MICHAEL FASSBENDER TO LEAD THE AGENCY PARAMOUNT PLUS TV SERIES FROM GEORGE CLOONEY

   MICHAEL FASSBENDER   

TO LEAD THE AGENCY TV SERIES

Showtime on Paramount Plus and George Clooney are producing the remake of French series The Bureau which will be titled THE AGENCY, but it will not be Clooney in the lead but Michael Fassbender. He will play Martian, a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage. Jeffrey Wright will also star.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON EWAN MCGREGOR'S PERIOD SET TV SERIES A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

  A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW  

EWAN MCGREGOR SERIES TRAILER IS HERE

The series starts March 29th on Showtime at Paramount

Ewan McGregor is looking dashing and swell in full costume for his new historical series A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW from Showtime and Paramount+ based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Amor Towles. The air date for the new show has been set for March 29th on Paramount and 31st on Showtime! 

 

  He stars as Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

 

THE SERIES ALSO STARS

Ewan's real life love partner Mary Elisabeth Winstead and our dear John Heffernan! Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think about it, will you be watching this spring or not or will you first read the novel before the series starts? Click on the photo above to see the whole cast of the series in the hotel.

SEE NEW IMAGES, TEASER AND AIR DATE FOR EWAN MCGREGOR'S PERIOD SET TV SERIES A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

  A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW  

 NEW TV SERIES IMAGES AND AIR DATE

Ewan McGregor is looking dashing and swell in full costume for his new historical series A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW from Showtime and Paramount+ based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Amor Towles. The air date for the new show has been set for March 29th on Paramount and 31st on Showtime! He stars as Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. The series also stars Ewan's real life love partner Mary Elisabeth Winstead and our dear John Heffernan! Check out the very short teaser below and tell us what you think about it, will you be watching this spring or not or will you first read the novel before the series starts?

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PERIOD SET GAY ROMANCE SERIES FELLOW TRAVELERS WITH MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY

 FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES 

GIVES JONATHAN BAILEY AND MATT BOMER AN EPIC ROMANCE

Fellow Travelers starts this month

Unlike September which was dry as Sahara, month of October will bring us some new shows or new seasons of the ones we already love and among them is brand new period set series FELLOW TRAVELERS which gives Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey and epic romance spanning decades. This eight episode series will start streaming on Showtime's channel on Paramount Plus October 27th and then also on the linear Showtime from October 29th. This epic love story and political thriller is a small screen adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel. This is one of the rare examples where gay characters are played by gay actors: as you know Bomer has a husband and children with him, while Bailey has been in a relationship with British star Hugh Skinner for a few years now.

  IN THE FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES

It will be an eight episode series

Matt Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements until he meets Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams) and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s while facing obstacles in the world and within themselves.

JONATHAN BAILEY & MATT BOMER TO HAVE AN EPIC ROMANCE IN FELLOW TRAVELERS PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES! SEE 1ST PHOTOS FROM THE SECOND SEASON OF RUSSIA'S CATHERINE THE GREAT EPIC TV SERIES

  FELLOW TRAVELERS 

PAIRS UP JONATHAN BAILEY AND MATT BOMER AS LOVE COUPLE!

Well, that couple will be hot as hell! Matt Bomer's mini TV series FELLOW TRAVELERS over at Showtime has just added Jonathan Bailey as his lover (he is gay in real life too, last time I heard he was with Hugh Skinner). Bomer is handsome and charismatic Hawkins Fuller who avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.

  CATHERINE THE GREAT  

FIRST SEASON TWO PHOTOS

And your epic treat for today are first photos from the second season of Russian historical series CATHERINE THE GREAT (Velikaya - not to be confused with their rival series CATHERINE II in which the tzarina was played by Marina Aleksandrova and which already had two seasons). Kinopoisk was the first to show footage with Elizabeth Boyarskaya in the role of older Catherine II from the sequel to the series "Catherine the Great". The first part, where Julia Snigir played the Empress, was released in 2015. Now the action takes place in 1763, the first year after the coronation of Catherine.  The series also stars Anton Khabarov (Grigory Orlov), Alexei Morozov (Gregory Potemkin), Pavel Vorozhtsov (Nikita Panin), Alexey Filimonov (Lev Naryshkin), Igor Gordin (Alexey Bestuzhev), Sofia Sinitsyna (Ekaterina Dashkova) and Philip Ershov (future Emperor Paul). Filming is currently taking place in palaces, parks and mansions of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, as well as on the ship "Poltava". The project involves more than 560 historical costumes, which were sewn and rented in Spain and the Czech Republic. Mars Media is working on the 12-episode second season ordered by Russia's Channel One.

VICTORIA'S PRINCE ALBERT TOM HUGHES IS KIT MARLOWE IN A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES SEASON 2! GAL GADOT TO LEAD HEDY LAMARR TV SERIES AT SHOWTIME!

    TOM HUGHES JOINS SEASON 2

OF A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES!

Good news for all of you ladies who enjoyed the first season of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES series: beside Matthew Goode, whom you already fell in love with, you will now have another popular hunk to swoon

Tom Hughes will be Kit Marlowe in the second season

over in the second season: Victoria's Tom Hughes will play famous playwright Kit Marlowe in the second season of Sky's series about a young scholar at Oxford who is a descendant of the Salem witches. When she accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript, she is compelled to embrace the magic in her blood and enters a forbidden romance with charming 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew. When the series continues, Diana and Matthew will be hiding in the treacherous world of Elizabethan London, where they must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Based on Deborah Harkness books, the series also aired on AMC in USA. Good news is that, after a rather dull and sloppy first season, the second will have new writers!

    GAL GADOT TO TOPLINE

HEDY LAMARR MINI TV SERIES

Gal Gadot is also producing the mini series

Over at Showtime, it has been announced yesterday that Gal Gadot will portray famous classic Hollywood diva HEDY LAMARR in a mini television series about her life. As 'Deadline' reports, born in Austria, Lamarr started her career in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s before leaving her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and moving to Paris. In London, she met Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood where she will star in many films, Samson and Delilah among others. Real name  Hedwig Kiesler, she also was an inventor. At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency. Aspects of their work were incorporated into Bluetooth technology and WiFi.