Richard Armitage Hannibal season 3: First look at Francis Dolarhyde (video)

DIGITAL SPY
By Ben LeeFriday, May 22 2015, 8:22am EDT



 A new Hannibal trailer has given the first look at Francis Dolarhyde.

Richard Armitage plays the serial killer known as The Tooth Fairy in the NBC drama, which returns to TV next month.

"I didn't know about him until I received the information from everyone else, who gasped and said, 'Oh, you're playing the Red Dragon', and I sort of said, 'I don't really know what it means'," Armitage says in the promo.

"And then I went in search of the book and found out what it really meant."

The trailer also provides rather spoilery glimpses at Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bedelia du Maurier (Gillian Anderson) in Europe.


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‘Hobbit’ Star Richard Armitage to Play Toothy Killer on NBC’s ‘Hannibal’

THE WRAP
TV | By Travis Reilly on January 13, 2015 @ 12:34 pm

“The Hobbit” star Richard Armitage has joined the cast of NBC’s “Hannibal,” a spokesperson for the network told TheWrap.

He will play Francis Dolarhyde, a.k.a. the Tooth Fairy, on Season 3 of the psychological horror series, adapted from Thomas Harris’s popular novels “Hannibal,” “Hannibal Rising” and “The Red Dragon.” He is slated for a six-episode run.

“The Hobbit” star Richard Armitage has joined the cast of NBC’s “Hannibal,” a spokesperson for the network told TheWrap.

He will play Francis Dolarhyde, a.k.a. the Tooth Fairy, on Season 3 of the psychological horror series, adapted from Thomas Harris’s popular novels “Hannibal,” “Hannibal Rising” and “The Red Dragon.” He is slated for a six-episode run.

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Ray Stevenson: European Crime Drama 'Crossing Lines' Gets Second Season

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
7:21 AM PDT 8/29/2013 by Scott Roxborough

Ray Stevenson and Carrie-Anne Moss will be among the guest stars on the new season of the procedural.

BERLIN – The European crime procedural Crossing Lines, a summer primetime series on NBC, has been greenlighted by its European backers for a second season.

German producer Tandem Communications and Ed Bernero's Bernero Productions will begin shooting season two of Crossing Lines on Sept. 22. The new season will expand from 10 to 12 episodes and will shoot on location in France, the Czech Republic, Monte Carlo and Bulgaria.

Created by Bernero, a TV procedural veteran whose credits include Criminal Minds and Third Watch, Crossing Lines follows a special police unit of the International Criminal Court that investigates serial criminals that cross over European borders.

Season two will see the return of Crossing Lines regulars William Fichtner, Donald Sutherland, Marc Lavoine, Tom Wlaschiha, Gabriella Pession and Richard Flood alongside actress Lara Rossi, who was introduced near the end of season one as a new member of the investigative team.

Season two will also feature several high-profile guest stars, among them The Matrix and Vegas actress Carrie-Anne Moss and Irish actor Ray Stevenson (Thor, Dexter). 

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'True Blood's' Stephen Moyer to Co-Star in NBC's 'Sound of Music'

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
10:42 AM PDT 8/23/2013 by Philiana Ng

True Blood's Stephen Moyer will star in NBC's The Sound of Music. 

Carrie Underwood to Play Maria von Trapp in NBC's 'Sound of Music'

The British actor will appear opposite Carrie Underwood in the Dec. 5 live holiday production, NBC announced Friday.

Moyer will portray decorated World War I hero Capt. Georg Von Trapp, the single father of seven children. Living in Austria on the cusp of World War II, the militaristic but warm-hearted Von Trapp engages a young governess, Maria (Underwood), whom he hires to take care of his children.

Moyer's casting comes after the actor-director wrapped a three-night July run at the Hollywood Bowl in the musical production of Chicago, where he played lawyer Billy Flynn.

The three-hour production is based on the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music,
which starred Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. The play won the Tony Award as best musical, with Martin winning as best actress. The 1965 Sound of Music film adaptation starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, going on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture.


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Dear Jack Davenport: I love you - By thegoodshipdestiel at 6:00 pm, July 5, 2013 | Reviewed by Karen Rought (HYPABLE)

With the recent cancellation of NBC’s Smash, I can no longer look forward to seeing the marvelous British actor Jack Davenport on my television screen.

I have been actively following his career since the first time I stumbled upon BBC’s Coupling one fateful day many years ago and have always been pleased to see him pop up in various series and movies.

I consider him to be one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood and sincerely hope that no longer being committed to a series gives him ample time to attack new projects. I will certainly be on the lookout for his next starring role, but in the meantime I would like to share with those who may be unaware some of the many reasons that Jack Davenport is awesome.

#2 – He was so likeable that he wrote himself into a huge movie franchise

From the sassy Commodore in The Curse of the Black Pearl to the self-sacrificing Admiral in At World’s End, this bad guy turned good guy turned drunk guy turned good guy is hard not to love. While Norrington was only intended to be in the first film, the character was so liked by audiences and critics that he was kept around far longer. Props must go to Jack Davenport, who made us love him even when he was trying to hang our beloved anti-hero.

