COLIN MORGAN, LUKE TREADAWAY TO LEAD NEW FAMILY ADVENTURE SERIES THE EMPEROR'S STONE FOR RAI, ZDF AND FRANCE TELEVISIONS

   THE EMPEROR'S STONE  

TV SERIES STARRING COLIN MORGAN

We do ever so love European coproductions and now French France Television, German ZDF and Italian RAI are producing a six episode family adventure series THE EMPEROR'S STONE starring our dear Colin Morgan alongside Luke Treadaway! In the series, an ex-treasure-hunter

First look at Colin and Luke in the new series

 and descendent of a famous pirate uncovers a lost diary that could lead to the mysterious and powerful Emperor’s Stone. To repair his fractured family and save their home, they follow clues left by their ancestors, finding themselves facing dangerous powers on a high-stakes adventure to stop the stone from falling into the wrong hands.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE SERIAL KILLER'S WIFE THRILLER TV SERIES WITH JACK FARTHING, LUKE TREADAWAY AND ANNABEL SCHOLEY

   THE SERIAL KILLER'S WIFE   

NEW PARAMOUNT PLUS SERIES

Unlike October and November that brought us an abundance of TV premieres, this December will be unusually empty, we won't even have any big new epic TV series launching around the holidays as is usually the case. One of the very few new shows to start this month is THE SERIAL KILLER'S WIFE psychological thriller series which hits Paramount Plus December 15th with four hourlong episodes. Beside this one and recently released The Doll House and Burning Girls, one of the new originals we can expect on Paramount's streamer (there are rumours it could soon merge with Apple TV Plus as a streaming package) is A Gentleman in Moscow period set series with Ewan McGregor which will probably arrive sometime next year.

  THE SERIAL KILLER'S WIFE
Follows Beth Fairchild (Annabel Scholey with the most abominable hairdo we've seen on television in a long time), a wife of a beloved doctor from an idyllic British town, who is dealing with the aftermath of her husband Tom’s shocking arrest at his birthday party following the murder of his former assistant. When a string of murders are unearthed, which are closely linked to Tom’s (Jack Farthing from your favourite Poldark series) violent desires, Beth is led to question was it ever just a harmless kink or the beginning of a deeper yearning for violent realism, and misogyny? Luke Treadaway plays Tom's childhood friend Adam whom Beth confides to. 

 

HEARTWARMING A GIFT FROM BOB TRAILER WITH LUKE TREADAWAY AND STREETCAT BOB! EXCITING SF ADVENTURE MONSTER HUNTER TRAILER WITH MILLA JOVOVICH

 A GIFT FROM BOB TRAILER

A TRUE TAIL OF XMAS SPIRIT

A few years ago bestselling book A Street Cat Named Bob was turned into a successful movie and now we are getting a sequel titled A GIFT FROM

A Gift From Bob arrives this November

BOB which will paw its way into cinemas November 6th in United Kingdom and then throughout Europe during November and Russia in January. In the Christmas themed follow up Luke Treadaway returns as James Bowen, an ex-drug addict who is Bob's owner! 

 

       IN A GIFT FROM BOB 

James looks back at the last Christmas he and Bob spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times - providing strength, friendship and inspiration. Ultimately teaching each other about the true meaning of

Luke Treadaway returns in the lead role!

Christmas spirit along the way. It is interesting that the cat that inspired the whole book and movie series sadly died earlier this summer.

 

MONSTER HUNTER TRAILER

UNLEASH THE MONSTERS!

After the teaser, we now also have the first super exciting trailer for sf adventure MONSTER HUNTER which will try to save cinemas thisDecember! Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and

Monster Hunter arrives this December

powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (TI Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower. In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters the mysterious Hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills allow him to stay one step ahead of the powerful creatures. As Artemis and Hunter slowly build trust, she discovers that he is part of a team led by the Admiral (Ron

Milla Jovovich leads the cast of the video game based movie

Perlman). Facing a danger so great it could threaten to destroy their world, the brave warriors combine their unique abilities to band together for the ultimate showdown.  

