Prime Video has unveiled first trailer for their TV series adaptation of Harlan Coben's LAZARUS in which the story will revolve around
a man who returns home after his father's suicide and begins to have
disturbing experiences that can't be explained. He quickly becomes
entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the
mystery of his father's death and his sister's murder 25 years ago. Our
dearest Sam Claflin will lead as Laz, a well-respected forensic
psychologist who has spent his whole life running from the pain of his
past. It is only now when he returns home that he is forced to finally
face up to it.
BILL NIGHY WILL BE DOCTOR LAZARUS
Psychologist
and father to Laz, Jenna and Sutton. A beloved figure within
his community, he shares his son’s charm, dry humor, and charisma. In death,
he wants his son to understand that they are more similar than Laz
thinks.
ALEXANDRA ROACH IS JENNA LAZARUS
Since
her sister’s murder Jenna has buried herself in a world of spiritual
practice but now when her brother returns home and starts experiencing unexplained phenomena, she is forced to confront secrets from her own past. David Flynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Curtis Tennant andRoisin Gallagher will also star in the series which will start streaming around the world starting from October 22nd.
Prime Video has unveiled first images from their TV series adaptation of Harlan Coben's LAZARUS in which the story will revolve around
a man who returns home after his father's suicide and begins to have
disturbing experiences that can't be explained. He quickly becomes
entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the
mystery of his father's death and his sister's murder 25 years ago. Our
dearest Sam Claflin will lead as Laz, a well-respected forensic
psychologist who has spent his whole life running from the pain of his
past. It is only now when he returns home that he is forced to finally
face up to it.
BILL NIGHY WILL BE DOCTOR LAZARUS
Psychologist
and father to Laz, Jenna and Sutton. A beloved figure within his community, he shares his son’s charm, dry humor, and charisma. In death,
he wants his son to understand that they are more similar than Laz
thinks.
ALEXANDRA ROACH IS JENNA LAZARUS
Since
her sister’s murder Jenna has buried herself in a world of spiritual
practice but now when her brother returns home and starts experiencing unexplained phenomena, she is forced to confront secrets from her own past. David Flynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Curtis Tennant andRoisin Gallagher will also star in the series which will start streaming around the world starting from October 22nd.
Believe it or not, Autumn unofficially starts today and the first historical series to open the new season tonight on ITV is the latest small screen adaptation of William Thackeray's novel VANITY FAIR (if I got it right it will also start airing this month on HBO cable channels around the world and will air for US audience later on at Amazon). The story is set in the Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played by Olivia Cooke. The second episode airs as soon as Monday, and the rest of the series will air next five Sundays.
WHAT DID YOUR SPY THINK?
Largely disappointing, with uninspired direction and the use of natural light which steals any atmosphere from the show already bland due to the lack of music, dynamics and good script. Some of the performances are shockingly bad (Surrane Jones for example), while most of the actors appear just lost without any direction. The series which lacks in heart and dazzle, something a Vanity Fair, should definitely have! Dull and pointless is our verdict.
WHAT'S THE STORY? The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth
Screen, is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows
The series will also start this month on HBO world cable channels
modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of
poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy,
crime,
The series will air in seven hourlong episodes!
merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and
dancing, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the
Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.
BECKY SHARP
is played by Olivia Cooke. Born to a French opera dancer and a poor, drunken artist, she is orphaned as a teenager and accepted at Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies to teach French in exchange for her schooling and upkeep. Once she goes out in the world, Becky is determined to rise in society – by any means necessary.
CAPTAIN ROWDON CRAWLEY
who will fall for Becky is played by Tom Bateman. He is a heavy dragoon with strong desires and small brains, who had never controlled a passion in his life. He is the younger son of Sir Pitt and stands to inherit money from his aunt, Miss Crawley, who has always loved him best despite his love of sports, gambling and women.
SIR PITT CRAWLEY
to whose house Becky arrives as the governess is played by Martin Clunes.He’s a baronet and the owner of a huge estate at Queen’s Crawley, but despite his position in society he is a dirty, stingy and lecherous old man.
MISS MATILDA CRAWLEY
played by Frances de la Tour, is rich, single and elderly and her potential heirs are at pains to impress her, even if it looks likely she’ll leave most of her fortune to favoured nephew Rawdon. Miss Crawley is dismissive and deeply unimpressed with pretty much anyone.
AMELIA SEDLEY
Becky's friend from the academy is played by Claudia Jessie. Becky's total opposite, she is naturally sweet, obedient, kind-hearted and naive, with blind loyalty that verges on stupidity. She is waiting to be married to her childhood sweetheart George Osborne.
SIR GEORGE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM DOBIN
George, played by Charlie Rowe, has been close to the Sedley family all his life as childhood friend and neighbour, with his and Amelia’s fathers being business partners. He does like Amelia, but he is more in love with himself and is preoccupied with drinking and gambling and his own pursuits! Johny Flynn plays his best friend Dobin, a gentleman who has risen honestly in society and exhibits qualities of kindness, loyalty and respect. He is secretly deeply in love with Amelia.
