DELIGHTFUL FALLING FOR FIGARO TRAILER FOR 1ST OPERA MOVIE COMEDY WITH HUGH SKINNER, JOANNA LUMLEY, DANIELLE MACDONALD! LUKE MACFARLANE & BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD 1ST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMCOM BROS

 LUKE MACFARLANE TO SMOOCH

WITH BILLY EICHNER IN BROS!

Two years ago when I first informed you that Universal is preparing first gay romantic comedy from a big studio we prayed that its lead Billy Eichner will get a hot partner in it and the one he has just got could not really be any hotter indeed: our dearest Luke MacFarlane will lead BROS romantic

Billy Eichner and Luke MacFarlane will take the leads

comedy together with him. Nicholas Stoller, who also co wrote the script with Eichner, will direct the movie which revolves around two men with commitment issues who attempt to start a relationship together. The film will be out exactly a year from now. 

FALLING FOR FIGARO TRAILER

TO FIND YOUR VOICE YOU MUST SING FROM THE HEART!

And here is a super delightful trailer for world's first operatic movie comedy FALLING FOR FIGARO which will sing its way into cinemas this

Falling for Figaro arrives this October!

October starring always lovely Hugh Skinner, hilarious Joanna Lumley and Danielle Macdonald in the lead role. She plays a brilliant young fund manager who leaves her unfulfilling job and long term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She meets a fellow opera student while in training, and what begins as a rivalry develops into something more. Ben Lewin, who also wrote the script, directed the movie which is a coproduction between USA, UK and Australia where the film was also shot. The film will premiere in September at Toronto Film Festival.

AMC MIGHT DEVELOP ANNE RICE'S LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES INTO A TV SERIES! GERMANY PREPARING BONN POST WW2 PERIOD SET SERIES WITH MERCEDES MULLER, MAX RIEMELT

 LIVES OF MAYFAIR WITCHES 

AMC OPENS WRITERS ROOM FOR NEW ANNE RICE TV SERIES

Earlier this week we announced that Sam Reid will lead new Interview With A Vampire series at AMC and we've got news that they have also

AMC has rights on 18 of Rice's works

opened writers room (meaning if they get enough good scripts they might order it directly to series) for another Anne Rice adaptation - her  LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES series. The potential series would focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations. Esta Spaulding and Michelle Ashford are penning scripts and will executive produce if the series gets ordered.

 

     BONN TV SERIES     

SET IN POST WW2 GERMANY

Deadline reports that Leonine Studios will cover world sales for Odeon Fiction’s new high-end German language spy series BONN. The six-part political thriller recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the

New six part TV series Bonn finished shooting mid July

terror of World War II following a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German’s two rival intelligence services. The series stars

The series will air on ARD over in Germany

Mercedes Müller in the lead role of Toni, Max Riemelt, Sebastian Blomberg, Juergen Maurer, Katharina Marie Schubert, Inga Busch, Julius Feldmeier and Johanna Gastdorf. The series will air on ARD in Germany.

WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGINS PREQUEL EPIC TV SERIES CASTS JACOB COLLINS LEVY AND NINE OTHER ACTORS! GOTTHARD EPIC TV SERIES BRINGS YOU 19TH CENTURY SWISS TUNNEL OF DREAMS

 WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGINS ADS

JACOB COLLINS LEVY AND OTHERS

We loved him in White Princess and Bloom series and now one of our favourite Australians Jacob Collins Levy has been cast in Witcher prequel

Jacob Collins Levy will be Eredin in the series

series BLOOD ORIGINS set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, and charting the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal ‘Conjunction of the Spheres’, when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one. Collins Levy will be Eredin, while freshly cast as well are Lizzie Annis in the role of Zacaré, Huw Novelli as Callan “Brother Death”, Francesca Mills as Meldof, Amy Murray as Fenrik and Zach Wyatt as Syndril. Lenny Henry has been cast in the role of Balor, Mirren Mack will be Merwyn, Nathaniel Curtis will be Brían and Dylan Moran is Uthrok One-Nut. They all join

Laurence O'Fuarain will play the lead role in Blood Origin

previously announced Laurence O’Fuarain, Sophia Brown and Michelle Yeoh who lead the six-part series. With the second season of Witcher arriving December, we might expect Blood Origin maybe in spring?

