NATURE TO GO WILD IN 'SWARM' ECO DISASTER TV SERIES BASED ON FRANK SCHAETZING'S BESTSELLER! STUNNING 'AIR STRIKE' WW2 TRAILER WITH BRUCE WILLIS, ADRIEN BRODY, FAN BINGBING

    'THE SWARM' ECO DISASTER

THRILLER BECOMES TV SERIES!

German broadcaster ZDF is producing the series

German television ZDF, together with Game of Thrones executive producer Frank Doelger, is venturing into international TV series market waters with an expensive effort of making an eight part English language series out of Frank Schaetzing's THE SWARM world best selling novel! The story is actually a global environmental thriller set in a present day where anomalies and unnatural behaviour in marine animals are causing upheaval all over the world. Millions of strange worms suddenly appear on the bottom of the North Sea, drilling their way through frozen methane, threatening to destabilize the entire continental

The series will be shot in English

shelf. Swarms of mussels stop large vessels from manoeuvring. Toxic jellyfish, lobsters and whales start attacking human beings along the coasts of the world. It follows a global group of scientists and military who come together to tackle one of the biggest challenges mankind has ever faced. They make the chilling discovery that we are not the only intelligent species on this planet – and that deep down at the bottom of the sea resides a collective intelligence which has suffered the ravages of civilization on its habitat and decided to fight back.

    STUNNING 'AIR STRIKE' TRAILER

SENDS BRUCE WILLIS AND ADRIEN BRODY INTO WORLD WAR 2

Air Strike strikes cinemas and VOD October

I've presented you with this one earlier this year, but now it has been announced that Bruce Willis WW2 epic drama AIR STRIKE (aka The Bombing) will hit US cinemas October 26th and VOD at the very same time. Also starring Adrien Brody and Asian super stars Fan Bingbing, Ye Liu and Nicholas Tse, the movie is set during World War II following five different Chinese people who fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. Bruce Willis plays a U.S. Army colonel who trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters! The movie was shot with a rather expensive $65 million budget! And did I tell you Mel Gibson is the artistic producer?

DWAYNE JOHNSON IS HAWAIIAN KING KAMEHAMEHA IN ROBERT ZEMECKIS EPIC ADVENTURE MOVIE! 1ST PHOTO FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY DRAMA 'BENEDETTA' STARRING VIRGINIE EFIRA, LAMBERT WILSON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

 DWAYNE JOHNSON TO PLAY

KING KAMEHAMEHA OF HAWAII

Dwayne Johnson will play the king of Hawaii

I'm guessing he has waited for this role all his life: as 'Deadline' reports Dwayne Johnson will play Hawaiian king Kamehameha in Robert Zemeckis directed epic adventure THE KING based on the script from Braveheart's Randall Wallace!

Kamehameha is the legendary king who was the first to unite the warring Hawaiian islands, which fulfilled the prophecy that surrounded his fabled life since birth. He took control of Hawaii’s destiny, and gave the islanders leverage in advancing the culture in trading with the foreign ships from Europe that began showing up on the shores of islands that must have seemed like paradise, albeit a sometimes dangerous one as explorers like Simon Metcalfe and Captain James Cook discovered before Kamehameha forcibly unified the islands.

 1ST 'BENEDETTA' PHOTO

FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY LESBIAN NUNS DRAMA

You can also check out the first photo of Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven's historical drama BENEDETTA (aka Blessed Virgin) also starring Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson. Efira plays Benedetta

The movie should cinemas next year, currently shooting!

Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land. While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman.

FIRST 'RED JOAN' CLIP WITH JUDI DENCH AS KGB'S LONGEST SERVING SPY WITH TOM HUGHES IN THE CAST!

   1ST 'RED JOAN' CLIP

DAME JUDI DENCH AS A SPY!

Continuing our coverage of the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, check out the first clip for Judi Dench's period set drama RED JOAN in which she plays Joan Stanley,  KGB’s longest serving spy in Britain.

