PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SMALL TOWN, BIG STORY MINI TV SERIES STARTING NEXT MONTH WITH CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, PADDY CONSIDINE, CHRIS O'DOWD

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SMALL TOWN, BIG STORY TV SERIES

Starting February 27th over at Sky is their new original mini series SMALL TOWN, BIG STORY a dramatic comedy starring Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine in a six-part series set in a rural town Drumbán on the border of Ireland which has a secret that will be revealed when a Hollywood TV production rolls into town! 

 

   THE STORY FOLLOWS

Wendy Patterson (Hendricks), a local girl who found success as a TV producer in Los Angeles and returns to Drumbán after over 20 years, having left under something of a cloud. Back in the chaotic microcosm of Drumbán, this time with a film crew in tow, Wendy is caught between her past and her epic new production. Séamus Proctor (Considine) is the local doctor, a respected pillar of the community. He has a neat and well-ordered life, or at least he thinks he does. Soon he will find himself in the eye of a storm as a celluloid circus descends, which threatens to blow open a secret he has been harbouring since the Millennium.

 

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Eileen Walsh stars as Catherine Proctor, Séamus’ wife and local schoolteacher. Leia Murphy and David Rawle star as siblings Joanne and Sonny Proctor. Patrick Martins, Evanne Kilgallon, Andrew Bennett, David Wilmot, Michèle Forbes, Sam C Wilson, Peter McGann, Jamie Michie, Ian McElhinney, Clarke Peters, and Emmy Award winner Chris O’Dowd, who is also the show's creator and director, will all also be seen in the new series. The series will also stream on NOW in UK and Ireland. 

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 THE BUCCANEERS SERIES 

LOCK UP YOUR LORDS!

The series starts November 8th on Apple

Apple TV Plus has unveiled first trailer and air date for their new period set drama THE BUCCANEERS which will open with three episodes on November 8th and will then air the rest weekly. I have to say the cast in the trailer looks godawful, at least the younger part of it, such a sad miscast of mediocre faces and talentless brats.

 

THE SMALL SCREEN

 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel of the same name, has the story set in 1870s London. It follows a group of fun-loving young American girls who explode into the tightly corseted London season and kick off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and saying “I do” is just the beginning! The cast does not boast a lot of famous names, but Christina Hendricks stars as Mrs. St. George, Josh Dylan as Lord Richard Marable, Guy Remmers as Theo, Duke of Tintagel, Matthew Broome as Guy Thwarte and Barney Fishwick as Lord James Seadown. Check out the colourful trailer below and tell us what you think:

APPLE UNVEILS FIRST IMAGES AND AIR DATE FOR THE BUCCANEERS 19TH CENTURY SET COSTUME TV DRAMA!

 THE BUCCANEERS SERIES 

FIRST IMAGES AND AIR DATE

Apple TV Plus has unveiled first images and air date for their new period set drama THE BUCCANEERS which will open with three episodes on November 8th and will then air the rest weekly. The small screen adaptation of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel of the same name, has the story set in 1870s London. It follows a group of fun-loving young American girls who explode into the tightly corseted London season and kick off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and saying “I do” is just the beginning! The cast does not boast a lot of famous names, but Christina Hendricks stars as Mrs. St. George, Josh Dylan as Lord Richard Marable, Guy Remmers as Theo, Duke of Tintagel, Matthew Broome as Guy Thwarte and Barney Fishwick as Lord James Seadown.

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS JOINS APPLE'S PERIOD SET TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF EDITH WHARTON'S THE BUCCANEERS

 CHRISTINA HENDRICKS JOINS 

APPLE'S THE BUCCANEERS PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Apple TV plus continues casting for their small screen adaptation of Edith Wharton's THE BUCCANEERS by adding Christina Hendricks to previously

Christina Hendricks will star

announced Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse and Kate Winslet's daughter Mia Threapleton.

  The series will follow a group of fun loving young American girls who explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and saying ‘I do’ is just the beginning.

