MARTIN FREEMAN, JIM BROADBENT, JOE ARMSTRONG TO LEAD THIS YEAR'S GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS - THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER FROM DICKENS

  THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER 

NEW GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

BBC has announced this year's Ghost Story for Christmas, a series of short dramas in which every year Mark Gatiss adapts one of classic ghost stories for festive days of December. This year it will be THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER a Charles Dickens chilling tale set in 1858. An inn with no name, an eccentric landlord and a lone traveller with a strangely familiar appearance. As he settles into his room for the night, the traveller is visited by an uncanny man in black, with a story to tell. Jim Broadbent, Martin Freeman, Adrian Scarborough and Joe Armstrong will star in the tale of a spurned and vengeful suitor who manipulates a young woman and marries her to claim her fortune. But his murderous plans create his own purgatory.

SEE CHARACTER POSTERS WITH VINCENT LINDON AND TAHAR RAHIM IN NEW FRENCH MOVIE ADAPTATION OF VICTOR HUGO'S LES MISERABLES

    LES MISERABLES   

New Les Miserables arrive this October

NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION  POSTERS

After the Musketeers and Count Monte Cristo another big screen novel adaptation in France will be LES MISE-  RABLES done this time by Studio canal and Fred Cavaye and we have brand new character posters for you today as the movie will be released in French theatres this month. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary uprisings in France, it follows the character of Jean Valjean, a peasant sentenced to five years’ hard labour for stealing a loaf of bread whose story spans several years as he is released from prison and reintegrated into society, yet pursued by a police inspector on his trail. Vincent Lindon plays Jean Valjean, with Tahar Rahim as his nemesis Inspector Javert. Benjamin Lavernhe and Camille Cottin are evil innkeepers Thénardier and Madame Thénardier. Noemie Merlant plays the tragic figure of Fantine, whose daughter, Cosette, Valjean takes in as his own.The movie is scheduled to arrive to the cinemas on October 14th 2026. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?

 

NEW LARGE SCALE HISTORICAL SERIES BASED ON LEGENDARY BEN HUR IS READY TO START NEXT WEEK

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NEW HISTORICAL SERIES ARRIVES NEXT WEEK

I am taking you on a far away trip again, this Sunday all the way over to Brazil as they are preparing to launch new historical small screen 

The series starts next week

adaptation of famous BEN HUR which will arrive to their streamer Univer Video next week October 9th in a new more spiritual version with mammoth number of fifty episodes! Vinicius Redd takes the lead role of a Jewish prince caught between Roman power and a friendship under strain. Biblical setting and large-scale production frame a tense story of faith, identity and survival.

  

THE SERIES FOLLOWS

Judá Ben-Hur, a privileged Jewish prince whose world is unsettled by imperial pressure and the fragile bond he shares with Messala (Romulo Weber), a close friend whose allegiance is increasingly uncertain. Based on Lew Wallace's classic story, the series frames power, faith, romance and survival through an atmosphere of political danger and personal strain.Judá begins from a

Ben Hur will have fifty episodes

 position of wealth and status, but his identity is inseparable from the divided land around him. Roman authority presses into private life, while family loyalty, cultural belonging and political danger pull him in different directions. What can protect a sheltered heir when ordinary people are already living with the consequences of occupation? Messala is Judá's longtime friend, but his connection to Roman power places affection and duty on opposite sides of the same political world. His uncertain allegiance gives the story its emotional pressure, leaving Judá caught between personal trust and public danger. The cast also includes Bia Arantes as Ester, Felipe Cardoso as Baltazar, Juliano Laham as Barrabas... Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

ENJOY SOME MEDIEVAL ROMANCE TONIGHT IN HALLMARK'S A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER MOVIE WITH JAMES TREVENA

   A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER  

HITS HALLMARK SCREENS TONIGHT

Here is something cute and Autumn inspired to entertain you tonight: Hallmark is premiering this evening their new romantic movie

The film airs tonight on Hallmark

 A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER! When practical museum conservator Emily Porter (Julie Gonzalo) restores a centuries  old statue of legendary knight Sir Griffin de Beauford (James Trevena), one unexpected kiss brings him magically back to life and turns her carefully ordered world upside down. As Emily helps the chivalrous time traveler navigate modern Chicago, pumpkin spice lattes, a Halloween Medieval Fayre, and an FBI investigation led by her ex-husband, she begins to rediscover the wonder and romance she thought she had left behind. But with a rare celestial conjunction approaching and Griffin's fate hanging in the balance, Emily must decide  whether the safest heart is one kept guarded or one brave enough to believe in a love written in the stars. Check out the teaser below and tell us what you think:

Sneak Peek of A Knight To Remember starring Julie Gonzalo and James Trevena. Premiering Saturday October 3rd on Hallmark Channel🏰🗡⚔️ 🍁🍂🍃 #FallIntoLove #AKnightToRemember

This movie is based on the book by Bryn Donovan called Her Knight At The Museum

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— Hallmark Enthusiast🍁🎃 (@PinkSunsetxo) October 2, 2026

SEE COLIN MORGAN IN THE TRAILER FOR PERIOD SET DRAMA LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT WITH ED HARRIS, BEN FOSTER, JESSICA LANGE

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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT TRAILER

A trailer has been released for a movie based on a Pulitzer prize winning play from Eugene O'Neil LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 

The film is now out in US cinemas

from director Jonathan Kent. The ensemble cast includes our dear Colin Morgan alongside Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Jessica Lange.  

