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If you haven't seen The Big Door Prize, you may not expect actors Chris O'Dowd and Josh Segarra to form one of the most charming comedy parings of our time. But it makes sense, considering both are equally adept at comedy and drama. Josh Segarra is known for his hunky, sweetly naive roles in Trainwreck, The Other Two, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, but also his intense parts in Arrow and FBI. The actor of Puerto Rican descent seems miles away (literally and figuratively) from Chris O'Dowd, the soft-spoken and hilarious Irishman who can be comically adorable or unnervingly sad.

Together, though, the actors have an immediate scent of "just pure, raw sex," as O'Dowd jokes. It's truer than he thinks, though. Beginning as competitive rivals in the Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize, Dusty (O'Dowd) and Giorgio (Segarra) traverse a...

Ireland’s Deadpan Pictures (“Northern Lights”) and France’s Thalie Images are teaming up on “The Continental Method,” an ambitious spy comedy thriller set against the backdrop of the Paris riots of May 1968.

The European half-hour series is inspired by the true story of Conor O’Flaherty, a fresh-faced Irish salesman who became an unlikely spy in Paris. The twelve-part show is penned by John Morton (“Dead Still”) and Victor Lockwood (“Mental”) who are leading a writing team.

Red Arrow Studios International will kick-off pre-sales at Mipcom for territories outside of France and Ireland. Deadpan Pictures is co-producing the show with Paris-based Thalie Images, which is part of Kabo Family, a subsidiary of Asacha Media Group.

‘The Continental Method” follows Conor O’Flaherty as he arrives in Paris to sell sweaters in the fashion capital of the world. Caught up in the fervor of the times, he falls for a radical...

Chris O’Dowd is penning a Sky comedy-drama starring Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine about a Hollywood production that disturbs the peace in a fictional town in Ireland.

Small Town, Big Story has started filming on location in Ireland under a UK Equity contract and follows goings-on in Drumbán, a rural village of rattled misfits. When a major Hollywood production rolls into town, a spotlight is thrown on a secret that has been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.

Hendricks (Mad Men) is playing Wendy Patterson, a local girl done good as a hot-shot television producer, who returns to her hometown from LA with the Hollywood production in tow, while House of the Dragon’s Considine is local doctor and pillar of the community Seamus Proctor. The show also stars David Rawle, who reunites with Sky’s Moone Boy creator and co-star O’Dowd. Other castmembers are Eileen Walsh...

The actor: Actors have types, and Chris O’Dowd is no exception. And given his Irish sense of humor and the self-awareness required of regular A.V. Club interviewees, he has no issue poking fun at his own roles, from “big, slow guy” to “sitcom dad.” But like the most exciting actors working today,...

Fanny Herrero, the showrunner of hit French comedy-drama Call My Agent!, discussed the genesis of the show’s success during a panel at the Series Mania festival today.

Herrero detailed how the series, which is returning for a fifth season and a movie as well as spawning several remakes in other languages, started life in development hell.

Agent-turned producer Dominique Besnehard first began mounting the series at Canal Plus, but it didn’t progress after a few years because “it was too complicated,” according to Herrero.

“It was almost dead,” she added.

Herrero was enlisted when the show was re-developed for a public TV channel, and eventually took over as the main writer after the original team ran into further challenges. “The main difficulty was to find a way to get this small-world subject [being an agent] to be universal and not too cynical… they were worried it would not be broad enough to interest people,...

Chris O’Dowd is set to star in the upcoming Apple comedy series “The Big Door Prize,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The series 10-episode series is based on the M.O. Walsh novel of the same name. It tells the story of a small town that is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears in the grocery store, promising to reveal each resident’s true life potential.

O’Dowd will star as Dusty, a good-natured teacher and family man whose deeply average life has followed a safe and predictable path, until the appearance of the mystifying machine forces him to question his own happiness.

O’Dowd’s recent TV starring credits include the “Get Shorty” series at Epix and the short form series “State of the Union,” the latter of which earned him an Emmy in 2019. His other TV roles include “The It Crowd,” “Moone Boy,” and “Girls.” On the film side,...

Zdf Enterprises, the highly active international production and sales arm of German public broadcaster Zdf, has sealed a major multi-territory deal with Viasat World’s Epic Drama channel on “Dead Still,” continuing the macabre dramedic mystery series’ rollout in much of the world.

