Hollyoaks - Brendan Brady

• Mysterious Walker’s arrival in the village was a great end of the week and I can’t help but feel that it’s going to get better and better. You can, as always, catch up with this week’s episodes by looking through the videos tag.
• Neil Newbon who plays Jamie “Walker” gave a cryptic interview with DS and gave away some teasers on the Hollyoaks website too. There are also some exclusive pictures of Brendan and Walker having a face off!
• Emmett chatted some more about Walker in an interview with Inside Soap and spoke about how Brendan’s three main motivations: power, possession and Ste will be explored in the future. Not only will people be arriving to change Brendan’s life forever, but Emmett also said, that in regards to “Stug”, Brendan doesn’t share his toys!
• Also in Inside Soap this week was a day in the life of Emmett and in All About Soap a viewer wrote about their love for Stendan. Aw.
• Bronagh Waugh was interviewed about her additional TV project (The Fall) and she also chatted about future Brady storylines and Stendan.
• It’s an exciting week ahead for Brendan - check out the TV promo for this week!

Charlie Casanova

• Charlie Casanova opened in cinemas across Ireland and in London on Friday (see here for where it’s showing). 
• You can watch a Q&A with Emmett and Terry McMahon here as well as an out-take.
• As writer and director Terry McMahon predicted, reviews have been mixed, but praise for Emmett has been excellent. The Independent said this

But the film really has something in its star: imagine Hugh Grant’s saturnine Irish cousin crossed with the mad-bastard glare of the young Christopher Walken. Emmett Scanlan projects every atom of this corrupt and violent misanthrope as though his life depended on it.

• I had the pleasure of watching Charlie Casanova at the weekend and was totally impressed and mesmerised by Emmett’s performance. You can’t help but be gripped by the film. If you get the chance to go and see it then you should.

Other

• The voting details haven’t been announced yet but Emmett is up for loads of Twitter Soap Awards (Best Actor, Sexiest Male, Best Partnership [with Kieron], Best Episode [Brendan tells Ste he loves him] and I’m also up for Outstanding Contribution to Fandom [wow, yikes!]. So thanks to anyone who voted for these and get your voting fingers ready! 
• Feeling the lack of Stendan blues? Make it your priority to follow this lovely new blog.
  

He’s going to the 9pm screening.

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Hollyoaks - Brendan Brady

• We’re in the middle of a brief Brendan blackhole right now (he’s back this coming Thursday) but you can follow the Ste and Doug story here - and you just know that it won’t be long until Brendan involves himself!
• Brendan’s heavily involved in the upcoming spoilers and with new arch nemesis Walker making his début on Thursday, it looks set to be pretty exciting. You can read all the latest spoilers here.
• Remember when we reported about Joel possibly being stabbed? Well that’s set to be on screen very shortly as you can see in the photos here. 
• This Saturday Emmett was pictured shooting a promo for Hollyoaks along with many other characters. It seems to be a carnival theme to be aired in June. As it seems it might be related to storylines happening in June, it’s intriguing that Emmett was seen filming with Kieron and PJ.
• The British Soap Awards aired on Wednesday and if you fancy watching it, it’s available to watch here. There are some screencaps here and here from the show. For the many, many BSA pics, check the British Soap Awards tag!
• From the British Soap Awards there were two video interviews with Emmett. One of the videos he introduced Neil Newbon (Walker) and in the second he spoke about whether Doug would be competition for Brendan and that Stendan is a love story and guarantees it’s not over.
• PJ Brennan and Kieron Richardson also weighed in on Brendan’s involvement in Ste’s life in interviews here, here and here.
• Kieron had a little chat with some Stendan fans on the KeeBroShow Twitter account where he urged disheartened fans that they can’t give everything away in interviews and to stick with it.
• Emmett fan MysteriousLMan shared a great report from the Charlie Casanova screening in Dublin, where he got a few nuggets of information from producer Emma Smithwick.
• Brendan is going to be in this year’s Hollyoaks Later! 

Charlie Casanova

• It was a great week for Emmett, Terry and all those involved with Charlie Casanova this week as the promotion of the film spread throughout Dublin.
• A screening in Dublin also took place which you can see press photos from here and here.
• Emmett was interviewed by the Irish Sun about playing bad guys as he has a “dickhead face”. I’m sure we’d challenge that..!
• So far Charlie Casanova (from the 11th May) is set to be shown in the Empire Leicester Square (London) and various cinemas in Ireland. I’ll tweet about other venues when they’re announced.

Misc

• If you’re intrigued about newcomer Walker (Brendan’s new enemy) and the actor that plays him then give Neil Newbon Fans a follow!