Beside Robin Hood series that starts tonight on MGM + and Prime Video in UK, the only other new series to premiere this week is Peacock's eight part series ALL HER FAULTthat hits the US streamer November 6th and Sky in UK on 7th!
SARAH SNOOK LEADS THE SERIES
She
plays Marissa Irvine who arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick
up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his
new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she
recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins
every parent’s worst nightmare. Jay Ellis will be attorney Colin and Thomas Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star in the series.
First trailer with Sarah Snook as the lead in Peacock eight part series ALL HER FAULThas been revealed! She
plays Marissa Irvine who arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick
up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she
recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins
every parent’s worst nightmare. Jay Ellis will be attorney Colin and Thomas Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star in the series that hits Peacock November 6th and Sky in UK on 7th.
First image of Sarah Snook as the lead in Peacock eight part series ALL HER FAULThas been revealed! She
plays Marissa Irvine who arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick
up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she
recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins
every parent’s worst nightmare. Jay Ellis will be attorney Colin and Thomas Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star in the series that hits Peacock November 6th and Sky in UK on 7th.
After casting Sarah Snook as the lead in their eight part series ALL HER FAULT Peacock has added two of our favourite hunks Jay Ellis and Thomas Cocquerel to the cast of the series which is shooting down in Australia. She plays Marissa Irvine who arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new
Jake Lacy, Jay Ellis and Thomas Cocquerel have joined the cast
school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare. Ellis will be attorney Colin and Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star.
Earlier this week Netflix has released a trailer for their new mini TV series THE PERFECT COUPLE which is coming to the streamer September 5th announcing the beginning of the new Autumn season. Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestseller it stars Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as the rich couple with Billy Howle, Dakota Fanning and
The series will have six episodes
Jack Reynor as their kids and Eve Hewson as the new bride in the family! Meghann Fahy, Ishaan Khattar (whom you can see gorgeously nekkid in the trailer) and Isabelle Adjani also star.
A LIFE TO KILL FOR
It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride
racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket
Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the
groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish
ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for
all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in
Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony-and everyone in the
wedding party is suddenly a suspect. As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash
interviews the bride, the groom, the groom's famous mystery-novelist
mother, and even a member of his own family, he discovers that every
wedding is a minefield-and no couple is perfect. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
After working together on HBO's The Undoing, Nicole Kidman and Susanne Bier will work together on THE PERFECT COUPLE series at Netflix. Jack Reynor, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson are also in talks. Based on Elin Hilderbrand's novel the six-episode murder mystery follows Nantucket native Celeste Otis, who on the Fourth of July, is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family in the area. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect.
NEW SERIES ADAPTATIONS
OF TWO DOUGLAS STUART BOOKS
Fashion designer slash writer Douglas Stuart has not one, but two of his books currently being turned into TV series. His 2020 Booker Prize
Shuggie Bain is being adapted by BBC
winner SHUGGIE BAIN is being turned into a series over at BBC. It tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow. Sold in almost 40 countries, it is a love story between mother Agnes Bain and her gay son Shuggie.
It details Agnes' descent into despair and her struggles with alcoholism following the breakdown of her marriage.
While most of her children are driven away by her deterioration, Shuggie remains to help while suffering huge personal problems of his own. The novel was inspired by Stuart's own childhood in Glasgow during the Margaret Thatcher era after father left his mother.
HIS OTHER BOOK YOUNG MUNGO
is also being adapted for small screens by
A24 studio following the dangerous first love of two working class men
in Glasgow. Winner of many book awards, it follows Protestant Mungo and
Catholic James who are caught
Young Mungo doesn't have a broadcaster yet
between two of Glasgow’s housing estates
where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines,
and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be
sworn enemies, and yet they become best friends as they find a
sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing
pigeons.
As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and
Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him,
especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a
brutal reputation to uphold. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing
trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose
drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner
strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he
and James might still have a future.
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.
Now that the cinemas are closed indefinitely (I hear some countries are looking at July or August as possible dates for the reopening of their theatres
The film was shot in Amharic, Arabic and English
under, of course, very strict measures), many studios will be thinking of premiering their movies on the internet. One of the new movie dramas that will have its web release this week is SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY which Gravitas Ventures is releasing in the United States of America digitally on May 8. Dakota Fanning leads the cast in the story of an English child abandoned in Africa.
