DISNEY PLUS EPIC TV SERIES NAUTILUS COMPLETES ITS SUBMARINE CREW LED BY SHAZAD LATIF AS CAPTAIN NEMO! SEE MARTIN COMPSTON, RUPERT PENRY JONES IN GRIPPING OUR HOUSE THRILLER SERIES TRAILER

 DISNEY'S NAUTILUS SERIES

COMPLETES ITS CREW

All crew aboard! Disney has completed its crew for their new ambitious adventure series NAUTILUS which will, based on Jules Verne's book, see Shazad Latif behind the helm as Captain Nemo, an Indian Prince who is

Shazad Latif will lead the cast as Nemo

removed from his home, family and birthright and taken prisoner by the East India Mercantile Company. Focused only on revenge against those who have ruined his life, Nemo sets sail on the NAUTILUS, aided by a ragtag bunch of sailors, and soon finds himself battling not only his enemies but also discovering a mindblowing underwater world. Georgia Flood will play Humility Lucas, a privileged upper class product of the British Empire whom the crew of the Nautilus take hostage, while Thierry Frémont will be Gustave Benoit, the submarine’s architect. Nemo’s crew will also include Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface, a trader from Zanzibar; Arlo Green as Turan, a poet from the Middle East; Tyrone Ngatai as Kai, a Māori with a gentle heart; Ling

Thierry Fremont, Georgia Flood and Andrew Shawi

Cooper Tang as Suyin, a mother separated from her children; Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo, a mysterious man who speaks a language no-one else can recognize; Ashan Kumar as Ranbir, an impressionable, young dreamer; Chum Ehelepola as Jagadish, a rabble rouser; Céline Menville as Loti,

Chum Ehelepola, Arlo Green and Pacharo Mzembe

Humility’s minder; and Kayden Price as Blaster, a young boy desperately looking for a family to be part of. Damien Garvey will play Director Crawley, a member of the ruthless East India Mercantile Company, who want to seize Nemo’s amazing submarine. The series will air next year on Disney Plus as their first UK original. 

  OUR HOUSE TV SERIES  

ITV RELEASES FIRST TRAILER

ITV has released first trailer for their new thriller series OUR HOUSE starring Tuppence Middleton and Martin Compston as estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson and Rupert Penry Jones as

Our House four part series should start next month on ITV

enigmatic Toby. The four part drama sees Fi arriving home to see strangers moving into her house and her husband Bram nowhere to be seen! The series will start March 7th.

 

BREAKING NEWS: 1ST PHOTOS FROM NETFLIX SERIES ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL WITH RUPERT FRIEND, SIENNA MILLER, MICHELLE DOCKERY, ITV'S OUR HOUSE WITH MARTIN COMPSTON, RUPERT PENRY JONES, BBC'S CHLOE WITH BILLY HOWLE

 ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL  

FIRST PHOTOS ARE HERE

First photos have arrived today from two new British series coming up this year. ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL will stream on Netflix from April 15th starring Rupert Friend and Sienna Miller in a six part small screen adaptation of Sarah Vaughn's best selling novel.

  ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL

infiltrates Britain’s elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth lies between justice and privilege! Friend and Miller play James and

Anatomy of a Scandal will stream April 15th on Netflix

Sophie Whitehouse, who live in a blissful and rarefied world. He’s a Minister in Parliament with a loving family at home, but then a scandalous secret

Rupert Friend plays a minister in British parliament

comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft (Michelle Dockery) is on her own path, and her prosecution threatens to tear into Westminster, the Whitehouse

Michell Dockery is a barrister in the new Netflix series

marriage, and her own personal esteem. Famous  television series creator and producer David E. Kelley is executive producing the series.

