‘Luther’ Returns to BBC America in 2015

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Golden Globe®-winning and Emmy-nominated (and one of People’s Sexiest Man issue cover stars!) Idris Elba makes a welcome return to BBC AMERICA in 2015 to reprise his role of DCI John Luther, the murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.

Luther will return as a two-part event special and will film in and around London in March and will premiere later next year on BBC AMERICA.

While you wait for it to return, watch it HERE.

BAFTA Awards: ‘12 Years A Slave’ Wins Best Film But ‘Gravity’ Carries Most Weight With Six Total Nods; Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cate Blanchett Take Actor Wins; ‘American Hustle’ Scores 3 Including For Jennifer Lawrence

DEADLINE LONDON
By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:58 UK

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave rallied from a slow stat to win the Best Film award tonight at the 62nd BAFTA Film Awards in London. The slave drama from Fox Searchlight had 10 nominations but won just two awards, after Chiwetel Ejiofor took the Leading Actor prize for playing Solomon Northrup. Despite the marquee victory in the last major kudofest before the Oscars, it still seemed as though the night belonged to Warner Bros’ Gravity. The space drama picked up a leading six wins from its 11 overall nominations, including for Outstanding British Film — which will keep the debate going about just how British the pic is. Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director and the pic cleaned up in the craft categories, taking Sound, Cinematography and Special Visual Effects in addition to a nod for Steven Price’s Original Score. The BAFTA crowd at the packed Royal Opera House in Covent Garden exploded with each win for the movie, which had a leading 11 nominations going into the night.

Still, the 12 Years A Slave victory tonight maintains the film’s front-runner status going into the Oscars on March 2; the film also won the Golden Globe for Motion Picture-Drama. Many feel the Academy will lean the same way, honoring Gravity in the craft categories but not for the Best Picture. The two films have been going head to head all awards season, even scrapping to a rare tie in the PGA Awards contest. “It’s very important,” McQueen said backstage after the victory. “The way the public here — but not just here, in the U.S. — by going to see the picture, means a hell of a lot.” Added producer Brad Pitt: “This is an excuse for us to all get to gather and say job well done. We’re very proud of our work here, and it means a lot to us because of the people we got to work with.”

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COLIN FIRTH to star in "King's Speech" sequel (Youtube)

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DOWNTON Abbey could burn down in a future series according to the hit show’s producer. By: James Desborough Published: Sun, February 24, 2013 (EXPRESS)

Golden Globe award-winning Gareth Neame has hinted the Crawleys could be left homeless as their world slowly crumbles in front of viewers.

In the past major characters have been killed off and the stately pile could be the next victim.

Gareth said: “The first line Julian Fellowes wrote in the original script and indeed the pitch for the show talked about this great house that stands in this great park and everything it symbolises looks as though it would stand for a thousand years, but it won’t.

"The whole point about this is that it is the end of this era and that has always been hanging over the characters… the place and lifestyle we depict vanishes within a few years.

“So anything can really happen. It is coming out of its heyday and it is going into decline.”

READ MORE:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/379813/Future-series-could-see-Downton-Abbey-burn-down

From 'Sherlock' To 'Star Trek' For Cumberbatch (NPR)

LONDON (AP) — Benedict Cumberbatch has had a busy 24 hours.

The British actor was nominated for a Golden Globe, chased by the paparazzi in London and unveiled the first nine minutes of the new "Star Trek" movie Friday.

At a special IMAX presentation of the footage in London, Cumberbatch's menacing character John Harrison was introduced at the beginning of the much-anticipated "Star Trek Into Darkness."

The sequel kicks off at a fast pace, with Captain Kirk's trademark quips, a volcano erupting and Spock in grave danger during a mission to save a planet.

Cumberbatch was not allowed to reveal much about the plot, but the 36-year-old did admit that he auditioned for the role of Harrison — who he describes as "a phenomenal one-man weapon of mass destruction" — on an iPhone in his friend's kitchen.

Fans wanting to see the footage can catch it in front of selected IMAX 3D screenings worldwide of "The Hobbit," beginning Friday.

"Star Trek Into Darkness," directed by J.J. Abrams, opens next May.

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