Sweetness In The Belly
is actually a big screen adaptation of a
popular novel by Camilla Gibb, with the story revolving around the
protagonist Lilly Abdal (Dakota Fanning), who, orphaned as a
The movie will open at Gravitas Ventures May 8th
child when she was forced to
leave her birth country of Ethiopia and leave for United Kingdom,
experiences her parents homeland of England, escaping civil war. She
becomes the heart of a disenfranchised community in London, where she
attempts to reunite people with their families. But her friend Amina
(Wunmi Mosaku), who is also a refugee from Ethiopia, discovers Lilly's
mission isn't purely altruistic and a passionate lost love affair is
revealed between Lilly and Aziz (Yahya Abdul Mateen II), an idealistic
doctor. The movie was directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari! You can watch the trailer below:
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 KeeleyHawes 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.
You will see a lot of teenage novel big screen adaptations in the fresh 2018, people, from latest Maze Runner movie to the movie versions of Ernest
Jennifer Niven's book was translated by yours truly
Cline's Ready Player One from Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Bracken's Darkest Minds, Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places (with Elle Fanning), Garrard Conley's Boy Erased (with Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe), Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before and Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow.
DID YOU KNOW?
Emily Danforth's The MisEducation of Cameron Post with Cloe Moretz is out this month too! John Bellair's The House with a Clock in Its Walls will star Cate Blanchett! Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle will star Alexandra Daddario!Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines movie is out December!
'LOVE, SIMON'
1ST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMANCE
Nick Robinson is Simon in love!
Probably the most anticipated YA adaptation to arrive this year is movingly beautiful adaptation of Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda called LOVE, SIMON in the movie version which is hitting big screens this April starring lovely Nick Robinson in probably the first big studio romantic drama ever with two gays as the pair in love. Directed by Greg Berlanti LOVE, SIMON also stars Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner as Simon's parents, alongside Colton Haynes and Katherine Langford as his friends.
Love, Simon is out in cinemas this April
LOVE, SIMON
wants you to know that everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it's
complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous
classmate is that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves
hilarious, scary and life changing. The movie comes from the same producers who brought is The Fault in Our Stars! The actor who plays Blue, the boy Simon is in love, is being kept a secret!
'EVERY DAY'
FROM DAVID LEVITHAN
David Levithan's Every Day is out April
Based on David Levithan's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, EVERY DAY tells the story of Rhiannon (Angourie Rice), a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named "A" who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and "A" to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make. Also starring Colin Ford it is out this April!
'PLEASE STAND BY'
STARRING DAKOTA FANNING!
The first one out, as soon as next week January 26th is touchingly beautiful PLEASE STAND BY in which Dakota Fanning plays
a young autistic
Enchantingly warm and beautiful Please Stand By is out next week
woman who runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition. Toni Collette also stars.
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.
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.
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.
WITH JUDI DENCH, BILL NIGHY, RICHARD GERE, MAGGIE SMITH
We're having a poster day today at the spy's, people, since a number of the films we're awaiting this year have released new ones. THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL arrives first, March 6th, as the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tena Desae). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two eligible and very wealthy suitors. Perhaps the only one who may know the answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), the keeper of everyone’s secrets. As the demands of a traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them all, an unexpected way forward presents itself.
'WOMAN IN GOLD'
HELEN MIRREN & RYAN REYNOLDS Arriving a month later, April 3rd, is Simon Curtis' new drama WOMAN IN GOLD in which Academy Award winner Helen Mirren
stars in the incredible story of Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who is
forced to flee Vienna during World War II. Decades later, determined to
salvage some dignity from her past, Maria has taken on a mission to
reclaim a painting the Nazis stole from her family: the famous Lady In
Gold, a portrait of her beloved Aunt Adele. Partnering with an
inexperienced but determined young lawyer Ryan Reynolds, Maria
embarks on an epic journey for justice 60 years in the making. Daniel
Bruhl, Charles Dance, Max Irons, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany also
star.
'EFFIE GRAY'
EMMA THOMPSON, DAKOTA FANNING, JULIE WALTERS
Opening the very same day in USA, with UK release already done, is period set drama EFFIE GRAY which, based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian era England, tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning). At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Emma Thompson). After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian society... Robie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Claudia Cardinale, Russell Tovey, David Suchet, Derek Jacobi also star.
is Peacock's eight part series ALL HER FAULT that hits the US streamer November 6th and Sky in UK on 7th! 
is Peacock's eight part series ALL HER FAULT that hits the US streamer November 6th and Sky in UK on 7th! 
the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she
recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins
every parent’s worst
nightmare. Jay Ellis will be attorney Colin and Thomas Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star in the series.
the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she
recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins
every parent’s worst
nightmare. Jay Ellis will be attorney Colin and Thomas Cocquerel high school P.E. teacher Richie. Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña also star in the series.