EVERYONE HAS THEIR REASONS  
Judi Dench plays her as a retired scientist living in today's London who gets arrested for crimes done decades ago. Sophie Cookson plays her younger version back in 1938, when she was a new student at Cambridge, where a

Sophia Cookson plays Joan Stanley in her youth

chance encounter with Sonya (Tereza Srbova), an alluring fellow student, draws her into a circle of politicized youths supporting the Republicans in Spain and the Soviet dream of a classless society. Joan falls for Sonya’s brother

Tom Hughes leads the male part of the cast

Leo (Tom Hughes), a dashing idealist in search of adventure. When the Second World War begins, Joan goes to work for Max (Stephen Campbell Moore) at a top-secret British intelligence project of great interest to Leo.

Red Joan will premiere at Toronto Film Festival next week

Joan is soon facing several difficult choices: between national loyalties, between belief systems, between men. Somewhere in all this, she will also discover her tremendous potential

NEW PERIOD SET MOVIES OPENING AT TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: 18TH CENTURY 'ANGELO' ON AN AFRICAN SLAVE BOY AT VIENNESE COURT AND 'MADEMOISELLE DE JONCQUIERES' COSTUME DRAMA WITH CECILE DE FRANCE, EDOUARD BAER, ALICE ISAAZ

   1ST 'ANGELO' PHOTOS

FROM NEW MARKUS SCHLEINZER PERIOD SET MOVIE DRAMA

Angelo premieres at Toronto Film Festival

Toronto Film Festival is just around the corner, so we're period set and international today, people, starting with the first photos from German and French language historical drama ANGELO set in early 18th century when an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman. Being close to the emperor he decides to marry Magdalena, a young maidservant, with whom he falls in love. Doing so, Angelo inevitably suffers from the rejection from the

Five different actors play Angelo throughout the movie!

court. On the height of his prestige, he has to realize, that his otherness will never be erased. He will never know a normal life, and he will always remain

Alba Rohrwacher plays the Comtesse

an outsider. Based on true events, Angelo is the story of an African who is Europeanised by force. At the beginning of the 18th century, as a child, he is

Angelo is a coproduction between Austria and Luxembourg

taken from his homeland and, after being sold, given the eponymous name through the sacrament of baptism. The film is inspired by the few surviving records of the life of the Viennese court moor Angelo Soliman.

   MADEMOISELLE DE JONCQUIERES

 FIRST TRAILER AND POSTER!

The movie hits French cinemas September 12th

This one will open next week at Toronto Film Festival before it hits cinemas in France. MADEMOI SELLE DE JONCQ UIERES sees Cecile de France playing madam of the Pommeraye, a young widow removed from the world, who assigns to the court of the marquis of Arcis (Edouard Baer) who is notoriously licentious . After a few years of a happiness without flaw, she discovers that the Marquis is tired of their union. Madly in Love and terribly injured, she decides to take revenge on him with the help of Mademoiselle of Joncquières (Alice Isaaz) and her mother. 

COMEDY SUNDAY: MATT BOMER, DAVID SCHWIMMER, ADAM RIPPON TO GUEST STAR IN 'WILL AND GRACE'! KRISTA MARIE YU IS CHINESE EXCHANGE STUDENT IN 'LAST MAN STANDING'! 'SANCHEZ WAY' SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA, MARK CONSUELOS

   'WILL AND GRACE'

ANNOUNCES NEW GUEST STARS

Comedy Sunday this weekend! NBC has revealed some of the celebrities who will guest star in the second returning season of their WILL AND GRACE

Will and Grace returns this October

sitcom which is back on the small screens from October 4th with 18 new episodes! Matt Bomer will guest star as McCoy Whitman, a smooth talking, self satisfied TV news anchor who dates Will (Eric McCor- mack), while Minnie Driver is back as Lorraine Finster, Karen's (Megan Mullally) nemesis and stepdaughter. Olympic scater Adam Rippon is also appearing in one of the new episodes, while Friends star David Schwimmer will have a multiple episode arc as Grace's (Debra Messing) new love interest.  Alec Baldwin will be back as Karen's multi millionaire lover.

