SEE PENELOPE WILTON, TOM RILEY, MORFYDD CLARK, MARK BONNAR IN MURDER IS EASY AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI SERIES TRAILER! PLUS THE AIR DATE

 MURDER IS EASY TRAILER 

FOR AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES

BBC has released a trailer for two part Agatha Christie series MURDER IS EASY which will air December 27th and 28th. It follows young detective Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) after meeting Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton) on a train to London, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. When Miss Pinkerton is found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam travels to Wychwood to investigate, where he meets residents including Bridget (Morfydd Clark), Lord Whitfield (Tom Riley), Major Horton (Douglas Henshall), Dr Thomas (Mathew Baynton), Reverend Humbleby (Mark Bonnar), and others. Britbox will air it next year in Northern America. 

FIRST IMAGES FROM BBC'S MURDER IS EASY AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES WITH MORFYDD CLARK, TOM RILEY, PENELOPE WILTON, MARK BONNAR, DAVID JONSSON

  AGATHA'S MURDER IS EASY  

UNVEILS FIRST CAST PHOTOS

After a lack of success with some of her previous adaptations, the queen of crime Agatha Christie is returning to BBC One who have finished shooting a two part series based on her MURDER IS EASY novel produced by Mammoth Screen.

  THE STORY OF THE SERIES

is set in England, 1954. On a train to London, a man going by the name of Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise - and when she's later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Luke feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy. Morfydd Clark stars as Bridget, Sinead Matthews as Miss Waynflete, Tom Riley as Lord Whitfield, Douglas Henshall as Major Horton, Mathew Baynton as Dr Thomas and Mark Bonnar as Reverend Humbleby! Previous BBC adaptations And Then There Were None, The Witness For The Prosecution, Ordeal By Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse were not overly successful.

 

SEE LAVISH SET PICS FROM NETFLIX ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY SICILY SET SERIES THE LEOPARD! MORFYDD CLARK, TOM RILEY, PENELOPE WILTON TO LEAD BBC AGATHA CHRISTIE ADAPTATION MURDER IS EASY!

  THE LEOPARD SERIES  

NETFLIX RELEASES NEW PICS

After very secretive and mysterious first images this spring which showed us just glimpses of the main characters, Netflix has now released a series of set images from their  THE LEOPARD historical series which will shoot till September as the adaptation of  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's famous classic novel Il Gattopardo which was translated into more than 40 languages around the world. Tom Shankland is directing the six episode saga which was previously adapted into a movie by famous Italian filmmaker Visconti! Thousands of extras and custom made costumes have been used in this ambitious production.

 

WHAT IS THE STORY?

While Sicily is struggling in the turmoil of the Risorgimento in 1860, the Prince of Salina Fabrizio Corbera (Kim Rossi Stuart) reigns over his family and his possessions, convinced that even these disorders are destined to pass. He hasn’t come to terms with the idealism of young people like his nephew Tancredi (Saul Nanni), who joins the rebels risking his own life, or the ambitions of men like Sedara, a vulgar man who rides change by pandering to the nascent power of mafia criminal organizations and intends to use his beautiful daughter Angelica (Deva Cassel) to get what he wants. At Don Fabrizio’s side remains Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli), his favourite daughter, who shares his intelligence and foresight. Her happiness will eventually be sacrificed in an attempt to ensure the survival of the power and of the name of the lineage.

  BBC'S MURDER IS EASY  

AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES REVEALS LEAD CAST

BBC has announced cast for their mini TV series adaptation of Agatha Christie's MURDER IS EASY which will star Morfydd Clark as Bridget and David Jonsson as Fitzwilliam in the lead roles with Penelope Wilton as Miss Pinkerton, Sinead Matthews as Miss Waynflete, Tom Riley as Lord Whitfield, Douglas Henshall as Major Horton, Mathew Baynton as Dr Thomas and Mark Bonnar as Reverend Humbleby, also in the two part series. Officer Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton on a train to London in 1954, where she tells him that a killer is on the loose in the English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise. When she's later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again.

SEE KRISTEN BELL AND TOM RILEY IN NETFLIX COMEDY SERIES PARODY THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW!

  NEW NETFLIX TV SERIES  

THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE

Comedy parody series will stream January 28th

GIRL IN THE WINDOW

Yes, you can already guess from the title that it will be a comedy series, a parody on similar thriller movies. The story of THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW sees Kristen Bell playing heartbroken Anna, for whom every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor (Tom Riley) and his adorable daughter move in across the street,she starts to see light at the end of tunnel.

