BBC has released a trailer for their new six episode romantic comedy series FILM CLUB that stars Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan
as Tom and Evie who watch a film together in her garage every week. Starting October 7th on BBC Three, the series also stars Suranne Jones and Owen Cooper.
WHAT IS THE STORY?
Evie lovingly decorates the space to match the film of the week - from a
yellow brick road for The Wizard of Oz to a space craft for Alien. It's
magical. They’re there for the love of themovies.
Or at least, that’s what they tell themselves.
In reality, Tom is madly in love with Evie. What he doesn’t know is that
Evie is in love with him too. But when Tom accepts a job at the other
end of the country, their happily ever after comes under threat. He's
leaving in six weeks. That means Evie has six film clubs left to tell
Tom how she feels, or risk losing him forever. Check out the trailer below:
Netflix has released exciting first trailer for their new political thriller mini TV series HOSTAGE which will be ready for your streaming pleasure from August 21st. Suranne Jones, who also serves as an executive producer of the series, plays Abigail Dalton, the newly elected British prime minister whose popularity is waning due to an ongoing healthcare crisis. Across the Channel, Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy), who made history as the country’s first female French president, is campaigning for re-election no matter what it takes.
A summit between the two takes a turn for the tense when Dalton’s husband (Ashley Thomas) is kidnapped, forcing her to choose between protecting her family and her country and Tousaint becomes a victim of blackmail, leaving the pair locked in a fierce rivalry, both fighting for political, and physical, survival. In the five part series Corey Mylchreest plays Matheo Lewis, Toussaint’s stepson; Lucian Msamati is Kofi Adomako, Dalton’s chief of staff, James Cosmo plays Max Dalton, her ailing father; and Jehnny Beth is Adrienne Pelletier, Toussaint’s chief of staff.
Two totally different things your spy has for you today: first up, some science fiction! Amazon will turn PORT OF EARTH comic book series by Zack
Zack Kaplan's comic book will be adapted at Amazon
Kaplan, into TV drama. It tells the story of an alien alliance called The Consortium that has come to Earth with a business proposition: open Earth as a space port for our customers to use and receive advanced technology upgrades in exchange.
When rogue aliens break the Port restrictions and wreak havoc in different cities, however, the terms of the deal begin to change. Soon it is up to the Earth Security Agents to send them back to the PORT OF EARTH. With The Consortium representing thousands of alien planets the series delves into political issues of exploitation, occupation, espionage, duplicity, technology and leverage, all in a gritty sci-fi setting.
'GENTLEMAN JACK'
FULL TRAILER IS HERE!
BBC One has released full trailer for their new epic series GENTLEMAN JACK in which Surrane Jones plays a 19th century woman who dresses up, acts and loves like a man governing her late father's estate. She portrays
Gentleman Jack will air this spring on BBC in eight episodes
real life person Anne Lister who returns to Halifax, West
Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded
ancestral home Shibden Hall. The cast also includes Joe Armstrong, Gemma Jones and Sophie Rundle. The series will hit HBO in USA April 22nd!
Out this month in stores, Max Porter's new novel about a boy gone missing has already scored Rachel Weisz as the lead in the movie adaptation. LANNY is set in a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth. Dead Papa Toothwort is awake. He is listening to this twenty first century village, to his English symphony. He is listening for an enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.
'GENTLEMAN JACK'
FIRST TEASER RELEASED BY BBC
BBC One has released the first, very fun, teaser for their new epic series GENTLEMAN JACK in which Surrane Jones plays a 19th century woman who dresses up, acts and loves like a man governing her late father's estate.
Gentleman Jack will air this spring on BBC in eight episodes
She portrays real life person Anne Lister who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall. The cast also includes Joe Armstrong, Gemma Jones and Sophie Rundle.
Believe it or not, Autumn unofficially starts today and the first historical series to open the new season tonight on ITV is the latest small screen adaptation of William Thackeray's novel VANITY FAIR (if I got it right it will also start airing this month on HBO cable channels around the world and will air for US audience later on at Amazon). The story is set in the Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played by Olivia Cooke. The second episode airs as soon as Monday, and the rest of the series will air next five Sundays.
WHAT DID YOUR SPY THINK?
Largely disappointing, with uninspired direction and the use of natural light which steals any atmosphere from the show already bland due to the lack of music, dynamics and good script. Some of the performances are shockingly bad (Surrane Jones for example), while most of the actors appear just lost without any direction. The series which lacks in heart and dazzle, something a Vanity Fair, should definitely have! Dull and pointless is our verdict.
WHAT'S THE STORY? The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth
Screen, is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows
The series will also start this month on HBO world cable channels
modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of
poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy,
crime,
The series will air in seven hourlong episodes!
merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and
dancing, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the
Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.
BECKY SHARP
is played by Olivia Cooke. Born to a French opera dancer and a poor, drunken artist, she is orphaned as a teenager and accepted at Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies to teach French in exchange for her schooling and upkeep. Once she goes out in the world, Becky is determined to rise in society – by any means necessary.
CAPTAIN ROWDON CRAWLEY
who will fall for Becky is played by Tom Bateman. He is a heavy dragoon with strong desires and small brains, who had never controlled a passion in his life. He is the younger son of Sir Pitt and stands to inherit money from his aunt, Miss Crawley, who has always loved him best despite his love of sports, gambling and women.
SIR PITT CRAWLEY
to whose house Becky arrives as the governess is played by Martin Clunes.He’s a baronet and the owner of a huge estate at Queen’s Crawley, but despite his position in society he is a dirty, stingy and lecherous old man.
MISS MATILDA CRAWLEY
played by Frances de la Tour, is rich, single and elderly and her potential heirs are at pains to impress her, even if it looks likely she’ll leave most of her fortune to favoured nephew Rawdon. Miss Crawley is dismissive and deeply unimpressed with pretty much anyone.
AMELIA SEDLEY
Becky's friend from the academy is played by Claudia Jessie. Becky's total opposite, she is naturally sweet, obedient, kind-hearted and naive, with blind loyalty that verges on stupidity. She is waiting to be married to her childhood sweetheart George Osborne.
SIR GEORGE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM DOBIN
George, played by Charlie Rowe, has been close to the Sedley family all his life as childhood friend and neighbour, with his and Amelia’s fathers being business partners. He does like Amelia, but he is more in love with himself and is preoccupied with drinking and gambling and his own pursuits! Johny Flynn plays his best friend Dobin, a gentleman who has risen honestly in society and exhibits qualities of kindness, loyalty and respect. He is secretly deeply in love with Amelia.
WHO ELSE IS THERE? The cast also includes Surrane Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton who
hates Becky, Michael Palin plays Thackeray himself, the mysterious
Surrane Jones plays snobbish Miss Pinkerton
narrator, Claire Skinner is Amelia's mother Lady Sedley, Simon Russell
Beale is Mr Sedley, David Flynn is Amelia's vain brother Jos, a
figure of
David Flynn is Jos Seddley, vain and ridiculous and fat
ridicule whom Becky tries to seduce. Mathew Baynton is Sir
Pitt's uptight son Bute Crawley, Robert Pugh's is George's rich father
Mr Osborne.
After a number of photos and a teaser, we finally have the first trailer and character photos from ITV's new period set series VANITY FAIR which will
Olivia Cooke the star of Spielberg's Ready Player One takes the lead
start airing this September in United Kingdom! Brand new costume drama based on William Thackeray's
famous novel, has the story set in the
First look at the lead cast of the new Vanity Fair series!
Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played
by Olivia Cooke. Check out the trailer below and first cast photos!
NEW VANITY FAIR The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen,
is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic
Wars, and follows
After airing on ITV in UK, Vanity Fair will air on Amazon too in US
modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw
her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her
story of villainy, crime,
The saga is based on William Thackeray's classic novel
merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing,
cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of
King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing
fortunes as she goes.
