SEE ANNA TORV, SAM CORLETT IN FIRST TRAILER FOR NEW NETFLIX AUSTRALIAN EPIC SAGA TERRITORY TV SERIES

   FIRST TERRITORY   

TRAILER FROM NEW NETFLIX SERIES

Territory arrives next month to Netflix

It was previously known as Desert King but will now stream as TERRITORY from October 24th with Newsreader's Anna Torv and Vikings: Valhalla's Sam Corlett in the lead roles. This six episode neo-Western series will also star Michael Dorman and Robert Taylor, next to Clarence Ryan, Dan Wyllie, Jay Ryan, Philippa Northeast, Joe Klocek, Kylah Day, Sam Delich, Hamilton Morris, Tuuli Narkle, Tyler Spencer, and Jake Ryan. You can check out the exciting first trailer below and tell us what you think!  Will you been tuning in next month when it arrives to the worlds biggest streamer?

  THE STORY OF TERRITORY CENTRES
on Marianne Station, a cattle station left without a clear successor that is the subject of generational clashes between the Lawsons. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders, and billionaire miners – move in for the kill. With billions of dollars at stake, everyone wants a piece of the pie. It is the latest series of high quality production we are getting from Down Under!

BBC SETS JOANNA SCANLAN, TAMSIN GREIG, BEN BATT, ANNE REID FOR RIOT WOMEN MIDDLE AGED LADIES PUNK ROCK BAND TV SERIES

    BBC'S RIOT WOMEN   

PUNK ROCK TV SERIES FINDS A CAST 

Originally titled Hot Flush and now known over at BBC and Britbox as RIOT WOMEN is a six part series that will star Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig, Ben Batt, Rosalie Craig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Anne Reid and Amelia Bullmore. It will follow a group of middle-aged women who decide to enter a talent contest by forming a punk-rock band. After writing their first song, however, they realize they have plenty to say and now, the means to say it. As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything. As the story progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface, one that unexpectedly entangles the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle, and threatens to tear everything apart

NETFLIX REVEALS STREAM DATE AND A TEASER FOR THE LAW ACCORDING TO LIDIA POET PERIOD SET ITALIAN SERIES

 LAW ACCORDING TO LIDIA POET 

SEASON TWO SERIES TRAILER IS HERE

Quite unexpectedly, the 2nd season of Italy's period set series THE LAW ACCORDING TO LIDIA POET has been announced for October 30th over at Netflix. Lidia (Matilda de Angelis) is not allowed to be a lawyer because she is a woman. So this time she aims even higher, she wants to change the law. While she continues to collaborate with her brother Enrico (Eduardo Scarpetta), tackling new cases and fighting for women’s rights, she wants to convince him to run for Parliament so that her law can finally find a voice. Lidia is completely done with love, especially with Jacopo (Pier Luigi Pasino), responsible for having sold the family villa and on a collision course with all the Poëts. But Jacopo and Lidia are forced to meet again to share, reluctantly, a secret investigation that concerns them closely, rediscovering the complicity and fun that has always bound them. Giving a hard time to the protagonists, the new King’s Attorney, Fourneau (Gianmarco Saurino), a man of the institutions who unexpectedly treats Lidia as his equal, prompting her to question the complex and contradictory relationship she has with feelings, and the cost of personal renunciation that she is sustaining in the name of her ideals. 

SEE FIRST LOOK AT HARRY LAWTEY AS RICHARD BURTON IN MR. BURTON BIOPIC WITH TOBY JONES, LESLEY MANVILLE, ANEURIN BARNARD

   FIRST HARRY LAWTEY  

PICTURE FROM MR. BURTON BIOPIC

We have the first image of Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones in MR. BURTON biopic which will tell the true story of the relationship between Welsh schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins. The latter dreamed of becoming an actor, but his ambitions were in danger of being derailed by a combination of family trouble, the pressure of war, and his own lack of discipline. Mr. Burton recognized the raw talent in his pupil, and made it his mission to fight for him, becoming his tutor, strict taskmaster and eventually his adoptive father. Actor Burton would go on to be nominated for seven Oscars and was well known for his turbulent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor. Aneurin Barnard and Lesley Manville also star.

SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM BBC AND MGM+ WARTIME SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES SEASON 2 WITH JACK O'CONNELL, CONNOR SWINDELLS, GWILYM LEE, MARK ROWLEY

  SAS ROGUE HEROES  

FIRST IMAGES FROM THE SECOND SEASON

The first season scored success for BBC in UK so the second season of wartime series SAS: ROGUE HEROES is ready to get back on the broadcaster sometime soon and to MGM+ in USA. In the new season Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West are joined by new cast members Gwilym Lee, Con O’Neill, Mark Rowley, Jack Barton and others. 

