LAUNCH YOUR YEAR WITH SMILES WITH NEW NIGHT COURT MULTICAMERA SITCOM STARTING THIS JANUARY ON NBC!

  NIGHT COURT SITCOM  

BRINGS SMILES THIS JANUARY

The revival starts January 17th on NBC

If you want to start your year with some laughter NBC has a brand new multi camera sitcom for you: new NIGHT COURT will start January 17th! Starring Melissa Rauch, John Larroq- uette, India de Beaufort, Kapil Talwa- lkar and Lacretta, it is a revival of the original show which aired in the late 80s. Episodes will also stream on Peacock! You can check out the clip which offers the first peek into the show below:

COURT IS BACK IN SESSION
Rather than a reboot of the original, the new Night Court will be a continuation of the original story, this time starring Judge Harry Stone's daughter, Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch), taking the reins as Judge in the courtroom. Episodes will follow a similar formula to the original Night Court as Abby and her courtroom staff tackle the day's most complicated and kooky cases that make their way to the night shift.

KIRILL ZAYTSEV, YULIA PERESILD TO LEAD FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR EPIC FANTASY MOVIE ADVENTURE!

 FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR 

KIRILL ZAYTSEV TO TOPLINE

Our most favourite of all Russian hunksters Kirill Zaytsev is to return to the role of legendary Russian hero Sokol Finist in FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR (Финист. Первый богатырь) epic movie adventure which is set

Kirill played Finist before in The Last Warrior

to arrive January 2025 also starring Yulia Peresild, the first actress ever to shoot a film up in space.

  Finist Yasny Sokol is the most famous hero of Belogorye, the strongest, most dexterous and most deserving. Well, and the most beautiful, of course. All other heroes look up to him, children want to be like him, and girls can't stopped looking at him.Finist is a real superstar. And he carefully protects and maintains this status. He needs more and more feats, he is simply obsessed with them. But there is a nuance. The practical benefit of the feat for Finist is no longer of decisive importance. Let's say, freeing a village from a herd of

Yulia Peresild will take the lead female role

wild boars that tramples down crops is boring, uninteresting, futile: they won't gossip about it, they won't admire it. But going to the end of the world, where Beauty is imprisoned in a tower, guarded by an unimaginable Beast, now that is a challenge.

IT'S SURVIVE TOGETHER OR DIE ALONE IN GERARD BUTLER'S NEW ACTION ADVENTURE PLANE HITTING CINEMAS NEXT MONTH

  PLANE MOVIE TRAILER  

SURVIVE 2GETHER OR DIE ALONE

Here is a brand new action flick coming to you next month: Gerard Butler's movie PLANE will fly into cinemas January 13th (it will roll out in Europe throughout

Plane will land into cinemas January 13th

January too) directed by Jean Francois Richer and also starring our dear Yoson An.

  PLANE sees Gerard Butler playing pilot Brodie Torrance who saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island - only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. In order to rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare's help, and will learn there's more to Gaspare than meets the eye.

SEE HUGO BECKER, MELANIE LAURENT, PIO MARMAI, DANNY HUSTON IN TEMPETE ENCHANTING RACEHORSE MOVIE

  TEMPETE MOVIE TRAILER  

RIDE ABOVE

Since Hollywood is still enjoying its holiday slumber, we are moving over to France today where the latest movie adaptation of Christophe Donner's novel

Tempete is out since December 21st!

Tempete au Haras has been airing in cinemas since December 21st starring our boy Hugo Becker alongside Melanie Laurent, Pio Marmai, Carole Bouquet and Danny Huston.

RIDE ABOVE follows teenager Zoe, who born and raised among horses on a racehorse stable farm, leads a happy life driven by the dream of one day becoming a rider as her father. Zoe's favorite horse gives birth to a foal they name Storm. She will be the first to see in her the champion that her family has always been waiting for but an accident will leave her with a serious problem. They will have to battle together to achieve victory. The critics praise film's rich characterisation, sophisticated dialogues and moral and emotional depth.

