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06-04-2025
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Authenticity As Important As Comedy To ‘Going Dutch' Star & Producer Denis Leary — Contenders TV
Denis Leary said authenticity to the military is as important as being funny on his new show Going Dutch. Leary plays Army Col. Patrick Quinn, who gets re-assigned to a base in the Netherlands after ranting against the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He and the base's soldiers engage in comic hijinx, but they're never making fun of the Army. 'I know we're supposed to be funny but we're also supposed to be soldiers,' Leary said. 'We're all dressed that way. Even if we're just in the hair and makeup trailer, generally we're in our uniforms. It's a constant reminder.' More from Deadline Deadline Contenders Television 2025 Arrivals Gallery: Ellen Pompeo, Bella Ramsey, Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Paul Feig & More Deadline Studio At Contenders Television 2025: Brandon Sklenar, Christina Ricci, Elisabeth Moss, Ellen Pompeo, Bella Ramsey & More Martin Scorsese's Yes Opened Doors To All 'The Studio' Cameos, Ike Barinholtz & Producers Say - Contenders TV Leary developed the show as executive producer with creator Joel Church-Cooper. Leary said detail is so important to him, he insists on acoutrements the audience will never see. 'There are certain props the audience will never see that I want my character to have with him,' Leary said. 'In this case there was a challenge coin I wanted made that comes from my character's background, back when he was winning medals in Iraq and Afghanistan. The audience will never see it but my character would have it with him every day.' In that respect, Going Dutch reminded Leary of his firefighter drama Rescue Me. He and his co-stars played firemen, and couldn't just fake it. RELATED: 'When you put on the bunker gear, even as much training as you've done for the part, the day that you put it on and we're shooting, you better look like a motherf*ckin' firefighter,' Leary said. 'That show we had real firefighters on set.' Going Dutch films on a real Dutch Army base, so there are constant reminders of the real deal soldiers amongst the actors. 'There's jet planes, cargo planes, tanks,' Leary said. 'It's usually a vast pretty flat area that's pretty windy because there's not buildings around. And there's real soldiers advising you. Off in the distance they're really drilling for something. You feel really intimidated.' Leary said Joel based the show on a real Netherlands base that closed because soldiers were engaging in the country's legal prostitution and drugs. 'This base was in charge of laundry for the other 32 naval bases and cheese and wine,' Leary said. 'They had to shut it down because there was some prostitution and other things being sold on the base. So they shut it down. The base that this is based on now has a bunch of barbed wire and fencing. They built a new base four miles away that now has the same problems.' Going Dutch concluded its first season on Fox in March and streams on Hulu. Check back on Monday for the panel video. Best of Deadline '1923' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 So Far Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far
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06-04-2025
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Authenticity As Important As Comedy To ‘Going Dutch' Star & Producer Denis Leary — Contenders TV
Denis Leary said authenticity to the military is as important as being funny on his new show Going Dutch. Leary plays Army Col. Patrick Quinn, who gets re-assigned to a base in the Netherlands after ranting against the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He and the base's soldiers engage in comic hijinx, but they're never making fun of the Army. 'I know we're supposed to be funny but we're also supposed to be soldiers,' Leary said. 'We're all dressed that way. Even if we're just in the hair and makeup trailer, generally we're in our uniforms. It's a constant reminder.' More from Deadline Deadline Contenders Television 2025 Arrivals Gallery: Ellen Pompeo, Bella Ramsey, Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Paul Feig & More Deadline Studio At Contenders Television 2025: Brandon Sklenar, Christina Ricci, Elisabeth Moss, Ellen Pompeo, Bella Ramsey & More 'Out Of My Mind' Director Amber Sealey And Co-Star Luke Kirby Hope Movie Helps Normalize Disability - Contenders TV Leary developed the show as executive producer with creator Joel Church-Cooper. Leary said detail is so important to him, he insists on acoutrements the audience will never see. 'There are certain props the audience will never see that I want my character to have with him,' Leary said. 