HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD WARHAMMER EPIC TV SERIES AT AMAZON! MELISSA MCCARTHY TO LEAD NEW RICHARD CURTIS CHRISTMAS COMEDY MOVIE! NIGHT COURT, HOW I MET YOUR FATHER SITCOMS SET AIRING DATES! CBS ORDERS THEY'RE WITH ME MULTICAM

  HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD 

WARHAMMER TV SERIES

If you thought that after being ditched by DC as Superman and leaving Witcher, our Henrylicious Cavill would break down and cry, you thought wrong! He has just announced that he is producing WARHAMMER series adaptation at Amazon and he will also star in the epic series based on a miniature wargame in which players enact battles using miniature models of warriors and fighting vehicles. It is set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is threatened by hostile aliens and supernatural creatures. The models in the game are a mix of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and supernatural powers.

 MELISSA MCCARTHY TO LEAD 

NEW RICHARD CURTIS COMEDY

It's comedy all day today, people, starting with Love Actually's Richard Curtis who is penning new New York set untitled Christmas comedy movie at Universal and Working Title with Melissa McCarthy in the lead. To stream at Peacock, the film will be a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas. Sam Boyd will direct. 

  NEW JANUARY SITCOMS

Meanwhile, two multicam sitcoms have been announced for January. NIGHT COURT will start on NBC January 17th with  Melissa Rauch starring as Judge Abby Stone (the daughter of the original series’ Judge Harry Stone) and John Larroquette returning as slick attorney Dan Fielding in the sitcom that follows the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court! Hulu has, meanwhile, announced January 24th as the returning date for HOW I MET YOUR FATHER season two with Hilary Duff, Christopher Lowell, Tom Ainsley, Suraj Sharma, Kim Cattrall, and Josh Peck returning to the cast of the new season that will, if I got it right, now have 20 episodes! In other sitcom news, CBS has ordered THEY'RE WITH ME multicam about Jackie and Eli who knew right away they were soulmates… too bad their souls come with so much baggage — each has a messed-up 20-something kid and a dependent parent. It is a modern take on a blended family where, instead of young children, Jackie and Eli both come with two generations of intrusive adults. Forget about an empty nest; the number of birds and eggs has doubled.

WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN EPIC SERIES TEASER WITH MICHELLE YEOH, LAURENCE O'FUARAIN! HOW I MET YOUR FATHER TV COMEDY TRAILER WITH KIM CATTRALL, HILARY DUFF IS HERE! CHARLIE COX, OLGA KURYLENKO TO LEAD NETFLIX TREASON SERIES

 THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN 

FIRST TEASER TRAILER

The arrival of Witcher's second season today also brought us first teaser for THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN spin off series which arrives sometime this year set in an elven world 1,200 years before the timeline of the original

The series should arrive sometime later this year

series and describing the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal Conjunction of the Spheres, when the worlds of

Laurence O'Fuarain takes the male lead in the series

monsters, men, and elves merged to become one. Michelle Yeoh stars as a sword-elf named Scian, who is on a quest to retrieve a sacred stolen sword.

Michelle Yeoh plays an Elven swordswoman

Laurence O’Fuarain leads the cast as a warrior named Fjall, who will team up with a band of allies in a quest for vengeance. Jacob Collins Levy also stars!

 

 

 NETFLIX ORDERS TREASON 

SERIES STARRING CHARLIE COX AND OLGA KURYLENKO

What a lovely pairing, right? As Netflix informs us today, they have ordered a six part drama series TREASON starring Olga Kurylenko, Charlie Cox and Oona Chaplin.  It follows Adam Lawrence, trained and groomed by MI6, whose career seems set. But when the past catches up with

Charlie Cox and Olga Kurylenko will lead the six part drama

him in the form of Kara, a Russian spy with whom he shares a complicated past, he is forced to question everything and everyone in his life. A triangular relationship forms between Kara, Adam and his wife, Maddy; three people who are trying to expose each other’s secrets, navigate political and diplomatic relationships, whilst hanging onto their personal lives, and those they love most.

 

 HOW I MET YOUR FATHER 

HULU'S SITCOM TRAILER IS OUT

Hulu has released trailer for their new multicam sitcom HOW I MET YOUR FATHER which arrives January 18th with first two episodes. The story  takes

New multicam sitcom arrives January 18th

place in the near future, as Sophie (Kim Cattrall and Hilary Duff) tells her son the story of how she met his father. Then it catapults us back to the year 2022, where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends — Jesse (Chris Lowell), Valentina (Francia Raisa), Charlie (Tom Ainsley), Ellen (Tien Tran) and Sid (Suraj Sharma) — are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options! The series is a spin off of How I Met Your Mother which ended seven years ago. Josh Peck will recur as Drew, the handsome vice principal at Jesse’s elementary school.

SEE BETTE MIDDLER, KATHY NAJIMY, SARAH JESSICA PARKER IN HOCUS POCUS 2! 1ST HOW I MET YOUR FATHER SITCOM CAST PHOTO! SHAZAD LATIF IS CAPTAIN NEMO IN DISNEY'S NAUTILUS EPIC TV SERIES

 HOW I MET YOUR FATHER 

1ST SPINOFF SITCOM PHOTO

Hulu has released first cast photo for their spin off sitcom HOW I MET YOUR FATHER which arrives early next year with Hilary Duff as Sophie who tells her son the story of how she met his father (Chris Lowell). It will begin in 2021, where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the

Click to see the cast of How I Met Your Father sitcom

midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options. Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, Josh Peck and Suraj Sharma also star with Kim Catrall playing older Sophie. The series arrives January 18th!

 HOCUS POCUS SEQUEL 

1ST PHOTO WITH SANDERSONS

Disney + has unveiled first photo of Bette Middler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker as legendary Sanderson sister in the sequel to cult Halloween movie HOCUS POCUS which arrives Autumn 2022 28 years after the original. The three witches will be joined by Doug Jones from the

Hocus Pocus will arrive next Autumn to Disney +

original cast as zombie Billy Butcherson.The new cast includes Hannah Waddingham, Tony Hale and Sam Richardson! In it, three young women accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters to modern day Salem and must then figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on the world.

 NAUTILUS DISNEY + SERIES 

SHAZAD LATIF TO LEAD

In other news from Disney +, they have revealed Shazad Latif as Captain Nemo in NAUTILUS epic TV series! The ten episode adaptation will see him play famous Jules Verne's character Captain Nemo, the enigmatic Indian

Shazad Latif will be captain Nemo in Nautilus series

prince who steals a fantastical submarine from the East India Company and sets sail in search of adventure under the sea. Michael Matthews has been announced as the director of the new series with James Dormer as the executive producer. The shooting of the new series will start next month down in Australia.

FOX NEW GLITZY SOAP OPERA FILTHY RICH BRINGS TONS OF LAVISH FAMILY FILTH IN THE FIRST TRAILER WITH KIM CATTRALL AS THE DETERMINED MATRIARCH

  'FILTHY RICH' TRAILER

HEAVEN IS FILTHIER THAN HELL

Well, when Kim Cattrall sets a whole lavish mansion on fire, the scene certainly promises a very juicy show, doesn't it? The first full trailer has been

The show starts September 21st on Fox

released for new soap opera FILTHY RICH which will bring its rich filth to Fox on Monday nights from September 21st with what promises to be the lead new drama of the Autumn season.

FILTHY RICH described as a "Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and religion collide with outrageously soapy results", the series centres on a mega rich Southern family who made their money with a Christian television network, and whose sudden passing of its founder (Gerald McRaney) in a plane crash (just when the man of God was planning to shag a young lover up in the air) brings out three more family members (who he had written in his will due to having affairs with different

The series is based on a New Zealand show of the same name

women), who will inherit the empire for their own reasons. Beside Kim Cattrall (as an Oprah-like host and co-founder of the Sunshine Network, who is determined to control the business by all means necessary) the cast also

Originally slated for spring, the show was pushed to Autumn as the possible lead drama in the sad corona aftermath TV landscape

includes  Aubrey Dollar and Corey Cott as the Monreaux family official heirs, Melia Kreiling, Benjamin Levy Aguilar and Mark L. Young as the illegitimate kids,  Olivia Macklin as Kim Cattrall's daughter in law, Steve Harris (as the family's lawyer) and Aaron Lazar as a televangelist.

1ST PHOTOS FROM UPCOMING NEW TV SERIES UNDOING WITH NICOLE KIDMAN, HUGH GRANT, FILTHY RICH WITH KIM CATTRALL, THE SISTER WITH RUSSELL TOVEY, US WITH TOM HOLLANDER

  AUTUMN 2020 SHOWS

The Undoing at Sky

Coming from Sky, this is a small screen adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel You Should Have Known. Nicole Kidman leads this

The new show will air on Sky in Europe

suspenseful series about a woman whose world starts to disintegrate when her husband (Hugh Grant) goes missing – leaving behind a string of terrible revelations as questions are raised about his true identity.

The Sister at ITV

Is equally suspenseful, and will air on ITV this year starring Russell Tovey as a man with a terrible secret who is trying to escape the ghosts of his past.

Russell Tovey's new series will have ghosts in the story as well

Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob (Bertie Carvel), an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions!

Us at BBC

Douglas Petersen (Tom Hollander) is an apparently happily married man who is blindsided when his wife Connie (Saskia Reeves) tells him she

The show was shot in London, Amsterdam, Venice, Barcelona and Paris

has fallen out of love with him. But it’s not over yet! Because the couple and their son have already planned a big family holiday together across Europe, and they’re still determined to go. The series is based on a book by David Nicholls!

Filthy Rich at Fox

Will be airing on Tuesday nights this Autumn,  with the story following a mega rich Southern family after the patriarch (Gerald McRaney) dies and they learn he'd written his three illegitimate children into the will. With Kim

Filthy Rich will be airing on Tuesday nights on Fox this Autumn

Cattrall as the mother of the family, the juicy soap also stars Melia Kreiling, Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin, with Steve Harris and Aaron Lazar.

NEW SOAPY DRAMAS: FILTHY RICH AT FOX WITH KIM CATTRALL, COREY COTT, AUBREY DOLLAR AND GLAMOROUS AT CW WITH BROOKE SHIELDS, BEN J. PIERCE, PIERSON FODE

'FILTHY RICH' AT FOX  

TOPLINED BY KIM CATTRALL

More soapy drama is coming from Fox and The Help writer and director Tate Taylor whose new pilot FILTHY RICH will be led by Kim Cattrall. It

Kim Cattrall will lead the Monroe family

is a larger than life Southern gothic dramedy that revolves around two strong, sharp women, Margaret Monroe (Cattrall) and and Ginger Sweet, who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town but becoming part of the family empire.

Aubrey Dollar will play Margaret’s daughter Rose Monroe, a sarcastic but kind hearted clothing designer who yearns to be real and find her own voice apart from her family. Corey Cott plays her brother Eric Monroe. Married

Corey Cott, Aubrey Dollar and Benjamin Levy Aguilar will be Filthy Rich

 with two kids, he’s the Senior VP of Operations at the conservative Christian Sunshine Network, which was created by his powerhouse parents. Benjamin Levy Aguilar and Jason Conley will also star.

'GLAMOROUS' AT CW  

STARRING BROOKE SHIELDS

Over at CW, they have found their gender nonconforming lead star in Ben J. Pierce who will topline their new soapy drama GLAMOROUS opposite

Ben J. Pierce will lead Glamorous at CW

Brooke Shields. Pierce will play Marco, an ambitious and creative gender nonconforming teenager who uses make up and fashion to let his queer self bloom. Fresh off his high school graduation, Marco’s life changes when an unplanned rant on YouTube bashing a cosmetics company for their shoddy products lands him a dream internship at the side of its founder and CEO, Madolyn (Brooke Shields). On his own for the first time, this is Marco’s chance to live, love and grow to understand what it really means to be queer.

Pierson Fodé will play Chad, an ambitious alpha male who works at the cosmetics company his mother founded, styling himself as her heir apparent.

Brooke Shields and Pierson Fode will be mother and son in Glamorous

While openly gay, Chad is buttoned down, with a personality and wardrobe that would be more at home on Wall Street than the beauty industry. Damon Wayans and Eva Longoria are producing.