SEE FRENCH RIVIERA SET MINI SERIES THE REUNION BASED ON MUSSO'S FAMOUS NOVEL WITH IOAN GRUFFUDD, GREGORY FITOUSSI, RUPERT GRAVES

  THE REUNION TV SERIES 

FROM MUSSO'S BESTSELLER

The series will stream on ITVX next month

Here is one that kinda escaped my radar at some point: a small screen adaptation of Guillaume Musso's widely popular best selling book "La jeune fille et la nuit" which has been sold in more than 2 million copies around the world so far and has also been translated in over 35 languages making it a massive international hit. We do not have an English language trailer yet, sadly, but you can check out a French one below the post and tell us what you think.

 

  TITLED THE REUNION 

the six episode series about a missing girl and a secret buried for 25 years, already aired on France 2 broadcaster earlier this year and will arrive to ITVX in United Kingdom later this January and is already streaming on Stan in Australia. Ioan Gruffudd and Gregory Fitoussi together with Rupert Graves lead this series which starts in an elite prep school frozen in the snow. Three friends linked by a tragic secret. One girl taken by the night. 25 years ago, The girl body was buried in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished.

The story is that of three friends linked by a tragic secret: the disappearance of their friend Vineca twenty-five years earlier. And when they find themselves nowadays, in the south of France, one of them will want to break the silence. In this trio of friends facing the secret, there is Fanny, played by Vahina Gioccante. The most vulnerable character.

ENJOY THE UNEXPECTED ROMANCE IN AWARD WINNING MOVIE DRAMA OF AN AGE FROM DIRECTOR GORAN STOLEVSKI!

  OF AN AGE TRAILER  

AN UNEXPECTED ROMANCE

The film arrives February 17th

Here is a lovely trailer for you, for a beautiful romance drama OF AN AGE which will arrive to US cinemas February 17th thanks to Focus Features. Coming from Macedonian Australian director Goran Stolevski it already won festival awards! It’s the summer of 1999 in blue-collar Melbourne and school is out forever. 17-year-old Serbian immigrant Kol (Elias Anton) is preparing for the Australian Dance finals when he receives a distress call from his dance partner Ebony (Hatie Hook) who has woken up on a beach, in an unfamiliar town after a big night out. With the help of Ebony’s older brother Adam (Thom Green), they attempt to make it to the finals on time but when Kol and Adam get stuck in summer traffic on the way to collect Ebony, they discover they have more in common than expected, and over the course of the next 24 hours an unexpected and intense romance blossoms. A decade later the pair meet for a bittersweet reunion. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 2023' 1ST NEW TV SERIES STONEHOUSE WITH MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND KEELEY HAWES

  STONEHOUSE TV SERIES  

WITH MATTHEW & KEELEY

The first new series to officially open the upcoming 2023 is STONEHOUSE three part mini series which hits ITV and their brand new streamer ITVX January 2nd

The series starts January 2nd on ITV

with real life couple Matthew MacFadyen and Keeley Hawes in the lead roles.

  STONE HOUSE explains how a high-flying member of British government, vanished from the beach of a large luxury hotel in Florida in November 1974, leaving a neatly folded pile of clothes as he swam into the sea, intent on faking his own death. The MP for Walsall North left behind his loving wife Barbara and three young children as a shocked public and media presumed he had drowned or been eaten by sharks. Charismatic, oozing with charm and brimming with confidence,

It will be a three part event series

Stonehouse had impressed Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Labour stalwarts from an early stage in his parliamentary career. From a working-class background, he’d graduated from the London School of Economics, was in the RAF during the War and seemed the ideal candidate for a life in politics. It soon becomes apparent his reputation as a devoted family man masked the truth, as he’d embarked on an extra marital affair with his secretary and acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service in the 1960s. His complex financial status and relationships eventually took their toll, with Stonehouse deliberately stealing the identity of a recently deceased constituent. Stonehouse applied for a passport in the dead man’s name and began to weave an elaborate conspiracy, seeking a new life in Australia. But his plans soon turned sour as Stonehouse was arrested by Australian police who had been under the mistaken impression that he was the fugitive peer Lord Lucan. Brought back to the UK by Scotland Yard detectives, Stonehouse found that he was crucial to keeping the Labour government in power with its wafer-thin majority.

