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Amazon Studios produces, in conjunction with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema. Promo screen cap image from The Lord of the Rings series video (Image: Amazon Prime Video) The prequel series stars Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin,[...]

Sir Lenny Henry has brought back his eighties BBC comedy sketch show The Lenny Henry Show, to BBC Radio 4 Which means he can open the first show with an effects-heavy sketch as the superhero saving the day Comet Or as everyone insisted on calling him, Black Comet It rather gets on his nerves… noting[...]

Do you know he played a renegade Time Lord in the BBC 2001 audio drama Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time? That was a totally noncanonical story that killed off the 7th Doctor at the end. Oh, and Lenny Henry – should we call him Sir Lenny Henry now? The Queen knighted him – as a[...]

Written by showrunner and head writer Chris Chibnall, the second-half of the series premiere will air on Sunday, January 5 – with subsequent episodes airing on Sundays. BBC Last month, Doctor Who fans learned that Stephen Fry, Sir Lenny Henry CBE, Goran Višnjić, and Robert Glenister would be joining Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor during Series 12, and[...]

He and veteran actor Robert Glenister are both joining BBC's Series 12, along with Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry. BBC For Višnjić, it's about what it means to go from fan to family member: "I've always been a huge fan of Doctor Who, so when the offer to play one of my favorite people in history came,[...]

Looking at our handy online calendar, what this means is that at a minimum we're at least 2 months away from Jodie Whittaker's return as the 13th Doctor… but it's never too early to start getting a look at what awaits! BBC With time ticking down until the show makes some kind of reveal on November 23[...]

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning, ran a feature towards the end of its three hour broadcast, looking at the ethnic makeup of modern day comic book creators. Today's edition of the show was guest-edited by long-standing British comedian, writer and producer Lenny Henry, who rocketed to media attention this year after preaching about the[...]

Where the character normally works for a newspaper or a radio station, we have made our main character the director of a social media site, to bring it into the modern era. So, like Clark Kent now then… SPIDER-FAN British Comedian Lenny Henry has an Amazing Fantasy cover for his iPhone…   INDIAN COMICS GET POLITICAL Well, it worked for IDW[...]

The first of these was Arthur Christmas, released earlier this month, but my tour took me onto the set of their next big project, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, which is being directed by co-founder Peter Lord. This film stars the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, and Ashley Jensen as a[...]

I can see the headline on BleedingCool.com tomorrow." – Warren Ellis to Lenny Henry. Sorry Warren, you'll have to settle for the top quote instead Yesterday, as part of the Comica 2011 Festival in the City of London, comedian and actor Lenny Henry took to the stage to interview Warren Ellis, before the UK premiere of[...]

EllisWatch: Warren Ellis is being interviewed on stage tomorrow by Lenny Henry, as part of the UK premiere of Captured Ghosts, a documentary on his work and life I'm in it somewhere. MooreWatch: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore about his new novel. "Without giving away too much of the plot, it's a historical fantasy [...]