#1 – He made some of the best observational relationship rants you never would

If you have not seen this show, you have no idea what you are missing. I have seen every episode numerous times and it never stops being hysterical. Before Steven Moffat helmed Doctor Who, he penned this beloved British sitcom in the early 2000s. Jack Davenport plays Steve, one of six friends who get themselves into some of the stickiest situations you could imagine. The dialogue, the acting, and the plots of this brilliant series will have you laughing until your sides hurt.

TO READ REASONS #3, 4, 5 AND 6 GO TO:

http://www.hypable.com/2013/07/05/dear-jack-davenport-i-love-you/

Game of Thrones Parody - GAME OF DESKS - Jimmy Fallon Late Night

‘Downton Abbey’ creator will produce American renaissance drama for NBC By Emily Yahr (WASHINGTON POST)

Tough luck for PBS — Julian Fellowes, the creator of the network’s hit ”Downton Abbey,” has decided his next project will go to...NBC.

NBC and Universal Television announced Tuesday that they have signed a deal with Fellowes to create and produce his next drama series. Titled “The Gilded Age,” the show takes place in late 19th-century New York, and is an “epic tale of the princes of the American Renaissance.”

The deal with NBC makes sense, given that “Downton” is co-produced by Carnival/Masterpiece, in association with NBCUniversal.

“Downton Abbey” has been a big ratings-getter for PBS, as the second season finale averaged 5.4 million viewers in February. That’s about how many people some NBC dramas tend to attract, right around the same numbers for audiences watching “Parenthood” and “Grimm,” and slightly lower than the current season average of “Law & Order: SVU.”

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Hugh Grant On Fatherhood, His New Film And Why He Hates Trust Funds (VIDEO) (HUFF POST 50)

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Actor Hugh Grant, 51, recently traded in his traditional romantic roles for something a bit more animated. Grant has loaned his voice to the character of a pirate captain in the animated film "The Pirates! Band of Misfits." Grant stopped by the "Today" show to discuss his humorous new film and what it was like working with news anchor, Al Roker -- who voices a pirate character who loves kittens.

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LORD JIMMY FALLON IN ‘DOWNTON SIXBEY’ By Leah Rozen | Posted on Monday, April 16th, 2012 (ANGLOPHENIA)

Called Downton Sixbey, it transposes the hit British TV series to Studio 6B, the Manhattan studio in Rockefeller Center in which Fallon shoots his weeknight talk show. He plays Lord Crawley and, as a bonus, Brooke Shields and Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen pop up in cameos as Crawley family members.

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"Cheers" Actor Co-Directs Broadway Hit, "Peter and the Starcatcher" by Roger Friedman, Contributor (FORBES)

What a terrible way to get you, dear reader, into this story.

But Roger Rees, who played British magnate Robin Colcord on “Cheers,” is the co-director (with Alex Timbers) of “Peter and the Starcatcher” on Broadway.

The hilarious and magnificent play with music opened on Sunday night, and it’s a winner. Christian Borle, from the NBC series “Smash” and a long list of Broadway credits, literally steals the show, the theater and everything around him as the comic villain in this sort of re-telling or new-telling of the tale of Peter became Peter Pan.

This a big season of “new” Broadway stars like Borle, Steve Kazee, Jeremy Jordan, Josh Young, and, of course, Michael Cerveris.


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Clive Owen, NBC interview for The Intruders

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Downton Abbey - highly addictive according to NBC (HUFFINGTON POST)

Downton Abbey: OOOPS! and John Carter flops (LOS ANGELES TIMES)

DOWNTON ABBEY
Oops? Did NBC blow an opportunity to have "Downton Abbey," the British import that has been a hit in the U.S. on PBS?

The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that the show is produced by NBC sister company Britain's Carnival Films, and says the network passed on it, "believing that American audiences wouldn't have the appetite for a very British historical drama set in a country manor in Edwardian England."

That said, the story offers little evidence that NBC ever considered the show. A spokesperson at NBC told the Inquirer that the decision not to air the show was made by a previous administration. Beyond that there are no comments in the story -- on the record or on background -- from anyone from the previous administration or at Carnival saying it had been shopped to NBC at all.

JOHN CARTER
John Carter" a non-starter. Walt Disney Co.'s "John Carter" -- one of the biggest bets in movie history -- opened with a disappointing $30.6 million at the box office, finishing a distant second behind Universal's "The Lorax," which earned almost $40 million in its second weekend of release.

"John Carter" is projected to lose as much as $165 million, according to one Wall Street analyst. The only good news for Disney is that "John Carter" wasn't the only flop of the weekend. The horror movie "Silent House" and the comedy "A Thousand Words" also bombed. Box office coverage from the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Movie City News.


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