 

SET ON 

one single day in August 1912 at the family's Connecticut seaside home, the story follows the Tyrone family as it faces the looming dual spectres of Edmund's potentially fatal consumption diagnosis alongside his mother Mary's increasingly fragile and anxious state of mind. The family knows that the situation threatens to return her to the severe morphine addiction that was only recently overcome. The film currently has a limited release in US cinemas. 

 

PREGNANCY IS HARD FOR KAREN GILLAN IN LET'S HAVE KIDS COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER WITH LUKE MACFARLANE, MAX GREENFIELD, KJ APA, SAM RICHARDSON

  LET'S HAVE KIDS TRAILER 

PREGNANCY IS HARD! BRING A FRIEND!

The new comedy is out this October

A trailer has been released for new rather star studded comedy movie LET'S HAVE KIDS which is out digitally October 13th starring Karen Gillan, Luke MacFarlane, Max Greenfield, Zoe Chau, KJ Apa, Sam Richardson and Mary Steenburger. The story follows lifelong best friends Emma (Karen Gillan) and Phoebe (Zoë Chai) who make a pact to get pregnant at the same time, certain they can take on motherhood together. But when their well-intentioned plan spirals into chaos, the milestone meant to bring them closer threatens to tear them apart. As their lives begin moving in different directions, they must fight to protect the friendship that has carried them through everything.

 

NETFLIX TO MAKE TV SERIES OUT OF AMERICAN ROYALS BOOK WHICH ENVISIONS AMERICA WITH A KING

   AMERICAN ROYALS  

NETFLIX MAKING A NEW TV SERIES

The book will be turned into a series

According to Deadline, Netflix has nabbed TV adaptation rights on AMERICAN ROYALS young adult fantasy book by Katharine McGee which imagines an alternate history where George Washington was anointed king of the United States instead of being elected President and chronicles the lives of his young dependents. As customary for the YA adult genre, there is romance, with two princesses vying for the ultimate crown and two girls vying for the prince’s heart. Ted Malawer is penning the script after working on Prime Video's Red, White and Royal Blue. The book series itself has four books.

CHANNEL 4 ANNOUNCES MYSTERY THRILLER SERIES THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED BASED ON VANESSA SAVAGE'S BOOK

  THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED 

CHANNEL 4 ORDERS NEW MYSTERY THRILLER

Channel 4 has ordered a new six part mystery thriller series THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED which follows Anna (Gabrielle Creevy), whose world is blown apart when she discovers her childhood house listed on a true-crime website as the scene of her family’s future deaths. Intriguing blind date Cai (Callum Scott Howells) runs the true-crime site but swears he didn’t post it. The police say it’s a hoax, but Anna’s family have vanished. It is based on Vanessa Savage's novel.

FIRST IMAGES OF ANNA FRIEL IN CHANNEL 5 TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF LOUISE CANDLISH NOVEL THE HEIGHTS

    ANNA FRIEL IMAGES   

FROM THE HEIGHTS NEW CHANNEL 5 SERIES

Channel 5 has back in June announced work on new six episode series adaptation of Louise Candlish novel THE HEIGHTS with Anna Friel aslead and today we have the first images from it. She plays Ellen, who is happily living in London, a working mum, devoted to her family and fiercely protective of her children. But when her teenage son Lucas (Kit Redding), brings new friend Kieran (Conrad Khan) home, cracks began to appear in Ellen’s family life. Kieran is rude, reckless and manipulative – leading Lucas astray, wasting his promise. As Lucas falls deeper under Kieran’s influence, Ellen becomes increasingly desperate to protect him — but a devastating tragedy leaves her consumed by grief, rage and a growing obsession with the truth. Jumping between the past and present day, family secrets and lies unravel in this thrilling new series that is coming soon to Channel 5.

FIRST TEASER IS HERE WITH ALAN RITCHSON AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IN THE MAN WITH THE BAG CHRISTMAS MOVIE

   THE MAN WITH THE BAG  

ALAN RITCHSON & ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The movie will stream this December

With Christmas ahead of us soon, Hollywood is slowly releasing first trailers and images from the upcoming festive films and among them will be THE MAN WITH THE BAG the latest holiday comedy movie from Adam Shankman and today you can see the first teaser with Alan Ritchson and Arnold Schwarze- negger. The story of the new film follows Santa Claus as he turns to his naughty list to recruit Vance (Ritchson) with the aim of retrieving his magic bag and saving Christmas. Prime Video will release the film December 2nd this year. This is Arnold's first movie in cinemas after seven years! Watch the teaser below and tell us what you think.

 

 

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