James Bond

Media franchise about a British spy

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The James Bond franchise focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson. The latest novel is On His Majesty's Secret Service by Charlie Higson, published in May 2023.

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🇺🇸 How Young Will Amazon Make James Bond? (2026-04-10)
“Maybe I could be at the bar, swilling a martini, saying nothing.” So Louis Partridge told Variety just last year while discussing potential ways to i...
🇺🇸 ‘Bait’ Review: Riz Ahmed Rethinks Becoming James Bond in Amazon’s Slick but Formulaic Action-Drama (2026-03-25)
Created by and starring the "Night Of" breakout, "Bait" follows a struggling Muslim actor whose audition to be the next James Bond stirs up trouble he...
🇺🇸 Riz Ahmed’s Meta James Bond Casting Comedy ‘Bait’ Is Too High-Concept for Its Own Good: TV Review (2026-03-25)
The Amazon Prime Video comedy “Bait” has two contradictory concepts that uncomfortably co-exist inside the same six-episode season. On the one hand, t...
🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ UK Promo: Host Jamie Dornan Finds Out He Won’t Be The Next James Bond (2026-03-24)
Turns out, Jamie Dornan lost the role of James Bond to Kermit the Frog. At least, that’s the implication of a new bit promoting his SNL UK hosting sti...
🇺🇸 In ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer,’ ‘Succession’ Meets 007 for the Epstein Files Age (2026-03-19)
On the sidelines of CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, creators Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg discuss the series, the first episode of which premiered at S...
🇺🇸 ‘Bait’ Review: A Muslim Actor’s James Bond Audition Has Zany, Emotional Consequences in Riz Ahmed’s Intriguing Amazon Comedy (2026-03-19)
The actor created and starred in this six-part series about a Pakistani-British actor whose life turns upside down when he's rumored to be the next 00...
🇬🇧 The Guide #231: How the hunt for the next James Bond became the franchise’s best marketing tool (2026-02-21)
<p>In this week’s newsletter: The race to crown a new 007 has become its own long‑running spectacle, turning the search for Bond into an event as big...
🇺🇸 Cortina’s 70-Year-Old Curling Stadium Is a Star at the Winter Olympics (2026-02-16)
It hosted Olympic hockey in 1956 and James Bond a quarter-century later. Cortina’s beloved Olympic Stadium is now bursting with excitement for curling...

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