Backed by U.S. SVOD service Acorn TV and Irish state TV service Rte, set in 1880 Dublin and starring Michael Smiley (“Luther”), Kerr Logan (“Game of Thrones”) and Eileen O’Higgins (“Mary Queen of Scots”), “Dead Still” will have its pay TV premiere on Oct. 10 on Epic Drama when it will be made available across Central and Eastern Europe, Cis territories, the Baltic States, Malta and Turkey.

Epic Drama’s past lineup has featured some of the biggest international period dramas of the last decade, such as “Versailles,” “World on Fire” and “Das Boot.”

Russian VOD service Showjet and crime channel Polar Plus, part of French pay TV Canal Plus,...

Exclusive: CAA has inked Emmy Award-winner and BAFTA and Tony Award-nominated Chris O’Dowd.

O’Dowd will star in the upcoming Theodore Melfi-directed feature drama The Starling starring Melissa McCarthy. The Irish born actor is known for such movies as the hit Universal Paul Feig-Judd Apatow comedy Bridesmaids, Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game, Melfi’s St. Vincent, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns, Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Christopher Guest’s Mascots.

On TV he has starred in the Epix series Get Shorty opposite Ray Romano, The It Crowd, Lena Dunham’s Girls, HBO’s Family Tree and Moone Boy, which O’Dowd wrote, directed, and starred in. Moone Boy won an International Emmy Award for Best Comedy, two IFTAs for Best Entertainment Programme, and the British Comedy Award for Best Sitcom. O’Dowd also won a Primetime Emmy last year for SundanceTV’s State of the Union...

Babylon Berlin firm Beta Film has invested in fledgling British drama producer RubyRock Pictures.

The German producer and distributor has taken a minority stake in the UK company, recently set up by Zoë Rocha, former TV boss at The Fyzz Facility. The two companies will look to create, develop, finance and produce English-language series for the international market.

The move is Beta Film’s first investment in British drama production company.

RubyRock Pictures has yet to win a commission but it is developing series including The Heartless, a music drama written by Spotless writer Lucie Barât, the sister of The Libertines frontman Carl Barât and feminist horror anthology Her Horror. Rocha previously produced Channel 5 comedy Borderline and Sky’s Chris O’Dowd-fronted Moone Boy.

Moritz von Kruedener, Managing Director Beta Film, said, “Ruby Rock is an essential addition to our portfolio and a great partner to create exceptional series for the international market.

"This bloody moon better make me bloody rich." Wild Card Distribution has debuted a full-length, official UK trailer for the indie comedy Extra Ordinary, from directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year, but most importantly just won Best Film at the Galway Film Festival in Ireland this weekend. The film is about a sweet, lonely woman in rural Ireland with supernatural abilities, but hates using her "talents" and mostly just stays home. But when a washed up one-hit-wonder rock star makes a pact with the devil, and puts a spell on a local teenager, Rose must overcome her fears and save the day with her own supernatural talents. Maeve Higgins (seen on "Inside Amy Schumer" & "Moone Boy") stars as Rose, joined by Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Terri Chandler, Jamie Beamish, Emma Coleman, and Risteard Cooper. The reviews are great, it's winning awards,...

"The truth is - ghosts are around us all the time." Epic Pictures Group has debuted the first teaser trailer for an Irish indie comedy titled Extra Ordinary, which just premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this month. The story is about a sweet, lonely woman in rural Ireland with supernatural abilities, but hates using her "talents" and mostly just stays home. But when a washed up one-hit-wonder rock star makes a pact with the devil, and puts a spell on a local teenager, Rose must overcome her fears and save the day with her own supernatural talents. Maeve Higgins (seen on "Inside Amy Schumer" & "Moone Boy") stars as Rose, with Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Terri Chandler, Jamie Beamish, Emma Coleman, and Risteard Cooper. This looks like an amusing new horror comedy in the same vein as What We Do in the Shadows, with ghosts who don't do much scaring,...

Something Extra Ordinary is coming to SXSW this weekend. Meet Rose, she has supernatural abilities. And she's about to use them to help her neighborhood in what could be one of the strangest films playing the Austin fest this year. We have the first trailer and poster for you to check out.

Rose is a sweet, lovely driving instructor gifted with supernatural abilities. Set within the rural Ireland landscape, Rose has tried to come to terms with her powers, but must constantly refuse various requests to exorcise spirits from garbage cans or a pile of haunted gravel.

Things take a turn for the weird when one-hit wonder and washed up rock star Christian Winter shows up. He's made a deal with the devil, hoping to propel himself back to stardom. And in turn, he puts a hex on a local teenager. The girl's frieghtened father reaches out to Rose for help.

The 2019 recipients of the Oscar Wilde Award, now in its 14th year, amply embody the values of sponsoring organization the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, created by Trina Vargo “with a vision,” as she puts it, “of making an old relationship contemporary, and inclusive.”

Slated to be feted on Feb. 21 at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot HQ in Santa Monica are part-Irish Glenn Close, as well as Ireland-born Aidan Gillen and Chris O’Dowd. Each one’s resume would surely inspire an appreciative nod from any Hibernian. In addition, each has contributed to an important — and remarkably timely — Irish-set film of this decade: Close starred in and co-wrote 2011’s gender-shifting Victorian fable “Albert Nobbs,” while the men played in 2014’s examination of clergy abuse’s legacy, “Calvary.”

Close earned a 1982 Obie for playing the biological female posing as a male hotel butler. “I never forgot her,” the star says. “It basically took...

Irish writer/director Liam O Mochain’s third feature film, “Lost & Found,” has been picked up by Gravitas Ventures for all rights worldwide, excluding Ireland, U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

The film was recently acquired by Rialto Film Distribution for Australia and New Zealand, Film 4 and High Fliers for the U.K., and Rte TV in Ireland.

The film had its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh, and won best foreign film at the Arizona Intl. Film Festival; it also played at the Austin Film Festival last month. Gravitas Ventures will release it in theaters in North America early next year, and internationally later in 2019.

Tony Piantedosi, director of acquisitions at Gravitas Ventures, said: “Liam crafts a hilarious ensemble comedy full of both small town charm and universal appeal. ‘Lost & Found’ was a highlight of this year’s Austin Film Festival, and we look forward to...

U.K. production company George & George is partnering with Steve Coogan and Christine Langan’s Baby Cow, the companies announced Friday. The new three-year joint venture will have a first-look deal with BBC Studios.

The deal aims to capitalize on George & George founders Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan’s writing and performing experience alongside Baby Cow’s track record of developing writing talent to develop new television projects. The two companies will develop new comedy and drama series.

“These days we’ve so many platforms to watch [television] and we want to equal that with the volume of women’s stories for viewers to feast on,” said Pepperdine and Scanlan. “With the support of the best of the best at Baby Cow and BBC Studios we’re good to go.”

Pepperdine and Scanlan, who were BAFTA-nominated in 2013 for their writing on BBC medical sitcom “Getting On” alongside Jo Brand, will write,...

Mackenzie Crook is a triple threat at the Emmys as the writer, director and star of the critically acclaimed comedy “Detectorists.” He’s already won a BAFTA as the creator of this character study, in which he plays Andy, a would-be archaeologist, who spends his free time with his pal Lance (Toby Jones) in search of buried treasure.

This gentle half hour explores the friendship of two men who are misfits as well as the women in their life played by Rachael Stirling and Rebecca Callard respectively. Stirling’s mother, Diana Rigg, plays her on-screen mother in season three of this Britcom. The Emmy favorite could well reap her first bid on the comedy side for her scene-stealing supporting role.

See 2018 Emmys calendar: Two-week voting starts June 11, nominations on July 12, ceremony on September 17

The first season of “Detectorists” won Best Scripted Comedy at the BAFTAs in 2015 against three strong competitors:...

Mackenzie Crook pulls triple duty on the comedy series “Detecorists.” Besides writing and directing each of the 19 episodes, he stars as Andy, a would-be archaeologist, who spends his free time with his pal Lance (Toby Jones) in search of buried treasure. As he explained in our recent interview (watch above), he didn’t intend to wear so many hats. Rather it was his pal Ricky Gervais, with whom he’d co-starred in “The Office,” who told him that he just had to direct his scripts. “He was right. The idea of handing this over to someone else to direct after I had poured so much into it became unthinkable.”

Despite the overwhelming critical acclaim for the show (it merits a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes), Crook was content to make just two seasons of the show, as Gervais had done with “The Office.” But he thought there was more story...

In 2013 the comedy landscape on TV was as robust as ever, with 30 Rock, Veep, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Girls, Bob's Burgers, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key & Peele, Portlandia, Archer, etc. So many great choices.

It was the summer of that year and a little thing known as Netflix was barely starting to flex its muscles on original content — and a little older entity, but still a new player to originals, Hulu, was up and running. Outside of network shows (don't call them reruns), not many people knew what was ...

Dillon has been a Production and Development Exec. at the Irish Film Board for ten years.