Christina Hendricks’ Mrs. St. George is the mother of buccaneers Nan and Jinny. As a girl she was the belle of the ball herself, before she even dreamt of having money. Then when her husband struck gold on Wall Street, she found herself wealthy beyond her wildest dreams but in real danger of being the kind of social-climbing outsider that used to bemuse her. Above all else, she wants her daughters to be happy, but soon they’ll discover that marriage might not be the key to that happiness… for any of them.

NEW POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET DRAMAS 'PHANTOM THREAD' WITH DANIEL DAY LEWIS, 'CROOKED HOUSE' WITH GLENN CLOSE, CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, MAX IRONS

'CROOKED HOUSE' POSTER

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY

Two new posters to end the week, starting with the new one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to

Crooked House is Agatha's weirdest novel

premiere on TV in UK this Sunday and already on VOD in USA, it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most, it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person who poisoned her grandfather is found.

  'PHANTOM THREAD' POSTER

DANIEL DAY LEWIS' LAST MOVIE

A new poster has also been released for dramatic biopic PHANTOM THREAD, Daniel Day Lewis' final movie (at least he says so) which  should

This is Daniel Day Lewis' last movie ever!

walk into cinemas next February in UK, December in USA, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

  PHANTOM THREAD is set in 1950s postwar London and follows Woodcock (Daniel Day Lewis), who with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) is at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, débutantes and dames. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

1ST TRAILER FOR KEANU REEVES SF MOVIE 'REPLICAS' AND AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'CROOKED HOUSE' WITH GLENN CLOSE, MAX IRONS, CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

'CROOKED HOUSE' TRAILER 

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY

Two new trailers to end the week, starting with the first one for British period set thriller CROOKED HOUSE based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Set to

It was Agatha Christie's favourite book of hers

be released sometime next year it was written by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and has Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands in the stellar cast.

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, which she herself loved most, it follows private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) who is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his client and former lover. She is an engaged woman who holds off on marriage until the identity of the person who poisoned her grandfather is found.

'REPLICAS' SF TRAILER

 IN WHICH KEANU REEVES CLONES HIS DEAD WIFE & KIDS

There is also a very exciting first trailer for Keanu Reeves sf movie REPLICAS in which he plays a  daring synthetic biologist who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it

Alice Eve plays Keanu cloned wife in the movie

means pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.In other words he clones his dead wife and kids!

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, EMILY WATSON IN WW1 'ANGEL MAKERS' MOVIE! 'ANIMORPHS', 'ROADSIDE PICNIC' SF BOOKS GET ADAPTATIONS! CHESTER SEE LEADS 'OVER THE TOP' SERIES AT ABC FAMILY

'ANGEL MAKERS' WW1 MOVIE

CASTS CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, EMILY WATSON AND MAX RIEMELT

A new historical movie for you and it already has a cast, a stellar one! As 'Deadline' reports Christina Hendricks, Emily Watson, Max Riemelt and Abbie Cornish have all joined WW1 drama THE ANGEL MAKERS! Jon Amiel is to direct the story, set in the Yorkshire Moors in 1917. Survival is key when the men leave to join the allied fight in France, leaving their wives to maintain the farms. At their disposal, an internment camp of German POWs, all too happy to offer up their services, ignite an air of dangerous romance. Affairs begin and lust blossoms into love as the women of Yorkshire Moors discover something far more powerful: independence. When the husbands return, everyone turns to Sarah Rigg (Christina Hendricks), the midwife and witch doctor at the heart of the village, to mix the potions that can save a life… or take it away.

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS

'ANIMORPHS' GETS A MOVIE  
Now, here's an interesting movie adaptation: Universal is planning on turning K.A. Applegate's bestselling series of novels ANIMORPHS into a movie! More than 50 novels in the series revolve around young people who come across a crashed alien spaceship. The dying alien gives them powers to transform into any animal they want. Using those powers the teenagers then fight against other aliens who have secretly invaded the planet disguised as humans. These books were previously adapted into a two season series over at Nickelodeon.
'ROADSIDE PICNIC' TV SERIES
Another adaptation, but this time a small screen one will be for beloved Russian sf novel ROADSIDE PICNIC from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky which is to be turned into TV series at WGN America! GAME OF THRONES director Alan Taylor is helming the story about an alien visitation to planet Earth, whose aftermath has led to the creation of “Zones” in the areas where the aliens had possibly landed. Such zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artefacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties!

