IT'S THE END OF AN ERA IN AUSTRALIA'S BEST SERIES THE NEWSREADER FINAL SEASON WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV! TRAILER AND AIRING DATE

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FINAL SEASON THREE ARRIVES TONIGHT

At first we thought that the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER would arrive last Autumn, but since it is also the final one it's been pushed to this year and will finally start tonight, February 2nd at Australian ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the six part show again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola,

The final third act starts tonight on ABC

Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall. First season also aired on BBC in UK and AMC in USA.

 

THE END OF AN ERA

We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaiman and an opportunity to be the first woman to both anchor and produce her own current affairs show. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall which will be covered in the last episode announcing the crumbling of Dale's and Helen's private lives as well. See the brilliant trailer below:

 

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPELLING TV DRAMA THE NEWSREADER SEASON 3 WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV

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SEASON THREE ARRIVING THIS AUTUMN?

At least that is what we are expecting, for the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER to arrive probably in September to ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the show

Third season was shot earlier this January

again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola, Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall.  

 

SEASON THREE STORY

We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaim. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

THE NEWSREADER SERIES WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV GETS THIRD SEASON! ABC SCORES MAJOR FUNDING FOR NEWSREADER AND LADIES IN BLACK SERIES

 THE NEWSREADER TV SERIES 

SEASON THREE CONFIRMED

After huge success of the first season and then great ratings with the second one, best Australian series in last decade THE NEWSREADER is officially getting a third season as well on ABC and on BBC in UK. Starring Sam Red and Anna Torv as the stars of News at Six, the six-part third installment will continue digging behind the indelible images of the 1980s for a compelling, intimate, vital look at an era of great change! The third season will be getting a share of $10 million funding from Screen Australia!

  LADIES IN BLACK TV SERIES

Ladies in Black will have six episodes

It is interesting that part of that massive funding will also go to the new TV series adaptation of Madeleine St John's best selling book The Woman in Black which was previously already adapted into a film with Juliette Binoche back in 2018. The series will be called LADIES IN BLACK and will be telling the story of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney. It is set primarily during the Christmas rush period when young school leaver, Lisa, joins the women. The six part series, also done for ABC, will see the women enter the sixties. Miranda Otto, Debi Mazar, Jessica de Gouw lead the cast of the brand new series shot last winter in Australia. 

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE NEWSREADER AWARD WINNING SERIES SEASON 2 WITH SAM REID AND ANNA TORV! SEE TRAILER AND AIR DATE!

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SECOND SEASON IS HERE!

Two years ago we proclaimed it the series of the year and it went and won numerous awards from Australia's Film and TV Academy, and now THE NEWSREADER is finally coming back with six episode long second season which starts September 10th on ABC. The first season also aired on BBC, Roku and many other streamers boasting outstanding performances from our dearest boy Sam Reid, Anna Torv and the rest of the flawlessly brilliant cast. The immersive series explores the personal and professional lives of

Sam Reid leads the cast

journalists and crew within a 1980s Australian newsroom.  

 

  STORY OF THE SECOND SEASON

set across 1987 and 1988, will revolve around Dale and Helen contending with rising public profiles, intensifying office politics, and a ruthless new CEO of the network. They are now the Golden couple of News! To the outside world, they present a glowing image of success and romance but the truth is more complex. Helen and Dale grapple with who they really want to be in life – and whether that path can be together. News events covered in the season include the 1987 federal election, the stock market crash, the separation of

Anna Torv leads the cast

Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, the heroin crisis, and the Hoddle Street shootings.

 

WHO IS IN THE CAST?

With the cast from the first season returning (William McInnes, Robert Taylor, Michelle Lim Davidson, Stephen Peacocke, Chai Hansen, Chum Ehelepola, and Marg Downey) they will now also be joined by Daniel Gillies as the new network CEO, Phillipa Northeast as Geoff and Evelyn's 'complex' daughter Kay, Fleck Byrne as superstar variety host Gerry, and Hunter Page-Lochard as firebrand activist Lynus. The second season was ordered before the airing of the first one which turned out to be a massive success with critics and the audience, so there is hope we might get a third season as well venturing into the 90s. The shooting ended in September and after that both Reid and Torv became stars over in USA as well, he as vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire series and she as the star of The Last of Us apocalyptic hit series at HBO. Each episode will be followed by a podcast covering the real life events from the episode's story. In UK, the series became BBC2's most watched Sunday drama in almost half a decade. 

