Fox has set our dear Sir Stephen Fry as the lead of their new series THE INTERROGATOR which will follow him as Conrad Henry, former MI6 agent, and his elite team. When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season.
It was shortlisted for Oscars and won numerous prizes at festivals around the world last year, but now heart warming short movie A FRIEND OF DOROTHY
The film is now streaming on Disney Plus
from Lee Knight, who both directed it and wrote it, is available for streaming on Disney Plus!
THE STORY Miriam Margolyes stars as a lonely widow Dorothy and Alistair
Nwachukwu plays teenager JJ. Their friendship starts when his football
lands in her garden. JJ helps Dorothy with difficult household tasks
and provides companionship to his octogenarian neighbor, whose husband
has passed away and son lives abroad. Her mercenary grandson is the only
family contact she has, and JJ becomes a firm friend. Meanwhile, she
encourages him to follow his dreams to be a stage actor through reciting
and reading plays. The cast also includes Stephen Fry and Oscar
Lloyd.
And it is such a massively stellar ensemble movie: Sir Ian McKellen's movie FRANK AND PERCY which also stars Roger Allam will also have Hugh Skinner, Sir Stephen Fry, Dame Joanna Lumley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Rob Brydon and Dame Sian Phillips in the cast. The story follows two older men who meet while walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath. What begins as a casual conversation about the weather and aching hips gradually deepens into an unexpected friendship – and perhaps something more.
First look at Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry in heartwarming movie A FRIEND OF DOROTHY has been released. The short film will premiere this June at Raindance Film Festival following Dorothy (Margolyes), an elderly woman living alone, whose unexpected friendship with her young neighbour, JJ (Alistair Nwachukwu), begins when his football lands in her garden. Exploring LGBTQ+ themes, loneliness in old age and intergenerational friendship, the film will also screen privately at old age homes and schools across the country alongside its festival release. Lee Knight produces and directs this short movie.
I've already told you that our dear Pathe will do a movie adaptation of COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO after they give us two Musketeers movie in April and December, and now Pierre Niney has been announced as the lead! To shoot from July with October 2024 opening date, it will be told from the point of view of Edmond Dantès, the first French superhero, who steps from the light into the shadows, assuming the identity of masked avenger. Based on Dumas' famous novel, it will be an epic adventure film, with exceptionally strong characters!
DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY
LAUNCHES THIS SUNDAY!
And here is something that actually begins as soon as tomorrow: this Sunday Channel 5 is launching their four episode documentary series DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY which takes the British comedian on a
New series starts this Sunday at 7PM
journey back to 155 million years ago!
In this new factual series the comedian charts the dinosaurs’ time on
earth from their ‘golden age’ in the Jurassic era right through to their
last days, when the planet was hit by a huge asteroid. He interacts
with the giant beasts and meets experts who tell him surprising facts
about the creatures. A prehistoric environment via a 360-degree Dinosaur
World, which has been designed to immerse viewers in a hyper-realistic
representation of the jungles of the Jurassic period and plains of the
Cretaceous period. Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI, Stephen is able to
chart their story on earth right through to their demise 66 million
years ago. He gets to meet much-loved dinos such as the 26m-long
diplodocus and witness ferocious battles between triceratops and the
fearsome tyrannosaurus rex.
There is not much to expect in the scorching month of August, I can tell you that right now, but what I can definitely promise you is that we are getting a visit from the god of dreams himself when THE SANDMAN ten episode fantasy drama television series based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics starts streaming from August 5th. The series was developed by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg! You can check out the rather expensive looking brand new trailer released today down below:
The show will have ten episodes
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF DREAM
A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps
her younger brother Dream instead. And thus, in 1916, Morpheus, the king
of dreams and one of the seven Endless, is captured in an occult
ritual. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a
glass bottle for many decades. After being held captive for 106 years,
Morpheus escapes and sets out to restore order to his kingdom of the
Dreaming. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a
quest for his lost objects of power.
Tom Sturridge leads the cast
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
The cast is lead by Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, the king of dreams and ruler of the Dreaming. Gwendoline Christie is Lucifer Morningstar: The ruler of Hell. Vivienne Acheampong is Lucienne, the librarian of the Dreaming, while Boyd Holbrook is The Corinthian: A nightmare who escaped the Dreaming.
Charles Dance is Sir Roderick Burgess: A charlatan occultist.
Asim Chaudhry is Abel, a resident of the Dreaming, while Sanjeev Bhaskar is Cain. Kirby Howell-Baptiste is Death: Dream's kinder and wiser sister. Mason Alexander Park is Desire: Dream's androgynous sibling. Donna Preston is Despair: Dream's deformed sister who is twins with Desire.
Jenna Coleman is Johanna Constantine: An occult detective investigating the Dreaming. Coleman plays two versions of the character: the eighteenth century-residing ancestor Lady Johanna Constantine and her present day descendant!
Joely Richardson is Ethel Cripps: Burgess' fiancee and the mother of John Dee. Niamh Walsh is young Ethel Cripps. David Thewlis is Dr. John Dee: Cripps's son whose endeavor to find "truth" jeopardizes the world. Stephen Fry is Fiddler's Green / Gilbert: A mythical place of the Dreaming! Mark Hamill is the voice of Mervyn Pumpkinhead: A chain-smoking janitor whose head resembles a jack-o'-lantern.
We don't know when exactly it will air but Channel 4's new 80's set series IT'S A SIN has just got a trailer! Years and Years singer Olly Alexander leads the cast alongside Stephen Fry, Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris. The five part drama centres on the AIDS crisis in the 1980s following
It's A Sin will air sometime early next year on Channel 4
three friends who move to London as the epidemic unfolds. Heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, the series (previously known as just Boys) will cover the entire decade, and will follow the protagonists' friendships and love lives as they deal with the AIDS crisis.
PALMER MOVIE TRAILER
WITH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Speaking of LGBT, the first trailer for Justin Timberlake's new movie shot for Apple TV PALMER also belongs to that genre. Airing January
Palmer streams on Apple January 29th
29th, it sees Timberlake playing Eddie Palmer, a former college football star, who saw his professional career shattered after he was imprisoned. Twelve years later he returns to his hometown and his grandmother (June Squibb) after spending time in prison only to find trouble hounding him from his past. He then forms an unlikely friendship with a gender non conforming little boy Sam from the neighbourhood who was abandoned by his mother (Juno Temple). While caring for him, Eddie also meets and starts a relationship with Maggie (Alisha Wainwright), Sam's teacher. Check out the trailer below and then tell us what you think:
Here's an interesting movie for you: 1935 set thriller movie SUMMER NIGHT, WINTER MOON will star Stephen Fry in a film directed by
Stephen Fry will play one of the roles in the film
Xavier Koller and based on a book by Jane Huxley.
Art dealer Trevor (John Moulder Brown) and his best friend Dante, an Italian/ American fashion photographer, holiday in Capri where they both fall for Antonia (Caterina Murino), a local beauty. One of them marries her. Back in London Antonia is last seen in Regent's Park walking her Jack Russell terrier. The remains of a female body are recovered from Regent's Canal, and both her husband and his best friend are suspects in what increasingly appears to be a murder. This fast-moving story travels backwards in time. Exploration of the mystery of Antonia's fate follows twists and turns as hair-raising as the roads on the mountainous isle of Capri. The audience is
The film will be a big screen adaptation of Jane Huxley's book
ushered to the astonishing ending, proving along the way that the deepest mystery of all is that of the soul torn between desire and loyalty.
MARGERY BOOTH ADAPTATION
THE SPY IN THE EAGLE'S NEST
Speaking of Stephen Fry, he will also star in another period set drama MARGERY BOOTH: THE SPY IN THE EAGLE'S NEST based on a book by Ralph Harvey. Anna Friel will play this English opera singer
The film will be based on Ralph Harvey's book
who was working for MI6 and hiding escaped British airmen in her Berlin apartment. She sang to British PoWs, worked with MI6 spy John Brown and eventually gave evidence at war crimes trials. Margery was with Hitler on his birthday when he was presented with the Tiger Tank. As a singer she was able to remember some critical technical data as a song which was sent back to Bletchley Park for decoding via her controller Hardy Amies (John Moulder Brown will star with Fry in this one as well) and to the delight of Churchill who then ordered the capture of one. She had a narrow escape whilst hiding British airmen and was eventually caught by the Gestapo on the personal orders of Goering after being constantly shadowed by SS thug von Müller who eventually tortured her. Stephen Fry will be Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering! Udo Kier was previously attached to star as Hitler.
Animated projects for you today, spylings: Oscar nominated scribe Jim Capobianco, known for Ratatouille, has cast Stephen Fry and Daisy Ridley for his stop motion animated feature THE INVENTOR which will
The movie will have Stephen Fry voicing the old inventor
follow famous Leonardo da Vinci. The $10 million project scheduled for 2023, will see Fry voicing da Vinci and Ridley French Princess Marguerite in the
The movie is currently planned for a 2023 bow
story about the life of the insatiably curious and headstrong inventor as he leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and studying the human body.
The Story Of The Inventor
In 1516, rather than paint “pretty” pictures for the Pope, the
insatiably curious Leonardo da Vinci is instead searching for the
meaning of life itself. This
The film has also launched a hunt for young inventors who might take part in the film
deadly heresy forces Leo to flee Italy with
his apprentices and arrive at the court of Francis I, where he proposes
to create the “Ideal City”. A city designed
The story of the film is set in the 16th century
to benefit people not
control them. However, Leonardo finds his new radical ideas do not
please the King’s Mother nor do his endeavors serve the king’s
Leonardo in his mirror room
ambitions
for power. It is only in the enterprising princess, Marguerite, that
Leonardo sees hope for the future. It is with her help that he finds the
answer to the ultimate question: “What is the meaning of it all?”
