The second season finale will arrive this November
Hulu has released a trailer for the second part of the second season of their RIVALS series which will continue season two with six more episodes from November 11th! Picking up after the gut-wrenching mid-series finale, Tony Baddingham and Declan O’Hara’s battle for the Cotswolds crown reaches fever pitch, while Rupert Campbell-Black is forced to confront his own personal demons. Against a backdrop of hedonistic parties, Bonfire Night chaos, the Hampshire Hunt Ball and a turbulent Christmas, affairs unravel, alliances fracture and rivalries intensify. Caught in the middle of the frenzied franchise war, Taggie O’Hara must find the courage to follow her heart, while those around her face the consequences of ambition, power and secrets that can no longer remain hidden. But as series two draws to a close, who will get their happy ending? The cast led again by David Tennant, Alex Hassell andAidan Turner is joined by Rupert Evans as erudite headmaster David Hawkley, and Santiago Cabrera as Argentinian Polo legend Alejandro Mendoza. The third season has already been ordered.
Beside numerous French, Hispanic, German, Polish and Nordic original new series upcoming Autumn is bringing us a new Asian epic original TV series as well with THE REMARRIED EMPRESS fantasy series arriving to Hulu November 4th! The series is the live action adaptation of Naver's popular webtoon which has over 3 billion views. While it will stream on Hulu for US viewers, Disney + will stream it around the globe.
THE STORY OF
The
Remarried Empress follows the strained relationship of beloved Empress
Navier (Shin Mina) and her husband Emperor Sovieshu (Ju Jihoon) of the Eastern Kingdom. With anxieties rising across the kingdom, the couple's
relationship begins to fracture when Sovieshu falls in love with a
runaway slave and attempts to move heaven and earth to win her heart.
Unwilling to compromise her dignity, Navier acquiesces to the emperor's
requests on one condition — that she be allowed to remarry rival Crown
Prince Heinrey (Lee Jongsuk) of the Western Kingdom. What follows is a
tale of love, lust and regret that threatens the fate of an entire
kingdom as Navier strives to reclaim her power. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
Hulu is set to make a TV series out of Gayle Forman's popular YA novel JUST ONE DAY with Kathryn Newton in the lead role. The story follows Allyson Healey (Newton) whose life is exactly like her suitcase — packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.
As Deadline reports Hulu is planning to develop an epic TV series out of Sheila Masterson's romantasy saga THE POISON DAUGHTER with her as the executive producer. The novel, which is currently being translated into more than 20 languages around the world has the following plot: every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn’t die. Worse, her invincible partner in passion is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life.
We are opening a new week with our hunkster Tom Hiddleston who is the host of National Geographic's new docudrama POMPEII: OUT OF TIME which arrives July 22nd and will be available also on Disney Plus and Hulu day later July 23rd!
The three partdocumentary series is a fusion of cinematic scripted
drama and investigative documentary storytelling that transports
audiences to ancient Rome in the hours before and during the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius. Guided by a team of archaeologists, historians,
geologists and disaster experts, Tom Hiddleston uncovers remarkable
evidence, and the stories of real people that challenge long-held
assumptions about Pompeii and its final hours, not least revealing that
many of those caught up in the disaster had the chance to survive. Following a teenage apprentice, a powerful businesswoman and a
mysterious Praetorian Guard, he pieces together how each confronted
impossible choices as disaster loomed. As the volcano awakens and the
countdown to catastrophe begins, the evidence converges in a gripping
race against time to uncover who survived, who perished, and what
determined their fate.
Starting tomorrow, June 17th over at Hulu is new six episode series THE SEASON with our dearest Toby Stephens in the lead role. This series plunges viewers into the opulent world of Hong Kong’s elites. At the heart of this glittering social landscape is the Hext family, an old-money dynasty whose reach extends from the city’s horse racing tracks to exclusive yacht soirées and star-studded charity galas. But beneath the polished façades and sparkling champagne, tensions simmer — and the arrival of Cola, a newcomer with a hidden agenda, threatens to unravel the carefully curated world of high society.
