Friday, February 7, 2025

CASTING NEWS: GUY PEARCE TO STAR WITH ALEX PETTYFER IN BLURRED EROTIC THRILLER AND IN MR. SUNNY SKY WITH HANNAH WADDINGHAM, RUFUS SEWELL

   MOVIE NEWS BULLETIN  
GUY PEARCE, ALEX PETTYFER IN BLURRED
In latest movie news bulletin today, we have Guy Pearce and Alex Pettyfer announced as leads in new erotic film thriller BLURRED in which they will also be joined by Maria Pedraza and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The film set in New York fashion world was already shot last summer. It is described as  a smart and sexy thriller with a brilliant cast set against the hustle and flow of New York’s fashion world, a beautiful, raw and intense thrill ride! Pettyfer is also producing.
 
MR. SUNNY SKY MOVIE REVEALS LEAD CAST
Speaking of Guy Pearce he will also star next to Hannah Waddingham in MR. SUNNY SKY  crime-thriller which follows Leonard Moore, a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul with whom he shares an instant connection. But Shirley’s husband is a dangerous man and soon the new couple’s burgeoning romance is thrust into a spiral of paranoia, suspense and violence. The cast will also include Rufus Sewell, Eduard Fernandez and Tom Davis with Daniel Ings in the lead.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

TV NEWS: TAHAR RAHIM, LAURIE DAVIDSON IN SKY'S PRISONER THRILLER SERIES, KEKE PALMER, JACK WHITEHALL TO LEAD THE BURBS AT PEACOCK


  NEW TV SHOWS BULLETIN  
TAHAR RAHIM, LAURIE DAVIDSON IN PRISONER
Sky has announced Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle as leads in their new thriller TV series PRISONER which will also star our dearest Laurie Davidson, Eddie Marsan, Catherine McCormack, Finn Bennett, in a story that will  follow a principled young prison officer escorting a dangerous, high-value prisoner to court to testify against his elite crime syndicate. Throughout the journey, their relationship twists and turns, with the stakes escalating as the crime syndicate stops at nothing to track them down. Otto Bathurst is directing. 

THE BURBS SERIES AT PEACOCK
Meanwhile, Peacock has unveiled full cast for their dark comedy series THE BURBS which, set in present-day suburbia,  follows a young couple (Keke Palmer, Jack Whitehall) who have reluctantly relocated to the husband’s childhood home. Their world is upended when a new neighbor moves in across the street bringing old secrets of the cul-de-sac to light, and new deadly threats shatter the illusion of their quiet little neighborhood. Julia Duffy, Paula Pell, Mark Proksch and our sweet Kapil Talwalkar will also star.

IT'S MOTHERS AGAINST TOWN LEADERSHIP IN NETFLIX NEW TRUE POISONINGS STORY MINI TV SERIES TOXIC TOWN

   TOXIC TOWN TRAILER  
HOW FAR WOULD U GO TO PROTECT UR KIDS
Hitting Netflix February 27th is a true case series about a whole town poisoned TOXIC TOWN which will stream in four episodes with some well
Toxic Town streams February 27th
known British names in the cast including Jodie Whitaker, Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, Joe Dempsie, Michael Socha and Brendan Coyle. Based on the real-life story of one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals, TOXIC TOWN is the story of the people at the heart of the Corby poisonings. Focusing on the mothers, who took on a David and Goliath battle for justice, the series traces through the years of their fight as a terrible truth comes to the surface. In this tragic true case, industrial waste from steel-working industry led to massive birth defects among the babies born in the town. A group of mothers whose children had developed birth defects confronted their town’s leadership about its alleged mismanagement of toxic waste materials. The case was largely hidden in media and press and most people don't even know about it.  

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

FIRST LOOK AT APPLE TV'S FRENCH HISTORICAL SERIES CAREME ON 19TH CENTURY 1ST EVER CELEBRITY CHEF WITH BENJAMIN VOISIN, JEREMIE RENIER, LYNA KHOUDRI

 APPLE TV'S CAREME 
1ST 19TH CENTURY CULINARY SERIES IMAGES
Two years ago I told you that  Benjamin Voisin will lead Apple TV's new French historical original series CAREME on the famous 19th century chef turned spy and now we have the first images for the show that will launch April 30th.  Set in the 19th century, the eight episode series, directed by Martin Bourboulon who helmed The Three Musketeers, will follow the sprawling story of Antonin Carême, who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe. He not only became an iconic chef, he also became a spy for France as his talent and ambitions attracted the attention of powerful politicians, including Napoleon. The series will shed light on the miserable reality of 19th century kitchens, contrasting with the opulence of the mansions and sophisticated of aristocrats. Jérémie Renier will play Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a Machiavellian diplomat who was minister of foreign affairs in the government of Napoleon Bonaparte; and Lyna Khoudri will appear as Henriette, Carême’s lover and most dangerous threat. The series is inspired by Ian Kelly book “Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême – The First Celebrity Chef”!

