The biggest media event yesterday was the gala announcement of the new programmes by Apple, new streaming service that will start this Autumn. In the trailer below you can catch a glimpse of many spectacular new shows that
Hera Hilmar, Christian Camargo, also star in the series
they're preparing for us, and some are from our genre - fantasy and history. The one that stands out in the trailer with its stunning magnificence and lavish
Alfre Woodard plays powerful priestess Paris
splendour is definitely epic fantasy saga SEE with Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard which takes place in a world devastated by a virus, and the few survivors were left blind so they have to find new ways to interact, hunt, build,
The series is supposed to have ten episodes in the first season
survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins with sight is born! Jason Momoa plays Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian, while Woodard is Paris, an advisor and priestess.
PERIOD SET COMEDY DICKINSON The clip also shows rather lavish footage from DICKINSON period set
half hour comedy series which tells Emily Dickinson’s coming-of-age
story about
Dickinson will be a half hour period set comedy series
the famous poet's fight to find her voice. The show stars Hailee
Steinfeld, Jane Krakowski and Matt Lauria.
'THE DURRELLS' SEASON 4
FINAL FAREWELL TO CORFU!
ITV has, meanwhile, released the first teaser for the fourth and final season of THE DURRELLS family drama which should hit the small screens in UK next month April 7th following the story of a woman who back in the 1930
The final season sends The Durrells home ahead of WW2
decides to move her family over to Corfu! In season four, the future is looking bright for the Durrells, with all of the family channelling their
heartbreak in different ways. Choosing to keep herself busy, Louisa (Keeley Hawes) has opened the doors of the family villa as a guest house, but with Basil as their
The Durrells are ready to say final goodbye to Corfu ahead of WW2
only paying guest, the business is still to find its feet and customers. Meanwhile, Larry (Josh O'Connor), struggling to get his risqué Black Book published, is enjoying the love of two ballet dancers, whilst heartbroken Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) has thrown himself back into his job and shooting.
Will Louisa and Spiros have a happy love ending?
True to form, Gerry (Milo Parker) continues to collect animals, ambitiously planning to open a zoo with a new owl and some lemurs joining the menagerie, and Margo (Daisy Waterstone) seeks a new challenge, starting her own beauty salon.
Earlier this week I informed you that ITV's ultra popular period set family drama THEDURRELLS, which sees Keeley Hawes playing a mother who gets fed up with everything and moves herself and children to the island of Corfu, will end after next year's fourth season, and now we have the first info on what is gonna happen in it!
HEARTBREAK AND ANIMALS Following the events of the last series, the future is looking bright
for the Durrells, with all of the family channelling their heartbreak
in different ways. Choosing to keep herself busy, Louisa has opened the
doors of the family villa
The final season starts shooting this month!
as a guest house, but with Basil as their only
paying guest, the business is still to find its feet and customers.
Meanwhile, Larry (JoshO’Connor), struggling to get his risqué Black
Book published, is enjoying the love of two ballet dancers, whilst
heartbroken Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) has thrown
The Durrells are based on a real life story and family
himself back into his
job and shooting. True to form, Gerry (Milo Parker) continues to collect
animals, ambitiously planning to open a zoo with a new owl and some
lemurs joining the menagerie, and Margo (Daisy Waterstone) seeks a new
challenge, starting her own beauty salon.
'THE SISTERS BROTHERS'
MAKE A KILLING, MAKE A LIVING
The movie is out this Autumn
While they're enjoying wild East, over at wild West the first trailer and poster are on the horizon for THE SISTERS BROTHERS which is out this Autumn in cinema starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, John C. Reilly, Rutger Hauer!
THE SISTERS BROTHERS, based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, revolves
around the colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's
being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco
by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having
a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the
longevity of his chosen
career. And Hermann might have a better offer. Check out the first 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.
TO LEAD GEORGE CLOONEY'S WW2 MINI SERIES 'CATCH 22'
We're sticking to period set TV series today, starting with an announcement that Christopher Abbott has been cast as the lead in George Clooney's
Yes, Christopher does look like Kit Harington's prettier twin
mini series CATCH 22. Set in WW2 Italy it follows artful dodger Yossarian (Abbott), a US bombardier, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of CATCH 22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty. Clooney will direct and play a colonel.
