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29 April 2013 4:11 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »

Hayley Atwell stars in ITV's new police drama Life of Crime, which launches in May.

Atwell (The Duchess, Any Human Heart) is cast as risk-taking police officer Denise Woods and the show explores her career over three decades in the Met.

The crime drama unravels across three episodes, which are based in 1985, with the backdrop of the Brixton riots, 1997 and 2013.

Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, Ripper Street) wrote the series.

Life of Crime starts on Friday, May 10 at 9pm on ITV. »

15 April 2013 4:26 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »

William Boyd has revealed the name of his new official James Bond novel.

Solo will be the title of the 1969-set spy adventure, which will take 007 across Europe, Africa and the USA. Boyd, who announced the title at this year's London Book Fair, said that he has had "tremendous fun" penning the story.

"Mark my words, I've undertaken writing this very seriously," he said, adding: "No gimmicks, this is a real spy story."

The announcement comes 60 years since the publication of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale.

The Fleming estate has continued to publish 007 novels, recruiting writers including Sebastian Faulks (Devil May Care) and Jeffrey Deaver (Carte Blanche) to continue the British spy's story. Bond movie producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have kept the character's screen adventures separate from the literary continuity.

Boyd's highly-acclaimed novels include A Good Man in Africa, Any Human Heart and Cold War espionage thriller Restless. »

19 February 2013 1:24 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

New 007 book set in 'the classic era of 1969' will be written by the Any Human Heart writer, Ian Fleming's estate announced

A new James Bond novel will be published in September, written by British novelist William Boyd, the estate of the British spy's creator Ian Fleming said on Monday.

Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953 and 13 more before he died 11 years later, aged 56.

The title and plot of the new book remain under wraps, but the Fleming estate gave a hint of the style and the setting to woo fans who have been wowed by Daniel Craig's film portrayal of 007 in Skyfall.

"We can reveal that this novel will see a return to the classic Bond era, featuring a 45-year-old 007 in 1969," the estate said.

The novel will be published in Britain on 26 September by Jonathan Cape, Fleming's original publisher, and available from HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corp, »

22 January 2013 8:50 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

ITV director of drama Laura Mackie and controller of drama commissioning Sally Haynes will leave at end of June

The ITV drama executives responsible for Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge and Appropriate Adult are to leave the broadcaster to set up their own production company.

Laura Mackie, ITV's director of drama, and controller of drama commissioning Sally Haynes will leave at the end of June.

The pair have overseen a drama renaissance at ITV, along with its director of television Peter Fincham, off the back of a £30m boost to drama funding.

ITV's head of drama serials Steve November will take over as acting director of drama until a permanent replacement is appointed. Mackie and Haynes will see through projects they have already commissioned.

Mackie, who joined ITV from the BBC in 2006, said: "Sally and I have loved our seven years at ITV and are incredibly proud of the dramas that we've commissioned with Peter. »

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8 January 2013 1:45 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »

Julian Ovenden has joined the cast of NBC's musical drama Smash. The Foyle's War star will play actor Simon, who is cast as John F Kennedy in the show's Marilyn Monroe musical. English-born Ovenden will appear in multiple episodes of season two, TVLine reports. His past credits include roles on UK series Any Human Heart and Midsomer Murders, while guest stints on Charmed and ABC's 2008 series Cashmere Mafia are among his Us TV credits. As a young man, he won a music scholarship to Eton College and later studied at the University of Oxford on a choral scholarship, before performing extensively in musical theatre. Other actors who have joined NBC's revamped Smash for season two include (more) »

- By Morgan Jeffery

7 January 2013 9:04 AM, PST | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

More than a bit of Camelot is coming to NBC’s Smash, with the casting of a British actor as Bombshell‘s John F. Kennedy.

Julian Ovenden, whose TV credits include the UK series Foyle’s War and Any Human Heart, plus ABC’s Cashmere Mafia — has landed the role of Simon, the actor who will play opposite Karen Cartwright as Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Canoodler-in-Chief, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Ovenden, a tenor who won choral scholarships to Eton and New College Oxford, will appear in multiple episodes »

- Matt Webb Mitovich

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