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON TWO OF THE AWARD WINNING SERIES THE NEWSREADER WITH SAM REID AND ANNA TORV?

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WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEASON 2

After scoring massive success and winning awards, Australian series THE NEWSREADER is coming back with the second season next year with Sam Read and Anna Torv returning as news anchors following major events from the 1980s. The creators of the show, which airs on ABC in Australia, BBC

The second season should arrive sometime next year

in UK, Arte in France and Germany and Viaplay in Scandinavia, have spoken to Drama Quarterly, revealing that season 2 moves the action forward as the News at Six team enter 1987 and 1988, as does The Newsreader’s music, fashion and hairstyling. A year after season one, Helen and Dale are established as The Golden Couple of News. To the outside world, they present a glowing image of success and romance. But the truth is more complex. As 1987 rolls along, global stocks will soar and crash, Australia will prepare to celebrate its bicentennial year, there will be elections, and the separation of Diana and Charles, and Helen and Dale grapple with who they really want to be in life – and whether they can tread that path together. Daniel Gillies and Philippa Northeast expand the second season cast of the series as brand new characters. Since both Reid and Torv are now shooting new shows in USA, it is not clear if they will be available for a possible season three.

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE NEW PERIOD SET TV SERIES WITH IRRESISTIBLE SAM REID

 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

The show starts October 2nd at AMC Plus

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?

I know, I know, I am not into bloodsuckers either, but I certainly am a huge sucker for our dearest Sam Reid, the best actor of his generation, so watching AMC's new INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE mini TV series is a definite must when it launches October 2nd! The new eight episode adaptation of the famous novel by Anne Rice will have Rolin Jones as writer, executive producer, and show runner, with Anne's son Christopher Rice also serving as the executive producer.

The series will have eight episodes

 

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 

 a sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel,  follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement. “Let the tale seduce you, just as I was seduced,” Jacob Anderson as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac says in the trailer below. “He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker.' Check out the trailer under the post and tell us what you think, will you be watching?

DANIEL GILLIES JOINS SAM REID, ANNA TORV IN 2ND SEASON OF THE AWARD WINNING THE NEWSREADER TV SERIES! DISNEY DEVELOPING ERAGON TV SERIES ADAPTATION

 NEWSREADER SEASON TWO 

CASTS DANIEL GILLIES

Daniel Gillies is the new cast addition

As you know it was our favourite Australian series last year and after winning tons of awards, THE NEWS READER is currently airing on Roku in US and BBC 2 in UK, while the second season is shooting Down Under. Deadline reports that Daniel Gillies is a new regular joining our dearest Sam Reid, Anna Torv, William McInnes and Robert Taylor in the series set in the cutthroat world of 1980s TV news in Melbourne, Australia. Gillies will play Charlie, a privileged first-born son of an aging newspaper mogul, desperate to make his own mark in the world.

Sam Reid returns as young reporter Dale Jennings, desperate to become a newsreader, who is paired with notoriously ‘difficult’ star newsreader Helen Norville (Torv) over three months, during which time they cover an extraordinary news events — from the shock of the Challenger explosion, to the hype of Halley’s Comet, to the complexities of the AIDS crisis. The end of the first season saw him succeeding in his plans and becoming a TV star and Helen finding out he is bisexual.

 

  ERAGON TV SERIES  

ORDERED AT DISNEY PLUS

The series is in early stages of development

Meanwhile, Disney Plus is in early stages of developing Christopher Paolini's saga ERAGON into a TV series.  “The Inheritance Cycle”, which has four books, tells the story of a farmboy named Eragon who discovers an egg that hatches into a dragon he names Saphira. Through their bond and the help of his mentor Brom, Eragon learns to be a Dragon Rider, an ancient order that had long been thought to be wiped out by the evil king Galbatorix. Eragon and Saphira set out to defeat Galbatorix and free the land of Alagaësia from his tyranny. Your spy was one of the European translators of the saga back in the days.

