JILL HALFPENNY TO LEAD NEW CHANNEL 5 SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER MINI TV SERIES NUMBER ONE FAN

   NEW FROM CHANNEL 5  

NUMBER ONE FAN MINI TV SERIES

Channel 5 has announced a couple of new series including NUMBER ONE FAN a suspenseful thriller set in the world of daytime TV following morning show presenter Lucy, who is saved from an attack by a strange woman named Donna who claims to be her “number one fan”. Lucy’s gratitude quickly sours when Donna’s fandom turns into a darker obsession infiltrating Lucy’s career, family and friends. However to her horror Lucy comes to realise that Donna has a link to a hidden secret in her past which threatens to derail the career she has so carefully curated. Sally Lindsay and Jill Halfpenny will take the leads. 

STAR TREK STRANGE NEW WORLDS FIND THEIR DOCTOR BONES AND SULU FOR THE FINAL FIFTH SEASON

  STRANGE NEW WORLDS  

STAR TREK FINDS BONES AND SULU

It has already been announced that the upcoming fourth and fifth seasons of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS will be the final ones, but they are yet to air and we now know that Thomas Jane will join the last season as Doctor Bones and Kai Murakami as Sulu. The final season will have only six episodes, while the fourth one will have the usual ten. It is not impossible that the series might birth a spin off in which Paul Wesley takes over Enterprise as Captain Kirk after guest starring in this series. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck and others have already shot both final seasons earlier this winter. Bones and Sulu will appear in the last episode of the final episode in 2027.

SEE CRAZY MAGICAL TRAILER FOR A TALE OF TSAR SALTAN EPIC MOVIE ADVENTURE BASED ON THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE

  A TALE OF TSAR SALTAN   

Saltan will sail into cinemas next February

NEW TRAILER FOR  LAVISH FAIRY TALE

After showing you the first teaser from Russia's ambitious and expensive fairy tale movie A TALE OF TSAR SALTAN based on the famous folk story back earlier in September, we now have the crazy magical full trailer and poster for the fairy tale movie that has a February 2026 release date set. The role of Tsar Saltan was given to Pavel Prinyulny, Alexey Henzhen is Prince Guidon, Elizaveta Moryak is Queen Mother with Alice Kot as the Swan Princess. A massive 6,000 square meter palace and city were built for the film and more than 500 costumes were sewnfor the actors and extras in this enchantingly lavish movie adventure  based on a beloved story that most of us have listened to in our childhoods. Sarik Andreasyan directed the new movie.

  WHAT IS THE MAGICAL STORY OF THE FILM?
Tsar Saltan, who was staying in a village house, was lucky enough to fall in love with a sweet, kind, simple girl - Annushka. Annushka was lucky enough tomarry the Tsar and give birth to his son. Her sisters and stepmother were lucky enough, as if by magic, to follow Annushka to the royal palace. But thesisters and stepmother did not appreciate their happiness, they desired more and started an intrigue. While Saltan is away, they change the letter andexpose Annushka and the newborn heir to the Tsar in a bad light. Saltan is furious, but orders him to wait for his return. However, the letter with theorder is replaced again. As a result, the queen and her son are sealed in a barrel and thrown into the ocean to certain death... Check out the visually imaginative and enchanting trailer for the new movie below and tell us what you think. Would you watch it, have you read the tale as a child?

 

WATCH TOBIAS MENZIES, JOANNA LUMLEY, POLLY WALKER THIS CHRISTMAS IN THE ROOM IN THE TOWER THIS YEAR'S GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS AT BBC

   THE ROOM IN THE TOWER  

A 2025 GHOST STORY FESTIVE DRAMA 

BBC's annual festive A Ghost Story for Christmas series TV movie from Mark Gattis will this year be THE ROOM IN THE TOWER and will see Tobias Menzies playing Roger Winstanley, who has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream! It's 1944, and while sheltering during an air raid, Roger strikes up a conversation with Verity, a Wren. When he asks if she dreams, he begins to recount the haunting vision that has followed him formost of his life: a recurring dream of a mysterious house, a silent family on the lawn and an unseen, unidentified terror lurking in the room in the tower. But when he is invited to stay at a country estate eerily similar to the one in his dreams, and is assigned the very same room, he becomes increasingly disturbed as his nightmare begin to become reality. What is really lurking, waiting for him in the room in the tower? Airing on Christmas Eve on BBC Two as it has now become a holiday tradition in United Kingdom, this short TV drama also stars Joanna Lumley and Polly Walker.

SEE HELENA BONHAM CARTER AND MARTIN FREEMAN IN NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES SEVEN DIALS COMING NEXT MONTH TO NETFLIX

   SEVEN DIALS TEASER  

FOR NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES

The series is out this January

Netflix has released a teaser for their new mini TV series SEVEN DIALS based on Agatha Christie's book which will be available for streaming as of January 15th as one of the first new series of 2026! Chris Chibnall created the three part series with Mia McKenna Bruce leading the cast of the clever mystery as Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, a young, determined sleuth. 

 

 THE STORY IS SET IN 

England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths, the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery. A witty, epic, and fast-paced drama from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, is brought to life in a thrilling new version for Netflix. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Lady Caterham, with Martin Freeman, Corey Mylchreest, Ed Bluemel and Nabhaan Rizwan also in the cast. Check out the teaser below:

 

SEE LUKE EVANS AND MILLA JOVOVICH FIGHTING SOME NASTY CREATURES IN APOCALYPTIC THRILLER TRAILER WORLDBREAKER

   WORLDBREAKER TRAILER   

WITH LUKE EVANS AND MILLA JOVOVICH

The world will break at the end of January

An apocalyptic trailer has been released for science fiction disaster action movie WORLD BREAKER which will storm into cinemas January 30th with Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich in the lead roles. Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. Luke Evans plays a father who hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe, while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. However, when the world is about to break, no place is safe. See trailer below for the movie directed by Brad Anderson.

 

SEE NATE BARGATZE BECOME A STAY AT HOME DAD IN COMEDY MOVIE THE BREADWINNER TRAILER WITH MANDY MOORE

  THE BREADWINNER TRAILER 

WITH NATE BERGATZE & MANDY MOORE 

TriStar Pictures has released a trailer with popular comedian Nate Bargatze and pop star Mandy Moore as leads of their new comedy movie

The movie will hit the cinemas next March

 THE BREADWINNER which will mark his big screen acting debut out March 13th. Moore plays Nate’s supermom wife, Katie, who lands a deal on Shark Tank. The catch? It requires her to set out on an extended business trip — and leave her husband in charge. Subsequently, the lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad and quickly realizes he’s in way over his head. Bargatze also wrote the script for this movie that will see Stella Grace Fitzgerald, Birdie Borria and Charlotte Ann Tucker star as their daughters. Eric Appel is directing. See the trailer below:

 

SEE TRAILER WITH KELLY REILLY AND RAFE SPALL IN SKY'S NEW SERIES UNDER SALT MARSH

  UNDER SALT MARSH  

TRAILER WITH KELLY REILLY AND RAFE SPALL

Over from Sky comes first trailer for their new six part series UNDER SALT MARSH set in the fictional Welsh town of Morfa Halen, a place caught between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis (Kelly Reilly) discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The discovery sends shockwaves through the community, reviving the ghost of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior – the disappear- ance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which cost her career. Cefin’s death summons Jackie’s former partner, Detective Eric Bull (Rafe Spall), back to Morfa Halen to lead the investigation into a community he failed once before. Convinced the cases are linked, Jackie and  Bull must reconcile and race to uncover long-buried secrets inside Morfa, before the storm breaks and all the evidence is gone for good. Harry Lawtey, Jonathan Pryce, Mark Stanley, Julian Lewis Jones also star in the series coming up next year January 30th. See the first trailer below:

 

SEE THE CUTEST TRAILER OF THE YEAR FOR HUGH JACKMAN'S THE SHEEP DETECTIVES MOVIE COMEDY MYSTERY

  THE SHEEP DETECTIVES  

IT'S A BRAND NEW BREED OF MYSTERY

The mystery is out next May in cinemas

Prepare to watch the cutest trailer of the year - the one for Hugh Jackman's new movie THE SHEEP DETECTIVES which hits theatres May 8th next year. Regina Hall, Brett Goldstein, Bryan Cranston, Patrick Stewart, Nicholas Galitzine and Emma Thompson also star in this film based on the 2005 novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. Every night a shepherd reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand. When he is found dead, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop, on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn't as simple as it appears in books.

 

FIRST YOUNG SHERLOCK TV SERIES TRAILER AND STREAM DATE WITH HERO FIENNES TIFFIN, JOSEPH FIENNES, MAX IRONS, NATASCHA MCELHONE AND COLIN FIRTH

   YOUNG SHERLOCK   

FIRST TRAILER FOR NEW TV SERIES

Sherlock starts March 4th next year

First trailer has been released from Guy Ritchie's new period set television series YOUNG SHERLOCK with young Hero Fienness Tiffin in the lead role. To stream from March 4th on Prime Video, this brand new costume drama adventure follows the origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in a re-imagining of the iconic character’s early days. Sherlock Holmes is a disgraced young man, raw and unfiltered, when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder case that threatens his liberty. His first ever case unravels a globe trotting conspiracy that changes his life forever. Unfolding in 1870s Oxford and adventuring abroad, the series will expose the early antics of the anarchic adolescent who is yet to evolve into Baker Street’s most renowned resident.

 

  WHO IS IN THE CAST?

 Dónal Finn stars as James Moriarty, Joseph Fiennes as Sherlock's father Silas Holmes even though in real life he is Hero's uncle (Tiffin is the son of Joseph's and Ralph's sister Martha, the director), Natascha McElhone as his mother Cordelia Holmes, Zine Tseng as Princess Gulun Shou’an, Max Irons, another son of a famous actor, as Mycroft Holmes, an older brother to Sherlock, and Colin Firth as Sir Bucephalus Hodge. 

 

SEE KJ APA IN THE TEASER TRAILER AND POSTER FOR JAMES STEWART BIOPIC JIMMY

  JAMES STEWART BIOPIC 

JIMMY MOVIE TRAILER WITH  KJ APA

Jimmy is out in cinemas next November

It is not actually coming out to cinemas anytime soon with the premiere scheduled for November 6th next year, but we already have the first trailer and poster with KJ Apa in the lead role in James Stewart biopic JIMMY which also includes Jason Alexander as Louis B. Mayer, Max Casella as Frank Capra, Sarah Drew as Hedda Hopper, Julian Works as Second Lieutenant Martinez, and Jen Lilley as Stewart’s wife Gloria while Neal McDonough stars as Stewart’s father. The movie chronicles Pennsylvania-native Stewart’s rise in Hollywood, including winning an Academy Award for his work in “The Philadelphia Story,” before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a combat pilot at the beginning of World War II and he flew 20 missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel, only to return home broken and disheartened. Not long after his return home, he starred in Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 1946. 

 

PARAMOUNT + UK'S TRAILER FOR THRILLER TV SERIES GIRL TAKEN WITH ALFIE ALLEN AND JILL HALFPENNY

   GIRL TAKEN SERIES  

ALFIE ALLEN AND JILL HALFPENNY TRAILER

The series starts January 8th on Paramount UK

Last summer you trusted spy told you that Paramount + UK is turning Hollie Overton's book into a thriller TV series. BABY DOLL and now we have a trailer and posters. With the title changed into GIRL TAKEN it will follow twin sisters Lily and Abby (Talalah and Delphie Evans), whose lives are shattered when Lily is abducted from their quiet rural English town by beloved local teacher Rick Hansen (Alfie Allen). After years of abuse in captivity, Lily escapes only to discover that freedom brings its own challenges. The world she longed to return to has moved on without her. As Abby, Lily and their mother Eve (Jill Halfpenny) struggle to rebuild their family, they must confront the lasting damage and the terrifying reality that Rick is still out there, determined to control the narrative and evade justice. Niamh Walsh will also star. The six-part series will debut on 8th January 2026!

 

FIRST IMAGES OF SAM CLAFLIN AND KALEY CUOCO IN NEW PARIS SET MYSTERY TV SERIES VANISHED

   VANISHED TV SERIES  

PICS WITH SAM CLAFLIN AND KALEY CUOCO

Coming to MGM+ February 1st next year from David Hilton and Preston Thompson is a new mystery Paris set series VANISHED which has Sam Claflin and Kaley Cuoco as leads and today you can check out the first images. They will be Alice and Tom, a couple whose romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn after Tom suddenly disappears aboard a train to the south of France. Alice is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew. Matthias Schweighöfer and Karin Viard will also star in the new series coming up next February.

ALIENS ARE HERE IN STEVEN SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY MOVIE TRAILER WITH EMILY BLUNT, JOSH O'CONNOR, COLIN FIRT, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES

 DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILER 

WITH EMILY BLUNT AND JOSH O'CONNOR

A trailer has been released for a new science fiction thriller movie DISCLOSURE DAY from Steven Spielberg which will be out in cinemas June 12th next year starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Henry Lloyd Hughes and Colin Firth in the story about the arrival of aliens. If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day. 

 

FIRST LOOK AT MATTHEW RHYS IN A MYSTERIOUSLY CURSED ISLAND TOWN IN WIDOW'S BAY TV SERIES AT APPLE TV +

  MATTHEW RHYS TO LEAD  

APPLE TV + WIDOW'S BAY SERIES

A teaser is out with Matthew Rhys in Apple TV + new ten episode mini series WIDOW'S BAY about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor (Rhys) who refuses to believe their warnings. Rhys’ Mayor Tom Loftisis a no-nonsense single dad forced to deal with his town’s superstitious citizens who believe it’s cursed as he is desperately trying to put the area on the map as the next Nantucket. Katie Dippold will be the showrunner of the show out April 29th.

 

SEE HUGH JACKMAN AND JODIE COMER IN THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD DARK MOVIE REIMAGINING OF THE FAMOUS LEGEND

  1ST HUGH JACKMAN PICS  

FROM THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD MOVIE

More than a year ago I told you that Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer will star in a new movie take on famous Sherwood legend THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD from director Michael Sarnoski and today Entertainment Weekly as published first photos from it. The film will see the title character grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, a battleworn loner who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman who offers him a chance at salvation. Also starring Bill Skargard as Little John, the film will arrive sometime next year.