 OUR HOUSE TV SERIES 

FIRST LOOK AT ITV THRILLER

ITV has also published first photos from their own new thriller series OUR HOUSE and edge of your seat thriller that will air this year on the British channel starring Martin Compston who is joined in the cast by Tuppence

The series will arrive sometime this year to ITV and ITV Hub

Middleton. The two of them play estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson while Rupert Penry-Jones takes the role of enigmatic Toby. Also

Martin Compston takes the male lead in the series

joining the cast are Weruche Opia as Fi’s best friend and neighbour Merle, and Buket Komur as the mysterious and alluring Wendy. The four part drama is adapted from the international best-selling novel in which  Fiona

Rupert Penry Jones also stars in the thriller series

Lawson arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house. With all her family’s possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes

Tuppence Middleton takes the female lead in the new series

there’s been a huge mistake and insists her home isn’t for sale. With events spiralling beyond her control, her panic rises as she can’t reach her estranged husband, Bram. As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her

The series is based on a book by Louis Candlish

family had made a life together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her husband has disappeared. With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun. Intertwining

The new thriller series will air in four episodes

the present day with flashback scenes of Fiona and Bram’s life together, their separation and their new relationships with Toby and Wendy, OUR HOUSE gradually unravels unexpected secrets and shocking revelations, culminating in a nail-biting finale. 

 CHLOE BBC TV SERIES 

WATCH THE FIRST TRAILER

Rival BBC has, meanwhile, released first photos from their new six part psychological thriller series CHLOE which starts this Sunday on BBC One. Becky (Erin Doherty), still living with her mum and working as a temp,

Four part thriller series Chloe starts this Sunday

compares herself to the picture-perfect lives on Instagram, compulsively returning to one account: Chloe’s (Poppy Gilbert). Becky obsessively

Erin Doherty takes the lead role of Becky

watches her seemingly flawless life through social media. But when Chloe dies suddenly, Becky’s need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and engineer a ‘chance’ meeting with Chloe’s best friend, Livia,

Poppy Gilbert is Chloe in the series

and infiltrate Chloe's group of close-knit friends. Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected

Billy Howle also stars in the new BBC One series

‘someone’ with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the ‘no-one’ she is as Becky. However, the pretence soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely in the game she is playing.  

MARTIN COMPSTON, RUPERT PENRY JONES TO LEAD ITV'S NEW THRILLER SERIES OUR HOUSE! RUSSIAN TRUE STORY SERIES DEAD MOUNTAIN: DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT SELLS AROUND THE WORLD

  ITV'S OUR HOUSE SERIES  

CASTS MARTIN COMPSTON AND RUPERT PENRY JONES!

The word over at ITV today is that they are preparing new four part thriller series OUR HOUSE and they've cast Tuppence Middleton and Martin

Martin Compston plays the husband

Compston as estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson and Rupert Penry Jones as enigmatic Toby! Fiona Lawson arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house. With all her family’s possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes there’s been a huge mistake and insists her home isn’t for sale. With events spiralling beyond her control, her panic rises as she can’t reach her estranged husband, Bram. As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her family had made a life together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her husband has disappeared. With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun. Intertwining the present day with flashback scenes of Fiona and Bram’s life

Rupert Penry Jones will be the mysterious Toby

together, their separation and their new relationships with Toby and Wendy (Buket Komur), OUR HOUSE gradually unravels unexpected secrets and shocking revelations, culminating in a nail-biting finale. The series is an adaptation of Louis Candlish novel.

  DEAD MOUNTAIN TV SERIES 

DYATLOV PASS TRUE INCIDENT

Speaking of European productions, I've mentioned this one before, but Russian thriller series DEAD MOUNTAIN: THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT will debut for US audience on Topic from September 2nd, it is

Topic will air the series in USA

currently airing in Germany on Fox, and will air on HBO Max in South America and SBS in Australia. January 1959, Soviet Union. In the icy Ural Mountains, a group of nine students sets out on a ski trek. Even though they all are well experienced hikers, they never reach their destination. As their bodies turn up a month later, it leaves local investigators puzzled. Their tent was cut open from the inside, they are found frozen stiff in their underwear spread around the camp, some are even partially mangled. Whom or what did they run from? Why did they die, and how? When Oleg (Egor Beroev), a KGB major, arrives in the province, his inquiry is to be held strictly confidential. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around

Beta Film is distributing the series around the world

as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. With the help of Katya, the local medical examiner, Oleg is hell-bent on finding the truth. But the more he learns, the more it becomes clear: The reason the students died will never see the light of day. No one can ever know what really happened. No one. Except him.

