Harriet Walter is Margaret Thatcher in upcoming Channel 4 two-parter Brian and Maggie. Trailer can be viewed above of the buzzy series from James Graham and Stephen Frears. Starring the Succession alum opposite Steve Coogan, Brian and Maggie (previously Brian and Margaret) tells the story…

Channel 4 has released a first look at Succession star Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher in the British broadcaster’s upcoming James Graham drama Brian and Margaret. Deadline first revealed the two-part series in June and it will chronicle Thatcher's last TV interview, the hugely damaging ITV…

Sherwood, the highly-rated BBC thriller series from James Graham, has been re-upped for a third season as the second ends. House Productions’ show has been one of the BBC’s most successful dramas in recent years, and the latest season’s first ep has been watched by more than 6.5 million viewers…

UPDATED with additional quotes 09.20 a.m. PT: “The era of government stoking culture wars is over,” promised new UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy this afternoon as she delivered her first keynote in the role. Nandy passionately set out her case for a “reset” of the “relationship between…

The 2024 Edinburgh TV Festival draws to a close today, and this year’s event has been full of talking points, some positive and other not so much. While execs and creatives on the ground said there was a relatively subdued feel compared to some years when there have been real fireworks, there was a…

Can UK creatives come up with the next Harry Potter or Marvel in a “British context?” That was the challenge thrown down this morning by James Graham in the traditional Edinburgh post-MacTaggart the morning after he spoke of the need for TV’s gatekeepers to encourage “new universes” in place of…

James Graham, the creator of Sherwood, Dear England and Brexit: The Uncivil War, has urged the creation of “new universes” and greater risk taking in place of TV’s gatekeepers “falling back on tried and tested IP.” Delivering this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture, the prolific…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham, the TV dramatist and playwright, has revealed that the BBC adaptation of his acclaimed soccer play Dear England will feature Jude Bellingham's breathtaking bicycle-kick goal that spared the Three Lions the ignominy of defeat against Slovakia in the European Football…

EXCLUSIVE: Will this lady be for turning? Succession star Harriet Walter is taking on Maggie Thatcher in splashy Channel 4 drama series Brian and Margaret, which is being directed by Stephen Frears, penned by James Graham and co-starring Steve Coogan. Coogan’s BBC Studios-backed Baby Cow is…

Prolific British scribe James Graham will ask “why television has a problem with the working classes” in the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture this year. Graham, whose credits include Sherwood, Dear England, Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz, will deliver the 49th address in two months…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Sherwood Season 2, the highly-anticipated next instalment of James Graham’s BBC drama. Filming on the House Productions show recently took place in and around the UK city Nottingham, and the images show the likes of Lorraine Ashbourne, Monica Dolan, Perry…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight's gala opening at London's National Theatre — en route to a run at the Garrick Theatre — of his sublime stage adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's landmark 1982 television drama Boys from the Bl…