PIXAR'S 'LUCA'
REVEALS FIRST MOVIE PHOTO
Pixar has set a June 18th, 2021 release date for their Italian Riviera set animated movie LUCA! Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, it is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable
The movie is directed by Academy Award nominee Enrico Casarosa
summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: he is a sea monster from another world just below the water's surface.
Here is another new big screen project that will be offered to buyers at Cannes virtual market this month: the plot of Olivia Munn's new movie promises an action packed thriller with elements of science fiction: in REPLAY, which she will also produce with Jimmy Loweree as writer and director, she will play a woman called Erin Staffer, whose husband is kidnapped and murdered. Now, armed only with illegal, bleeding edge technology and a desperate plan, Erin must do everything in her power to change the past and save him. The producers are hoping this will be the birth of a new female action star.
STEPHEN FRY'S 'THE LIAR'
FINDS A STELLAR ENSEMBLE!
The Liar was Stephen Fry's first book
Meanwhile, over in Britain, a rather stellar cast has been gathered around THE LIAR, the big screen adaptation of Stephen Fry's novel. Strangely, he is not directing, he left the helm to Tony Hagger whose feature debut this is. Rupert Everett, Charles Dance, Tom Wilkinson, David Walliams, Sally Phillips and Asa Butterfield will star in the film with this plot:
The educational career of an impossibly smug public schoolboy, compulsive liar and Oscar Wilde wannabe, Adrian Healey, whose duplicitous pranks and game playing somehow get him embroiled in an international espionage case with his university professors. As fuge and subterfuge feature, Adrian searches for the meaning of life; well, his life anyway.
Well, this is quite a cast, indeed! British Channel 4 has rounded up actors for their new five part series BOYS from Russell T. Davies. The series that charts the joy and heartbreak of four friends during a decade in which
Singer Olly Alexander will take the lead role
everything changed including the rise of AIDs, will star Neil Patrick Harris, Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry, alongside Years and Years singer Olly Alexander, Shaun Dooley, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells and Lydia West.
Boys follows the story of the 1980s, the story of AIDS, and the story
of three boys, Ritchie, (Olly Alexander), Roscoe and Colin, across the
decade. The young trio, strangers at first, leave home at 18 and head
off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy. However, they’re
walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by
year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new
virus starts as a rumour, then a threat,
Neil Patrick Harris and Keeley Hawes will also star in the new series
then a terror, and then
something that binds them together in the fight. It’s the story of their
friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves
them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come.
Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of
rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.
Another animated treat for you this week, this time the first trailer for MISSING LINK Laika's new animated adventure in which Hugh
The Missing Link will be found next Spring
Jackman is lending his voice to the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small minded high society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel's last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature (Zach Galifianakis). A living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. The Missing Link. Emma Thompson, David Walliams, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas and Zoe Saldana are just a part of the
This is the fourth time Hugh and Emma are voicing an animated film
wonderful voice cast! The film was directed by Paranorman's Chris Butler who also worked on Coraline, Corpse Bride, Kubo and the Two Strings. The movie should hit cinemas next April!
First photo has been revealed from Laika's new animated adventure MISSING LINK which boasts a stellar voice cast including Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Timothy
Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson will lead the voice cast!
Olyphant, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Jackman is charismatic Sir Lionel Frost who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters, but his small-minded high-society peers don’t recognize
First art from new Laika's animated movie Missing Link
this. His last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on travelling to America’s Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man’s primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.
'MAMMA MIA 2' FINAL TRAILER
STELLAR CAST RETURNS AGAIN!
Mamma Mia returns this July!
When it comes to trailers, check out the final one for this summer's MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN which is out in cinemas this July, and there is also a new poster revealing the whole cast! Meryl Streep is dead in the sequel, but she will appear in flashbacks, while Cher arrives as Amanda Seyfried's grandmother while the movie reminisces on the youth of her mother and her three possible fathers played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. Since she is now also pregnant and very young like her mother was when she had her, she realizes she will need to take risks like her mother did.
Lily James plays young Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper is Amanda's husband, Julie Walters
The movie will feature other Abba songs which weren't used in the first film
is her aunt. Jeremy Irvine and Hugh Skinner play her dads when they were young, with Andy Garcia also in the cast.
Smaller movies today for you starting with the first poster and trailer for a movie based on a novel written by British thespian Stephen Fry HIPPOPOTAMUS which still doesn't have a release date!