  GOTTHARD EPIC TV SERIES  

 TUNNEL OF DREAMS ON PBS

Streaming Friday, August 20, on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and the Walter Presents digital channels is Swiss epic TV series GOTTHARD aka TUNNEL OF DREAMS set in Switzerland, 1873.

Gotthard comes from Studiocanal and Beta

Men from all over Europe are flocking to a tiny village to work on the biggest and most spectacular construction site of modern times: the Gotthard tunnel! The town is bursting at the seams and the prices for rooms are skyrocketing. In the bustle and confusion, three young people forge a friendship that defies differences of social class to tackle dramas together: the German engineer Max, lucid, balanced, born to a well to do family, a born mediator and shy suitor to the innkeeper's daughter, Anna. The lively, cocky young woman knows all about men - and about heartache: she decided to concentrate on business instead of love... And Tommaso? The hot headed Italian from the

The series aired in two TV film or three hourlong episodes

lower classes is deeply, passionately in love with Anna and cannot hide his feelings. Max knows that he cannot challenge Tommaso for Anna's love, and soon, the trio faces a growing tension between Tommaso, who becomes the spokesman of the miners, and Max, who struggles to be loyal to his employer and his friends!

REMINISCENCE SF THRILLER TAKES HUGH JACKMAN AND REBECCA FERGUSON INTO FUTURE MIAMI FLOODED BY RISING SEA LEVELS

 REMINISCENCE SF THRILLER

TAKES HUGH JACKMAN STRAIGHT INTO THE BLEAK FUTURE

Four years after starring together in The Greatest Showman, one of the best musicals ever, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson will share the big screen again in science fiction action thriller REMINISCENCE which arrives to cinemas and HBO Max August 20th, which is next week! Written

Reminiscence starts August 20th!

by Westworld's Lisa Joy, who is also directing a movie for the first time, the film also stars Daniel Wu and Thandie Newton and was shot back in 2019 but was delayed due to covid.

   REMINI SCENCE 

is the story of Nicholas Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a solitary man living in Miami in the not so distant future when the city is flooded by rising sea levels. Bannister has expertise in a dangerous occupation: facilitating the chance for customers to come to him and be able to relive a past memory. When Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) comes into his life, what begins as another client relationship soon becomes a passionate affair. But while delving into the

The $70 million movie will stream on HBO Max only for a month!

memories of another client, Bannister finds Mae implicated in a number of violent crimes, and he must go deeper into the dark and twisted past to discover the truth about the new woman in his life.

NETFLIX FIRST RUSSIAN ORIGINAL SERIES ANNA KARENINA ADS MORE STARS TO THE CAST LED BY SVETLANA KHODCHENKOVA! HE'S ALL THAT REMAKE SET TO PREMIERE THIS MONTH ON NETFLIX

 ANNA K SERIES SETS CAST FOR

NETFLIX 1ST RUSSIAN ORIGINAL

Earlier this summer I told you that Netflix is preparing their first Russian original series and that it will be a modern version of Anna Karenina with Svetlana Khodchenkova leading the cast and now we have the rest of

Svetlana Khodchenkova is Anna K!

the actors too. Set in modern day Russia, ANNA K follows socialite Anna Karenina, the wife of the soon to become governor of St. Petersburg (Fedor Bondarchuk), as she enters into a life changing love affair with Vronsky, the dashing heir of an aluminum empire. Their relationship quickly careens out of control, threatening the delicate balance of their familial bonds and social relationships. The drama, set between cosmopolitan Moscow, historic St. Petersburg, and Russia’s rugged countryside, explores themes of passion, loyalty, and the irrefutable truth that no amount of riches can save us from love’s ability to either free us or bring us to our doom. Yuriy Kutsenko will be Stepan “Stiva” Oblonsky, Anna’s brother, with Yuliya Aleksandrova as his

Yuriy Kutsenko, Fedor Bondarchuk and Yuriy Borisov

wife Dolly. Yuriy Borisov is legendary Konstantin Levin, an old friend of Stiva. Dasha Vereshchagina is Kitty Shcherbatskaya, Dolly’s younger sister and (later) Levin’s wife. Vronsky is yet to be cast!