 

ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY

Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, series two returns to action with the troops in Spring 1943. Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) takes control of the SAS following David Stirling’s (Connor Swindells) capture, and now attention must turn from the conflict in North Africa to mainland Europe. But GHQ have cast doubt over the future of the regiment, while the creation of a second unit and an influx of new arrivals make things even more difficult for the men. Can they prove that the SAS remain essential to the war, wherever it may lead them? 

 WHO IS IN THE SQUAD NOW?

Gwilym Lee joins the cast as Bill Stirling, David Stirling’s brother and founder of the 2SAS regiment, while Con O’Neill appears as General Montgomery. Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, and Bobby Schofield also return for duty in series two. Among the brigade’s new recruits are Mark Rowley and Jack Barton, who will play SAS members Jock McDiarmid and John Tonkin respectively. Further new cast members include Stuart Thompson, Paolo De Vita, Anna Manuelli, Edward Bennett and Matteo Franco.

THOSE ABOUT TO DIE PRODUCER ROLAND EMMERICH PLANNING NEW EPIC TV SERIES LAWRENCE IN ARABIA

   ROLAND EMMERICH  

TO SHOOT LAWRENCE IN ARABIA SERIES

While talking to Hollywood Reporter about the potential second season of Prime Video and Peacock's Ancient Rome epic series Those About to Die, which could have flashbacks into The Year of Four Emperors with all the Nero drama, Roland Emmerich has revealed that he might do a three season historical series LAWRENCE IN ARABIA his own take on the legendary Peter O'Toole movie. He is writing it with Anthony McCarten and says it will have more characters than the film. They are pitching it next month.

MAX UNVEILS CAST FOR THEIR MERTEUIL COSTUME TV SERIES, THEIR TAKE ON LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES!

   MAX UNVEILS CAST  

FOR MERTEUIL FRENCH COSTUME SERIES

Max has revealed the cast for their new French original series MERTEUIL which has just started shooting in Normandy with Anamaria Vartolomei (Isabelle de Merteuil), Diane Kruger (Madame de Rosemonde), Vincent Lacoste (Vicomte de Valmont) and Lucas Bravo (Comte de Gercourt). With grandiose and intimate settings, from the cliffs of  Normandy to the châteaux of Ile-de-France, the series follows Marquise de Merteuil who, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris’ leading courtesan! To be the hero of your own story, you sometimes have to be the villain in others. It will be a free adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

BAZ LUHRMANN WORKING ON A NEW EPIC MOVIE JEHANNE D'ARC BASED ON THE STORY OF LEGENDARY JOAN OF ARC!

  BAZ LUHRMANN PREPARING 

A JOAN OF ARC EPIC HISTORICAL SPECTACLE

Well, most of his movies are spectacles, right, so why not do a historical one again after Australia? According to Deadline, the director of Moulin Rouge

The casting call has been released for the lead role

Baz Luhrmann is currently preparing a new project and it will be his own take on the famous historical story of Joan of Arc titled JEHANNE D'ARC. Luhrmann and Warner Bros are as of today searching for a teenage girl to play the young French peasant who believed God had sent her to lead an army. She believed she would save her country during the Hundred Years’ War. It will be the ultimate teenage girl coming of age story, set in the Hundred Years’ War in the 15th century.

SEE MAGICAL REALISM IN THE FIRST TEASER FOR HBO'S TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE

  COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE  

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE HBO SERIES

After Hungary yesterday, I am taking you today to South America because HBO has released first teaser for their new COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE

The series is coming soon to Max

series which will arrive soon based on the famous novel by Laura Esquivel. Set in the time of the Revolution, the series shows that tradition is not always the best path. Our protagonists Tita de la Garza (Azul Guaita) and Pedro Muzquiz (Andres Baida) are two souls in love who cannot be together due to deep-rooted family traditions. Tita will be forced to navigate between the destiny dictated by her family and her fight for love through magical colors and flavors, as we accompany her in the place where she finds her greatest refuge: the kitchen. Check out the teaser below and tell us what you think. Will you be tuning in when it arrives?

VISIT 19TH CENTURY VIENNA IN SEMMELWEIS HISTORICAL BIOPIC WHICH WILL REPRESENT HUNGARY IN OSCAR RACE NEXT YEAR

  SEMMELWEIS TRAILER  

FOR HUNGARY'S CANDIDATE IN OSCAR RACE

The film is on Netflix in some countries

The Oscar season is slowly beginning, countries have started choosing films that will be their candidates in the best foreign movie category, and Hungary has chosen SEMMELWEIS period set drama which will be the second time that Lajos Koltai represents his country. 

 

WHAT IS THE STORY?

This historical biopic centres around a famous Hungarian doctor Ignac Semmelweis (Miklós H. Vecsei) who introduced antiseptic procedures at a Vienna maternity clinic. In 1847 a mysterious epidemic is raging in a maternity clinic in Vienna, while the doctor Ignác Semmelweis tries to defeat puerperal fever by going against all traditional theories. After playing in Hungarian cinemas earlier this year it became their most watched movie in last five years. The film is available for streaming on Netflix in some countries, methinks.