Showing posts with label TRANSYLVANIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRANSYLVANIA. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2016

STEPHEN FRY JOINS 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM, TYLER RITTER 'YOUNG & HUNGRY'! BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' VICTORIAN MEDICAL COMEDY WITH RUPERT EVERETT! MEDALION RAHIMI JOINS 'STILL STAR CROSSED', SOFIA PERNAS 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC SHOWS

'YOUNG AND HUNGRY' 
TYLER RITTER JOINS THE CAST
TV news today, starting with infos from the TV comedy world: FreeForm's YOUNG & HUNGRY sitcom, which has just been renewed for the 5th season will have THE MCCARTHYS star Tyler Ritter guest starring as Adam, a handsome and funny man who is nursing a broken heart after being left at the altar. He and Gabi (Emily Osment) bond over their similar relationship problems and the fact that they are both budding entrepreneurs.
STEPHEN FRY IN 'GREAT INDOORS'
Meanwhile, British legend Stephen Fry will star in NBC's new sitcom THE GREAT INDOORS in which  Joel McHale plays an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of their magazine. Fry will be the charismatic founder of  THE GREAT INDOORS magazine, and a world traveller, explorer and adventure! 

BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' 
VICTORIAN COMEDY SERIES
Over in UK, BBC has ordered 6 half hour episode period series set in the 1840s titled QUACKS about four young pioneers in the daring and wild days of Victorian medicine!  The comedy takes place at a time when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. It was an era when the O.R. — or operating theatre in British parlance — was full of spectacle and showmanship (and screw-ups). Rory Kinnear will play one of those showmen, an arrogant surgeon; Mathew Baynton is a fledgling psychiatrist; Tom Basden a hedonistic dentist turned anaesthetist and Lydia Leonard a headstrong social campaigner. Rupert Everett will guest star.

'STILL STAR CROSSED' 
 CASTS PRINCESS ISABELLA
ABC has cast Medalion Rahimi to play intelligent, outspoken and practical princess Isabella in their upcoming new STILL STAR CROSSED 16th century Verona set series that picks up where William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet left off charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. She joins Torrance Coombs in the cast.

SOFIA PERNAS IN 'TRANSYLVANIA'
Over at CW, Sofia Pernas has joined their historical adventure series TRANSYLVANIA replacing Amrita Acharia as Coriander, an exotic gypsy queen of the matriarchal clan that runs the fleshpots of the Old City, the haunted spot where Vlad the Impaler once killed thousands of their tribe. Set in 1880 TRANSYLVANIA centres on Victoria (Laura Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective (Luke Allen-Gale), and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

Monday, March 14, 2016

DELIGHTFUL NEW 'STORKS' ANIMATED TRAILER! AMRITA ACHARIA IS GYPSY QUEEN IN 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC TV SERIES! JANE SEYMOUR JOINS 'HOOTEN & THE LADY' EPIC ADVENTURE TV SERIES

'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC SERIES
AMRITA ACHARIA IS GYPSY QUEEN
In TV news, an interesting new casting addition for CW's new epic series pilot TRANSYL- VANIA! As 'Deadline' reports Amrita Acharia will play Coriander, an exotic gypsy leader of the matriarchal Szgany clan that runs the fleshpots of the Old City — the haunted spot where Vlad the Impaler once killed thousands of their tribe. Set in 1880 TRANSYL- VANIA centres on Victoria (Laura Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective (Luke Allen Gale), and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

'HOOTEN & THE LADY'
JANE SEYMOUR JOINS EPIC ADVENTURE TV SERIES
I've recently asked myself where has Jane Seymour disappeared but it seems she's coming back! She has joined British Sky 1's epic adventure series HOOTEN & THE LADY in which Michael Landes and Ophelia Lovibond play the title pair as they track down fabled treasures from the past, including the lost Amazonian golden city of Z, the Buddha's missing scroll and the lost tomb of Alexander the Great! The 8 part series will see Seymour playing  Lady Tabitha the fun and daring mother of Lady Alexandra, while Jessica  Hynes and Shaun Parkes are playing Lady Alexandra's colleagues from the British Museum.

'STORKS' NEW TRAILER
A BUNDLE OF TROUBLE!
Meanwhile, your new trailer for today is the second one for September animated movie STORKS which deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop – in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks’ true mission in the world.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

ANNABELLE WALLIS TO JOIN TOM CRUISE IN 'THE MUMMY' REBOOT! AMANDA SEYFRIED & CLIVE OWEN IN ANDREW NICCOL'S SF THRILLER 'ANON'! LUKE ALLEN GALE TO LEAD 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC TV SERIES

ANNABELLE WALLIS
 TO JOIN TOM CRUISE IN 'THE MUMMY' MOVIE REBOOT
Another reboot that will plague us some time in the future, the remake of the most popular adventure saga ever THE MUMMY, this time with Tom Cruise in the lead role, has just got itself the female lead: gorgeous Annabelle Wallis from THE TUDORS (although she played the queen in it, in next year's KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE: KING ARTHUR she will be just a maid) and PEAKY BLINDERS will take lead female role in the modern day set movie. Sofia Boutella was announced previously for the title role of the monster. Cruise will play an ex soldier, while Annabelle will be, according to 'Variety' an archaeologist! Alex Kurtzman is helming the second movie in Universal's Monsters series, started by Luke Evans' DRACULA UNTOLD. Johnny Depp has already been announced as the lead in THE INVISIBLE MAN movie, while VAN HELSING and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN are also in plan.

