RICHARD ARMITAGE TO LEAD
RED EYE ITV THRILLER SERIES
ITVX has set Richard Armitage as the lead in their new thriller mini series RED EYE set between an all-night plane flight from London to Beijing and the corridors of power within Whitehall.
After attending a medical conference in Beijing and coming frighteningly close to
dying in a car crash, Dr Matthew Nolan (Armitage) arrives home and is immediately arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Exhausted and confused, Nolan is accused of the murder of a woman who was in the car he crashed. Despite his protests that he was driving alone, Nolan is set to return to China to face charges.
DC Hana Li (Jing Lusi) is the no-nonsense, London officer charged with accompanying Nolan back to Beijing. Her resentment for this assignment, and of Nolan himself, is immediate. However, in flight, when a first death occurs, DC Li begins to suspect foul play. Further deaths confirm that Nolan is in danger, and after a call from MI5, Hana finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy.
Back in London, Hana’s sister, scrappy reporter Jess Li (Jemma Moore) is running her own investigation into Nolan’s extradition and finds herself running for her life from an unknown assassin.
And in Thames House, the head of MI5, Madeline Delaney (Lesley Sharp) breaks protocol and risks her entire career to not only help Hana and Nolan stay alive, but to expose an international conspiracy that seems to implicate both China and people in her own government.
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| Richard Armitage will lead the new show |
CERBERUS TV SERIES
NEW RUSSIAN HISTORICAL SHOW
We are over in Ivanovo today where Pilot, a Russian series festival similar to MipCom, is taking place presenting upcoming new projects. The only historical drama in the competition there is CERBERUS (Цербер) which will
air on Premier streamer in Russia. The story is set in 1826, St. Petersburg. After the suppression of speeches on Senate Square, the investigating commission begins to search for participants in the Decembrist uprising. 
Some of them are revealed to the authorities by the informers. Suddenly, a series of brutal murders takes place in St. Petersburg: those who snitched on the Decembrists become victims. Near the bodies of the dead, there is 
invariably a piece of paper with lines from a poem by the young poet Alexander Pushkin. A detective (Timofey Tribuntsev) who arrived from Moscow to St. Petersburg, as well as a nobleman (Sergey Marin), who was 
released from arrest, take up the investigation of the case. It turns out that the secret investigation is not dealing with criminality, but with a strictly planned political revenge. Revenge, the highest point of which should be the murder of the new Russian Tsar Nicholas I.
air on Premier streamer in Russia. The story is set in 1826, St. Petersburg. After the suppression of speeches on Senate Square, the investigating commission begins to search for participants in the Decembrist uprising. 
Some of them are revealed to the authorities by the informers. Suddenly, a series of brutal murders takes place in St. Petersburg: those who snitched on the Decembrists become victims. Near the bodies of the dead, there is 
invariably a piece of paper with lines from a poem by the young poet Alexander Pushkin. A detective (Timofey Tribuntsev) who arrived from Moscow to St. Petersburg, as well as a nobleman (Sergey Marin), who was 
released from arrest, take up the investigation of the case. It turns out that the secret investigation is not dealing with criminality, but with a strictly planned political revenge. Revenge, the highest point of which should be the murder of the new Russian Tsar Nicholas I.
Have never watched a Russian crime series before..but I guess this won't be available for us.
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DeleteI've always felt sorty for por Decembrists. This sounds so good. Going back to what we said yesterday about Netflix being the leader of garbage content. It has a rival in Disney. In fact, Ryan Murphy the evil genius behind macabre shows like American Horror Story, Ratched and Dahmer has signed contract with Disney. Maybe Netflix is not paying him enough
ReplyDeleteHis sole name disgusts me especially after what he did to Olivia! He is a nasteeey skunk.
DeleteLike Angie said, we probably won't see the Russian crime series here unless we torrent it from somewhere. It does sound good. I am torn on Red Eye though. Seems like a series where each episode you're just stressed out waiting for the truth, but it won't come until the end of the series.
ReplyDeleteI am excited about Red Eye as it reminds me a bit on the dynamics and suspense of Bodyguard and Capture BBC shows which were outstanding. Plus I would not mind seeing Dicky Armitage again, I started that erotic OBSESSION Netflix series of his last night and was greeted by his massive nekkid shlong-a-dong in the first episode already. I am still recovering :)
DeleteI forgot about Obsession. Going to rush over to Netflix now and put that in my queue. Beside the massive dong, was it any good?
DeleteIt has just four eps and each is half an hour long for some reason. I watched just the first one, it was OK. They don't have any chemistry, though, and there is no sexy atmosphere because of that, other than Dicky being hot as hell. Everybody else was terribly cast, including their horrid kids.
DeleteI started watching it last night and turned it off before I finished the second episode. I found it quite bland and boring, tbh. No chemistry between any of them, and the lead female grated my nerves. The sex scenes weren't even that great. I've seen more passion on The Animal Planet LOL.
DeleteIndeed, it is because they should have made it gay, with Dicky, who is gay in his private life, obsessed with some hot boy or a hunk, now that would be scorching hot.
DeleteI agree. I don't know who signed off on this one, but they need to be fired.
DeleteI think the show runner is some woman who wanted to make it more feminist. In the book the seductress is just there to seduce and does not have any deeper story, but here she wanted to make her more important and you probably noticed that she forced Dicky to show us all he has, to be full naked and be humiliated to show us his genitalia although he is older than us, while she is wearing clothes even when they have sex. That was the nasty feminist agenda she brought into and that did not exist in the book.
DeleteRed Eye sound interesting. I could probably check that one out.
ReplyDeleteIt will come next year!
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