With a stellar cast including Matthew Modine, Russell Tovey, Fiona
Shaw, it follows a disgraced poet Ted Wallace who is summoned to his
friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Ageing, lecherous, one-time hell raising poet, reduced by diminishing
poetic talent to working as a theatre critic he IS the Hippo.
NEW 'ALONE IN BERLIN' POSTER
FOR BRENDAN GLEESON AND EMMA THOMPSON WW2 DRAMA
A new poster has also arrived for Vincent Peres directed WW2 drama ALONE IN BERLIN, out this March, in which Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play a working class couple from 1940 Berlin, who receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way. Soon the Gestapo is hunting "the threat".
'FAIR HAVEN' TRAILER
EVERYONE DESERVES A CHANCE AT FINDING HAPPINESS
You can also check out the trailer and poster for gay drama movie FAIR HAVEN out this March in which Michael Grant plays a young man who returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy (I swear I'm not kidding), and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
This season really did not bring us many multi camera sitcoms, but networks are slowly picking up orders for possible new pilots and one of them, an untitled one, will have a legendary comedian returning to the small screens! As 'Deadline' reports Carol Burnett will star in ABC's pilot for a new sitcom, produced by Amy Poehler, about a family who gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams, a house they’d never be able to afford under normal circumstances, but is able to under extremely abnormal circumstances. They must live with the current owner, an older actress (Burnett) — until she dies.
She is not the only legendary female comedian to return to TV soon,
NBC is developing a Stockard Channing sitcom pilot ME & MEAN
MARGARET (about a fearsome faded film and Broadway legend and the
unwitting boy lawyer who has to babysit her), Candice Bergen is to
topline sitcom PEARL (as a larger than life family matriarch who finds
out she has cancer, and becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating
every aspect of her family's life before she dies), while Kathy Bates
will lead sitcom DISJOINTED for Netflix as a mom who runs her own
marijuana dispensary with the help of her three sons!
'THE GREAT INDOORS'
OPENS ITS DOORS THURSDAY
But a multi camera sitcom to arrive to us as early as next Thursday is CBS comedy THE GREAT INDOORS which is set to premiere in primetime on October 27th with Joel McHaleportraying Jack who has made a name for himself as an adventure reporter for the magazine Outdoor Limits. His days of exploring the world end when the magazine's founder, Roland, announces its move to web-only publishing and assigns Jack to supervise the Millennials who make up its online team.
Stephen Fry will appear as Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right
and founder of the magazine!
Christopher Mintz Plasse as Clark: a tech nerd who knows everything
about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse yet has not been out of
the city!
Christine Ko as Emma: the social media expert who views Jack as the
human version of dial-up!Shaun Brown as Mason: a hipster who has not spent any actual time
outside.
Susannah Fielding as Brooke: Roland's daughter and Jack's ex-girlfriend
and current boss.
Chris Williams as Eddie: Jack's best friend, who runs the local bar and
helps him understand his co-workers!
To cheer up your Sunday, the spy is introducing you to the comedy shows we will be watching this new season, because, in case you haven't noticed, September has already crept upon us! Starting Monday, September 19th over at CBS is multi camera sitcom KEVIN CAN WAIT in which Kevin James stars as a newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife and three kids, only to find he faces tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets! His dream is jeopardized when he discovers that Donna, his wonderful wife of 20 years, has shielded him from key family info while he worked overtime protecting the community.
'LAST MAN STANDING' 6TH
SEASON WITH TIM ALLEN! Over at ABC our favourite multi camera sitcom for the sixth year now
Tim Allen's LAST MAN STANDING returns to rule its Friday night slot from
September 23rd, now well over the total of more than 100 episodes!
Allen's Mike Baxter is facing many changes in the family, from his older
daughter who has bought her first house with his son in law, to his
middle daughter who is getting married with his assistant, to his
youngest daughter who will move out to pursue a music career. His wife
(Nancy Travis) is, meanwhile, facing a teacher strike in Denver, while
Jay Leno will guest star in the new season as well as the mechanic in
Mike's company Outdoor Man. And you can, of course, expect Mike's
political comments on presidential elections and everything that is
bothering a simple man in a politically correct world!
'THE GREAT INDOORS'
STEPHEN FRY & JOEL MCHALE
Another new multicamera sitcom to start over at CBS this season, October 27th, is THE GREAT INDOORS! Joel McHale stars in this insightful and timely comedy about a renowned adventure reporter who has spent his life exploring the edges of the earth. Now that he’s taken a desk job in the digital department of the magazine, he must adapt to the times and his new world. He’s struggling to grasp the lingo of online click-bait and listicles, but his real challenge is in understanding his staff of millenials who write about the great outdoors but never actually set foot outside. Acting legend Stephen Fry will play Roland: an outdoorsman in his own right and founder of the magazine!
quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season. 
quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Fry himself has actually written the pilot for the series which has been ordered for a twelve episode season. 
