MEET A WOMAN BEHIND SWISS CULINARY ICON IN HELLO BETTY TRAILER FOR NEW PERIOD SET MOVIE

 HELLO BETTY TRAILER 

FOR A MOVIE ON SWISS CULINARY ICON

Hello Betty is now playing in cinemas

Currently playing in US cinemas is Swiss period set comedy drama HELLO BETTY from director Pierre Monnard with Sarah Spale in the lead role. She plays Emmi Creola who, back in patriarchal time fighting to show her worth among men, pioneered Swiss advertising by creating Betty Bossi in 1956 - a fictional character who became a national culinary icon, recognized across Switzerland's language regions and generations. Check out the rather delightful trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?

 

FIRST LOOK AT DOMINIC COOPER, MATTHEW MCNULTY, ROMOLA GARAI IN ITV SERIES THE ADULTERY

   THE ADULTERY SERIES  

DOMINIC COOPER, MATTHEW MCNULTY AND ROMOLA GARAI FIRST IMAGE

ITV has released first image from their new TV series THE ADULTERY in which Dominic Cooper plays Tom opposite Romola Garai’s Beth, two people who share an immediate, intense connection. The show first introduces the audience to Tom’s 15-year-old daughter Jess who has found love with schoolmate Ollie, and they can’t take their hands off one another, as love’s young dream becomes all consuming. When Tom meets Beth in the most unexpected of circumstances, the two families’ lives are potentially turned upside down forever. Shelley Conn stars as Tom’s wife Hannah, and Matthew McNulty as Beth’s husband Neil, with Johnny Sanpher and Leila Khan as the teenage lovers. The six part series has started filming this week.

BBC TO TURN DAVID NICHOLLS POPULAR NOVEL YOU ARE HERE INTO MINI TV SERIES!

    YOU ARE HERE NOVEL   

TO BECOME A BBC MINI TV SERIES

You Are Here will become a TV series

According to Variety, Lenny Abrahamson is set to direct a small screen adaptation of David Nicholls' best selling novel YOU ARE HERE for British broadcaster BBC. To start shooting this summer, it revolves around Michael and Marnie, middle aged and lonely divorcees who find themselves brought together on a long distance walking trail across northern England by both a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather. Over the course of 10 days and 200 miles, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for. His novels Us and One Day have already been adapted previously into TV series. Speaking of TV series, House of Guinness has been renewed for a second season over at Netflix earlier today and will be shooting early next year.

ITV AND ZDF SET A NEW FEMALE ASTRONAUT DISAPPEARANCE TV SERIES FIRST WOMAN

   FIRST WOMAN SERIES  

FROM ITV ON ASTRONAUT DISAPPEARANCE  

British ITV and German ZDF have set new six part action thriller series FIRST WOMAN which is now shooting. When Ben Reith (Ashley Walters) is woken in his London home to be told that his wife Claire (Andrea Riseborough) has gone missing, it’s the start of a global news story, because Claire is an astronaut crewing the UK’s first moonbase and she’s disappeared into the long lunar night… Claire is the first woman to set foot on the moon. A biologist taking part in a ground breaking research project, her disappearance throws suspicion on her fellow astronauts and China’s rival base. With hundreds of thousands of miles between them, can Ben uncover the truth behind his wife's disappearance?

NANNY DIARIES GETTING A TV SERIES ADAPTATION AT NETFLIX

   NANNY DIARIES  

GETTING A TV SERIES ADAPTATION 

Netflix will adapt the book into series

Netflix and Scarlett Johansson who starred in the movie adaptation will turn NANNY DIARIES hit book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus into a TV series together with Greg Berlanti. It follows Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story, who takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess. When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world… and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of.

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

   LATEST CASTING NEWS  

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

    1ST EMBERS IMAGES   

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.