Your trusted spy is presenting you two new television series coming to the small screens in the month of March which has just hit our calendars as of this morning believe it or not! First up, we have A TOWN CALLED MALICE which should hit Sky channels around Europe from March 16th! Pitched as a blend of Dallas and Pulp Fiction to the sounds of Duran Duran, this neon-soaked, 80s-set cocktail of crime thriller stars Martha Plimpton as Mint Ma and Jason Flemyng as Albert Lord, our dear boy Lex Shrapnel as Leonard Lord with Eliza Butterworth as Carly Lord and Jack Rowan as Gene Lord alongside Tahirah Sharif in the role of Cindy Carter! Daniel Sharman and Dougray Scott are also in the cast.
A TOWN CALLED MALICE
set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the
Costa del Sol in the early 80s, follows the Lords, a crime family of
petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London to Spain to
profit from an unexpected windfall – and to escape the attention of the
police in a high-profile murder enquiry. But while they hope to
recapture their former glory, they spend as much time battling each
other as they do their opponents.
EXTRAPOLATIONS
STAR STUDDED APPLE TV+ SERIES
ExtraPolations start March 17th
Meanwhile, over at US streamer Apple TV + March 17th is bringing a star studded limited series EXTRA POLATIONS which will see Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Matthew Rhys, Heather Graham, Sienna Miller, Tahar Rahim, Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, Judd Hirsch, Edward Norton, Michael Gandolfini, Indira Varma, Diane Lane, Keri Russell, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, Tobey Maguire, star in a story set in a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. It has eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe that explore the intimate, life-changing choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Check out the trailer below:
Earlier this week we said the final goodbye to TV's most wholesome sitcom ever Last Man Standing which ended for good after ten years on air and almost 200 episodes, and next week the cast of another beloved classic
The Reunion is happening next week!
sitcom FRIENDS is coming back but not for a scripted return: it will just be a reunion with actors reminiscing on the beautiful years they've spent shooting world's most popular show ever. HBO Max will air THE REUNION May 27th and Sky, which aired the show back in the days, over in UK. In Canada it will stream on Crave and Foxtel, on Binge in Australia, and on HBO cable channels in Europe. Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer will go back together to Friends’ original Burbank studio. People who created Friends and served as their executive producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane will also be back behind the cameras.
WHAT'LL HAPPEN AT REUNION?
Our favorite friends are back on the set that started it all. Jennifer
Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David
Schwimmer, and special guests reunite to discuss everything from their
All the cast is both returning and executive producing the event
casting process to whether or not Ross and Rachel were really on a
break. Witness the unbreakable bond of the group that perfectly captured
the moment in life when your friends become your family. Guest stars
set to join
The reunion will air literally all around the world
them include David Beckham, Justin Bieber, James Corden,
Cindy Crawford, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould (who played the father of Ross
and Monica), Kit Harington, Tom Selleck (who played Monica's older
lover),
The original production crew will also be behind the cameras
Reese Witherspoon (who played Rachel's irresponsible sister). A
day before, on Wednesday, HBO Max will air a red carpet event featuring
guest star appearances!
Comedy Sunday this weekend! NBC has revealed some of the celebrities who will guest star in the second returning season of their WILL AND GRACE
Will and Grace returns this October
sitcom which is back on the small screens from October 4th with 18 new episodes! Matt Bomer will guest star as McCoy Whitman, a smooth talking, self satisfied TV news anchor who dates Will (EricMcCor- mack), while Minnie Driver is back as Lorraine Finster, Karen's (Megan Mullally) nemesis and stepdaughter. Olympic scater Adam Rippon is also appearing in one of the new episodes, while Friends star David Schwimmer will have a multiple episode arc as Grace's (Debra Messing) new love interest. Alec Baldwin will be back as Karen's multi millionaire lover.
'LAST MAN STANDING'
CASTS KRISTA MARIE YU
Krista Marie Yu will play the Chinese exchange student
Over at Fox, where one of our dearest ever multicam sitcoms has moved
this season, they also have new cast members. Tim Allen's LAST MAN
STANDING will see Mike Baxter left in the house alone with his wife
Vanessa (Nancy Travis), since his two older daughters are now both
married and youngest Eve is at academy. This will inspire Vanessa to
take a young scholar from China under her wing letting her stay with
them while she completes her schooling in the States. Krista Marie Yu
will play Jen who Vanessa feels particularly tied to because she’s
interested in geology and Vanessa’s always wanted to encourage
The Baxters are back September 28th, this time on Fox!
young
women to go into the sciences. Since she comes from a different
political system this will open some new fun discussions and conflicts
with Mike. Seventh season is back September 28th!
'THE SANCHEZ WAY'
NEW SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS
ABC is developing new half hour comedy produced by Kelly Ripa and her husband MarkConsuelos. THE SANCHEZ WAY will follow a loud, proud, Mexican American family that lives by a very strict working class code.
No word whether Kelly and Mark will also star in the new sitcom!
Show centres on Pedro Sanchez, the patriarch of the family, whose code is threatened when his “fresa” brother-in-law (a Mexican yuppie) moves to town and wants to be part of the family. No word whether Kelly and Mark will star in the sitcom.
Beside the news that David Bowie's LABYRINTH is getting a reboot and that McG might direct new MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, other news comes from the TV world! FRIENDS' David Scwimmer and movie star Jim Sturgess will lead new AMC's series FEED THE BEAST!
Based on Danish series BANKEROT, the ten episode series will see the
two of them playing best friends, Tommy Moran (David Schwimmer), and
Dion Patras (Jim Sturgess), who take one last shot at their dream of
opening a restaurant. They push each other, welcome love into their
lives and overcome their demons. They also betray, backstab, manipulate
and coerce each other into the most dangerous situations imaginable!
'STILL STAR CROSSED'
GETS PILOT ORDER BY ABC Meanwhile, a project I've announced last year has been officially
ordered for a pilot by ABC! Shondaland and ABC will try to turn Melinda
Taub's bestselling book STILL STARCROSSED into potential TV series. As a
sort of a Romeo and Juliet sequel and set in 16th century Verona, it
picks up where Shakespeare’s story left off, charting the
treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and
Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. In the book, to end the family feud,
Prince Escalus orders the most eligible Montague bachelor, Benvolio,
Romeo’s best friend, to marry Juliet’s older cousin, Capulet maid
Rosaline, the girl Romeo first loved.
NBC'S NEW TV COMEDIES
'CROWDED' & 'GOOD FORTUNE'
Beside moving THE CARMICHAEL SHOW and new sitcom CROWDED into Sunday evenings from March, NBC has also ordered a pilot for multicamera sitcom GOODFORTUNE an ensemble comedy that focuses on a hyper structured young woman whose life is upended when she starts taking advice from a mysterious fortune teller. CROWDED is also a multicamera sitcom: After 20 years of parenting, empty nesters Mike (PatrickWarburton) and Martina (Carrie Preston) are finally reclaiming their wild side. Yet when both of their two grown daughters unexpectedly move back in, and Mike’s parents scratch their plans to spend their golden years in Florida, their roost is full again.
From executive producer Sean Hayes, this new (and very timely) family comedy proves that life is crazy with a full house, especially the second time around.
and to escape the attention of the
police in a high-profile murder enquiry. But while they hope to
recapture their former glory, they spend as much time battling each
other as they do their opponents.
and to escape the attention of the
police in a high-profile murder enquiry. But while they hope to
recapture their former glory, they spend as much time battling each
other as they do their opponents.
intimate, life-changing choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Check out the trailer below:
