NETFLIX TO BASE THE PERFECT COUPLE SERIES SEASON TWO ON SWAN SONG NOVEL WITH A COMPLETELY NEW FAMILY

 PERFECT COUPLE SEASON 2 

TO BE BASED ON SWAN SONG BOOK

Although it was a mediocre series, it garnered a rather nice viewing over at Netflix thanks to the ensemble cast, so THE PERFECT COUPLE is getting a second season, but they are turning it into an anthology 

New season will be based on Swan Song

series, which means it will be based on another of Elin Hildebrand's books SWAN SONG with a completely new couple and their family. It also  takes place in Nantucket, but instead the Winburys, it will focus on the mysterious Richardson family. In the book Chief of Police Ed Kapenash (renamed Dan Carter in “The Perfect Couple” and played by Michael Beach) is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons, how did they make their money, exactly?, Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet. When their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms.

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 AUTUMN TV SCHEDULE 

NEW SEPTEMBER 2024 TV SERIES

Unlike some previous seasons, this one has a very bleak start, I think we are finally feeling the consequences of the actors' strike. So not much to report when it comes to new series this September. Netflix will launch THE PERFECT COUPLE on September 5th with Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as a rich family that unravels after a body washes up right outside their family home. Channel 5 has set September 9th date for the second season of THE TEACHER series about a teacher whose pupil goes missing. Apple TV is launching their fashion house set series LA MAISON September 20th with Lambert Wilson as the head of the house whose rival wants to take it from him. Over in Britain ITV will air their mini series PLAYING NICE with James Norton and Niamh Algar as one of two couples who discover their toddlers were switched at birth. I hear it will start September 19th, while BBC will air their NIGHTSLEEPER series September 15th. This real-time thriller is set on a runaway sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.

NEW OCTOBER TV SERIES

October is, meanwhile, stuffed with newbies starting October 2nd when Australian series LAST DAYS OF THE SPACE AGE starts set at the moment when American space station Skylab crash lands on earth just outside an Australian city, as it is gearing up to host the Miss Universe pageant. October 10th brings TEACUP to Peacock. Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman lead a group of people desperately trying to grapple with forces far beyond their control. A day after Apple TV has Cate Blanchett in DISCLAIMER in which she plays a journalist who has the tables turned on her by a mysterious novel, written by Kevin Kline, which reveals her darkest secrets. October 18th brings RIVALS to Disney Plus and Hulu, with Aidan Turner, David Tennant in the story about the rise of independent television in 1980s England, the rise filled with sex, scandals and battles for power. October 24th brings TERRITORY to Netflix led by Anna Torv and Sam Corlett. When a massive cattle station lacks an heir, Australia's rival factions see a chance to seize control. The land grabs threaten to destroy the declining dynasty. A day after that NAUTILUS epic adventure series hits Prime Video following Shazad Latif's Captain Nemo and his crew. 

 

NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS OF OCTOBER

October also brings us a number of new multicamera sitcoms which are experiencing a revival this season. On the 17th CBS launches GEORGIE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE which will see Montana Jordan and Emily Osment reprise their roles from Young Sheldon in a prequel series. Reba is back on television October 18th as an owner of her own bar in HAPPY'S PLACE, a new sitcom that also stars Melissa Peterman. CBS also has POPPA'S PLACE starting October 21st with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., as a legendary talk show host named Poppa and his dreamer son.

 

NEW AUTUMN SERIES WITH NO DATE SET

There are also new series that will arrive this Autumn but we still have no dates for them. HBO and Sky will launch DUNE: PROPHECY sometime in November with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as two sisters who found a mysterious sect Bene Geserit in order to protect the galaxy. PBS and BBC will probably bring us Keeley Hawes in MISS AUSTEN mini series about Jane Austen's sister, Europe will follow the Battle of Belgrade in RISE OF THE RAVEN epic series about the fearless warrior Janos Hunyadi who defeated the Ottoman Army and defended Europe in 1456. Netflix will probably give us A 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE based on the famous classic and set in the timeless town of Macondo, where seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate. Over in UK Channel 5 is bringing  HARDACRES epic drama about a working class family in 1890s Yorkshire who move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate, and THE WIVES mini series about three sisters in law, who investigate the murder of a woman who was married to the fourth brother of their husbands and who appears at their holiday resort with a new wife. Over in France, period set series DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP about the friendship between Anne queen of France and duchess de Chevreuse should, according to rumours, arrive sometime in September or October. I imagine that Netflix could also finally stream Italian costume drama IL GATTOPARDO about a 19th-century Sicilian aristocratic family that gets caught up in the changing sociopolitical times.

NICOLE KIDMAN AND LIEV SCHREIBER ARE BILLY HOWLE'S, JACK REYNOR'S AND DAKOTA FANNING'S RICH PARENTS IN NETFLIX PERFECT FAMILY SERIES TRAILER

  THE PERFECT COUPLE  

NEW NETFLIX SERIES TRAILER

Earlier this week Netflix has released a trailer for their new mini TV series THE PERFECT COUPLE which is coming to the streamer September 5th announcing the beginning of the new Autumn season. Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestseller it stars Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as the rich couple with Billy Howle, Dakota Fanning and

The series will have six episodes

Jack Reynor as their kids and Eve Hewson as the new bride in the family! Meghann Fahy, Ishaan Khattar (whom you can see gorgeously nekkid in the trailer) and Isabelle Adjani also star.

 

A LIFE TO KILL FOR

It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony-and everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect. As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash interviews the bride, the groom, the groom's famous mystery-novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, he discovers that every wedding is a minefield-and no couple is perfect. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

NICOLE KIDMAN, JACK REYNOR, DAKOTA FANNING IN NETFLIX PERFECT COUPLE SERIES! DOUGLAS STUART'S SHUGGIE BAIN AND YOUNG MUNGO NOVELS BEING ADAPTED INTO TV SERIES!

 THE PERFECT COUPLE SERIES 

CASTS NICOLE KIDMAN, JACK REYNOR AND OTHERS 

After working together on HBO's The Undoing, Nicole Kidman and Susanne Bier will work together on THE PERFECT COUPLE series at Netflix. Jack Reynor, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson are also in talks. Based on Elin Hilderbrand's novel the six-episode murder mystery follows Nantucket native Celeste Otis, who on the Fourth of July, is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family in the area. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect. 

 NEW SERIES ADAPTATIONS 

OF TWO DOUGLAS STUART BOOKS

Fashion designer slash writer Douglas Stuart has not one, but two of his books currently being turned into TV series. His 2020 Booker Prize

Shuggie Bain is being adapted by BBC

winner SHUGGIE BAIN is being turned into a series over at BBC. It  tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow. Sold in almost 40 countries, it is a love story between mother Agnes Bain and her gay son Shuggie. It details Agnes' descent into despair and her struggles with alcoholism following the breakdown of her marriage. While most of her children are driven away by her deterioration, Shuggie remains to help while suffering huge personal problems of his own. The novel was inspired by Stuart's own childhood in Glasgow during the Margaret Thatcher era after father left his mother. 

 

  HIS OTHER BOOK YOUNG MUNGO

 is also being adapted for small screens by A24 studio following the dangerous first love of two working class men in Glasgow. Winner of many book awards, it follows Protestant Mungo and Catholic James who are caught

Young Mungo doesn't have a broadcaster yet

between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.