NEWS BULLETINS: JONATHAN BAILEY, MANUEL GARCIA RULFO IN NEW JURASSIC PARK, RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE SEQUEL, SHOGUN SEASON 2

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LEADS FOUND FOR NEW JURASSIC PARK

 After six previous films in the series have scored more than six billion dollars at the box offices around the world, JURASSIC PARK franchise is getting a reboot with completely new actors and although the plot is still under wraps, we know that Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson and Manuel Garcia Rulfo have been set as leads. Gareth Edwards is directing for summer 2025 release.

RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE SEQUEL

After a huge success over at Prime Video where it became their third most watched romantic film of all times, their lovely gay romance movie RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE will be getting a sequel with Nicholas Galitzine, as prince of England, and Taylor Zakhar Perez, as the son of US president , set to return as the love couple. The film brought many new subscribers to Amazon.

 

SHOGUN GETTING A SECOND SEASON

Also a success story, both critical and in viewership was FX limited series SHOGUN which will no longer be a limited series as it is getting a second season. Hiroyuki Sanada, who is also the producer, will return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, whose journey to become shōgun and lead Japan to an era of peace was chronicled in the 10-episode adaptation of James Clavell’s novel.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PERIOD SET GAY ROMANCE SERIES FELLOW TRAVELERS WITH MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY

 FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES 

GIVES JONATHAN BAILEY AND MATT BOMER AN EPIC ROMANCE

Fellow Travelers starts this month

Unlike September which was dry as Sahara, month of October will bring us some new shows or new seasons of the ones we already love and among them is brand new period set series FELLOW TRAVELERS which gives Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey and epic romance spanning decades. This eight episode series will start streaming on Showtime's channel on Paramount Plus October 27th and then also on the linear Showtime from October 29th. This epic love story and political thriller is a small screen adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel. This is one of the rare examples where gay characters are played by gay actors: as you know Bomer has a husband and children with him, while Bailey has been in a relationship with British star Hugh Skinner for a few years now.

  IN THE FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES

It will be an eight episode series

Matt Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements until he meets Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams) and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s while facing obstacles in the world and within themselves.

SEE MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY AS A COUPLE IN SWEEPING PERIOD SET GAY ROMANCE SERIES FELLOW TRAVELERS! DISNEY SETS CAST FOR 19TH CENTURY BRASIL SET SERIES AMERICANA!

 FIRST FELLOW TRAVELERS 

SERIES IMAGES WITH MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY

Newly minted Paramount + with Showtime has released first images from their period set mini series FELLOW TRAVELERS which will arrive to the small screens this Autumn starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey as a gay couple. Both of them are gay in private lives as well. Bailey is Tim Laughlin, a young and optimistic graduate looking for a job in Washington DC’s elite, and Matt is Hawkins Fuller, a political staffer in the adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel of the same name.

  IN THE EIGHT PART SERIES

They forge a decades-spanning relationship against a backdrop of McCarthyism, the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis, from the 1950s all the way to the 80s. The series sees Hawkins get Laughlin a job working for Senator Joe McCarthy. The Senator led the Lavender (and Red) Scare, which saw people ejected from government positions for even the slightest hint of being homosexual. Hawkins asks Laughlin to spy on McCarthy (Chris Bauer) which adds a transactional quality to the pair’s relationship. 

 

   AMERICANA 19TH CENTURY   

TV SERIES SETS LEAD CAST

Here's a new historical series for you: as Deadline reports Disney's Star + streamer in South America is shooting two six episode seasons of AMERICANA period set series with Kaiwi Lyman joined by Caco Ciocler, Andre Ramiro, Bruno Gissoni, Larissa Nunes, David Júnior, Maria Luiza Mendonça, Luciano Quirino, Zahy Tentehar, Diego lleske, Arthur Garbe in the cast. It is set in Americana, a municipality in the state of

Arthur Garbe, Kaiwi Lyman and Caco Ciocler will star in the series

São Paulo, during the late 19th century and follows the Confederates who left the U.S. for Brazil after losing the American Civil War. The protagonists are a police officer and his female slave, who is also a detective, as they uncover the truth behind murders in the town. About 20,000 Confederate subjects, known as Confederados, left America to emigrate to Brazil in the 19th Century.

JONATHAN BAILEY & MATT BOMER TO HAVE AN EPIC ROMANCE IN FELLOW TRAVELERS PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES! SEE 1ST PHOTOS FROM THE SECOND SEASON OF RUSSIA'S CATHERINE THE GREAT EPIC TV SERIES

  FELLOW TRAVELERS 

PAIRS UP JONATHAN BAILEY AND MATT BOMER AS LOVE COUPLE!

Well, that couple will be hot as hell! Matt Bomer's mini TV series FELLOW TRAVELERS over at Showtime has just added Jonathan Bailey as his lover (he is gay in real life too, last time I heard he was with Hugh Skinner). Bomer is handsome and charismatic Hawkins Fuller who avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.

  CATHERINE THE GREAT  

FIRST SEASON TWO PHOTOS

And your epic treat for today are first photos from the second season of Russian historical series CATHERINE THE GREAT (Velikaya - not to be confused with their rival series CATHERINE II in which the tzarina was played by Marina Aleksandrova and which already had two seasons). Kinopoisk was the first to show footage with Elizabeth Boyarskaya in the role of older Catherine II from the sequel to the series "Catherine the Great". The first part, where Julia Snigir played the Empress, was released in 2015. Now the action takes place in 1763, the first year after the coronation of Catherine.  The series also stars Anton Khabarov (Grigory Orlov), Alexei Morozov (Gregory Potemkin), Pavel Vorozhtsov (Nikita Panin), Alexey Filimonov (Lev Naryshkin), Igor Gordin (Alexey Bestuzhev), Sofia Sinitsyna (Ekaterina Dashkova) and Philip Ershov (future Emperor Paul). Filming is currently taking place in palaces, parks and mansions of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, as well as on the ship "Poltava". The project involves more than 560 historical costumes, which were sewn and rented in Spain and the Czech Republic. Mars Media is working on the 12-episode second season ordered by Russia's Channel One.

