Curtis’ children. Since then, they’ve collaborated on several projects, including Comic Relief and the Danny Boyle-helmed 2017 film “Yesterday,” in which which Sheeran stars and Curtis co-wrote. So when Curtis was conceiving his TV special “That Christmas,” he showed Sheeran some early storyboards, and the original conversation was that it would be a musical.

Keira Knightley is reflecting on THAT famous scene from Love Actually!

Love Actually fans have been left stunned after discovering that Emma Thompson, who stars in the iconic Christmas film, is actually related to a famous soap actress.The festive favourite, which was released in 2003 and directed by Richard Curtis, has become one of the most successful Christmas films ever made. It features a star-studded cast including Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Colin Firth and Liam Neeson, with Denise Richards and even Ant and Dec making appearances.The romantic comedy follows eight interconnected couples navigating their love lives in the lead up to Christmas.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Keira Knightley admitted in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times that she told “Love Actually” director Richard Curtis while filming the infamous cue card scene with Andrew Lincoln that it was all “quite creepy.” Knightley was 17 years old when she was filming the Christmas romance. Both “Love Actually” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” opened in theaters in 2003, turning Knightley into a global star.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Keira Knightley‘s life changed forever in 2003 when the the back-to-back releases of Disney’s blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and Richard Curtis’ Christmas romance “Love Actually” turned her into a global star practically overnight. The actor was 17 years old when she shot these movies and 18 when they opened. Such instant fame as a teenager came at a “big price,” Knightley recently told the Los Angeles Times.

HBO is interested in casting I May Destroy‘s Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape in their upcoming Harry Potter TV series, Deadline understands. However, no formal offers have been made to the actor nor has his team conversed with HBO suits about a potential deal.

From director Simon Otto, the animated feature That Christmas is based on a trilogy of books by the writer of Notting Hill, Love, Actually and more — Richard Curtis.

Actress Keira Knightley revealed that the controversial “Love Actually” cue card scene which sparked debate amongst rom-com fans and her fellow cast and crew was a “creepy and sweet” moment.Knightley, 39, recalled Friday how a group of construction workers approached her recently and they held up cue cards in homage to the iconic scene from the 2003 holiday movie.“I was stuck in traffic for ages recently and a car full of builders next to me started holding up the signs like in the movie,” Knightley said on “The Graham Norton Show.” “It was creepy and sweet at the same time, much like it was in the film.”The controversial scene happened when hopeless romantic Mark, played by “The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln, confessed his love to Knightley’s character, Juliet, as her husband and Mark’s best friend Peter, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, sat in the next room. In the two-time Golden Globe-nominated film, Mark showed up at the couple’s door and used cue cards to confess his love to Juliet while playing the song “Silent Night” under the guise of Christmas Carolers.