Sarah Dillon has been appointed development manager at the Wrap Fund, a major new initiative to support production industry in and attract projects to the West of Ireland.

Ms Dillon will take up the new role following ten years working as Production and Development Executive at the Irish Film Board, where she worked across various documentary, feature and animation projects.

The Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund - or Wrap Fund - was launched in November 2017 at the FÍS TV Summit in Galway City.

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To mark the release of Netflix’s 90s-set Everything Sucks!, here are a dozen more recommended nostalgic comedies…

The 90s felt so good that some of us never left. We’re still there, wearing Converse All-Stars, drinking blackcurrant Hooch and listening to Natalie Imbruglia. When we zone out in the monthly budgetary planning meeting, we’re doodling band logos and daydreaming about Alicia Silverstone in that Aerosmith video.

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This Friday welcomes new nineties-set high school comedy Everything Sucks! to Netflix. A sweet comedy set in the real-life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, it’s the story of two outsider kids Luke and Kate, a would-be filmmaker and the principal’s daughter. It’s piled with retro references that will wrap around nineties kids like a warm blanket (and,...

When the legendary screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz got to Hollywood, he sent a telegram to his friend Ben Hecht back home in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots." That's been a fantasy for hustlers ever since – the idea of Hollywood as a motherlode of suckers waiting to be fleeced by the right guy with the right scheme.

On Get Shorty, Miles Daly wants to be that right guy – a Nevada gangster with an Irish accent, bluffing his way into the movie business.

Ireland’s largest and leading studio, which housed Oscar winner Braveheart, is now up for sale.

Ardmore Studios, Ireland’s best-known film and TV studio, is being placed on the market, the facility’s board of directors announced today.

The Studios has housed Irish and international features including Braveheart, My Left Foot and Excalibur. In more recent years, it has housed TV shows such as Penny Dreadful,The Tudors, and Moone Boy.

Productions currently on site include Mel Gibson feauture The Professor and the Madman and TV drama Into the Badlands.

In 2016, Ardmore Studios expanded its studio footprint and opened The Film Factory, a 47,000 sq. ft. studios in Bray.

Ossie Kilkenny and Paul McGuinness, both former U2 managers, are the majority shareholders in Ardmore and have owned the Studios for almost 30 years. Ibi Corporate Finance is acting on behalf of Ardmore in the sale process.

Established in 1958 and located on 18 acres in Bray, County Wicklow...

Acorn Media Enterprises is continuing its move into originals, teaming with Blinder Films, Dcd Rights and RTÉ as the North American co-producing partner on Irish legal drama Striking Out. The series will premiere on Ireland’s RTÉ in early 2017 and make its U.S. debut on Acorn TV next year. The four-part drama is eyed as a returnable and centers on the tumultuous professional and personal life of Dublin-based solicitor Tara (Moone Boy‘s Amy Huberman) and her fledgling law…...

Festival guests will include director Jim Sheridan and actress Ruth Negga.

Netflix-acquired war-drama The Siege of Jadotville - which tells the true story of a battalion under attack in the Congo in the 1960s - leads a strong line-up of Irish cinema at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh (July 5 - 10).

The film stars Jamie Dornan as Commandant Pat Quinlan, who led an Irish battalion of United Nations soldiers during a tense stand-off against local troops and foreign mercenaries in the Congo in 1961.

The Parallel Film-produced title, a directorial debut by Richie Smyth based on the novel by Irish journalist Declan Power, will have a special screening at the Fleadh.

It is one of several Irish films that will bow at the Fleadh, which runs from July 5th-10th. The festival will also focus on world cinema and Finnish cinema. Guests include director Jim Sheridan, actress Ruth Negga and screenwriter Kirsten Smith.

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Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan will return in series 2 of Stefan Golaszewski's very funny, very tender sitcom Mum...

Great news for fans of BBC Two's warm-hearted sitcom Mum: Cathy, Michael, Kelly and co. will all be back for a second series.

BBC Two has confirmed that a further six episodes of the beautifully balanced comedy will be filmed in 2017.  

The first series, which concluded tonight on BBC Two, spanned a year in the life of the recently widowed Cathy (Lesley Manville). It was a deft combination of subtle human insight, outrageous characters and an involving understated romantic story with terrific performances from Manville and Peter Mullan.

Mum was created by Stefan Golaszewski and shares the single location trick of his previous sitcom Him & Her. Instead of Steve and Becky's messy flat, its episodes take place entirely in Cathy's suburban semi, where she's attempting to...

