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Emma Sidi has landed the role of broadcaster and MacTaggart Lecture giver Emily Maitlis in Channel 4’s upcoming satire Prince Andrew: The Musical.

The Crown’s season five has reigned supreme over Netflix’s English-language television charts.

GOOD Morning Britain's guest host Alastair Campbell has revealed he turned down a "seven-figure offer" to star on I'm A Celebrity. Tony Blair's former spin doctor said he's been bombarded with offers over the years - with TV execs throwing huge amounts of money to sway him. Despite politicians including former health secretary Matt Hancock and Nadine Dorries both going into the jungle, Alastair has stood firm in resisting.

SEASON five of The Crown sees the action move forward into the 1990s with the arrival of a new Prime Minister - Tony Blair. But who plays the former Labour leader in The Crown? Here's everything you need to know.

UK former premier Tony Blair has added his voice to those saying The Crown is using the fifth season to present events in the 1990s on screen as real, when in fact they have been invented. 

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10-episodes on Netflix on November 9

NAGA Munchetty was once again absent from BBC Breakfast today – for the day third day in the row. The BBC One programme has seen a series of presenter swaps all week, and today Naga was replaced by Rachel Burden once again. The 47-year-old can usually be found presenting alongside Charlie Stayt from Thursdays to Saturdays.

National Television Awards, which are set to take place tonight. The awards were originally means to go ahead on September 15, but were postponed following the death of the Queen. The rescheduled event will now take place at the Wembley Arena as its broadcast live on ITV.

Channel Four has announced the casting for its new film based on the 'Wagatha Christie' case. The drama will star This Is England actress Chanel Cresswell as Coleen Rooney and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena as Rebekah Vardy in the story of Rebekah's famous libel trial against Coleen.

Channel 4’s drama based on the Wagatha Christie case will star This Is England actress Chanel Cresswell as Coleen Rooney and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena as Rebekah Vardy. Michael Sheen, known for his portrayals of real-life figures such as Sir Tony Blair and broadcaster David Frost, will appear as Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne. Mr Sherborne’s previous clients include Diana, Princess of Wales, Hollywood actor Michael Douglas and model Kate Moss.

K.J. Yossman The producers behind hit Netflix series “The Crown” are preparing to shoot the scenes leading up to Princess Diana’s death, Variety understands, which is causing some anxiety among the cast and crew. The scenes are due to be shot in the next two weeks with Elizabeth Debicki playing Diana (pictured above). A source says there is a strong desire within the production team “to get it right and handle [it] sensitively.” Not only are Diana’s sons, Princes Wiliam and Harry, still alive and continuing to grieve but the British royal, dubbed “the People’s Princess” by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, continues to hold a special place in the public’s hearts some 25 years after she died in a Paris car crash at the age of 36.

Labour Party conferences over recent years have not been the happiest of environment's, but the party has ended this one in a buoyant mood. With the Tories under increasing pressure after their mini-budget caused economic volatility to say the least Labour looked to show itself as a serious party ready for government.

Alastair Campbell has found fame away from his former role as an adviser in Downing Street after becoming a prominent podcaster.He is also a broadcaster, with his latest programme - Make Me Prime Minister - airing on Channel 4 tonight (September 27) at 9.15pm.Described by Radio Times as “The Apprentice does politics”, the show puts 12 Brits who think they have what it takes to run the country through their paces.Alongside Conservative peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the pair will put the dozen candidates for the top job through a series of tasks designed to test their leadership skills, decision-making, resilience and integrity.From his journalist beginnings to top of the podcast charts, here is a look at the anti-Brexit campaigner's career.Alastair Campbell is best known for his role as former British prime minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications - aka chief spin doctor.He had been a journalist first at the Daily Mirror before moving to the now-defunct newspaper Today, where he was poached by Blair in 1994 to run the Labour Party's press operation following his election as leader of the opposition.Campbell was part of the team that modernised Labour and helped the party win a landslide at the 1997 general election.After the death of Princess Diana later that year, the spin doctor assisted the then-prime minister in his speech in which she was dubbed the “People’s Princess”.His time in Downing Street was dogged by his involvement in what was later labelled the “Dodgy Dossier” in February 2003, in which it claimed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.Mr Campbell was accused of "sexing up" the document, as weapons were never found before or after the 2003 Allied

Labour has surged to its largest lead over the Conservative Party in more than decades, according to the latest opinion poll. Sir Keir Starmer will be buoyed by promising polling for Labour as he accuses the Tories of losing control of the economy and vows to get the UK "out of this endless cycle of crisis".

Elton John was all in on a plan to perform at the White House before the world-famous rockin' piano player hangs it up — he says — for good. John is stopping by the South Lawn on Friday night for a show he's calling "A Night When Hope and History Rhyme," a reference to a poem by Irishman Seamus Heaney that President Joe Biden often quotes. It will be John's first White House gig since he performed with Stevie Wonder at a state dinner in 1998 honoring British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

By this time, don’t we know just about everything there is to know about Alfred Hitchcock? Few, if any, other filmmakers have had their lives and careers examined, explored and analyzed as much as has the vaunted master of suspense. So unless incontrovertible evidence were to be suddenly found that the director secretly fathered a dozen illegitimate children by as many women and personally supplied Churchill with an untraceable poison powder to drop into Stalin’s tea in Yalta, only to see the prime minister chicken out, it’s quite unlikely that much new will ever be added to his life story that we don’t already know.

King Charles III has said his final public goodbye to his beloved mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on 8 September. The Queen's funeral service took place at Westminster Abbey, followed by a ceremonial procession from the Abbey to Wellington Arch, where the Queen’s coffin left for her Berkshire home of Windsor Castle and a committal service.

President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth on Monday (September 19) in London, England.

Kate Middleton's parents Carole and Michael have arrived at Westminster ahead of the Queen's funeral today, Monday 19 September. Walking inside the Westminster gates, Carole Middleton, 67, could be seen wearing a long black dress, tights, small heels and a black hat. Kate's mother also sported a black clutch bag and three white and black pearl necklaces.

A royal guard fainted and fell face-first onto the ground as he was protecting Queen Elizabeth's coffin. Mourners gasped as the guard hit the deck as he was holding vigil next to the late monarch's casket at London's Westminster Hall on Wednesday (14. 09.

Around 500 world leaders and dignitaries have been invited to Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday (19. 09. 22).