SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM LAST TWO SEASONS OF THE EMPIRE HIGH END EPIC DOCUDRAMA ABOUT LAST RUSSIAN TZARS ALEXANDER III AND NICHOLAS II

  THE EMPIRE DOCUSERIES  

The series will air on Russian national broadcaster

CONTINUES WITH FINAL TWO RUSSIAN TZARS

After eight previous seasons which included Peter I: The First and the Last and Empresses and also Catherine The Great, lavish Russian historical docuseries THE EMPIRE will finish with three part ALEXANDER III and four part NICHOLAS II last two Russian tzars. ALEXANDER III will see Valeriy Smekalov in the lead role. With the accession of Emperor Alexander III, the era of radical reforms and rampant terrorism was replaced by an era of stability. The Russian Empire, continuing to expand, did not wage foreign wars. The economy began to grow rapidly, which was facilitated by the introduction of protectionism. A distinctive Russian style developed in art, and descendants of merchants and manufacturers who had received a European education gradually entered the arena of public life. “The most Russian tsar,” as Alexander III was called by his contemporaries, ruled for only thirteen and a half years, but left behind a rich political and artistic legacy. 

 

 NICHOLAS II THE LAST TZAR 

Danile Shevchenko will play the last tzar of Russia. The impetus given to the Russian economy by Alexander III led to a real industrial boom during the reign of Nicholas II: the expansion of railway construction, industrialization, and the strengthening of the ruble. But at the same time, social stratification increased, which led to the growth of the revolutionary movement. The reforms of Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin returned Russia to the path of sustainable development, but the First World War intervened in the course of events. New political upheavals ended with the February Revolution, during which the last Russian emperor abdicated the throne. Hope we get a trailer soon so stay tuned for more news from Russia.

 

SARAH LANCASHIRE, STEVEN KNIGHT WORKING ON SHAKESPEARE DRAMA SERIES! SEE TRAILER FOR DANISH 19TH CENTURY SATIRE MOVIE EMPIRE (VIFTEN) SET IN COLONIAL WEST INDIES!

 NEW SHAKESPEARE SERIES 

FROM SARAH LANCASHIRE AND STEVEN KNIGHT

Julia star Sarah Lancashire and Steven Knight are teaming up on making a drama series on WILLIAM SHAKE SPEARE, which will tell the

Lancashire will produce via her production company

complete story of the glove-maker’s son who became the greatest storyteller in history and how his genius survived and thrived in an age of turmoil and terror, danger and disease. As Variety reports, it aims to be the first full account of the passion, people and politics that made William Shakespeare the world’s most famous dramatist and the men and women around him who loved and labored, schemed and plotted, killed and connived in one of the most dangerous periods in history. Sarah Lancashire, who came up with the idea for the series, will produce through her production company.

 EMPIRE MOVIE TRAILER 

FROM COLONIAL DENMARK

Available for viewing to the Danish cinemagoers as of this weekend is their sprawling historical movie drama EMPIRE (Viften) which already had its

Empire is out as of April 20th in Denmark

world premiere earlier this January at Goteborg Film Festival in the neighbouring Sweden.  Coming from Meta Film studio, the movie was directed by Frederikke Aspock and delves deeply into Denmark’s colonial past in the Danish West Indies in 1848.

  EMPIRE FOLLOWS  

Anna Heegaard and Petrine (Sara Fanta Traore) who are close friends. Both women are colored, but their living conditions are very different – ​​Anna is free and owns the enslaved Petrine. Anna lives with Governor-General Peter von Scholten (Claus Riis Østergaard) at his country house, where she manages the home, the fortune and her beloved and trusted housekeeper Petrine. Everything seems to be as it should be, until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl. Which side are Anna and Petrine really on – and is it the same? This absurdist satire drama was written by Anna Neye who also plays the lead role.

AMAZON PREPARING 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN' EPIC TV SERIES! CHET HANKS, KADE WISE JOINING 'EMPIRE' SEASON 4 AS NEW RAPPERS IN LYON EMPIRE

  'CONAN' TV SERIES

New Conan will be done at Amazon

COMING TO AMAZON!

The epic TV treat of the day are news coming from Amazon who are developing an epic series on CONAN The Barbarian based on Robert E. Howard's famous comic books! The series comes from Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik and Handmaid's Tale producer Warren Littlefield.

Returning to the original story from the comic books, CONAN will see the title epic hero driven out of his tribal homelands and wandering the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization where he searches for purpose in a place that rejects him as a mindless savage. As you know, Amazon has recently paid massive bucks for Lord of the Rings TV series rights and is obviously venturing into epic fantasy waters.

  'EMPIRE' SEASON FOUR

CHET HANKS AND KADE WISE JOIN THE LYON MUSIC EMPIRE

Kade Wise will be a Muslim preacher rapper

Meanwhile, if you are looking forward to the return of everybody's favourite hip hop soap opera EMPIRE at Fox March 28th, you can also look forward to two new hunks in the cast! The return of the fourth season will see Lucious (Terrence Howard) in a Misery scenario when Demi Moore locks him up in a wood cabin and Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) will come to his rescue. Two new faces joining the season as new rappers are Kade Wise (who will attract Jamal Lyon’s, played by Jussie Smollett, musical interest) and Tom's hunky son Chet Hanks (who will play Blake, a blue-collar rapper, a skilled MC and

Chet Hanks will play a new rapper in Empire called Blake

and lyricist)! They will both have a reoccurring role in the comeback of season four this spring.

EVA LONGORIA TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE'! NATHALIE KELLEY IS KRYSTLE IN 'THE DYNASTY' TV REBOOT! SAOIRSE RONAN TO LEAD 'SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY' ADAPTATION

 'THE DYNASTY' TV REBOOT

NATHALIE KELLEY IS NEW KRYSTLE

A month ago I informed you that CW is preparing a pilot for the reboot of the famous soap opera THE DYNASTY and now we have the new Krystle or Cristal in the modernized version! Vampire Diaries star Nathalie Kelley will take the role!

Here's the new twist: the story will be told primarily through the perspectives of two women at odds: Fallon Carrington,  daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America's most powerful class. In an age where dynasties appear everywhere - from reality TV to the polling booths - this epic drama features the one percent in all its glitz and gloss, while exposing the dark underbelly: a corrupt world built on backroom deals, betrayal, and, in some cases… murder.

 SAOIRSE RONAN TO LEAD

'SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY'

Deadline reports today that Saoirse Ronan will lead the adaptation of bestselling novel SWEET- NESS IN THE BELLY by Camilla Gibb. She will play Lilly Abdal, a woman caught between two places: one of her birth parents and the other, where she was adopted, raised and fell in love. Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly’s first experience of her parents’ homeland of England is as a refugee, escaping civil war. As lost in this cold new world as her fellow immigrants, Lilly becomes the heart of this disenfranchised community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly’s mission isn’t purely altruistic and a passionate lost love affair is revealed between Lilly and Aziz, an idealistic doctor.

 EVA LONGORIA

 TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE'

And to end the day with lovely ladies, here's a new info on desperate housewife Eva Longoria: she will be the latest guest star in Fox's hit show EMPIRE trying to boost up its ratings which have been falling down steady with the start of the third season which is to return March 22nd with Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious starting their biggest battle ever against each other after his dirty attack on her lover played by Taye Diggs!

Eva Longoria will play Charlotte Frost, the formidable director of the all-powerful state gaming commission. Charlotte has the power to make-or-break Lucious’ (Terrence Howard) dreams of expanding Empire’s reach to Las Vegas and beneath her alluring façade, lies a force of darkness and corruption.

MARIAH CAREY TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE' + NEW SEASON 3 POSTER & PHOTOS! FIRST 'ARRIVAL' SF MOVIE TEASER WITH AMY ADAMS AND JEREMY RENNER

'EMPIRE' SEASON 3

 MARIAH CAREY IS KITTY

She was announced for season 2 but Mariah Carey will now guest star in the third season of America's most watched series EMPIRE next month! She will not play herself, but a fictional pop star Kitty (I kid you not) who comes to record an explosive duet with Jamal Lyon (Jussie Smollett), helping him solve his creative crisis and reach a musical breakthrough. I hear she will be wearing a leotard in her scenes :) Taye Diggs will also guest star.

