BBC'S 'THE DRESSER' PHOTOS WITH IAN MCKELLEN, ANTHONY HOPKINS! GORGEOUS 'FATHERS & DAUGHTERS' TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AARON PAUL, AMANDA SEYFRIED! 'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODE 5TH SEASON

'THE DRESSER' BBC MOVIE

STARRING IAN MCKELLEN AND ANTHONY HOPKINS

Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!

TELEVISION HEADLINES 

'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom with its almost 100 episodes is close to syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane, Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!
NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of space in NBC's new schedule.

'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS' 

 TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL

And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS! When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should arrive to theatres next month around Europe.

BEN FELDMAN TO LEAD 'SUPERSTORE' NBC SITCOM! FIRST PHOTOS FROM BBC PERIOD SET 'LIFE IN SQUARES' DRAMA WITH JAMES NORTON, JACK DAVENPORT, RUPERT PENRY JONES, ELLIOT COWAN

'SUPERSTORE' NBC SITCOM

 BEN FELDMAN SCORES THE LEAD

Still not much of the news from the movieworld, so we're sticking to TV today as well, beginning with NBC's comedy series pilot SUPERSTORE which has just cast charming Ben Feldman, from the recently deceased A TO Z sitcom, in the lead role! The new sitcom will be set in a large retail establishment following its employees. Ben Feldman will be Jonah, a college graduate who wants a taste of the real world and whose charisma, zest for life and eternal optimism is contagious and endears him to his fellow staffers. 'Shameless' star Nichole Bloom will play the pregnant Cheyenne, while Colton Dunn is the sarcastic narrator Garrett, who uses the store's intercom to share his thoughts.

BBC 'LIFE IN SQUARES' DRAMA

1ST PICS WITH JAMES NORTON

Over at British TV, the first photos have leaked for BBC period set drama LIFE IN SQUARES which will explore the tangled relationships of the artists, writers and intellectuals collectively known as the Bloomsbury at the beginning of the 20th century! Charting the history of the bohemian circle that got its name from the smart area of London where members would meet to share ideas LIFE IN SQUARES will include Virginia Woolf (Lydia Leonard), the great modernist writer, John Maynard Keynes (Edmund Kingsley), writer and critic Lytton Strachey (Ed Birch), artist Duncan Grant (James Norton) who was loved by and who loved both women and men. Art  critic Clive Bell (Sam Hoare) who was married with Woolf's sister Vanessa (Phoebe Fox), who had a child with Grant raised by Clive. Grant also had affairs with Keynes and with Strachey, while Woolf had affairs with women too. British stars Catherine McCormack, Rupert Penry Jones, Jack Davenport and Elliot Cowan also star!