A RATHER STELLAR CAST INDEED
Her main love interest daft Captain Rawdon Crawley is played by Tom Bateman with Charlie Rowe as poor soldier George Osborne, Johnny
Claudia Jessie is Becky's confidante Amelia Sedley
Flynn as Dobbin, Martin Clunes as Sir Pitt Crawley, Frances de La Tour as Miss Matilda Crawley, Suranne Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton and
Charlie Rowe as George Osborne and Johnny Flynn as William Dobbin
Michael Palin as Thackeray himself. Claudia Jessie will play Becky’s confidante Amelia Sedley, with Simon Russell Beale and Claire Skinner
Vanity Fair will air in seven hourlong episodes
as her parents, and David Fynn as her brother Joss.Shot on locations around United Kingdom and Hungarian capitol Budapest, the series will later on also air on Amazon in USA!
Something lesbiefriendly today, spylings! BBC has revealed the whole cast for their period set mini series GENTLEMAN JACK (previously known as Shibden Hall) which will celebrate 19th century feminism led by Surrane Jones! Can't say I'm overly optimistic given the fact the eight episode series has been written by Sally Wainwright who gave us the borderline unwatchable and mind numbingly uninspired To Walk Invisible, but we shall give it the benefit of the doubt. The series will air on HBO in USA.
GENTLEMAN JACK
Sophie Rundle will play Lister's love interest!
will be set in 1832 Halifax, West Yorkshire, revolving around landowner Anne Lister (Surrane Jones)
and her determination to transform the fate of her faded ancestral
home, Shibden Hall, by reopening the coal mines and marrying well. But
charismatic, single
minded, swashbuckling Anne Lister - who dressed head to foot in black
and charmed her way into high society - has no intention of marrying a
man. True to her own nature, she plans to marry a woman. And not just
any woman: the woman Anne Lister marries must be seriously wealthy.
Every part of Anne’s story was recorded in her diaries that contain the
most intimate details of her life, once hidden in a secret code that is
now broken.The story examines Anne’s relationships at home with her
family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals and, most importantly,
would-be wife.
WHO WILL VISIT SHIBDEN HALL?
Jamestown's Sophie Rundle will play Ann Walker, the wealthy heiress on whom Anne Lister sets her sights to marry; Gemma Whelan will portray Anne Lister’s sister, Marian! Timothy West is the sisters’ father, Jeremy Lister, and Gemma Jones plays Aunt Anne Lister. Stephanie Cole stars as
Joe Armstrong and Thomas Howes will lead the male part of the cast
Ann Walker’s aunt; Peter Davison as William Priestley, Ann Walker’s cousin; Amelia Bullmore as Eliza Priestley, his wife; Vincent Franklin as Christopher Rawson, businessman and fierce rival to Anne Lister, Shaun Dooley as his brother and business partner; with Joe Armstrong, Jodhi May, Rosie Cavaliero, Thomas Howes, Jessica Baglow and newcomers Albane Courtois and Ben Hunter also in the cast!
and Evie who watch a film together in her garage every week. Starting October 7th on BBC Three, the series also stars Suranne Jones and Owen Cooper.
and Evie who watch a film together in her garage every week. Starting October 7th on BBC Three, the series also stars Suranne Jones and Owen Cooper.
They’re there for the love of themovies.
Or at least, that’s what they tell themselves.
In reality, Tom is madly in love with Evie. What he doesn’t know
is that
Evie is in love with him too. But when Tom accepts a job at the other
end of the country, their happily ever after comes under threat. He's
leaving 
in six weeks. That means Evie has six film clubs left to tell
Tom how she feels, or risk losing him forever. Check out the trailer below:
They’re there for the love of themovies.
Or at least, that’s what they tell themselves.
In reality, Tom is madly in love with Evie. What he doesn’t know
is that
Evie is in love with him too. But when Tom accepts a job at the other
end of the country, their happily ever after comes under threat. He's
leaving 
in six weeks. That means Evie has six film clubs left to tell
Tom how she feels, or risk losing him forever. Check out the trailer below:
