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!
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 the first images from it. 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!
Although it already aired in Holland earlier this year, eight part action thriller series SAFE HARBOUR will hit Australian SBS August 21st and it is also available from April on ITVX in UK.
THE SERIES FOLLOWS
Tobias (Alfie Allen) and Marco (Martijn Lakemeier whom we watched in Maxima and Marie Antoinette), hackers
who become involved with organised crime when they cross paths with
members of the Irish mob, Sloane (Charlie Murphy) and her brother
Farrell (Jack Gleeson). They employ them to hack into the security
system of Europe's largest shipping port, in Rotterdam, to enable
undetected deliveries of drug shipments. Colm Meaney also stars in the
series originally made for Videoland Dutch streamer service. Check out
the trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?
Based on William Langewiesche’s book The Atomic Bazaar comes new action TV series ATOMIC which will arrive to Sky August 28th. When the path of free-spirited drug smuggler Max (Alfie Allen) collides with JJ (Shazad Latif), an enigmatic outsider on the run, an unlikely friendship is formed.
THEY ARE SWEPT INTO
a
chaotic, high-stakes mission they never signed up for trafficking
highly enriched uranium across North Africa and the Middle East, with
the CIA, MI6, and a global web of opposing forces closing in fast. Leading the charge for the CIA is skilled scientist and a
Non-Official Cover officer Cassie Elliott (Samira Wiley).
Convinced Max and JJ are in league with violent extremists, her
relentless pursuit puts them all on a collision course revealing that
nothing is what it seems, and everyone has an ulterior motive. The pair
find themselves on a wild road trip , confronting covert operatives, an internationally funded cartel, and ultimately their own pasts. What
starts as a bid for survival slowly becomes something more: a reluctant
partnership, a shot at redemption, and one hell of a ride.
Paramount + UK is turning Hollie Overton's book into a thriller TV series. BABY DOLL 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.
ALFIE ALLEN, MARTIJN LAKEMEIER AND CHARLIE MURPHY TO LEAD
In a co production between Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgian Streamz, next year will bring us new eight part series SAFE HARBOR with gorgeous Dutch star Martijn Lakemeier (who is also playing the king of Holland in Videoland's Maxima series) in the lead alongside Alfie Allen, Charlie Murhpy and Jack Gleeson. The series follows gifted hacker Tobias (Allen) and his ambitious best friend Marco (Lakemeier), who are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organised crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob. Leading the family’s operations in Holland are Sloane (Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Gleeson), who enlist their services to hack into the security system of Rotterdam harbour, Europe’s largest shipping port, to secure the undetected deliveries of drug shipments.
A big-name star is being sought for a patriarch role, father to Sloane and Farrell, in the Irish mob, as Deadline reports.
Officially the last series of October, together with Marie Antoinette which starts tomorrow in France, is period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series, which starts
The series starts October 30th on BBC
tonight on BBC One and will later on air on Epix in USA as well, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West,
in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary
circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest
and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create
mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team
are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are
astonishingly brave and heroic. On Epix it starts November 13th, on Canal Plus in France December 1st.
MEET DAVID STIRLING
Connor
Swindells is David Stirling in the series, the real-life founder of
the SAS, who when we first meet him in the series is an eccentric young
officer serving with 8 Commando. He is frustrated with the military
authorities and their handling of strategy. This is Connor's first
series lead.
MEET PADDY MAYNE
Jack O'Connell is Paddy Mayne in the series, he was a real-life British army officer and a founding member of the SAS. He is portrayed in the series as something of a live-wire, who is won round by Stirling. O'Connell led The North Water series last year.
MEET JOCK LEWES
Alfie
Allen plays Jock Lewes in the new series. Lewes was the real-life
founding principal training officer of the SAS, who at the start of the
series shares with Stirling his idea of parachuting units of men into
the desert to attack by surprise! Alfie starred in Game of Thrones.
MEET MIKE SADLER
Tom Glynn Carney, who currently can be seen in House of the Dragon as Prince Aegon Targaryen, portrays Mike Sadler in the new series based on a book by Ben Macintyre and will air till a week before Christmas. He was also a real-life figure and one of the first officers to join the SAS.
MEET BILL FRASER
Stunningly
handsome blond hunk Stuart Campbell will portray Bill Fraser in the
new series which was shot during the hellish summer heat of over 50*C down in Morocco
where the crew experienced the same climate as the real SAS soldiers!
Bill was a real-life member of the SAS in the Second World War.
MEET EOIN MCGONIGAL
Dashing Donal Finn, who previously had small roles in other epic shows such as The Wheel of Time and The Witcher, will portray Eoin McGonigal in this new series from BBC and Epix. Like the others, Eoin McGonigal was also a real-life member of the SAS in World War II.
BBC has released a new trailer for their upcoming period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West, in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic. The series starts October 30th on BBC One.
