Olivia Colman WILL be in the final series of Peep Show

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Olivia Colman will definitely be in the last series of Peep Show, and she was in an emotional mood after she filmed her final scenes on the sitcom.

Co-star David Mitchell confirmed the news by posting a picture of himself and Robert Webb with a teary Colman on set earlier this evening (September 11).

The actress’s return will be welcomed by fans, who have witnessed the relationship between Colman’s Sophie Chapman and Mitchell’s Mark Corrigan fluctuate over the years.

Elsewhere, Paterson Joseph and Matt King have been confirmed to be back as Johnson and Super Hans on the show.

Indeed, Jeff actor Neil Fitzmaurice did recently hint to Digital Spy that familiar faces would make some sort of return to Peep Show during its final series.

Peep Show is expected to return in late 2015 on Channel 4 for its last series.

Source: digitalspy.co.uk – Olivia Colman will be in the final series of Peep Show: Here’s picture proof

Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt to play husband and wife in ‘dark comedy’ Flowers


Six-part series Flowers – which follows the dysfunctional and eccentric members of the Flowers family – has been commissioned by Channel 4, it was announced today.

Broadchurch and Peep Show actress Olivia, 41, stars as music teacher Deborah opposite Julian who plays Maurice, an author of twisted children’s books.

The pair’s characters may be married, however they are barely together and heading for divorce.

As Maurice fights inner demons, Deborah tries to keep the family together, but becomes increasingly suspicious that her husband is in a homosexual relationship with his Japanese illustrator Shun (Will Sharpe).

The couple live in a crumbling old house with Maurice’s mother Hattie, played by Leila Hoffman, and their 25-year-old twins – Amy (Sophia di Martino) and Donald (Daniel Rigby).

Swinging from the magical to the mundane, the family and their often self-inflicted crises are surrounded by even stranger neighbours who become the agents of yet more chaos.

Writer Will, 28, commented: “This is a comedy about people who are struggling and the situations that can arise when you refuse to admit that there are problems.

“Our aim is not to make light of the darkness, but to find the light within it.”

Channel 4’s deputy head of comedy, Nerys Evans, added: “Flowers is the kind of deliciously dark comedy we love at Channel 4.

“The word dysfunctional doesn’t even come close to describing quite how brilliantly peculiar the Flowers family are.”

Flowers is due to be screened some time next year.

Source: express.co.uk – Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt to play husband and wife in new dark comedy Flowers

The Lobster gets a UK release date

Olivia+Colman+Arqiva+British+Academy+Television+kwj3-Q5odkIl Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster is to be released in the UK and Ireland on October 16 by Picturehouse Entertainment and Element Pictures respectively.

The surreal, romantic drama and winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last month, The Lobster stars Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz with a supporting cast including Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C.Reilly, Olivia Colman and Ashley Jensen.

The film is set in the near future where single people are arrested, transferred to The Hotel and obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days.

It marks the English-language debut of Greek director Lanthimos, who first came to international prominence with debut feature Dogtooth, winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Prize and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards.

Written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, producers are Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Lanthimos.

Executive producers are Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross and Sam Lavender with Isabel Davis as the lead executive for the BFI Film Fund.

The film was developed by Element and Irish finance for the film came from the Irish Film Board with Rory Gilmartin as the lead executive for the IFB.

Sold by Protagonist Pictures, the film was snapped up by Alchemy for the US having previously been picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for key territories.

Source: screendaily.com – The Lobster UK release date set

Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander join Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager

Rev co-stars Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander are to reunite in BBC1 and AMC’s adaptation of John le Carré novel The Night Manager. The pair will join confirmed cast members Hugh Laurie (House) and Tom Hiddleston (The Hollow Crown) in the drama, with Elizabeth Bedicki (The Great Gatsby) also on board.

The Night Manager – first confirmed in January – is a contemporary interpretation of le Carré’s espionage drama and is the first TV adaptation of one of his books for more than 20 years.

Following British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), the miniseries charts his recruitment by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy corners of Whitehall and Washington where “an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade.”

Pine’s mission: to infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie) which includes his girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander).

The adaptation – due in 2016 – comes over two decades after The Night Manager was first published, becoming one of the author’s best-known novels.

Produced by The Ink Factory (the team behind A Most Wanted Man), the co-production between BBC1 and AMC (the US network who brought you Breaking Bad and Mad Men), will be directed by Oscar-winner Susanne Bier and begin filming this spring.