SEE SAM REID AS LESTAT IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE TV SERIES STARTING THIS OCTOBER

 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

1ST TV SERIES TRAILER IS HERE

The series will arrive this October to AMC

During the Comic Con this weekend, AMC released the first full trailer for their INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE series revealing it will start October 2nd! The adaptation of Anne Rice’s iconic gothic horror novel, will see Jacob Anderson playing a 200 year-old vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac as he recounts his bloody life story to a reporter, particularly focusing on his romance with the vampire that turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt (our dearest boy Sam Reid), and the twisted family unit they form with their 10 year-old vampire “daughter” Claudia played by Bailey Bass. The seven episode series is set in jazzy New Orleans and is a modernised version of the old story.

SISI EPIC TV SERIES STARTS SECOND SEASON SHOOT, SEE WHO WILL JOIN THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA AT THE COURT!SEE 1ST PICS OF SAM REID, JACOB ANDERSON IN INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE EPIC TV SERIES

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SEASON 2 STARTS SHOOTING

After it scored a huge success in most of the European countries when it aired last Christmas, RTL's costume drama SISI has started shooting a

Dominique Devenport is back as Sisi

second season over at the Baltic with Dominique Devenport and Jannik Schümann back as empress Sisi and emperor Franz.

Although, the birth of their son and heir to the throne should bring them happiness, that happy moment is ruined by power struggles in Europe and it starts numerous private challenges for the couple. Otto von Bismarck threatens to drive Austria into a new war. Sisi tries with all her might to be there for her husband and her people. Although she loves Franz from the bottom of her heart and repeatedly proves her diplomatic flair, the empress does not seem to be granted personal happiness. Sisi's life remains that of a bird in a golden cage. When she has to travel to Hungary on a political mission, she encounters the untamed expanses of the

First look at Count Andrassy, Sisi and Franz in the second season

Panonnian steppe, the simple life of the people and a very handsome man: Count Andrássy. Torn between her husband and the rebel leader, Sisi eventually faces a difficult decision.

WHO IS BACK AT THE COURT? 

The six episodes of the second season will be produced from April to August 2022 in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. In addition to Dominique

Jannik Schumann is back as emperor Franz of Austria and Hungary

Devenport and Janik Schümann, Désirée Nosbusch as Archduchess Sophie, Giovanni Funiati also returns as Count Gyula Andrássy. New

Giovanni Funiati is starring as Hungarian Count Andrassy

additions include Murathan Muslu as Hungarian rebel leader Ödön Körtek, Romy Schroeder as Marie, the daughter of Sisi's maid Fanny, Amanda Da Gloria as Countess Emanuelle Andrássy and Bernd Hölscher as Otto von Bismarck!

 

 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 

AMC RELEASES FIRST PHOTOS

AMC Plus has released first official photos from their mini TV series adaptation of Anne Rice's vampire saga INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE showing our dearest boy Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt and Jacob Anderson as Louis. They are joined in the cast by Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy, and Bailey Bass as Claudia. As you know, the story follows an 18th century Lord, Louis, as he recounts his story and tumultuous relationship with his maker – Lestat – to an eager interviewer and biographer. After he was turned into a vampire by Lestat in 1790s in New Orleans, they developed alove-hate relationship over the centuries, eventually turning a young girl named Claudia (Bailey Bass) into a vampire and adding her to their brood. It is expected that the AMC Plus series will have seven episodes in the first season.

SANDITON IS BACK WITH A 2ND SEASON TRAILER WITH TOM WESTON JONES, BEN LLOYD HUGHES & ALEXANDER VLAHOS! 1ST LOOK AT AMC'S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE WITH SAM REID, MOONHAVEN SF DRAMA WITH JOE MANGANIELLO, DOMINIC MONAGHAN! WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? MINI SERIES CLIP WITH JIM BROADBENT, EMMA THOMPSON, WILL POULTER

  SANDITON SEASON 2 

TRAILER HAS ARRIVED!