   'LAST MAN STANDING'

CASTS KRISTA MARIE YU 

Krista Marie Yu will play the Chinese exchange student

Over at Fox, where one of our dearest ever multicam sitcoms has moved this season, they also have new cast members. Tim Allen's LAST MAN STANDING will see Mike Baxter left in the house alone with his wife Vanessa (Nancy Travis), since his two older daughters are now both married and youngest Eve is at academy. This will inspire Vanessa to take a young scholar from China under her wing letting her stay with them while she completes her schooling in the States. Krista Marie Yu will play Jen who Vanessa feels particularly tied to  because she’s interested in geology and Vanessa’s always wanted to encourage

The Baxters are back September 28th, this time on Fox!

young women to go into the sciences. Since she comes from a different political system this will open some new fun discussions and conflicts with Mike. Seventh season is back September 28th!

   'THE SANCHEZ WAY'

 NEW SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS

ABC is developing new half hour comedy produced by Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos. THE SANCHEZ WAY will follow a loud, proud, Mexican American family that lives by a very strict working class code.

No word whether Kelly and Mark will also star in the new sitcom!

Show centres on Pedro Sanchez, the patriarch of the family, whose code is threatened when his “fresa” brother-in-law (a Mexican yuppie) moves to town and wants to be part of the family. No word whether Kelly and Mark will star in the sitcom.

ELLE FANNING AND NICHOLAS HOULT ARE CATHERINE 'THE GREAT' AND EMPEROR PETER OF RUSSIA IN HULU'S NEW EPIC MINI SERIES?

   'THE GREAT'

 HULU PREPARING MINI SERIES ON RUSSIAN EMPRESS CATHERINE

Elle Fanning will be Catherine the Great

Or not so great when you hear who wants to take the lead role. While Sky and HBO are preparing Helen Mirren mini series on the same topic, it seems Hulu is ready to order THE GREAT mini series on famous Russian Tzarina Catherine the Great starring Elle Fanning (Good Lord!) and Nicholas Hoult! She is, apparently, also producing the series which would describe the rise to power of Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter (Hoult), the emperor of Russia!

  A GERMAN PRINCESS ON THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL THRONE

Nicholas Hoult will play the crazy Tsar Peter

As Deadline reports, Catherine, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt Zerbst, was the daughter of a Prussian general, who was introduced to the prospective tsar Peter of Holstein Gottorp when she was only 10 as part of European Royal families’ use of marriages as a tool for strengthening (and weakening) political ties between countries. Though she admitted to finding him detestable at first, the two eventually married after she had turned 16. Their union was tumultuous, with both rumoured to have extramarital affairs, and Peter’s temper becoming unbearable. Only six months into him ascending to the Russian throne, Catherine organized his opponents to overthrow him to start her successful 34-year rule. He was later on assassinated.

RUTA GEDMINTAS JOINS JAMES MCAVOY IN BBC'S 'HIS DARK MATERIALS' FANTASY SAGA AS WITCH QUEEN SERAFINA PEKKALA!

   'HIS DARK MATERIALS'

CASTS QUEEN SERAFINA PEKKALA

Ruta will be new Serafina Pekkala!

The shooting is well under way, but BBC still keeps casting roles for their eight episode TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS epic saga. The latest one to join the cast is Ruta Gedmintas from The Tudors, who will play Serafina Pekkala, the queen of the Lake Enara witches.

The story, that follows two children who embark on a magical adventure through parallel universes, will see Dafne Keen in the lead role of little Lyra, James McAvoy as Lyra's father Lord Asriel, James Cosmo as elderly Gyptian Farder Coram. Ruth Wilson will be the magnetic and dangerous Mrs Coulter. Clarke Peters, Georgina Campbell and Anne Marie Duff (McAvoy's ex wife) also join the cast as the Master of Jordan College, journalist Adele Starminster and Ma Costa! Will Keen (Dafne’s father) will play Father MacPhail, a mysterious man whom Lyra meets at a London society party. Joining him there is Ariyon Bakare as Lord Boreal.