THEIR REIGN, THEIR RULES

The drama returns in Season Three, as the battle continues for the Soul of EMPIRE. Each member of the Lyon family must cope with the events that were set in motion in the Season Two finale. Lucious (Terrence Howard) pursues his music legacy with his streaming service, while also clashing with his half brother, Tariq (Morocco Omari), who is leading a federal task force investigating him. Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) aims to start over, in pursuit of her own happiness – a series of flashbacks reveal how Loretha Holloway became Cookie Lyon and how Cookie met Lucious. Meanwhile, the Lyon brothers – Andre, Jamal and Hakeem – all are determined to overcome the events of last season and move on, but the choices they face will become a battle for the soul of the Lyon family.

'ARRIVAL' SF TRAILER

WITH AMY ADAMS

Meanwhile, Paramount has just released the first trailer for science fiction movie ARRIVAL which is out this November  revolving around a linguist named Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who is brought in by the government to decipher an extraterrestrial language when alien ships arrive on Earth. Jeremy Renner stars as a theoretical physicist who is trying to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

'EMPIRE' RENEWED FOR SEASON 3 AFTER TARAJI P. HENSON'S GOLDEN GLOBE WIN! 'SECRET LIFE OF PETS' SNOWBALL BUNNY CLIP IS HERE AND IT'S NOT WHAT YOU'D EXPECT

'EMPIRE' TO OPEN THE DOORS

OF LYON'S DEN FOR 3RD SEASON

Yes, yes, you will taste Cookie's cookies again! Fox has officially renewed their leading TV series EMPIRE for the third season ahead of the airing of the spring part of its second season March 30th! No wonder at all since it got both popular and critical acclaim, with Taraji P. Henson winning best actress in a drama Golden Globe this month and with viewership reaching 20 million and above each week. Although the second season saw a small drop among viewers, it is still number one broadcast TV series. Terrence Howard and Jussie Smollett also star in the saga of the family of hip hop and r'n'b music moguls. The end of the winter season saw Naomi Campbell's character take over the EMPIRE!

'SECRET LIFE OF PETS'

SNOWBALL BUNNY CLIP IS HERE

The only video I have for you today is a hilarious new clip from this summer's THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS animated movie but I can't establish whether it's sweet or if it actually turns me away from watching the film. It features Kevin Hart's little bunny who is not what you might expect. The white bunny named Snowball (who is insanely cute and also just insane) is actually building an army of abandoned pets determined to take revenge on all happy-owned pets and their owners.

DELIGHTFUL NEW 'GOOD DINOSAUR' TRAILER AND POSTERS! NICOLE KIDMAN TO STAR IN 'EMPIRE' SHOW? 'NEXT CHAPTER' SITCOM ON NICHOLAS SPARKS LIFE! 'SHANNARA CHRONICLES' EPIC SERIES POSTER REVEALED

NICOLE KIDMAN 

TO GUEST STAR IN 'EMPIRE'?

In today's television news, ultra popular record breaking series EMPIRE which is already airing its second season with great success might also see Nicole Kidman guest starring next to Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard! Show creator Lee Daniels has revealed that he wants her in one of the episodes after already working with her on THE PAPERBOY movie. EMPIRE's new season has already seen Ludacris, Chris Rock, Marisa Tomei and Kelly Rowland guest starring with Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys too appear soon too!

'NEXT CHAPTER' SITCOM ON SPARKS' LIFE

Meanwhile, ABC is to turn writer Nicholas Sparks' new single life into THE NEXT CHAPTER TV sitcom after he divorced his wife recently after 25 years of marriage! It will centre on a romance novelist who, after a divorce, must learn to date again and live on his own.

'THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES' 

NEW POSTER FOR EPIC SERIES  
And MTV has released the first official poster for their upcoming new epic fantasy series THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES which airs this January revolving around the Shannara family, whose descendants are empowered with ancient magic and whose adventures continuously reshape the future of the world. Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero, John Rhys Davies, Manu Bennett star as elven princess, kings, magicians, warriors....

'THE GOOD DINOSAUR' 

 NEW TRAILER AND POSTERS!

Disney Pixar has released a brand new, delightful, trailer and posters for their new animated adventure THE GOOD DINOSAUR which arrives into theatres November 25th asking the generations old question: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The film is a humorous and exciting original story about Arlo, a lively 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus with a big heart. After a traumatic event rattles Arlo’s tranquil community, he sets out on a quest to restore peace, gaining an unlikely companion along the way — a young human boy named Spot.

