#Philippa Northeast

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THEY'RE SO CUTEEE! NEWSREADER FAM FOR THE WIN

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The Newsreader to end with Season Three, and Season Three's release postponed until 2025

Well that is a heartbreaking sentence to write. A double whammy of sadness. A sentence that I knew I one day will have to write, but it still doesn't make it any easier.

I'm sure you've all seen this article by now. As sad as I am to see this, all good things must unfortunately come to an end. Even the show I've dedicated myself to so fiercely for nearly three years.

What the entire team behind the show has managed to achieve in such a relatively short time is incredible. It feels like we've spent longer with these electric characters and that gripping storyline, but in reality it's only been for twelve episodes, and we are very lucky to still have six more to go.

It has been an immense joy getting to spend time with The Newsreader, and I'm so extremely proud of each and every one of the people involved. They're really my telly family now. You can count on me to bring you all the Newsreader joy from all characters' and creators' perspectives for the remainder of 2024, and into 2025 with Season Three 💖

https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/06/emotional-conclusion-the-newsreader-s3-the-end-for-news-at-six-team.html?mc_cid=0da5e6b173&mc_eid=9029ca579f

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Sam and Pip last night 💕

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Philippa Northeast at 2024 Logies

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Philippa Northeast as Kay Walters in The Newsreader Season Two (2023)

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Kay | The Newsreader

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Territory trailer is out! 🤠☀️🐎

Omggggg Michael's character, Graham, is an alcoholic?!?! Poor Teddy Graham, but omggg I'm so excited that Michael is playing another character with mental health struggles. He is sooo amazing at that!!! 🥰🧸🤠

@ilovemendo @lacontroller1991 @tavners

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In other news, tonight Hallmark Channel reran what I’ve decided is one of my favorite of their movies, A Royal Runaway Romance (some possible spoilers hereafter).

One of the reasons I like it is because it doesn’t have that tired, formulaic trope of “partway through the second hour, one character, put in a tough situation, does something that hurts the other character or that the other character misinterprets in a hurtful way, and they refuse to talk to each other for most of the last half-hour until someone comes to their senses in the closing minute or two.” Those situations always feel so contrived, even forced, to me, particularly when the couple refuses to talk/explain/hear the other person out. Yeah, bad stuff happens, people make mistakes, couples have fights…but the not talking/not trying never seems realistic and always grates on me.

This movie instead goes with a more straightforward “your purpose here is to help me with X” and feelings develop along the way, but they’re both mature enough to understand that while they have these feelings, their purpose is X, not romance. So while there’s a bit of heartbreak, it’s not the kind that comes from betrayal (or “betrayal”) or the like, but more the kind where you know the cool person you hung out with (and liked) at summer camp is going back to their life, too, and you’ll never see them again (as one example of the type).

Another reason I really enjoy this movie is Philippa Northeast starring as Princess Amelia, who is lovely and kind and trying to find her way/place. (Ms Northeast looks a bit like Emilia Clarke and Lena LuthorKatie McGrath—perhaps exactly like if they had a daughter 😂—so there’s that. And that pink dress, wow 🤩 Kudos to the costume designer.) Her excitement for seeing America is both charming and contagious. (Plus, now I want s’mores!)

This is also one of those movies where I’d like to see a sequel. There’s the expected happy ending, but there’s so much room—perhaps deliberately so?—for more adventures before Amelia becomes queen. I’m not exactly sure how you’d work the “romance” angle without falling back on the tropes I find trite—I’d like to see them exploring and learning about each other similar to the the way they did in this film, but as a couple rather than two strangers. A romance adventure? Dunno. (Hallmark made romance-in-a-sequel work for a whole series of “Season in the Vineyard” films with Rachael Leigh Cook, but I’ve only ever seen the first one, so I don’t know how that worked.)

The other thing this rewatch reminded me (I can’t believe this movie came out in 2022—it was either the week before or the week after Katherine McNamara’s groundbreaking one [I thought I had a post about Kat’s movie, but I can’t find it under the expected tags, and we all know tumblr search is absolutely worthless])—is that, in spite of their ability to (sometimes) move beyond that contrived conflict, these Hallmark movies have yet to move beyond other formulaic elements: Amelia has a person-of-color “best friend” (assistant) and a really cool fun gay uncle. I’ve seen commercials for a winter/Christmas movie with two Black leads, and there was Kat’s aforementioned movie where she ends up with a woman (the way her sexuality was never defined, only explored, felt beautiful—like a vision of an ideal world—but I can’t help but wonder whether it was specifically downplayed)…they’re still (almost) all straight, white couples at the center. And while I adore many of the Hallmark leading ladies (“providing regular employment for actresses who portrayed Uncle Asad’s favorite bit-part broadcast-network characters since 2002” 😂) and enjoy many of the movies, they’re just not reflective of the world we live in…and so very far behind most of the rest of the networks out there. It makes me very sad.

