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* All the big names from e Good Fight – Christine Baranksi, Rose Leslie, Audra Macdonald, Delroy Lindo – will be back when season three of the legal drama kicks o in early 2019; and they will be joined by a new big-name series regular. Michael Sheen (right) will play hot-shot lawyer Roland Blum, a character described as “charismatic and Machiavellian”. at should stir things up in the court-room.

* Following the success of her Net ix stand-up special,

Katherine Ryan has been commissioned to write a new six-part comedy series for the streaming service next year. e Canadian will also take the lead role of ‘a fashionably disruptive single mom’ whose daughter, Olive, is her greatest love. e story begins with Katherine’s character debating whether to have a second child with her greatest enemy, Olive’s dad.

* Filming has begun on Celebrity Painting

Challenge, a new series to be broadcast on the BBC in early 2019. Mariella Frostrup (right) will host as six well-known faces get out their easels and brushes in an attempt to impress a panel of art critics. e wannabe Constables are actress Jane Seymour; musician George Shelley; cricket legend Phil Tufnell; model Amber Le Bon; TV presenter Josie D’Arby and designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. e early money is on LL-B, whose interior designs are always on the artistic side.