Nick Sandow's movie VIVIEN &THE FLORIST with Carla Gugino as Vivien Leigh has finished shooting exploring Leigh’s struggle with
bipolar disorder in the 1960s, as she prepares to lead the Broadway
production of John Gielgud’s (David Hyde Pierce) Chekhov adaptation of Ivanov. Leigh
collides with Joseph Penn (Matthew Modine),
a WWII veteran and florist who encounters Leigh on a
delivery. At the same time, the star attends a local psychiatric
facility for electroconvulsive therapy. Amidst the backdrop of madness
Leigh and Penn become each other’s sources of truth, beauty, and love. Jack Davenport is Laurence Olivier with Eoin Macken also in the cast.
Netflix is releasing on April 17th their ten episode series based on Jodi Thomas book series RANSOM CANYON and you can watch the trailer with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly
as leads of this romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western
saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching
families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas
hill country. Duhamel plays Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of a sprawling
ranch. He is steadfast and stoic, and leads the charge to resist outside
forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves.
Kelly plays Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of
others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert
pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for
herself. Eoin Macken, Tatanka Means and James Brolin also star.
Believe it or not, it is that time of the year when Hallmark announces it's legendary countdown to Christmas which means festive movies from October 21st all the way till the end of December. The 40 movies that will premiere across the channel will bring back some of your favourite romantic
John Brotherton, Luke MacFarlane, Andrew Walker, Jonathan Bennett
genre stars from Luke MacFarlane and Corey Sevier to John Brotherton, Dean Jeannotte and Andrew Walker! The lineup will also include a gay romance between Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa in THE HOLIDAY SITTER about a guy who recruits the help from a handsome neighbour while babysitting his niece and nephew! Some of the films will also
Steve Lund, Korey Sevier, Dean Jeannotte, Chandler Massey
feature Aimee Teegarden, Tia Carrere, Jack Wagner, Victor Webster, Will Kemp, Melissa Peterman, Greta Scacchi, Bruce Campbell. There will even be THREE WISE MEN AND A BABY, a movie including three Hallmark faves Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker.
LA BREA SEASON 2
ARRIVES NEXT WEEK!
La Brea returns next Tuesday to NBC
One of the premieres that next week is bringing us is the return of NBC's adventure series LA BREA with the second season after the success of the first one last year which became the best watched new show of the season.The series follows an epic family adventure after a massive sinkhole opens
in Los Angeles pulling people and buildings into a mysterious and
dangerous primeval land where they have no choice but to band together
to survive.
STARTING SEPTEMBER 27TH
which is next Tuesday, season two returns to
the Harris family which remains separated as Eve (Natalie Zea) is
reeling from her bratty son, Josh (Jack Martin), having mistakenly gone through
a portal to 1988. What she doesn’t know yet is that her estranged
husband, Gavin (Eoin Macken), and their daughter, Izzy (Zyra Gorecki),
have landed in prehistoric Seattle and now must brave the elements and
animals to make their way to L.A. The cast will see the return of Jon
Seda, Nicholas Gonzalez, Chiké Okonkwo, Veronica St. Clair, Rohan
Mirchandaney, Lily Santiago, Josh McKenzie, Tonantzin Carmelo, and
Michelle Vergara Moore, with Martin Sensmeier as Taamet, the leader of
The Exiles, a dangerous group of people living in 10,000 BC. Taamet will
become a feared adversary of the La Brea Survivors as Season Two
unfolds.
Well, from time to time Netflix forgets about their nasty horrors and Korean crap and gives us something truly heartwarming like the British
The movie is out September 16th
musical comedy I am presenting you today: I USED TO BE FAMOUS will stream from September 16th with Ed Skrein as Vince who used to be in the hottest boy band around. Now the troubled former popstar is alone and desperate. He dreams of making a comeback and starts performing in the streets of Peckham, in the hope that someone, anyone, will listen. An impromptu jam with Stevie (Leo Long), an autistic young drummer with an incredible gift for rhythm, sparks an unexpected friendship between the two misunderstood musicians. Together they form a unique bond through the power of music. Our boy Eoin Macken also stars.
It is the most expensive television series shot down in Australia in more than a decade. NBC moved the production on their upcoming new adventure
La Brea arrives September 28th to NBC
series LA BREA Down Under where it was safer for the crew during the covid pandemics. Now the series, which cost well over $70 million to make, is ready to start airing September 28th on NBC as one of the very few new shows that we can look forward to this month. David Aplebaum's high end show uses the real life mystery of famous La Brea tar pit that exists in the middle of Los Angeles as the trigger for the story about a family which inexplicably finds themselves in a primeval world, along with a number of fraught strangers, when a massive sinkhole sinks a sizable chunk of Los Angeles deep into the Earth!
STORY OF LA BREA CENTRES
around
a mother (Nathalie Zea) and a father (Eoin Macken) who are suddenly
separated from one another when a massive sinkhole swallows
The show is still shooting Down Under
hundreds of
Los Angeles people, buildings, and landmarks from the busy city. Rather
than plummet to their deaths, these fallen souls are descended into a
primeval land, unlike anything in the known world, where they have no
choice but to band together to survive all the dangers which, as you can
see in the trailer, involve some nasty primeval beasts and animals as
well, both the land ones and the flying ones. Meanwhile, the rest of the
world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for
answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the
secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
WHO WILL FALL INTO LA BREA?
Nathalie Zea plays Eve Harris, a busy working mom who’s sometimes a little overprotective and just trying to hold it all together. Eoin Macken’s Gavin Harris, Eve’s recently estranged husband, is full of swagger and charm. Jack Martin will be Josh Harris, Gavin’s son who coasts through
Zyra, Martin, Zea and Macken are the Harrises in the series
life on his wit, has great sense of humor and an undeniable charisma. Zyra Gorecki will play their daughter as the first actress with a bionic leg to lead a major network show. Jon Seda will play Dr. Benjamine Glass, a former Navy Seal who knows how to take charge and is a father of a teenage girl (Veronica
Seda, Gonzalez, McKenzie, St Clair also star in La Brea
St. Clair). Nicholas Gonzalez will play Levi Brooks, an Air Force pilot and Gavin’s best friend who is recruited to lead the mission to save the people who fell into the sinkhole. Josh McKenzie will play Lucas. Sarcastic with an air of danger, Lucas has gone down a road of crime and works as a drug dealer!
NBC has released a trailer for their new TV series ORDINARY JOE which will start September 20th starring James Wolk in three different stories with the same character. Life is all about the choices you make - and sometimes, what you do in a single moment can change everything. This new
Ordinary Joe will launch September 20th after The Voice
heartfelt, life-affirming drama follows Joe Kimbreau, who faces one of these decisions at his college graduation. The three parallel stories that diverge from that night find Joe and the people around him with different careers, relationships and family lives, showing the unexpected ways that things change - and stay the same. In one scenario, Joe asks out a girl (Natalie Martinez) at graduation and then becomes a rock star, while in another, he
In one of the parallel lives James Wolk will be a rock star
marries his best friend (Elizabeth Lail) and works in a hospital. The third choice sees Joe following in his father’s footsteps as a police officer. But when it comes down to it, there is no "right" choice; no matter what happens, Joe's life is always messy, exciting, tough, unpredictable... and beautiful. Adam Rodriguez will also star as a young congressman.
LA BREA SERIES TEASER
OPENS A SINKHOLE IN LA
NBC has also unveiled a thrilling first teaser for another of their new Autumn series LA BREA which will also arrive September 28rd! An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in
Eoin Macken and Nathalie Zea lead the cast in La Brea
find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
There is literally just one new series coming to US networks this Autumn that I plan to watch and it is LA BREA epic adventure series starring
La Brea will start with the new Autumn season
Eoin Macken, Natalie Zea, John Seda and Nicholas Gonzales in the lead roles. The series is currently shooting in Australia and will air in Autumn.
THE STORY OF LA BREA
begins
when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling
hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find
themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have
no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the
world desperately seeks to
Click on the photo to see the exotic world in which La Brea is set! La Brea is a real massive tar pit in Los Angeles which scientists use as a gateway to Ice Age as the tar has preserved lots of primeval animals and their bones.
understand what happened. In the search for
answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the
secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.
Isn't that the cutest news of the week? Emily Osment will return to the world of sitcoms after Young and Hungry in an currently untitled new multi camera sitcom which just got a ten episode order over at Netflix and Gregg Sulkin will take the male lead. This is not the first time two of them are working together. With Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand as the show creators, the new comedy revolves around a snooty, self proclaimed intellectual (Osment) forced to move in with her carefree sister and her sister’s lovably eccentric friends, one of them played by Gregg Sulkin.