New projects from Evgeny Ruman [pictured], Lav Diav, Ian Fitzgibbon and Frances Bodomo to attend.Scroll down for full list of projects

Evgeny Ruman, Lav Diav, Ian Fitzgibbon and Joko Anwar will be among the directors presenting new projects at the third edition of the Paris Co-production Village in June.

A joint venture between Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs Elysées Film Festival, the event will unfold June 8-10 in Paris as part of the latter event’s Industry Days. Its aim is to connect international film-makers and producers with French production and sales partners.

The line-up for Us in Progress has also been unveiled featuring seven projects including Easy Living by Adam Keleman who was assistant director on Brooklyn.

The central Co-production Village selection features 12 projects, hailing from Europe, Asia and Latin America, the Us and Israel.

Israeli film-maker Evgeny Ruman will present Golden Voices, his third film after The Man In The Wall which played...

Henry Normal, co-founder and CEO of Baby Cow Productions, the indie he set up with Steve Coogan in 1999, is exiting. Coogan will assume a broader role as part of the transition, and BBC Worldwide, which already is part-owner, will increase its stake to 73%. The prolific company’s credits include TV series Gavin And Stacey, The Mighty Boosh, Moone Boy, and Alan Partridge. Normal has executive produced all of the Baby Cow’s output and was also executive producer on Philomena…...

Henry Normal, co-founder and CEO of Baby Cow Productions, the indie he set up with Steve Coogan in 1999, is exiting. Coogan will assume a broader role as part of the transition, and BBC Worldwide, which already is part-owner, will increase its stake to 73%. The prolific company’s credits include TV series Gavin And Stacey, The Mighty Boosh, Moone Boy, and Alan Partridge. Normal has executive produced all of the Baby Cow’s output and was also executive producer on Philomena…...

A four-part adaptation of short stories penned by Neil Gaiman, Likely Stories will be produced by Sid Gentle Films for Sky Arts. Nick Cave 20,000 Days On Earth helmers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are directing. Jarvis Cocker is scoring the half hours which star George MacKay (Pride), Tom Hughes (The Game), Johnny Vegas (Moone Boy), Kenneth Cranham (Maleficent) and Rita Tushingham (Doctor Zhivago). Set in London, the “dark and strange” stories center on the act of…...

Below, you'll find a list of recent/current/upcoming scripted TV shows on Comedy Central, DirecTV, FX, Fxx, Hallmark, and Hulu. To see a series' ratings (if they're available), click the links in the middle column.

Shows include 11.22.63, Adam Devine's House Party, American Crime Story, American Horror Story, The Americans, Anger Management, Another Period, Archer, The Art of More, The Awesomes, Axe Cop, Baskets, The Bastard Executioner, Better Things, Big Time in Hollywood Fl, Billy & Billie, Brickleberry, Broad City, Cassius and Clay, Casual, Cedar Cove, Chesapeake Shores, The Comedians, Deadbeat, Difficult People, Drunk History, East Los High, Fargo, Full Circle, Good Witch, The Half Hour, Idiotsitter, Inside Amy Schumer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jo, Justified, Key & Peele, Kingdom, Kroll Show, The League, Louie, Lucas Bros. Moving Co., Man Seeking Woman, Married, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, The Mindy Project, Moonbeam City, Moone Boy, The Path,...

Red Dwarf fans are used to having to wait between series, and the gap between X and XI has been tougher than biting into a space weevil.

But spin our nipple nuts and send us to Alaska - the waiting is almost over as as Rimmer, Lister, Kryten and Cat will be back in 2016 for a brand new run. Here's everything you need to know about the small rouge one.

When is it back?

There are no exact dates yet, but XI is expected to land on Dave in the summer of 2016 at the earliest.

Writer and co-creator Doug Naylor recently denied reports that it could be as early as the spring, so we could be waiting up to a year for its launch.

Filming will begin in October

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— Robert Llewellyn (@bobbyllew) October 12, 2015

Red Dwarf will shoot two brand new series back-to-back,...

Sky's Entertainment head Stuart Murphy is stepping down after six and a half years in the role.

Murphy was responsible for launching and overseeing Sky Atlantic, and oversaw channels Sky1, Sky Arts and Sky Living.

It has not been announced who will replace Murphy, and the departing head has signed a content deal with Sky to develop his own scripts.

Murphy said: "My sadness at leaving a company I love is tempered by my immense pride in what we have achieved together. Sky is a company in rude health, bursting with ideas, creativity, and sheer fun and I leave the department in the hands of colleagues I love and admire.

