KEVIN COSTNER'S THE GRAY HOUSE 19TH CENTURY CIVIL WAR FEMALE SPIES TV DRAMA WITH MARY LOUISE PARKER AND COLIN MORGAN STARTS NEXT WEEK

   THE GRAY HOUSE   

COSTUME TV DRAMA STARTS NEXT WEEK

The series starts next week

Kevin Costner's new six episode historical series THE GRAY HOUSE that tells the hidden history tale of four Southern women — a Virginia socialite and her mother, a formerly enslaved Black woman and a high-end prostitute — who served as key espionage agents for the Union, is ready to hit the small screens next week and start streaming on Prime Video from February 26th.

 

THE STORY AND THE CAST  

 The foursome are credited as unsung heroes who helped end the nation’s brutal cleavage in 1865. They operated deep inside the corridors of Confederate power and transformed an underground railroad into an effective underground spy network, risking life and liberty. Mary-Louise Parker, Amethyst Davis, Daisy Head and Ben Vereen lead the cast. Costner and Morgan Freeman are producing. The soundtrack of the series will feature new songs from Shania Twain and Jon Bon Jovi. Our dear Colin Morgan, Colin O'Donoghue and Sam Trammell will also star. Check out gorgeous scenes from the film in "Heart of America" movie song video below:

 

FIRST LOOK AT COLD WAR TV SERIES HONEY FROM BBC AND ZDF WITH JANNIS NIEWOHNER AND RORY KINNEAR

   FIRST HONEY IMAGES  

FROM NEW BBC COLD WAR DRAMA

BBC and German ZDF have teamed up on a new dark comedy six part  drama HONEY which will star our dearest Jannis Niewohner alongside Ann Skelly, Nate Mann and Rory Kinnear. The tender and flirty, slick and dangerous series goes deep undercover in 1980s East Berlin to explore a shadowy world of counter espionage and risky but irresistible relations. East Berlin, 1982. Martha, 24, is a deep cover agent for MI6. Surrounded by enemies and constantly under threat of her cover being blown, she tries her hardest to avoid detection by Friedrich, the new Stasi Head of Counterespionage against British Targets, Berlin Office. Finding herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, arrogant (and incredibly attractive…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland (posing as Kurt Fischer), she is blind-sided by desire in this Cold War menage-a-trois. The risk of being garrotted or incarcerated is nothing compared to the horrifying ordeal of falling in love. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable and bearing your heart and soul? She'd rather have her fingernails pulled out.

BRENDAN FRASER, ANDREW SCOTT, DAMIAN LEWIS IN TRAILER FOR PRESSURE D-DAY WW2 HISTORICAL MOVIE

   PRESSURE TRAILER   

WITH BRENDAN FRASER AND ANDREW SCOTT

A trailer has been released for Brendan Fraser's new World War II movie PRESSURE which is out May 29th with him playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the final days before the planned Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must deliver a weather report to the Allied high command determining the feasibility of the planned D-Day. It only also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, and is directed by Anthony Maras. Check out the movie trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?

 

VIVIEN & THE FLORIST BIOPIC WITH CARLA GUGINO, JACK DAVENPORT, DAVID HYDE PIERCE, EOIN MACKEN, MATTHEW MODINE

   VIVIEN & THE FLORIST 

VIVIEN LEIGH BIOPIC WITH CARLA GUGINO  

Nick Sandow's movie VIVIEN & THE FLORIST with Carla Gugino as Vivien Leigh has finished shooting exploring Leigh’s struggle with bipolar disorder in the 1960s, as she prepares to lead the Broadway production of John Gielgud’s (David Hyde Pierce) Chekhov adaptation of Ivanov. Leigh collides with Joseph Penn (Matthew Modine), a WWII  veteran and florist who encounters Leigh on a delivery. At the same time, the star attends a local psychiatric facility for electroconvulsive therapy. Amidst the backdrop of madness Leigh and Penn become each other’s sources of truth, beauty, and love. Jack Davenport is Laurence Olivier with Eoin Macken also in the cast.

DAMON WAYANS JR. TO LEAD NBC DRAMA PILOT PUZZLED AS A MAN WITH ACQUIRED SAVANT SYNDROME

   DAMON WAYANS JR.  

TO LEAD NBC SERIES PILOT PUZZLED

According to Deadline, NBC has set Damon Wayans Jr. as the lead of their new drama pilot PUZZLE. After barely escaping a tragic fire, once promising college athlete Mike Brink is transformed by a traumatic brain injury that gives him the unique ability to see the world in an unexpected way and helps him solve crimes with local police. Mike makes his living by betting on sports and is uniquely equipped to do this because he developed Acquired Savant Syndrome as a result of the brain injury. This rare phenomenon gives him exceptional skills in puzzle-solving, higher math functions and pattern recognition.

2026 PERIOD SET NETFLIX TV SERIES AND FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA: MY BRILLIANT CAREER, EAST OF EDEN, THE MOSQUITO BOWL

 NETFLIX AUSTRALIAN SERIES 

EAST OF EDEN TV ADAPTATION 

A small screen adaptation of a classic coming to Netflix in 2026 will be a contemporary reimagining of John Steinbeck’s classic novel shot exploring the mult igenerational saga of the Trask family with Florence Poo, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds leading the cast. It is set in California’s Salinas Valley over a period that stretches from the Civil War to end of World War I.

