'THE DRESSER' BBC MOVIE
STARRING IAN MCKELLEN AND ANTHONY HOPKINS
Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere 
to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!
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'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom
with its almost 100 episodes is close to
syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane,
Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched
TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!
NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's
SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode
order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of
space in NBC's new schedule.
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom
with its almost 100 episodes is close to
syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane,
Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched
TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's
SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode
order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of
space in NBC's new schedule.
'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS'
TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL
And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS! 
When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe
plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and
father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown
daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should
arrive to theatres next month around Europe.
When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe
plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and
father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown
daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should
arrive to theatres next month around Europe. 
"Fathers and Daughters" looks like a real three-hanky weeper, as they say.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely, it is such an undone topic in movies.
DeleteI agree with Debra! And, I had no idea Anthony Hopkins was still alive.
DeleteLOL... what, Debs, he's very much alive :)
DeleteI'm glad he's alive, he's just one of those people if we were playing that game "Dead or Alive" I would be stumped if you asked me if he was dead or alive. ;)
Deleteyep, there are people like that for me as well... I've thought for decades that Gene Wilder is dead, but he is, God bless him, very much alive. And before Peter O'Tool died last year there were of an on times when I thought he was dead :(
DeleteYou must be thrilled about another 20 on Baby Daddy :)
ReplyDeleteFathers and Daughters I've been waiting for since you first told us about it. I'm sure I better take off the mascara before watching that one!
Yep, and I kinda like their new concept in which they release first ten in winter and then the other ten in spring/summer so you have a feeling they're with you all year long :)
DeleteFATHERS AND DAUGHTERS still doesn't have a US distributor
I like it spread out like that too. However, I usually wait for a series to end before starting to watch it, so I always feel like a show is with me for months at a time ;)
Deletethey've just announced that both BABY DADDY and YOUNG AND HUNGRY will start February 3rd with their winter run :) YOUNG AND HUNGRY is also very cute!
Delete...Wow...I'm really hoping some of that is prosthesis. Sir Anthony Hopkins just looks so old...
ReplyDeletehe does look old in his real life too... not that old, but older than we remember him from the late 90s
DeleteBut he still rocks!
Deletebut doesn't rap like Ian does!
DeleteThat's a good thing.
Deleteor a bad, depends on your music choices
DeleteI'd like to see The Dresser. Anthony Hopkins is a good actor.
ReplyDeleteIan McKellen is an even better one!
DeleteNo he's not :p
Deletehe is ten times the better actor!
DeleteNope he is NOT!
Deleteyou're right, he's not, he is HUNDRED times a better actor and a man too!
DeleteI haven't seen Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen in one frame..Wooow...the dresser must be interesting!
ReplyDeletethey never played together before
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