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Michael Sheen, star of Good Omen, Staged and Prodigal Son, tweeted a video on Tuesday announcing he would be joining in "Thank You Day" on Sunday, July 4, this year National Thank You Day in the UK is a call to thank and celebrate the people who helped everyone get through COVID as the United[...]

Michael Sheen and David Tennant returned for a special segment of Staged for Comic Relief Red Nose Day this evening on BBC One in the UK Yup, they're still at it Staged 1592 features William Shakespeare (Tennant) and Christopher Marlowe (Sheen) in lockdown gossiping and bitching about being asked to write a sonnet or poem[...]

Prodigal Son and Staged star Michael Sheen took to Twitter to reveal that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and that he's been recovering over the "last few weeks." Production on the second season of the hit FOX series has not been impacted and continues uninterrupted, with reports that Sheen did not contract the virus[...]

Staged Series 2 has reached its endgame It's been a rollercoaster of bad faith, bad decisions, and really bad behavior on the parts of David Tennant and Michael Sheen, or at least their fictional avatars The fight over the casting of the US network remake of the show is over David and Michael were never[...]

It's a new dawn in Staged – David Tennant and Michael Sheen are getting along again The air between them has cleared after their extended therapy sessions with the actors who were reading to play them in the US network remake of the show David is buoyed by his TV job being on again The[...]

The guys are falling apart in this action-packed (not!) episode of Staged Lockdown does this to people David Tennant is lying on his couch and boring the crap out of Michael Sheen in an unofficial therapy season These two are the last guys who should ever act as therapists for each other We get to[...]

The first episode of Staged Series 2 was merely a prelude to the coming chaos Now the story truly begins Creator, writer, and director Simon Davis has sold the rights to a US network and is writing the pilot He tells Nina Sosonya that she would be back playing the same role as she did[...]

Staged is arguably the most successful lockdown TV series It was conceived, shot, and broadcast during the lockdown It was so popular that a second series was almost immediately greenlit That was written and shot when lockdown in the UK was eased, then ironically premiered on the eve when a second lockdown was declared because[...]

David Tennant and Michael Sheen are back as shambolic, bitchy, petty, and insecure versions of themselves in the second series of Staged, mere months after the first season run Staged is probably the most successful TV show to be based in the lockdown, written, shot, and broadcast very quickly during the first lockdown in the[...]

And as we've seen from the younger generation this year who've taken to the streets and social media, the number of "small axes" continues to grow. #8 – Staged (BBC One) Premiering on BBC One in June 2020, the series used video-conferencing technology to offer viewers "meta fictionalized" versions of Michael Sheen (Prodigal Son) and David Tennant (Doctor[...]

A series that found a way to reflect our current pandemic times while still giving viewers a moment to smile was Simon Evans and Phin Glynn's Staged. Premiering on BBC One in June 2020, the series used video-conferencing technology to offer viewers "meta fictionalized" versions of Michael Sheen (Prodigal Son) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) as they[...]

Staged is probably the one truly successful new BBC TV series pitched, produced, and about the lockdown Its premise is simple: it follows actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen in lockdown as they bicker and fail to get on with rehearsing a play through zoom It's the kind of show only the BBC would make[...]

The latest entry in this fascinating new cultural phenomenon is Staged, a BBC One sitcom that reunites Michael Sheen and David Tennant for the first time since the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Good Omens. Programme Name: Staged – TX: n/a – Episode: n/a (No n/a) – Picture Shows: David Tennant, Michael Sheen – (C) GCB[...]

Staged is the new BBC TV comedy filmed in lockdown about the two actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) starting rehearsing a new production of the classic play Six Characters In Search Of An Author It doesn't go that well. The show also has David's partner Georgia Moffett playing herself as well, and a[...]