CASTING NEWS: KEVIN MCKIDD TO LEAD THE ONLY SUSPECT ITV SERIES, MELISSA MCCARTHY AND CONNOR STORRIE TO STAR IN TURPENTINE THRILLER?

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MELISSA MCCARTHY TO LEAD TURPENTINE

Some casting news for you today: Over at Deadline there is a rumour that Melissa McCarthy and Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie might lead TURPENTINE thriller movie from Craig Zobel. The story of the new film follows a deadbeat son who hires friends to rob his own parents to pay off a bookie, with disastrous results.

 

KEVIN MCKIDD TO LEAD ONLY SUSPECT SERIES

After leaving Grey's Anatomy, Kevin McKidd is set to lead new four part series THE ONLY SUSPECT over at ITV. Based on Louise Candlish novel it follows Alex and Beth, a devoted couple whose picture perfect suburban life hides a devastating truth. The story switches between the 

Kevin McKidd will lead the series

present day and 1990s Camden and begins in the sweltering summer of 1995 as a man buries a body during a violent storm. Thirty years later, another heatwave grips a very different world. The abandoned railway track where the body was hidden – running behind Alex and Beth’s street – is being transformed into a nature trail, spearheaded by Beth herself. What is a triumph for the neighbourhood instead threatens catastrophe for Alex… Because Alex is the young man who buried the body. Having spent decades living under an assumed name, Alex now faces the unravelling of everything he has built. As diggers prepare to break ground on the very spot where his secret lies, his carefully constructed life spirals – and he must decide how far he is willing to go to keep the truth buried.

 

FIRST LOOK AT RALPH FIENNES AND VIGGO MORTENSEN IN ISTVAN SZABO'S EMBERS PERIOD SET MOVIE WITH LOUIS HOFMANN, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING AND KATHERINE LANGFORD

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WITH RALPH FIENNES AND VIGGO MORTENSEN

Oscar winning Hungarian director Istvan Szabo has released first images with Ralph Fiennes and Viggo Mortensen in his new movie EMBERS which also includes Charlotte Rampling, our dear Louis Hofmann, Gijs Blom and Katherine Langford whom you can also see in another image. Based on Sandor Marai's novel the film is a psychological duel which reconnects once inseparable friends, Henrik (Fiennes) and Konrad (Mortensen), decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart and the woman at the center of it. The film is now in production.

TEASER AND AIR DATE FOR YOU'RE KILLING ME TV SERIES WITH BROOKE SHIELDS AND TOM CAVANAGH

   YOU ARE KILLING ME  

BROOKE SHIELDS DRAMA GETS A TEASER

Over at Acorn TV they have released a teaser for their six part crime drama YOU ARE KILLING ME with Brooke Shields in the lead. Set in a quaint New England colonial town, formerly knows as Ally and Andi, it follows bestselling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with Andi, an aspiring writer and podcaster (Amalia Williamson) to find the killer of a close friend. Tom Cavanagh plays Jack, the new lead detective of the Founders Cove Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life. The series premieres May 18th.

 

KEELEY HAWES AND PAAPA ESSIDEU ARE NUN AND PRIEST IN LOVE IN FALLING TV SERIES TEASER FROM CHANNEL 4

    FALLING SERIES   

FIRST KEELEY HAWES, PAAPA ESSIEDU TEASER

Channel 4 has released first teaser with Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu in their new six part series FALLING. She plays Anna, a devoted nun, and Essiedu is David, a Catholic priest. Both are deeply committed to their work in the church and in their community. Neither are expected to fall in love. But when they do, both are forced to wrestle with what it means for them, their vows, and their relationship with God. This witty and moving love drama will also see Rakie Ayola, Jason Watkins, Niamh Cusack, Adrian Scarborough, David Dawson, Susan Brown and Sandra Voe starring in the cast. The series will air sometime this year.

 

SEE FIRST POSTER FOR HEARTWARMING FANTASY MOVIE CHATLINES WITH NICO MIRALLEGRO

   FIRST CHATLINES  

SF MOVIE POSTER WITH NICO MIRALLEGRO

Nico Mirallegro leads the new movie

Our dearest Nico Mirallegro has a poster out for his latest movie! He leads new sf drama movie CHATLINES in which Lloyd Eyre Morgan stars as Jordan, a 30-something with terminal cancer in 2027 who spends his final days drifting between morphine dreams and digital distractions. On a whim he uses an old Chatroulette style app and on the screen appears Danny (Mirallegro), a sarcastic, vibrant guy, also terminally ill, who swears it’s 2005. As days pass, the two men form a deep bond, opening up about their fears and regrets, dreams and the loneliness of facing death too soon, finding solace in their unique friendship. Eyre Morgan also wrote and directed the film together with Neil Ely.

