News about Richard Eyre

Newcastle fans were required to carry children on their shoulders from a packed concourse at an FA Cup match on January 7 in a crowded stadium, something the club has regretfully. Sheffield City Council released a statement claiming that the club had voluntarily reduced the Leppings Lane workforce while the investigation was underway. The council also revealed that there had been talk of a 'formal' reduction until the end of the season.

On Wednesday, Season five of The Crown was announced, amid growing backlash over the 'insensitive' representation of the Royal Family during the Nineties. As the Netflix drama has spanned decades and landed on recent events that would be fresh in some viewers' minds, it has been chastised for sensationalizing events and including fictionalized scenes. With the exception of the previous two seasons of The Crown spanning three decades before the Nineties, the entire team has been recast for this series's 13-year time span from 1990 to 2003.

There has been an avalanche of backlash against The Crown's 'insensitive' portrayal of the Royal Family during the Nineties, with season five described as 'trolling on a Hollywood scale.' Since being first introduced on Netflix in 2016, the Crown, developed and written by Peter Morgan, has been a hit for the network, with the main characters being recast to reflect the royals' age in their respective timelines. The show's excitement has never been greater than ever, with viewers counting down the days leading up to the series's launch, despite being chastised for sensationalizing events and including fictionalized scenes.

MARTIME ARMION: This fine revival of Anthony McCarten's play about Popes Benedict and Francis is poignantly timely at a time of transition in the Royal Family. It's a fundamental question of how we transition from one era to another and how an incumbent interacts with their office that is on our minds today. The play, which was turned into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, is a look at what happened behind the scenes in 2013, when Benedict shocked the world's 1.2 billion Catholics by becoming the first pontiff to step down in 700 years. Anton Lesser - with Nicholas Woodeson as Francis - portrays the Pope's fading soul, and both men and women find a lot of warmth in the men's tense souls. The big issue is whether or not the Catholic Church should revive or revert its 2,000-year-old traditions. However, both McCarten and the actors are focusing on the two guys as human beings with a slew of responsibility.

RICHARD E. GRANT: Honouring my wife's edict became my New Year's resolution and mantra. Joan's guiding pings across my cranium as I progress toward the canyon of grief. Joan died in September 2021 and, two months later, I returned to South Africa to visit my 90-year-old mother, whom I hadn't seen in any other way than via Skype. I was ecstatic to see her on such feisty form a 12-hour flight later. Still enjoying bridge, reading five novels a week, and preparing summaries for a book store. All the electricity has been mistakenly cut off by a plumber who cut the wrong pipe, and it has been off for two days, she says. I'm recommending that we book into a hotel nearby before the electricity is reconnected as her back-up generator has now run out.