  HE'S ALL THAT TRAILER  

FOR NEW NETFLIX ROMCOM

Netflix is, meanwhile, ready to give you a new romantic comedy HE IS ALL THAT August 27th! The remake of 1999 teen classic She's all That, with

He's All That streams August 27th

Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard appearing in both movies, will have gender swap roles. Directed by Mark Waters, it revolves around Padgett Sawyer (Addison Rae), an influencer specialising in makeovers, who accepts a challenge to turn the school's least popular boy, Cameron Kweller (Tanner Buchanan), into prom king, attempting to avenge herself following a humiliating fallout with her boyfriend. Peyton Meyer, Andrew Matarazzo, also star in the film that caused quite a scandal when a Covid-19 testing kiosk at downtown L.A.'s Union Station was shuttered December 1, 2020 so the film could use the iconic terminal as a location. 

SAM REID IS LESTAT IN AMC'S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE TV SERIES! JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY, SAM SPRUELL, ALESSANDRO BORGHI TO LEAD SKY'S HANGING SUN JO NESBO ADAPTATION

 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SAM REID TO LEAD TV SERIES 

Our dearest Sam Reid will be Lestat!

All of you who follow spy know that he is one of our dearest faves: Sam Reid has been cast as Lestat in AMC's TV series adaptation of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE! The eight episode series will start shooting later this year! The story follows Louis who, born as an 18th century lord, is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl whose addition to the "family" breeds even more conflict. AMC has adaptation rights on other Rice's books too on vampires.

  SKY'S THE HANGING SUN 

UNVEILS A BEAUTIFUL CAST

Speaking of dark tales, Sky has announced cast for their new original film THE HANGING SUN which follows John (Alessandro Borghi), a fugitive. He finds refuge in the forest, near an isolated village of the extreme north, where religion dominates, the sun never sets and people seem to belong

Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay will take the leads

to another age. The only person between him and his destiny is Lea (Jessica Brown Findlay), a woman in trouble but with great strength, and his son Caleb a curious child with a pure heart. While the midnight sun confuses reality and imagination, John will have to face the tragic past that torments him. Sam Spruell has also been cast in the film based on Jo Nesbo's Midnight Sun.

EMILY BLUNT TO PLAY FIRST FEMALE DETECTIVE IN A NEW FILM ON KATE WARNE! FIRST FLORENCE PUGH PHOTO FROM THE WONDER PERIOD SET DRAMA

  EMILY BLUNT TO PLAY   

FIRST FEMALE DETECTIVE

Emily Blunt will lead the untitled movie

While we are waiting for her new period set TV series English for BBC, Emily Blunt will continue wearing 19th century gowns as she is to lead Amazon Studio's film on Kate Warne, the first woman to become a detective at the Pinkerton Agency! Her Jungle Cruise co star Dwayne Johnson is producing this propulsive action adventure built around Warne, a real life female Sherlock Holmes in a male dominated industry whose singular sleuthing skills paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done. She was responsible for uncovering the 1861 Baltimore Plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln! Gustin Nash is penning the script currently.

 

 FIRST THE WONDER PHOTO  

TRANSPORTS FLORENCE PUGH STRAIGHT TO 19TH CENTURY

Netflix has treated us with the first look of Florence Pugh in period set thriller THE WONDER  in which she plays a 1860s nurse who is brought to a small Irish village to observe an 11-year-old girl who, according to the

First look at Florence Pugh in costume for The Wonder drama

residents, has survived without food for months but has remained well the entire time. Have they stumbled across a heaven-sent miracle, or is there something much more sinister going on? Tom Burke, Toby Jones and Ciaran Hinds also star.

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HILARY DUFF, CHRIS LOWELL, TOM AINSLEY, SURAJ SHARMA TO LEAD HOW I MET YOUR FATHER SPIN OFF SITCOM! ITV UNVEILS CAST FOR CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON PERIOD SET MINI SERIES

 HOW I MET YOUR FATHER 

SPINOFF SITCOM UNVEILS CAST!

Hilary Duff is leading the sitcom cast

Hulu has set most of the cast for their spin off comedy series HOW I MET YOUR FATHER which will take place in the near future, with Hilary Duff playing Sophie who tells her son the story of how she met his father Jesse (Chris Lowell). The retelling catapults us back to the year 2021, where Sophie and her close knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options. Francia Raisa is set to play Sophie’s roommate Valentina, an aspiring stylist, with Tom Ainsley as aristocratic Charlie, an aspiring model who fell in love

Tom Ainsley, Suraj Sharma, Chris Lowell take the male leads

with Valentina and moved after her to New York. Tien Tran will play Chris Lowell's character's adopted sister who is a lesbian, with Suraj Sharma as Jesse's best friend and roomate who owns a bar. It will be a multicamera sitcom.