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In north-east Lancashire in particular, men and women weavers recognised their shared interests and organised together to get equal pay and conditions.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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Sam Reid's onscreen partners/love interests over the years

(yes, even the f*cked-up ones)

These are the ones I could find pictures of and/or know of (so far). If you can find others I will gladly add them!

Top to bottom/left to right:

Jenni Herzberg in Spooks / Camilla Power in Whitechapel / Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle / Max Irons in The Riot Club / Azure Parsons in Astronaut Wives Club / Rebecca Ferguson in Despite the Falling Snow / Olivia Cooke in The Limehouse Golem / Stefanie Martini in Prime Suspect 1973 / Teresa Palmer in 2:22 / Phoebe Tonkin in Bloom / Philippa Northeast in Standing Up for Sunny / Jessica Barden in Lambs of God / Jessica De Gouw in The Hunting / Jessica De Gouw (again) in The Drover's Wife / Anna Torv in The Newsreader / Chai Hansen in The Newsreader / Jacob Anderson in Interview with the Vampire / Maura Grace Athari in Interview with the Vampire / Joseph Potter in Interview with the Vampire / Assad Zaman in Interview with the Vampire.

TBC!

And here is the Jacob Anderson one.

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The Newsreader Turns Three Years Old! 💖

In the morning, it will have been three years since The Newsreader first aired on the ABC, on the 15th August 2021!

Since that day in 2021, we all found this show at various points along the way, and we have created this beautiful community around it across many platforms. As much as this is a day of celebrating what the cast and crew have put together, it is a day for us too, because we’ve kept The Newsreader’s online conversation going even when the media have stopped covering it. We’ve made it the cult hit it has become.

For me personally, I’ll forever be grateful to this show for coming into my life at the moment it did. From rescuing my sense of boredom during lockdown, to helping me grow into the person I’m meant to become, and for giving me creative opportunities that I could have never dreamed of, the past three years have been an incredible creative ride. The 15th August will always be a special day to me, to celebrate the piece of media that has changed my creative life. I am so grateful for the creative spirits behind it, the people in the fan community surrounding it, for nurturing my brain and helping me find my creative voice. It has meant so much joining the News At Six family.

I thank everyone who has contributed to this digital birthday presentation, for their words which demonstrates how much this show means to its viewers. I was in awe of everyone’s words and thoughts about what makes The Newsreader special to them. I’m proud of us all, and thrilled that we found a show which we feel at home in, especially those of us who feel different. There is a place for us after all, where we can feel loved just the way we are.

Happy Third Newsreader Anniversary, everyone, from News At Six 1986! 💖🌟📺📰

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Sam and The Newsreader cast at ACCTAs

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Michelle and Pips at the 2024 Logies

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omg i’m so sorry to be using ur inbox as a fighting ground but idk what that other anon is talking about wrt sam reid, he’s in a relationship w his costar philippa northeast who is … 29. like, two and a half weeks ago she posted him on his instagram story 😭 idk where they got “girlfriend half his age” from they’ve been together since like 2018 afaik

OOP 👀👀👀 and so the rumor has been parried!! That is easily searchable, to be fair. 29 and 37 is not that deep, I feel like 29 is old enough to know both yourself and who you wanna be talking to. If it started in 2018, then she was 23 and he was 31. Which is a still a gap, for sure, but... Not nearly as bad as 18 and 37, which is what I thought.

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Hi! How do you know who Sam's gf is? I recognize that it's weird of me to even be curious. I'm just like, where is this information and is it a secret? I also understand not wanting to post this if she follows your blog.

hello. i don’t like talking about any celebrity’s personal life but who sam is dating is known. her name is philippa northeast and thankfully she doesn’t follow my stupid account 😅 here’s an old picture:

and this picture is from this year:

they’re a very beautiful couple 😊

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Mikey & Philippa Northeast, taken by Kylah Day. 💙😊💙

He's such a cute, silly teddy bear!!! 😍🐻🤠

@ilovemendo @lacontroller1991 @tavners