BEN FOSTER TO PLAY CZECH 14TH CENTURY NATIONAL HERO AND WARLORD JAN ZIZKA IN 'MEDIEVAL' HISTORICAL ADVENTURE MOVIE!

   BEN FOSTER TO LEAD

'MEDIEVAL' STORY ON CZECH 14TH

Ben Foster will play the Hussite warlord

CENTURY WARLORD

Well, he sure was atrociously miscast and bad in Warcraft, but someone obviously thinks he is still suited for period set movies: Ben Foster will lead the cast of new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which will describe the story of Czech 14th century national hero Zizka (Jan Zizka of Trocnov), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.

He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The English language film helmed by Czech director Petr Jákl  will also depict his relationship with a local heiress and his face-off against a rival king.

'STRANGER THING' STAR CHARLIE HEATON TO PLAY FAMOUS ELEPHANT MAN IN NEW BBC 19TH CENTURY SET MINI SERIES!

   'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

CHARLIE HEATON TO LEAD NEW BBC PERIOD SET SERIES

BBC One has announced new two 90 minute part drama THE ELEPHANT MAN starring Charlie Heaton as Joseph Merrick - better known as The Elephant Man. It follows his compelling and extraordinary life from his

Charlie Heaton will take the lead role!

working class beginnings in Leicestershire, through the work houses, music halls and freak shows that punctuated 19th Century society; to his time at the London Hospital and his vital friendship with Dr Frederick Treves. Starting with his birth and ending with his death, the series covers the true events of Merrick’s personal odyssey, his extreme courage, determination and human dignity despite challenges arising from his disability.

  DID YOU KNOW?
Born in Leicester in 1862, at the age of five years old he began to develop physical deformities to his skin, face, arms and feet. When he was 11 years old, his mother died, his father soon remarried and by 17 he was a resident of the workhouse after his relationship with his father deteriorated. Seeking to escape the workhouse several years later, Merrick found his way into a human oddities show in London where he was exhibited as 'The Elephant Man’. He met Dr Frederick Treves in 1884, after he had witnessed Merrick being exhibited in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Treves brought Merrick to the London Hospital where he lived until his death in 1890, aged 27.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE FOURTH AND FINAL SEASON OF 'THE DURRELLS' WITH KEELEY HAWES, JOSH O'CONNOR? 'SISTERS BROTHERS' WESTERN TRAILER WITH JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOAQUIN PHOENIX, RIZ AHMED

   'THE DURRELLS'

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN SEASON 4?

Earlier this week I informed you that ITV's ultra popular period set family drama THE DURRELLS, which sees Keeley Hawes playing a mother who gets fed up with everything and moves herself and children to the island of Corfu, will end after next year's fourth season, and now we have the first info on what is gonna happen in it!

HEARTBREAK AND ANIMALS
Following the events of the last series, the future is looking bright for the Durrells, with all of the family channelling their heartbreak in different ways. Choosing to keep herself busy, Louisa has opened the doors of the family villa

The final season starts shooting this month!

as a guest house, but with Basil as their only paying guest, the business is still to find its feet and customers. Meanwhile, Larry (Josh O’Connor), struggling to get his risqué Black Book published, is enjoying the love of two ballet dancers, whilst heartbroken Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) has thrown

The Durrells are based on a real life story and family

himself back into his job and shooting. True to form, Gerry (Milo Parker) continues to collect animals, ambitiously planning to open a zoo with a new owl and some lemurs joining the menagerie, and Margo (Daisy Waterstone) seeks a new challenge, starting her own beauty salon.

   'THE SISTERS BROTHERS'

 MAKE A KILLING, MAKE A LIVING

The movie is out this Autumn

While they're enjoying wild East, over at wild West the first trailer and poster are on the horizon for THE SISTERS BROTHERS which is out this Autumn in cinema starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, John C. Reilly, Rutger Hauer!

THE SISTERS BROTHERS, based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, revolves around the colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the

longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer. Check out the first trailer below.

TOM BATEMAN, MARC WARREN, LEO SUTER TO LEAD ITV'S 19TH CENTURY INDIA SET TV SAGA 'BEECHAM HOUSE'! 'OUTLAW KING' SCOTTISH EPIC ADVENTURE TRAILER WITH CHRIS PINE, AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON!

   'BEECHAM HOUSE'

EPIC TV SERIES CAST REVEALED
Earlier this year I announced that ITV is preparing 19th century India set mini series BEECHAM HOUSE and now the cast has been revealed as well! Set on the cusp of the 19th century in Delhi before the British ruled in that

Tom Bateman is taking the lead role

region, the drama depicts the fortunes of the residents of BEECHAM HOUSE, an imposing mansion surrounded by acres of exotic woods and pristine lawns. Tom Bateman will play enigmatic, soulful John Beecham, a handsome former soldier who has purchased the magnificent mansion to begin a new life with his family. Wealthy and distinguished, John has witnessed profiteering and exploitation during his time with the controlling East India Company and has resolved to conduct his business as a trader in a more equitable manner. Determined to escape his previous life, John appears haunted by his past, but is inspired to become an honourable member of the region’s trading community. In spite of John’s good intentions his life is shrouded in mystery and when he arrives at the house with an ‘olive-skinned‘ child named August and two Indian nursemaids, Chanchal (Shriya

Leo Suter will play his brother

Pilgaonkar) and Maya (Trupti Khamkar), it causes speculation amongst the servants that he may be the boy’s father. One of the nursemaids, the beautiful Chanchal, is overly protective and particularly fond of the child. Could she be John’s lover and the mother of August? Lesley Nicol plays John’s robust, interfering mother Henrietta who has travelled from England to India to stay with her son. She is accompanied by a young family friend Violet (Bessie Carter) who she is determined to help form a union with John. The pair are accompanied by an old friend of John’s, Samuel Parker (Marc Warren) who has also left the East India Company and has returned to India for a fresh start. Samuel helps John to find his brother Daniel who he has not

Pallavi Sharda and Shriya Pilgaonkar will star in the series.

seen for 10 years. John convinces Daniel (Leo Suter) to leave the East India Company and join him at BEECHAM HOUSE. Gregory Fitoussi plays General Castillon, a French mercenary working for the Emperor at a time when the French are challenging the East India Company for India. Castillon is suspicious of John and his motives and conspires to stop John being granted a trading licence. Adil Ray is John’s neighbour Murad Beg who dislikes General Castillon intensely and agrees to help John secure a trading

Marc Warren, Gregory Fitoussi and Adil Ray will star in the series

licence. Murad’s daughter, Roshanara, (Kanika Kapur) has an English governess Margaret Osborne (Dakota Blue Richards) whose beauty and intelligence catches John’s attention. However, when beautiful Chandrika (Pallavi Sharda) arrives at Beecham House with her entourage she is shown to luxurious guest quarters and immediately insists on seeing August. What secrets does Chandrika bring with her to Beecham House? 

   'OUTLAW KING' TRAILER

CHRIS PINE IS THE BRUCE
Ahead of its premiere at Toronto Film Festival next month, Netflix has released trailer for OUTLAW KING which, out November 9th, sees Chris Pine playing Robert the Bruce who transforms from defeated nobleman to

Outlaw King hits Netflix November 9th worldwide

outlaw hero during the oppressive occupation of medieval Scotland by Edward I of England. Despite grave consequences, Robert seizes the Scottish crown

Chris Pine takes the lead role of Robert the Bruce

and rallies an impassioned group of men to fight back against the mighty army of the tyrannical King and his volatile son, the Prince of Wales. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh and Billy Howle also star.