 

   THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON NEW SERIES  

ITV SETS COSTUME DRAMA CAST

ITV has unveiled lead cast for their new period set TV series THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON a four part adaptation of Sara Collins novel.  Karla Simone Spence leads the cast as Frannie Langton, young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own

Karla Simone Spence takes the title role

story. Sophie Cookson is Madame Marguerite Benham and Patrick Martins is Laddie Lightning! Set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, the series narrates Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham. In a misguided and monstrous gesture Frannie is gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton (Steven MacIntosh), and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. As the plot twists and turns, events take a fateful turn as the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, with Frannie lying next to Marguerite. Frannie is accused of murder; a murder she has no recollection of, other than she couldn’t possibly have killed her mistress because she was devoted to her.

Sophie Cookson, Steven MacIntosh, Stephen Campbell Moore

Dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that night. She is deep into a laudanum addiction and unable to recall what happened. Will Frannie recall the haunting events of that night? All she knows is she loved Marguerite passionately and cannot believe she would have hurt her. But if not Frannie, who did commit the double murder? Others have motive, but only Frannie is accused and she will hang if found guilty. What hope does she have of clearing her name? Henry Pettigrew also stars.

CATHERINE ZETA JONES IS MORTICIA ADDAMS IN TIM BURTON'S NEW WEDNESDAY SERIES AT NETFLIX! 1ST ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL SECOND SEASON PHOTOS

 CATHERINE ZETA JONES

IS NEW MORTICIA ADDAMS!

Netflix is preparing an Addams Family spin off TV series which will focus on WEDNESDAY with Tim Burton producing and now

Morticia will be a reoccurring character in the series

they have added Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia and Luis Guzman as Gomez. They will be reoccurring characters in the mystery comedy series which will follow Wednesday Addams’ (Jenna Ortega) years as a student at Nevermore Academy. That’s where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.

ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL

FIRST SECOND SEASON PHOTOS

Channel 5 has released first photos from the second season of their beloved new family series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL which will arrive some time this Autumn with six new episodes and a Christmas special and will air on PBS as well for Americans. Photos also show Patricia

The second season returns this Autumn to Channel 5

Hodge who replaces late Diana Rigg as Mrs Pumphrey, the delightfully eccentric owner of the pampered Pekingese, Tricki Woo. Viewers can expect more heart-warming adventures of young country vet James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) as he joins his unconventional mentor, Siegfried Farnon

Patricia Hodge joins as new Mrs. Pumphrey!

(Samuel West), matriarch of Skeldale House Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley), Siegfried’s errant brother Tristan (Callum Woodhouse), and local farmer’s daughter Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton), alongside a characterful ensemble of farmers, animals and townsfolk living in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. As season two opens, three months have passed since the events of

The series will again have a holiday special like last year

season one. A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must ultimately decide between duty and love.

"You forget how beautiful this place is." 💚
Series 2 of All Creatures Great & Small – coming soon. #ACGAS pic.twitter.com/OGKxZGx13e

— Channel 5 (@channel5_tv) August 31, 2021

AUSTRALIAN MONDAY: ACORN TV CASTS BRIAN BROWN, GRETA SCACCHI FOR DARBY AND JOAN TV SERIES! THOMAS JANE TO LEAD TROPPO AUSTRALIA SET SERIES FOR IMDB

   DARBY AND JOAN CASTS  

BRIAN BROWN & GRETA SCACCHI

We are down in Australia today, starting with Acorn TV which has cast Brian Brown and Greta Scacchi as leads in their mystery drama series DARBY AND JOAN as two strangers trekking on the road in the Australian outback . The eight part series will see Brown playing a retired Australian

Acorn will air it in USA, UK, South America, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Canada.

policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia. It shines a light on isolated and often unseen areas of regional Australia, and a myriad of characters moving through a world where everyone seems to be searching for something – or trying to escape it.

   THOMAS JANE TO LEAD  

TROPPO TELEVISION SERIES

Thomas Jane is already shooting Down Under

IMDB has, meanwhile, picked up Australian TV series adaptation of Candice Fox' novel Crimson Lake titled TROPPO. Thomas Jane leads the series as Ted Conkaffey, an ex-cop falsely accused of committing a disturbing crime, who has escaped to hide away in the tropics of Far North Queensland. As he tries to avoid discovery, he’s drawn into investigating a wild murder and a missing person, alongside a complicated woman, with dark secrets of her own.