Emily Osment’s character in the new comedy series at Netflix, Chelsea, is an Ivy league educated intellectual who is
book smart and quick witted but lacks the real world skills she needs to
have a functional life. She finds herself living in LA without any
options other than her bubbly sister, Claire, and Claire’s roommates.
Meanwhile, Gregg Sulkin’s character in the new series, Grant, is romantic, genuinely sweet, and an often shirtless personal trainer. He has a childlike
Gregg Sulkin will play one of the male leads in the new sitcom
curiosity about the world and is the kind of guy women love and men… also love! He used to date Claire, but now they’re “just friends.”
EOIN MACKEN
TO LEAD NBC'S LA BREA SERIES
NBC is moving on with the producton on the pilot for their catastrophe series LA BREA but they've replaced the male lead (and a few other roles)
Eoin Macken will play the father of the family
and put our fave hunkster Eoin Macken opposite Natalie Zea. Jack Martin, Jon Seda, Veronica St. Clair, Chiké Okonkwo and Lily Santiago will also star together with Zyra Gorecki.
When a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a
family in half, separating mother (Zea) and son (Martin) from father
(Macken) and daughter (Gorecki). When part of the family find themselves
in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a disparate group of
strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where
they are and if there is a way back home.
Macken will play Gavin Harris, Eve’s recently estranged husband, full of
swagger and charm. Jack Martin is Josh Harris, Gavin’s son who coasts
through life on his wit, has great sense of humor and an undeniable
charisma. Jon Seda will play Dr. Sam Velez, the father of a teenage girl
(St. Clair), he carries himself like the general of an Army.
Sf all the way this weekend, people, starting with Netflix' new eight episode series BLACK SUMMER coming from Z Nation creators, which will star Jaime King as a mother, torn from her daughter, who embarks upon a harrowing journey, stopping at nothing to find her. Thrust alongside a small group of American refugees, she must brave a hostile world and make brutal decisions during the deadly summer of zombie apocalypse.
COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS
Empress will be turned into a TV movie
MARK MILLAR'S EMPRESS SPACE OPERA Netflix is also turning into a movie Mark Millar's comic book
EMPRESS about Queen Emporia who is married to the worst dictator in the
galaxy, King Morax. After escaping his palace with her children, Emporia
and her family, must hide from Morax and his army at all costs — even
if it takes teleporting from planet to planet.
The Lost City Explorers will become TV series
THE LOST CITY EXPLORERS Meanwhile,
Universal Television will adapt Zack Kaplan's comic book THE LOST CITY
EXPLORERS into TV series following a group of teens who become
underground urban explorers after a mysterious expedition leads to the
disappearance of one of their fathers. Following his tracks on a journey through subterranean tunnels, they ultimately find the
holy grail of lost cities, Atlantis, buried under New York.
Light's comic book is followed by her music album
LIGHT'S 'SKIN & EARTH' Entertainment
One is planning on turning graphic comic series SKIN & EARTH
into a TV show. Written by singer Lights, it follows a girl looking for hope in
a hopeless world. Caught between the romance and cults, gods and
mortals, Enaia Jin is led down a dark path by new lovers that reveal a
twisted fantasy world and her own true nature. Set in a post apocalyptic
future ruled by the Tempest Corporation, it is an adventurous tale of
loneliness, deceit and self discovery!
'NIGHTFLYERS' SF SERIES
TRAILER WITH EOIN MACKEN!
Nigtflyers will fly sometime this Fall on SyFy
Netflix and SyFy have revealed the first full trailer and poster for their sf series NIGHTFLYERS based on George R.R. Martin's novella and starring Eoin Macken and Gretchen Mol. In 2093, in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system, a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath embark on an expedition aboard The NIGHTFLYER. As they race towards first contact, terrifying and violent events begin to occur, causing the once tight-knit crew to mistrust each other. It's not long before their main mission becomes survival. SyFy will air the series this Fall before it moves over to Netflix!
Beside A Suitable Boy and Black Narcissus at BBC (whoseOrdeal By Innocence has been just set for Easter Sunday), it seems we are getting a new India set series at ITV too after their Indian Summer saga.
Viceroy's House's Gurinder Chadha will helm the six part 19th century
saga BEECHAM HOUSE about a handsome and soulful former soldier, John
Beecham, who has acquired the Delhi house to start a new life for his
family and a business as a trader. Wealthy and distinguished, John has
witnessed profiteering and exploitation during his time with the
controlling East India Company and appears haunted by his past.
Determined to escape that life, he sets his sights on becoming an
honourable member of the region’s trading community.
But in the glorious setting of BEECHAM HOUSE, John’s life remains
shrouded in mystery. His arrival provokes gossip amongst the servants
and despite filling his residence with relatives and friends, Beecham’s
house still has dark corners that crackle with conspiracy and sinister
intent. The story also unfolds at a time when the 1,000 year old Mughal
rule is over and the British vie with the Maharajas to claim India as
their own.
'NIGHTFLYERS' TEASER
FOR EOIN MACKEN SF SERIES
SyFy has released a very teasing teaser for George R.R. Martin's sf series NIGHTFLYERS which starts this Fall following a team of scientists on an expedition to the edge of our solar system in the hope of making contact with
Eoin Macken leads the cast of the new sf series
alien life. When terrifying events begin to take place they start to question each other, and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought. Eoin Macken, Sam Strike and Gretchen Moll lead the cast.
I reported earlier last year that George R.R. Martin's novella NIGHTFLYERS is to be made into a TV series, but now SyFy has revealed the cast and it is rather magnificent! The series, which will be aired around the world by Netflix, follows eight scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of the solar system aboard The Nightflyer in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place they start to question each other and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.
It has been revealed today that Gretchen Mol will star as Dr. Agatha
Matheson, alongside Eoin Macken as Karl D’Branin, David Ajala as Roy
Eris, Sam Strike as Thale, Maya Eshet as Lommie, Angus Sampson as Rowan,
Jodie Turner-Smith as Melantha Jhirl and Brían F. O’Byrne as Auggie.
The series will be shot in Ireland.
KATE BECKINSALE TO LEAD
ITV'S 'THE WIDOW' TV SERIES
Shooting starts this month in South Africa
Meanwhile, over across the pond, British ITV has revealed that Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale is moving over to the small screen in order to topline their new series THE WIDOW which they will produce together with Amazon! She will play Georgia Wells who has her life turned upside down with a phone call in the middle of the night. Her husband of over 10 years, Will, has been reported dead after a plane crash in the Congolese jungle.
Three years later, with her old life now a thing of the past, Georgia learns something shocking. Something that will take her to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looking to uncover the truth about his disappearance.
Still haunted by the past, Georgia is grieving for the man she loved and the life they’ve lost, but she hasn’t given up hope.
Being wonderfully blasphemous and delightfully irreverent as we truly are, we're not sending you to Church this Sunday but to our own enchanting hunkfest! Starting with our deeply beloved Welsh superstar Luke Evans. Now, as some of you know, HOBBIT and DRACULA star has the most amazing singing voice (check out his song from RENT in the clip below) and I myself have been begging him to record an album for years now, but it seems we will hear that stunning voice of his on the big screen since Disney has revealed that he will have two songs in their live action adaptation of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in which he plays charmingly narcissistic Gaston alongside Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Dan Stevens, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Kline. Legendary Alan Menken is writing the music and Luke has revealed, speaking for 'Collider' that his two songs are 'incredibly unique and different'! Bill Condon is directing.
FINAL 'RESIDENT EVIL' MOVIE
CASTS WILLIAM LEVY, EOIN MACKEN, AND IAIN GLEN And since we're a worldwide read site, it wouldn't do to just give
you a Welsh hunk, so we're giving you an Irish and Latino one too! The
final, sixth, part of famous sf action franchise RESIDENT EVIL has added
Eoin Macken and William Levy to the cast alongside Milla Jovovich, Ali
Larter and Iain Glen in the Paul W.S. Anderson helmed movie in which
Milla as mighty Alice races against time to stop the villainous Red
Queen from destroying the final remnants of humanity. MERLIN's Macken
currently stars in NBC's THE NIGHT SHIFT series and has shot THE FOREST
thriller in Serbia with Taylor Kinney and Natalie Dormer, while Levi is
the most famous of Latin models, actors and heartthrobs!
Since we still have no interesting news coming from Tinseltown this week, we're sticking to the small screen updates, starting with the one coming from SyFy: they've found a new cast addition for science fiction series DOMINION which stars our dear Tom Wisdom as archangel Michael who leads people in the battle against his brother Gabriel in a future world in which people live in walled cities trying to survive. The second, 13 episode, season will have dashing SPARTACUS star Simon Merrells playing Julian, the leader of New Delphi (one of the remaining fortified cities) who will do whatever it takes to preserve the city!
