It is coming to the small screens as soon as March 2nd, so MGM+ has released a trailer for NINE BODIES IN A MEXICAN MORGUE series with Eric McCormack. The six episode series which will also air on BBC is a strikingly original and taut thriller series with a jaw-dropping reveal waiting at the end. A light aircraft with nine passengers crashes in the Mexican jungle – and everyone survives. But then, one after another, they begin to die in strange and violent ways and very soon they begin to realize that, for some inexplicable reason, somebody wants them dead. As the story unfolds in flashback, we meet the survivors as they fight against the heat, a shortage of supplies, the many dangers of the jungle – and each other. The setting becomes increasingly tense and claustrophobic until finally the identity of the killer and the truth are revealed. Peter Gadiot and Sebastian Capitan Viveros also star.
As Variety reports, Kirsten Sheridan is set to direct a movie adaptation of Anne Chambers' book GRACE O'MALLEY: THE BIOGRAPHY OF IRELAND'S PIRATE QUEEN. The story will chronicle the extraordinary true story of a meeting between Queen Elizabeth I, the most powerful ruler in British history, and the fearless 16th century Irish rebel pirate Grace O’Malley (Granuaile). When her youngest son is taken prisoner, Grace sails right up the Thames to confront Queen Elizabeth directly. Over the course of just one week, these leaders of two warring nations question each other’s identity, pierce each other’s wounds, win each other’s respect, and come together as equals to define not only their nations, but their most intimate selves.
Apple TV Plus has finished production on a ten episode sf series out of Martha Wells' award winning MURDERBOT book series with Alexander Skarsgard as the lead and are ready to start streaming it from May 16th and today you can see the first images! He will play a self-hacking security android who is
horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.”
Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment
when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap
operas and figure out its place in the universe.
An eight part costume drama set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the MONTMARTRE Parisian
neighborhood is being lined up for this year's Series Mania at the end of March and today you can see the first image. Set at the turn of the 19th century,
the historical drama will tell the intertwining stories of a trio of
characters. Céleste (Alice Dufour), is a determined Cancandancer who is desperate to fund a search for her long-lost siblings. Arsène (Victor Meutelet) is a wealthy young engineer, who breaks off an arranged marriage to embrace his hidden love for men. Meanwhile, Rose (Claire Romain), works in a laundry and dreams of a simple life. Hugo Becker, Mathilde Seigner, Thibault de Montalembert and Mikaël Mittelstadt will also star for TV France 1.
Although I thought they might air it at Christmas, BBC has kept their latest TV series adaptation of an Agatha Christie work TOWARDS ZERO for this year and it will start airing March 2nd on BBC One, and to mark the announcement they released first trailer for the new series to entice you with our dearest Oliver Jackson Cohen in the lead role with Anjelica Hustonand Matthew Rhys also in the cast. I think that Britbox will stream it for the viewers in Canada and United States sometime this year as well.
WHAT IS THE STORY ABOUT?
Featuring coastal views, heated summer soirees, and a trip to Wimbledon
Centre Court, the series is set in England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, Nevile
Strange (Oliver Jackson Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lilly Hyland) make the unthinkable decision to spend a
summer together at Gull’s Point, their childhood home and the coastal
estate of Nevile's aunt, Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston).
With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus
the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), tensions are running high. Add to
this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet,
an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an
inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A
troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web
of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before
another victim meets their death? An explosive love triangle, a
formidable matriarch and a house party of enemies. All compelled…
Towards Zero. Clarke Peters, Anjana Vasan, and Jack Farthing are also seen in the new pictures from the series, which co-stars Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Khalil Gharbia and Adam Hugill.
PBSMasterpiece has released first image of Benjamin Wainwright in MAIGRET seriesas Chief Inspector Jules Maigret! Paris set series
takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and
mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts
of the professionally criminal. Maigret is an unconventional young
detective with something to prove the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his
investigations, with a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants.
Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret (Stefanie Martini), Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris. Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok and Rob Kazinsky make up the “Les Maigrets,” Maigret’s loyal team of detectives, with Nathalie Armin as Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel.
