Entertainment News Roundup: Thirty years on, 'Priscilla the Party!' to immerse London audiences; Creators push limits of imagination in TV show '3 Body Problem' and more

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. 'The Crown' leads nominations for BAFTA Television awards The final season of Netflix royal drama "The Crown" led nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards on Wednesday, with a scene from former footballer David Beckham's docuseries also up for a prize.

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.

'The Crown' leads nominations for BAFTA Television awards

The final season of Netflix royal drama "The Crown" led nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards on Wednesday, with a scene from former footballer David Beckham's docuseries also up for a prize. "The Crown", which dramatizes the political and personal events that shaped the reign of Britain's late Queen Elizabeth, has eight nods at the annual British television industry awards, including four in the acting categories.

Thirty years on, 'Priscilla the Party!' to immerse London audiences

London audiences will from next week immerse themselves in cult comedy starring three extravagantly dressed drag artists, 30 years after "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" became an unexpected cinema hit. A decade after the 1994 film, written and directed by Stephan Elliott, a musical version of his road comedy grew the story's global following.

Creators push limits of imagination in TV show '3 Body Problem'

Creators of the long-running hit series "Game of Thrones", David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, return to television with another ambitious project; science-fiction show "3 Body Problem". The duo has joined forces with "True Blood" writer-producer Alexander Woo to bring Chinese author Liu Cixin's bestselling novel "The Three-Body Problem", the first book of a trilogy, to the screen in the new Netflix series.

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