Succession's British writer 足緒 Armstrong now earns $1MILLION per episode (but still lives modestly in a London terrace), 令状s ALISON BOSHOFF

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British screenwriter 足緒 Armstrong has created a 全世界の 攻撃する，衝突する with the 演劇 Succession, about the fortunes of the 最高の-rich Roy 王朝.

And it can be 明らかにする／漏らすd that although he still lives modestly in the same South-East London terrace house which has been his home for the past 19 years, Armstrong has entered the upper one per cent himself . . . of writers, at least.

Accounts 示す that he's coming の近くに to 存在 paid $1 million per episode of Succession, which puts him in the same 成層圏 as Hollywood big-hitters such as West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin.

Armstrong's company Jebentus 限られた／立憲的な ― which has only one 従業員 ― has £15.3 million in total 資産s and £9.9 million cash in the bank, a rise of more than £6 million on last year.

This would 示唆する Armstrong, 52, is 存在 paid nearly £6.5 million per 一連の Succession, or £720,000 an episode, which equates to about $900,000.

Talent: British screenwriter 足緒 Armstrong, pictured, has created a 全世界の 攻撃する，衝突する with the 演劇 Succession, about the fortunes of the 最高の-rich Roy 王朝

Success: British actor Matthew Macfadyen has enjoyed a sensational ri se in his profile thanks to his pitch-perfect 業績／成果 as betrayed, plotting Tom Wambsgans, unhappily married to the boss's daughter, Shiv

The trailers for season four of the show were 解放（する）d this week ― 明らかにする／漏らすing a glimpse of eldest son Connor Roy's wedding, の中で other 遭遇（する）s ― and it will 空気／公表する on March 27 on Sky 大西洋 and NOW.

British actor Matthew Macfadyen has enjoyed a sensational rise in his profile thanks to his pitch-perfect 業績／成果 as betrayed, plotting Tom Wambsgans, unhappily married to the boss's daughter, Shiv.

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In the trailer he is seen asking father-in-法律 Logan Roy whether the two of them would still be 'good' were he and Shiv to part.

The show, a 破滅的な satire about American マスコミ and political 力／強力にする and family dynamics, is written in an office opposite Brixton Tube 駅／配置する with 協力者s 含むing Lucy Prebble, who created I Hate Suzie with Billie Piper.

As 'showrunner', Armstrong is 伴う／関わるd in 'every edit' and every 決定／判定勝ち（する）. But he says 令状ing is his favourite part of the 過程. Before Succession, he helped create both Peep Show and The 厚い Of It, then had the idea for a 黒人／ボイコット comedy about a マスコミ family. The HBO 網状組織 jumped at the idea and 許すd him to run the show, which 首相d in 2018, from London.

Armstrong lives with wife Millie, who 作品 for the NHS, and their two children. 記録，記録的な／記録するs 示唆する his home was 購入（する）d in June 2004 for £615,000 and has not been bought or sold since.

He grew up in Oswestry in Shropshire. His father was a teacher who later turned 罪，犯罪 小説家 and his mother worked in nursery schools.

D uring a degree in American 熟考する／考慮するs at Manchester University, he met 令状ing partner Sam Bain. The two of them wrote Fresh Meat and Peep Show together.

Starting out, Armstrong 補足（する）d his income by working as a painter and decorator, and also as an MP's 研究員.

Succession has won 13 Emmys. Last year, Matthew Macfadyen 選ぶd up a gong for his 役割, the show was 指名するd 優れた 演劇 series and Armstrong got the prize for 優れた 令状ing in a 演劇 series . . . for the third year running.

Happy Valley Villain's a West End 粉砕する< /span>

House 十分な: James Norton's 星／主役にする 力／強力にする has helped to sell out the entire 12-week run of A Little Life at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End

His 業績／成果 as psychopath Tommy 物陰／風下 Royce in Happy Valley is spellbinding to BBC テレビ視聴者s. And as we approach the finale of the show this Sunday, it can be 明らかにする／漏らすd that James Norton's 星／主役にする 力／強力にする has helped to sell out the entire 12-week run of A Little Life at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End. The show ― a 堅い watch which clocks in at an epic three hours and 40 minutes ― will run for up to eight 業績／成果s a week from March to June at the Pinter, after previewing in Richmond. Both 発生地s are sold out. Norton plays lawyer Jude in A Little Life, based on Hanya Yanagihara's best-selling novel about four college classmates in New York and directed by Ivo 先頭 Hove.