DISNEY PLUS NEW SERIES SUSPECT: THE SHOOTING OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES
As Deadline reports, our dearest Russell Tovey has joined the cast of Disney Plus new true story series SUSPECT: THE SHOOTING OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES which describes the tragic shooting of an innocent man mistaken for a terrorist in London bombings twenty years ago. Edison Alcaide will play De Menezes whose death happened around two weeks after 7/7 following a second set of planned attacks, which failed but set off a manhunt. The Brazilian electrician was mistakenly shot by police at a London underground station, leading to protests, introspection over shoot-to-kill policies and fierce criticism of the Metropolitan Police. Russell Tovey will also star alongside Conleth Hill, Max Beesley, Emily Mortimer, Daniel Mays, Laura Aikman and Alex Jennings. Mortimer and Hill will play police chiefs.
If you are looking for a new medical drama to watch Netflix has set April 3rd launch date for ten episode series PULSE from Carlton Cuse. The new series starts at a moment when a hurricane is bearing down on Miami’s top trauma center and third-year resident Dr. Danny Simms (Willa Fitzgerald) is thrust into a leadership role when Chief Resident Dr. Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell) is suspended. As the storm intensifies and the ER locks down, Danny and Phillips must navigate both a flood of trauma cases and the fallout of their secret romance. Meanwhile, their colleagues juggle personal and professional challenges, where saving lives is often easier than managing their own. Justina Machado stars as Dr. Natalie Cruz, a politically savvy doctor who oversees both administration and medicine as the Chair of Surgery and Emergency Medicine.
Even before hittingDisney Plus and Hulu with six episodes this Friday, February 21st their new period series A THOUSAND BLOWS has been renewed for a second season!
THE SERIES FOLLOWS
Malachi Kirby's
Hezekiah Moscow, who finds himself plunged into the vibrant and violent
melting pot of post-industrial revolution London's East End from
Jamaica. Drawn into the criminal underbelly of the thriving boxing
scene, he meets Mary Carr, (Erin Doherty), leader of The Forty
Elephants, the
The series arrives next February to Hulu
notorious all-female London gang, as they battle for
survival on the streets. As Hezekiah sharpens his new skills, he comes
up against Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), a seasoned and dangerous boxer, and the two are soon locked into an intense rivalry that spills out way beyond the ring. Steven Knight's drama also stars Francis Lovehall as Hezekiah's best friend Alec Munroe, Jason Tobin as Mr Lao and James Nelson-Joyce as Edward 'Treacle' Goodson. Daniel Mays stars as William 'Punch' Lewis, Adam Nagaitis as the Earl of Lonsdale, Gary Lewis as Jack Mac, Tom Davis as Charlie Mitchell and Robert Glenister as Indigo Jeremy.
After exercising nepotism by starring in a film with her daughter and thus launching her career, Kate Winslet will continue with nepotism and will now direct a film written by her own son. GOODBYE JUNE already has quite a stellar cast and we will see Toni Collette, Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough staring in Kate's directorial debut over at Netflix. As Screen Daily reports, the film in which she will also star is a contemporary fictional drama about a fractured group of siblings who pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
Well, I cannot say I find this one at least remotely interesting, but BBC has announced February 22nd air date for theirnew period set drama DOPE GIRLS which looks rather depressive.
New six
episode series will bring 1918 Soho to life according to BBC, although they don't really look lively to me in the images nor the trailer.
IT IS THE END OF WORLD WAR ONE As
Britain celebrates the Armistice on the streets of London, men return
from the front expecting to rejoin society and pick up where they left
off - but a newly empowered generation of women are loath to simply
return to the kitchen. Using Soho’s expanding illicit underground
clubland scene as their playground, women explore previously
unimaginable opportunities on either side of the law. DOPE GIRLS depicts in visceral detail the birth of the modern nightlife industry guided and gilded by female endeavour.
WHO IS IN THE GANG?
Julianne Nicholson
leads as Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub
amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a
life of criminal activities with the dedicated aim of providing for her daughter Evie (Eilidh Fisher).
Eliza Scanlen plays Violet Davies, one of the first wave of female officers, who is assigned to go undercover and investigate the illicit world of underground Soho nightclubs. This is where we find Billie Cassidy (Umi Myers), a bohemian dancer, whose life is irrevocably changed by Kate’s arrival. Also starring are Michael Duke, Ian Bonar, Dustin Demri-Burns, Geraldine James, Nabhaan Rizwan, Priya Kansara, Jordan Kouamé, Will Keen and Sebastian Croft and our dear Rory Fleck Byrne as the brother in the family.
Three episodes of a new psychological thriller series are coming soon to Prime Video! We shall watch Martin Compston, Solly McLeod andJames Cosmo in FEAR from March 4th in UK and parts of Europe. It is a small screen adaptation of a book by Dirk Kurbjuweit directed by Shardlake's Justin Chadwick.
WHAT IS THE SERIES ABOUT?
Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn (Martin
Compston) and Rebecca (Anjli Mohindra) move into a beautiful house in
Glasgow with their two young children.
At first the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan (Solly
McLeod) makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns out to be the
start of something far more intimidating. Facing accusations that are
every parent's worst nightmare, and with the authorities refusing to
step in, Martyn and Rebecca feel they have nowhere to turn to for help. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
Oscar winner Catherine Zeta Jones has scored a lead role in Prime Video's eight part thriller KILL JACKIE based on The Price You Pay book by Aidan Truhen. She plays Jackie Price who has been living a wealthy, luxurious existence for the last
Catherine Zeta Jones will take the lead role
twenty years – travelling the world, selling fine art using sophisticated tax loopholes and trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer.
As life starts to feel a little boring, it takes a sudden lethal turn when she discovers The Seven Demons, a squad of hitmen, have been hired to kill her. Assuming someone from her past is behind it, Jackie unleashes her old instincts and embarks on a plan to take down The Demons one by one before they kill her. However, she soon realises her own demons are much more terrifying than the ruthless killers on her trail and her buried secrets ultimately lead her much closer to home, with surprising consequences.
And not just them, Bill Nighy's movie adaptation of David Gilbert's novel & SONS has added Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Johnny Flynn, Noah Jupe and George MacKay. Nighy plays Andrew, or A.N. Dyer, as he is known to the world — a famous novelist whose first novel became an instant classic and created a cult following around its elusive author. One morning, Dyer wakes up convinced he must mend the broken relationships in his life and summons his sons (Flynn, Jupe and MacKay) to be with him. It has been nearly 20 years since an incident tore apart the family. When the sons arrive, each burdened with their own struggles, Andrew reveals something so astonishing it couldn’t possibly be true — or could it?
Although, to be honest, the second season was unwatchable to me, Prime Video has renewed THE RINGS OF POWER epic series for season three which will jump forward several years from the events of season 2 with the story taking place at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as the Dark Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that will give him the edge he needs to win the war and conquer all Middle-earth at last. Acclaimed directors Charlotte Brändström, Sanaa Hamri, and Stefan Schwartz are set for upcoming season. Filming will begin in UK this spring.
Netflix is releasing on April 17th their ten episode series based on Jodi Thomas book series RANSOM CANYON and you can the trailer with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly
as leads of this romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western
saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching
families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas
hill country. Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of a sprawling
ranch. He is steadfast and stoic, and leads the charge to resist outside
forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves.
Kelly plays Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of
others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert
pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for
herself. Eoin Macken, Tatanka Means and James Brolin also star.
As Deadline reports, Bill Nighy is set to star in new Hugo Blick series CLIFFTOPS set in a nostalgia-soaked 1970s trailer park overlooking the English Channel. It will follow a mother and daughter who escape an abusive husband to set up a home away from
Bill Nighy is set to star in Clifftops series
civilization. On the clifftops, Lela is reunited with her Bradford-born parents in a community of outcasts, set to the soundtrack and TV culture of its day.