THRILLER MONDAY: ADRIEN BRODY, VERA FARMIGA TO LEAD MYSTERY THRILLER SALAMANDER LIVES TWICE, ITV TO TURN LOUISE CANDLISH NOVEL OUR HOUSE INTO THRILLER MINI SERIES

 ADRIEN BRODY TO LEAD 

THE SALAMANDER LIVES TWICE

Two thrillers for you this Monday, beginning with Ant Timpson's thriller movie THE SALAMANDER LIVES TWICE which has cast Adrien Brody and Vera Farmiga in the lead roles. Brody will play an injured man with an

Adrien Brody and Vera Farmiga will lead the cast

impenetrable briefcase and no memory, who is found on the shoreline of a remote island by Iris and her daughter Goggy (Farmiga), the last remaining members of a once prosperous family dynasty.

 

 OUR HOUSE NOVEL 

TO BECOME SERIES AT ITV

And the story itself certainly sounds like something you wouldn't want to find yourself in: British ITV will turn Louise Candlish' novel OUR HOUSE into a four part mini series together with Red Planet. To be shot next

Our House will reveal cast next year

summer, the series narrates the story of Fiona Lawson, who arrives home one day to find strangers moving into her house. With all her family's possessions and furniture nowhere to be seen, Fi believes there's been a huge mistake and insists her home isn't for sale. With events spiralling beyond her control, we feel her panic rising as she can’t reach estranged husband, Bram. As she reflects upon the safe space in which she and her family had made a life together, Fi begins to peel back the layers of her relationship and discovers her husband has also disappeared. With her life shattered, she realises the secrets and lies have only just begun, but her husband isn’t the only one with things to hide.

NEW 2019 SITCOMS: BRENT MORIN JOINS DENNIS QUAID IN MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER, DAVID WALTON & ELIZABETH ALDERFER IN THE US PROJECT, KATHERINE HEIGL TO LEAD OUR HOUSE, WILL SASSO, CHRISTINA VIDAL IN UNITED WE FALL, STEVEN WEBER IN FRAN DRESCHER'S UNINSURED, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ADS CAST

2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS

BRENT MORIN JOINS QUAID'S MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER

Our dearest Brent Morin returns to TV sitcoms!

In one of our previous reports on new multicam sitcom pilot orders I told you that Netflix has placed an eight episode order for the first Christmas season of MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER comedy in which Dennis Quaid will play Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch who must balance the demands of his complicated family with the stress of the Christmas season when his youngest daughter comes home for the holidays with a new boyfriend. Now one of our most favourite comedians Brent Morin has joined the cast together with Bridget Mendler. They've already played a couple in one of the best sitcoms ever Undateable, and now he will play her boyfriend, a struggling musician from LA who will have his hands full as he meets his girlfriend’s imposing father and close knit family over a stressful and emotional Christmas break. Ashley Tisdale, Adam Rose and Hayes MacArthur will also star, Tisdale as the other daughter, Rose as her husband and Hayes as the only son in the family.

DAVID WALTON TO LEAD THE US PROJECT AT CBS
CBS has found leads for their new hybrid sitcom THE US PROJECT in which Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton will star opposite Parker Young, Vanessa and Laura Marano! It will be a comedy told through

Elizabeth Alderfer (Disjointed) and David Walton (9JKL)

interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. Alderfer plays a woman who is not sure her current boyfriend is the right one just when she meets Walton's Kevin, a divorced father of two teens who will transform the next decade of her life.

KATHERINE HEIGL IN OUR HOUSE!

In the slate of new multicam sitcoms with biracial couples as leads, the biggest one is OUR HOUSE also over at CBS which has just cast Katherine

This will be Katherine's first sitcom ever!

Heigl as lead opposite Malcolm Barrett. The story follows a devoted dad, Shawn (Barrett), and mom, Bridget (Heigl), who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture. Heigl’s Bridget tries her best to be a laid back, progressive parent like her therapist husband, but often finds herself reverting to the old school style of her parents. Now that she’s moved back into her childhood home, surrounded by her parents and crazy siblings, finding a balance between these wildly different parenting styles is going to be more difficult than she imagined.