Source: radiotimes.com – Its a Rev reunion! Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander join Tom Hiddleston in the Night Manager

Olivia Colman reveals she is pregnant with her third child

Olivia+Colman+Arqiva+British+Academy+Television+kwj3-Q5odkIl The 41-year-old actress – currently starring as Ellie Miller in ITV’s Broadchurch – has revealed she and novelist husband Ed Sinclair will welcome a baby later this year.

Olivia and Ed already have sons Finn, nine and seven-year-old Hall together and Olivia told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘We’re all very excited’.

Colman revealed the news when explaining why she will be unable to take part in a big-screen remake of her short film The Karman Line, which Spike Lee is directing.

The star, who says she has quite a while to go before the baby is born, told the paper: ‘i love Spike Lee and would certainly take his call but he’ll have to wait a while before we start anything.’

Although she captured the nation’s attention as Sophie Chapman in the side-splitting Peep Show and her role in Broadchurch has kept viewers gripped, Olivia voiced her fears about her acting future last year.

In an interview with the Sunday People, Olivia explained: ‘It’s harder to get roles as you get older.

‘I have a lot of friends that should be working and aren’t and that’s a real mystery and needs to change’.

And the Hot Fuzz star feels that it is not her acting ability that gets her parts.

She said: ‘I feel fortunate I’m not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.’

Olivia previously revealed she’s careful to make sure her husband knows he is appreciated.

‘When you’ve got children it’s easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed.

‘But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.’

Source: dailymail.co.uk – Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman, 41 reveals she is pregnant with third child

BAFTA nominated film starring Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman to be screened in cinemas

A BAFTA nominated film starring Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman is to be screened in cinemas across the UK and around the world.

The Karman Line, a moving short film directed by Northamptonshire film-maker Oscar Sharp, will tour cinemas next month as part of a national BAFTA Shorts tour.

The 24-minute long film, which is a moving story about death and loss, was shortlisted in the Best Short Live Action category in last week’s BAFTA Awards 2015.

Directed by Oscar, who is from Potterspury, the award-winning film captures the life of a mother who is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate.

The agony eventually forces her husband and daughter to come to terms with losing her.

Although Oscar narrowly missed out on a BAFTA gong, his film will now be part of a feature-length package of all of this year’s BAFTA-nominated British short films and animations which will screen in cinemas from March.

The nearest location for people in Northamptonshire to watch it will be in Milton Keynes at MK Gallery on Friday, April 3, 2015. Click here for the full list of locations the films will be appearing at.

Amanda Berry OBE, Chief Executive of BAFTA, said: “We are delighted to be bringing the work of exciting British filmmaking talent to a wider audience, and giving the shorts theatrical exposure beyond a film festival environment. The BAFTA-nominated shorts represent the best in live action and animated short-filmmaking, and it’s particularly gratifying to see individuals who BAFTA has recognised and supported early in their careers progress to our flagship Film Awards ceremony in just a few short years.”

Oscar, who grew up in Northamptonshire, studied for an MA in Drama and Philosophy at Manchester University and is now studying in the Graduate Film School at New York University.

He was a BAFTA Los Angeles Scholarship recipient in 2012.

Oscar’s credits include Sign Language which won the Virgin Media Shorts Award in 2010.

The Kármán Line has travelled to festivals worldwide winning nine prizes including Best Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards. Oscar recently signed a one-picture blind deal with Tobey Maguire’s Material Pictures.

Lisa Bryer, BAFTA-winning producer and Chair of the British Short Film jury, said: “This year’s BAFTA-nominated shorts reflect the huge diversity and strength of film production across the UK, with England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all represented. In addition to the nominated talent behind the camera, there are also some wonderful onscreen performances from relative newcomers and well-known faces, including actors from popular British shows such as Broadchurch.”

Catharine Des Forges, Director of the Independent Cinema Office, said: “Independent cinemas and their audiences are always keen to see work made by British rising talent, and we always have strong interest from exhibitors across the UK interested in screening this programme. Short films are not just a great way for talent to emerge, but an amazing form in their own right and we’re really happy to share these BAFTA-nominated (and in two cases also Oscar-nominated) films in their natural home: the cinema.”

Source: northampton-news-hp.co.uk – BAFTA nominated film by Northants film-maker Starring Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman to be screened in cinemas

Olivia Colman to appear in comedy pilot Flowers

Olivia+Colman+Arqiva+British+Academy+Television+kwj3-Q5odkIl Olivia Colman and the Mighty Boosh star Julian Barratt are to feature in a new comedy pilot, Flowers, for Channel 4.