MARK STRONG JOINS CALLUM TURNER IN NEW SF SERIES NEUROMANCER BASED ON THE CLASSIC SF BOOK

   NEUROMANCER SERIES  
MARK STRONG JOINS CALLUM TURNER
A few months ago I informed you that science fiction classic novel NEUROMANCER from William Gibson will be turned into a ten episode sf series with Callum Turner as the lead star over at Apple TV + and now we hear that Mark Strong has joined him as well. The story of the novel and the new series follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Callum Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly (Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Graham Roland will be the show runner and executive producer of the new television series in which Strong will play Armitage, Case and Molly’s mysterious employer, while Joseph Lee will play Hideo, a professional bodyguard.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

NEW CAST NAMES AND FIRST IMAGES FROM THE SECOND SEASON OF THE GOLD SERIES WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, TOM CULLEN, TOM HUGHES, STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE

    THE GOLD TV SERIES  
FIRST IMAGES FROM THE SECOND SEASON
New first look pictures and new names to join Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell in the second season of BBC's THE GOLD series which arrives sometime this year, have been unveiled today. Some of the new cast members joining series two, include: Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua McGuire, Tamsin Topolski, Joshua Samuels and Rochelle Neil as well as Antonia Desplat, Lorna Brown, Thomas Coombes, Sean Teale and our gorgeous Olivia Grant! As you probably remember the first season also included some famous names which are not included in the new season such as Jack Lowden and Dominic Cooper.
 
THE SIX PART TV SERIES
is inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed. Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police (Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliot) realised that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organised crime, the police embark on a series of dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police.

GO BACK TO PREWAR CZECH REPUBLIC IN THE GOLDEN SWAN PERIOD SET TV SERIES ARRIVING THIS MONTH TO THE SMALL SCREENS

    THE GOLDEN SWAN   
NEW PERIOD SET SERIES AT PBS MASTERPIECE
The series hits Walter Presents this February
This one already aired in its homeland Czech republic back in 2023 but it hitting PBS Master- piece channel Walter Presents on Prime Video February 21st with English subtitles. THE GOLDEN SWAN (Zlatá labut) historical drama is set in a department store just like some of the German and British costume dramas we've seen before. It starts in 1939, when Bára Veselá (Marta Dancingerová), a young woman on the run from the law, unwillingly becomes a salesperson in the fashion department at Golden Swan, the newly-opened luxury department store in Prague, owned by the Kučera family. While the family’s rebellious and youngest son, Petr (Adam Vacula), takes a shine to Bára, his sister, Irena (Kristyna Ryska), a lover of luxury and power, decides to fight for the leadership of the family business. Meanwhile, German occupation forces are invading the Czechoslovakian state.

Monday, February 3, 2025

SEE TRAILER AND CHARACTER POSTERS FOR EL TURCO EPIC TV SERIES WITH CAN YAMAN AND WILL KEMP

  EL TURCO SERIES  
SEE FIRST POSTERS AND TRAILER
The series will arrive this spring
While we are waiting for his Sandocan series, Turkish super star Can Yaman has another epic series in his sleeve: historical adventure EL TURCO which had it's world launch over at Mipcom TV Market in Cannes last Autumn and should hit the small screens March 21st in Italy, Turkey, Brazil and Russia. The English language drama was originally done for Disney Plus but they opted out of it and the series will be shopped elsewhere. The six-episode series which aims to be international with cast including actors from nine different countries will combine history, action-adventure and romance done by Turkish distributor Madd Entertainment, who are planning for the show to get a global release this spring. Check out the rather cheap looking trailer below with English subtitles and tell us what you think.
IN EL TURCO EPIC TV SERIES
Can Yaman plays 17th Ottoman soldier Hasan Balaban, who was wounded during the Turkish army’s campaign to conquer Vienna in 1683 and ended up some 200 kilometers away in the Italian Alpine village of Moena. Nicknamed “El Turco” by the villagers, he led the locals to a clamorous revolt against unfair taxes that made him a local hero. In the 17th century, the villagers erected a monument to the Turkish janissary on their main square, where during the first week of August they still hold the Moena Turkish Festival to celebrate “El Turco”. The show, which has already been sold to Russia, Italy, some Balkan countries and Middle East also stars Will Kemp, David Nykl, Kieran O’Reilly, Veronica Ferres, Slavko Sobin, Nick Wittman, Caroline Boulton and Maddalena Aragão. 
 

