SEE AIRING DATE AND TRAILER FOR ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 5

ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL

SEASON FIVE TRAILER AND AIRING DATE

What would the last quarter of the year be without Channel 5's tentpole series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, right? It is returning with the fifth season, with the sixth already ordered, September 19th with six new episodes and the seventh festive one airing later on at Christmas. The series will also return with the new season to PBS Masterpiece for the viewers in United States January 12th and will air on Sunday nights.

 

IT IS NOW SPRING OF 1941

and we return to Darrowby to find young baby Jimmy keeping everyone in Skeldale House on their toes. Helen is getting the hang of motherhood with James away at RAF Abingdon, Mrs. Hall and Siegfried are enjoying having a little one around and Carmody is now a full-fledged member of the Skeldale family. With World War II now fully underway, Siegfried is taking up the slack at the surgery, Mrs. Hall and Helen are considering their contribution within the community, and Carmody is eager to step up. Siegfried is keen to have everyone back, but Tristan’s surprise return won’t be quite as straightforward as he hoped. 

 

 WHO IS BACK IN THE NEW SEASON?

The series returns to Yorkshire Dales in the 1940s with Nicholas Ralph as vet James Herriot, and Samuel West as his mercurial mentor Siegfried Farnon. Anna Madeley returns as the matriarch of Skeldale House, Mrs Hall along with Rachel Shenton as James' wife Helen Herriot. James Anthony-Rose returns as Richard Carmody, Patricia Hodge as the rich Mrs Pumphrey, owner of the well pampered Pekingese Tricki. Callum Woodhouse is back as Tristan Farnon, Siegfried’s mischievous brother who has been serving in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, when he makes an unexpected return later in the series. 

MURRAY BARTLETT, EVE HEWSON CAST IN HULU'S COMEDY SERIES PILOT DOWNFORCE SET IN THE WORLD OF RACING

  DOWNFORCE HULU COMEDY 

CASTS MURRAY BARTLETT AND EVE HEWSON

According to Deadline, Hulu is preparing a new comedy pilot titled DOWNFORCE which follows Victoria (Eve Hewson), the estranged daughter of a storied racing team’s owner, Sir Trevor (Murray Bartlett), who is thrust back into the family business, leaving the pair to find common ground or risk destroying the team’s legacy. Sir Trevor is  the team’s larger-than-life founder and owner. Victoria is a shrewd and ruthless investment banker who finds her way back into the front office. She knows business, he knows racing, and together they have to figure out the business of racing after years apart.

SEE WILDLY STUNNING TRAILER FOR ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST EPIC SERIES EVER RISE OF THE RAVEN DEPICTING THE 15TH CENTURY BATTLE OF BELGRADE

  RISE OF THE RAVEN 

FIRST WILDLY EPIC TRAILER IS HERE!

Beta has announced that one of  the most epic European productions of all times, historical series RISE OF TH RAVEN will have its world premiere October 22nd at this year's Mipcom in Cannes and they have released a wildly gorgeous trailer to celebrate it! The series will air next year.

THIS TEN PART SERIES EPIC TV SERIES

 depicts the extraordinary real-life feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi (Gellért L. Kádár), who turned back the tide of the Ottoman Empire’s seemingly unstoppable advance into Europe when back in 1456 he won a bloody Battle of Belgrade against a vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were sometimes armed with just slings and patriotic fervor. To this very day church bells ring every day at noon in honour of this victory. Franciska Törőcsik plays his first love Mara, Serbian princess, who had to marry Ottoman Sultan Murad (Murathan Muslu) in order to protect her people.

 

SEE TRAILER FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA SET DETECTIVE SERIES MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN WITH ROSSIF SUTHERLAND, KRISTIN KREUK STARTING THIS MONTH ON FOX

  MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN 

FOX SERIES STARTS THIS SEPTEMBER

Fox is launching their new nine episode mini series with a not so original title MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN from September 24th starring Donald's son Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk as detective Karl

New series starts at Fox September 24th

Alberg and his partner librarian Cassandra Mitchell who deal with a surprising string of murders in a usually quiet Sunshine Coast community. Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore. The series will also air on Global in Canada as it is actually their series. Over at Fox in United States it will air on Tuesday nights this Autumn. Based on a series of mystery novels by late Canadian author L.R. Wright also stars James Cromwell and Stana Katic.