Bafta-winning former Peep Show star Colman, who will return in the second series of ITV murder mystery Broadchurch in the new year, will play the mother of twentysomething twins in the sitcom about the ultimate dysfunctional family.

Barratt will play Colman’s husband in the comedy, written and directed by Will Sharpe, who will also appear as the family’s “home help”.

Sharpe was one of the co-directors of low budget indie film Black Pond, starring Chris Langham and Simon Amstell, which was nominated for the Bafta outstanding debut award in 2012. Currently a non-broadcast pilot, filming has just finished on the opening episode with Channel 4 hopeful that it will progress to a full series.

Channel 4 head of comedy Phil Clarke said: “It is really dark, funny and challenging – everything a Channel 4 family sitcom should be.

“It’s possibly the most dysfunctional family you will ever come across and yet somehow they still manage to function as a family. The humour is very dark but at times it’s really broad as well. It’s a very original piece – I don’t think there’s anything like it anywhere else.”

Clarke said the pilot, which is being made by Kudos, the production company behind Broadchurch, was in many respects a traditional sitcom.

“They have twins, a son and a daughter, the nanny lives at the house as well; they have neighbours and there are builders in. If it goes to a full series the builders will probably always be there,” he said.

“It’s got all the classic sitcom things and yet it is absolutely not like anything else I have read for a very, very long time.”

Clarke said he “really loved” Black Pond, a black comedy about a family who are accused of murder when a stranger comes to dinner. “Black Pond is a much darker film, this is more out and out funny,” he added.

Source: theguardian.co.uk – Olivia Colman to star in new comedy pilot Flowers

Broadchurch season 3 commissioned before season 2 airs

article-0-1E5397A300000578-315_470x740 A third series of ITV whodunnit Broadchurch has been commissioned, according to a newspaper report.

The BAFTA-winning series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman is due to return for a second run next month – and The Sun claims writer Chris Chibnall is putting the finishing touches to another season of episodes.

It is believed shooting for the third series will begin in July, in Dorset.

Chibnall is keeping plot details for the upcoming series close to his chest but has promised fans a “big story”.

The star-studded cast will once again be led by Tennant and Colman, whose detective characters spearheaded the investigation into the murder of schoolboy Danny Latimer in series one.

It is believed shooting for the third series will begin in July, in Dorset

BAFTA-winning series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman is due to return for a second run next month

A third series of ITV whodunnit Broadchurch has been commissioned, according to a newspaper report.

The BAFTA-winning series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman is due to return for a second run next month – and The Sun claims writer Chris Chibnall is putting the finishing touches to another season of episodes.

It is believed shooting for the third series will begin in July, in Dorset.

Chibnall is keeping plot details for the upcoming series close to his chest but has promised fans a “big story”.

The star-studded cast will once again be led by Tennant and Colman, whose detective characters spearheaded the investigation into the murder of schoolboy Danny Latimer in series one.

Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan will also reprise their roles as Danny’s grieving parents and Arthur Darvill is back on board as local vicar Paul Coates.

Goodness Gracious Me star Meera Syal will also appear in the new series in a “pivotal” role.

The comedian joins fellow newcomers Charlotte Rampling, James D’Arcy and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

Source: mirror.co.uk – Broadchurch series 3: New series of ITV drama ‘commissioned before season 2 has aired on TV’

Olivia Colman portrait to be hung in National Portrait Gallery

Olivia Colman shows she is well suited to glamour as she pops on a tuxedo and bow tie for a new image to be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

The Broadchurch and Rev star appears in a newly commissioned photograph to coincide with the opening of the annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the gallery.

Taken by photographer Hana Knizova, her highly styled look was chosen as a contrast to some of the more dowdy roles she has taken in recent years.

Hana was asked to create the new image after triumphing in the John Kobal New Work Award last year which is awarded to photographer under thirty whose work is featured in the Wessing exhibition, while Olivia was chosen as the subject for her outstanding contribution to British TV and film.

She has been pictured leaning back on a vintage chaise longue in an unoccupied Victorian house in London.

Simon Crocker, who judged the John Kobal award said: “We were thrilled to have the opportunity to commission a portrait of Olivia Colman. She is an outstanding actress and was a wonderful subject for Hana who delivered a compelling portrait.”

The portrait will go on display on November 10 while the prize exhibition opens a week today (November 13).

Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk – Colman takes a step up in class