"For 14 of the past 17 years I have been running TV channels, including a fantastic six and a half years with Sky. TV has been a huge part of my life but with our entertainment in great shape now feels the...

This magical, exquisite feature about a boy living on a remote Irish island uses bravura design and storytelling to convey a subtle and meaningful story

Like The Secret of Kells, director Tomm Moore’s first feature, Song of the Sea blends Celtic legends, bravura design and animation, and intelligent storytelling that understands but never patronises young viewers, to create an exquisite and rewarding work. In a vaguely 20th-century Ireland, pugnacious young Ben (voiced by David Rawle of Moone Boy) lives on a remote island with his lonely lighthouse-keeper father (Brendan Gleeson) and six-year-old kid sister Saoirse, a mute who, like the children’s lost mother, is a half-human, half-seal selkie.

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Exclusive: The star of last weekend’s Us release Jimmy’s Hall from Ken Loach has come aboard Kpi Entertainment and Deadpan Pictures’ Ireland-set contemporary generational drama.

Evzen Kolar and Deborah Kolar of La-based Kpi Entertainment and Paul Donovan of Dublin’s Deadpan Pictures have targeted a late 2015/early 2016 start outside Dublin and in Liverpool on the sub-€4m UK-Ireland co-production.

Andrew Baird will direct Never Walk Alone from Christian O’Reilly’s screenplay that centres on three generations of men in an Irish community.

Ward (pictured in Jimmy’s Hall) will play Eamon, a man haunted by his childhood decision not to pursue trials with Liverpool Fc who pressures his talented teenage son into taking a similar opportunity.

The producers are scouting a name actor to play the estranged grandfather, whose timely return to the fold sparks a plan. Kpi and Deadpan are also reviewing potential sales agents.

Ward’s credits include Blood Cells and The...

Channel 4 has dropped the British Comedy Awards in order to focus on investing in new comedy series.

The channel has held the exclusive broadcast rights to the ceremony since 2010, but has decided against renewing the deal.

According to Broadcast, a Channel 4 spokeswoman said: "After four great years on the channel we will be saying goodbye to the British Comedy Awards. Our focus moving forward is investing in new comedy series."

Channel 4 originally signed a three-year deal to air the 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of the awards show, before extending the contract for two more years.

Last year's event saw Jack Whitehall walk away with the top prize for the third consecutive year, after he was voted King of Comedy by the public.

Best TV Comedy Actor went to Harry Enfield, while Katherine Parkinson won Best TV Comedy Actress and Moone Boy won Best Sitcom.

Eddie Redmayne has won yet another award for his portrayal of acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

Redmayne scooped the Irish Film and Television Awards' prize for Best International Actor, adding to his Oscar, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe awards.

Oscar winner Julianne Moore was also honoured with the Best International Actress prize for Still Alice at this weekend's awards ceremony.

Meanwhile, children's animated film Song of the Sea scooped the Best Irish Film prize.

Tomm Moore's feature is based on Celtic myth of the Selkie and follows brother and sister Ben and Saoirse, who have to figure out a mystery about their late mother. Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan and Moone Boy's David Rawle lend their voices to the movie.

Song of the Sea was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, but ultimately lost out to Big Hero 6.

Other winners at...

Digital Spy presents a list of the winners and nominees at this year's House of Fraser BAFTA Television Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 10 in Central London:

BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as they happened: Live blog

Leading Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock

Toby Jones - Marvellous

James Nesbitt - The Missing

Jason Watkins - The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies - Winner

Leading Actress

Georgina Campbell - Murdered By My Boyfriend - Winner

Keeley Hawes - Line of Duty

Sarah Lancashire - Happy Valley

Sheridan Smith - Cilla

Supporting Actor

Adeel Akhtar - Utopia

James Norton - Happy Valley

Stephen Rea - The Honourable Woman - Winner

Ken Stott - The Missing

Supporting Actress

Gemma Jones - Marvellous - Winner

Vicky McClure - Line of Duty

Amanda Redman - Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

Charlotte Spencer - Glue

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Ant & Dec - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night...

Real comedy still happens on late night, we can prove it. If you like Conan comedy gold, Fallon friendliness, cutesy Corden, list-making Letterman, kneedy Kimmel, and all the rest, I hope you’ll enjoy this column too.