British star Tom Riley takes the lead male role in the series

That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder... Or did she? The eight half hour episode series premieres January 28, only on Netflix. Netflix describes

The mini series will have eight half hour episodes

it as a darkly comedic, wine-soaked, satirical slant on the psychological thriller that will have you guessing who, what, where, why and how in the hell?! until

Anna falls for the new hot hunk in the neighbourhood

the very end. Since Kristen Bell said there will be massive cameo in the end, can we hope it will be Amy Adams, from the Woman in the Window?

CAST REVEAL AND 1ST PHOTOS FROM NEW EPIC TV SHOW ON AUSTRIAN EMPRESS SISI! THE NEVERS VICTORIAN TV SERIES TRAILER WITH JAMES NORTON, TOM RILEY, BEN CHAPLIN, OLIVIA WILLIAMS, ELEANOR TOMLINSON

  SISI EPIC TV SERIES  

CAST & 1ST PHOTOS UNVEILED

A year ago your trusted spy informed you about a new German series on their most famous empress and now we have the first photos from SISI epic

Dominique Davenport is playing Empress Sisi

saga which will air at the end of the year as a collaboration between TVNOW and our favourite Beta Film. 

  SISI 

 described in three words - desire, power, vulnerability -  takes a look at the life of a young woman who made history as an empress and became a legend as a movie character! It's the love story of two young people, between personal desire and political constraints, between power and vulnerability! Elisabeth of Austria Hungary (played by newcomer Dominique Devenport), named Sisi, who was known as ′′ the most beautiful woman in Europe ′′ and defied the rigid courteous practices and unscrupulous monarch

The series will arrive to the small screens later this year

Franz Joseph I. (embodied in the series by Jannik Schümann), who had to bear the burden of the crown and found an unusual ally in Sisi! There are, by

Jannik Schuman is Franz Joseph emperor of Austria and Hungary

the way, at least three new projects on Sisi currently in production, beside this one, including a movie version Sisi and I with Susanne Wolff.

 

  THE NEVERS TRAILER  

 SEE VICTORIAN SUPERHEROES

The series will first arrive to HBO in April

Sky has, meanwhile, unveiled a longer trailer and poster for their Victorian TV series THE NEVERS which will debut May 17th on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW.  The six episode second part of the first season will air later this year. 

 

   August, 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people - mostly women - abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular “turns,” all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick fisted widow Amalia True (Laura

Our dear James Norton is a dandy aristocrat in the series

Donnelly) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) to protect and shelter these gifted “orphans.” To do so, they will have to face the

Tom Riley also stars in the new series

brutal forces determined to annihilate their kind. Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Eleanor Tomlinson, Nick Frost and Ben Chaplin lead the cast. Check out the trailer below:

TOM RILEY JOINS KRISTEN BELL'S MINI SERIES THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE AT NETFLIX! MICHAEL CAINE, GLENDA JACKSON TO LEAD THE GREAT ESCAPER FOR OLIVER PARKER

  TOM RILEY TO STAR IN 

THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE

While we are waiting to see his role in new Victorian fantasy series The Nevers at HBO this April our dearest Tom Riley has already lined up a new

Tom Riley is taking the male lead

gig: he will take the male lead in THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE mini series for Netflix. Kristen Bell is the female lead as heartbroken Anna, for whom every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder… Or did she? Riley will play Bell’s new neighbor, a charming and handsome single dad. But is this undeniably sexy widower too good to be true? Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf are show runners. 

    MICHAEL CAINE   

IS THE GREAT ESCAPER

Amazing British director Oliver Parker is preparing a new feature film and he has set two time Oscar winners Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as leads. As Screen Daily reports, THE GREAT ESCAPER, inspired by true events, will see Caine play octogenarian Bernard Jordan, who escaped from his care home in the summer of 2014 to attend the 70th

Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine will lead the new drama

Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France. Glenda Jackson (who has recently returned to film after a 15 year long career as a member of British parliament) will play his wife of 60 years, Irene, in this story which follows Jordan’s 48-hour adventure as he slipped out of his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. 

JAMES NORTON, TOM RILEY, BEN CHAPLIN, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, OLIVIA WILLIAMS TO LEAD JOSS WHEDON'S VICTORIAN SF SERIES THE NEVERS FOR HBO

    'THE NEVERS' FANTASY SAGA

CASTS VICTORIAN LADIES AND GENTS WITH SUPER POWERS

James Norton is Lord Hugo Swann

Earlier this week HBO has revealed the main cast for their new period set science fiction series THE NEVERS which will be headlined by two of our favourite British boys War and Peace's James Norton and Davinci's Demons' Tom Riley. Coming from Firefly and Avengers creator Joss Whedon, who will write it, direct it and produce it, it will be an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women called The Touched, who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world. Here's the cast:

Laura Donnelly will be Amalia True, the most reckless, impulsive, emotionally damaged hero of her time. A menace to stuffy Victorian society,

Tom Riley is Lord Augustus Bidlow

she would die for the cause and kill for a drink.

