SEE DAWN FRENCH IN THE TRAILER FOR NEW BBC COMEDY SERIES CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?

  CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?  

TRAILER FOR NEW BBC COMEDY SERIES

After I wish you a very Merry Christmas, I will leave you with a trailer for new comedy series CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? which arrives to BBC One January 7th! The six part series stars British comedienne Dawn French and Mark Heap as a retired couple living in the West Country of England who are presented with a unique criminal opportunity to claim life insurance when one of them is mistakenly declared to have died. They hide out, awaiting funds, putting family under strain with deception and unusual living arrangements. Craig Roberts stars as their son who has to deal with the fact that his parents have turned into a pensioner version of Bonnie and Clyde with Mandip Gill also in the cast as his very pragmatic wife. 

 

RAFE & TIMOTHY SPALL CAST IN RICH FLU FANTASY THRILLER! SEE THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT NETFLIX ANIMATED ADVENTURE TRAILER! MICHAEL SHEEN TO HELM NEW BBC MINI SERIES THE WAY!

  RICH FLU THRILLER CASTS 

TIMOTHY AND RAFE SPALL

Currently shooting in Spain, this fantasy thriller has a very interesting premise and has Timothy and Rafe Spall, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cesar Domboy, Lorraine Bracco, and Jonah Hauer King in the cast! RICH FLU sees a strange disease kill off some of the richest people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on.

Jonah Hauer King, Rafe and Timothy Spall will star

Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants. How far would people go to save their skin when the wealth that made the world go round suddenly becomes its most dangerous commodity. 

   MICHAEL SHEEN TO HELM  

NEW BBC DRAMA THE WAY

MIchael Sheen will direct the new series

BBC has announced that Michael Sheen will direct their bold new three part mini series THE WAY co-created by Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis! An ambitious, powerful and surprising new drama, it taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Meet the Driscolls - an ordinary family, in an extraordinary story of life, death and survival. Caught in a chain of events and power struggles that ripple out unleashing civil unrest, they are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will the Driscolls lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future? The Way is an emotional and darkly humorous story about what it means to be faced with impossible choices.

   THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT   

NETFLIX TRAILER IS HERE!

After the huge success of their Sea Beast animated adventure last year, Netflix is bringing us another charming animated movie this year and it again has a huge

The movie streams this March 17th!

beast in it, but a kind one: THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT will hit the streamer next month, March 17th as the movie adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's best selling novel directed by Wendy Rogers. 

 

Voice cast includes Benedict Wong, Dawn French, Mandy Patinkin and Miranda Richardson in this story which follows Peter (Noah Jupe), who is searching for his long-lost sister. When he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square, he want to know, is his sister still alive? To get the answer, he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, setting Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town. Check out the trailer below:

SEE KENNETH BRANAGH, ARMIE HAMMER, GAL GADOT, DAWN FRENCH, JENNIFER SAUNDERS, TOM BATEMAN, ANNETTE BENING IN NEW DEATH ON THE NILE MOVIE TRAILER

 DEATH ON THE NILE TRAILER 

WITH A STELLAR CAST

Official trailer has been released for Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie movie adaptation DEATH ON THE NILE which will sail into cinemas

Death on the Nile arrives next February

February 11th starring  Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Emma Mackey. Kenneth himself plays Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot whose Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking

Kenneth Branagh is again directing the film in Christie series

denouement! Check out the exciting new trailer below and tell us what you think, or are you still disappointed with the godawful Murder on the Orient Express adaptation?

A HEARTWARMING TRAILER FOR SKY'S CHRISTMAS MOVIE ROALD AND BEATRIX A TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE IS HERE WITH DAWN FRENCH AND HARRY TAYLER!

  ROALD AND BEATRIX  

1ST CHRISTMAS TRAILER IS IN

Beside the festive episode of Channel 5's hit series All Creatures Great And Small, another thing we can expect this Christmas on the small screens is Sky One's ROALD AND BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE uplifting hour and a half long comedy drama starring Britain's most

The festive movie will air on Christmas Eve over at Sky

beloved female comedian Dawn French, which will be the key highlight of Sky Ones and Now TV's Christmas schedule. Sky has released the first trailer which shows the festive atmosphere and magic we will be able to enjoy on Christmas Eve.

  Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse

 is inspired by the true story of when a six-year old Roald Dahl set off on a big adventure to meet his favourite author, Beatrix Potter in the 1920's. It’s a magical story of what can happen when you are brave

The feature length special is set in the 1920s!

enough to follow your dreams… Joining Dawn French will be a cast including Jessica Hynes, Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Nina Sosanya, Bill Bailey and Nick Mohammed, and introducing Harry Tayler as the young Roald Dahl. As you know Beatrix Potter is the

The festive special was directed by David Kerr

author of children's favourite Peter the Rabit, while Roald Dahl created a whole slate of stories which have made so many childhoods more enjoyable from Witches, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Jack and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Big Friendly

Dawn French and Harry Tayler are leading the cast

Giant. It is also interesting that Dawn French will also do three ten minute Christmas episodes of her classic hit comedy The Vicar of Dibley, and you also know that a feature film about Roald Dahl is also in the works with Hugh Bonneville and Keley Hawes as his Hollywood star wife.

ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, WIFE AND MOTHER OF KINGS, GETTING AN EPIC SERIES AT STARZ! FIRST PHOTOS OF DAWN FRENCH IN SKY'S FESTIVE COMEDY ROALD & BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF A CURIOUS MOUSE

  ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE  

EPIC TV SERIES AT STARZ

Well, I did always wonder how she did not get a series before, being the mother of Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland, the wife of two kings and witness to so many major historical events. As Deadline reports, Starz has

Playground Pictures is producing the series

optioned the rights to historian Alison Weir’s biography ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE: A Life and its companion novel Captive Queen for the first series which will be written by Cranford's and Discovery Of Witches writer Susie Conklin! Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages, born in 1122 and dying in 1204. She was queen of France and England as a result of her marriages to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England and was independently the duchess of Aquitaine. Together with Playground Pictures, Starz is planning a whole slate of series based on the lives of female historical figures.

 

  ROALD AND BEATRIX  

1ST CHRISTMAS PHOTOS ARE IN

Beside the festive episode of Channel 5's hit series All Creatures Great And Small, another thing we can expect this Christmas on the small screens is Sky One's ROALD AND BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS

Dawn French and Harry Tayler are leading the cast

MOUSE uplifting hour and a half long comedy drama starring Britain's most beloved female comedian Dawn French, which will be the key highlight of

It will be a ninety minute long festive TV movie

Sky Ones and Now TV's Christmas schedule. Sky has released the first photos which show the festive atmosphere and magic we will be able to enjoy these holidays.

  Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse

 is inspired by the true story of when a six-year old Roald Dahl set off on a big adventure to meet his favourite author, Beatrix Potter. It’s a

The festive movie will air on Sky One and Now TV in UK

magical story of what can happen when you are brave enough to follow your dreams… Joining Dawn French will be a cast including Jessica Hynes,

British thespian Rob Brydon also stars in the movie

Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Nina Sosanya, Bill Bailey and Nick Mohammed, and introducing Harry Tayler as the young Roald Dahl. As you

Hartswoods Films has produced the movie for Sky One

know Beatrix Potter is the author of children's favourite Peter the Rabit, while Roald Dahl created a whole slate of stories which have made so many

Harry Tayler plays the young Roald Dahl

childhoods more enjoyable from Witches, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Jack and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Big Friendly Giant. It is also interesting that Dawn French will also do three ten minute

Sky has commissioned a number of other original programmes

Christmas episodes of her classic hit comedy The Vicar of Dibley, and you also know that a feature film about Roald Dahl is also in the works with Hugh Bonneville and Keley Hawes as his Hollywood star wife.

KENNETH BRANAGH'S DEATH ON THE NILE TRAILER SETS SAIL WITH ARMIE HAMMER, TOM BATEMAN, GAL GADOT, DAWN FRENCH, JENNIFER SAUNDERS, ANNETTE BENNING, RUSSELL BRAND

     'DEATH ON THE NILE'

 HERCULE POIROT IS BACK!

Here's another new trailer for you: I cannot say I was thrilled with his previous Agatha Christie adaptation, but Kenneth Branagh's DEATH ON THE NILE will be out in cinemas October 23rd with him directing and

The ship sets sail October 23rd!

playing famous detective Hercule Poirot. Tom Bateman leads the cast with Annette Benning, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders with another British comedian Russell Brand, Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot!  

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a

Legendary duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French star in the film too! Jennifer will play a rich cleptomaniac, and Dawn will be her nurse.

cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travellers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement.

A MEETING OF TWO FAMOUS CHILDREN WRITERS ROALD DAHL AND BEATRIX POTTER IN SKY'S TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE FESTIVE MOVIE WITH DAWN FRENCH

   DAWN FRENCH TO LEAD

THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE

Dawn  French will play Beatrix Potter

We've enjoyed her theatrics this spring in Trouble With Maggie Cole series, but British comedian Dawn French has something planned for the holidays already. She will star in THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE a holiday movie scheduled for December at Sky One, inspired by the true story of when a young Roald Dahl met his hero, Beatrix Potter. This is the official plot of the heart warming Christmas drama:

   With Beatrix coming to the end of her career and Roald aged only six and having recently lost his father and sister, this meeting of two literary legends was to have an enormous impact on the lives of both writers!

 As you know Roald Dahl is the writer of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant, while Beatrix Potter wrote the famous adventures of Peter Rabbit!