UNITED WE FALL AT ABC
Rival ABC has tied Will Sasso and Christina Vidal as leads of their new sitcom UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural comedy that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children

Will Sasso will be married to Christina Vidal!

and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. I've already told you that Jane Curtin will play Bill's difficult mother and Jason Michael Snow Bill's brother!

STEVEN WEBER 2BE UNINSURED

Steven Weber will be Fran's husband!

Definitely one of the most exciting news of the season is that Fran Drescher is returning to the small screens in NBC's UNINSURED sitcom which revolves around young parents Dave (Adam Pally) and Rebecca (Abby Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, Elliot and Linda (Drescher) who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt. Now they've cast Steven Weber as Dave's father Elliot! Weber will still play in three other series in which he has regular roles!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 
I've also told you that CBS has cast Briga Heelan and Michael Angarano in TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a

Michael Cassidy and Raymond Ablack have joined new sitcom at CBS

list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Raymond Ablack, Michael Cassidy, Taylor Dearden and Ana Villafañe have joined the comedy as his friends. This one will also have a biracial couple as Ablack will play Briga's boyfriend.

2019 SITCOMS: MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER WITH DENNIS QUAID AT NETFLIX, THE UNICORN, OUR HOUSE AT CBS, NANA & UNITED WE FALL AT ABC, UNINSURED AT NBC, GENIUSES, PATTY'S AUTO AT FOX

2019 MULTICAM SITCOM PILOTS

 NETFLIX'S NEW MERRY HAPPY

Dennis Quaid will try his luck in sitcoms

WHATEVER SITCOM

Netflix has ventured into multicam sitcom waters again with MERRY HAPPY WHATEVER a holiday themed comedy with an eight episode order for the first Christmas season (potential new seasons would follow other holidays). Dennis Quaid will play Don Quinn, a strong willed patriarch who must balance the demands of his complicated family with the stress of the Christmas season when his youngest daughter comes home for the holidays with a new boyfriend.

UNICORN IN OUR HOUSE AT CBS
CBS has ordered a pilot for a multicam sitcom from Will & Grace executive producer which would have Latin star Jaime Camil as an outrageously

Jaime Camil will lead an untitled CBS sitcom

wealthy trust fund baby who is cut off by his father, and he and his wife are forced to move into her estranged sister’s Reseda condo! CBS also has a pilot for THE UNICORN which, inspired by a true story, follows a widower who is eager to move on from the most difficult year of his life, only to realize he’s utterly unprepared to raise his two daughters on his own and equally unprepared for the dating world — where, to his shock, he’s suddenly a hot commodity. Their third new multicam sitcom pilot is for OUR HOUSE following a devoted mom and dad who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture.

NANA & UNITED WE FALL AT ABC

ABC has ordered a pilot for multicam sitcom NANA which will see Josh Cooke play an obsessive dad, who after the death of his wife, is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law Nana (Katey Sagal) into his home

Josh Cooke and Katey Sagal will lead Nana pilot at ABC

to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows. They also have a pilot for UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

NBC IS UNINSURED 
NBC has, meanwhile, found stars for their multicam sitcom UNINSURED in which Adam Pally and Abby Elliott will play young parents Dave and

Abby Elliott and Adam Pally will lead Uninsured pilot at NBC

Rebecca, who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt.

Maggie Lawson will be the mom of Geniuses

MAGGIE LAWSON AT FOX!

Over at Fox, they've cast Maggie Lawson to lead multicam sitcom pilot GENIUSES as the mom of a blue collar family in South Jersey trying to get by while raising four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. Jason Biggs will play the father of the family. Fox has also rounded up cast for another of their new multicamera sitcom pilots hiring Carra Patterson, Sarah Levy, Paola Lázaro and Joanna Adler to all star in PATTY'S AUTO a comedy 

Sarah Levy will be one of Patty's female mechanics!

set in an Pennsylvania-based auto repair shop with only female mechanics. It revolves around Patty (Patterson) and the eclectic women who work for her. Don't forget to check out our previous report on 2019 sitcoms here!