YOUTUBE STAR CHESTER SEE

IS 'OVER THE TOP' AT ABC FAMILY

You Tube star Chester See will produce and star in his own dramedy series at ABC Family titled OVER THE TOP! 'Deadline' reports that it will be based on his real-life experiences following a struggling artist trying to make a name for himself in the L.A. music scene. After a record deal fizzles and his hopes of stardom fall apart, he takes to YouTube and starts building a massive audience. The series documents the trials, tribulations and triumphs of becoming a digital star. At the end of every episode, See or one of his co-stars, including other YouTubers with their own followings, will record a song which can immediately be found on Facebook or YouTube. 

1ST PHOTOS OF EXTRAVAGANT OUTFITS FROM LAVISH CORONATION EPISODE OF 'REIGN' EPIC SHOW! COLIN MORGAN JOINS 'HUMANS' SF SHOW! MONSTER IN LAW' SITCOM! CHRISTINA HENDRICKS IN 'ANOTHER PERIOD' COMEDY SERIES

  COLIN MORGAN JOINS

'HUMANS' SF TV SERIES

Tones of TV news today, people, starting with our most beloved MERLIN star Colin Morgan returning to the small screens in new sf show HUMANS which will be a co production between British Channel 4 and American AMC. The plot of the show is set in a world where the new must-have gadget is a 'Synth' - an eerily lifelike robotic servant. Katherine Parkinson and Tom Goodman Hill will play a couple who purchase a Synth (Gemma Chan) but quickly come to regret their decision! Colin Morgan will play Leo - a young man on the run, while Neil Maskell will be a member of the Special Technologies Task Force. GAME OF THRONE's Will Tudor, Emily Berrington (24: Live Another Day) and Rebecca Front will also star in the English version of a Swedish series.

  CHRISTINA HENDRICKS IN

 'ANOTHER PERIOD' SITCOM

Two new comedy series have been announced today: Christina Hendricks will star in ANOTHER PERIOD historical comedy series at Comedy Central! Starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome the sitcom, set in the turn of the century, follows the misadventures of the Bellacourts, who have absolutely nothing to offer to the world, but who have so much money it doesn’t matter.  Christina Hendricks will play a new servant on the estate who is not who she appears to be.
 MON- STER IN LAW TO BECOME SITCOM
 Meanwhile, Fox will produce a sitcom based on Jane Fonda's and Jennifer Lopez' MONSTER IN LAW movie which will follow a happy couple about to embark on the challenge of parenthood, with the story set against the fraught relationship between the wife and her husband's mother.

  LAVISH ROYAL CORONATION

IN THE NEW EPISODE OF 'REIGN'

Now, we've seen Mary and Francis taking over the rule over France at the start of the second season of CW's popular historical series REIGN, but we haven't yet seen the official coronation! The crowning will happen in the fourth episode in which, with France in a state of famine, as well as religious and political unrest, Mary (Adelaide Kane) looks for a way to feed the people, risking the wrath of a vengeful Lord Narcisse (Craig Parker). Francis (Toby Regbo) is preoccupied by the harrowing suspicion that his dead father’s spirit can possess the living and is haunting Francis as revenge for his murder. As Catherine (Megan Follows) makes excessive and lavish preparations for a coronation ceremony to give the impression of stability to the realm, Bash (Torrance Coombs) confronts the reality of a country plagued by fear, bankruptcy, and murder.

THE LAVISH GOWNS
The royal coronation episode will show us a sumptuous wardrobe of rich fabrics, over-the-top crowns, exquisite jewelry, and fashion forward clothing! As EW reports, Mary's coronation gown made from gold embroidered burgundy brocade with a very long train took 12 yards of fabric, six seamstresses and designers and two weeks to finish! Francis is wearing a vest from the same brocade. Mary will also wear an ornate golden crown and extravagant oxidized, gold-plated Swarovski crystal chandelier earrings! The old queen Catherine will wear Oscar de la Renta ruby necklace! It is interesting that most of the costumes and jewellery seen in the show are taken from the collections of contemporary designers.