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Forgive us if we occasionally sound surprised or bemused in our coverage of the Suits streaming phenomenon. It’s just that an innocuous 2010s cable series suddenly becoming a monster hit on streaming is a fairly perplexing experience.

Streaming services like Netflix and Peacock, both of which host multiple seasons of Suits, spend untold millions trying to produce their own original hits only for a USA Network series from years ago to blow them all out of the water. People quite simply can’t get enough of the legal machinations of Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), Michael Ross (Patrick J. Adams), and the rest of the personnel a their constantly-changing law firm.

Why, exactly, has Suits in particular become such a hit? We’ll leave that one for the sociologists. But the show’s success this summer has made one undeniable fact of TV life clear: legal dramas are great! For decades,...

Kavanagh QC is a popular British Legal Court room drama starring John Thaw as barrister James Kavanagh QC, who comes from a working-class background in Manchester. In court, Kavanagh is often seen defending a client who very well seems to be convicted until a twist in the case is revealed. Cases ranging from racism, sexism, prejudice all are taken […]

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Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are still going strong.

Despite recent U.K. tabloid reports that the actress broke up with McGregor, leading him to go back to his ex-wife, an insider tells People the Fargo costars are still dating.

The Trainspotting actor, 46, filed for divorce from Eve Mavrakis on Jan. 19, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split after 22 years of marriage. The star has asked for joint custody of their three children: Clara, 21, Jamyan, 16, Esther, 15 and Anouk, 6.

The couple announced their split last October, and at the time a family source revealed to People that they...

Ewan McGregor‘s ex-wife Eve Mavrakis is breaking her silence about their split after 22 years of marriage.

Mavrakis said that while the divorce is “upsetting,” she is moving forward by putting her attention on her family.

“It’s disappointing and upsetting but my main concern is our four children are okay,” she told The Sun on Sunday.

Related: Inside the 22-Year Marriage Between Ewan McGregor and Eve Mavrakis Before Their Split

McGregor filed for divorce on Jan. 19, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split. The star, 46, has asked for joint custody of their three children: Clara, 21, Jamyan, 16, Esther,...

Ewan McGregor has filed for divorce from his wife, production designer Eve Mavrakis, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split. The former couple reportedly called it quits in May 2017 after 22 years of marriage. A source close to the family confirmed the news to People in October. The 46-year-old actor is currently dating his Fargo costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead who split from her husband, Riley Stearns, in May as well. According to TMZ, Ewan is asking for joint custody of their four daughters, Clara, Jamyan, Esther, and Anouk, but Eve has filed a response asking for sole custody of the girls with visitation. Ewan and Eve met on the set of the TV show Kavanagh QC and wed in France in 1995. Most recently, Ewan thanked both Eve and Mary in his acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globes.

Ewan McGregor has filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years, Eve Mavrakis.

McGregor filed Friday citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for their split, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. The star, 46, has asked for joint custody of their three children: Clara, 21, Jamyan, 16, Esther, 15 and Anouk, 6.

Mavrakis’ filed her response states that she is asking for sole custody with visitation for her ex, according to the website.

The documents list the date of separation as May 28th of last year.

The couple announced their split last October, and at the time a family source revealed to People that...

Our favorite Jedi master is a single man! Or is he?

Ewan McGregor, 46, was recently spotted kissing his Fargo costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 32. Following the sighting, a family source confirmed to People that McGregor and Eve Mavrakis, his wife of 22 years, have been separated since May.

With McGregor having seemingly moved on, here’s a look at some of the highlights from his life with the French production designer.

Related: Ewan Mcgregor Splits From Wife Of 22 Years — As He’s Spotted Kissing Costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Their Careers Brought Them Together

McGregor and Mavrakis, 51, reportedly met on set of the...

Ewan McGregor and his wife, production designer Eve Mavrakis, have split after 22 years of marriage. The couple parted ways in May, a family source confirmed to People. The news comes on the heels of reports that the actor is now dating his Fargo costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead after they were photographed kissing in North London on Sunday. Elizabeth also split from her husband, Riley Stearns, in May. Ewan and Eve met on the set of the TV show Kavanagh QC and wed in France, where Eve was born, in 1995. They have four daughters, Clara, Jamyan, Esther, and Anouk.

After 22 years of marriage and four children together, actor Ewan McGregor and his wife Eve Mavrakis have called it quits.

A family source confirms to People that the couple has been separated since May — amid news that McGregor was spotted kissing his costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead. A rep for McGregor did not immediately respond to People’s request for additional comment.

On Sunday, photos of the Trainspotting and Star Wars actor, 46, kissing his Fargo costar, 32, at a West London cafe were published by The Sun. Afterwards, the pair were seen leaving together on his motorbike.

In February, Winstead shared a...

Byker! Byker! Byker! Byker Grove! A-ha, A-ha, A-ha!

Geordie youth club drama Byker Grove was one of the greatest children's TV shows of the '80s and '90s, and next month it will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a special party in Newcastle.

But what ever happened to the stars of the show? We look back at some of the programme's breakout stars and forgotten favourites.

