STEFANIE MARTINI IS YOUNG HELEN MIRREN IN 'PRIME SUSPECT' TV PREQUEL! 1ST 'KEEPING UP APPEARANCES' TV PREQUEL SPECIAL PHOTOS! NEW 'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' TRAILER WITH CHRIS PRATT, DENZEL WASHINGTON, ETHAN HAWKE

 'PRIME SUSPECT' PREQUEL

STEFANIE MARTINI & SAM REID

We're going British today, people, and first off news coming from the sequel or prequel of Helen Mirren's popular TV series PRIME SUSPECT in which she played police officer Jane Tennison for almost ten years. ITV is preparing a prequel series TENNISON in which lovely Stefanie Martini, whom we loved this spring as the star of DOCTOR THORNE, will play the young Tennison. Our equally beloved Sam Reid (Hatfields and McCoys, Belle) and Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners) will also star in the six episode series as her superiors. The story portrays the young Tennison at the beginning of her career, revealing how and why she became such a complex and formidable character in the Metropolitan Police. We shall also watch Martini in Tarsem's EMERALD CITY TV series next year.

 'KEEPING UP APPEARANCES' 

PREQUEL TV SPECIAL PHOTOS
Meanwhile, BBC has revealed the first photos for another prequel to an all time classic - for their TV movie special on legendary TV sitcom KEEPING UP APPEARANCES which will air probably in the festive season. This time Kerry Howard will play the young Hyacinth Bucket who was originally so utterly masterfully played by beloved Patricia Routledge! One of Europe's favourite sitcom's followed the snobbish Hyacinth whose opinion of her own standing in the society, much higher than it ever should've been, kept her getting involved in all kinds of hilarious every day situations. The one hour special follows Hyacinth as a young maid in the 1950s, as she attempts to prove that she's better than her lower-class family. Katie Redford, Katherine Pearce, Mark Addy, Kerry Howard and Tamla Kari also star in the prequel.

 'THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' 

SECOND TRAILER IS HERE!

Sony has released today the second trailer for yet another remake, this time for famous western classic THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN which will bang its way into cinemas at the end of September.

With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns - played by Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia Rulfo and Martin Sensmeier. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money!