DEEPLY HAUNTING TEASER FOR HISTORICAL EPIC DRAMA 'KING PETAR I' SET IN THE TRAGIC AND HEROIC TURMOIL OF WW1!

   'KING PETAR I'

HAUNTING WW1 DRAMA TEASER

To this very date it remains one of the most tragic examples of sacrifice, suffering and heroism. Serbia is marking the hundred years since the end of

The movie arrives to cinemas this November

the World War I with epic war drama KING PETAR I which describes the exodus of Serbian army in 1915, after German, Austro Hungarian and Bulgarian armies invaded the kingdom from all sides following Serbia's heroic efforts to stop the enemy in successful battles at Cer and Kolubara which were some of the first major battles of WW1 but have cost Serbia around 170,000 people even before the exodus. The Serbian army, lead by Serbian King Petar I, retreated through the frozen mountains of Albania in order to save its remains. During the long march, some 240,000 retreating Serbs died from the cold, starvation, disease and combat with Albanian tribesmen. The survivors who managed to get to the Greek island of Corfu,

The movie will be turned into a ten part series by Serbian National TV

either died there from weakness, hunger, wounds and illnesses, (which is why Serbs call the sea around the island the Blue Tomb as the island is small and the dead had to be thrown into the sea, thousands of them) or moved to the Greek front where they will join the fights again.

  KING PETER'S SOCKS
The subplot of the film will see a Serbian mother asking the king to take warm socks she knitted to her young son who is lost somewhere among hundreds of thousands of retreating soldiers. The king finds him too late, already frozen

The movie is based on Milovan Vitezovic's book King Peter's Socks

somewhere along the way but will ask to be buried in those very socks years later after his own death. The boy's mother died along the way broken hearted over the corpse of a young Austrian enemy soldier while crying the tears in the

The soldiers included kids and young boys too defending their country

name of all the mothers in the world and their sons - the innocent victims of wars. Serbian losses are among the highest per capita of any country involved in the war as they lost about one million people (half of all their people) only

Lazar Ristovski toplines, produces and directs the film himself

to lose another half more during WW2. Check out the moving teaser below for the movie which hits Serbian cinemas November and will be turned into a ten part mini series later in 2019! 'My soldier' is what the king says to the kid in the end of the clip.

EPIC TRAILER AND POSTER FOR ASIAN HISTORICAL SPECTACLE 'THE GREAT BATTLE' WITH IN SUNG JO!

   'THE GREAT BATTLE'

EPIC TRAILER AND POSTER!

The only thing I have to show you this boring weekend is epic trailer for Korean historical adventure THE GREAT BATTLE (aka Ansi Fortress) which is out next month starring In-sung Jo and directed by Kwan-shik Kim.

THE STORY OF THE GREAT BATTLE
describes the siege of Ansi Fortress in year 645, and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.

TV FRIDAY: OH, NOES! THE ROYALS ARE CANCELLED BY E!, TRYING TO SET COURT SOMEWHERE ELSE! 'DURRELLS' TO END AFTER SEASON 4! SKY TO TURN H.G.WELLS' 'TIME MACHINE' INTO SERIES! 'ALIENIST' GETS 'ANGEL OF DARKNESS' 2ND SEASON WITH LUKE EVANS, DAKOTA FANNING

   'THE ROYALS' CANCELLED

MOVING THEIR COURT TO POP?

Sad news, Loyals! E! has decided to cancel their first ever scripted series THE ROYALS after four amazing, much loved and super fun seasons! The series that follows the lives of an imaginary royal family that rules England led

William Moseley and Elizabeth Hurley led the popular royal saga

by Elizabeth Hurley's Queen Helena, might still continue if we can believe the rumours that say the producers are trying to find a new channel for the show! They might move to Pop which is also owned by Lionsgate and could use a ratings boost with it.