'HIS DARK MATERIALS'
TOM HOOPER TO HELM, DAFNE KEEN TO LEAD AT BBC
BBC is adapting Dark Materials into mini series
BBC has found a director and actress for their eight part series
adaptation of HIS DARK MATERIALS saga from Philip Pullman! Tom Hooper
(The King's Speech) will helm and Wolverine's daughter Dafne Keen will
star as Lyra, a girl from a parallel universe, in which science,
theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend
uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a
quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later on
joined by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows
between worlds. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her
prophesied destiny,
Dafne Keen will lead the cast as Lyra whom you've seen in Golden Compass
the two kids are caught up in a war against
celestial powers that ranges across many worlds! This epic has three
books - Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass!
'THE DURRELLS' SEASON 3
TO START NEXT SUNDAY!
Meanwhile, ITV has set Sunday March 18th as the returning date for their mega popular series THE DURRELLS with its third season! You can check out the hilarious trailer for it below. Set in the period before WW2 it follows
The Durrells are based on the beloved series of British books
Keeley Hawes as a British mother who decided to relocate herself and her four kids over to an abandoned villa on Corfu and start life from a scratch there. As you can see from the trailer her oldest son Larry (Josh O'Connor)
The third season of The Durrells returns next Sunday on ITV
will continue writing a new novel, her second son Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) will be seducing local women, her daughter Margo will enjoy love with Zoltan who appeared in the second season. Her youngest son Gerry
Tons of laughs and bright sun in the new season of The Durrells
will obviously continue to develop his little ZOO bringing new animals into their backyard! And Louisa Durrell will obviously try to hit it of with their Greek family friend?
After she is done chasing after her father as Lara Croft in the reboot of Tomb Raider, Oscar Winner Alicia Vikander will be chasing something a lot more scary and now she has a partner to do it with (not that, you naughty devils). Armie Hammer has joined her in supernatural action thriller horror FREAKSHIFT. The story has envisioned the two of them playing a part of a band of misfit cops who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters! With the shooting set to start this August Armie is ready to play her love interest in the movie. Later this year, Armie will also appear in Final Portrait with Geoffrey Rush, the story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
'THE DURRELLS'
SECOND SEASON TRAILER TAKES US BACK TO CORFU
With the news that Ovation TV has acquired US TV rights on ITV's WW2 series The Halcyon for the viewers in America, another of ITV's brilliant series THE DURRELLS is set to start with its second season later this month and today you can check out the first trailer for it! The series, which was a huge hit last year, stars Keeley Hawes as a mother who sells everything she has and moves with her four kids to a remote Greek island of Corfu!
OTTERS AND NEW LOVERS Six new episodes will follow THE DURRELLS as they face new
challenges: little Gerald finds an otter close to their home and is
looking after it, his brother Leslie explores his entrepreneurial side
and embarks on a new project, the oldest brother Larry is balancing his
writing career with a new romance, and his sister Margo is falling for
someone unsuitable, while mother Louisa gets behind with the rent and
gets on the wrong side of the landlady. Daniel Lapaine (Muriels swimmer
husband from Muriel's Wedding) has joined the cast as an English
gentleman who sets his sight on Louisa.
We're all British today, starting with the news coming from Starz who, as you know, have took over WHITE QUEEN series sequel from BBC and are doing WHITE PRINCESS second season on their own. Now they have the lead star! Jodie Comer (Doctor Foster) will lead the adaptation of Philippa Gregory's book following the War of Roses!
THE WHITE PRINCESS now follows the beautiful eldest daughter of
Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville (played by Max Irons and Rebecca
Ferguson in the original series) princess Elizabeth. She faces a
conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into
marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for
him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her
mother’s rebellion and her husband’s tyranny. Then she has to meet the
Pretender, whose claim denies the House of Tudor itself.
KEELEY HAWES' THE DURRELLS
ARE GETTING A SECOND SEASON!
After receiving tons of love from the British audience which await each Sunday with huge anticipation to see a new episode of ITV's THE DURRELLS series, it has been announced today that the drama will be getting a second season as well! Starring gorgeous Keeley Hawes the drama follows the Durrell family who back in 1935 decide to move from dreary Bournemouth to the sunshine of the Greek island of Corfu! It is an adaptation of Gerald Durrell's book My Family and Other Animals.
It seems BBC's WAR AND PEACE has made Russia's glorious history in again, so the next project from that field will be Freeform's series on GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA produced by McG! Set in vibrant Paris during the roaring 1920’s, it will follow Anastasia Romanova after her escape from Russia. While her sights are set on avenging the death of her family, she joins forces with an elite espionage agency that’s working to prevent another world war. By day, Anastasia is a former princess trying to blend into a normal life, but by night, she’s acting as the world’s first female spy, influencing some of the biggest events in the first part of the 20th century. Daniel Mackey, Seth Fisher (SAINTS & STRANGERS) are scribes.
'GHOSTBUSTERS' TRAILER
WITH MELISSA MCCARTHY IS HERE It was about time for them to release the first trailer for new female centric and entirely unwanted reboot of
GHOST BUSTERS since the busting starts July 15th! Kristen Wiig plays
particle physicist Erin, Melissa McCarthy’s character is an expert in
the paranormal, Kate McKinnon’s the nuclear engineer who creates the
team’s inventions, and Leslie Jones is a former subway employee who
knows her way around New York City. Chris Hemsworth is their hunky
secretary!
'THE DURRELLS' PERIOD SERIES
THE FIRST TRAILER IS RELEASED!
Your second trailer is a truly delightful one for British ITV's new family drama series THE DURRELLS which arrives sometime this spring! The six part series is a small screen adaptation of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS memoir by Gerald Durrell! Keeley Hawes leads the cast alongside legendary Leslie Caron and Greek star Alexis Georgoulis.
KEELEY HAWES LEADS THE CAST
The
1930's six part series focuses on Louisa Durrell (KeeleyHawes), whose
husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four
children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy
Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life
very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu,
taking her family with her. Alexis Georgouliswill play the dependable
Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Leslie Caron will be shrewd Countess
Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
Now this is probably the best news of the week: not only that Slingshot Global Media has announced their work on CLEOPATRA epic TV series, but it has also been revealed today that our absolute favourite director Shekhar Kapur (ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH GOLDEN AGE, FOUR FEATHERS) will helm it and write it! Instead of focusing on the arch seductress made famous by her affairs with men like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the show will highlight the opposite – that these men were famous because of her. It will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a Pharaoh and a queen – a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better ruler than the men of her time. The series will reinvent her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made her one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful, thrones of all time.
'THE DURRELLS' PERIOD SERIES
CASTS KEELEY HAWES, LESLIE CARON AND ALEXIS GEORGOULIS Earlier this year I announced that British ITV is making a television
series out of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS memoir by Gerald Durrelland
THE DURRELLS now have the cast! Our beloved Keeley Hawes will lead it
alongside legendary Leslie Caron and Greek star Alexis Georgoulis. The
1930's six part series focuses on Louisa Durrell (KeeleyHawes), whose
husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four
children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy
Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life
very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu,
taking her family with her. Alexis Georgoulis will play the dependable
Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Leslie Caron will be shrewd Countess
Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN TRAILER
AND POSTER WITH JAMES MCAVOY & DANIEL RADCLIFFE
20th Century Fox has released the first trailer and poster for this November's horror drama VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN following radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Daniel Radcliffe) who share a noble vision. They want to aid humanity through their ground breaking research into immortality. But Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation. Paul McGuigan from BBC's SHERLOCK is directing!
One of this year's hottest TV faces and also the hottest of THE HOBBIT dwarves out there, POLDARK's Aidan Turner has scored a role in dark comedy LOOK AWAY next to Matthew Broderick, Chloë Sevigny, and Shannon Tarbet. According to 'Deadline' Turner will play the love interest to Tarbet’s main character, an offbeat young woman who is unable to physically see her mother due to a fictional affliction called selective blindness.
'DURRELL'S' PERIOD SET SERIES
Meanwhile, British ITV will turn Gerald Durrell's Corfu memoirs (including MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS) into THE DURRELLS six part series set in the 1930s and telling the story of Louisa Durrell, whose money is running out and whose four children are going off the rails after the death of her husband.
The family move to Corfu to make a new life for themselves, but still face plenty of challenges.
'THE CROWN' EPIC SERIES
MATT SMITH IS PRINCE PHILIP, JOHN LITHGOW CHURCHILL The news I reported earlier last year on Claire Foy getting the lead
role in expensive Netflix drama THE CROWN has been confirmed now with
John Lithgow and Matt Smith added to the cast as well! In the sprawling
series Foy will be Queen Elizabeth II, Lithgow is Churchill, while Smith
will play Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh! Stephen Daldry is
directing the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the
world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues,
love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the
second half of the 20th century. Vanessa Kirby was mentioned previously
as the possible actress to play queen's sister Princess Margaret.
'BOULEVARD' TRAILER
ROBIN WILLIAMS' HEART WRENCHING LAST MASTERPIECE
Something really nice as your today's trailer - the first footage from Robin Williams' moving last ever role in touching drama BOULEVARD! He is playing an ageing husband emotionally struggling with his life who, as a lonely married man, befriends a male prostitute (Roberto Aguire) as he faces up to his own hidden homosexuality. It's out next month!