As Deadline reports, Hulu is set to create TV series EVERFLAME out of the first book in Penn Cole's hit romantasy saga The Kindred's Curse. The story is set in a world where mortals live in poverty, subjugated by an elite race known as the Descended. When her mother goes missing, Diem Bellator suspects that the most powerful and most feared Descended in the kingdom – Prince Luther Corbois – may be responsible. As she embarks on a search for answers, she becomes an unexpected force in the mortal rebellion against the Descended, and the center of an even more unexpected love triangle. Heidi McAdams is producing.
It was a successful series when it was launched at Hulu as their new Australian original about a year ago and now next week is bringing us the second season of period set series THE ARTFUL DODGER which is scheduled to arrive with new episodes this Tuesday February 10th and will again stream also on Disney Plus. As you know the series reimagines popular
characters from Charles Dickens' classic "Oliver Twist" by moving them
over to the penal colony of Port Victory, Australia. With Luke Braceyjoining the cast as inspector Henry Boxer, Thomas Brodie-Sangster is back as Dr Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, David Thewlis as Norbert Fagin and Maia Mitchell as Lady Belle Fox. Joining the cast are also Jeremy Sims as Uncle Dickie and Zac Burgess as Phineas Golden.
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE SECOND SEASON?
Jack’s
back! The Artful Dodger returns, and he’s in deep trouble. He’s got an
appointment with the noose, he’s being hunted by Inspector Boxer, Port Victory’s new lawman, and if he sees the woman he loves, Lady Belle,
he’ll be hanged. Meanwhile, Lady Belle is determined to forge her
future in medicine, defying expectation and stepping into danger, driven
by ambition and a love already hanging in the balance. With Boxer
competing with Jack for Belle’s affection, the crafty Fagin drags Dodger
into their most dangerous heist yet, and a killer is on the loose. Get
ready for an explosive season of new characters and locations with more
thrills, humour, heart, invention and deception than ever. Check out the trailer for the new season below and tell us what you think.
Disney Plus ordered this one for two seasons originally so they are now ready to give us the second season from January 9th. A THOUSAND BLOWS will stream on Hulu in USA like the last time with Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham returning to the 1880s London! Ned Dennehy and Catherine McCormack join the cast as Bull Jeremy and Sophie Lyons, with Daniel Mays and Jason Tobin returning from the first season. Check out the trailer for the second season below the post and tell us what you think.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON 2?
With the characters continuing their battle for survival in the brutal
East End of London in the 1880s, season two picks up one year after the
events of season one. Hezekiah (Kirby)’s a shadow of the man he once was
whilst Sugar Goodson (Graham) is estranged from his family and drinking
himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath,
Mary Carr (Doherty) bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice
Diamond, to reassemble her gang and reclaim her crown. As always, Mary
has a plan; one which will involve all those she holds dearest. And this
time it’s riskier than ever.
It was a successful series when it was launched at Hulu as their new Australian original exactly a year ago and now we have first images from the second season of period set series THE ARTFUL DODGER which is scheduled to arrive with new episodes next year February 10th and will again stream also on Disney Plus. As you know the series reimagines popular characters from Charles Dickens' classic "Oliver Twist" by moving them over to the penal colony of Port Victory, Australia. With Luke Braceyjoining the cast as inspector Henry Boxer, Thomas Brodie-Sangster is back as Dr Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, David Thewlis as Norbert Fagin and Maia Mitchell as Lady Belle Fox. Joining the cast are also Jeremy Sims as Uncle Dickie and Zac Burgess as Phineas Golden.
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE SECOND SEASON?
Jack’s
back! The Artful Dodger returns, and he’s in deep trouble. He’s got an
appointment with the noose, he’s being hunted by Inspector Boxer, Port Victory’s new lawman, and if he sees the woman he loves, Lady Belle,
he’ll be hanged. Meanwhile, Lady Belle is determined to forge her
future in medicine, defying expectation and stepping into danger, driven
by ambition and a love already hanging in the balance. With Boxer
competing with Jack for Belle’s affection, the crafty Fagin drags Dodger
into their most dangerous heist yet, and a killer is on the loose. Get
ready for an explosive season of new characters and locations with more
thrills, humour, heart, invention and deception than ever.
It was originally supposed to star Kate Winslet, but, sadly, now Claire Danes will join Ewan McGregor in Hulu's thriller TV series THE SPOT which follows a successful surgeon (Danes) and her school teacher husband (McGregor) who begin to suspect she might be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death. Their quest for truth spirals into a web of mounting suspicion and dark secrets, testing their resolve and their relationship as they confront the possibility of hidden guilt and betrayal.
Although it feels like this one only just aired, Disney Plus did order it for two seasons originally so they are already ready to give us the second season from January 9th. A THOUSANDS BLOWS will stream on Hulu in USA like the last time with Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham returning to the 1880s London! Ned Dennehy and Catherine McCormack join the cast as Bull Jeremy and Sophie Lyons, with Daniel Mays and Jason Tobin returning from the first season.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON 2?
With the characters continuing their battle for survival in the brutal
East End of London in the 1880s, season two picks up one year after the
events of season one. Hezekiah (Kirby)’s a shadow of the man he once was
whilst Sugar Goodson (Graham) is estranged from his family and drinking
himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath,
Mary Carr (Doherty) bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice
Diamond, to reassemble her gang and reclaim her crown. As always, Mary
has a plan; one which will involve all those she holds dearest. And this
time it’s riskier than ever.
Here is something totally unexpected that was produced away from my radar and is ready to stream on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland and Hulu in the
The series is out October 15th at Disney
U.S. from October 15th. TO COOK A BEAR is a six episode series based on bestselling author Mikael Niemis’ book by the same name with the cast led by Gustaf Skarsgård.
STORY STARTS IN
Northern Sweden, 1852. A new pastor (Gustaf Skarsgård) and his family
arrive in the isolated village of Kengis. With a strong belief in
justice and change, he challenges the local elite but faces resistance
as his fiery sermons ignite hope for a better life among the poor
farmers. At the same time, the village is shaken by disappearances and
frightening rumours of bear attacks. When the pastor and his Sámi foster
son, Jussi, lead the search, they make a horrific discovery that
creates deep rifts in the village’s fragile community. The pastor is
drawn into a dangerous battle, where forbidden love, power struggles,
and brutal acts push the village toward a violent reckoning where no one
is safe. What are the villagers willing to do to protect themselves,
and where does the line between justice and vengeance lie?
If you are in the mood for some Ted Lassoesque sport comedy next month, Hulu is bringing us irreverent series CHAD POWERS from September 30th!
Chad Powers streams from September 30th
He already proved his chameleon abilities in Hit Man comedy movie and now he will play a sports icon with two identities and zero shame!
IN THE SERIES
he he plays former Oregon hotshot Russ Holliday, who made
an unforgivable mistake eight years ago that cost him his entire
football career. After making a massive play during a game, he showboats
his way into the end zone, dropping the ball before he crosses the
threshold and allowing Georgia to recover the ball and seal the win themselves. So, when he sees that South Georgia is hosting tryouts
nearly a decade later, he decides to go back to college and fulfill his
potential — only he’ll have to go undercover as Chad Powers, an
unsuspecting college football player. The six episode series will have a
two episode premiere and then air weekly. Steve Zahn also stars.
war, Taggie O’Hara must find the courage to follow her heart, while those around her face the consequences of ambition, power and secrets that can no
longer remain hidden. But as series two draws to a close, who will get their happy ending? The cast led again by David Tennant, Alex Hassell and
Aidan Turner is joined by Rupert Evans as erudite headmaster David Hawkley, and Santiago Cabrera as Argentinian Polo legend Alejandro Mendoza. The third season has already been ordered.