   H.G. WELLS' 'THE TIME MACHINE'

The adaptation is in very early stages of production

TO BECOME SERIES AT SKY?

While we are anxiously awaiting to see what they will do with Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great mini series, British Sky is, according to 'Deadline', now also working on a small screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE to be written by Nick Payne. Published in 1895 the novel follows an English scientist living in Victorian England who recounts that time is simply a fourth dimension and demonstrates to his dinner guests how to travel through it.

   'ALIENIST' GETS

'THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS' SECOND SEASON AT TNT

While some series get cancelled, some get renewed as is the case with TNT's Alienist which will be getting a second season titled THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS also based on a Caleb Carr's novel. Luke Evans, Daniel

The cast will return to the second season led by Luke Evans

Bruhl and Dakota Fanning will return as a team that, one year after The Alienist at the turn of the century, investigates the kidnapping of a young girl in New York.

   'THE DURRELLS' 

TO END AFTER SEASON 4
Meanwhile, ITV's super popular series THE DURRELLS will end after next year's fourth season which starts shooting next month. Based on the real life

The series comes to its natural end next year with season four

story that follows Keeley Hawes as the mother who moves her kids to the island of Corfu it will end its story a year before WWW2 when they all left the island. 

'GREEN BOOK' POSTER AND TRAILER WITH VIGGO MORTENSEN, MAHERSHALA ALI! TYLER HOECHLIN JOINS ALEXANDRA DADDARIO IN 'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?' SOPHIE KINSELLA ADAPTATION

   'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?'

TYLER HOECHLIN JOINS ALEXANDRA DADDARIO 

Tyler Hoechlin will play the lead male role

First up today some news from the romantic genre! The latest Sophie Kinsella's best selling novel (it has been sold in more than 4 millions copies so far) to be adapted for the big screens CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? has just signed Tyler Hoechlin to join Alexandra Daddario who is playing the lead role.

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? follows Emma Corrigan (Daddario), who spills her secrets to a handsome stranger sitting next to her on a turbulent plane ride. That guy happens to be Jack Harper (Hoechlin), the young and elusive CEO at Emma’s workplace. And now Jack knows every single humiliating detail about Emma!

   'GREEN BOOK' TRAILER

WITH VIGGO MORTENSEN!

First poster and trailer have been released for period set drama GREEN BOOK  in which Viggo Mortensen plays a working-class Italian American bouncer who becomes the driver of an African American classical pianist

Green Book will hit cinemas in USA in the preaward season

(Mahershala Ali) on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. Out November in USA, the film hits Europe in December and January.

1ST 'AERONAUTS' PERIOD SET ADVENTURE PHOTO WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE, FELICITY JONES! 'WHAT MEN WANT' TRAILER WITH TARAJI P. HENSON! 'DESIGNING WOMEN' CLASSIC SITCOM GETTING A REBOOT

   'DESIGNING WOMEN'

SITCOM GETTING A REBOOT!

The reboot will be a reimagination, methinks

The latest classic sitcom to get a reboot is DESIGNING WOMEN which finished airing almost 30 years ago! Airing for seven years at CBS (often next to Murphy Brown) it followed the lives of four women and a man working together at an Atlanta interior design firm! Sitcom's original creator is back, but it isn't known if any of the original cast (Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Delta Burke) will be back!

  1ST 'THE AERONAUTS'

PHOTO WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES

Just a few weeks ago I showed you the first set photos of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Tom Harper's historical adventure THE AERONAUTS in which they play pilot Amelia Wren and scientist

Click on the photo to see it in bigger size!

James Glaisher who, back in 1862, find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon, and today you can check out the first official photo above! Tom Courtenay and Vincent Perez also star.

   'WHAT MEN WANT' TRAILER

STARRING TARAJI P. HENSON!

Max Greenfield also stars in the movie

In the trailer department, you can check out the first trailer for new comedy WHAT MEN WANT with Taraji P. Henson!  When Ali is passed up for a well deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world… until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest to the test.