Sunday, February 2, 2025

IT'S THE END OF AN ERA IN AUSTRALIA'S BEST SERIES THE NEWSREADER FINAL SEASON WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV! TRAILER AND AIRING DATE

   THE NEWSREADER  
FINAL SEASON THREE ARRIVES TONIGHT
At first we thought that the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER would arrive last Autumn, but since it is also the final one it's been pushed to this year and will finally start tonight, February 2nd at Australian ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the six part show again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola,
The final third act starts tonight on ABC
Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall. First season also aired on BBC in UK and AMC in USA.
 
THE END OF AN ERA
We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaiman and an opportunity to be the first woman to both anchor and produce her own current affairs show. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall which will be covered in the last episode announcing the crumbling of Dale's and Helen's private lives as well. See the brilliant trailer below:
 

Saturday, February 1, 2025

SEE MATTHEW MACFADYEN, MICHAEL SHANNON IN FIRST IMAGES FROM NETFLIX' DEATH BY LIGHTNING PERIOD SET THRILLER TV SERIES

    DEATH BY LIGHTNING   
FIRST IMAGES FROM NETFLIX TV SERIES
Netflix has announced a very dull 2025 movie and series offer this week, and among them is new historical thriller mini TV series DEATH BY LIGHTNING which we first announced back in February last year when it was revealed that Matthew MacFadyen and Michael Shannon will lead the cast playing American president James Garfield and his killer Charles Guiteau, and now we have the first images from it.

BASED ON THE NOVEL
Destiny Of The Republic by Candice Millard, the series follows Garfield  who was President in 1881 and was assassinated later that year, having previously served nine terms as a Congressman. He was elected as a Senator but declined this when he became President, despite having not sought the office. He was shot by Guiteau, who felt he had played a major role in Garfield’s election. Nick Offerman as vice president Chester Arthur, Betty Gilpin as the first lady Crete Garfield, Tuppence Middleton, Ben Miles, Kyle Soller will also appear in the cast of this period set series which should arrived to the streamer later this year.

Friday, January 31, 2025

NETFLIX ORDERS NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF FAMOUS LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE

 LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE 
GETTING A TV SERIES VERSION AT NETFLIX
Netflix will the turn the books into series
It seems Netflix is trying to find their own All Creatures Great and Small family type of series as they have just ordered a new remake of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. Legendary books by Laura Ingalls Wilder with Rebecca Sonnenshine as the showrunner will be turned into a series that will be part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West. This fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic semi-autobiographical ‘Little House’ books offers a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier. The books have sold so far in over 70 million copies worldwide.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

KATE HUDSON IS TAKING OVER A BASKETBALL TEAM IN NEW NETFLIX TED LASSOESQUE COMEDY SERIES RUNNING POINT

  RUNNING POINT TRAILER 
FOR NEW KATE HUDSON COMEDY SERIES
The series will stream this February
Netflix is trying it seems to create their own Ted Lasso style series and their latest effort in that field is new comedy series RUNNING POINT set in the world of basketball with Kate Hudson in the lead role. The ten episodes that will be available for streaming February 27th also have Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, and two insanely hot hunks Chet Hanks and Jay Ellis in the cast. You can check out the brand new trailer for the upcoming comedy series below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
 WHAT'S THE STORY?
When a scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right choice for the job. Max Greenfield and Justin Theroux are some of the names that will guest star in some of the episodes.
 

HELEN MIRREN TO LEAD SWITZERLAND THRILLER, JOAN COLLINS IS WALLIS SIMPSON, MORFYDD CLARK TO LEAD ARCTIC SKIES UFO MOVIE

  CASTING NEWS BULLETIN!  
HELEN MIRREN TO LEAD SWITZERLAND
In casting reel today, Helen Mirren and Alden Ehrenreich will star in Anton Corbijn's thriller movie SWITZERLAND together with Olivia Cooke. Mirren will play crime novelist and Tom Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith in the film based on a play about Highsmith’s encounter with a young literary agent (Ehrenreich). Set in 1995, an ageing Patricia Highsmith is living a secluded existence in the Swiss Alps with only her cats for company. When a pushy young man turns up at her residence, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write a final book in her best-selling Tom Ripley series, it becomes clear he is on a more sinister mission.

Joan Collins will lead the biopic
JOAN COLLINS IS WALLIS SIMPSON
Meanwhile, our favourite soap star diva Joan Collins will lead Wallis Simpson biopic THE BITTER END from legendary Mike Newell about the American woman who married King Edward VIII and upended the British monarchy. The film will bring us the shocking untold story of Simpson’s final years.
 

MORFYDD CLARK TO LEAD ARCTIC SKIES
Rings of Power Galadriel Morfydd Clark is set to lead UFO thriller movie ARCTIC SKIES. The sci-fi-thriller, inspired by one of the most well-documented UFO encounters on record, follows the harrowing journey of a cargo plane crew who, while flying at 40,000 feet above the Arctic Circle, become the target of otherworldly attention. Ariyon Bakare will also star in the new thriller movie.