Viaplay is finally releasing their new post apocalyptic series THE FORTRESS with Russell Tovey, Tobias Santelmann and Eili Harboe in the lead roles.
The Fortress will stream from July 16th
It will be available on Viaplay channels from July 16th and also on SBS in Australia.
SET IN 2037 this seven episode series sees a Norway that has severed
all ties with the rest of the world. The decision to isolate, made by a
Norwegian government led by members of the Our Way party, came after
various crises had plagued countries across Europe (and the world) for
years. Surrounded by an enormous wall, the nation has become entirely
self-sufficient, and the fortunate inhabitants enjoy sheltered lives in a
self-sustaining Nordic paradise.
Then there are those on the other side of the wall: the non-Norwegian
people held in refugee camps, surrounded by barbed wire and armed
soldiers. When a deadly pandemic breaks out and affects Norway’s food
supply, a government advisor states that the cause came “from the
outside, of course.” But did it, really? In the meantime, the Norwegians
soon realize that the wall meant to protect them is now holding them
prisoner.
With our dear Richard Rankin in the lead role, Viaplay and BBC TV series reboot of REBUS detective show is ready to start this month, launching May
Rebus arrives to BBC next weekend
17th on BBC Scotland and then May 18th on BBC One as their new Saturday night show. Based on the best-selling books by Ian Rankin, new series reimagines the iconic character John Rebus (Richard Rankin) as a younger Detective Sergeant, drawn into a violent criminal conflict that turns personal.
SET IN CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND
new series follows John Rebus as he finds
himself at a psychological crossroads! At odds with a job increasingly
driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he
needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter's life by his
ex-wife's wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a
role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of
divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have
meaning,
Richard Rankin leads the new show
or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so,
why shouldn't Rebus do so too?
WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?
Brian Ferguson plays Rebus' brother Michael, Neshla Caplan is Michael's wife Chrissie, and Amy Manson is Rebus's ex-wife Rhona. Lucie Shorthouse will play Rebus' police partner DC Siobhan Clarke, Sean Buchanan is his mentor George Blantyre and Stuart Bowman a corrupt mobster Ger Cafferty. The series, planned for more seasons, will also be available on Viaplay streaming service. Check out the first teaser announcement below and tell us what you think.
Sometime in 2022 your trusted spy has informed you that Scandinavian streamer Viaplay is preparing historical movie STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH and now we have the first trailer since the Mikael Hafstrom directed epic movie has been available for streaming over at the streamer since January 18th. It is Viaplay's second
English language film after Lasse Hallstrom's Hilma which is also available on the streamer. Last summer Viaplay had to lay of a quarter of its workforce. Due to their financial trouble they sold about 12% of their shares to French Canal Plus. Prime Video Nordics has recently bought a dozen of their shows scraped for the lack of money. After opting out of shooting expensive high end originals, because of the downfall of their business model, they have also pulled out of UK and USA.
SET IN 1520 THE FILM
explores a dark chapter in Sweden’s
history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and
civilians in the Swedish capital. The film follows Anne (Sophie
Cookson) and her foster sister Freja (Alba August) as they seek revenge
on the men who murdered their family at Anne’s wedding. Their quest
leads them to Stockholm, where they are drawn into a ruthless political
struggle between Sweden and Denmark when a group of Swedish aristocrats
conspire to overthrow the Danish king Christian II, known by the Swedes
as Christian the Tyrant. When the Danish king learns of the nobles'
plans, he heads to Stockholm to put an end to the rebellion of the
Swedish rebels, under the leadership of the regent Sten Sture. The
stuggle culminates in a mass execution of almost 100 Swedes, presided
over by King Christian II of Denmark (Claes Bang), known as the
Stockholm Bloodbath.
WHO IS TAKING THE BATH?
Beside Sophie Cookson who leads the cast as Anne Eriksson, and
Claes Bang portraying King Kristian II, the international cast also includes
Emily Beecham as Kristina Gyllenstierna,
Alba August as Freja Eriksson,
Adam Pålsson as Sten Sture, Nordic superstar
Jakob Oftebro as Gustaf Trolle,
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Didrick Slagheck,
Matias Varela as Kardinal Francisco De La Roca,
Wilf Scolding as Johan Natt, Dag
Ulrich Thomsen as Hemming Gadh,
Thomas Chaanhing as Sylvestre and
Kate Ashfield as Birgitta! Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
After adding our dear Richard Rankin as the lead, Viaplay has unveiled posters for their TV series reboot of REBUS detective show which, set in contemporary
Rebus should arrive sometime next year
Scotland, follows John Rebus as he finds himself at a psychological crossroads! At odds with a job increasingly
driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he
needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter's life by his
ex-wife's wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a
role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of
divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have
meaning, or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so,
why shouldn't Rebus do so too? Brian Ferguson plays Rebus' brother Michael, Neshla Caplan is Michael's wife Chrissie, and Amy Manson is Rebus's ex-wife Rhona. Lucie Shorthouse will play Rebus' police partner DC Siobhan Clarke, Sean Buchanan is his mentor George Blantyre and Stuart Bowman a corrupt mobster Ger Cafferty. The series, planned for more seasons, will arrive next year to Viaplay streaming service.
Beside the series on Dutch queen Maxima we are now also getting a four part series HARALD & SONJA about the king and queen of Norway via Viaplay streamer. The series focuses on their love story, how they fought for nine years to be together, keeping their relationship secret due to Sonja’s
First look at the actors as Harald and Sonja
status as a commoner, before finally receiving the permission to marry from King Olav in 1968. They had to wait nine years for the society to accept the undeniable love they had for each other. Sindre Strand Offerdal and Gina Bernhoft Gørvell will play the royals, with Anders Raasmo as king Olav and Anneke von der Lippe as Sonja’s mother Dagny Haraldsen. The series is set for 2025!
It has been a very long wait indeed, but Sky and MGM Plus are finally bringing us the second season of everybody's favourite Ancient Rome set series DOMINA which is returning this summer! This historical series takes place during one of the most provocative periods in Roman history following the extraordinary rise of Gaius Augustus Caesar’s (Matthew McNulty) third wife, Livia Drusilla (Kasia Smutniak). We also have an exciting first trailer for the long awaited series and you can check it out below. The first season was MGM's best watched debut series of the year when it aired for the first time and the second season will also consist of eight brand new episodes.
DOMINA SEASON TWO
chronicles
the struggle for control of the Roman Empire, and of Rome’s imperial family, from a rare female perspective. In its first season, Livia
Drusilla, the golden girl of the prominent Claudii family, returned to
Rome after 10 years in exile, determined to regain everything that was
stolen from her. Now, atop a fractious empire and a dysfunctional
dynasty, she must fight to preserve her marriage to Gaius and find a way
to seat one of her sons on the throne of the empire, as new and old rivals jockey for
position in a world where it’s impossible to know who to trust.
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
David Avery
will play ambitious young aristocrat Domitius, who joins Gaius’ family
through marriage and proves himself to be a thorn in Livia’s side. Joelle will be Vipsania, who refuses to play the conventional power
games expected of Roman aristocratic life. She is happily married to
fellow outsider, Livia’s son Tiberius, and is a force for good in his
life.
Tiberius has been recast with Benjamin Isaac, he is now reluctant to
fulfill his mother’s ambition for him and his brother to restore the
Republic. .The returning cast includes Liah O’Prey (Julia), Ben Batt (Agrippa), Ewan Horrocks (Drusus), Claire Forlani (Octavia), Darrell D’Silva (Piso), Christine Bottomley (Scribonia) and Alais Lawson (Marcella). Beside airing on Sky across Europe this Summer including Italy and Germany, the second season will also return to MGM+ from July 9 for the viewers in Northern America. On Sky in UK it will air from September 13th!
REBUS REBOOT SERIES
UNVEILS FULL LEAD CAST
After adding our dear Richard Rankin as the lead, Viaplay has now unveiled the whole cast for their TV series reboot of REBUS detective show which, set in contemporary Scotland, follows John Rebus as he finds
Richard Rankin is the new Rebus
himself at a psychological crossroads! At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter's life by his ex-wife's wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have meaning, or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn't Rebus do so too? Brian Ferguson has been cast as Rebus' brother Michael, Neshla Caplan as Michael's wife Chrissie, and Amy Manson as Rebus's ex-wife Rhona. Lucie Shorthouse will plaz Rebus' police partner DC Siobhan
Lucie Shorthouse, Sean Buchanan and Brian Ferguson
Clarke, Sean Buchanan is his mentor George Blantyre and Stuart Bowman a corrupt mobster Ger Cafferty. The series, planned for more seasons, will arrive next year to Viaplay streaming service.