WHO ELSE IS THERE? The cast also includes Surrane Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton who
hates Becky, Michael Palin plays Thackeray himself, the mysterious
Surrane Jones plays snobbish Miss Pinkerton
narrator, Claire Skinner is Amelia's mother Lady Sedley, Simon Russell
Beale is Mr Sedley, David Flynn is Amelia's vain brother Jos, a
figure of
David Flynn is Jos Seddley, vain and ridiculous and fat
ridicule whom Becky tries to seduce. Mathew Baynton is Sir
Pitt's uptight son Bute Crawley, Robert Pugh's is George's rich father
Mr Osborne.
GEMMA ARTERTON AND JAMES PUREFOY ARE MARILYN & WILDER
The episode will be a half hour comedy
Tons of comedy updates today: Gemma Arterton will play the lead role in one-off TV comedy MARILYN MONROE AND BILLY WILDER which will, as Deadline writes, cover hard drinking Monroe’s inability to land the famous ‘it’s me, sugar’ line in Some Like it Hot, although some suggest it was actually a deliberate ploy by Monroe to get Wilder to rewrite the movie. James Purefoy will play Billy Wilder and this is to be a part of Sky Art's Urban Myths comedy series which will also include When Bowie Met Bolan with Jack Whitehall as Bolan and Luke Treadaway as Bowie, The Dali and The Cooper with David Suchet!
DAMON WAYANS JR AT CBS
Damon Wayan's new sitcom is still untitled!
While we're waiting for the 2nd season of Marlon with his older brother, Damon Wayans Jr will topline an untitled multicam sitcom at CBS about Peter and Claire, a thirty something couple who are tired of their mundane life and start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star, who is his client and is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, comes to live with them. The pop star will be played by young
Felix Mallard will play the cheerful and naive pop star.
Australian actor Felix Mallard! His pop star is a very positive guy who sees the good in everyone and everything, as well as being effortlessly cool and youthfully naïve.
SEAN KLEIER IN 'SO CLOSE'
Over at NBC Sean Kleier and Sasheer Zamata will lead SO CLOSE multicam sitcom from Will & Grace's Greg Malins about hopeless romantics Riley and Kyle. At crossroads in their separate lives, they are close to settling
Sean Kleier and Sabrina Carpenter will be roommates in So Close
for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates. Girl Meets World's Sabrina Carpenter will play Kyle's crazy roommate, while Punam Patel will also star.
Faith Ford returns as Corky Sherwood
MURPHY BROWN CAST RETURNS CBS has, meanwhile, managed to get all of the stars of the original MURPHY BROWN to come back in the 13 episode return of the classic sitcom! Joining Candice Bergen, who will again play the famous journalist and news anchor Murphy Brown, are lovely Faith Ford as perky anchor Corky Sherwood, Joe Regalbuto as investigative reporter Frank Fontana and Grant Shaud as their executive producer Miles Silverberg! Deadline reports that Charles Kimbrough, who played anchorman Jim Dial, will guest star as he is now over 80.
'I MOM SO HARD' GETS DADS!
I've already reported that Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley will lead CBS’ multicam comedy pilot I MOM SO HARD and now they got Undateable's David Fynn and Freddie Prinze Jr as their male leads. The story follows
David Fynn and Freddie Prinze Jr are the dads in I Mom So Hard
two moms who show how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers! Fynn will be Kristin's affable school teacher husband and Prinze Jr Jen's athlete husband with a dry sense of humour.
'LIVING BIBLICALLY' SITCOM
STARTS TOMORROW AT CBS! I also want to remind you to tune in tomorrow night at CBS where
they're launching new sitcom LIVING BIBLICALLY about a modern day man
(Jay R. Ferguson) at a crossroads in his life who decides to live
strictly in accordance with the Bible!
'DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS'
NEW SITCOM AT AMAZON!
Enchanting new sitcom starts next month!
After she was kicked out of Kevin Can Wait in such a vile way, lovely Erinn Hayes is returning to comedy in THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYSwhich starts at Amazon March 30th! It follows the McKenna family as they cope with the untimely passing of Patrick (Chris Diamantopoulos), their patriarch and a whimsical inventor who touched the lives of everyone who knew him. His death has left the family reeling, but hope appears in the form of a book called THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS that Patrick created as a handbook to help his three sons.
The book is a how-to guide for childhood that inspires fantasies for his youngest son, Wyatt (Gabriel Bateman). While in his fantasy world, Wyatt reconnects
Erinn Hayes returns to sitcom world as the mom of the family
with his father and learns life skills that help him navigate the real world. Swoosie Kurtz plays the grandmother, with Diamantopoulos also in the role of Patrick’s twin brother.
death,
he wants his son to understand that they are more similar than Laz
thinks. 
death,
he wants his son to understand that they are more similar than Laz
thinks. 
unexplained phenomena, she is forced to confront secrets from her own past. David Flynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Curtis Tennant and
Roisin Gallagher will also star in the series which will start streaming around the world starting from October 22nd.
unexplained phenomena, she is forced to confront secrets from her own past. David Flynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Curtis Tennant and
Roisin Gallagher will also star in the series which will start streaming around the world starting from October 22nd.