JONATHAN BAILEY, FELICITY JONES TO LEAD MARIA ROMCOM! NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IN UNCOUPLED NETFLIX COMEDY SERIES TRAILER! NEW OBI WAN KENOBI SERIES TRAILER & POSTER WITH EWAN MCGREGOR

 MARIA ROMCOM TO MAKE  

JONATHAN BAILEY & FELICITY JONES HOT & BOTHERED

While you are enjoying his hot self in Bridgerton, hotness personified Jonathan Bailey will star in MARIA, a young woman (Felicity Jones) with a history of running from reality. Struggling to accept her age, her boyfriend’s (Bailey) love and her father’s (Jason Isaacs) indifference, Maria spots an opportunity to feel young, free and desirable at her father’s wedding, where she meets Raffy, her new stepbrother. Their obvious, if inconvenient, sexual chemistry is made worse by the news that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

  UNCOUPLED TRAILER  

WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

Netflix has released a funny trailer for their new comedy series UNCOUPLED starting July 29h! This eight part comedy follows Neil Patrick Harris as newly single Michael, who thought his life was perfect until his husband, hedge-fund manager Colin, blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront two nightmares: losing what he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City. Check out the trailer below:

 

 NEW OBI-WAN KENOBI TRAILER 

AND A STUNNING POSTER

Obi Wan Kenobi arrives later this month

Disney Plus has, meanwhile, released a new trailer and poster for Ewan McGregor's OBI-WAN KENOBI sf series which hits the streamer May 27th with six episodes.  The story in the series begins 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. With Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the Jedi Master, Hayden Christensen returns in the role of Darth Vader. Joel Edgerton and Rupert Friend are also in the cast.

POLLY WALKER, JULIE ANDREWS, PHOEBE DYNEVOR, JONATHAN BAILEY TO LEAD BRIDGERTON 19TH CENTURY TV SAGA FOR NETFLIX

NETFLIX 'BRIDGERTON' SAGA

POLLY WALKER TO LEAD THE CAST IN REGENCY LONDON

Netflix has revealed the cast for their new period set costume series BRIDGERTON that your trusted spy has informed you about earlier this

Phoebe Dynevor is Daphne Bridgerton, the picture-perfect young debutante has been waiting her entire life to make her grand debut on the marriage mart. Poised to be the season of 1813’s forthcoming Incomparable, Daphne’s set to take the town by storm – but not everything goes exactly as planned for this diamond of the first water, especially after she meets a certain Duke.

summer. The small screen adaptation of Julia Quinn's best selling series of historical romance novels, produced by Shondaland, will star Polly Walker,

Rege Jean Page is Simon Basset. Having newly returned to London, the Duke of Hastings finds himself the primary topic of conversation amongst marriage minded misses and ambitious mamas alike. Yet, for reasons of his own, our devastating Duke has zero interest in his title, society, or taking a wife.

Phoebe Dynevor (whom we remember from BBC series Dickensian and The Village),  Regé Jean Page beside Jonathan Bailey, Golda Rosheuvel,

Polly Walker is Lady Portia Featherington, perhaps the most ambitious mama of all, determined to make advantageous matches for each of her daughters – and is forever pushing them on some rather disinterested parties. Cunning and ruthless, Lady Featherington hustles to get what she wants, no matter the cost.

Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Ruth Gemmell and Adjoa Andoh! In the eight episode drama Julie

Luke Newton will be dashin Colin Bridgerton, used to disarming his fellow society members with good natured jokes, though a serious sense of adventure lurks behind those swoon-worthy eyes. Colin takes a liking to the newest young lady in town — but it’s this infatuation that winds up giving him more than he may have bargained for.

Andrews will be Lady Whistledown, the narrator of the story. The series will shoot this year in London for 2020 airing at Netflix!

THE STORY OF BRIDGERTON IS
set in the sexy, lavish and competitive world of Regency London high society. From the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair to the aristocratic palaces of Park Lane and beyond, the series unveils a seductive, sumptuous world replete with

Jonathan Bailey will be Anthony Bridgerton, quintessential English nobleman, the eldest Bridgerton sibling and dutiful head of the family since assuming his late father’s title of Viscount. Endlessly handsome, charming and rich, he’s quite the catch on this year’s marriage mart. But if he has any hope of fulfilling his oftentimes overwhelming duty of marrying and producing an heir, Anthony must first learn to temper his pursuit of pleasure.

intricate rules and dramatic power struggles, where no one is truly ever on steady ground. At the heart of the show is the powerful Bridgerton family.

Golda Rosheuvel will be Queen Charlotte. The veritable tastemaker of London society, Queen Charlotte finds herself living for the sordid gossip that Lady Whistledown prints, though she’d swear she’s above such mundane musings. It’s only when the ton’s newest gossip writer takes aim at the palace that Queen Charlotte knows she must do something about it.

Comprised of eight close-knit siblings, this funny, witty, daring and clever group must navigate the upper ten thousand’s marriage mart in search of romance, adventure and love.