'The Crown' Season 3: Charles Dance Tapped To Play Lord Mountbatten

Charles Dance joins Netflix's The Crown Season 3 to play the aged-up Lord Louis Mountbatten to Josh O'Connor's young Prince Charles.

The Golden Globes are upon us, but for the first time, Netflix's prestige period drama The Crown won't be part of the action. When the show was first pitched and sold to Netflix, it came with two full recastings, between Seasons 2 and 3 and then again between Seasons 4 and 5. Unfortunately, the production found this to be easier said than done, and the extra time it took to recast the entire series with aged-up actors to cover the Queen's reign during the 1970s and 1980s was far longer than estimated.

The result is that for the first time since the show began, it missed the fourth-quarter release window on Netflix, and will now premiere sometime in 2019. (Rumors abound that Netflix plans to hold the third season until next fall, meaning the show won't be eligible for the Emmys this year either, effectively taking an entire year off. But there has been zero official confirmation of this.)