COLIN FARRELL IS WIZARD IN EDDIE REDMAYNE'S 'FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM'! MARIAH CAREY, PITBULL JOIN 'EMPIRE'! JAMIE BACON, ANGUS MACFADYEN IN 'GREAT GATEWAY' EPIC MOVIE ON SCOTTISH PRINCE CHARLIE!

COLIN FARRELL IS WIZARD IN

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM MOVIE

By now, you've probably already heard that Irish star Colin Farrell has joined HARRY PLOPPER prequel FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM! In the story that is set 70 years before the Harry Plopper series of movies, and that is revolving around a magizoologist named Newt Scamander (Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne) as he sets out to chronicle the history and locations of several magical creatures, Colin Farrell will play wizard Graves who meets with Scamander in New York. Katherine Waterston stars as the female lead Tina, Ezra Miller is the magical Kredan and Alison Sudol is Tina's younger sister Queenie. David Yates is directing movie scheduled for November 2016!

'EMPIRE' 2ND SEASON CASTS

MARIAH CAREY AND PITBULL!
When it comes to television, beside the news that Fox is preparing both X MEN live action TV series and PRISON BREAK mini series with both Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, there's also an info that Mariah Carey and PitBull are the latest music stars to appear in the second season of mega popular EMPIRE TV series, which already has Ne Yo, Alicia Keys, Kelly Rowland, Lenny Kravitz, Ludacris, guest starring alongside Adam Rodriguez and Marisa Tomei as new actors in the cast! Pitbull will perform a song with Jussie Smollett's Jamal. It isn't known whom Mariah will play and will the diva fight with the mother of all divas Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson)! Carey previously worked with show's writer and director Lee Daniels on his critically acclaimed movie PRECIOUS in which she had an unexpectedly stunning performance. There are also talks that EMPIRE will be soon getting a spin-off prequel series focused only on Cookie Lyon!

'THE GREAT GATEWAY' 

JAMIE BACON IS SCOTLAND'S BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE

Meanwhile, in the news from our epic front, 'Digital Spy' reports that English actor Jamie Bacon will play the lead role in THE GREAT GATEWAY historical movie on Scottish hero Bonnie Prince Charlie. The story of the movie will follow the Young Pretender's escape across the Western Isles, after defeat at Culloden in the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. With filming scheduled to begin later this month including a scene of battle with half a thousand extras, the movie will also star Mhairi Calvey as Flora McDonald, along with Angus Macfadyen and James Cosmo.

DAZZLING NEW 'PAN' TRAILER WITH HUGH JACKMAN! DISNEY TO MAKE 'GENIES' 'ALADDIN' PREQUEL LIVE ACTION MOVIE! 'EMPIRE' SECOND SEASON PROMO WITH TARAJI P. HENSON! 'HERALD' COMIC BOOK ON TESLA TO BECOME TV SERIES

  DISNEY TO MAKE' GENIES'

LIVE ACTION 'ALADDIN' PREQUEL

The news of the day is that Disney is preparing ALADDIN prequel movie titled GENIES in order to set the ground for the live action ALADDIN movie which would happen after GENIES. While ALADDIN was an adaptation of ancient Arabic folk tale about a lowly street kid who finds a magical lamp with a wish granting genie the prequel GENIES would be set in the world of those magical creatures, describing how Aladdin's genie ended up in the magical lamp. As I've reported before BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and MULAN are also getting live action versions!

  'HERALD' COMIC BOOK

ON TIME TRAVELLING TESLA TO BECOME TV SERIES 
Speaking of adaptations, comic book series HERALD will be turned into a television series! Coming from writer John Reilly, and artists Tom Rogers and Dexter Weeks, the comic book to be turned into small screen show brings an alternate universe story in which a time travelling legendary Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla teams up with famous writer H.P. Lovecraft and other historical characters to save the world from various cosmic horrors.
'EMPIRE' PROMO POSTER
You can also check out the promo art for the second season of Fox's hit show EMPIRE showing Taraji P. Henson (who got nominated for Emmy today for this role) and Terrence Howard on their Lion family thrones. The show returns September 23rd!