WATCH THE ENCHANTING ANIMATED MOVIE THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE THIS CHRISTMAS ON BBC AND APPLE TV PLUS WITH TOM HOLLANDER, IDRIS ELBA, GABRIEL BYRNE

  THIS CHRISTMAS WATCH  

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE ON BBC & APPLE

Airing tonight on BBC One in United Kingdom and streaming as of tomorrow on Apple TV + is the new enchanting and endearing animated adaptation of THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE best selling children's book by Charlie Mackesy! You can check out the lovely trailer below and tell us what you think.

IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED

film from NoneMore and Bad Robot Productions, you can follow the unlikely bond between four friends as they explore the meaning of kindness, courage and hope on their journey to find home. Idris Elba is voicing the fox, Tom Hollander the mole, Gabriel Byrne the horse and newcomer Jude Coward Nicoll is the boy.

VINCENT CASSEL AND EVA GREEN LEAD APPLE TV + NEW HIGH STAKE THRILLER TV SERIES LIAISON ARRIVING THIS FEBRUARY! IT'S A SPOOKY CHRISTMAS IN COUNT MAGNUS BBC FILM WITH MYANNA BURING, JASON WATKINS

   LIAISON TV SERIES   

CONNECTS VINCENT CASSEL AND EVA GREEN AGAIN

After The Three Musketeers which arrive next year, Vincent Cassel and Eva Green will work on another project together: six part thriller series LIAISON which arrives to Apple TV + February 24th! The French and English language high-stakes, contemporary thriller explores how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future, combining action with an unpredictable, multi-layered plot where espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love. Peter Mullan also stars.

   COUNT MAGNUS  

ARRIVES TONIGHT ON BBC TWO

Starting festive weekend tonight on BBC Two is a new scary ghost story from Mark Gatiss COUNT MAGNUS. The half-hour film stars Jason Watkins and MyAnna Buring and is set in 1863 Sweden. It follows Mr Wraxhall, a visiting Englishman whose rummaging through the archives of the noble de la Gardie family takes a sinister turn, as he becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of the dynasty, the fearsome Count Magnus. 

NEW NETFLIX DELIGHTFUL SPANISH FESTIVE ROMANTIC COMEDY SERIES SMILEY WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE THESE HOLIDAYS!

   SMILEY TV SERIES   

STREAM IT ON NETFLIX

Here is something delightful for you today: a new series which is already streaming on Netflix as of December 7th! SMILEY is an eight episode romantic comedy, Guillem Clua's adaption of his own play starring Miki

The series is available as of December 7th

Esparbé and Carlos Cuevas as one of the cutest couples we have ever seen on the small screens. I tell you, the two of them are pure sugar and then some more. They portray two men who, together with their friends in Barcelona, navigate hesitations, hangups and missed connections as they search for the true love they've been missing. It all starts when a misplaced voicemail connects hunky bartender Álex with Bruno, a movie-loving architect. This mistake ends up making them meet and what begins as a date ends up having greater significance. Alex and Bruno's first date turns out to be a rollercoaster ride, and then they both wake up feeling confused about how to navigate the morning after. The series then continues through Christmas and New Year's Eve after which you will see whether the two gorgeous hunks end up together. We watched lovely Carlos Cuevas in Leonardo and Boundless  and Someone Has To Die, epic series.

ANNE RICE'S MAYFAIR WITCHES TV SERIES ADAPTATION IS HITTING AMC AND ALL ITS STREAMERS THIS JANUARY! SEE TRAILER AND POSTERS

 MAYFAIR WITCHES TRAILER 

FOR NEW AMC TV SERIES

The series starts January 8th on AMC

AMC has announced that their latest Anne Rice adaptation MAYFAIR WITCHES will not air only on their AMC Networks but also on their AMC+ streamer. It will  launch on January 8 on AMC, and will then also air on AMC Networks’ streamers Shudder, Sundance Now, Acorn and ALLBLK from January 12.

The eight part series revolves around an intuitive young neurosurgeon, Rowan Fielding, played by Alexandra Daddario, who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations. Jack Huston and Harry Hamlin also star. AMC's another Anne Rice adaptation Interview With the Vampire has, meanwhile, been renewed for a second season starring Sam Reid.