1. Declan Donnelly played Duncan

In the show's first series, Dec was going solo as 'Duncan' and it wasn't until he was united with Ant's 'Pj' that he truly became a central figure in the series. While they are remembered as being best buddies on the show, Duncan did end up nabbing Pj's girlfriend Debbie. After Pj went blind in a paintball accident. Hardly the stuff of best mates in retrospect.

2. Ant McPartlin played Pj

Responsible for scaring a whole generation of children out of ever going paintballing,...

Actor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stage

Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).

Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.

The Homecoming...

Stars of the small screen reveal their TV secrets

The stand up: Jo Brand

Jo Brand bats away the suggestion that she's a national treasure. "To me that's someone who has a global reach, like Helen Mirren, or someone who's extremely good, like Stephen Fry. I don't have that. I've just calmed down a bit, and that's only because once I had children I was so bloody knackered I could be nothing but calm." Though her audience has widened as she's written novels, appeared on panel shows and acted in the superlative comedy Getting On, Brand says she's planning to go back to stand-up. "The world has become a horrible place for women again and I want to be gobby about it." Before then, though, she's very happy to talk about TV. "I had aspirational working-class parents who thought you shouldn't let your kids watch crap on telly. If my...

Ewan McGregor admits he slept with 'many, many, many women' before meeting wife Eve Mavrakis. The 41-year-old 'Trainspotting' star met French production designer Eve, 45, on the set of TV show 'Kavanagh QC' before hitting the big time, and says he instantly realised she was a game changer. He explained: 'I fell totally in love with her and I knew right then that I really wanted to be with her, and I knew I wanted to be with her in a different way to all the other many, many, many woman I had been with up until that point. 'And I wasn't wrong - I made the right choice.' They couple - who have daughters, Clara, 15, Esther, 10, Jamiyan,...

Nice Brit abroad Hugh Dancy on playing bully boys – and avoiding costume dramas

When Hugh Dancy took his first steps in acting more than a decade ago along the usual British TV paths (Kavanagh QC, BBC adaptations of classic novels), he worried about being typecast. "The doubting part of me assumed that I would spend my career playing posh characters in costume dramas," the 36-year-old says when we meet at his publicists' office in Soho. "At least one casting director told me bluntly that that's what I'd be doing, so get used to it."

He's done the occasional costume drama since, but Dancy's background, growing up in an academic household in the Midlands and studying English at Oxford, didn't stop him from playing a New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome in the acclaimed 2009 indie drama Adam – and that casting director probably didn't foresee the "gay, Buddhist, wine-bar owning, marathon-running cancer patient...

Will Spielberg's Tintin be another one-way ticket into the Uncanny Valley? Stuart Heritage doesn't care; here are his reasons to love motion capture

Dead eyes

The defining aspect of a motion capture film is that, at last, it enables every character to have truly lifeless eyes. A film about a train driver who doles out creepy advice to children all day, The Polar Express led the way.

Eerie Resemblance

Characters should look a bit – but not quite – like those playing them. Results vary: Grendel's mother in Beowulf is a good Angelina Jolie, but Tom Hanks in The Polar Express looked like a haunted pillow filled with raisins.

Robert Zemeckis

A massive motion capture convert, Robert Zemeckis has ditched live action dross like Back To The Future in favour of lots of movies with disembodied, strangely weightless characters. Now that's progress.

Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis was once known for small parts in Kavanagh QC.

He's turned 40, moved his family to Los Angeles and spends his time tinkering with motorbikes. Midlife crisis? No fear

In the corner of his regular haunt, a bustling restaurant in the posh suburb of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Ewan McGregor takes a break from his shrimp salad to consider the apocalypse.

"I'm not remotely worried," he says. "For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!"

Doomsday would be an odd fixation for McGregor. After all, life is rather good. He has five movies coming down the pipe, and promising ones, too. There's Bryan Singer's sword-swinging fantasy Jack the Giant Killer and The Impossible, in which he and Naomi Watts face the 2004 tsunami. He also plays a stuffy scientist who falls for Emily Blunt in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,...

Anna Chancellor has rarely been cast in lead roles. That hasn't stopped her starring in the current BBC drama The Hour and a double bill of Rattigan and David Hare at Chichester. But life didn't always run this smoothly...

A couple of weeks ago, Anna Chancellor was watching daytime television when her Poirot episode came on ("Every actor's been on Poirot," she says). She had recorded it in 1993 but had not seen it since and now she was quite taken aback. She plays Virginie Mesnard, a raven-haired Belgian who asks the great detective to investigate the death of a young politician (the case turns, national stereotypes be damned, on a tainted box of chocolates) and in the process becomes the unrequited love of his life. Poirot takes to wearing a lavender brooch that Virginie gave him in her memory.

"I never played the romantic lead ever," she says. "I knew...

Veteran British star John Wood has died at the age of 81.

The actor passed away in his sleep on Saturday, his agent has confirmed.

An accomplished TV, film and stage performer, Wood began his career in 1952, when he landed his first film role in Stolen Face.