AMANDA SEYFRIED JOINS
CLIVE OWEN IN SF 'ANON' 
Since it seems we're having a blond beauty day, 'Deadline' reports that Amanda Seyfried will work with sf director Andrew Niccol again after Justin Timberlake's IN TIME a few years ago. She has boarded ANON, a sf thriller in which Clive Owen plays a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. All our lives are transparent, traceable and recorded by the authorities. It’s the end of crime, it seems. However, when Owen’s character stumbles on a young woman (Amanda Seyfried) with no digital footprint and invisible to the police, he discovers it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Owen is also shooting Luc Besson's sf epic VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS.

LUKE ALLEN GALE TO LEAD
 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC TV SERIES
Earlier last week I reported that Australian actress Laura Brent has been cast as female lead in CW's upcoming new epic TV series TRANSYLVANIA and now 'Deadline' writes that DOMINION's Luke Allen Gale will take the male lead. Canadian actor Evan Stern has also been cast.
TRANSYL- VANIA is set in 1880 and centres on Victoria (Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, Inspector Godfrey (Allen Gale), and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history. Stern will play Igor, a gentle hunchback known for his technical genius.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

TV NEWS: LAURA BRENT TO LEAD 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC SERIES! JENNA ELFMAN, STEPHEN SCHNEIDER IN NEW CGI ABC SITCOM! 'MIDNIGHT, TEXAS' TV SERIES ADAPTATION ROUNDS UP CAST

'MIDNIGHT, TEXAS' SERIES
FROM 'TRUE BLOOD' AUTHOR
Another pilot is rounding up its cast over at NBC. Sarah Ramos, Arielle Kebbel and Dylan Bruce will star in a very unusual new series MIDNIGHT, TEXAS a small screen adaptation of Charlaine Harris' trilogy which she wrote after TRUE BLOOD. Described as Twin Peaks meets True Blood in MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, a remote town where your neighbour could be a vampire, a witch, a werewolf, or even an angel. Mystery, horror and romance combine to both enthral and frighten any outsiders who decide to venture into this unusual place! Ramos will be a waitress in the local restaurant, Kebbel will be a freelance hitwoman and a very important woman in the community, while Bruce is the owner of the town's Pawn Shop and estate owner.

JENNA ELFMAN TO LEAD
NEW CGI HYBRID SITCOM AT ABC
In other TV news, 'Deadline' reports that Jenna Elfman and Stephen Schneider will lead an untitled new ABC sitcom pilot which will have CGI elements in it. Elfman will be Alice, a bachelorette whose life is turned upside down when she finally meets the love of her life — a divorced father (Stephen Schneider) with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend Alice (to be done by CGI) created as an only child suddenly reappears in her life to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.

LAURA BRENT TO LEAD
'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC TV SERIES
Meanwhile, over at CW they've cast young Australian actress Laura Brent (LEGEND OF THE SEEKER) to lead their upcoming new epic series TRANSYLVANIA! The story of the historical adventure is set in 1880 revolving around Victoria (Laura Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

NETFLIX ORDERS 'GILMORE GIRLS' FINAL SEASON, CW EPIC 'TRANSYLVANIA' AND MARS SET SERIES. CBS ORDERS 'THE GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM, SKY ONE 'LAST DRAGONSLAYER' EPIC TV MOVIE

'GILMORE GIRLS' GET
FAREWELL SEASON AT NETFLIX
An avalanche of TV news today, lead by the main info that Netflix will officially do a final season of GILMORE GIRLS in the form of four 90 minute TV movies (each set in a different season of the year) with almost all of the original cast returning (lead by Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson and Alexis Bledel)!

NEW CW PILOTS
EPIC 'TRAN SYLVANIA'
CW has ordered two high concept TV series pilots. The first one is one I mentioned before TRANSYLVANIA. Set in the 1880, it centres on a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history. 
SF MARS SERIES
They have also ordered an untitled MARS sf series pilot written by REIGN's Doris Egan, following a team of explorers who arrive on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons!

CBS ORDERS 'THE GREAT INDOORS' TV COMEDY PILOT
CBS has meanwhile ordered a pilot for new multi camera sitcom THE GREAT INDOORS about an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine
SKY 1 ORDERS 'THE LAST DRAGON SLAYER' EPIC TV MOVIE
Meanwhile, across the sea, British Sky 1 will turn Jasper Fforde's epic fantasy novel THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER into a TV movie set in a world where magic exists in a weakened form, and has been replaced with modern technology - for instance magic carpets are used to deliver pizzas. Better than drones. The story focuses on 15-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an employment agency for magicians and finds out that the last dragon is being hunted.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

HELEN MIRREN TO JOIN WILL SMITH'S 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY'? NEW 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' POSTER WITH WENTWORTH MILLER, DOMINIC PURCELL! CW ORDERS 19TH CENTURY 'TRANSYLVANIA' SERIES

 'COLLATERAL BEAUTY' 
HELEN MIRREN JOINS WILL SMITH?
Deadline reports that Will Smith could have Helen Mirren for a partner in COLLATERAL BEAUTY in which Smith is a New York City ad exec who spirals into a deep depression after an intense personal tragedy. His employees enact a scheme to bring him out of it with successful, and completely unexpected, results. As part of the scheme, the employees hire an actress to be played by Mirren.

CW ORDERS TRANS- YLVANIA EPIC SERIES
Meanwhile, CW has bought 19th century set series TRANSYLVANIA from the producers of ZOO. Set in 1880 it will follow a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from to TRANSYLVANIA where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history



 'LEGENDS OF TOMORROW' 
THEIR TIME IS NOW
Speaking of CW they've released today a poster for new sf series LEGENDS OF TOMORROW which starts January following a group of heroes and villains from the DC universe – Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Heatwave (Dominic Purcell) and Firestorm, Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl.