Feel Good is the latest British comedy series on Channel Four and Netflix hyped as another Fleabag. It features Canadian stand-up comedienne Mae Martin in a quasi-autobiographical story about a stand-up comedienne starting a new romance with a woman while spiraling in her drug addiction. For all the reviews that call it a romantic comedy, […]
Riding high off the series' award-winning success, Fleabag co-star Andrew Scott is venturing into the world of Patricia Highsmith's bestselling Tom Ripley novels for Showtime's drama series adaptation Ripley. The eight-episode order stems from Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List, The Night Of), who is set to write and […]
Welcome to the results of Bleeding Cool's "Can't Miss" SAG Awards picks! Now for those of you who checked out our Golden Globes picks, you know that it was a bit of a rollercoaster run. So much so that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and I are on a bit of "time out". It's cool… we […]
Welcome to Bleeding Cool's "Can't Miss" SAG Awards picks, with the ceremony set to be broadcast live to all of our eyeballs on both TNT and TBS (and a whole bunch of places online) on Sunday, January 19, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. Now for those of you who checked out our Golden Globes […]
Returning to prowl the stage – pint in hand – for the 77th Annual Golden Globes was none other than the (in)famous Ricky Gervais (Humanity, The Office), and for those who didn't get a chance to tune in to NBC here's a look at just how much of the ceremony he scorched from the start, […]
Returning to prowl the stage – pint in hand – for the 77th Annual Golden Globes was none other than the (in)famous Ricky Gervais (Humanity, The Office), and for those who didn't get a chance to tune in to NBC here's a look a tonight's television winners. Of course, as much as we're fans of […]
Returning to prowl the stage – pint in hand – for the 77th Annual Golden Globes is none other than the (in)famous Ricky Gervais (Humanity, The Office), so mark your calendars for Sunday, January 5, 2020 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.) and aim those rabbit ears towards NBC. To get you in the mood before […]
Once upon a time… working for television was labelled a "demotion," a professional death sentence for actors whose careers were considered on a no-way-back downward spiral. Today, actors of all ages and experiences (especially women and actors of color) have found more opportunities to practice their craft and tell their stories (and be recognized for […]
Riding high off the series' huge Emmy Awards success, Fleabag co-star Andrew Scott will be venturing into the world of Patricia Highsmith's bestselling Tom Ripley novels for Showtime's drama series adaptation Ripley. The eight-episode order stems from Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List, The Night Of), who is set […]
Now that HBO's wonderfully authorized pseudo-sequel to [REDACTED] and Dave Gibbons' celebrated comic book series Watchmen has been unveiled to the world – the world likes what it sees from Damon Lindelof's "remix". Even die-hard Watchmen purists appear to be slowly coming around – as they should. One self-professed "geek" and Conan the Barbarian comic […]
Once upon a time… working for television was labelled a "demotion," a professional death sentence for actors whose careers were considered on a no-way-back downward spiral. Today, actors of all ages and experiences (especially women and actors of color) have found more opportunities to practice their craft and tell their stories (and be recognized for […]
Returning to prowl the stage – pint in hand – for the 77th Annual Golden Globes is none other than the (in)famous Ricky Gervais (Humanity, The Office), so mark your calendars for Sunday, January 5, 2020 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.) and aim those rabbit ears towards NBC. Of course, as much as we're fans […]
Riding high off the series' huge Emmy Awards success, Fleabag co-star Andrew Scott will be venturing into the world of Patricia Highsmith's bestselling Tom Ripley novels for Showtime's drama series adaptation Ripley. The eight-episode order stems from Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List, The Night Of), who is set […]
Fresh off her multiple wins at the Emmy Awards, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed an overall production deal with Amazon Studios. This is no surprise considering Fleabag has been a huge hit and cultural touchstone. It and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have won Amazon Studios multiple Emmys and helped define the identity of the streaming service. […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge won Best Comedy Writing and Best Actress in a Comedy for Fleabag tonight at the Emmy Awards. The series also won for Best Comedy Series and director Harry Bradbeer won Best Directing for a Comedy Series. That's four-for-four with Fleabag – "The Little British Feminist Comedy That Could." Not bad for what started […]
Over three years ago, Bleeding Cool ran its first article about the BBC3 show Fleabag, by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Titled 'And With That Final Episode, Fleabag Becomes The Finest TV Drama Of 2016', I wrote, And because it has been picked up by Amazon Prime in the USA, about to drop all six episodes in three weeks […]
So I went off to a movie theatre to watch a stage play. A filmed stage play shown like a movie because I couldn't be in the country where the play was on. It's a surreal, meta experience. The play is the original one-woman stage version of Fleabag. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is performing it for the […]
Anime streaming service Crunchyroll and Viz Europe Media Group signed a partnership agreement on Friday. This links Crunchyroll's global platform of 50 million users with Viz Media's European network of distributors, licenses and partners under one umbrella – impressive enough to even make One-Punch Man superhero Saitama smile. Crunchyroll is owned by WarnerMedia, which is […]
It's four-thirty am and I have just seen a fox crossing London's late-night streets. This omen feels right. I told myself if I woke up early enough I would do this, and I did so I am. I have just got on the 85 bus as I type this. Fleabag, the BBC TV series that […]
We're all fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her breakthrough BBC show Fleabag around here. Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End. Some fans are […]
