Ed Sheeran is Top Gear’s next Star in a Reasonably Priced Car: BBC releases photo
West Yorkshire-born singer–songwriter Ed Sheeran, 23, is the next celebrity to appear on BBC2’s Top Gear. Sheeran will be the long-running show’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car in the next episode to air in the UK on Sunday, January 25. Sheeran, who does not have a driving licence, piloted the Vauxhall Astra […]
Video: Kate Moss reveals her 2014 Topshop collection at Oxford Street store
Supermodel Kate Moss launched her latest Kate Moss for Topshop collection at the chain’s flagship store on Oxford Street, London. Radio One’s Nick Grimshaw MCed the event, with plenty of press and fans waiting outside the store. Grimshaw called Moss an ‘icon’, while shoppers got a glimpse of the new range, which went on […]
BBC releases trailer for An Adventure in Space and Time, as Doctor Who celebrations continue
Building on the Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebrations is a fact-based drama on BBC2, An Adventure in Space and Time, written by Mark Gatiss. The trailer was released today by the BBC. The film looks at the creation of Doctor Who, and the involvement of producer Verity Lambert, director Waris Hussein, actor William Hartnell, […]
Paul McGann appears in ‘The Night of the Doctor’ as Doctor Who’s cultural impact felt
As the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who nears—its première is on November 23, along with an international simulcast—the BBC has released a short mini-episode, ‘The Night of the Doctor’, starring Paul McGann. The episode is an unexpected gift to fans, after McGann told the press that he was not involved in the […]
Karen Gillan on leaving Doctor Who; The Hobbit’s stars discuss making the film
With the next season of Doctor Who commencing in September, the stars have gone to Comic-Con in San Diego, Calif. to promote the series to fans. In the videos below, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill talk about becoming close friends during the years they have worked together and filming their last scenes. […]
We’ll Take Manhattan: the impact of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton revisited
Bailey, copyright ©1965 by the Condé Nast Publications (UK) BBC/Kudos Compare the pair. Top Jean Shrimpton, as she appeared in Vogue shot by Bailey in 1965. Above Karen Gillan and Aneurin Barnard as Jean Shrimpton and David Bailey in a publicity shot for We’ll Take Manhattan, which aired last week on BBC4. The visitor stats […]
BBC releases first pic of Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton in new bio-pic
BBC/Kudos The BBC has released its first official image of Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) playing Jean Shrimpton, in the BBC Four bio-pic, We’ll Take Manhattan. Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard stars alongside Gillan as photographer David Bailey. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on a Vogue photo shoot in New York in 1962 and how iconic […]
Steve McQueen’s Le Mans to be celebrated at Top Gear Live VIP gala
Copyright ©1971 Cinema Center Films and Solar Productions; copyright ©2011 by Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. Personality rights of Steve McQueen are used with the permission of Chadwick McQueen and the Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust, represented exclusively by GreenLight. It’s hard to believe 40 years have passed since the Steve McQueen car racing epic, Le […]
Why aren’t we happy that Jennifer Garner is the new Miss Marple?
Annie Leibovitz Above Jennifer Garner models the Gap’s Product Red parka—not really whom you’d expect to see as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. There were two interesting casting decisions made this week in showbusiness. One was generally favoured and both we and British Vogue reported it: the casting Karen Gillan, Doctor Who’s Amy Pond, as […]
Karen Gillan to play 1960s’ supermodel Jean Shrimpton in BBC bio-pic
BBC Karen Gillan, who came to fame with her Amy Pond role in Doctor Who, will play Jean Shrimpton—‘the Shrimp’, one of Britain’s most iconic models of the ’60s—in a BBC film to be shown on BBC Four. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on the four-year love affair between Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. […]
