CAPRI SET COZY MURDER MYSTERY SERIES INSPIRED BY ITALIAN CUISINE A TASTE FOR MURDER TRAILER WITH WARREN BROWN, PHYLLIS LOGAN

  A TASTE FOR MURDER  

BRITBOX COZY MYSTERY SERIES TRAILER

BritBox has set April 7th premiere date for eight episode murder mystery series A TASTE FOR MURDER in which  each episode will feature a murder mystery connected in some way to Italian cuisine. Warren Brown leads as DCI Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan police who, after a personal tragedy, retreats to Capri in Italy with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer. Phyllis Logan is Elena Da Vinale, the witty matriarch of the family, front-of-house manager of the family restaurant, and mother to DCI Joe’s late wife. Cristiana Dell’Anna plays Inspector Lara Sarrancino, an ambitious and no-nonsense detective with the State Police in Naples. Beau Gadsdon is Joe’s daughter Angelica. See the trailer below:

 

MARWAN KENZARI TO LEAD PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER TV SERIES THE SILENCE AT NETFLIX

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TO LEAD NEW NETFLIX SERIES THE SILENCE

Marwan Kenzari will lead the new series

Jafar from Disney's Aladdin, super handsome Marwan Kenzari has just been cast as the lead star of new Netflix five episode psychological thriller TV series THE SILENCE which will be a small screen adaptation of the novel The Quiet Girl by S.F. Kosa. The story kicks off when successful writer Sara Post vanishes without a trace. Her husband, Tarik, becomes entangled in a dangerous search that forces him to confront her concealed past. His journey brings him into contact with a closed community where silence is valued above the truth. Dutch model Rianne van Rompaey will play his wife in the series which is being produced as the streamer's Dutch original. 

MATT DILLON TO LEAD NEW EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AT MGM+

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MATT DILLON TO LEAD NEW MGM+ SERIES

Matt Dillon is taking Yul Brynner's role

New eight episode small screen TV series adaptation of famous THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN will be led by Matt Dillon over at MGM+.He will play Chris Adams, who becomes the leader of seven gunslingers determined to protect a group of innocent villagers from a mercenary land baron hellbent on stealing their land. Stoic, steady under pressure, and with an unflinching gaze that does most of the talking for him, Chris has no patience for hypocrisy or cruelty and holds fast to a quiet moral code rooted in fairness and restraint. The story is set in the tumultuous 1880s American frontier.

PRIME VIDEO RELEASES TRAILER AND STREAM DATE FOR THE SECOND SEASON OF THEIR EPIC BIBLICAL SERIES HOUSE OF DAVID

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SEASON 2 EPIC SERIES TRAILER

After a rather successful first season, Prime Video's epic Biblical series HOUSE OF DAVID is bringing the second season from March 27th. Michael Iskander returns as David who managed to kill the Goliath earlier

New season starts March 27th at Prime

 this spring in the first season finale. The second season story will pick up literally the very second we leave off from the first season. The first episode of Season 2 will be in the entirety of that battle. In the second season, David becomes the warrior, and learns to be careful what you wish for. Destiny comes at a cost. Ali Suliman, Ayelet Zurer, Stephen Lang, and Martyn Ford will return to season two that will follow the aftermath of the battle between David and Goliath and David’s rise to the throne. As he navigates palace politics, his family’s jealousy, and a growing romance, David steps deeper into his destiny and learns what it means to become a great leader.

 

TV NEWS BULLETIN: NEW HISTORICAL SERIES ON MAD KING LUDWIG OF BAVARIA, ROBIN HOOD RENEWED FOR SECOND SEASON AT MGM PLUS! ED SKREIN JOINS GOD OF WAR

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KING LUDWIG II HISTORICAL TV SERIES

Beta Film together with German ARD and Swiss SRF is preparing historical series LUDWIG on Bavarian king Ludwig II who took the throne in 1864 and was considered to be a bit mad spending lavishly on outlandish and extraordinary projects like building castles on the top of the mountains. The series follows psychologist Gustav Zimmermann (Felix Mayr) who is tasked with reviewing a psychiatric report on the King (Luis Pintsch), a document that will ultimately determine whether he is declared incompetent to rule. This work brings him closer to revealing the secrets of the royal ruler: his struggles with power, his longing for freedom and his profound forbidden love. Aaron Friesz, Carlotta Bähre, Jonathan Kriener also star.

 

  ROBIN HOOD RENEWED FOR SEASON TWO

Meanwhile, MGM Plus has renewed their epic series ROBIN HOOD for the second season with Jack Patten, Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen. Season two expands the world beyond Sherwood and Nottingham into the treacherous courts of England, France, and Rome, transforming the outlaw rebellion into a high stakes battle for the soul of a kingdom. As the Angevin empire threatens to tear itself apart, Rob and Marian are drawn into the orbit of kings and queens, forced to wield the very instruments of Norman power to secure a future for the Saxons. 

 

ED SKREIN JOINS GOD OF WAR

Ed Skrein will play Baldur

Ed Skrein has been cast as Baldur in Prime Video's TV series adaptation of GOD  OF WAR game. He is the youngest son of Odin (Mandy Pitinkin), charismatic, unpredictable and armed with a razor-sharp tongue, Baldur lives by his own rules. As a boy, Baldur was cursed; this curse denied him the ability to feel pleasure and physical sensation. This fuels an insatiable anger and bloodlust in Baldur, who favors a brawling fighting style that blends his immense power with the raw impact of his fists. Above all else, he longs for an opponent that can truly match his prowess in battle. An opponent that can finally make him feel something.

AIMEE LOU WOOD TO LEAD NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF JANE EYRE

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TO LEAD NEW JANE EYRE TV SERIES

Working Title is preparing a new TV series adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE with Aimee Lou Wood set as the lead and broadcasters in negotiations. Published back in 1847 novel and considered revolutionary for its first-person narrative style and approach to class, sexuality and female independence — it follows the titular heroine as she grows into adulthood and falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester.

EMILY BLUNT JOINED BY TOM CULLEN, CIARAN HINDS, ANDREW SCOTT IN WALK THE BLUE FIELDS MOVIE

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EMILY BLUNT IN A LOVE TRIANGLE

I told you back in September that Emily Blunt will lead WALK THE BLUE FIELDS romance movie from director John Crowley and now we now that she will be joined by Tom Cullen, Ciaran Hinds and Andrew Scott in the cast. In the film to be shot in Ireland, Blunt will play a woman who on her wedding day is confronted with a heart-wrenching decision as a love triangle from her past threatens to be revealed.

BBC ONE ANNOUNCES 1536 HISTORICAL MINI TV SERIES SET IN TUDOR ENGLAND

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FROM BBC SET IN TUDOR ENGLAND

BBC has announced that they will turn Ava Pickett's play 1536 into a Tudor era six part drama.set in the heart of Tudor England against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest. It centres around Anna, Mariella and Jane: three young women gossiping, arguing and dreaming in an Essex village, desperately waiting for their lives to start. When the news reaches them that King Henry VIII has had his Queen, Anne Boleyn, arrested, the three of them never suspect that this act will change their lives forever. As the weeks unfold, Anna, Jane and Mariella notice a rising tide of puritanism. They attempt to navigate marriage, relationships, betrayals and births but as the fate of a Queen in a tower is sealed, they discover that living in a volatile country is dangerous. As their own fates come into focus, the three try desperately to hold on to their friendship - but can it last or must they turn on each other to survive?

LILY COLLINS TO PLAY AUDREY HEPBURN IN A FILM ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

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TO PLAY AUDREY HEPBURN IN A MOVIE

According to Deadline, Lily Collins is set to play Audrey Hepburn in a movie about the production of her famous Breakfast at Tiffany's film. An adaptation of Sam Wasson’s book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman it will have a cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, director Blake Edwards, immersing the viewers in the America of the late ’50s, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, forever.

CHANNEL 4 DRAMA CLOSE TO HOME CASTS ANTHONY BOYLE, SEAMUS O'HARA, OISIN THOMPSON

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CAST UNVEILED FOR CHANNEL 4 DRAMA

Channel 4 has unveiled cast for their new four part drama CLOSE TO HOME which follows Sean (Anthony Boyle), a young man who finds himself back in Belfast. Back from university and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs

Seamus O'Hara, Anthony Boyle and Oisin Thompson will star

 that always fall through. Back with his brother, his ma and all the things they never talk about. Back where the promised prosperity of peacetime has yet to arrive and every street has a story to tell. One night, Sean assaults a stranger at a party and everything is tipped into chaos. Jessica Reynolds, Seamus O’Hara and Oisín Thompson also star.