Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. In today’s episode, Variety’s executive editor of TV…
With all the comparisons people are making between "The Handmaid's Tale" and our current political climate, it's fitting that the color scheme for Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian…
Imagine if all the fertile women in the world were rounded up and enslaved by an extreme regime that takes away their rights and their families. According to the stars and creators of Hulu’s upcoming…
European pay-TV company Sky has ditched plans to air the controversial footage from British comedy series “Urban Myths” in which Joseph Fiennes plays the singer Michael Jackson. In a statement, a…
Following last year’s scandal over casting Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson in its road-trip comedy, Sky Arts released the first trailer for “Urban Myths.” The lighthearted Ben Palmer-directed piece…
Joseph Fiennes has been cast in Hulu’s upcoming drama “The Handmaid’s Tale” opposite star Elisabeth Moss, Variety has confirmed. Fiennes will play Commander Fred Waterford, a founding father of the…
Whether or not it triggers a craze for divinely inspired detective stories, "Risen" makes a decent case for itself as the "Columbo" of the genre.
With the entertainment industry currently embroiled in a debate over the lack of diversity in film, UK pay TV network Sky Arts may have picked the wrong time to announce that British actor Joseph…
LONDON — Joseph Fiennes, who was BAFTA nominated for "Shakespeare in Love," is set to play the late singer Michael Jackson in "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," a one-off, half-hour comedy ordered by…
Two young siblings vanish into the Australian outback and send their parents' marriage into a torturous tailspin in "Strangerland," a perilously overwrought melodrama that seeks to examine a domestic…
LONDON — Joseph Fiennes, who was BAFTA nominated for “Shakespeare in Love,” has taken the role of Scottish runner and devout Christian Eric Liddell in “The Last Race,” which plays like an unofficial…
