ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS, DANIEL BRUHL, DAKOTA FANNING! CALL YOUR MOTHER THE 2ND SITCOM TO GET SERIES ORDER THIS SEASON!

     'CALL YOUR MOTHER' SITCOM

Kyra Sedgwick will lead the sitcom as the mom

GETS SERIES ORDER AT ABC

Even though it hasn't shot a pilot before the corona lockdown, just based on the scripts, ABC's multicam sitcom CALL YOUR MOTHER  (aka My Village) has become the second sitcom to be ordered for next season after B Positive. It follows an empty-nester mom (Kyra Sedgwick) who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides

Joey Bragg and Patrick Brammall will also star in Call Your Mother

her place is with her family and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought. Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg, Patrick Brammall, Emma Caymares and Austin Crute will also star.

     'ANGEL OF DARKNESS'

ALIENIST SEASON 2 TRAILER!

In a bit darker genre, a  trailer has been released for the second season of The Alienist period crime drama this time titled ANGEL OF DARKNESS which hits TNT this summer Sunday, July 26th set at the turn of the century!

     The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness
Based on the Angel of Darkness novel by Caleb Carr, this season follows Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) who has now opened up her own private

The new season will start on TNT July 26th!

detective agency. Returning are Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), the titular “alienist” who brilliantly and eccentrically psychologically profiles his

Luke Evans returns as John Moore

criminals, and John Moore (Luke Evans), who now works as a New York Times reporter. The dynamic trio are on the case of a missing baby, the

Daniel Bruhl leads the series as the Alienist himself

daughter of the Spanish Consular. Their investigation leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, heading towards a dangerous and elusive

Dakota Fanning takes the female lead in the second season as well

killer. As in The Alienist, the series shines a light on the provocative issues of the era – the corruption of institutions, yellow press sensationalism, themes that still resonate today.

'ALIENIST' STARS LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL TO STAR IN THEIR SHOW'S CREATORS 'MY BEST FRIEND' COMEDY MOVIE!

   'MY BEST FRIEND' 

MOVIE TO UNITE LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL AGAIN

Which one will be Luke, the sweet or the arrogant one?

Imagine that! The whole team of TNT's Emmy nominated period set series THE ALIENIST (which is getting a sequel) will join together again but this time on a movie! As 'Deadline' reports, Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl will star in the mini series' show runner and producer, Max Frye's and Rosalie Swedlin's new film! They will all gather again in MY BEST FRIEND, a dramedy movie English language adaptation of the 2006 French film Mon Meilleur Ami! The story in the original French movie revolved around two very different men – one arrogant and cold, the other sweet and talkative – whose lives are thrown together when one accepts a bet to find a best friend and the other agrees to teach him the secret to making friends.

LUKE'S OTHER GIGS 
Beside also starring in the Alienist sequel Angel of Darkness, you will also see Luke Evans in Luc Besson's movie ANNA next to Helen Mirren and Cillian Murphy and Russian star Alexander Petrov and also in Roland Emmerich's massive WW2 epic MIDWAY next to Patrick Wilson, Nick Jonas, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid and Aaron Eckhart!

TV FRIDAY: OH, NOES! THE ROYALS ARE CANCELLED BY E!, TRYING TO SET COURT SOMEWHERE ELSE! 'DURRELLS' TO END AFTER SEASON 4! SKY TO TURN H.G.WELLS' 'TIME MACHINE' INTO SERIES! 'ALIENIST' GETS 'ANGEL OF DARKNESS' 2ND SEASON WITH LUKE EVANS, DAKOTA FANNING

   'THE ROYALS' CANCELLED

MOVING THEIR COURT TO POP?

Sad news, Loyals! E! has decided to cancel their first ever scripted series THE ROYALS after four amazing, much loved and super fun seasons! The series that follows the lives of an imaginary royal family that rules England led

William Moseley and Elizabeth Hurley led the popular royal saga

by Elizabeth Hurley's Queen Helena, might still continue if we can believe the rumours that say the producers are trying to find a new channel for the show! They might move to Pop which is also owned by Lionsgate and could use a ratings boost with it.