Olivia Williams is Lavinia Bidlow, a wealthy spinster and champion of the “Touched”,who funds the Orphanage (where Amalia and many of the Touched live) through her vast family fortune. She is stern and old fashioned, but as strong willed and clever as anyone she confronts.

James Norton is Hugo Swan, a pansexual posh boy whose charm has about five years left on its lease. He runs a secret club and a side trade in blackmail. He’s devoted to fulfilling everyone’s worst impression of him – and fascinated by the Touched.

Tom Riley is Augustus “Augie” Bidlow, a sweet, disarming nerd and Lavinia’s younger brother. A keen ornithologist, Augie is happy to let his older sister

Eleanor Tomlinson is Mary Brighton

take the reins of the family fortune. He finds the Touched unnerving, but is drawn to them by his increasing infatuation with Miss Adair, and by the schemes of his nefarious best friend, Hugo.

Ann Skelly is Penance Adair, Amalia’s dearest friend, and one of the first women to join her cause, a devout, yet heretically progressive, Irish girl, who has genius for invention. She is delighted by her power, and her default is love and acceptance. But she’s firm in her moral sense, and will be guided by what’s right over what’s expedient every time.

Ben Chaplin is Detective Frank Mundi, gruff, and deeply moral, he trusts no one, least of all himself: his reputation for sudden violence (and excessive drink) is not unwarranted. Frank finds

Laura Donnelly is Amalia True, the main protagonist!

himself caught between the powerful, who ignore the the laws of the land, and newly empowered, who ignore the laws of physics.

Death and Nightingales' Ann Skelley is Penance Adair

Poldark star Pip Torrens is Lord Massen – Staunch, unflappable and merciless in his defense of the British Empire, this former General, now Peer, may be the only man who sees clearly what havoc these few strange people can wreak upon the established order. Which he will protect, one way or another.

Nick Frost is Declan Orrun, aka The Beggar King, charismatic and brutal, he runs – or has a piece of – most of the low level criminal activity in the city. He’s perfectly happy to help Amalia  – and equally happy to sell them out. He backs winners, and the Touched are long odds.

 Rochelle Neil is Annie Carbey, aka Bonfire, a career criminal who landed the ability to control fire and is happy to hire it out. Came up rough, stayed

Olivia Williams is the funder of the Touched, Lady Lavinia Bidlow

that way, but she’s neither impulsive nor cruel just looking out for herself. No matter who she works with or for, Annie trusts only Annie, and the fire.

Ben Chaplin is gruff detective Frank Mundi!

Eleanor Tomlinson is Mary Brighton, gentle but surprisingly resilient, she pursued her dream of singing on stage. A disappointing career and a broken engagement haven’t diminished her spirit. She’s going to be great. She’s going to be very surprised how.

Rochelle Neil will portray firethrowing Bonfire Annie Carbey

Denis O’Hare is Dr. Edmund Hague, a gifted American surgeon who uses his skills in the coldest, most brutal way possible. But it’s all in the name of progress!

SPOTLIGHT ON TOM RILEY'S BBC AND SHOWTIME DRAMA SERIES 'ILL BEHAVIOUR' IN WHICH HE'S BATTLING CANCER

  'ILL BEHAVIOUR'

TOM RILEY BBC DRAMA

The series airs next month at Showtime

Here's a mini series that has already aired over in Great Britain at BBC but has also just been bought by Showtime to be aired in the United States. American cable channel will air the six episodes of ILL BEHAVIOUR, starring our dear Da Vinci's Demons' star Tom Riley, for the audience across the pond starting Monday November 13th!

  Brilliantly written drama ILL BEHAVIOUR revolves around Joel (Chris Geere) who uses any methods, conventional or otherwise, to save his friend Charlie (Tom Riley) when Charlie is diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and decides to spurn chemotherapy (scared by the

BBC has taken down all trailers of the series from the web

memory of his mother's experience with it) in favour of a more natural, alternative treatment (smoothies and acupuncture). The recently divorced Joel moves in with Charlie, who sets him up on a date with Nadia (Lizzy

Tom Riley and Lizzy Caplan are married in real life

Caplan), a doctor who also happens to be a raging alcoholic. Their connection is complicated by the newest revelation about Charlie’s condition, sending the trio and mutual friend Tess (Jessica Regan) down a reckless path.