TWO WEEKSINAUGUST
BBC
is also working with Catherine Shepherd on TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST
thriller series that tells the story of a woman who goes on holiday to
Greece with her family and friends to rediscover joy in her life. Zoe
begins to act on her deepest desires and the holiday she hoped for
becomes a reckoning for a group of adults who refuse to grow up. But
when they discover they are trapped on the island, and become faced with
real life-or-death situations, the group soon turn on each other to
find out who is to blame.
Lifetime has released a trailer for their new romantic comedy I'LL BE HOME FOR NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY with Maria Menounos and Taye Diggs! The 15-minute original television event, to air February 19th, tells the story of Liz (Menounos) and Sam (Diggs), former love interests who are reunited at the local Chili’s when Liz returns to her hometown, desperate to escape the big city’s overpriced margaritas. Everything seems perfect until a big-city developer’s plans to build condos threatens to ruin the town’s National Margarita Day traditions. Liz and Sam must work together to stop the developer and save National Margarita Day, rekindling their relationship in the process.
As Deadline reports today, Matthew Rhys is set to topline the cast of 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 Loftis is 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.
We have the first trailer with Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones in MR. BURTON
biopic which will tell the true story of the relationship between
Welsh
Mr. Burton will open in cinemas April 4th
schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called
Richard Jenkins. The latter dreamed of becoming an actor, but his
ambitions were in danger of being derailed by a combination of family
trouble, the pressure of war,
and his own lack of discipline. Mr. Burton recognized the raw talent in
his pupil, and made it his mission to fight for him, becoming his
tutor, strict taskmaster and eventually his adoptive father. Actor
Burton would go on to be nominated for seven Oscars and was well known
for his turbulent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor. Aneurin Barnard and Lesley Manville also star. The movie is out April 4th.
Currently at works over at Apple TV + is new thriller TV series CAPE FEAR with Amy Adams and Javier Bardem in the lead roles. The ten episode series is based on John D. MacDonald novel “The Executioners” which has been previously adapted a couple of times but for the big screen. The plot of the new series: a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison.
After Jack Patten has been given the lead role, MGM + epic series on ROBIN HOOD has added Sean Bean as Sheriff of Nottingham! After the Norman invasion of England, Robin, a Saxon forester’s
Sean Bean will be Sheriff of Nottingham
son, and Marian, the daughter of a Norman lord, fall in love and work together to fight for justice and freedom. As Rob rises as the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, as both work together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land. Bean's Sheriff of Nottingham is a statesman, a strategist, and a builder of Nottingham itself. A loving father, a politician, and cousin to King Henry II, he navigates the dangerous tides of power, facing not only an outlaw in the woods but also the ambitions of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Norman Barons that surround him. Cunning and pragmatic, he is a man who rules with an iron hand, not out of cruelty, but an unshakable belief that the law, as Normans see it, must be preserved.
Dream Works has released a new trailer for their live action movie version of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON in which Mason Thames and Nico Parker will be the lead stars in the roles of Hiccup
The movie is out next June in cinemas
and Astrid with Gerard Butler
(who is quite unrecognisable in it) as his father Stoick! The
movie follows a young Viking as he aspires to hunt dragons, and how he
becomes unexpectedly a friend of a young dragon. With Dean DeBlois directing, writing and producing, the movie should fly into cinemas June 13th, 2025.Nick Frost will also star.
ON THE RUGGED ISLE
of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter
enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart. The inventive yet
overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast Hiccup defies centuries of
tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their
unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very
foundations of Viking society. With the fierce and ambitious Astrid and
the village’s quirky blacksmith Gobber by his side, Hiccup confronts a
world torn by fear and misunderstanding. As an ancient threat emerges,
endangering both Vikings and dragons, Hiccup’s friendship with Toothless
becomes the key to forging a new future. Together, they must navigate
the delicate path toward peace, soaring beyond the boundaries of their
worlds and redefining what it means to be a hero and a leader.