Last night on late night, Conan spoke with Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander and Moone Boy‘s Chris O’Dowd, Nathan Lane serenaded Letterman with an original song called “I’m dead inside,” James Corden played human piñata with LL Cool J and Kaley-Cuoco Sweeting, Sofia Vergara and Jimmy Fallon played “catchphrase” on The Tonight Show, and Adam DeVine drank beers in a Man Show toast with Jimmy Kimmel! Plus, Cinco de Mayo jokes.

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Day after Cinco de Mayo, Drunko de Gringo Endangered humans. Good luck finding one of these, “an angry old white guy with no strong opinion about Barack Obama”.

Because the 2016 Presidential race is gearing up and more candidates...

The insanely talented Chris O’Dowd is coming back to Hulu for a third and final season of Moone Boy, and if you aren’t familiar with the show yet, you owe it to yourself to catch up before May 13th.

Also featuring the surprising abilities of David Rawle as young Martin Moone, the show revolves around Martin and his imaginary friend (O’Dowd) trying to figure out life in a small Irish town in the ’80s.

After two seasons, the only question about the show is why everyone in the cast isn’t famous.

Head over to Hulu now, where you can watch the first two seasons, because the show is finally getting in a bump in awareness, and you don’t want to be left out.

Hulu Original Moone Boy to Return for A Sidesplitting Third Season

Final Season of the 2015 BAFTA TV Award Nominee for Best Situation...

Eight years as an ER surgeon may have been tough on Eriq La Salle — but it will be a cakewalk compared to life Under the Dome.

The TV vet has joined the Season 3 cast of CBS’ sci-fi drama, EW.com reports.

La Salle will play Hektor Martin, a cutthroat CEO of the energy company run by Barbie’s (Mike Vogel) father. He previously directed a Season 2 episode, “The Fall,” and will get behind the camera again for Season 3’s ninth episode.

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Since ending his run as ER‘s Dr.

The Imitation Game star has been nominated for his leading role in BBC drama Sherlock.Scroll down for full list of nominations

Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for the third time as leading actor in his BBC role of Sherlock. This marks his sixth nomination for this category in his career.

Cumberbatch received a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier this year for his role as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.

The nominations, announced on Wednesday by actors Freddie Fox and Amanda Abbington, place Cumberbatch in a category alongside three others.

Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America, The Hunger Games) is recognized for his role in Marvellous. The show received two other nominations including Single Drama and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.

James Nesbitt (The Hobbit) also received a leading actor nomination for The Missing, in addition to Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.

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Line of Duty, Happy Valley and The Missing are among the leading nominations for the House of Fraser BAFTA Television Awards 2015.

The BBC series' stars Keeley Hawes, Vicky McClure, Sarah Lancashire, James Norton, James Nesbitt and Ken Stott have also been recognised in the acting categories.

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There were also three nominations for the Neil Baldwin biopic Marvellous - Single Drama, Leading Actor for Toby Jones and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.

Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies's Jason Watkins make up the Leading Actor category, while Sheridan Smith and Georgina Campbell complete the Actress field for Cilla and Murdered by My Boyfriend respectively.

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Elsewhere, Harry & Paul's Story of the Twos, The Wrong Mans, Moone Boy and Detectorists will compete for the Scripted Comedy prize.

Digital Spy presents a list of the nominees at this year's House of Fraser BAFTA Television Awards, which will take place on Sunday, May 10:

Leading Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock

Toby Jones - Marvellous

James Nesbitt - The Missing

Jason Watkins - The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

Leading Actress

Georgina Campbell - Murdered By My Boyfriend

Keeley Hawes - Line of Duty

Sarah Lancashire - Happy Valley

Sheridan Smith - Cilla

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Supporting Actor

Adeel Akhtar - Utopia

James Norton - Happy Valley

Stephen Rea - The Honourable Woman

Ken Stott - The Missing

Supporting Actress

Gemma Jones - Marvellous

Vicky McClure - Line of Duty

Amanda Redman - Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

Charlotte Spencer - Glue

Entertainment Performance

Ant & Dec - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Leigh Francis - Celebrity Juice

Graham Norton...

Code of a Killer: ITV, 9pm

Part one in a new drama series based on the true story of a pioneering scientist (John Simm) and a detective (David Threlfall) who worked together on one of the biggest achievements in modern policing - the ability to read an individual's DNA fingerprint.

Gotham: Channel 5, 9pm

The story of Gotham before the Dark Knight continues.

Bullock and Gordon continue their investigation into Gerald Crane, Fish Mooney attempts to build a reputation in prison and Bruce tries to learn more about his father.

