Prime Suspect News

CRIME writer Lynda La Plante attacked the BBC's commissioning policy yesterday, claiming the corporation's drama team would rather take a script by a "little Muslim boy" than one she had written.

Dame Helen Mirren called for a more women to get behind the camera as she collected a lifetime achievement award at a prestigious event which celebrates female achievement in film and TV.

Dame Helen Mirren and environmental activist Franny Armstrong are among the winners at today's Women in Film and Television Awards.

Dame Helen Mirren will receive a lifetime achievement award later for her "outstanding and lasting" contribution to film and TV.

Ever since NBC announced that it would beA doing an American version ofA the English-accented Prime Suspect , I've known who should play Helen Mirren's part, and if you've ever tuned in to Friday Night Lights , so have you: Connie Britton.

Dame Helen Mirren is to receive the Lifetime Achievement prize at the Women In Film And Television Awards.

Another great new two-parter on "Masterpiece Contemporary" is "Place of Execution," a parallel mystery not so far removed from "Cold Case" . It features Juliet Stevenson as a TV journalist looking into a notorious case about a 13 year old who vanished in a town in northern England.

Lynda La Plante, the doyenne of crime fiction, has just subjected Katie Price, the model better known as Jordan, to what counts in literary circles as grievous bodily harm.

Helen Mirren in ITV's Prime Suspect. Bartlett's division has announced a deal to co-produce a US version of the show with NBC The company's finances have been heading south and its drama has turned into a soap opera with the messy end to a romance with Tony Ball leaving ITV with no prospective chairman or chief executive.

Frank Deasy made his living as the Emmy-winning author of gritty television dramas like "Prime Suspect." But with his final acts and words, the Dubliner inspired a nation to become organ donors - and may have saved scores of lives even as he lost his own.

The award winning screenwriter Frank Deasy, who had been campaigning for more organ donations, has died in hospital in Edinburgh.

Screenwriter Frank Deasy has lost his battle with cancer while waiting for a liver transplant.

The Irish screen writer Frank Deasy, whose works include the award-winning finale of the Prime Suspect TV series, has died in hospital in Scotland.

WASHINGTON a ' Helen Mirren never went in much for prophecy and all that supernatural jazz, but as a self-conscious young actress in London, she found herself in the living room of a palm-reader. Though she'd later report that most of the session passed in a blur, one of his prognostications stayed with her long after a ' and not because it gave ...

Helen Mirren makes her Washington stage debut in "Phedre" in the wake of royal screen credits such as "The Queen." Mirren in HBO's "Elizabeth I." Mirren also starred in the gritty U.K. series "Prime Suspect," in which she portrayed troubled detective Jane Tennison.

With the notable exceptions of The Office and American Idol , American translations of British TV shows do not have the best luck.

Jane Tennison has come a long way during her career as a gutsy, ambitious woman police detective.

Established TV characters don't just have doppelgangers in the evil mirror universe; their twins can also be found in the Tooniverse - like FBI Agents Mulder and Scully of 'The X-Files' in an episode of 'The Simpsons' - and in Skitlandia, the sketch comedy universe.

TV is about to ruin, sully, profane, despoil, desecrate, devour, and utterly destroy the memory of the brilliant, literate-yet-gritty, exciting British police show Prime Suspect with an American remake.

Toronto - Last updated on Friday, Sep. 04, 2009 03:39AM EDT N BC is planning a remake of the British series Prime Suspect .