BBC'S 'THE DRESSER' PHOTOS WITH IAN MCKELLEN, ANTHONY HOPKINS! GORGEOUS 'FATHERS & DAUGHTERS' TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AARON PAUL, AMANDA SEYFRIED! 'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODE 5TH SEASON

'THE DRESSER' BBC MOVIE

STARRING IAN MCKELLEN AND ANTHONY HOPKINS

Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!

TELEVISION HEADLINES 

'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom with its almost 100 episodes is close to syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane, Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!
NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of space in NBC's new schedule.

'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS' 

 TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL

And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS! When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should arrive to theatres next month around Europe.

COMEDY WEEKEND: FIRST CAST PHOTOS FROM EVA LONGORIA'S, ZACHARY LEVI'S NEW 'HOT & BOTHERED' NBC SITCOM WITH HER AS A STAR OF A FICTIONAL TELENOVELA

'HOT & BOTHERED' SITCOM

CAST PHOTOS FROM EVA LONGORIA'S NEW COMEDY 

And to finish our comedy weekend during which we've been announcing new sitcoms, here are the first cast photos from another of NBC's new comedy series, single camera sitcom (although, having the cast and story in mind I think this would've been much better as a multi camera one) HOT & BOTHERED which is arriving to the small screens in thirteen episodes sometime later in the midseason starring Eva Longoria as a telenovela star who doesn't really speak Spanish!

ON THE SET OF A TELENOVELA  
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 stars in this new comedy about 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.

ZACHARY LEVI ALSO STARS

Jencarlos Canela stars in the comedy (from COUGAR TOWN writers and producers) as Ana's ex husband who will make her life a living hell when he gets the leading male role in her new telenovela and she has to star with him in it. Jadyn Douglas stars Roxie Rios, while Jose Moreno Brooks is Gael Garnica, Ana's gay co-star! Mexican superstar Carlos Ponce and Zachary Levi (as the new network president) will guest 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.