Ladies will really have a rich spring, with new seasons of Outlander and Bridgerton arriving in March, plus the hunks from Vikings: Valhalla in late February and then the second season of SANDITON landing at Britbox March 21st and a day before on PBS Masterpiece for the viewers in USA,

Sanditon season two arrives this March

and all that seasoned with last night's news that HBO's Gilded Age costume saga has been renewed for a second season. Based on Jane Austen’s final

Britbox will air it in Europe, PBS Masterpiece in USA

and incomplete novel, written only months before her death in 1817, it tells the story of impulsive, brash and ungratefully impolite Charlotte Heywood (Rose

Rose Williams takes the lead role again

Williams) and her quest to use rich people for her own gain. The series will also air on ITV for Brits and the third season has also been ordered.

 

THE NEW SEA SON PICKS UP

 the action nine months later, as the town grows in popularity, and features characters familiar and new. Charlotte (Rose Williams) taking up the role of governess to Augusta Wilson (Eloise Webb), Alexander Colbourne’s ward and niece,

Our boo Tom Weston Jones is the main hunk of the new season

who at the age of 17 pushes against authority and soon gives Charlotte a run for her money. Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison Heywood (Rosie Graham) comes to Sanditon to pursue her own romantic dream, and joined

Colonel Lennox will charm even the snobbish lady Denham

by The Parkers, the second series promises new romances, friendships and challenges for the residents as the Army makes Sanditon their new base. The Parkers are back, as Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) strives to rebuild Sanditon.

Dashing Jack Fox is back as the arrogant sir Denham

But there are many unforeseen issues awaiting him, while the secrets and lies of the dysfunctional Denhams continue to rock the foundations of the sunny seaside town. And, in her last summer season before turning 21, Georgiana

Alexander Vlahos arrives to Sanditon to paint the rich people

Lambe (Crystal Clarke), keen to forge her own identity, gets up to mischief in the name of love… but will she run the risk of being lonelier than ever before? When it comes to the new hunks in town, we have Alexander

The second season will probably have eight episodes

Colbourne (Ben Lloyd Hughes), a mysterious resident with a complex past, and also the self-assured war hero Colonel Francis Lennox (Tom Weston Jones). Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison, will quickly find romance

Charlotte will fly up in the sky with dashing Lennox

in the shape of charming Captain William Carter (Maxim Ays). There is also the courageous Captain Declan Fraser (Frank Blake) and the flamboyant Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos), who plans to paint the fashionable

Ben Lloyd Hughes is another hunky addition to the cast

residents. Anne Reid returns as Lady Denham, Jack Fox as Sir Edward Denham and Charlotte Spencer as Esther Denham! Check out the new trailer below and tell us what you think?

 

 WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? 

WATCH THE FIRST CLIP

Britbox has also released the first clip from their three part mini series WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? Hugh Laurie’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, which will launch exclusively on BritBox this Spring!

The three part series will air on Britbox sometime this spring

Starring Will Poulter as Bobby Jones, a young naval officer, and Lucy Boynton as Frankie Derwent, a prototype It Girl with a taste for adventure and good hats, the series also has cameo appearances by Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. 

 

 AMC SHOWREEL 1ST LOOK AT 

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

AMC has released a showreel showing clips from some of their upcoming shows including INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE a seven part

Sam Reid plays Lestat in the new series

adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel about the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he relates the story of his life to a reporter, in

Jacob Anderson is Louis in the new series

particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). The show is currently in production in New Orleans.

MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

AMC has also showed first glimpses of their expensive sf show MOONHAVEN starring Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and

Joe Manganiello is one of the leads in Moonhaven

Joe Manganiello which follows Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on

Dominic Monaghan also stars in the new series

Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth.

Iconic characters. Epic new worlds. Legendary series.

It’s all here. pic.twitter.com/VFBHn9zPgu

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