'In this case there was a challenge coin I wanted made that comes from my character's background, back when he was winning medals in Iraq and Afghanistan. The audience will never see it but my character would have it with him every day.' In that respect, Going Dutch reminded Leary of his firefighter drama Rescue Me. He and his co-stars played firemen, and couldn't just fake it. RELATED: 'When you put on the bunker gear, even as much training as you've done for the part, the day that you put it on and we're shooting, you better look like a motherf*ckin' firefighter,' Leary said. 'That show we had real firefighters on set.' Going Dutch films on a real Dutch Army base, so there are constant reminders of the real deal soldiers amongst the actors. 'There's jet planes, cargo planes, tanks,' Leary said. 'It's usually a vast pretty flat area that's pretty windy because there's not buildings around. And there's real soldiers advising you. Off in the distance they're really drilling for something. You feel really intimidated.' Leary said Joel based the show on a real Netherlands base that closed because soldiers were engaging in the country's legal prostitution and drugs. 'This base was in charge of laundry for the other 32 naval bases and cheese and wine,' Leary said. 'They had to shut it down because there was some prostitution and other things being sold on the base. So they shut it down. The base that this is based on now has a bunch of barbed wire and fencing. They built a new base four miles away that now has the same problems.' Going Dutch concluded its first season on Fox in March and streams on Hulu. Check back on Monday for the panel video. Best of Deadline '1923' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 So Far Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far
The Guardian
30-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend
After her jaunt to the O2, Rachel Reeves may be aware that the musical oeuvre of Sabrina Carpenter includes I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bad for Business, Couldn't Make It Any Harder, Feels Like Loneliness and Rescue Me. Tunes for the chancellor to hum when she contemplates her approval ratings, which have tanked to the point where her unpopularity is now perilously close to matching the depths plumbed by Kwasi Kwarteng during his brief and calamitous stint at the Treasury. She is almost completely friendless in the media. Rightwing outlets blame the paucity of growth on higher business taxes while voices of the left decry reductions to incapacity benefits as balancing the books on the backs of the poor. The public mood is grim. The Opinium poll that is published today suggests that only half of those who voted Labour in 2024 think this government is handling the economy better than the Conservative one that the country evicted last July. Thinktank world reckons that last week's spring statement was a can-kicking exercise that leaves the fiscal position fragile and the government at the mercy of events. Planned reductions to welfare payments are generating a sulphurous atmosphere among Labour backbenchers and this will not dissipate anytime soon. Implementing these cuts requires putting them into law. This means that horrified disability charities and other appalled groups will have many weeks to campaign against the legislation while venting their outrage at Labour parliamentarians. 'This is not what Labour MPs came into politics to do,' says one of their number who would normally be counted as a loyalist. Can the chancellor survive so much opprobrium and opposition? Yes she can, so long as she still has a friend at Number 10. The opinion that matters to her most is that held by the prime minister. He may be no economist, but he will be the ultimate decider when, and if, her number is up. In the early 80s, Sir Geoffrey Howe had a much grimmer stretch of his chancellorship than she is enduring now, but he got through to the other side because his strategy had a fully paid-up subscriber in Margaret Thatcher. George Osborne's humiliatingly awful 'omnishambles' budget in 2012 might have done for him had he not been best mates with David Cameron. The dynamic between the current duo is interesting. Cabinet colleagues generally portray their relationship as 'rock solid'. There is certainly no sign of the festering resentments and bitter rivalries that disfigured dealings between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when those frenemies were the neighbours of Downing Street. On the other hand, the Starmer-Reeves pairing is not as chummy as Cameron-Osborne who were godfathers to each other's children. It is worth noting that the relative statures of Sir Keir and Ms Reeves have shifted with time and circumstance. In the early phase of this government, it was she who radiated the power. The Treasury looked extremely dominant, while Number 10 was debilitated by the internal struggles between Sue Gray and Morgan McSweeney's gang. Officials were surprised by how little and late the prime minister's involvement was in last October's budget; they were even more startled that Sir Keir seemed content to almost entirely delegate economic policymaking to the chancellor. More recently, his star has been in the ascendant as have his