BBC CASTS JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY, JAMES MCARDLE FOR THEIR NEW PERIOD SET MINI SERIES LIFE AFTER LIFE BASED ON KATE ATKINSON'S BOOK!

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BBC ANNOUNCES CAST!

BBC has announced their cast for a four episode small screen adaptation of LIFE AFTER LIFE book by Kate Atkinson. Thomasin McKenzie plays Ursula Todd, who is born to Sylvie and Hugh (Sian Clifford and James McArdle) one night in 1910, but dies before she draws her first breath. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is reborn and survives. Time and time again,

Jessica Brown Findlay, James McArdle, Thomasin McKenzie will star

living and dying in different circumstances, Ursula is reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. This compelling story follows Ursula as she navigates each new life, through a critical era which spans two world wars, an encounter with Hitler and major life events. But what is it that Ursula so desperately needs to stay alive for? Can a perfect life ever be lived? Can the course of history ever be changed? Can Ursula save the world? Jessica Brown Findlay will also star.

BRITBOX RELEASES TRAILER FOR THEIR 1ST ORIGINAL TV SERIES THE BEAST MUST DIE WITH JARED HARRIS, BILLY HOWLE, NATHANIEL PARKER!

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BRITBOX TV SERIES TRAILER

BBC and ITV's joint streaming service BritBox has just released a trailer for their first original series THE BEAST MUST DIE which is set to start May 27th, following a mother (Cush Jumbo) as she seeks to avenge the death of her six-year-old son, who was killed in a hit-and-run. As she hunts

The Beast Must Die will stream weekly in five episodes

down the man she believes is responsible for his death, the “troubled yet brilliant” Detective Strangeways (Billy Howle) is tasked with unpicking the web of tragedy and working towards justice. Jared Harris leads the cast as a man who is somehow involved in the death of the six-year-old boy. Nathaniel Parker also stars in the five episode series.

LUKE WILSON, MARTIN SHEEN, ROBERT DUVALL LEAD AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS IN THE TRAILER FOR THE PERIOD SET DRAMA

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FOR INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY

The film will play in cinemas this June

The only thing I have for you this boring Monday is a trailer for the period set movie adaptation of 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS which will arrive to the cinemas this June starring Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Wayne Knight, Treat Williams and a bunch of young stars in the film directed by Ty Roberts and based on Jim Dent's book. Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think: 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON EPIC FANTASY SERIES SHADOW AND BONE WHICH HITS NETFLIX NEXT WEEK WITH BEN BARNES, TOM WESTON JONES AND LUKE PASQUALINO

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NETFLIX EPIC TV SERIES

The series hits Netflix April 23rd, next week!

Oh, sing me a sad song, spylings, the spring landscapes on the small screens have been such a tragic wasteland so far! Out of new epic shows we only had Leonardo which started this Friday and then the only next one is arriving next week: SHADOW AND BONE series, based on the Grishaverse novels by Leigh Bardugo hits Netflix April 23rd. As Bardugo described herself - the series takes place in a very different kind of fantasy world. Think Imperial Russia, not Medieval

Lead character Alina Starkov reveals she has special powers

England, repeating rifles instead of broadswords. Of course with the cast that looks as bland as the one from Twilight, and female lead charismatic as much as a lukewarm mash potato, don't raise your hopes too high!

SHADOW AND BONE SEASON ONE

 will see the story adapting two overlapping series in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse: Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. The eight episode series will, however, differ massively from those two sagas as they had to somehow

Judging by the photos the only plus in the series are the costumes

connect the characters in them within one TV show. The story is set in a world that is split in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh. The protagonist is Alina Starkov, a young

The series will consist of eight hourlong episodes in the first season

soldier and a citizen of the Russia inspired Kingdom of Ravka. She unexpectedly uncovers a power that might save her best friend and finally unite her country. As she starts to hone it, dangerous forces unite against her

Ben Barnes is General Kirigan the head of kingdom's magical elite army

and only General Kirigan seems to be willing to help. Thugs, thieves, assassins, and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.

WHO IS IN THE CAST?

With Eric Heisserer as the showrunner, the cast of the series, which managed to wrap its production over in Hungary back in February before the general lockdown, includes (it is strange that the producers have not find it

The series is based on Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels

convenient to put Russian actors in the cast but they did put Asian and black actors in a Russia inspired story): Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Ben

Our dear Luke Pasqualino will be the eye candy of the show

Barnes as General Kirigan aka The Darkling, Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker aka Dirtyhands, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Kit Young as Jesper

A lethal heartrender and spy Nina Zenik and witch hunter Matthias Helvar

Fahey, Calahan Skogman as Matthias Helvar, Danielle Galligan as Nina Zenik, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa, Sujaya Dasgupta as Zoya Nazyalensky,

Costumes in the series are inspired by Imperial Russia

Daisy Head as Genya Safin, Julian Kostov as Fedyor Kaminsky, Zoë Wanamaker as Baghra, Kevin Eldon as The Apparat, Luke Pasqualino as

Tom Weston Jones is General Zlatan of West Ravka (left)

David Kostyk, Jasmine Blackborow as Marie, Gabrielle Brooks as Nadia Zhabin. Our beloved Tom Weston Jones plays a very important character of general Zlatan.

TONI COLLETTE, DANIEL DAE KIM, ANNA KENDRICK FACE A STOWAWAY PROBLEM ON THEIR MISSION TO MARS IN STOWAWAY NETFLIX MOVIE SF TRAILER

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MILLIONS OF MILES FROM HOME

The movie streams April 22nd on Netflix

If you don't know what to watch next week, here is something coming to Netflix April 22nd (Prime Video in Canada) STOWAWAY is a science fiction thriller written and directed by Joe Penna and starring Toni Collette as the ship commander, Daniel Dae Kim as the ship's biologist, Anna Kendrick as medical researcher and Shamier Anderson as the stowaway and a ship launch engineer. On a mission headed to Mars, an unintended stowaway accidentally causes severe damage to the spaceship’s life support systems. Facing dwindling resources and a potentially fatal outcome, the crew is forced to make an impossible decision. Too far from Earth to turn back and

The film was originally meant for cinemas, but ended up at Netflix

with resources quickly dwindling, the ship's medical researcher emerges as the only dissenting voice against the group consensus that has already decided in favor of a grim outcome!

THE LAST QUEEN OF ITALY TV SERIES AND FILM ON QUEEN MARIE JOSE OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY

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SERIES ON MARIE JOSE OF SAVOY

We haven't seen any films on them, methinks, but the grandson of THE LAST QUEEN OF ITALY, prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia will team up with

Marie Jose of Belgium was the last queen of Italy

Chinese director Yi Zhou in producing a TV series and then also a film on his grandmother Queen Marie Jose known as ‘The May Queen’, as she reigned for just 35 days. She was known as a radical royal who helped try to topple Italy’s fascist leader Mussolini and pleaded with Hitler to help the Belgian people (her father was king of Belgium). She lived in exile for years and died in 2001 aged 94. The Royal House of Savoy TV series, set to shoot in Fall 2022, will depict the beginnings of Marie-José, the young maverick princess as she grows into an independent woman, then dutifully fulfills her destiny of wedding a handsome prince. After that, in 2023, the plan is to shoot a movie as well. 

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

Following Italy's defection to the Allied side in the war, her discredited father-in-law, King Victor Emmanuel III, who supported the Nazis, withdrew from government. Her husband became acting monarch and Marie-José became

Marie Jose and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy at their wedding

Queen consort of Italy, and remained such until the monarchy was abolished by plebiscite, on 2 June 1946. During the war, as she did not agree with her father in law's politics, and she sympathised with the partisans, she was sent to Switzerland, but from there she smuggled weapons, money and food for Partisans.

DISNEY + ORDERS 18TH CENTURY SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE TV SERIES BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL FROM GENTLEMAN JACK CREATOR!