 

CHANNEL 5 SETS AIRING DATES FOR THE FIFTH SEASON OF ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL AND THE WIVES SERIES

 CHANNEL 5 AUTUMN SCHEDULE 

FIRST AIRING DATES REVEALED

Aiming to take the lead in UK viewership this season, Channel 5 has set an ambitious slate of series for this Autumn, and with THE TEACHER season two launching September 9th, we now also have the September 19th return date for the fifth season of their tentpole series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL with six new episodes airing on Thursday nights and I will post the trailer for it as soon as they release it. Meanwhile new thriller series THE WIVES which follows three sisters-in-law trying to solve a mystery that shook their family to its core will start Monday September 16th and will air each night till Wednesday as a three day event. Until we get a trailer for that one, you can check out a trailer for all Channel 5's Autumn shows, including period set drama THE HARDACRES which will also launch till the end of the year. 

SEE NEW IMAGES FROM LAVISH HISTORICAL EPIC SERIES ON EMPEROR ALEXANDER THE FIRST WHO KICKED NAPOLEON OUT OF RUSSIA

  TZAR ALEXANDER THE FIRST  

NEW EPIC SERIES HAS FINISHED SHOOTING

After many different versions of series on his grandmother, legendary Catherine the Great, we are finally getting a series on ALEXANDER THE FIRST, the emperor of whole Russia and last year  I gave you first images from this sprawling historical saga which director Artyom Nasybulin was shooting over in St. Petersburg, but now I can tell you the production finished in July. The show is set to premiere sometime next year on Russian streamer Smotrim with linear television premiere on national broadcaster Rossiya 1! The title role is played by Evgeny Romantsov, whom we remember from Goalkeeper of Galaxy sf movie, and he will be accompanied by Anna Banshchikova, Gleb Bochkov, Polina Gukhman, Philip Ershov, Anastasia Krylova, Fyodor Lavrov, Angelina Poplavskaya, Anna Snatkina, Daniil Spivakovsky, Artyom Tkachenko, Vladislav Tsenev, Anna Chipovskaya and Yuri Chursin. I have heard that more than 4,000 costumes were used in the series. During the massive production of this high profile series the actors had to learn how to ride, use weapons and play the violin.

 

AFTER BEING RAISED

by his babushka, Empress Catherine II, who saw in her eldest grandson the direct heir to the throne, and the European teacher La Harpe, Alexander adheres to liberal views and admires the first years of Napoleon's reign: he dreams that Russia will someday have a republic. After the death of Catherine, during the reign of Paul, Alexander continued to hope for reforms. However, he is soon overcome by disappointment in Paul both as a father and as a statesman. As a result of the conspiracy, Emperor Paul the First dies, and Alexander, haunted by guilt for the death of his father, is forced to ascend the throne to confront the new intrigues of the aristocrats and his overbearing mother. At the same time, Alexander understands that a threat looms over Russia: war with the invincible Napoleon is inevitable, it’s only a matter of time. I will show you the trailer as soon as we get one over from Russia.

 

SEE YVONNE STRAHOVSKI AND SCOTT SPEEDMAN IN FIRST TEASER TRAILER FOR PEACOCK'S FANTASY HORROR MYSTERY SERIES TEACUP

  TEACUP TEASER TRAILER  

FOR SCARY NEW PEACOCK TV SERIES

In our spotlight on all the new shows arriving to the small screens this Autumn I also mentioned TEACUP which will be served at Peacock October 10th with eight scary episodes featuring Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman in the lead roles in this story in which, trapped on a farm in

Teacup starts this October on Peacock

rural Georgia, a group of neighbors must put aside their differences and unite in the face of a mysterious and deadly threat. 

 

TEACUP SERIES IS AN ADAPTATION
of the 1988 book Stinger by Robert McCammon. Showrunner Ian McCulloh said that the series comprising of eight half hour episodes is a puzzle-box mystery, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-must look horror story, a family drama, a science fiction epic! It's a genre-bending blend of horror, mystery, and drama, with layers that unfold like a captivating puzzle. It goes beyond chills and thrills and holds up a mirror to humanity, exploring the darkness that resides within us all. The novel was set in a town driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town, followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be known as Stinger. After premiering with two episodes on October 10th it will stream the rest weekly.

 

SEE FIRST TRAILER FOR EARLY 1900S IMPERIAL RUSSIA SET REVOLUTIONARY HISTORICAL THRILLER SERIES STOLIPIN

   FIRST STOLIPIN TRAILER   

FROM NEW RUSSIAN PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Stolipin will hit the small screens this Autumn

Beside the Plevako series that I already announced to you recently, another new costume drama ready to hit Russian small screens this Autumn is six part historical series STOLIPIN (Столыпин) which was shot last year over in the northern capital of Sankt Peterburg and should launch on Russian national broadcaster and also on Smotrim streamer in the new TV season directed by Aleksei Andrianov and with the story set at the tumultuous and revolutionary days of the first years of the 20th century. The cast includes Alexander Ustyugov, Alexander Yatsenko, Stasya Miloslavskaya, Pavel Popov, Yuri Nasonov, Sergei Barkovsky, Daria Konyzheva, Boris Kamorzin, Pavel Trubiner, Andrey Urgant, Vladimir Yumatov and other Russian actors and stars. The series will probably air sometime this Autumn.