He went on to earn a name for himself onstage with a number of Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and he won a Tony Award in 1976 for his role in Tom Stoppard play Travesties. He later earned another two Tony nominations and one for an Olivier Award in 1997, for his turn in another Stoppard piece, The Invention of Love.

Wood's most notable film credits include WarGames (1983), Ladyhawke (1985), Ian McKellen's Richard III (1995), and 1994's The Madness of King George, while his TV work ranged from Kavanagh QC (1997) and Foyle's War (2004) to his most recent show, 2007's Lewis.

He was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007 when he was made a Commander of the British Empire (Cbe) in recognition of his services to drama.

Ewan McGregor will be celebrating on Thursday - the great Scot turns 40 years old.

Born in Crieff, Scotland, drama school drop-out McGregor has been working steadily on the stage, in Hollywood and indie arthouse flicks ever since he wowed with his break-out role as a junkie in 1996's Trainspotting.

He's proved there's no part he can't tackle, portraying everything from a glam rock star to a priest and, of course, a Jedi Knight.

To salute Ewan on his special day, WENN has opened up the archives and dug up 10 facts about his life.

- Early on in his career, McGregor shared an apartment with another aspiring actor - Jude Law.

- He met his wife, French production designer Eve Mavrakis, after he was cast in an episode of the U.K. legal drama Kavanagh QC.

- In 2001, McGregor received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.

- McGregor was nearly a superspy - he was approached to play James Bond in the 2006 blockbuster but turned down the job, which went to Daniel Craig.

- Before playing Obi-Wan Kenobi, McGregor was already a Star Wars fan - his uncle, actor/director Denis Lawson, played an X-wing pilot in all three original Star Wars movies.

- McGregor is Hollywood's go-to guy for full-frontal nudity - he's bared all in a number of his films, including Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, The Pillow Book, and Young Adam.

- He and Mavrakis have three daughters, including Clara Mathilde, Esther Rose and Jamiyan, who the couple adopted from Mongolia.

- He was the best man at Dougray Scott's 2000 wedding to casting director Sarah Trevis.

- A motorcycle enthusiast since his youth, McGregor and his pal Charley Boorman hit the road for four months in 2004 to travel from London to New York. The pair embarked on another international motorcycle marathon in 2007, biking from Scotland to South Africa, and they have plans for a third adventure later this year.

- He shares his birthday with stars including Christopher Walken, AC/DC rocker Angus Young and Rhea Perlman.

Ray Winstone plays troubled hardmen with such conviction, it's easy to believe he's not acting. He talks about his violent past, happy-go-lucky nature and love of westerns

According to an old Fleet Street adage, it is a bad idea to interview your heroes. As I don't have very many, however, the situation seldom arises. But the warning began to make sense while I was getting ready to meet Ray Winstone, for it's hard not to be at least a bit in love with him. So if he turned out to be a twit, I worried, it would be disproportionately upsetting.

Winstone is the East End's answer to George Clooney – the opposite of a luvvie, unaffected and occasionally ungovernable, the kind of man with whom men want to get drunk, and women want to sleep. Haunting performances as a wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, and a retired robber in Sexy Beast,...

David Thacker, artistic director of the Octagon theatre and the man who masterminded Corin Redgrave's return to the stage, remembers the actor, who died this week at the age of 70

I first saw Corin's work at a special event at the Liverpool Playhouse. Corin, Vanessa, their father Michael and their mother Rachel Kempson were performing a variety of extracts from Shakespeare's plays and some of their favourite sonnets. It made a huge impression on me for a number of reasons. Michael was seriously afflicted by Parkinson's disease, and had by this time very limited short-term memory. I shall never forget Vanessa and Corin standing next to him, feeding him lines which he then delivered with astonishing sensitivity. The "seven ages of man" speech from As You Like It was performed with a depth of understanding that was completely new to me. Corin's contribution to the evening was equally memorable.

Playing the loveable Michael 'Mick' Shipman in Gavin & Stacey and the shifty, Machiavellian Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, Larry Lamb has won himself a whole new generation of TV fans in recent years. However, the London-born thespian has been doing the rounds since the late '70s, when he starred in shows such as The Professionals and The New Avengers. Keep reading to find out more about the 62-year-old soap star. 1. Lawrence 'Larry' Douglas Lamb was born on October 10, 1947 in Edmonton, London. 2. Name a crime drama or cop show and Larry has probably starred in it! His TV credits include Frost, Taggart, Boon, Kavanagh QC, Midsomer Murders, The Bill and Silent Witness. Phew - he must have seen quite a few murders in his time! 3. Larry's early career in the oil industry (more)...

Actor Ewan McGregor and his family have adopted a four-year-old girl from Mongolia. The Scottish star and his wife, Eve Mavrakis, have two biological daughters, Esther, four and Clara, one. According to a representative for the actor, "I can confirm Ewan McGregor and his wife Eve Mavrakis have adopted a girl, but cannot comment further." The couple, who met on the set of the British TV crime series Kavanagh QC, married in 1995. In 2004, McGregor and best friend Charley Boorman spent three months on a globe-spanning 20,000 mile motorcycle trip for TV series Long Way Round. Mongolia was one of the stops featured during their journey.