   H.G. WELLS' 'THE TIME MACHINE'

The adaptation is in very early stages of production

TO BECOME SERIES AT SKY?

While we are anxiously awaiting to see what they will do with Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great mini series, British Sky is, according to 'Deadline', now also working on a small screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE to be written by Nick Payne. Published in 1895 the novel follows an English scientist living in Victorian England who recounts that time is simply a fourth dimension and demonstrates to his dinner guests how to travel through it.

   'ALIENIST' GETS

'THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS' SECOND SEASON AT TNT

While some series get cancelled, some get renewed as is the case with TNT's Alienist which will be getting a second season titled THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS also based on a Caleb Carr's novel. Luke Evans, Daniel

The cast will return to the second season led by Luke Evans

Bruhl and Dakota Fanning will return as a team that, one year after The Alienist at the turn of the century, investigates the kidnapping of a young girl in New York.

   'THE DURRELLS' 

TO END AFTER SEASON 4
Meanwhile, ITV's super popular series THE DURRELLS will end after next year's fourth season which starts shooting next month. Based on the real life

The series comes to its natural end next year with season four

story that follows Keeley Hawes as the mother who moves her kids to the island of Corfu it will end its story a year before WWW2 when they all left the island. 

NEW 'THE ALIENIST' PERIOD SET TV SERIES WITH LUKE EVANS, DAKOTA FANNING TRAILER! CHER JOINS 'MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN' SEQUEL

  CHER JOINS MUSICAL SEQUEL

MAMMA MIA HERE WE GO AGAIN

The movie arrives next summer!

I know I did not like it at all, but I also know my lady readers loved it! You all know MAMMA MIA is getting a sequel titled HERE WE GO AGAIN, which is already shooting, and it has been revealed that Cher will be joining the cast in an unspecified role. The sequel to the film in which Amanda Seyfried's character invited three men (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard), not knowing which of them is her father, to her Greek island wedding without her mother (Meryl Streep) knowing, will return to the past to explain how her mother met them all in the first place. Lily James will play young Meryl, Jeremy Irvine will be young Pierce. The new movie will again feature Abba songs. Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia and Christine Baranski also star.

   'THE ALIENIST' TV SERIES

NEW TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS

TNT has, meanwhile, released a new trailer for their period set detective series THE ALIENIST which will start airing January 22nd! It is set in 1896, when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New

The novel adaptation starts airing next January on TNT

York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist, aka alienist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

Luke Evans is newspaper illustrator John Moore

(Daniel Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Dakota

Dakota Fanning is secretary Sara Howard

Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early

Daniel Bruhl is the Alienist from the title of the series

forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of Gotham’s first serial killers.

1ST 'GREATEST SHOWMAN' MOVIE MUSICAL PICS WITH HUGH JACKMAN, ZAC EFRON, MICHELLE WILLIAMS! 'ALIENIST' PERIOD SET SERIES TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS! 1ST 'STAR TREK DISCOVERY' PHOTO

'THE GREATEST SHOWMAN'

1ST HUGH JACKMAN PHOTOS

Photo exclusives today, people! 'Entertainment Weekly' has revealed the first photos from Hugh Jackman's new movie THE GREATEST SHOWMAN an original musical movie on P.T. Barnum, the founder of a modern circus. With Michelle Williams playing his wife the colourful film will bring glitz to the big screens next Christmas! Zac Efron plays his business partner with Rebecca Ferguson also in the cast. Even though the story is set in the middle of the 19th century, it will be filled with dance numbers and pop sounding hits.

THE FATHER OF MODERN CIRCUS  
The story of P.T Barnum, a visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerizing spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Directed by Michael Gracey, it will track Barnum's rise from poverty-stricken childhood to the launch of his first circus in New York.

'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY'

 TRAILER & PHOTO RELEASED

In the television department, CBS has revealed the first image from their new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY series showing Michelle Yeoh, playing a captain of a starship, and lead star Sonequa Martin Green who plays a commander of the Discovery helmed by Jason Isaacs. Set before the original series, the series will air sometime later this year. Maybe.

