SEE AIR DATE AND IMAGES FROM I, JACK WRIGHT FAMILY MYSTERY MURDER DRAMA WITH JOHN SIMM, HARRY LLOYD,GEMMA JONES, TREVOR EVE

    I, JACK WRIGHT   

UKTV NEW DRAMA SERIES GETS AIR DATE

Murder mystery starts this April on Alibi

UKTV has announced Wednesday, April 23rd as the start date for their new six episode mini series I, JACK WRIGHT on their special crime drama channel Alibi. It will also stream at some point later on at BritBox for viewers in USA,  on RTBF in Belgium, SVT in Sweden, RUV in Iceland, NRK in Norway, DR in Denmark and YLE in Finland. Hope we get a trailer soon, stay tuned, but in the meantime you can check out the poster and first images from the new mini series.

 

WHAT'S THE STORY 

Jack Wright (Trevor Eve) is a powerful and successful businessman, who leaves his family in disarray when they learn of his suicide. When the provisions of Jack’s final will and testament are made known, his third wife, Sally (Nikki Amuka-Bird), and two sons, Gray (John Simm) and John (Daniel Rigby), are shocked to discover they have been largely cut out of Jack’s enormous fortune. As DCI Morgan (Harry Lloyd) and DC Jones (Liz Kingsman) delve further into the case, they realise Jack’s cause of death was in fact murder. Their sights turn to the Wright family, where the mother of all feuds is beginning. As each family member becomes more reckless and desperate in their bid to own a piece of Jack’s legacy, dark secrets and resentments are revealed with explosive consequences. Gemma Jones stars as Rose Wright. This new series is a propulsive, darkly comic and moving murder mystery family drama which offers many twists and turns as one family deals with treachery and hidden agendas from all involved.

 

SEE CATE BLANCHETT, KEVIN KLINE IN FIRST IMAGES FROM APPLE TV + THRILLER TV SERIES DISCLAIMER

  DISCLAIMER TV SERIES 

FIRST CATE BLANCHETT IMAGES

With the October 11th streaming date slowly approaching as we head towards the last month of summer, Apple TV + has published some new images from Cate Blanchett's new series DISCLAIMER which was directed, written and produced by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron and also stars Kevin Kline based on a book by Renee Knight. Gemma Jones, Lesley Manville, Indira Varma, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge, Leila George also star in the series that will premiere at Venice Film Festival. The series will then premiere in October with two episodes and will stream the rest of the seven episodes weekly. 

 

  DISCLAIMER IS A GRIPPING
psychological thriller in seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband, Robert, and their son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Indira Varma is the narrator of the series. Kevin Kline plays a widower who wrote the novel.

 

DISNEY TO TURN TUDOR ERA SET DETECTIVE SHARDLAKE NOVELS INTO A MINI TV SERIES! SEE EMMA MACKEY ON NEW EMILY BRONTE PERIOD SET MOVIE POSTER!

  SHARDLAKE NOVELS TO 

BECOME TUDOR SET DETECTIVE SERIES AT DISNEY PLUS

Well, here is our first period set new series to be ordered for production this year: Disney Plus is set to turn CJ Sansom's SHARDLAKE novels into a four part Tudor era set series. Justin Chadwick will direct and sadly that is not a good news as he directed those two atrocities The Other Boleyn Girl and Becoming Elizabeth. The first book in the series, Dissolution, introduces readers to Dr Matthew Shardlake, a hunchback lawyer-turned-detective in Tudor England. He is sent by Thomas Cromwell, the ultimate Tudor powerbroker, to investigate the beheading of Robin Singleton, a commissioner responsible for disbanding monasteries after Henry VIII declared himself supreme head of the Church of England.

   NEW EMILY POSTER  

EMMA MACKEY IS BRONTE!

Emily will hit USA in February

Now, this one already played in cinemas around Europe and did not really get good grades marked as boring and uninspired, but EMILY movie on famous poet Emily Bronte will get a limited release in Northern America from February and you can see the new poster for it today. Starring Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson Cohen, Fionn Whitehead and Gemma Jones, EMILY imagines Emily Brontë's own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, 'Wuthering Heights.' Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.