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SINGAPORE GRIP PERIOD SET TV SERIES STARTING TONIGHT AT ITV WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, BART EDWARDS

     'SINGAPORE GRIP' 

WELCOME TO THE DYING DAYS OF BRITISH EMPIRE IN SINGAPORE

Singapore Grip starts tonight on ITV

Launching this year's Autumn season over at British ITV tonight is their new six part historical series SINGA- PORE GRIP based on the famous novel by J.G. Farrell! The whole series will be available on Britbox immediately after the first episode finishes airing tonight at ITV. Sadly, your trusted spy has seen the first two episodes and I cannot say it is great, it will be another flop for ITV: the story has no dynamics, the plot is slow, but the series does have a great and very charming performances by David Morrissey and Bart

The six part series has already aired down in Australia!

Edwards. The cast also includes Charles Dance (but his character dies in the first episode), Luke Treadaway as his son, Colm Meaney as his

David Morrissey is brilliant as cunning rubber merchant who wants to secure the future of his business by marrying his daughter to the son of his business partner

landlord, with Luke Newberry, Jane Horrocks and Georgia Blizzard also in the cast. The series has already received harsh criticism in Asia for depicting the

Luke Treadaway is a naive and moral UN worker who travels to Singapore after his rich father dies and leaves him his rubber empire. But he is progressive and does not accept exploitation.

sunny side of vile British imperialism without much focus on the brutalities their Asian colonial slaves had to endure under their wicked tyranny. But that is Brits for you, turn an eye blind on anything that paints you under a bad light.

The Singapore Grip Is Set 
in Singapore, 1941 and follows Walter Blackett (David Morrissey), who is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm alongside his

Charles Dance stars only in the first episode of the series

business partner Webb (Charles Dance). With Webb’s health failing, Walter needs to ensure the future of their firm is secure. He decides Webb’s son

Bart Edwards is supercharming as captain Ehrendorf who is in love with Blackett's daughter and is also a good friend with Matthew

Matthew (Luke Treadaway) is the perfect match for his spoilt daughter Joan (Georgia Blizzard). Matthew’s idealism leaves Walter increasingly

Georgia Blizzard is a spoilt brat and Blackett's conniving daughter

suspicious as Matthew himself falls under the spell of Vera Chiang (a rather amateurish performance by gorgeous but  not very talented Elizabeth Tan), a mysterious Chinese refugee.

SINGAPORE GRIP EPIC TV SERIES WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, COLM MEANEY, LUKE NEWBERRY GETS JULY AIRING DATE

  'THE SINGAPORE GRIP'

EPIC SERIES GETS JULY AIRDATE

The series starts at the end of July this summer

Although we still don't know when it will air in UK on ITV (I'm guessing the same date), exotic period set drama THE SINGA- PORE GRIP will start on BBC First and on Foxtel in Australia July 26th! Coming from Mammoth Screen, the creators of Poldark and Victoria, it is an ambitious and exotic six part family saga set in colonial Singapore during World War Two. This epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world

The series is based on a classic book by J.G. Farrell

events. A compelling portrait of a society in decline and a family clinging to a world that is crumbling around them! David Morrissey, Luke

The series will air in six hourlong episodes

Treadaway, Jane Horrocks, Colm Meaney, Luke Newberry, Elizabeth Tan, Bart Edwards, Charles Dance star in the adaptation of J.G. Farrell’s classic novel. Stay tuned for more info from ITV soon.

An epic new drama following the lives of a British family during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.

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— ITV (@ITV) September 2, 2020

LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE NEWBERRY TO LEAD ITV'S WW2 EPIC & LAVISH TV SAGA THE SINGAPORE GRIP! 1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS FROM AMMONITE PERIOD SET MOVIE

'THE SINGAPORE GRIP' SERIES

CASTS LUKE TREADAWAY, DAVID MORRISSEY, CHARLES DANCE 

Last year I informed you that British ITV is planning to turn J.G. Farrell's Booker prize winning novel THE SINGAPORE GRIP into TV series, and

Luke Treadaway will lead the six part drama

now they've finally announced the cast! Luke Treadaway, David Morrissey, Colm Meaney and Charles Dance will lead the WW2 epic series produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark, Victoria), which, set during World War Two, follows a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion!