'DREADSTAR' COMIC BOOK TO
BECOME SPACE OPERA TV SHOW Speaking of science fiction series, 'Deadline' reports that superhero
comic book DREADSTAR will be developed into TV series penned and
produced by comic artist and creator Jim Starlin (Guardians Of The
Galaxy, Captain Marvel)! This space opera centres on Vanth Dreadstar,
sole survivor of the entire Milky Way galaxy, and an ensemble cast of
crew mates, including cyborg sorcerer Syzygy Darklock, and their
struggle to end an ancient war between two powerful, evil empires: The
Church of The Instrumentality, run by the Lord Papal; and the Monarchy,
administered by King Gregzor.
'KILLING JESUS' TRAILER
KELSEY GRAMMER, EOIN MACKEN, RUFUS SEWELL, STEPHEN MOYER
In the sea of Biblical series coming to TV this spring, yet another will be National Geographic Channel's historical series KILLING JESUS which just got its first trailer! To air March 29th, this three hour series will see Kelsey Grammer leading the star studded cast as King Herod!
He will play the unrelenting and ambitious Roman King of
Judea, who attempted to kill Jesus (Haaz Sleiman) at his birth, in the story which will
chronicle the life of Jesus of at a time of intense political and
social and conflict in the Roman Empire that ultimately led to his death! The series also stars StephenMoyer as Pontius Pilate, Rufus Sewell, Eoin Macken, John Rhys Davies, Aneurin Barnard, Tamsin Egerton. Read more about their roles in our spotlight!
National Geographic Channel has announced their work on new historical mini series: they will produce the small screen adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's bestselling book KILLING JESUS with Kelsey Grammer leading the star studded cast as King Herod! Famous TV star will play the unrelenting and ambitious Roman King of Judea, who attempted to kill Jesus at his birth, in the story which will chronicle the life of Jesus of at a time of intense political and social and conflict in the Roman Empire that ultimately led to his death. Check out the rest of the ensemble cast of the four hour mini series:
STAR STUDDED CAST
STEPHEN MOYER IS PONTIUS TRUE BLOOD star Stephen Moyer will portray Pontius Pilate, the Roman
governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus, while Haaz Sleiman (The
Visitor) will play the Jesus himself. RUFUS SEWELL & EOIN MACKEN Rufus Sewell
(Hercules) will play Caiaphas, high priest of Jerusalem and conspirator
in Jesus’ death, while Irish hunk Eoin Macken(The Night Shift, Merlin) will be
Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea and co-conspirator in Jesus’
death!
HERODIA & JOHN THE BAPTIST Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) will play
Herodia, ex-wife of Herod II and wife of his brother Antipas, who
manipulated her husband into killing John the Baptist.
Abhin Galeya is John the Baptist, who was considered a prophet and
arrested and killed by Antipas!
JOHN RHYS DAVIES Legendary John Rhys
Davies (Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings) is Annas, a high priest in
Jerusalem who first questioned Jesus and his teachings! Stephanie
Leonidas (Defiance) is Salome, daughter of Herod II and Herodias, who
led to the demise of John the Baptist.
APOSTLE JAMES AND ISAIAH Young Aneurin
Barnard (The White Queen) is James, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles, while
Vernon Dobtcheff (Before Sunset) is Isaiah, the prophet whom King Herod
claimed came to him in a dream and prophesied his death!
CLAUDIA AND JUDAS Tamsin
Egerton (Camelot, The Look of Love) is Claudia, the wife of Pontius
Pilate, while Joe Doyle (Reign) will portray Judas, the apostle who
eventually betrayed Jesus!
veteran and florist who encounters Leigh on a
delivery. At the same time, the star attends a local psychiatric
facility for electroconvulsive therapy. Amidst the backdrop of madness
Leigh and Penn become each other’s sources of truth, beauty, and love. Jack Davenport is Laurence Olivier with Eoin Macken also in the cast. 
veteran and florist who encounters Leigh on a
delivery. At the same time, the star attends a local psychiatric
facility for electroconvulsive therapy. Amidst the backdrop of madness
Leigh and Penn become each other’s sources of truth, beauty, and love. Jack Davenport is Laurence Olivier with Eoin Macken also in the cast. 