SEE THE FIRST IMAGES AND RELEASE DATE FROM DEAN DEVLIN'S NEW SPACE SET SF TV SERIES THE ARK

  FIRST THE ARK  

SF TV SERIES IMAGES

If you like the beginning of your year spiced up with some good old sf you will be happy to hear that Stargate's Dean Devlin is back on the telly from February with new twelve episode series THE ARK which will air on SyFy also produced by Jonathan Glassner. The cast is led by Christie Burke, Richard Fleeshman, Reece Ritchie, Stacey Read, and Ryan Adams. You can also check out a very short teaser for the new series below and tell us what you think.

THE STORY OF THE ARK
takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies, and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.

LOVE IS A CONTACT SPORT IN ROMANTIC DRAMA IN FROM THE SIDE THE RUGBY GAY MOVIE WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!

  IN FROM THE SIDE 

THE GAY RUGBY MOVIE WE'VE BEEN ALL WAITING FOR!

The movie was out in UK cinemas this summer

Well, it is freezing cold outside this December Monday so I thought what better way to warm you, spylings, up than with some scorching hot rugby hunks getting naughty with each other! And yes, you will need smelling salts, tons of it! IN FROM THE SIDE movie drama from director Matt Carter (who is as hunky and hot as his stars are) is all your wettest dreams coming through on the big screen. Praised for its gorgeous cinematography and outstanding performances, the movie has been visiting film festivals this year and will be out in cinemas around Europe from January. You can check out the lovely trailer below and tell us what you think.

Matt Carter directed the movie

LOVE IS A CONTACT SPORT

When an injured player from the A-team is selected to play with the Bs as part of his recovery, tensions are already high. Initial suspicion turns to physical lust for two of the team members and personal loyalties are stretched as they try to conceal the affair, not only from their own partners but also their teammates. Alexander Lincoln and Alexander King give magnetic performances as the lovers, alongside an excellent ensemble cast which includes Alex Hammond, Pearse Egan, Peter McPherson, Ivan Comisso, Kane Surry and others. Hard drinking and macho antics are par for the course amongst the team, but these bulky athletes soon reveal their vulnerabilities. Even if you've never played rugby, or even had a taste for it, you'll be drawn into the drama of these young men. Prepare yourself for a muddy, sweat-drenched emotional thrill ride. Oh, we have been prepared all our lives,don't you worry about that.The film is out in USA January 20th!

SEE LEGENDARY CASANOVA AT THE COURT OF HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS CATHERINE THE GREAT IN CASANOVA IN RUSSIA HISTORICAL TV SERIES

   CASANOVA IN RUSSIA   

LAVISH NEW RUSSIAN TV SAGA

New show started airing last week

Airing finally every evening this week and next on national broadcaster Russia 1 is new historical series CASANOVA IN RUSSIA (Казанова в России) with Serbian star Ivan Bosilychich in the title role of the legendary seducer at the time when he visited the imperial court of Russia. He previously played sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in Russian epic series The Russian Prisoner or Janissary. The series started shooting back in 2019 but had numerous delays thanks to covid outbreak and many other problems, but is now finally being presented to the audiences. Sweet Matushka Rossiya is, by the way, preparing some other lavish costume

It is a twelve episode historical series

dramas, so stay tuned for more updates during the festive days when Hollywood goes to sleep and we move, as usual, onto the international stage.

 LOVE IN RUSSIA
Set in imperial Russia, during the rule of Tzarina Catherine the Great, in 1764-1765, the lavishly expensive 12 part series follows the great Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova during his stay in Russia, filled with conspiracies, intrigues, insidious murders and fatal passions. It is an adventure in the spirit of the Three Musketeers, only on the banks of the Neva, not the Seine. In the centre of the plot is the story of how Casanova, sent to Russia with the plan to infiltrate Catherine the Great's court as a Vatican spy, got carried away by a female serf peasant on the banks of the Neva, so much that he went to extreme lengths to buy her. That accidental meeting will make history's most famous womaniser and seducer believe that a life could be spent next to just one woman.  Beside being the famous lover, Casanova was also one of the most educated people of that time, he translated legendary Iliad and co wrote the libretto for Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. A friendship with famous Voltaire also left a great impact on that, less known, side of his life. Produced by Favorit Film and Brothers Chizhikov, the saga also stars Maria Skuratova as Casanova's love interest, Mariyana Spivak as Catherine the Great and our dear Ilya Malakov (from Furious or Kolovrat) as her general and lover Potemkin!