The show 起こる／始まるd in Amsterdam, in Dutch, and this will 示す its English-language 首相.

Nearly as memorable as Joss Ackland's 意見の不一致を生じる を刺す at a South African accent in Lethal 武器 2 was the 注目する，もくろむ-形態／調整d house on stilts ― his lair ― which gets destroyed during the 1989 movie.

The Garcia House in the Hollywood Hills above LA is now up for sale, having been lovingly refurbished, 含むing its 独特の, 50ft 塀で囲む of windows. Only three bedrooms though ― and $16 million!

Dreamhouse: The Garcia House in the Hollywood Hills above LA is now up for sale, having been lovingly refurbis hed, 含むing its 独特の, 50ft 塀で囲む of windows

'Are you chewing gum?' Co-星／主役にする gets a tongue 攻撃するing from J-Lo????

Much-married Jennifer Lopez is the 星／主役にする of Shotgun Wedding ― and 証明するd something of a bossyboots when it （機の）カム to co-星／主役にする Josh Duhamel.

雇うd to 取って代わる Armie 大打撃を与える after his 'cannibal' スキャンダル (who was himself 草案d in to 取って代わる Ryan Reynolds . . . keep up!), the actor says he 設立する the love scenes with J Lo, 53, 'terrifying'.

Actors: Much-married Jennifer Lopez is the 星／主役にする of Shotgun Wedding ― and 証明するd something of a bossyboots when it （機の）カム to co-星／主役にする Josh Duhamel

Bad Move: Duhamel decided to chew gum to keep his breath fresh. 'Halfway through the scene she was like: 'Are you chewing gum? Spit that gum out!' he said

Duhamel, pictured 権利 with J Lo in the movie, decided to chew gum to keep his breath fresh. Bad move. 'Halfway through the scene she was like: 'Are you chewing gum? Spit that gum out!' he said.

推定では her new husband Ben Affleck is better at toeing the line.

Bad Boy Will gets 支援する in favour after Oscars 非難する???

How long does a 落ちる from grace last? A little under a year, if Will Smith's 静かな 復活 is anything to go by.

This week, Sony 発表するd that Bad Boys 4 ― the 最新の instalment in the popular films which team Smith with ツバメ Lawrence ― was going into 生産／産物 after having been put on the 支援する-burner に引き続いて the 悪名高い 非難する at the Oscars in March last year.

The third iteration, Bad Boys For Life, took a 大規模な $426 million 世界的な.

And now it can be 明らかにする／漏らすd that Smith's 国家の Geographic and Disney series 政治家 To 政治家, in which he will 旅行 from the South to the North 政治家, is 支援する in 生産／産物.

It, too, went into limbo last March after the actor struck comedian Chris 激しく揺する during the 学院 Awards broadcast.

However, Smith 静かに started filming in December in Antarctica and the show is 推定する／予想するd to go out on Disney+ later this year.

He's 推定する／予想するd to spend nearly four months on the road making the programme, covering 26,000 miles. He will film in さまざまな extreme 環境s, 含むing 砂漠, ジャングル, mountain and 押し寄せる／沼地. Smith 以前 前線d One Strange 激しく揺する and Welcome To Earth for the streamer.

Another 事業／計画（する）, a Netflix feature film called 急速な／放蕩な And Loose, has yet to be retrieved from the long grass. Smith's 演劇, Emancipation, made for $120 million, took just $300,000 in its week at the cinema before moving to Apple TV+.

The 星／主役にする was banned from 学院 events for a １０年間 after slapping 激しく揺する, who had told a joke about Smith's wife Jada.