GOSSIPING IS FUN AND DANGEROUS IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR ITV'S THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE SERIES WITH DAWN FRENCH

THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE

 NOSEY PARKER SPILLS SECRETS

After announcing a rather ambitious slate for this year, British ITV has also released the first trailer for new drama THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE which is to premiere this March starring Dawn French

The series will air this March in six hourlong episodes

with the story set in a picturesque small coastal town called Thurlbury with a close-knit community. It follows Maggie Cole who doesn’t pay attention to the cautionary adage that ‘those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When a

The series was originally titled Glass Houses!

radio journalist interviews her for a small reportage piece about local life she gives him far more detail (and embellishment) about the locals and their

Vicar of Dibley star Dawn French leads the cast of the new series

personal lives than he was counting on. In the days and weeks following the show’s broadcast, Maggie sees the butterfly effect of how her very public gossip-fest affects various figures around the town and disrupts their lives. It starts March 4th on ITV.

PENELOPE CRUZ BOARDS KENNETH BRANAGH'S 'MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS' WITH JUDI DENCH, DEREK JACOBI, JOHNNY DEPP, MICHELLE PFEIFFER! 'DELICIOUS' COMEDY TRAILER WITH DAWN FRENCH, IAIN GLEN

PENELOPE CRUZ BOARDS

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

You know we are quite excited about Kenneth Branagh's movie adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS in which he will also play Hercul Poirot, and now the cast which already includes Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Tom Bateman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp and Daisy Ridley, will also have Penelope Cruz as 'Deadline' reports!

Based on the beloved 1934 Agatha Christie novel, the mystery begins after an American businessman is murdered aboard the train stuck in the blizzard in Yugoslavia and Poirot the detective tries to solve the murder, finding out eventually that 13 people all had something to do with the murder victim.

 'DELICIOUS' TRAILER

DAWN FRENCH COMEDY SERIES

Speaking of good British stories, Sky One has released the first trailer for their new comedy series DELICIOUS which starts airing its four episodes this December starring popular comedian Dawn French alongside Iain Glen and Emilia Fox.

TROUBLE IS COOKING!
Set in the stunning Cornish countryside, DELICIOUS is a surprising and compelling story of love, heartbreak, food and female friendship. When your best friend is your husband's ex, can you ever really be friends or will your secrets eventually overwhelm you? Sensual and passionate cook Gina (Dawn French) was once married to Leo Vincent, a successful entrepreneur, chef and hotel owner, with whom she has a daughter. Leo made his fortune from his exceptional Italian cooking - a family tradition he inherited from his ex-wife - and runs the idyllic Penrose Hotel in the Tamar Valley. Since divorcing Gina, Leo's culinary empire has continued to grow, with the fruits of success now being shared with his new wife Sam. However, Leo is keeping a secret which is set to upturn all of their lives. In a friendship already born out of betrayal, Gina and Sam face the secrets and scandal that will bind them together in the most unlikely of circumstances.

SKY'S NEW PROJECTS: 'JAMESTOWN' EPIC SERIES WITH MATT STOKOE, MAX BEESLEY, JASON FLEMYNG, 'DELICIOUS' SERIES WITH DAWN FRENCH, 'LAST DRAGONSLAYER' EPIC MOVIE WITH ELLISE CHAPPELL, JOHN BRADLEY

SKY'S NEW TV PROJECTS

'JAMESTOWN' EPIC TV SERIES

We're going fully British today, my spylovers, because I know you like it when we do so, and Dezzy is always here to please! It seems that British Sky Channel is planning on joining ITV, BBC and Channel 4 in the circle of best stations at the isle, at least judging by the latest info on the projects they ordered for production! They did gather some really interesting names for them, and probably the biggest one will be JAMESTOWN! Sky and Carnival Films (creators of Downton Abbey) are making this eight part historical drama about the first British settlers embarking on their lives in America. And, my oh my, did they gather a stellar cast which will include some of Britain's beloved TV faces including Matt Stokoe (oh, how we fell in sweet love with him in BBC's VILLAGE!), Max Beesley, Jason Flemyng, Dean Lennox Kelly, Stuart Martin, Steven Waddington with the spirited ladies landing on shore with them played by Naomi Battrick, Sophie Rundle and gorgeous Niamh Walsh.

THE FIRST SETTLERS

The story begins in 1619, with the settlers seeking to establish a community in America. Among those reaching the shores of the New World are a group of women destined to be married to Jamestown men and becoming  the female pioneers of an exciting new western outpost.

THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER

Meanwhile, Sky is, as I informed you before, also preparing a TV movie, a small screen adaptation of Jasper Fforde's popular epic adventure THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER and they've set a cast for it to be lead by Ellise Chappell as orphan Jennifer Strange who discovers that her destiny is to become the last Dragonslayer. Ricky Tomlinson and GAME OF THRONES John Bradley will also star in the movie set to air in the festive season.

DAWN FRENCH TO LEAD

'DELICIOUS' NEW TV SERIES

And if you love British female comedians as much as we do you will be delighted to hear that comedy icon Dawn French is returning to the small screens as she will lead Sky's new four part series DELICIOUS about family, food and infidelity! A surprising and compelling story of love, heartbreak, food and female friendship​ set in the Cornish countryside, will see Dawn French playing Gina - a cook who was once married to entrepreneur​, chef and hotel owner Leo Vincent. Leo is hiding something - and when his secret comes out, the resulting scandal has the surprising effect of binding Gina and Leo's new wife Sam ​together​.