'THE ALIENIST' SERIES TRAILER

 LUKE EVANS & DANIEL BRUHL

TNT has, meanwhile, released the first trailer for their period set series THE ALIENIST  based on the novel by Caleb Carr. The psychological thriller drama is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city. Newly appointed top cop Teddy Roosevelt calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Bruhl), a criminal psychologist, aka alienist, and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. Joining them in the probe is Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), a headstrong secretary at Police Headquarters.

PHOTO FRIDAY: 1ST PHOTOS OF LUKE EVANS FROM 'ALIENIST' PERIOD SET SERIES, HELEN MIRREN IN GOTHIC THRILLER 'WINCHESTER', OLIVER JACKSON COHEN IN BBC'S 'MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT'

1ST 'THE ALIENIST' PHOTOS 

 WITH LUKE EVANS, DANIEL BRUHL

Photos from new period set projects, first, pics from the Budapest sets of new TNT ten episode series THE ALIENIST showing lead stars Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl in costume!

THE ALIENIST, based on the best selling Caleb Carr novel, is psychological thriller drama set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city. Newly appointed top cop Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), a criminal psychologist,  aka alienist, and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. Joining them in the probe is Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), a headstrong secretary at Police Headquarters. Falk Hentschel will play Biff Ellison, an extremely corrupt mobster who runs illegal brothels and bars in the city. Emanuela Postacchini will play Flora, a beautiful young prostitute at the Frenchtown brothel who indulges in some twisted role playing and is a favourite of newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans).

HELEN MIRREN IS 

CRAZY LADY 'WINCHESTER'

The 1st photo has also been revealed of Helen Mirren as rich heiress Sarah WINCHESTER a woman who was convinced that she was being haunted by the ghosts of people who were killed by the famous rifle that her family manufactured. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into never-ending construction on her 160 room mansion, which features stairways to nowhere and doors that open onto walls, to appease the spirits.

1ST 'MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT' 

PIC WITH OLIVER JACKSON COHEN
BBC has revealed the photo of Oliver Jackson Cohen in their two part series MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT  in which he plays British Captain Michael Berryman who during WW2 meets war artist Thomas March (James McArdle) in Southern Italy while chaos reigns all around them. Despite having a young fiancé, Flora (Joanna Vanderham), waiting at home for him, straight-laced Michael finds himself falling for Thomas. In 2017, an ageing Flora (Vanessa Redgrave) looks on as her grandson, Adam (Julian Morris), tentatively forms a relationship with his client Steve (David Gyasi) in a more accepting world. But while the external obstacles have fallen away, a minefield of internalised issues and dangerous temptations still line the road to happiness.

LUKE EVANS, DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD 'THE ALIENIST' 19TH CENTURY CRIME TV SERIES! NEW 'HIDDEN FIGURES' POSTER WITH TARAJI P. HENSON, OCTAVIA SPENCER, KEVIN COSTNER

  LUKE EVANS TO STAR IN

'THE ALIENIST' PERIOD SET SERIES

In the long series of Hollywood movie stars who are moving over to the small screens, the latest one is our beloved Welshman Luke Evans! He and Daniel Bruhl will lead new period set THE ALIENIST TV series at TNT!

An adaptation of Caleb Carr's novel THE ALIENIST is set in the Gilded Age of New York City in 1896, a city of vast wealth, extreme poverty and technological innovation. When a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips the city, newly appointed Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt calls upon criminal psychologist (or alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl) and newspaper reporter John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are aided by a makeshift crew of singular characters, among them the intrepid Sara Howard, a young secretary on Roosevelt’s staff who is determined to become NYC’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders tracks down one of New York’s first serial killers.

  'HIDDEN FIGURES' POSTER

WITH TARAJI P. HENSON, OCTAVIA SPENCER, KEVIN COSTNER

You can also check out a new poster for Taraji P. Henson's new drama movie HIDDEN FIGURES which is out from January next year.  As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons also star.