THE STORY STARTS IN 1906 

Pyotr Stolypin (Aleksandr Ustyugov), newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire, arrives in Sankt Peterburg. A group of maximalist revolutionaries is developing a plan to kill the “enemy of the revolution.” But how to get close to such an important person? Who will emerge victorious in this confrontation - fanatical supporters of the revolution, firmly convinced that they are right, ready to lay down their lives in the name of alleviating the lot of oppressed workers and peasants, or the all-powerful chairman of the cabinet of ministers, working tirelessly just to restore order in a country torn apart by political violence... You can check out the gorgeous first trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH ALL THE BEST NEW TV SERIES LAUNCHING AUTUMN 2024 ON THE SMALL SCREENS

 AUTUMN TV SCHEDULE 

NEW SEPTEMBER 2024 TV SERIES

Unlike some previous seasons, this one has a very bleak start, I think we are finally feeling the consequences of the actors' strike. So not much to report when it comes to new series this September. Netflix will launch THE PERFECT COUPLE on September 5th with Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as a rich family that unravels after a body washes up right outside their family home. Channel 5 has set September 9th date for the second season of THE TEACHER series about a teacher whose pupil goes missing. Apple TV is launching their fashion house set series LA MAISON September 20th with Lambert Wilson as the head of the house whose rival wants to take it from him. Over in Britain ITV will air their mini series PLAYING NICE with James Norton and Niamh Algar as one of two couples who discover their toddlers were switched at birth. I hear it will start September 19th, while BBC will air their NIGHTSLEEPER series September 15th. This real-time thriller is set on a runaway sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.

NEW OCTOBER TV SERIES

October is, meanwhile, stuffed with newbies starting October 2nd when Australian series LAST DAYS OF THE SPACE AGE starts set at the moment when American space station Skylab crash lands on earth just outside an Australian city, as it is gearing up to host the Miss Universe pageant. October 10th brings TEACUP to Peacock. Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman lead a group of people desperately trying to grapple with forces far beyond their control. A day after Apple TV has Cate Blanchett in DISCLAIMER in which she plays a journalist who has the tables turned on her by a mysterious novel, written by Kevin Kline, which reveals her darkest secrets. October 18th brings RIVALS to Disney Plus and Hulu, with Aidan Turner, David Tennant in the story about the rise of independent television in 1980s England, the rise filled with sex, scandals and battles for power. October 24th brings TERRITORY to Netflix led by Anna Torv and Sam Corlett. When a massive cattle station lacks an heir, Australia's rival factions see a chance to seize control. The land grabs threaten to destroy the declining dynasty. A day after that NAUTILUS epic adventure series hits Prime Video following Shazad Latif's Captain Nemo and his crew. 

 

NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS OF OCTOBER

October also brings us a number of new multicamera sitcoms which are experiencing a revival this season. On the 17th CBS launches GEORGIE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE which will see Montana Jordan and Emily Osment reprise their roles from Young Sheldon in a prequel series. Reba is back on television October 18th as an owner of her own bar in HAPPY'S PLACE, a new sitcom that also stars Melissa Peterman. CBS also has POPPA'S PLACE starting October 21st with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., as a legendary talk show host named Poppa and his dreamer son.

 

NEW AUTUMN SERIES WITH NO DATE SET

There are also new series that will arrive this Autumn but we still have no dates for them. HBO and Sky will launch DUNE: PROPHECY sometime in November with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as two sisters who found a mysterious sect Bene Geserit in order to protect the galaxy. PBS and BBC will probably bring us Keeley Hawes in MISS AUSTEN mini series about Jane Austen's sister, Europe will follow the Battle of Belgrade in RISE OF THE RAVEN epic series about the fearless warrior Janos Hunyadi who defeated the Ottoman Army and defended Europe in 1456. Netflix will probably give us A 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE based on the famous classic and set in the timeless town of Macondo, where seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate. Over in UK Channel 5 is bringing  HARDACRES epic drama about a working class family in 1890s Yorkshire who move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate, and THE WIVES mini series about three sisters in law, who investigate the murder of a woman who was married to the fourth brother of their husbands and who appears at their holiday resort with a new wife. Over in France, period set series DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP about the friendship between Anne queen of France and duchess de Chevreuse should, according to rumours, arrive sometime in September or October. I imagine that Netflix could also finally stream Italian costume drama IL GATTOPARDO about a 19th-century Sicilian aristocratic family that gets caught up in the changing sociopolitical times.