THE SHOCK! THE SCANDAL! VICTORIA EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 3 TO START AIRING THIS SUNDAY ON PBS BEFORE EVEN SETTING UK AIRING DATE!

'VICTORIA' TV SERIES

SEASON 3 STARTS THIS SUNDAY!

Season 3 arrives this Sunday on PBS!

The shock! The scandal, and a royal one too! Listen to this: the long awaited third season of super popular British epic drama VICTORIA will start airing in Northern America on PBS Masterpiece from this Sunday, January 13th, before even setting its British airing date! This is the first time in history something like this happens! The British fans are flabbergasted that the series won't hit ITV screens first (and we don't even know when it will). Anyhows, all is set for the eight new episodes to start airing in USA this weekend. The story of the new season will be set in 1848

The third season should end with the eight episode on March 3rd

a turbulent and uncertain time for both Europe and the British monarchy. With revolutions on the continent and the Chartist movement reaching its

Tom Hughes and Jenna Coleman will play the royal couple again

peak in London, VICTORIA is under pressure from the government to leave London for her own safety. The queen will also face the traumatic impact of a

The series will hit ITV in UK March 24th, a month after its end in USA

cholera epidemic on the streets of London and also an assassination attempt. And of course, there will be more royal babies as well, as the queen kept them coming like hot cakes.

THE NEW COURT MEMBERS

The new season will have eight episodes!

ITV has also revealed new cast members who will join Jenna Coleman as Victoria and Tom Hughes as Prince Albert! If you were in tears after Leo Sutter's character was killed in the last season finale, do not despair, a new hunk is arriving to the court: Laurence Fox will play Lord Palmerston, the wayward Foreign Secretary! Kate Fleetwood will portray Feodora, Victoria’s mysterious sister who makes an unexpected return into the Queen’s life. Not everyone will be happy! The eight episode season

Jenna Coleman said that she might be leaving the series soon as the queen is getting older in the story and the cast will have to change with older actors

three has also added John Sessions as Prime Minister John Russell, Lily Travers as the Duchess of Monmouth, Nicholas Audsley, David Burnett

The queen is facing revolution, cholera, new babies and exile in the new season

and Emily Forbes to the cast. Previous two seasons traditionally aired in Autumn with a magnificently festive Christmas special on Christmas Day! The third season took longer to shoot and the airing schedule was thus changed.

SUPER ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FANTASY SERIES BLOOM ABOUT YOUTH RESTORING PLANT WITH BRYAN BROWN, RYAN CORR, SAM REID, JACKI WEAVER

'BLOOM' TV SERIES

YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG... TWICE!

Here's a highly unusual trailer for you: it is for Australian Stan streaming service new sf mystery thriller six episode series BLOOM which was out New

The series opened on Stan New Year's Day!

Year's Day there. Starring an all star Australian cast including Bryan Brown, Ryan Corr, Sam Reid, Jacki Weaver, Jacob Collins Levy, Phoebe Tonkin, it is set a year after a devastating flood has killed five locals in an idyllic country town, when a mysterious new plant suddenly appears. The plant's phenomenal ability to restore youth is so formidable that attempting to harness it means re-evaluating values. It'a a miracle and some are even prepared to kill for it. 

FRENCH MONDAY: L'INTERVENTION ACTION THRILLER TRAILER WITH OLGA KURYLENKO, VINCENT PEREZ! A MERMAID IN PARIS ROMANTIC FANTASY POSTER WITH CLEMENCE POESY, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN

'A MERMAID IN PARIS'

FIRST POSTER REVEALED!

While Hollywood is resting from their wild Golden Globe parties, the spy is taking you across the pond (many Globes did go across the pond last night -

Mermaid is set to start shooting this spring

mostly to Britain, bravo to Richard Madden) straight to France.

The first, rather atmospheric, poster has been revealed for A MERMAID IN PARIS (Une Sirene a Paris) which will see Reda Kateb playing Gaspard, a man who has gone through breakups and believes he has no more love to give. One day, he crosses paths with an injured mermaid, Lula (Clemence Poesy), by the Seine in Paris and takes her home to heal in his bathtub, but learns that any man who falls in love with her dies. Initially immune to her endearing charm, Gaspard slowly falls in love with Lula, who also truly falls for him. Also starring Virginie Ledoyen, the movie will shoot next spring.

'L'INTERVENTION' TRAILER

SENDS OLGA KURYLENKO AND VINCENT PEREZ TO DJIBOUTI

Already ready to hit cinemas at the end of this month is Fred Grivois' drama L'INTERVENTION toplined by our favourite Olga Kurylenko and

L'Intervention is out in French cinemas January 30th

Vincent Perez! In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The Elite Gendarmerie GIGN is sent on the spot, after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SUPER DELIGHTFUL NEW CBS MULTICAMERA SITCOM 'FAM' WITH TONE BELL AND NINA DOBREV

'FAM' SITCOM

WITH TONE BELL & NINA DOBREV

Fam starts its 13 episode run next week!

The year behind us was really good for some of the multicamera sitcoms (Neighbourhood at CBS ruled Monday nights and Big Bang Theory Thursdays, Last Man Standing dominated Friday nights for Fox with its glorious, record breaking return together with his sister sitcom Cool Kids) and really bad for some others (the audience does not appreciate backstabbing and thus Conners at ABC did not manage to reach the heights of legendary Roseanne, while Happy Together did not impress at CBS). The biggest and the most embarrassing flop was definitely the return of Murphy Brown after almost thirty years, but the audience did not like its hateful and critical tone, so it is getting replaced on Thursday nights at CBS by warm new family sitcom FAM from January 10th! It can be expected that Murphy Brown and Happy Together won't be getting second seasons.

NEW MULTICAM SITCOM FAM
stars Nina Dobrev and  our beloved Tone Bell as a young woman and her adoring fiancé whose vision of a perfect life with his wonderful family is radically altered when her 16 year old, out of control half sister unexpectedly

Tone Bell and Nina Dobrev are starring together again after Dog Days

comes to live with her. Clem’s upbringing and teen years left a lot to be desired, but she pulled herself up, and built a fantastic life — great job, terrific apartment, and an amazing fiancé, Nick, a college professor from a well-to-do "normal" family. Nick's warm and supportive parents, Rose (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and Walt (Brian Stokes Mitchell), embrace Clem and complete the family she always wanted. But when Clem’s wild child half sister, Shannon (Odessa Adlon), appears on their doorstep to escape their train wreck of a

Walt, Rose and Shannon are Clem and Nick's new Fam!

dad (Gary Cole), Nick agrees that Clem can help her avoid all the mistakes she made, and they invite her to move in. As the family Clem chose and the family she has blend, Clem realizes that this happy fam may be the perfection she's been seeking.

NEW ANIMATED MOVIES 'THE QUEEN'S CORGI' WITH JULIE WALTERS, JACK WHITEHALL, RAY WINSTONE, 'WATCH THE SKIES' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, SEAN BEAN, GEMMA ARTERTON, 'WONDER PARK' WITH MILA KUNIS, MATTHEW BRODERICK

'THE QUEEN'S CORGI'

AN ANIMATED ROYAL ADVENTURE

Corgi hits cinemas this February!

Something for the littlest spylings among you today as we launch our Family weekend with a spotlight on three new animated movies that will arrive into cinemas this year. THE QUEEN'S CORGI will bark its way into theatres this July in United Kingdom, but will start its cinematic life from February and then throughout this spring around Europe and Asia.

THE QUEEN'S CORGI
 is about the adventure of Rex, the British monarch's most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a clan with dogs of all kinds confronting and 

Soundtrack will have a Jonas Blue, Joe Jonas song

fighting each other. During his epic journey to return to the queen, Rex falls in love and discovers his true self.

 Directed by Ben Stassen (who also helmed last year's The Son of Bigfoot and Robinson Crusoe before that) THE QUEEN'S CORGI features a rather stellar voice cast with Julie Walters, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Jack Whitehall, Sheridan Smith and Matt Lucas lending their voices to the delightful characters. Check out the funny kids' friendly trailer below:

'WATCH THE SKIES'

FIRST POSTER LANDS!

Meanwhile, Mark Byers' fantasy animated adventure  WATCH THE SKIES, which boasts an equally stellar thespian voice cast including Sam

Watch the Skies has an $18 million budget

Claflin and his wife Laura Haddock, Gemma Arterton, Sean Bean, Assa Butterfield, has got its first poster!

When a small starship crashes to earth, it is not a monster or alien overlord that emerges, but a teenage boy who has run away from home - a home on the far side of the galaxy. He is rescued from capture by the children of the same military leaders who are trying to catch him. Together, the kids must help their new alien friend repair his space ship from parts left behind by other alien explorers and escape before he is caught by the soldiers and studied by the scientists for the rest of his life.

'WONDER PARK'

TAKE A RIDE ON THE WILD SIDE

Wonder Park arrives into cinemas this Spring

Hitting cinemas from March and April around Europe and Northern America is a Spanish American co pro- duction WON- DER PARK  which has Mila Kunis and Matthew Brode- rick in its voice cast. It follows June, an optimistic, imaginative girl, who discovers an incredible amusement park called Wonderland hidden in the woods. The park is full of fantastical rides and talking, funny animals - only the park is in disarray. June soon discovers

The lead song in the movie is performed by Rachel Platten

the park came from her imagination and she's the only one who can fix it, so she bands together with the animals to save this magical place and bring back the wonder in Wonderland. 

EWAN MCGREGOR TO LEAD MINI TV SERIES SIMPLY HALSTON ON FAMOUS AMERICAN CELEBRITY FASHION DESIGNER!

'SIMPLY HALSTON' SERIES

WITH EWAN MCGREGOR AS THE CELEBRITY FASHION DESIGNER

Legendary Television is producing

We have another new biopic after yesterday's on Out of Africa author! Deadline reports that Ewan McGregor will lead SIMPLY HALSTON mini TV series about the meteoric rise and fall of the first American celebrity fashion designer as he  develops a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era he lives in, 1970’s and ‘80’s New York, until a hostile takeover forces him to battle for control of his most precious asset… the name Halston itself.

HALSTON, working first as a milliner,  rose to fame after designing the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her husband’s presidential inauguration in 1961. He then segued to women’s wear with designs that were deemed minimalist but sophisticated, glamorous but comfortable. His celebrity clients included Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Margaux

Sharr White is writing, Dan Minahan directing the new series

Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor, Bianca Jagger and Liza Minnelli. Halston’s company went through various owners and was eventually acquired by Revlon, with Halston gradually losing control. He died in 1990 at the age of 57 from AIDS related complications.

TOM BUK SWIENTY'S BOOK ON OUT OF AFRICA AUTHOR KAREN BLIXEN TO BE ADAPTED INTO A PERIOD SET MOVIE!

'THE LIONESS' BIOPIC

ON OUT OF AFRICA AUTHOR!

The film will also be turned into a mini series

Nordisk Film has announced that they have bought rights on Tom Buk Swienty’s upcoming book on Karen Blixen, the author of famous OUT OF AFRICA! English language biopic THE LIONESS will depict her life as a coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914 to 1931! Born in 1885, she came from an upper class Danish background but spent much of her life seeking independence from her overbearing Victorian family. Gambling health and family fortune, she journeyed to become a coffee farmer in colonial Kenya. After 17 challenging years, marked by World War I, poor harvests due to various natural disasters, the onset of the Great Depression

Dashing Swienty had other of his books adapted into films

and a tragic love affair, she was forced to abandon her farm. 

THE LIONESS presents Blixen as a pioneering female CEO, in charge of more than 1,000 workers and describes her often troubled dealings with her uncle, the wealthy businessman who, as the main investor in the farm, lost a fortune on the failed business venture of his niece! Tom Buk Swienty's 2022 upcoming book The Great Dane on Niels Bohr will also be adapted into a film! He has had other historical novels of his adapted into epic movies before.

1ST EMMA THOMPSON PHOTO FROM BBC'S YEARS AND YEARS EPIC SAGA! CLEANING UP SERIES TRAILER WITH SHERIDAN SMITH, MATTHEW MCNULTY

'CLEANING UP' TRAILER

STARRING SHERIDAN SMITH AND MATTHEW MCNULTY

Info from the British Isles today. ITV is ready to start airing its six part drama CLEANING UP from January 9th. It stars Matthew McNulty and Sheridan Smith who plays an ordinary working class mum caught between two contrasting worlds - the everyday grind of suburban life and the high-risk game of insider trading.

CLEANING UP FOLLOWS
Office cleaner Sam, one of an invisible army who work every night in the gleaming buildings of London’s financial centre. She dreams of a better life but struggling with an online gambling addiction and spiralling debts, Sam is

Sheridan Smith plays the lead role in the new series

going under. Until one night, hidden in plain sight, she overhears an illegal trade being made. This lucrative stock market information, if used correctly,

The six part series will start airing January 9th in UK

could be the break she desperately needs. Armed with a copy of ‘Trading for Dummies’ and her gambler’s nerve – Sam has everything and nothing to lose – but how far is she willing to go to turn her fortunes around?

'YEARS AND YEARS'

1ST PHOTO OF EMMA THOMPSON FROM NEW BBC SERIES

Rival BBC has issued the first photo from their new contemporary fantasy series YEARS AND YEARS  in which Emma Thompson plays an

The series should air sometime this year on BBC

outspoken celebrity turned political figure whose controversial opinions divide the nation! She’s a new breed of politician, an entertainer, a rebel, a trickster,

The drama starts in 2019 as Britain faces unstable political, economic and technological advances and follows the Lyons family as their complex lives converge on one crucial night. The action takes place over the next 15 years.

and her rise to power leads us into an unknown future. Our dearest British super hunk Russell Tovey plays her son!

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S ANNUAL TOP 35 BEST SONGS OF 2018: BEST HITS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD! WHO'S NUMBER ONE?