Smith said later: 'Change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to 確実にする that I never again 許す 暴力／激しさ to 追いつく 推論する／理由.'

The スキャンダル 完全に 影を投げかけるd his Oscar 勝利，勝つ for his 業績／成果 as Richard Williams in the film King Richard, about the rise of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

井戸／弁護士席 that's nothing. I landed Prince Andrew!?

?Reel 星／主役にするs: Jim Murray (left) and Robson Greene?

They're 存在 あられ／賞賛するd as ITV's answer to Mortimer and Whitehouse, but Robson Green 収容する／認めるs filming on his new series Robson And Jim's 飛行機で行く Fishing Adventure took a decidedly strange turn . . . 伴う／関わるing the Queen and Prince Andrew.

'Jim Murray, with whom I make the show, got an email asking him to put himself on film for the 役割 of Prince Andrew in The 栄冠を与える ― while we were fishing in the River Dee in Scotland,' Robson 解任するd. 'He got out of the river, shaved off his 耐えるd, got me to read the 役割 of the Queen and we 発射 the scene.

'I'm not sure how I did, but Jim was brilliant as Andrew and, unsurprisingly, landed the 役割 ― 同様に as やめる a few fish when he got 支援する in the river!'

Robson And Jim's 飛行機で行く Fishing Adventure debuts on ITV1 in April.

Audiences have 設立する the '噴火口，クレーター scene' in All 静かな On The Western 前線 gruelling ― and director Ed Berger 明らかにする／漏らすs that it 減ずるd some of the 乗組員 to 涙／ほころびs, too.

Berger said that his British cinematographer wept during the four days it took to film the scene, in which Paul Baumer (Felix Kammerer) 遭遇（する）s a 負傷させるd French 兵士 during ざん壕 戦争 in World War I.

'I started 審理，公聴会 a noise,' Berger said. '結局, I realised that Dan ny, my cinematographer, was crying. He had been brought up by his grandfather, who himself grew up during World War II, hating the Germans. But somehow, watching this, Danny had a powerful realisation that we are all the same.'

Sex ピストルs: Still 狙撃 from the lip after all these years

暴力／激しさ and 争い continue to whirl around the Sex ピストルs, some 45 years after they 分裂（する） up acrimoniously.

Bassist Glen Matlock says he was utterly furious with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle after seeing his 見解／翻訳／版 of events in the TV series ピストル last year ― and 断言するs he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 攻撃する，衝突する him after seeing the show.

Matlock, 66, had 共同製作するd with Boyle and his team on ピストル, on the understanding that 'they told the true story'. He went to a special 審査 of the six-part Disney series at the Covent Garden Hotel after 行方不明の the 首相 because he was playing with Blondie.

Music: 暴力／激しさ and 争い continue to whirl around the Sex ピストルs, some 45 years after they 分裂（する） up acrimoniously. Pictured: The 禁止（する）d 成し遂げるing during their first American concert in Atlanta

'Danny Boyle was there at the beginning, in the hotel, then he conveniently 発射 off before the end. At the time, I thought: he probably doesn't want to sit through it again. But then as I watched it, I thought: 'No wonder he 血まみれの left, because I would have landed him one.' I even left without seeing one of the episodes myself, because I'd had enough.'

Subsequently the two men （機の）カム 直面する to 直面する at an event in LA. Matlock said: 'I called him a c*** to his 直面する. He had a copy of my 調書をとる／予約する and chose to ignore it, and portray it that I was kicked out of the 禁止（する）d because of 経営者／支配人 Malcolm McLaren's publicity stunt, 説 it was because I liked The Beatles.

'I took it up with his 管理／経営 and Steve Jones, whose 調書をとる／予約する about his time as the ピストルs' guitarist the series was based on. But it appears Steve Jones has also got a shocking memory.

'They said several 見解／翻訳／版s of that scene were 発射 but then Danny Boyle thought it made a better story to show that they kicked me out the 禁止（する）d.'

Boyle was approached for comment but 拒絶する／低下するd to 答える／応じる. Matlock has always 持続するd he やめる the group because he could not get on with singer John Lydon.