THE SINGAPORE GRIP will see Luke Treadaway playing the reluctant hero and innocent abroad Matthew Webb. David Morrissey takes the role of ruthless rubber merchant Walter Blackett, who is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm alongside his business partner Webb played by Charles Dance. With Webb’s health failing, Walter needs to ensure the future of their

Bart Edwards, Luke Newberry, David Morrissey will move over to Singapore

firm is secure. He decides Webb’s son Matthew is the perfect match for his spoilt daughter Joan (Georgia Blizzard). Matthew’s idealism leaves Walter increasingly suspicious as Matthew himself falls under the spell of Vera

Elizabeth Tan and Georgia Blizzard lead female part of the cast

Chiang (Elizabeth Tan), a mysterious Chinese refugee. Jane Horrocks plays Sylvia Blackett, Walter’s wife and Colm Meaney plays Major Brendan Archer. Also joining the esteemed cast are Luke Newberry playing Walter’s son Monty, Bart Edwards as Captain James Ehrendorf and Christoph Guybert as Dupigny.

1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS

FROM AMMONITE 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN ADVENTURE

You can also check out the first set photos of Kate Winslet in her new period set drama AMMONITE which also stars Saoirse Ronan. Set in a UK

Ammonite is being directed by God's Own Country's Francis Lee

coastal town in the 1840s, it will have its story following the unlikely romance between palaeontologist Mary Anning and a London woman of means to

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in costume.

whom she must unexpectedly play nursemaid. It is interesting that the family of Mary Anning does not support the film as they say the lesbian aspect of it  is based on lies and is purely invented for the purpose of the big screen.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW POST WW2 THRILLER SERIES TRAITORS WITH KEELEY HAWES, LUKE TREADAWAY, MATT LAURIA, JAMIE BLACKLEY, STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE

NEW 'TRAITORS' SERIES

A POST WW2 THRILLER DRAMA

If you don't know what to watch tonight, here is a suggestion for you: new period set series TRAITORS starts this very evening over at British Channel 4. With the cast lead by Keeley Hawes, Emma Appleton, Luke

The new series starts tonight at British Channel Four

Treadaway, Matt Lauria, Michael Stuhlbarg and Stephen Campbell Moore, the six part spy drama, previously known as Jerusalem, will also air sometime later this year on Netflix for the audience around the globe.

TRAITORS IS THE STORY
 of the oddly-named Feef Symonds (Emma Appleton). Feef is a “bold” young woman who joins the Civil Service in 1945 just as Clement Attlee’s

The series will later on air on Netflix worldwide

Labour Party sweeps to victory, defeating wartime leader Winston Churchill in a surprise landslide. Ambitious and determined to make something of her life, Feef is unappreciated by her family – but her American lover is a different

Keeley Hawes leads the female government workforce as Priscilla Garrick

matter. With his encouragement, she agrees to spy on her own government on behalf of the Americans, who have a hidden agenda: they want to ensure that

Emma Appleton takes the lead role of Feef in the new series

England’s ‘socialist’ leaders don’t play into Soviet hands. Struggling to work out what she stands for, and what she’s capable of, Feef must learn to think for

Luke Treadaway is Labour MP who is drawn to Feef

herself and play by her own rules at a time when knowledge becomes power and nothing and no one is what they seem!

WHO ARE THE OTHER TRAITORS?

Keeley Hawes plays Priscilla Garrick, a senior civil servant at the Cabinet Office with a fearsome reputation. She leads the female workforce. Michael Stuhlbarg joins her in the cast as Rowe, a single-minded man from the

Jamie Blackley plays Feef's brother who hates his sister for going her own way

American intelligence services. Luke Treadaway is set to play young Labour politician Hugh Fenton, Stephen Campbell Moore will play Philip, and

Brandon P. Bell is American soldier stationed in UK

Matt Lauria is Feef’s lover Peter McCormick who has a wife and kids back in USA. Jamie Blackley plays Feef's brother Freddie who had to marry for money to save his family but is probably homosexual. Brandon P Bell plays

Michael Stuhlbarg plays an agent from American Intelligence Services

soldier and driver Jackson Cole, who signed up to the military hoping that the African American contribution in the war would ease the appalling racism back home in the US.

DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE PHOTOS & CAST REVEALED WITH TARON EGERTON, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, THEO JAMES, MARK STRONG! 1ST TRAITORS CHANNEL 4 EPIC SERIES PHOTO WITH KEELEY HAWES, LUKE TREADAVAY!

   'THE DARK CRYSTAL' PREQUEL

FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED!

Netflix has revealed the first photos and cast for their prequel THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE in which Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor Joy, and Nathalie Emmanuel lend their voices to the three Gefling

Brea will get her voice from Anya Taylor Joy!

heroes Rian, Brea, and Deet while Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Izzard, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Theo James, Alicia Vikander, Natalie Dormer, Andy Samber, Mark Hamill and Jason Isaacs are also in the cast. 

  AGE OF RESISTANCE
The series tells a new epic story, set many years before the events of the 1982 Jim Henson movie: the world of Thra is dying. The Crystal of Truth is at the

Taron Egerton will lend his voice to Gefling Rian!

heart of Thra, a source of untold power. But it is damaged, corrupted by the evil Skeksis, and a sickness spreads across the land. When three Gelfling

Deet will get her voice from Nathalie Emmanuel!

uncover the horrific truth behind the power of the Skeksis, an adventure unfolds as the fires of rebellion are lit and an epic battle for the planet begins.

   1ST 'TRAITORS' PHOTO

FOR CHANNEL 4 & NETFLIX SERIES

Netflix and Channel 4 have also revealed the first look on their new period set drama TRAITORS (working title was Jerusalem) set in London in 1945 and following Feef, who is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her

Traitors will air on Channel 4 in UK and Netflix around the world!

own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government. Emma Appleton, Keeley Hawes, Michael Stuhlbarg, Luke Treadaway, Stephen Campbell Moore and Matt Lauria lead the cast!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' MINI SERIES WITH BILL NIGHY, MATTHEW GOODE, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHRISTIAN COOKE

   'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE'

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES

The series starts this Easter Sunday

Although we thought Sarah Phelps' adaptation of Witness for the Prosecution was ghastly bad last year at BBC, we did absolutely adore And Then There Were None the year before it, so we are ready to give ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE her latest Agatha Christie project a go when it starts airing Easter Sunday at BBC. It was originally supposed to air at Christmas but it underwent a 12 day reshooting in order to replace Ed Westwick with Christian Cooke in 35 scenes in which he appears in the three part mini series. The reshooting wasn't easy as they had to book the ensemble cast again and shoot in winter instead of summer while also booking all the locations and costumes

Bill Nighy leads the cast as the victim's widower!

again too. They have also changed the ending from the one in Christie's novel for which they've got a special permission from Agatha Christie's estate.

DEATH IN FAMILY & MURDERER IS STILL AMONG THEM 
Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor) is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll (Anthony

Rachel's children and Alice Eve as their future stepmother

Boyle), a young delinquent, is arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary (Luke

Christian Cooke was cast to replace Ed Westwick in 32 scenes

Treadaway), a mysterious scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic. Even

Poldark's Eleanor Tomlinson plays one of Rachel's daughters

more extraordinary is his claim to hold the alibi that can prove Jack’s innocence. But Jack died in prison before the case could come to trial, and the Argyll family is reluctant to dig up the secrets of the past. Rachel’s widower

Matthew Goode is secretly attracted to his wife's sister in the series

Leo (Bill Nighy) is about to remarry his secretary Gwenda (Alice Eve) and none of Rachel’s other adopted children Mary (Eleanor Tomlinson), Mickey (Christian Cooke), Tina (Crystal Clarke) or Hester (Ella

Luke Treadaway returns from Arctic and brings mystery with him

Purnell), nor long standing housekeeper Kirsten (Morven Christie), is willing to reopen that most horrendous chapter of their lives. However, the shattering implications of Calgary’s story are too big to avoid; if he is telling

Alice Eve plays Bill Nighy's secretary and future wife

the truth then the wrong person was arrested for Rachel’s murder. And if Jack is innocent, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. Somebody still out there…Matthew Goode plays Mary's disabled husband Philip.

