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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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Breaking Baz: ‘September 5’ Vividly Recalls Tragedy Of The 1972 Olympics Massacre & Jim McKay’s Haunting Announcement, “They’re All Gone” — Venice Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: "They're all gone." Those were the harrowing, unforgettable words, delivered by ABC TV’s Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay that 11 Israeli athletes had been slaughtered by Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
McKay's marathon 16-hour stint anchoring the shattering…
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Breaking Baz: New Ways To Dream For ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Director Jamie Lloyd As He Prepares To Open A Film Division With Movie-Making Plans In His Future
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard musical led by an incandescent Nicole Scherzinger center stage as Norma Desmond, is making a move into the world of movies and reveals to Deadline that his London-based Jamie Lloyd Company “will set up a separate film division and…
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Breaking Baz: Dave Stewart Sets Shekhar Kapur To Direct ‘Ebony McQueen’; Eurythmics Rocker Will Collaborate With A.R. Rahman On Coming-Of-Age Pic’s Songs & Score
EXCLUSIVE: Dave Stewart, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox, reveals to Deadline that Elizabeth, What's Love Got to Do With It? director Shekhar Kapur will shoot feature film musical Ebony McQueen, a 1960s-early ’70s coming-of-age story inspired by the rock legend's…
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Jonathan Pryce’s Star Shines Brightly In The “Twilight” With Emmy Nominations For ‘The Crown’ And ‘Slow Horses’
Jonathan Pryce was more than ready to portray Prince Philip when the call came five years ago for him to embody Queen Elizabeth's consort in the Netflix drama hit The Crown.
"He's someone I've lived with all my life," he says.
From a distance, of course.
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Breaking Baz: Sigourney Weaver Conjures Spells For West End Debut As Prospero, Joining Tom Hiddleston & Hayley Atwell In A Season Of Shakespeare Directed By ‘Sunset Boulevard’s’ Jamie Lloyd At Theatre Royal Drury Lane This Winter
EXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver will make her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest and Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will play sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing when director Jamie Lloyd returns Shakespeare early this winter to the historic…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Star Sheryl Lee Ralph On Why She’s Having The Time Of Her Life
An audience with Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph, a fan favorite as no-nonsense teacher Barbara Howard on Abbott Elementary, makes for an exhilarating education.
She commands your attention from the off.
Truth is, for me, she always has.
In my youth, on a trip with a girlfriend to New York, we…
Breaking Baz: Denzel Washington & Jake Gyllenhaal Task Up-And-Comer Molly Osborne To Make Broadway Debut As Desdemona In ‘Othello’
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will be joined by fast-rising West End actress Molly Osborne, who will play Desdemona opposite them, in the spring 2025 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Othello.
Upon seeing Osborne's audition tape, Washington and others were…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’s Barry Sloane Talks Acting Opposite Steve Coogan’s “The Dog” In Netflix Smash ‘The Sandman’ & His Upcoming Portrayal Of John Lennon
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Sloane (Revenge, Passenger) is currently appearing nightly on the London stage as Yosser Hughes, a proud, skilled laborer who has become mentally unstable due to lack of a job, in James Graham's powerful adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's seminal 1980s TV drama Boys From the Blackstuff…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Downton Abbey’ Star Jim Carter Goes “Wow!” When He Sees Wife Imelda Staunton Dazzle In ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At The London Palladium
Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon the London Palladium stage. "That's my wife," he declared during the interval.
Indeed it was. Imelda Staunton was…
Breaking Baz: Gary Oldman On How ‘Slow Horses’ Picked Up Speed To Score Its Emmy Nominations
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman says that that the nine Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series, received by the wry spy drama Slow Horses "puts an added boost and a spotlight on the show."
Slow Horses first trotted onto Apple TV+ in April 2022, gathering audiences as it cantered into second…
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Breaking Baz: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Filmmaker Ilker Çatak Wraps His Next Movie ‘Yellow Letters’, Shot Under A Cloak Of Secrecy
EXCLUSIVE: Ilker Çatak, whose The Teachers' Lounge was nominated for an Oscar as Germany’s International Feature Film submission, completed shooting his new film Yellow Letters in Hamburg on Wednesday night, the production's producer Ingo Fliess has revealed to Deadline.
Yellow Letters was filmed…
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Breaking Baz: Well Hello, Imelda! ‘The Crown’s Imelda Staunton Finds Humor And Poignancy In Rollicking ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At The London Palladium
EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton, swathed in glamorous red taffeta, descends a staircase on the London Palladium stage to lead a line of eager waiters in a chorus of "one of our favorite songs from way back when" from Hello, Dolly!
"Let's reset," a production assistant's voice suddenly booms over the pubic…
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