priorities. While the chancellor has been besieged, the prime minister's efforts to handle Donald Trump and give succour to Ukraine have drawn widespread plaudits. His ratings have had a boost, albeit from a low base. They have maintained a front of unity for public consumption, but there have been disagreements behind the scenes. She was initially resistant to extra funding for defence. That contrasted with the prime minister who was quick to heed the argument that more had to be spent on the military in response to Trump's return to the White House. Sir Keir has been very struck by surveys suggesting that global uncertainty is shooting up as a concern among voters. But this is about much more than polling. He regards it as a personal mission of the highest importance to persuade the US president to keep America bound into Nato's security guarantees. He will be pleased if one of the things said about his prime ministership in years to come is that he played an essential role in ensuring the future of the Atlantic alliance. It was when she appreciated the strength of his feeling that the chancellor pivoted to a more accommodative position on defence spending. She has taken to talking up additional investment and jobs in defence manufacturing as a potential engine of prosperity. Once Labour's growth ambitions were concentrated around becoming a 'clean energy superpower'; now the chancellor wants to be a 'defence industrial superpower'. Khaki is the new green. The Office for Budget Responsibility is increasingly controversial in Labour's ranks where there is regret that the chancellor championed the legislation elevating the status and clout of the fiscal invigilators. The OBR has cheered the government by judging that planning reforms will result in a permanent improvement to GDP over the longer-term. But the watchdog also made life difficult for the chancellor in the short-term by telling her that she'd bust her rules unless she made additional spending reductions. The complaint is that policymaking has become too subservient to satisfying OBR guesstimates about what growth and debt might be in five years. I have it on exceedingly good authority that the prime minister himself has come to the view that it is unhelpful, to the point of being barmy, that the government has to live in dread of an OBR report card every six months, rather than face an annual verdict at budget time. It remains hard to detect significant differences between him and the chancellor on the fundamentals. I remarked back in January that their fates were entwined because they were lashed to the same mast and they are tighter bound as the headwinds howl with increased ferocity. Both have made improved growth the centrepiece of strategy, so both will pay a continuing political price unless and until it materialises. Both believe the world has become a darker place since the new year without being able to say explicitly that the principal author of this turbulence lives in the White House. Both share the dread of the damage to the economy and the government's finances that is threatened by the US president. Though his big reveal on tariffs is supposed to be coming this Wednesday, cabinet members and officials tell me they don't have any certainty about what might be in store. Even if the UK manages to dodge the worst of the Trumpian tariffs, we will still suffer from the fallout of a global trade war. Yet prime minister and chancellor remain as one in believing that there is no alternative to doubling down on toughing it out in the hope that it will ultimately galvanise growth and generate respect. Faced with crunchy decisions they'd rather not have to make, many Labour people, including a significant number of the cabinet, think life could be made a lot easier by relaxing the fiscal rules, which the chancellor declares to be 'non-negotiable'. Some of these critics describe it as a terrible mistake to strap Labour into a self-imposed straitjacket. This argument has no traction among her supporters, one of whom retorts: 'We all know Labour governments have to work harder to sustain credibility. Borrowing is right at the limit of what the market will tolerate. If the government cannot prove that it can stick to fiscal discipline, it will be shot to pieces.' In this, the chancellor has, so far, had a steadfast ally in her nextdoor neighbour. When Sir Keir encounters ministers who argue for easing the fiscal rules, he has been heard to contemptuously dismiss it as 'classic Labour' to seek a reality-swerving refuge from facing difficult challenges. Sign up to Observed Analysis and opinion on the week's news and culture brought to you by the best Observer writers after newsletter promotion The prime minister grew up as the son of a severely disabled mother. Rather than soften his resolve on cuts to incapacity benefits in the name of getting people into work, his background appears to have strengthened the conviction that bearing down on the rising cost of the welfare budget is the right thing to do. He is at least as adamant as his chancellor about this. It looks like a coin toss on as to whether or not Ms Reeves will be meeting her fiscal rules in time for her autumn budget. In bad case scenarios, she will have to further tighten spending and/or introduce more tax increases. Then she will really need a foul-weather friend at Number 10. Andrew Rawnsley is the Chief Political Commentator of the Observer
