'GENIUS' SEASON 2 TRAILER WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS AS PABLO PICASSO! GEORGE CLOONEY TO LEAD HULU'S WW2 EPIC SERIES 'CATCH 22'

  GEORGE CLOONEY TO

LEAD 'CATCH 22' WW2 SERIES

It will be a six episode mini series

Two period set series for you today. 'Deadline' reports that George Clooney will topline Hulu's new WW2 series CATCH 22 based on Joseph Heller's book. Set in Italy during World War II, it is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger Yossarian, a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of CATCH 22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specified that people who were crazy were not obliged to fly missions, but anyone who applied to stop flying was showing a rational concern for his safety and was, therefore, sane and had to fly.

  'GENIUS: PICASSO' TRAILER

WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS

Genius: Picasso will start airing in April

A month or two ago I showed you the first photos from the second season of anthology series GENIUS which will now describe Picasso's life and today we have a trailer too! Antonio Banderas, who was born in the same Spanish town as Pablo Picasso, portrays famous painter from his 40s until 1973 death.

 TV SERIES GENIUS: PICASSO
 set to air April 24th later this year on National Geographic, will see its ten episodes exploring how the Andalusian artist’s passionate nature and

Antonio Banderas was born in the same Spanish city as Picasso

relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances. Picasso produced around 50,000 artworks during his life. Clémence Poésy will take on the role of French painter and

The series will air in ten hour long episodes

author Francoise Gilot, who had two children with Picasso, with Poppy Delevingne as Picasso’s lover and muse Marie Thérèse Walter, the mother of his first daughter Maya. Alex Rich plays the young Picasso with Robert Sheehan, Seth Gabel also in the cast.

ANTONIO BANDERAS, ALEX RICH TO LEAD 'GENIUS' 2ND SEASON AS PABLO PICASO! BLAKE RITSON IS SUPERMAN'S NEMESIS BRAINIAC IN 'KRYPTON' TV SERIES!

  'GENIUS' SERIES SEASON 2

 ANTONIO BANDERAS AND ALEX RICH TO PLAY PABLO PICASO

If you enjoyed the first season of National Geographic anthology series GENIUS in which Geoffrey Rush played Einstein, you will be happy

Alex Rich will play a young Pablo Picaso

to hear that they have the cast for the second season which will focus on Pablo Picaso! Antonio Bande- ras and Alex Rich will play him older and younger. Cléme- nce Poésy (as French painter and author Francoise Gilot, who had two children with him), Robert Sheehan (as Carlos Casa- gemas, a poet, Picasso’s closest friend), Poppy Dele- vingne (as Picaso's lover and muse), Aisling Franciosi (as Fernande Olivier, a French artist and model who Picasso painted more than 60 portraits of) and Sebastian Roché (as Francoise’s tyrannical father) will also star! Some of the stars from the first season will return to the cast like, for example, Samantha Colley who will again play Dora Maar!

  'KRYPTON' SF SERIES

BLAKE RITSON IS BRAINIAC 

Blake Ritson will be a villain in Krypton

While we are still waiting for SyFy to announce the airtime finally (it is not happening any time this year) their KRYPTON series is casting new names! Da Vinci's Demons' Blake Ritson will be a baddie again playing Brainiac, a parasitic, hyper advanced alien android of immense intelligence, one of Superman’s oldest and most dangerous foes. As you know, KRYPTON is set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet following Superman’s grandfather (Cameron Cuffe), whose House of El was ostracised and shamed, as he fights to redeem his family’s honour and save his beloved world from chaos. Paula Malcomson has also joined the cast as Charys, the matriarch of House El who helps her son Seg navigate the treacherous pitfalls of Kandor City, their Kryptonian home embattled with oppression and revolt. It is interesting that the cast already has another Da Vinci's Demons star Elliot Cowan. The pilot was shot last year in Serbia.