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  The Independent

  How Netflix hit Call My Agent! turned into the British remake Ten Percent

  INTERVIEW: ‘W1A’ creator John Morton and a cast that includes Jack Davenport, Lydia Leonard and Prasanna Puwanarajah talk to <strong>Olivia Petter </strong>about the differences between France and Britain and the ‘comedy in the white lies that are told to lubricate the cogs of this industry’

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  The Telegraph

  Ten Percent, review: the British Call My Agent has star power – but where’s the bite?

  Call My Agent is the French drama it became cool to namedrop during lockdown. It is a smart comedy-drama based in the offices of a Parisian talent agency, featuring cameos from actors happy to send themselves up. In one of the best episodes, sexpot Monica Bellucci resolved to live a civilian life and date a maths teacher - or a bookseller, because she’d seen that work for Julia Roberts in Notting Hill. In another, Jean Dujardin had become so immersed in his role as an Army deserter who hid in a

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  The Independent

  Call My Agent: Release date for British reboot of hit show announced

  UK remake will include guest appearances by Dominic West, Helena Bonham Carter and more

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  Behind the scenes of the English Call My Agent!: ‘How do we not mess this up?’

  When John Morton was asked by Amazon to create an English version of Call My Agent!, his first thought, he tells me, was: “My God. How do we not mess this up?”

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  Evening Standard

  Call My Agent! is coming to the UK: Lydia Leonard and Jack Davenport lead adaptation from W1A creator

  The creator of W1A will write a British take on Netflix’s star-studded Parisian comedy

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  The Independent

  Call My Agent!: Lydia Leonard, Jack Davenport and Jim Broadbent cast in UK remake

  British remake of French-language Netflix series began filming last week

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  The Independent

  Smash cast reunite for ‘Bombshell in Concert’ fundraiser

  The cast of musical series Smash are set to reunite for a livestream of Bombshell in Concert.The stars of NBC’s short-lived TV show will bring the series’ fictional Marilyn Monroe musical “Bombshell” to life for a virtual event raising money for a coronavirus relief fund.

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  The Guardian

  ‘Did we work through hangovers? Most definitely!’ The stars of This Life on their era-defining show

  ‘Did we work through hangovers? Most definitely!’ The stars of This Life on their era-defining showThe TV drama set in a house share perfectly captured the hedonism of the 90s. But did the antics continue off screen? Jack Davenport, Daniela Nardini, Amy Jenkins and others tell all

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  Sexually forward, sad, self-destructive: Before Fleabag, there was This Life’s Daniela Nardini

  Fleabag is over and you are bereft. Where will you find another heroine like her? I’ll tell you where: in This Life, a drama that aired more than 20 years ago. Anna from This Life was one of television’s great characters. And she was the original Fleabag.

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  Evening Standard

  Patrick Melrose: Benedict Cumberbatch rises to the aristocratic challenge, with a dash of Withnail and I

  Read the Edward St Aubyn books before you watch Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic or NowTV Sunday, 9pm). Not that there’s anything wrong with Cumberbatch as Melrose. St Aubyn co-wrote it, someone may have seen it — where Jack Davenport did the honours).

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