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4 days ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Emma Corrin in first-look at Netflix's Pride And Prejudice as full cast revealed
The Crown star Emma Corrin can be seen embodying Elizabeth Bennet in a first-look image for Netflix's adaptation of Pride And Prejudice. In the Jane Austen novel, Elizabeth and her four sisters face pressure to marry rich as their father's property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. Advertisement A first-look at the production shows the five Bennet sisters in Georgian-era clothing standing in a field alongside their mother. It was previously announced that Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman would be playing Elizabeth's mother, Mrs Bennet, with Slow Horses star Jack Lowden starring as the protagonist's love interest, Mr Darcy. Netflix has announced that Industry star Freya Mavor will play Jane Bennet, with Heartstopper actress Rhea Norwood starring as Lydia Bennet and newcomers Hopey Parish and Hollie Avery playing Mary and Kitty Bennet respectively. Also joining the cast ensemble is Scoop actor Rufus Sewell as Mr Bennet and comedian and actor Jamie Demetriou as Mr Collins, a clergyman and distant cousin of Mr Bennet's. Advertisement Other cast members include Irish actress Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Disclaimer star Louis Partridge as Mr Wickham, Domino Day's Siena Kelly as Caroline Bingley, Irish actor Daryl McCormack as Mr Bingley, Black Mirror's Anjana Vasan as Mrs Gardiner and Marie Antoinette actor Sebastian Armesto as Mr Gardiner. The six-part series will be a classic adaptation of Austen's novel, written and executive produced by Everything I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton. There have been many adaptations of Austen's classic across the years including the 2005 film, starring Keira Knightley, which marks its 20th anniversary this autumn. In 2024, the shirt worn by Colin Firth when he strode across fields dripping wet after a swim in the lake during the BBC TV adaptation in 1995 sold for £20,000 at a charity auction. Advertisement Among the other adaptations is comedy horror film Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, starring Lily James and Matt Smith, which is based on Seth Grahame-Smith's book of the same name.
The Sun
5 days ago
- The Sun
Netflix axe huge reality show with all-star cast after just one series as it's branded ‘most expensive flop in years'
It was one of Netflix's most expensive flops – and now Battle Camp been axed after just one series. The celebrity challenge show, with a strong whiff of I'm a Celebrity, dropped on the streaming service in April but got a poor reception from critics and viewers alike. 7 Filmed on location in Mexico, the series featured names including Tony Castellanos, Shubham Goel and Gabi Butler and others from the streamer's various reality shows such as Too Hot to Handle, Love Is Blind and The Circle. But I can reveal that Netflix quickly took the decision to shelve a second season due to the lacklustre response and the huge costs involved in making the ten-parter. A TV insider said: 'There were so many individuals taking part in the show, with 18 contestants in total. The fact that they all charged a fee to take part and that it was filmed on location, made it unusually costly. Plus the format — set in a camp which was purpose-built from scratch for the show — relied on multiple challenges, each costing big money to set up. It was an expense Netflix would have been happy to shoulder, except it didn't meet their expectations. 'The hope was that it would create the sense of there being a 'Netflix reality universe', but most people who watched it didn't think the show was out of this world.' Fingers burned Netflix had already had their fingers burned in February when they screened Celebrity Bear Hunt, with Holly Willoughby and Bear Grylls, plus a string of celebrities, each getting paid for their time trying to survive the Costa Rican jungle. Like Battle Camp, the show cost millions to make but didn't make an impact when it dropped earlier this year and it was axed in June. Perhaps the streamer needs to come up with some original formats, rather than mash-ups of other shows. Watch brutal Celebrity Bear Hunt moment as TV star smashes into a cliff and another nearly drowns on Holly Willoughby's new Netflix show It all just hit the fan 7 7 7 Looks like the new adaptation of Frankenstein has already got a big fan long before its aired on Netflix. Small wonder looking at the opulent treatment that's been given to Mary Shelley's classic novel by the visionary director Guillermo Del Toro. The drama, which drops this November sees hunky Jacob Elordi play the monster while Oscar Isaac is his creator Baron Frankenstein. Mia Goth plays Elizabeth Lavenza, the baron's beautiful fiancee. Looking Goode for Dept Q return 7 Netflix hit Dept Q could be set for a second series, that's if you believe a conspiracy theory cooked up by one of its stars. Matthew Goode, who plays DCI Carl Morck in the British crime thriller based on the books by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, says he clocked creator Scott Frank edit out a key scene at the last minute which revealed much-needed information on his character's past – which he thinks could be used in a future series. The Crown actor thinks the chopped out speech gave viewers a much-needed explanation about the mysterious dad-of-one and he believes it was purposely saved for a later date. He explains: 'There was a speech in episode five which got taken out, I'm not going to say what [his last job was] in case Scott changes his mind or uses it for a second series, but it was perfect... he's taken out some of the information and I love that because he remains a mystery – there's ten books that could be done so hopefully we get to do at least a few of those.' He's not just a good on screen detective. This City never sleeps Filming for the second run of drama This City Is Ours gets under way next month. I can reveal