EMMA MACKEY IS EMILY BRONTE IN 1ST TRAILER FOR PERIOD SET BIOPIC WITH OLIVER JACKSON COHEN! HARRIS DICKINSON, WOODY HARRELSON GO BIZARRE IN TRIANGLE OF SADNESS CANNES WINNER TRAILER

 EMILY MOVIE TRAILER 

FOR NEW BRONTE BIOPIC

The movie is out in UK and Ireland October 14th

A few days ago I told you that it will premiere at Toronto Film Festival and now we have the first trailer for EMILY Bronte biopic with Emma Mackey in the title role. Directed by Frances O'Connor, it explores her life before she wrote her famous classic Wuthering Heights.  Out in cinemas this October and November throughout Europe, and also starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Gemma Jones, EMILY imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30. Check out the trailer below:

 

  TRIANGLE OF SADNESS  

CANNES WINNER COMEDY

Speaking of festival movies, you can also check out a rather bizarre trailer for this year Cannes winner TRIANGLE OF SADNESS starring Harris Dickinson and

The movie is out in cinemas October 7th

Woody Harrelson! Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues' gallery of super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and an idiosyncratic, alcoholic, Marx-quoting captain. At first, all appears Instagrammable. But a storm is brewing, and heavy seasickness hits the passengers during the seven-course captain's dinner. The cruise ends catastrophically. Carl and Yaya find themselves marooned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship's cleaners. Hierarchy is suddenly flipped upside down, as the housekeeper is the the only one who knows how to fish.

 

KEELEY HAWES, MAX BEESLEY TO LEAD MIDWICH CUCKOOS SF CLASSIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION FOR SKY! 1ST EMMA MACKEY PHOTO AS EMILY BRONTE, OLIVER JACKSON COHEN JOINS CAST

 THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS CASTS 

KEELEY HAWES & MAX BEESLEY AS LEADS OF THE SF SERIES

Joyful news indeed as our dearest Keeley Hawes is returning to the small screens as the lead in Sky's eight episode adaptation of THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS

Keeley Hawes will take the lead role

sf novel by John Wyndham. Max Beesley will co star! To shoot next month, it is set in Midwich, a small English commuter town that is liberal and aspirational, populated by nuclear families and affluent high streets. A place where nothing much happens – and for a very good reason. That is until the twilight hours of a summer’s day when a sleepy corner of Midwich is plunged into panic. People pass out on their feet without warning, without reason. Anyone who tries to enter meets the same fate. And nobody can understand why. When the mysterious blackout is lifted, life for those affected returns to apparent normality – except every woman of child bearing age inside the zone has suddenly and inexplicably fallen pregnant. As news spreads and tensions simmer, it is up to gifted

Max Beesley will play the cop in the series

psychotherapist Dr Susannah Zellaby (Hawes) to help support those affected through the emotional wilderness. Susannah’s own daughter, Cassie, has fallen pregnant and harbours deep concerns about who, or what, is behind this phenomenon. Local officer DCI Paul Kirby (Beesley) is tasked with maintaining order but unbeknownst to them all, a terrifying force is building in the comfortable streets of Midwich. These children – potential parasites – flourish under the very love and care that their families give them. Who are these children? And what do they want? Aisling Loftus, Ukweli Roach, Synnøve Karlsen, Lara Rossi, Lewis Reeves, Rebekah Staton and Anneika Rose also star.

 FIRST LOOK AT EMMA MACKEY 

IN EMILY BRONTE DRAMA MOVIE

In other news from UK, Frances O'Connor has unveiled the first photo from her directorial debut EMILY in which Emma Mackey is playing the author of the famous Wuthering Heights. Emily Beecham and Joe Alwyn

First look at Emma Mackey in Emily which is currently shooting

are no longer in the cast, but their places have been filled by Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Gemma Jones and Adrian Dunbar! Oscar winning costume designer Michael O'Connor is doing the costumes.

HUSBAND'S DEAD BUT HIS SECRETS ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE FOR KEELEY HAWES IN FINDING ALICE TV SERIES TRAILER ALSO STARRING JOANNA LUMLEY, NIGEL HAVERS, GEMMA JONES

  FINDING ALICE TRAILER  

HUSBAND'S DEAD, SECRETS COME ALIVE FOR POOR ALICE!

January arrives as soon as next week and we already have a trailer and poster for one of the first new dramas to arrive next year: FINDING ALICE will air on ITV next month in six episodes starring Britain's treasure Keeley Hawes as Alice whose partner Harry (Jason Merrells) dies after falling

Finding Alice will air this January on ITV

down the stairs when they move into their newly finished dream house. Harry designed the house, so it’s weird and wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to go with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of 20 years is no more, and now she can’t find the fridge. If that were her only problem …

     Family should be a source of comfort, but Harry’s parents, Minnie (Gemma Jones) and Gerry (Kenneth Cranham), keep popping round uninvited. Whilst Alice’s own parents, Roger (Nigel Havers) and Sarah (Joanna Lumley), only seem to add to her list of problems. With Harry gone and Alice struggling to cope, Charlotte is forced to bottle up her grief and be the responsible one. Especially when the police turn

Coming from the producers of The Durrells the series will air in six episodes

up asking questions about the night that Harry died... Men have a habit of hiding stuff that they don’t want to deal with, and Alice discovers that Harry was worse than most. Harry’s sudden death kicks up a storm of secrets, debt and suspicion which Alice is forced to confront in order to survive. The series was renewed for season 2 in March 2021.