KIT CONNOR TO LEAD EPIC MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ELDEN RING GAME

  KIT CONNOR TO LEAD  

ELDEN RING EPIC MOVIE ADAPTATION 

It has been announced today by A24 studio that Kit Connor will lead the epic movie adaptation of ELDEN RING popular video game. Set for March 2028 release it will also star Ben Whishaw, Tom Burke, Jonathan Pryce with Alex Garland as director. The action packed dark fantasy game follows the Tarnished warrior in the Lands Between, which has been shattered after the destruction of the Elden Ring. The Tarnished goes on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord, encountering incredibly powerful enemies along the way.

FIRST TRAILER IS HERE FOR CHANNEL 5 SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER MINI TV SERIES NUMBER ONE FAN WITH JILL HALFPENNY

  NUMBER ONE FAN  

FIRST TRAILER FOR  CHANNEL 5 TV SERIES

Channel 5 has released first trailer for their new series NUMBER ONE FAN a suspenseful thriller set in the world of daytime TV following morning show presenter Lucy, who is saved from an attack by a strange woman named Donna who claims to be her “number one fan”. Lucy’s gratitude quickly sours when Donna’s fandom turns into a darker obsession infiltrating Lucy’s career, family and friends. However to her horror Lucy comes to realise that Donna has a link to a hidden secret in her past which threatens to derail the career she has so carefully curated. Sally Lindsay and Jill Halfpenny take the leads in the series that is coming up this May with episodes airing every evening within one week. 

 

ALFRED MOLINA, GEENA DAVIS, BILL PULMAN MUST FIGHT AN ALIEN THREAT IN NEW NETFLIX SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY SERIES THE BOROUGHS

   THE BOROUGHS TRAILER  

The series is out this May on Netflix

FOR NEW NETFLIX FANTASY SERIES

Netflix has released first teaser trailer for their new eight episode supernatural fantasy mystery series THE BOROUGHS which should be available for streaming from May 21st set in a seemingly picturesque retirement community somewhere in New Mexico, where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have - time. Alfred Molina leads the cast together with Geena Davis, Bill Pulman, Dennis O'Harre, Clarke Peters and Alfrie Goodard while Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews are the creators of the new show. 

 

WHAT IS THE STORY? 

In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a grieving newcomer’s monstrous encounter inspires him to join a misfit crew of unlikely heroes who uncover a dark secret that proves their “golden years” are more dangerous, and they are more formidable, than anyone expects. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be tuning in this May? And can you believe May is just around the corner, I thought the year begun like yesterday!

 

BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES 2ND SEASON TEASER IS HERE WITH MIRANDA RICHARDSON, RUPERT GRAVES, JASON WATKINS, CONNOR FINCH, MARK GATTIS AND POLLY WALKER

  BOOKISH SEASON 2  

FIRST TEASER HAS BEEN REVEALED

After a successful run over at U&Alibi channel cosy crime period set series BOOKISH is getting a second season which will see Mark Gatiss return to the role of 1946. London book keeper turned investigator with Polly Walker as his wife and gorgeous Connor Finch as his right hand and todaywe have the first teaser from the second season which is scheduled to arrive later this summer. Joining them in new season are Miranda Richardson,Jason Watkins, Rupert Graves to name just some of the more famous names. Returning cast also includes Elliot Levey as Inspector Bliss, Blake Harrison as Sergeant Morris and Buket Kömür as Nora. The series also sees the return of Rosie Cavaliero as Ada Dredge, Gerard Horan as Mr Baseheart, Nadia Albina as Dr Calder and Jonas Nay as Felix.

 

IN THE SECOND SEASON OF THE SERIES

Book investigates the world of spiritualism when he’s asked to help solve the mysterious case involving medium, Harold Sneed (Watkins). Off Savile Row, Bliss asks Book to help in a puzzling murder at a gentleman’s outfitters - the elderly tailor Maxie Kleinmann is keen to confess to the murder, but the evidence doesn’t quite stack up and points to something much more complex and sinister. And Book and Jack are sent to the seemingly charming German village of Würl by the mysterious ‘E’ to thwart a thieving Duchess (Richardson) at Christmas time. However, festivities take a deadly turn when Book and Jack uncover secrets of their own, past and present, in an ominous castle brimming with plausible murder suspects. Book’s close association to the police continues to be not without its personal dangers and his lavender marriage with childhood best friend Trottie, is threatened by debonair Colonel Winters (Graves). Marrying post-war nostalgia with the reckless and life affirming atmosphere of the times, Bookish is a stylish period detective drama with a difference

 

HULU TO MAKE EVERFLAME TV SERIES OUT OF PENN COLE'S HIT ROMANTASY SAGA THE KINDRED'S CURSE

   EVERFLAME TV SERIES  

BASED ON SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME

Hulu is producing the series

As Deadline reports, Hulu is set to create TV series EVERFLAME out of the first book in Penn Cole's hit romantasy saga The Kindred's Curse. The story is set in a world where mortals live in poverty, subjugated by an elite race known as the Descended. When her mother goes missing, Diem Bellator suspects that the most powerful and most feared Descended in the kingdom – Prince Luther Corbois – may be responsible. As she embarks on a search for answers, she becomes an unexpected force in the mortal rebellion against the Descended, and the center of an even more unexpected love triangle. Heidi McAdams is producing.