DEEPLY MOVING TRAILERS FOR BRITISH MOVIES 'STARFISH' WITH TOM RILEY AND 'A STREET CAT NAMED BOB' WITH LUKE TREADAWAY, ANTHONY HEAD, JOANNE FROGGATT

'A STREET CAT NAMED BOB' 

 SOMETIMES IT TAKES NINE LIVES TO SAVE ONE

Two wonderfully heart warming British movies for you today, both based on unbelievable true stories! Let us start with the big screen adaptation of the best selling book A STREET CAT NAMED BOB by James Bowen. Out this November, it stars Luke Treadaway, Joanne Froggatt and Anthony Head and Bob the cast as himself! Although, as a leading star, Bob the cat had many stunt double cats, he played most of the role himself  as a true feline thespian.

Based on the international best selling book it brings the inspiring and true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

MOVING 'STARFISH' TRAILER

 WITH OUTSTANDING TOM RILEY

Much more shocking, but also even more inspiring is the true story movie STARFISH in which our most beloved Da Vinci's Demons and The Collection star Tom Riley plays the husband in the story about a young couple's battle to keep their family together when the husband is diagnosed with a rare and brutal disease which shockingly and suddenly leaves him without hands, legs and mouth!!! British actress Joanne Froggatt plays in this one as well, as his wife. This deeply moving film is out this October in UK.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT WITH MESMERIZINGLY ENCHANTING TRAILER & CAST PHOTOS FROM 'THE COLLECTION' PERIOD SET FASHION SHOW WITH TOM RILEY, RICHARD COYLE

'THE COLLECTION' WW2 SET 

FASHION SERIES WITH TOM RILEY AND RICHARD COYLE

Oh, do I have the most stylish of delights for you today, my spylings, to glitz up your boring Monday! Positively enchanting cast photos and a captivating glamorous trailer for UK Amazon's new period set series THE COLLECT- ION which opens its runway in only a few days - September 2nd! This lavish new period set drama series, the first one ever from UK Amazon, THE COLLECTION is set in a post WW2 fashion house with cast lead by our beloved Tom Riley and Richard Coyle! Written and executive produced by Oliver Goldstick (Desperate Housewives, Lipstick Jungle) the series has already been sold to national televisions around Europe!

BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE
Eight part fashion drama is set in Paris in 1947, starring Richard Coyle (Crossbones, Coupling) and Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons) as brothers with secrets that could destroy their dreams of seeing the family’s fashion house restore Paris’ supremacy as the haute couture capital. Internal rivalries and betrayals, hateful bargains made to survive the Nazi occupation, and the twisted secret behind the master’s success could threaten to topple this empire at any moment. The staff of the atelier survived one devastating war, but another looms; one where personal battles and passionate love stories set family against family, protégés against mentors, and the past against the future. No one’s position is secure!

RICHARD COYLE IS THE BOSS

 Our dear British star Richard Coyle is returning again to historical genre after the godawful 'Crossbones' two years ago playing Paul Sabine, the couturier with a romantic vision that he hopes will resuscitate a beleaguered, post war Paris. Ambitious, dashing and street savvy, he is a beguiling figure who’s climbed a long way from his scrappy beginnings. He works hard to protect his brother Claude, keep his marriage in tact, impress the President with his next collection and keep the twisted truth about how he became so successful a secret.

 TOM RILEY IS GAY GENIUS

That irresistibly handsome devil Tom Riley (from Da Vinci’s Demons whose almost entire crew is working on this series as well) takes on the role of Paul’s mercurial brother Claude Sabine, the true but hidden genius behind the Paul Sabine label. He is a rebellious, romantic spirit, forced to hide his homosexuality during the Occupation, who’s traded a public face for personal freedom. As you can see in the trailer below we can expect Tomzie showing more of his Riley in a naked bathtub scene :)

IT'S NOT WHAT THEY'RE WEARING BUT WHAT THEY'RE COVERING UP  
Their formidable mother, the scheming matriarch Yvette Sabine, is played by Frances De la Tour (who was wonderful in ITV's sitcom 'Vicious') — a woman who will stop at nothing to use her sons to help achieve her own thwarted ambitions. Meryl Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer is Helen Sabine, Paul’s American wife, an ex-pat who’s called Paris home for over a decade. Jenna Thiam  is Nina, the working class daughter of the Maison’s chief seamstress and the unexpected beauty who becomes the iconic face of the label. James Cosmo is Jules Trouvier, the silent partner who bankrolls the Sabine.