JOSH DALLAS IN 'MANIFEST' MISSING PLANE SERIES! BEN ALDRIDGE TO 'SKINNY DIP' WITH MATT BARR! JOSH HELMAN JOINS 'THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT'! LUKE TREADAWAY, EMMA APPLETON IN 'JERUSALEM' POST WW2 SERIES

JOSH DALLAS TO LEAD

'MANIFEST' MISSING PLANE SHOW

A bunch of TV casting updates, today, mostly for new shows! At least one of Once Upon a Time stars has found a new gig! Super charming Josh Dallas

Josh Dallas will play a missing father

will lead NBC's missing plane mystery series MANIFEST together with Melissa Roxburgh, Athena Karkanis and Parveen Kaur. It explores a hypothetical scenario surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. What if the plane and its passengers suddenly reappeared? In MANIFEST, a plane disappears from radar and returns five years later after being untraceable and presumed lost at sea. No time has passed for those on the plane, but for their loved ones at home, a long five years have gone by. The series follows their personal lives as well as the larger mystery and purpose that is their destiny. Karkanis will play a woman whose husband (Josh Dallas) and son have disappeared on that plane and are now back!

BEN ALDRIDGE TO

 'SKINNY DIP' WITH MATT BARR

CW has started casting for their new drama series. They've just hired Ben Aldridge to join Matt Barr in SKINNY DIP! An adaptation of a Carl

Ben Aldridge will play the jerk of a husband

Hiaasen novel it revolves around Joey, who, after her husband, Chaz (Ben Aldridge), tries to kill her on what she thought was a romantic cruise to celebrate their second wedding anniver- sary, teams with a jaded ex-cop, Mick (Matt Barr), to exact her own twisted brand of revenge on her cheating spouse and winds up uncovering a wider conspiracy in the process. Ben Aldridge’s Chaz is a jerk, an “environmentalist” who drives a bright yellow Hummer and is having an

Matt Barr is set to play the policeman in Skinny Dip

affair with a sexy hairdresser. Celebrating his anniversary with his wife aboard a cruise ship, he invites Joey to come up on deck on a rainy night as a romantic gesture. However, he has other plans and promptly throws her overboard.

JOSH HELMAN

IS MALE LEAD IN 'THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT'

Josh Helman is taking the male lead

Meanwhile, they've also cast Josh Helman as the male lead in THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT hourlong comedic drama opposite female leads Gage Golightly and Quinta Brunson! When a prison spaceship carrying the universe’s most deadly aliens crashes in Southern California, two millennial women, Kate (Gage Golightly) and Ruby (Quinta Brunson), with bigger dreams than working at a kids’ pizza place in the Valley, are recruited by a space cop, Quinn (Helman), to hunt down the escaped criminals who have camouflaged themselves as eccentric Angelenos.

'JERUSALEM' WW2 SERIES

HIRES EMMA APPLETON AND LUKE TREADAWAY AS LEADS

Over in UK, their Channel 4 has cast Emma Appleton and Luke Treadaway in period set drama JERUSALEM! She will play Feef Symonds,

The new mini series will have six episodes

a young woman who joins the Civil Service in 1945, just as the Labour party sweeps to victory, defeating Winston Churchill in an unexpected landslide. Her ambition to make something of her life goes unrecognised by her family, and is further complicated by her American lover. Feef agrees to spy on her own government for the Americans, who have a hidden agenda in making sure England’s burgeoning Socialist ambitions don’t play into Soviet hands. Struggling to work out what she stands for, and what she’s capable of, Feef must learn to think for herself and play by her own rules at a time when knowledge becomes power and nothing and no one is what they seem.