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
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'Law & Order: SVU' Actor Sentenced to 25 Years to Life for Murder
Isaiah Stokes, who has had a long acting career with roles in major television shows like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Blue Bloods, among others, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the 2021 murder of Tyrone Jones. Stokes was officially convicted of murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, as stated in an official press release from Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. 🎬 🎬 Katz shared a statement about the decision, saying, "Justice has now been served for the premeditated murder perpetrated by this defendant and he will now spend 25 years to life in prison as a direct consequence of his criminal actions.' Stokes was convicted of the charges earlier this month after a two-week trial. In a press release posted after the trial, Katz called the crime a "calculated murder," adding, "I thank our prosecutors and the NYPD detectives who built this case. The jury has now spoken, and the defendant faces up to 25 years to life at sentencing for his criminal actions.' Jones was shot and killed in Queens, N.Y. on Feb. 7, 2021, with the press release saying, "The shooting is believed to have been retaliation for an altercation between the defendant and the victim at the victim's birthday party in October 2020." Stokes has been a working actor since the mid-2000s, with his first official television job appearing in two episodes of Rescue Me in 2006. In 2009, he had a role in Law & Order: SVU, and over the years, he has had small parts in other TV staples like The Americans, Louie, and Blue Bloods. Next:
Yahoo
22-03-2025
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‘Law & Order' Actor May Spend Life in Prison for ‘Calculated' Revenge Murder
For every right there's a wrong, for every action there's a consequence, and for every convict there's a sentence—even if you're a Law & Order alum. Isaiah Stokes, who appeared on Season 10 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life behind bars for a 2021 shooting where he exhibited 'murderous rage.' The actor was found guilty of criminal possession of a weapon and the second-degree murder of 37-year-old New Yorker Tyrone Jones. The sentence followed a rocky two-week trial where prosecutors claimed Stokes, now 45, had sought revenge against Jones for months in a 'calculated murder,' according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. It all started in October 2020 after Stokes behaved inappropriately toward female guests. Jones told him to leave, but Stokes refused. A physical altercation ensued, and Stokes was kicked out. Filled with vengeance, Stokes placed a GPS tracking device under Jones' vehicle in January 2021, which he used to track the victim that February to the scene of the crime. Jones was going about his day as usual, sitting in a parked car and waiting for a friend to arrive. They were planning on having lunch at a nearby restaurant. But Stokes arrived before Jones even left the car. He drew his gun and shot the victim eleven times, hitting his head and chest. Jones was pronounced dead on the scene. 'The defendant, a part-time actor, stewed for months after being thrown out of a birthday party for his own inappropriate behavior,' said Katz, saying that Stokes was 'intent on revenge.' The tense trial came to a head when Stokes interrupted during his sentencing remarks and the judge snapped, 'I don't care what you said! I don't care if you maintain your innocence, you are more guilty than anyone I've seen in this courtroom.' Judge Kenneth Holder added, 'You thought staying in jail for as long as you can would do wonders for your movie career when you got out. But here's the problem, you have to get out and you're not getting out, no one can intentionally plan a murder and carry it out as stupidly as you did.' The judge added that Stokes 'hatched' the plan after being consumed by his anger. 'You hunted down Jones and shot him 11 times and ensured he would die,' he added. 'Ironically the murderous rage you undertook presents you with the notoriety you hope for.' Holder also chastised the actor for throwing away his 'impressive' acting talent in one fit of rage. The victim's father said Stokes was a 'monster' for 'stalking and murdering' his only son. Stokes also appeared in Season 3 of FX's Rescue Me, Season 2 of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and multiple seasons of the FX series Louie. His last credited acting gig was in Season 1 of Starz show Power.