 DAZZLING NEW 'PAN' TRAILER

 HUGH JACKMAN IS BLACKBEARD

A gorgeous new trailer for you today from upcoming adventure movie PAN filled with mermaids and fairies. Opening this October it will follow mischievous Peter (Levi Miller) who is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates and fairies called Neverland. There, he finds amazing adventures and fights battles while trying to uncover the secret of his mother, who left him at the orphanage so long ago, and his rightful place in this magical land. Teamed with the warrior Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara) and a new friend named James Hook (Garrett Hedlund), Peter must defeat the ruthless pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman) to save Neverland and discover his true destiny - to become the hero who will forever be known as Peter Pan!

DISNEY PLANNING 'PRINCE CHARMING' MOVIE! KELLY ROWLAND IS MAMA LYON, MARISA TOMEI A BILLIONAIRE IN 'EMPIRE' SEASON TWO!

 'PRINCE CHARMING' GETTING

HIS OWN MOVIE AT DISNEY!

Are you in the mood for more fairy tales at the big screen? After huge success that they've scored this year with CINDERELLA Disney is planning to venture again into the same direction but with a certain twist. According to today's news they are planning a separate movie on PRINCE CHARMING which would bring a revisionist view on the charming nobleman. As you know Richard Madden portrayed PRINCE CHARMING brilliantly in this year's CINDERELLA and by Josh Dallas in OUAT and Chris Pine in INTO THE WOODS but it isn't known if the prince will be that one or from SNOW WHITE. Disney has a whole sea of fairy tale movies in production from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST with Luke Evans, Ian McKellen, Dan Stevens and Emma Thompson to THE JUNGLE BOOK, DUMBO, MULAN and new ALICE IN WONDERLAND sequel.

 'EMPIRE' SECOND SEASON

KELLY ROWLAND AND MARISA TOMEI JOIN THE CAST OF OSCAR NOMINEES
Yet another star to join the second season of  this year biggest TV hit EMPIRE is r'n'b star Kelly Rowland and she isn't the only r'n'b star to join since Alicia Keys and Neyo will also join Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and Jussie Smollett in the cast. In the super popular series which follows a hip hop music mogul and his complex family situation Kelly will play Lucious Lyon's (Terrence Howard) mother in flashback scenes. In the whole slate of Oscar winners and nominees in the cast, Marisa Tomei is the new addition too and will play a billionaire venture capitalist whose keen business sense is only rivalled by her eye for the ladies! I reported earlier that Adam Rodriguez will play Cookie Lyon's new love interest while Chris Rock, Lenny Kravitz and Oprah Winfrey will also guest star.

'SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE' TRAILER WITH JASON SUDEIKIS, ADAM BRODY! TARAJI P. HENSON LEADS 'BEST OF ENEMIES'! JUSSIE SMOLLETT TO GUEST STAR IN 'UNDERGROUND' EPIC TV SERIES

  TARAJI P. HENSON TO LEAD

'THE BEST OF ENEMIES'

The absolute TV star of 2015, Taraji P. Henson (that body from the photo has an 18 year old son, by the way) is joining EMPIRE's creator Danny Strong in THE BEST OF ENEMIES which he is producing. As 'Deadline' reports Taraji will play Ann Atwater, the ferocious civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina who had a decade long battle with sworn enemy C.P. Ellis, from Durham’s Ku Klux Klan. Their feud came to an abrupt and unlikely end in 1971. After a court ordered school desegregation decree threw the Southern city into turmoil, Atwater and Ellis reluctantly agreed to co-chair an intensive, two week community meeting to try to reach a compromise. The extraordinary events that followed changed Durham, and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

  'UNDERGROUND' EPIC SERIES

JUSSIE SMOLLET TO GUEST STAR
Meanwhile, charismatic Jussie Smollett, who plays Taraji's ultra talented son in EMPIRE, will also guest star in two episodes of new epic series UNDERGROUND WGN America’s pre-Civil War series follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom. They are aided along the way by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the UNDERGROUND Railroad, as they evade those tasked with bringing them back — dead or alive. Jussie Smollett will beJosey, a wild-eyed runaway who doesn’t trust anyone, not even those stationed along the way who would try to help him. The regular cast includes Christopher Meloni, Marc Blucas, Jessica De Gouw...

  'SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE' 

TRAILER WITH JASON SUDEIKIS, ADAM BRODY  & ALISON BRIE

The first trailer has been released for romantic comedy with Jason Sudeikis and Allison Brie SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE where they are college buddies who meet 12 years later at a sex addicts meeting. Because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship, so they make a pact to keep their new relationship platonic. Like that’s gonna last. Adam Brody and Amanda Peet also star!

MOVING NEW 'SUFFRAGETTE' TRAILER WITH MERYL STREEP, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, CAREY MULLIGAN, BEN WHISHAW! ADAM RODRIGUEZ IS COOKIE'S NEW LOVE INTEREST IN 'EMPIRE' SEASON 2

'EMPIRE' SEASON 2

ADAM RODRIGUEZ TO GIVE SOME SUGAR TO COOKIE

One of our favourite series this year was definitely EMPIRE over at Fox which is, as you know, returning this September 23rd for a longer 18 episode second season, and they're already casting new stars: the record breaking show, which follows a broken family behind a huge music label, will see CSI star Adam Rodriguez joining the cast as a smooth talking concert promoter with expert hustler skills, a native New Yorker and former EMT who takes an interest in Cookie (Taraji P. Henson). It has already been announced that Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz and Ne-Yo will all guest star in the second run of the show.

NEW 'SUFFRAGETTE' TRAILER

WITH MERYL STREEP, CAREY MULLIGAN, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, BEN WHISHAW

A new trailer has been released for Meryl Streep's new drama which opens this year's London Film Festival and hits cinemas in October. SUFFRAGETTE follows the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. Maud (Carey Mulligan) is a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson and Ben Whishaw also star.

TIM ALLEN'S 'LAST MAN STANDING' GETS 5TH SEASON, 'EMPIRE' LONGER 2ND RUN! 1ST PICS FROM EVA LONGORIA'S SITCOM 'HOT & BOTHERED'! STUNNING 'TERMINATOR GENISYS' CHARACTER POSTERS

TELEVISION HEADLINES!

 'LAST MAN STANDING' GETS 5TH SEASON, 'EMPIRE' LONGER 2ND

With leading TV news today being that ABC has confirmed Tim Allen's beloved sitcom LAST MAN STANDING (which has helped them dominate Friday ratings for years now) for the fifth season, and that last year biggest breakout hit EMPIRE will have 18 episodes to be aired in two 9 episode parts at Fox (and with r'n'b superstar Ne-Yo joining hip hop legend Timbaland in writing the music for the new run), you can also check out the first photos from HOT & BOTHERED, a new sitcom at NBC.

EVA LONGORIA IS

TOTALLY 'HOT & BOTHERED'
Unlike the sitcoms we reviewed yesterday, that have just been ordered, HOT & BOTHERED, previously known as TELENOVELA, had a straight to series order last winter. Eva Longoria will lead the cast of the comedy about drama behind the drama. If you think the steamy sex, sensational scandals and heart wrenching heartbreak on Latino soap operas are a little extreme, just wait until you see what happens behind the scenes! Eva Longoria is Ana Sofia, a sizzling TV superstar, and her lively family of cast and crew all competing to steal the spotlight. When the cameras turn off, the drama turns up as Ana battles pesky network execs, drunken scriptwriters, narcissistic co-stars and an unfortunately familiar new on-screen love interest. Jencarlos Canela and Jose Moreno Brooks also star.

'TERMINATOR GENISYS'

NEW CHARACTER POSTERS

While the AVENGERS are breaking records at the  box office, another major science fiction franchise looking to return to the big screens is gearing up its engines: today you can check out stunning new character posters for TERMINATOR GENISYS showing Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the good old T-800 who comes to protect them, Jason Clarke as John Connor the leader of the resistance and Byung hun-Lee as the advanced shape shifting T-1000.

THE START OF NEW TRILOGY  
Coming out this July, TERMINATOR GENISYS is set in 2029, when the Future War is raging and a group of human rebels has the evil artificial intelligence system Skynet on the ropes. John Connor (Jason Clarke) is the leader of the resistance, and Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) is his loyal soldier, raised in the ruins of post apocalyptic California. As in the original film, Connor sends Reese back to 1984 to save Connor's mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator programmed to kill her so that she won't ever give birth to John. But what Reese finds on the other side is nothing like he expected.