the hit BBC One series, following the lives of the notorious Phelan family, will be shot in Liverpool and Spain once again. Its debut eight-episode run, which aired in March, attracted more than six million viewers and is the Beeb's most-watched new drama this year. Dubbed 'the Scouse Sopranos', due to its parallels with the hit Italian-American gangster drama, the series caused such a buzz one of its stars James Nelson-Joyce has been touted as a contender to be the next James Bond. But another of its cast members with a 007 connection, GoldenEye's Sean Bean, won't be returning in the follow-up as. The veteran actor's character, Ronnie Phelan, was killed off in series one – the 25th on-screen death of the Sheffield actor's career. No wonder he's always grumpy. Claudia Doumit and Ellie De Lange are joining the cast of the second series of 3 Body Problem on Netflix. The fantasy series was a huge hit for the streaming giant when it debuted last year and a sequel was quickly in the pipeline. Claudia and Ellie will play the characters of Captain Van Rijn and Ayla, respectively. The first season of the drama series spent 3 weeks at No.1 and 7 weeks on the Netflix Global Top 10, where it reached the top 10 in 93 countries. Danny's on hot streak Danny Dyer's nude scene in the new series of Mr Bigstuff gave an entire neighbourhood the willies. That's because filming for the Sky Max comedy took place during Halloween on a real-life suburban street and according to creator and co-star Ryan Sampson, the sight of the former EastEnders star sprinting down a road with nothing but a sock on his manhood didn't go unnoticed. Speaking on The MashyCast podcast, Ryan said: 'I'd written this scene where Danny is running down a suburban street chasing someone so they said 'when we actually came to do this you're going to have to tell Danny that you're really doing this'; it's a real street, real people live there, it's not like a Hollywood film with a budget where we can CGI it all, he actually has to run down with just a little sock, well a reasonable sized sock, on his bits and pieces. 'I was so nervous, we had just one take because we were losing the light at the end of the day and I was waiting at the end of the street and there's a man going into his house and he goes 'sorry babe, I'm going to have to go because there's a man running down the street naked and I think it's Mick from EastEnders'. 'It was just unreal and it was on Halloween, so there were [people out].' And they say full moons are rare on Fright Night.
North Wales Chronicle
22-07-2025
- North Wales Chronicle
Ozzy Osbourne dies two weeks after final Black Sabbath reunion concert
The heavy metal singer – who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019 – was reunited with fellow original Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Terence 'Geezer' Butler and Bill Ward on stage for a final performance on July 5. Just over two weeks later Osbourne's family announced his death at the age of 76. — Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) July 21, 2025 The heavy metal band were the last to appear on stage as part of a star-studded line-up for the Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park, Birmingham, not far from the Crown pub where they played their first gig in 1968. At the start of his solo performance, Osbourne entered the stage by rising on a large black throne through a trap door, wearing his signature black attire and thick eye make-up. He started the set by saying: 'Let me hear you. Are you ready? Let the madness begin!' Later, he told the crowd: 'It's so good to be on this f****** stage. You have no idea. I f****** love you all. Let me see your hands in the air. You are the best, each and every one of you. God bless you all.' In an emotional moment, he added: 'I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for, like, six years. You have no idea how I feel – thank you from the bottom of my heart. 'You're all f****** special. Let's go crazy, come on.' The rocker sang five songs in his own set, with fans waving torches from their phones during Mama, I'm Coming Home. He finished his performance with Crazy Train, before confetti rained over a packed Villa Park. After a short break, he re-entered the stage to join the rest of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years. The band performed some of their greatest hits, ending with a rendition of Paranoid. Fans chanted 'Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy' as the rock great thanked and blew kisses to those in attendance, before departing in an emotional ending to cap an illustrious career on stage. In one of the messages displayed before his performance, Sir Elton John told Osbourne: 'You are one of the most remarkable singers of our time. 'You are the king, you are the legend. You've been through so much crap in the last few years – I hope this is the best day of your life so far.' Personal videos from dozens of fans were also broadcast at the event, in which they credited Osbourne and Black Sabbath for inventing heavy metal and thanked them for their generational influence on music. After the live performance, Osbourne and his wife Sharon celebrated the engagement of their daughter Kelly with her long-term partner Sid Wilson, a member of the heavy metal band Slipknot. Kelly Osbourne, 40, posted a video on Instagram in which family and friends gather backstage before Wilson, 48, grabs her hand and tells her: 'Kelly, you know I love you more than anything in the world.' Ozzy Osbourne, sitting in a chair behind them, quips: 'F*** off, you are not marrying my daughter!' The room bursts into laughter before Wilson drops to one knee and asks her to marry him. In another Instagram post, she thanked her father's fans for attending his last live performance. She wrote: 'To say that yesterday was magic was an understatement! 'Thank you to everyone who came to support my dad. Thank you to the fans who without we are nothing! 'My dad got his moment in the sun! He was able to say thank you and good bye in the most beautiful way!'