 

 1901 SET MY BRILLIANT CAREER

A TV adaptation of Miles Franklin’s novel follows Sybylla (Phillipa Northeast), a shockingly modern young woman in 1901. Australia with one searing ambition: to be a writer. With an irrepressible taste for fun, the choice between adventure and a safe marriage is easy, until she falls in love. Should Sybylla marry, or should she throw herself to the winds of fate and risk a creative life? Anna Chancellor also stars.

 

WW2 THE MOSQUITO BOWL

Will be a Second World War drama based on the true story of four college football stars who enlist in the Marines following the attack on Pearl Harbor. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they participate in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history — a game that, for many, will be their last. The cast led by Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård is under the helm of director Peter Berg.

FIRST LOOK AT DAMIEN MOLONY, HUGH SKINNER, JESSICA RAINE IN NEW BBC GREECE SET MINI TV SERIES TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST

   TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST 

DAMIEN MOLONY, HUGH SKINNER IMAGES

I told you last year that BBC was working with Catherine Shepherd on TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST thriller series that tells the story of a woman who goes on holiday to Greece with her family and friends to rediscover joy in her life and today we have the first images. It follows Zoe who begins to act on her deepest desires and the holiday she hoped for becomes a reckoning for a group of adults who refuse to grow up. But when they discover they are trapped on the island, and become faced with real life-or-death situations, the group soon turn on each other to find out who is to blame. Is Zoe responsible for the drama and destruction around her or, as heaven turns to hell, are bigger forces at play? We are in Greece after all, the land of the ancient Gods...The cast is led by Jessica Raine as Zoe, Damien Molony as her troubled husband Dan, Nicholas Pinnock as their old friend Solomon and Antonia Thomas as his new wife Jess, alongside Leila Farzad and our dearest Hugh Skinner as uni friends Nat and Jacob.

SEE ALEKSANDAR GORBATOV AS EMPEROR PETER I IN TRAILER FOR BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE HISTORICAL MOVIE WITH MILOS BIKOVIC, YULIA PERESILD

   BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE   

TRAILER FOR PETER I HISTORICAL MOVIE

Back in 2022 I reported that Serbian star Milos Bikovic will lead historical movie THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE (Рождение империи) butthen exactly a year ago I told you that it will be Aleksandar Gorbatov who will play the lead role of Tzar Peter I at the time after the defeat in the Battle of Narva and before the victory in the Battle of Poltava. And now we have the first trailer from the film which is supposed to arrive to Russian cinemas October 29th 2026. In addition to Peter I, the film will also feature his courtiers Menshikov, Sheremetyev, Romodanovsky and Foreign Minister Golovin. Menshikov will actually be played by Milos Bikovich, Romodanovsky by Vitaly Khaev, Sheremetyev by Alexey Guskov. The female roles will be played by Yulia Peresild (Anna Mons) and Ksenia Utekhina (the future Catherine I). Andrei Kravchuk is directing.

 WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE FILM?

Returning to his homeland after the Grand Embassy (Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe from 9 March 1697 to 25 August 1698led by Peter the Great), Peter the Great stepped into a protracted war with Sweden for the access to the sea. On the way to a great victory, serious trials await him: disappointment, deception and betrayal - only by overcoming all of those will Peter become Emperor, find true love, and Russia will be proclaimed a great Empire.

 

SEE WILLIAM FRANKLIN MILLER IN NEW CLIP FROM YOUNG WASHINGTON HISTORICAL MOVIE WITH KELSEY GRAMMER, BEN KINGSLEY

   YOUNG WASHINGTON  

NEW CLIP WITH WILLIAM FRANKLYN MILLER

The movie is out this July in cinemas

Coming from the creator of House of David series Jon Erwin is new feature movie YOUNG WASHINGTON  with young William Franklin Miller in the lead role and I have a new clip for you today. The chronicle of the future politician and general begins with his mistake attacking a patrol that triggers the French and Indian War, forcing the ambitious 22-year-old Washington to face his failures and find the courage to become the leader that will forge a nation. Angel Studios is preparing to release the film on July 4th weekend, 2026. Kelsey Grammer also stars and so do Ben Kingsley and Andy Serkis and Mary Louise Parker. See the brand new movie clip  below:

 

FIRST IMAGE OF JOHNNY FLYNN AS DOSTOYEVSKY AND AIMEE LOU WOOD AS HIS WIFE IN THE IDIOT(S) PERIOD SET MOVIE DRAMA

  FIRST THE IDIOT(S) IMAGE 

FROM A MOVIE ON DOSTOYEVSKY

First image has been released with Johnny Flynn and Aimee Lou Wood from IDIOT(S) period set movie which also stars Vicky Krieps and Christian Friedel. The film follows the lives of the famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna during a period that inspired him to write “The Idiot” at the time a commercial flop, but today, considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature. He wrote it in Switzerland where they ran off from debts in Russia.