GEOFFREY RUSH TO PLAY ALBERT EINSTEIN IN 'GENIUS' TV SERIES! 'AFTERMATH' SF APOCALYPTIC SERIES TEASER AND POSTER WITH JAMES TUPER, ANNE HECHE

  'GENIUS' TV SERIES

GEOFFREY RUSH IS EINSTEIN!

Just two pieces of TV news for you today, starting with the one coming from National Geographic Channel which has just hired Geoffrey Rush to lead the cast of their GENIUS anthology series playing Einstein! Johnny Flynn has been also cast to play Einstein in the years before he rose to international attention and acclaim.

RON HOWARD HELMS 
Oscar winner Ron Howard is set to helm the first episode of the GENIUS series whose first season will follow famous physicist Albert Einstein! Ten episodes of the series will describe how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate, unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Each episode will explore Einstein’s extraordinary scientific achievements, along with his volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships.

  'AFTERMATH' SF SERIES

THE FIRST TRAILER IS HERE!

Finishing the day in sf style, check out the first teaser for SyFy's new series AFTERMATH starting September 27th! James Tupper and Anne Heche play the parents of the Copeland family who together with their three children battle for survival when civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes, a plague – and the rise of supernatural creatures. Julia Sarah Stone, Taylor Hickson and Levi Meaden play the kids.

JAMES TUPPER, ANNE HECHE TO LEAD 'AFTERMATH' POST APOCALYPTIC SF SERIES! TODD GRINNELL, RITA MORENO, JUSTINA MACHADO LEAD 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' SITCOM REMAKE

SYFY'S 'AFTERMATH' SENDS

JAMES TUPPER, ANNE HECHE INTO THE APOCALYPSE

A series I've already announced earlier this year has rounded up its cast: real life couple James Tupper and Anne Heche will play the lead couple in AFTERMATH post apocalyptic series. The Canadian sf series will air later this summer at SyFy! The two of them will play Joshua and Karen Copeland who, along with their three teenage kids, must battle for survival after civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by devastating natural disasters, massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes and plague and the rise of supernatural creatures. I've reported before that Julie Sarah Stone, Levi Meaden, and Taylor Hickson will play the three siblings coming of age in the Apocalypse.

'ONE DAY AT A TIME' REMAKE

WITH TODD GRINNELL, RITA MORENO AND JUSTINA MACHADO
After resurrecting FULLER HOUSE, another classic sitcom  getting a fresh new version at Netflix is ONE DAY AT A TIME which will this time revolve around a Cuban American family.  Justina Machado, Rita Moreno, Stephen Tobolowsky and Todd Grinnell have been cast already. The 13 episode multi camera sitcom, will follow Penelope (Machado), a recently separated mom who is navigating a new single life while raising her radical teenage daughter and socially adept tween son, with the “help” of her old-school Cuban-born mom and a friends without benefits building manager named Schneider (Grinnell). Being the only character transplanted from the original comedy, Schneider is a charming and over-privileged handyman who lives in his dad’s building rent-free in return for being the building manager.

'HOUDINI & DOYLE' EPIC TV SERIES TRAILER IS HERE! GEORGINA HAIG, NEAL BLEDSOE TO LEAD CW'S MARS SET SF SERIES! SYFY ORDERS 'AFTERMATH' POST APOCALYPTIC TV SERIES WITH LEVI MEADEN, TAYLOR HICKSON

CW'S MARS SET SHOW

CASTS NEAL BLEDSOE AND GEORGINA HAIG AS LEADS

We're going mostly sf today, starting with the news from CW's untitled MARS set series which is rounding up its cast! Georgina Haig has been set as the female lead while Neal Bledsoe will be the male lead in the series about an explorer team that arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons.

MARS EXPLORERS
 Georgina Haig (ONCE UPON A TIME) plays Gina Nolan, the mission’s botanist, a woman who is intense, motivated and sharp, a true explorer! Magnetic Neal Bledsoe (MYSTERIES OF LAURA) plays handsome, charming, brilliant and resolute Lewis, who’s charged with selecting members of the explorer team who will follow him to the Red Planet. The cast also includes Mouzam Makkar, Carl Beukes, Tongayi Chirisa and Peter Mark Kendall!

SYFY ORDERS 'AFTERMATH' 

POST APOCALYPTIC TV SERIES

Meanwhile, later this summer SyFy will air  Canadian 13 episode sf series AFTERMATH  following a couple Karen and Joshua Copeland and their children Dana, Brianna and Matt, who must battle for survival after civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes and plague – and the rise of supernatural creatures. Julie Sarah Stone, Levi Meaden, and Taylor Hickson will play the three siblings coming of age in the Apocalypse. As 'Deadline' reports Stone is Dana Copeland, the practical, sardonic and quick-witted twin with a thorough knowledge of science. Hickson is the emotional, romantic and rebellious twin, Brianna Copeland. Meaden plays Matt Copeland, the fierce competitor pushed into brutality.

'HOUDINI & DOYLE' TV SHOW

THE NEW TRAILER IS HERE!

Continuing our week of new British series trailers (with the highlight on Sunday), here's the new trailer for ITV's new drama HOUDINI & DOYLE! In the ten episode series, the two of the great characters of the 20th century, Houdini (Michael Weston), master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker, and Doyle (Stephen Mangan), creator of the world’s greatest detective and a paranormal aficionado, grudgingly join forces to investigate crimes with a supernatural slant. Although they’re both rich, famous and brilliant, they’re the original odd couple, with Houdini believing in nothing, Doyle in everything! It starts March 13th!