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S

35 BEST TUNES FROM 2018

It is again that time of the year, people, when your trusted spy is presenting the annual top 35 list of the best songs we've listened to during the year. As usual, the list is international with hits from all corners of the world! Tell us what were your favourite songs this year below in comments! Click on song titles to get to the videos!

2018 TOP 35 BEST SONGS

1. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - Say Something

Although his new album was inarguably the worst he ever did, filled with almost offensive crap, Justin did redeem himself with this song which became the biggest hit of the year!

2. NICO SANTOS - Goodbye To Love

German pop sensation Nico is without any doubt the breakthrough star of the year and also the singer of the year with three mega hits on the list!

3. KENDJI GIRAC - Tiago

Irresistible Gypsy star from France returned this year with his second album and it was filled with splendid pop hits like this one.

4. TOM WALKER - Leave a Light On

5. CLEAN BANDIT & DEMI LOVATO - Solo

6. CALVIN HARRIS & SAM SMITH - Promises

It was the ultimate dance hit of the year!

7. DEAN LEWIS - Be Alright
It was one of those songs that you fall in love with listening to it on the radio every day but you never know who sings it! 

8. DAN BALAN - Allegro Ventigo

Our favourite star from Moldova has the voice, has the moves, the super hits and also a huge fandomship in Russia!

9. MAITRE GIMS - Mi Gna 
Our favourite French singer had a massive album this year as well! The song is in English, French and Armenian!

10. NICO SANTOS - Rooftop

11.SAM SMITH - Fire on Fire

From BBC's series Watership Down comes this splendid ballad!

12. CALUM SCOTT - You Are The Reason

The owner of the most beautiful soul among singers, and an equally gorgeous face, had the perfect tear jerking ballad this year.

13. CELINE DION- Ashes

14. NICO SANTOS- Safe

15. MAITRE GIMS & ALVARO SOLER - Lo Mismo
This is what happens when France meets Spain and Germany!

16. JONAS BLUE & JACK AND JACK - Rise
One of the absolute dance hits of the year, coming from  UK and America!

17. EDWARD MAYA & EMILIA & COSTI - Harem
This was the ultimate belly dancing hit from Romania! 

18. NICK JONAS & ROBIN SCHULTZ - Right Now

19. ALVARO SOLER - La Cintura

20. GEORGE EZRA - Shotgun

  21. REA GARVEY & KOOL SAVAS - Is It Love
Two German stars gave us one of the biggest radio hits this year! 

22. ALEXANDRA BURKE - Shadow

23. LOST FREQUENCIES & JAMES BLUNT - Melody

24.SHAWN MENDES - It Isn't In My Blood
Canadian songster had a huge hit this year as well!

 25. PANIC AT THE DISCO! - High Hopes

26.LIAM PAYNE & J BALVIN - Familiar

 27. ARASH AND HELENA - Dooset Daram
Iranian Swedish star Arash closed the song story with Helena which featured previous super hits Broken Angel, Pure Love and One Day!

28. BLACK M - Le Plus Fort Du Monde
Straight from France, a silly but addictive super hit!

 29. MANS ZELMERLOW - Happyland
Mans is both the biggest and the hottest Swedish pop star!

30. RUDIMENTAL & JAMES ARTHUR - Sun Comes Up

31. CAESAR SAMPSON - Nobody But You
The moral winner of this year's Eurosong, comes from Austria!
32.MR PROBZ - Space For Two
33. MAITRE GIMS - Le Pire
34. CALUM SCOTT - No Matter What
35. NATALIA OREIRO - United By Love
Latin star sings for Soccer World Championship in Russia

HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH RAMPANT EPIC ADVENTURE TRAILER IN WHICH ZOMBIES ARE SWARMING THE IMPERIAL COURT OF JOSEON!

    'RAMPANT' TRAILER

 IN WHICH DARKNESS LOOMS OVER THE KINGDOM

Rampant had a limited US release last month

Before we leave this year behind and I wish you a happy new one, as the last treat for 2018 you can check out a trailer for Korean epic adventure RAMPANT which is playing in cinemas around the world this winter.

IN RAMPANT   
Lee Chung (Hyun Bin) is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage to the Qing Dynasty. He enjoys boozing, womanizing and gambling. He is also an excellent swordsman. His older brother Lee Young (Tae Woo Kim) will succeed to the throne and brings Lee Chung to Joseon. He returns after more than 10 years.

The movie comes from the producers of Train to Busan hit movie

But soon after his arrival, Lee Chung faces monsters that run rampant in the night. Stay tuned, spylings, as I will be bringing you our traditional Music Top 30 of the year this week with biggest international hits!