Moone Boy: Sky1, 9pm

Final episode of the third series of the Chris O'Dowd-starring comedy about a young boy and his imaginary friend.

It looks like Granddad has an imaginary friend of his own, who turns up to help him complete his bucket list, with the help of Martin, Sean and Crunchy Haystacks.

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Line of Duty, Casualty and Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse have won at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2013-2014.

The event - which honours excellence across all genres of television programming - took place at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday (March 17), hosted by John Sergeant.

Line of Duty picked up Best Drama Series, Best Actress went to Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire and Best Actor was won by Tom Hollander (A Poet in New York).

Casualty beat Coronation Street and EastEnders to claim Best Soap, while comedy Harry & Paul's Story of the Twos received two awards from its three nominations.

Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman also took home Entertainment Performance, The Graham Norton Show won for Entertainment Programme and The Island With Bear Grylls triumphed in the Popular, Factual and Features category.

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Chris O'Dowd has admitted that he is not sure whether a Us adaptation of Moone Boy will work.

The Bridesmaids star, who is currently writing a Us script after ABC picked up a pilot, told Radio Times that the situation of the show will be the same.

"We've taken the basic premise - a working-class family where the kid has an imaginary friend - but we're setting it in the Midwest, not Boyle," O'Dowd explained.

"I don't know if it will work, to be honest. The tone on network television in America is so different, particularly for comedy.

"It needs to be a lot warmer and Moone Boy is already very warm. If you're not careful it can become saccharine."

Moone Boy follows the story of Martin Moone and his imaginary friend as he grows up in rural Ireland. The character of Martin is based on a younger O'Dowd.

O'Dowd,...

Arthur & George: ITV, 9pm

Martin Clunes delivers a strong and measured performance in this new ITV drama, playing Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.

Adapted from Julian Barnes's novel, Arthur & George is based on real events, following Conan Doyle as he fights to free a young man (Arsher Ali) falsely accused of a violent crime.

Mom: ITV2, 9pm

The critics' favourite Us sitcom starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney returns to the UK with its second season.

Back with a double-bill, Mom continues the exploits of single mother Christy (Faris) and her no-nonsense mother Bonnie (Janney).

Moone Boy: Sky1, 9pm

Chris O'Dowd's charming sitcom about a young boy who gets through life with the help of his imaginary friend returns tonight.

One week after her superb Catastrophe ended, Sharon Horgan is back on our screens with a guest spot in this opening episode.

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How freaked out would you be if someone's invisible, imaginary friend turned out to be real? Very, we'd say.

Members of the public were tricked into thinking just that in a prank to promote the forthcoming third series of Sky1's Moone Boy.

Moone Boy sees Chris O'Dowd play the imaginary friend of 12-year-old boy Martin Moone (David Rawle).

The third series of the show starts on Monday, March 2 at 9pm on Sky1.

O'Dowd and wife Dawn O'Porter welcomed their first child earlier this year.

Watch a trailer for Moone Boy series three below:...

Sir Terry Wogan, Sharon Horgan and John Sessions have joined the cast of Moone Boy.

They will star in the forthcoming third series of the Sky1 sitcom, which premieres on March 2.

Moone Boy was created and co-written by Chris O'Dowd, who also stars in the show.

Wogan plays a TV host on the show, while Horgan plays a Yoga-loving entrepreneur, and Sessions plays conspiracy theorist Dr Steven Gnot.

Wogan recently made headlines when he claimed that Conchita Wurst turned last year's Eurovision Song Contest into "a freak show".

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan on Catastrophe: 'We want people to laugh'

Watch Chris O'Dowd and David Rawle discuss Moone Boy below:...

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's new Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe is a deeply funny, down-to-earth look at relationships...

Sick of honey-sweet TV portrayals of relationships and hackneyed sitcom clichés about the drudgery of marriage, Sharon Horan (Pulling, Dead Boss, Free Agents) and stand-up Rob Delaney (Burning Love, Larry King, basically the king of Twitter) wrote and star in Catastrophe. It’s a deeply funny, down-to-earth story of two people whose strings-free hook-up is fast-tracked due to an unplanned pregnancy, and their attempts to stay their accelerated course.

Deftly balancing sharp humour with naturalistic performances and genuine warmth spiked by the odd disgusting moment, Catastrophe is a solid addition to Channel 4’s comedy line-up. We chatted to writer/actors Horgan and Delaney about avoiding schmaltz, working with Carrie Fisher, the influence of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, and discover that Rob Delaney can’t pronounce the word ‘treacle’…

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