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ANNOUNCED AS DISNEY's 1ST  SWASHBUCKLING TV SERIES 

The series will have eight episodes

Well, they haven't had any historical series so far, methinks, but Disney + will change that with their new British order: Gentleman Jack's Sally Wainwright will produce for them THE BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL eight part series, a stylish, witty and surprising romp set in the 18th century! When she’s framed for murder, Nell Jackson is forced into a life of highway robbery, along with her two orphaned sisters Roxanne and George. Aided by a plucky little spirit called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason, a reason much bigger than she could’ve ever imagined, a reason that goes right up to Queen Anne and beyond, to the struggle for power raging across the battlefields of Europe.

TEEN OFFENDERS ESTABLISH THEIR OWN WILD REPUBLIC IN BETA FILM'S NEW FANTASY TV SERIES

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FOR NEW BETA'S SF SERIES

First trailer is here for a new fantasy series coming from our dear Beta Film WILD REPUBLIC which premieres tomorrow on Magenta TV in Germany.

Series premieres tomorrow on Magenta TV

This eight episode series tells the thrilling story of nine juvenile outsiders. In the midst of the impassable landscape at the foot of the Alps, a young group of serious offenders is undergoing an experiential educational program intended to rehabilitate them. All of a sudden, a member of the program dies a violent death. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and the youths face a difficult decision. Should they wait for the authorities to recover the body and investigate the crime? Or, escape and take their fate into their own hands? The group doesn't have much in common with each other, though one thing unites them; all of them have had really bad

Magenta TV is a Deutche Telecom streamer if I got it right

experiences with the authorities and don‘t expect to be treated fairly. Since they don't know who the perpetrator is, they only have one option: to run. Up the mountains, up the highest peaks of the Alps. It seems hopeless until they

The series had a budget of almost $16 million!

stumble onto a complex cave system where they can find shelter from wind, weather, and their pursuers. In their fight against the forces of nature, they form their own society, according to their own rules: the Wild Republic. 

‘Wild Republic’ premieres tomorrow on @MagentaTV!⁠
⁠Do not miss! ⁠
The wilderness is us.⁠@LailapsPictures @handwrittenpic #XFilme pic.twitter.com/DgP7c5u1Xp

— Beta Film GmbH (@BetaFilmGmbH) April 14, 2021

MOZART TO BE DEPICTED AS A POLITICAL REBEL AND A REVOLUTIONARY IN A NEW MINI TV SERIES ON HIS LIFE!

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FROM DAS BOOT DIRECTOR

As Variety reports, Germany’s Goodfriends Filmproduktion and Austria’s Satel Film will produce a six episode TV series on MOZART to be directed by Andreas Prochaska. Set in the absolutist 18th century, it will

The series will shoot in authentic locations

tell a modern story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, not just the story of one of the most important musicians of mankind, but of a rebel and revolutionary who risked his life by openly opposing the nobility and the Emperor, Joseph II. Mozart was deeply affected by the ideas of the Enlightenment as they spread through Europe, climaxing in the French Revolution! In Austria, Joseph II initiated reforms in 1780, such as the abolition of serfdom, but these fell far short, with the nobility, after a furious push back against reform, retaining full ownership of land. In such a context, there was only one man who could stand up to the nobility and the Emperor, given he was so loved in Austria: Mozart. Satel Film, who recently had a hit with Freud series, will spend 19 million euro on this one.

REBECCA ROMIJN AND HER HUSBAND JERRY O'CONNELL ARE HAVING TROUBLE IN AFRICA IN ENDANGERED SPECIES ACTION ADVENTURE MOVIE TRAILER

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SENDS REBECCA ROMIJN AND JERRY O'CONNELL TO AFRICA

And it is so lovely to see the married couple together even if it is in a nasty pickle: ENDANGERED SPECIES starring Rebecca Romijn and her husband

The movie is out at the end of May

Jerry O'Connell next to Philip Winchester and Michael Johnston. ENDANGERED SPECIES is an intense, action packed survival adventure about a wealthy American family who travel to the vast African wilderness of Kenya hoping for a dream vacation filled with excitement, bonding and a chance to fix the growing rifts within their family. But when their safari vehicle is attacked by a rhino protecting her calf, the family is left stranded miles from help and their dream vacation turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival in a world where they are the bottom of the food chain. The movie is out at the end of May, directed and written by M.J. Bassett.