VIKINGS VALHALLA EPIC SERIES TEASER WITH LEO SUTER, DAVID OAKES, SAM CORLETT! 1ST OPERATION MINCEMEAT WW2 MOVIE PHOTOS WITH COLIN FIRTH, MATTHEW MACFADYEN! NIGHT COURT SITCOM WITH MELISSA RAUCH, JOHN LARROQUETTE ORDERED TO SERIES AT NBC

 OPERATION MINCEMEAT 

FIRST PHOTOS WITH COLIN FIRTH, MATTHEW MACFADYEN

Operation Mincemeat arrives January

SeeSaw Films has published first photos from their new historical movie OPERATION MINCEMEAT which should arrive at the very beginning of January, to Netflix, possibly, as well. Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen play  two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Johnny Flynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and Paul Ritter.

THE STORY IS SET IN 1943

when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Firth)

Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn

and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most unlikely of secret

Johnny Flynn is unrecognisable in the film as Ian Fleming!

agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

The film is based on an extraordinary true story!

Their plan was to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide of the whole war.

 NIGHT COURT MULTICAM 

SITCOM ORDERED AT NBC

Speaking of first photo, here's one from  a new multicam sitcom that NBC has just ordered into series: NIGHT COURT will be a follow up to the classic sitcom following an unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Melissa

It is not known if the sitcom arrives midseason or next season

Rauch), the daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette is reprising his role from the original).

   VIKINGS: VALHALLA 

1ST EPIC SERIES TRAILER

Netflix has released the first teaser for their epic series VIKINGS VALHALLA which is coming to the streamer next year! Set 100 years after the events of Vikings, Valhalla stars Sam Corlett as Leif Eriksson, the famed

Sam Corlett takes the lead role in the series

explorer who, according to Viking lore, sailed to North America five centuries before Christopher Columbus. It will also chronicle the adventures of other legendary Vikings from history, including Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida

Leo Suter is Harald Hadrada in the series

Gustavsson) Harald Hardrada (Leo Suter), and the Norman King William the Conqueror. Laura Berlin stars as the ambitious Emma of Normandy, Bradley Freegard as the Danish King Canute, Johannes Haukur

The series comes from Tudors' Michael Hirst

Jóhannesson as Harald’s half-brother Olaf; David Oakes as the English counselor Earl Godwin, Caroline Henderson as the Kattegat Jarl Haakon, Pollyanna McIntosh as the Danish Queen Ælfgifu, and Asbjorn Krogh Nissen as Jarl Kåre.