CBS ORDERS DARK FAIRY TALE FANTASY SERIES 'TELL ME A STORY' WITH JAMES WOLK, PAUL WESLEY, KIM CATRALL, BILLY MAGNUSSEN!

  CBS 'TELL ME A STORY' SHOW

 CASTS JAMES WOLK, PAUL WESLEY AND KIM CATRALL

Well, this will certainly be a hunky cast: James Wolk, Paul Wesley and Billy Magnussen are set to lead fantasy series TELL ME A STORY

James Wolk will lead the new show

together with Kim Catrall at CBS! The psychological thriller will bring a dark look upon classic fairy tales weaving them into modern setting.

TELL ME A STORY takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves “The Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Hansel and Gretel” into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.

JAMES WOLK, who starred in CBS's ZOO series, will play Jordan, a young, idealistic and successful New York City restaurateur. When the unimaginable happens,

Paul Wesley will be a derelict druggie!

Jordan’s life falls apart and he begins a decent into madness which could cost him everything, even himself.

PAUL WESLEY, whom you watched in The Vampire Diaries, will portray Eddie, a derelict and troubled individual whose petulance is fuelled even more by his problems with drugs and alcohol. Although he works as a bartender, he also splits his time as a low-level drug dealer and part-time thief with his older brother Mitch, who never fails to treat Eddie as the lowly delinquent that he is.

Kim Catrall a grandmother for the first time

KIM CATRALL, returning to US TV for the first time after Sex and the City, will play Colleen, an unlikely and very non-traditional grandmother. When her son moves back home, bringing with him a troubled teenager, Kayla (Danielle Campbell), this former chorus girl is going to have to grow up finally and take on the parental duties to protect her family against a very dark and sinister threat.

Billy Magnussen will be a young school teacher

BILLY MAGNU SSEN, who will also play a prince in Disney's live action Aladdin, will play Nick, a young high school teacher who’s handsome, seductive, and quite possibly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. After a wild night with a girl he met at a nightclub results in a hookup but no phone numbers swapped, he thinks his chances with her have gone out the window. But when he runs into her again, he’s sure to take advantage of his second chance, proving he’s sensitive, understanding… and, quite possibly, too good to be true.

BBC'S AGATHA CHRISTIE 'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION' TV SERIES TRAILER WITH KIM CATTRALL, TOBY JONES IS HERE! 'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY' TV SERIES BOARDS KLINGONS

 'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY' 

BOARDS THE KLINGON CREW

CBS is boarding first Klingons to join Michelle Yeoh (Starfleet captain Georgiou), Doug Jones (Lt. Saru, a Starfleet Science Officer), Anthony Rapp (Lt. Stamets, an astromy cologist, Starfleet Science Officer) in the cast for new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY series which will follow one of the first Starfleet ships to venture boldly into the space (next May) with a female commander as the lead character (TWD's Sonequa Martin Green is rumoured for the role).

New actors to play Klingons are: Chris Obi as T'Kuvma, the Klingon leader seeking to unite the Klingon houses; Shazad Latif (in the photo) as Kol, the Commanding Officer of the Klingons and protégé of T’Kuvma; and Mary Chieffo as L'Rell, the Battle Deck Commander of the Klingon ship.

 BBC'S TRAILER FOR 

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION'

Just two weeks ahead of the premiere, BBC has released the trailer for their new Agatha Christie two part series THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION airing on the 26th and 27th December! It tells the story of heiress Emily French (Kim Cattrall) who is found battered in a pool of blood in her luxurious home after seducing war veteran Leonard Vole (Billy Howle). Penniless solicitor John Mayhew (Toby Jones) and Vole’s common law wife Romaine Heilger (Andrea Riseborough) find themselves entangled in the mess.

1ST PHOTOS FROM DECEMBER PERIOD SET NEW TV SERIES 'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION', BRONTE SISTERS 'TO WALK INVISIBLE', 'HALCYON' WW2 HOTEL, EPIC 'LAST DRAGONSLAYER'

  BBC'S AND AGATHA CHRISTIE'S  

'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION'

First photos are arriving for upcoming new period set television series, among them BBC's latest adaptation of Agatha Christie! After scoring amazing success with their last year's And Then There Were None, which boasted a tremendous cast, BBC is bringing us THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECU- TION this December within their festive programme schedule! Admittedly it does look much weaker than the last year's project and does not have such a strong cast. This one stars Kim Cattrall, Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough and Billy Howle.