STARS AT NOON TRAILER
SENDS JOE ALWYN TO JUNGLE
Stars are out at Noon October 14th
First trailer has been released for the big screen adaptation of Denis Johnson's novel STARS AT NOON which will hit cinemas October 14th starring Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley. This year Cannes Film Festival competitor, follows a young American journalist (Qualley), who falls for a mysterious Englishman (Alwyn) while stranded in Nicaragua (not during the revolution like in the novel, but during today's covid outbreak). Though at first he seems like her best bet at getting out of the country, it is slowly revealed that her affiliation with the Englishman has put both of them in immense danger. Claire Denis took the helm of this one. Check out the trailer below:
It will arrive to Epix and BBC sometime this fall but before they announced the exact date, we have the first teaser for Jack O'Connell, Connor Swindells, Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Alfie Allen series ROGUE HEROES. The six-part drama is based on Ben Macintyre's SAS: Rogue Heroes book, which charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit.
HAGEN EPIC SERIES
AND MOVIE COMING UP
A couple of years ago I informed you about this one and now the shooting is finally starting this September: production company Constantin and
The project will shoot in Germany and Prague
TV broadcaster RTL are planning an elaborate film and six part series adaptation of HAGEN von Tronje novel by Wolfgang Hohlbein which
combines the Nibelung saga with elements from other myths following
Hagen von Tronje, the dark warrior of the Nibelung saga, now a lonely
hero, and the radiant Siegfried, now an unscrupulous upstart, a
representative of an authoritarian form of government, supported by a
new religion, Christianity. Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben are the executive producers.
STARZ' DANGEROUS LIAISONS
SEE THE BRAND NEW IMAGES
Afterthe first, not overly promising trailer last week, Starz has unveiled today new images via Radio Times from their eight part TV series version of
The series arrives this November
DANGEROUS LIAISONS which willarrive November 6th starring Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Lesley Manville, and Tom Wlaschiha. New images reveal more of Lesley Manville and British singer Paloma Faith, who plays Florence de Regnier!
THE NEW SERIES
is a bold prelude of Laclos’ classic 18th century novel
focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise
de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, met as passionate young lovers
in Paris on the eve of the revolution. This modern take on a classic
story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation,
seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the
wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their
skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but
of each other. Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and
Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently
taken from him. Their on- again off-again love story is the heart of the
series. It’s not love… it’s war. I must admit those two youngsters look
terribly dull and miscast to me, no passion nor talent in them.
New STAR TREK series STRANGE NEW WORLDS has got a launch date of May 5th over at Paramount +
and the first ultra spectacular trailer as well after that gorgeous teaser that I shown you a few weeks ago! It is interesting that the series has already
been renewed for a second season. It will follow episodic adventures of
the Enterprise’s original crew long before James T. Kirk was captain. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romjin, and Ethan Peck will be returning as Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock Celia Rose Gooding will play Uhura, Babs Olasanmokun will play Dr. M’Benga, and Jess Bush will play Christine Chapel; new characters on the bridge include Christina Chong as La'an
Anson Mount takes the lead role of captain Pike
Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak as Hemmer. With other series in the franchise, Discovery and Picard proving
a disappointment with the fans, the audience is having high hopes
New series will be episodic in nature
for
this one which will have episodic stories rather than having a seasonal
plot. That is something that we haven't seen in 17 years ever since Enterprise finished.
SHORT NEWS BULLETIN
In other short news today, VIKINGS: VALHALLA will start shooting season 3 in May with season 2 already shot before with the first one. HOTEL
Hotel Portofino has been sold to more than 55 countries so far
PORTOFINO series got a second season order after becoming a huge hit for Britbox, PBS and Foxtel. And the work on THE WITCHER season 3 has
First look at the Witcher season 3 snowy set
been
announced with the first set photo. It will see Geralt and Yeneffer
taking Ciri to Aretuza, where they discover they’ve landed in a
battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery.
SAS: ROGUE HEROES
BBC RELEASES FIRST TEASER
The series will arrive this Autumn, but BBC has already released a teaser for their new six part series SAS: ROGUE HEROES set in Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Connor Swindells) - an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong - is bored. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic. Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, and Dominic West also star.
BBC has unveiled first photos from their upcoming new period set series SAS: ROGUE HEROES revealing Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell,
SAS: Rogue Heroes will air sometime next year on BBC
Alfie Allen, in uniforms alongside Dominic West and Sofia Boutella. Coming from Steven Knight, the six part drama will arrive to British
Jack O'Connell brings yet another amazing performance
national broadcaster sometime next year. Filmed on location in the UK and Morocco, it is the dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special
Connor Swindells is the lead star of the new series
Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
SAS: ROGUE HEROES SERIES
Rich with action and set-pieces, SAS: Rogue Heroes is the exhilarating
story of renegade men taking monumental risks in extraordinary
circumstances.
Cairo,
Alfie Alen plays one of the three male lead roles
1941. David Stirling (Connor Swindells) - an eccentric young
officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong - is bored.
Convinced that
Dominic West also stars in the new BBC show
traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a
radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern
warfare. He fights for permission to
The series will air in six hourlong episodes
recruit the toughest, boldest and
brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem
behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers,
Sofia Boutella takes the lead female role in the series
Stirling’s team are every
bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave
and heroic.
THE HISTORY OF SOUND
SENDS JOSH O'CONNOR AND PAUL MESCAL TO WW1
Speaking of war, Deadline reports that Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal will lead WW1 gay romance THE HISTORY OF SOUND about Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during World War I set out to
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor will start shooting next summer
record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.