News about Mark Gatiss

Blue Lights season two returned with rave reviews on Monday as Sian Brooke reprised her role as Constable Grace Ellis, a social worker turned policeman attempting to get a handle on the crime in Belfast.  It's the latest of Sian's series to receive rave reviews of late, having been plucked by BBC bosses to star in several primetime shows on the channel.  An average of 2.7 million viewers tuned into the police drama, with the figure expected to rise in coming days.  

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: If the King's course of care requires it, it is likely that he would stand in for him. And as we reported on March 7, she might be heading to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Unusual? Camilla's sole overseas visit since marrying the King in 2005 - to Paris in 2013. In the same way, Kate is a tumultuous solo overseas traveler. Edward and Sophie are often split up to broadcast the royal spotlight in foreign countries. Edward has visited South Atlantic, Uganda, and South Africa this year, while Sophie went to France and Switzerland. With a paucity of available personnel, are they the ideal duo to keep the flag flying overseas?

A surprising celebrity cameo from two comedians appears in Netflix's latest series 3 Body Problems. Mark Gatiss and Reece Sheersmith, two of the League of Gentlemen, make their appearances in the science ficton film. During the 1960s, the crime-science film, which is based on the Chinese bestsellers, opens in Communist China and reports to have a budget of £125 million.

At the Noel Coward Theatre on Monday, Cel Spellman sported a nasty black eye as he opened The Motive and the Cue. As he posed for photographs ahead of watching Jack Thorne perform, the actor's eye looked bruised and bloodied. It's unclear how Cell recovered the injury, and he hasn't updated followers on his social medias.

The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

Ethan Hunt, the special agent on board, is back in action. Cruise is expected to reprise his classic role in "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One," which will follow Hunt and his team as they embark on what could be their most treacherous and pivotal mission ever. "The crew will have to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands," the official synopsis reads. "With the power of the future and the destiny of the world in play, as well as Ethan's past closing in, a deadly competition is underway around the world." Ethan is forced to remember that nothing more matters than his mission — not even the lives of those he worries about most." In 1996, the first "Mission: Impossible" film came out, starring Cruise as an inexperienced young agent. Over the next two decades, five sequels were released, and "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" and "Mission: Impossible — Part Two" and "Mission: Impossible — Part Two" will be the seventh and eighth instalments of the franchise. Both will be written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

What actors in their right minds would let themselves be measured against three of the greatest names of stage and screen in the last century: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Many people would consider this a suicide mission. However, Mark Gatiss (of BBC's Sherlock), Johnny Flynn (Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat and David Bowie in Stardust), and Tuppence Middleton (Lucy Smith in the Downton film) have all accepted the challenge. The Motive And The Cue, directed by another Sir, Sam Mendes, and narrated by Jack Thorne, is an extraordinary, behind-the-scenes account of Gieland's 1964 Broadway performance of Hamlet, with Burton in the title role.

In a new teaser for Renfield, Nicholas Cage put his own kooky and unique spin on the normally frightening Dracula. In the aftermath of sucking blood from the necks of unsuspecting young virgins, blood was sipped from a martini glass while still channeling the main characteristics of the bloodthirsty undead, centuries-old vampire. Exposure to sunlight led him to fire, but not before he could deliver a zingy one-liner to his long-suffering servant R. M. Renfield, played by Nicholas Holt.

Doctor Who has blasted 'rubbish' television screenwriters obsessed with diversity, according to the mastermind who resurrected the renaissance of the 'rubbish' television screenwriters obsessed with diversity. Many scriptwriters today, according to Russell T Davies, chief writer and producer of the show's 2005 revival, did not love television and were more interested in representation. "I do a lot of mentoring, and there are voices that want to be understood, irrespective of gender or ethnicity, who are unheardent,' he said. They detest the media that ignores them, and they're forced to work in this industry solely to increase representation.'

PATRICK MARMION: With the holidays disappearing into the rear-view mirror, and weeks more of bleak midwinter to survive, why not cheer yourself up by getting a few dates in your diary? 2023 seems to be a thrilling year for theatre, bucking the trend. Patrick Marmion's top advices are here. . .

Sarah Vine enjoyed a slew of festive (and scary) viewings from the BBC this week, including Count Magnus and the Inside No. Motherland and the 9 Christmas special: Last Christmas. She enjoyed the comedy-horror and bittersweet energy which comes across in the three programmes (left, Sarah Vine)

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles' dismissal of the Counsellors of State Act - excluding Anne and Edward, who retained Harry and Edward with the promise that only 'working royals' will be used - can be traced to his fondness for Princess Beatrice. She is a counsellor and has enthralled Charles by combining 'normal' life with understated royal service, which he sees as a model for the future. Sacrificing Harry and Andrew would have meant doing the same to Beatrice. The King didn't want her to be tarred with the same wood as her banished father.

Helena Bonham Carter talks about her 'dream' role as Crossroads actor Noele Gordon in the ITVX drama, Nolly. Mark Gatiss, who plays the soap star's best pal Larry Grayson, has already shot the film, 56, which appears on the soap show. 'When I read the script, it was like a gift,' she wrote to The Mirror. A dream. It's like meeting someone and falling in love.