With the long terrible shadow of the Great War falling across the rackety, feral 1920s, THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECU- TION is a compelling story of deceit, desire, murder, money and morality, innocence and guilt, heartbreak and most painful and dangerous of all, love. The story starts after the murder of glamorous and rich Emily French (Kim Cattrall). All the evidence points to Leonard Vole (Billy Howle), a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily’s dedicated housekeeper Janet McIntyre (Monica Dolan) stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic chorus girl Romaine (Andrea Riseborough), can prove his innocence.

  BBC'S 'TO WALK INVISIBLE'  

BRONTE SISTERS MINI SERIES

Speaking of BBC December will also bring us their new mini series on Bronte sisters TO WALK INVISIBLE which shows them in a new light and tells the story behind these three women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language. Jonathan Pryce plays the role of the Brontë sisters’ father, Patrick, and is joined by Chloe Pirrie as Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë. Finn Atkins portrays ambitious older sister Charlotte who wrote Jane Eyre and Charlie Murphy plays the determined, level headed younger sister Anne the author of novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall. Their reckless brother Branwell, whose destructive behaviour threatened to destroy his family, is played by always great Adam Nagaitis.

  ITV'S 'HALCYON' SERIES

SET IN WW2 HOTEL 
Their rival ITV is, meanwhile, ready to air their eight part period set series HALCYON  set in the luxury of the Halcyon Hotel in World War II London! Fast paced and filled with music of that era, it shines a spotlight on the class divide between the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants of the hotel and their enduring relationships, lives and politics, set against the backdrop of World War II as it reaches its ferocious peak.  Olivia Williams is lady Hamilton, the owner of HALCYON, Steven Macintosh is the hotel manager. Lord and lady Hamilton also have two sons: Freddie (Jamie Blackley), a young Spitfire pilot, who's in love with Emma, manager's  daughter, the hotel receptionist, and younger son Toby (Edward Bluemel), who is secretly gay.

  'THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER'  

SKY'S CHRISTMAS TV MOVIE

Meanwhile, Sky One's Christmas festive programme will include a new television adaptation of THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER  based on the  first in the series of popular fantasy novels written by Jasper Fforde. Little Ellise Chappell plays an orphan Jennifer Strange, a young inhabitant of the Ununited Kingdoms, who discovers that her destiny is to become the last Dragonslayer. This magical series also stars Ricky Tomlinson, Pauline Collins and John Bradley.

KIM CATTRALL, TOBY JONES, BILLY HOWLE JOIN AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION' BBC SERIES! 'HIDDEN FIGURES' TRAILER WITH TARAJI P. HENSON, OCTAVIA SPENCER

  'WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION'

KIM CATTRALL LEADS BBC SERIES

Only a week or so ago I informed you that young Andrea Riseborough has been picked out as the first cast member of BBC's new Agatha Christie two part series adaptation of THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSE- CUTION and now Kim Cattrall, Billy Howle and Toby Jones have joined her too!

THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSE- CUTION is set in 1920's London following the brutal murder of the glamorous Emily French (Kim Cattrall)  that shocked the neighbourhood. All evidence points to Leonard Vole (Billy Howle), a young man who just happens to have been left the heiress's enormous fortune. But Leonard, despite the claims of Emily's housekeeper Janet (Monica Dolan), is adamant that he is innocent and turns to his chorus girl partner Romaine (Riseborough) to help him prove it. Toby Jones will play Leonard's solicitor, John Mayhew, while David Haig will be King's Counsel, Sir Charles Carter.

  'HIDDEN FIGURES' TRAILER

TARAJI P. HENSON, KEVIN COSTNER AND OCTAVIA SPENCER

Here's a female centric trailer for you: the first one for period set drama HIDDEN FIGURES starring two award winning actresses Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer! Opening next January  it brings the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe). These brilliant African American women worked at NASA. And they helped guide a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence. Their work turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big. Kevin Costner and Kirsten Dunst also star.