You already know that Nordic streamer Viaplay is planning a world expansion and it is already available in UK and some other European countries, and now they have added another English language series to their slate: Richard Rankin will play inspector REBUS in their new English original. The story follows 40-year-old Inspector John Rebus at a psychological crossroads following an altercation with an infamous Edinburgh gangster. At odds with a job increasingly driven by technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. Ian Rankin, no relation with Richard himself, wrote more than 20 novels about inspector Rebus.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
RENEWED FOR A SECOND SEASON
Beside The Gold which has been renewed at BBC, French Canal + has just renewed their MARIE ANTOINETTE series as well with Emilia Schüle returning as the queen and Louis Cunningham as Louis XVI.
At the height of their power, while Marie Antoinette and Louis face an unprecedented financial crisis, the incessant attacks of Provence and Chartres against the royal couple stir up the hatred of the nobles and disastrous consequences are looming with The Affair of the Necklace. From Versailles to the Palais-Royal, the revolt rumbles! The first season starts on PBS in USA this Sunday.
A THOUSAND BLOWS ADS
CAST TO 19TH CENTURY DRAMA
Disney + 19th century set boxing drama and their new British original A THOUSAND BLOWS has unveiled cast! Malachi Kirby and Francis Lovehall play Hezekiah and Alec, two best friends from Jamaica who find themselves thrust into the vibrant and violent world of London’s East End in
Malachi Kirby, James Nelson Jayce, Stephen Graham
the 1880s.! Drawn into the criminal underbelly of the thriving boxing scene, Hezekiah meets Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), leader of The Forty Elephants, the notorious all-female London gang, as they battle for survival on the streets. As Hezekiah sharpens his new skills, he comes up against Sugar
Jason Tobin and Erin Doherty will also star
Goodson (Stephen Graham), a seasoned and dangerous boxer and the two are soon locked into an intense rivalry that spills out way beyond the ring. Steven Knight's 12 episode series will also star Jason Tobin, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Walters, Nadia Albina, Morgan Hilaire, Jemma Carlton and Caoilfhionn Dunne.
After two flops last year with Becoming Elizabethand Dangerous Liaisons, it seems Starz is returning to their old, already proven hits by ordering a sequel series to their legendary SPARTACUS from Steven S. DeKnight! The next chapter will explore uncharted territory and new journeys of the original series’ iconic characters. In the aftermath of the defeat of Spartacus and his rebel army in the series finale, the new drama will depict a new tale of treachery, deceit, and blood unfolding beneath the foreboding shadow of Rome.
THE SWARM TRAILER
FOR NEW GERMAN SERIES
The Swarm arrives this March in Europe
Last summer I showed you the first trailer for German ZDF high end ambitious sf series THE SWARM which our dear Beta Film is distributing around the world, and now we have a new trailer and March 6th air date. Nordic, Italian, Austrian, Swiss and French broadcasters will also take part in this European coproduction which will also stream on Hulu for American audience and will first premiere at Berlinale. The eight part series is an adaption of Frank Schätzing’s novel that has been translated into 25 languages and has Game of Thrones' Frank Doelger as the
It will premiere at Berlinale later this month
executive producer.
THE GLOBAL
environmental thriller is set in the present day, where
anomalies and unnatural behavior in marine animals are causing upheaval
all over the world. Mysterious events from the depths of the oceans are
piling up all over the world: whales are destroying boats, deep-sea
crabs are attacking beaches, and mussels are paralyzing container ships. A previously unknown ice worm is destabilizing continental slopes in
the oceans and triggering tsunamis, and a deadly pathogen is spreading
in drinking water from the coasts. More and more people in the world are
in mortal danger. THE SWARM follows a global group of scientists who
come together to tackle one of the biggest challenges mankind has ever
faced and go on a life-threatening mission on
their own. The traces lead them with their research ship into the
eternal ice. They make the chilling discovery that deep at the bottom of
the sea resides a collective intelligence which has suffered the
ravages of civilization on its habitat - and decided to fight back.
WHO IS IN THE TEAM?
Leonie Benesch plays the marine biology student Charlie Wagner, who collects ocean current data for her professor Katherina Lehmann (Barbara Sukowa) on the Shetland Islands. Alexander Karim plays Sigur Johanson, who is asked by a Norwegian oil company for a biological report and discovers the dangerous ice worm alongside Tina Lund (Krista Kosonen). While French molecular biologist Cecile Roche (Cecile de France) struggles with a deadly bacterium in drinking water, Canadian whale researcher Leon Anawak (Joshua Odjick)
tries to explain the whales' unusually dangerous behavior. The
international research team also has data analyst Alicia Delaware (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers), space researcher Samantha Crowe (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) as well as the student Amir (Eidin Jalali) and the Japanese philanthropist Mifune (Takuya Kimura). Alban (Oliver Masucci), captain of the technically sophisticated research ship Thorvaldson, and the diving robotics expert Roscovitz (Klaas Heufer-Umlauf) embark on a daring mission into the eternal ice with the scientists. Our boy Jack Greenlees also stars. In USA the series will air on CW probably in late 2023.
As if having Henry Cavill in the lead role wasn't enough of a hunk factor for Guy Richie's THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, they have now added a bunch of new major hunks: Alex Pettyfer, Til Schweiger, Cary Elwes, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Alan Ritchson and Henry Zaga. The true story covers Winston Churchill’s and Ian Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. The clandestine squad’s unconventional and ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis helped change the course of the war and gave birth to the modern Black Ops unit.
THE MAGIC FLUTE TRAILER
NEW MOZART ADAPTATION
The movie should arrive this March
I've announced this one years ago, but it seems that this European production, executive produced by Roland Emmerich is finally arriving to cinemas near you this year and we have a rather fun first trailer to prove it: the movie adaptation of Mozart's famous opera THE MAGIC FLUTE should play its way into theatres this March directed by Florian Sigl.
This captivating film follows a teen on two journeys: one into a
prestigious boarding school to fulfill his aspirations as a singer, and
another into a parallel world filled with fantasy and adventure. Tim
(Jack Wolfe) has
Roland Emmerich produces
been dreaming his whole life about attending Mozart All
Boys Music School, but already his first days there confront him with a
hostile headmaster (F. Murray Abraham), the stresses of a first love,
and serious doubts about the authenticity of his singing voice. When he
discovers a mystical gateway in the school's library, he is pulled into
the fantastic cosmos of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, where
imagination has no limits and the Queen of the Night (Sabine Devieilhe)
reigns. Iwan Rheon plays famous Papageno, with Jeanne Goursaud from
Barbarians epic TV series also in the cast. Check out the lovely new trailer below and tell us what you think:
VIAPLAY'S MUNCH MOVIE
ON THE SCREAM PAINTER
Nordic streamer Viaplay which is now available in UK as well, has released MUNCH movie on the famous painter Edvard Munch and his The
Munch is out in European cinemas
Scream painting. Out from January 27th in cinemas and two months later on the streamer, the
film sees him depicted across four stages in his life by a quartet
of Norwegian actors Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth and Anne Krigsvoll.
The film opens with the story of Munch’s first love, before showing the
controversy around one of his early exhibitions. Munch’s admission to a
psychiatric clinic will also be covered, where he is forced to make the
biggest decision of his life, before the film relates the artist’s
battle to save his works from the Nazis during World War II as death
draws near.
refugee camps, surrounded by barbed wire and armed
soldiers. When a deadly pandemic breaks out and affects Norway’s food
supply, a government advisor
states that the cause came “from the
outside, of course.” But did it, really? In the meantime, the Norwegians
soon realize that the wall meant to protect them is now holding them
prisoner.
refugee camps, surrounded by barbed wire and armed
soldiers. When a deadly pandemic breaks out and affects Norway’s food
supply, a government advisor
states that the cause came “from the
outside, of course.” But did it, really? In the meantime, the Norwegians
soon realize that the wall meant to protect them is now holding them
prisoner.
