MATT BOMER, NATHAN LANE TO LEAD NEW HULU MULTICAM SITCOM MID-CENTURY MODERN, A GAY GOLDEN GIRLS SERIES

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MATT BOMER, NATHAN LANE SITCOM

Hulu has ordered a pilot for new multicam sitcom from Will & Grace creators titled MID-CENTURY MODERN about three best friends, gay gentlemen of a certain age, who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs where the wealthiest one lives with his mother and a naked Gen Z housekeeper. As a chosen family, they prove that no matter how hard things get, there’s always someone around to remind you it would be better if you got your neck done. Nathan Lane plays Bunny Schneiderman, a successful businessman with one foot in retirement, forever in search of love, but he first has to be convinced he’s worthy of it. Linda Lavin is Bunny’s mother, Sybil whose strengths are her weaknesses: wise, caring, and iconoclastic — which sometimes means she’s critical, smothering and amoral! Matt Bomer is Jerry Frank who left the Mormon Church and his marriage in his early twenties after his wife informed him and the rest of the congregation that he was a homosexual. Now a latter-day saint in the literal sense of the term, Jerry is pure of heart. He is also hard of body and soft of head.

HENRY LLOYD HUGHES, DAVID TENNANT, JONATHAN PRYCE JOIN CELIA IMRIE, HELEN MIRREN, PIERCE BROSNAN, BEN KINGSLEY IN THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

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ADDS STELLAR NEW CAST MEMBERS

With filming beginning this month, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays and Henry Lloyd-Hughes have joined Netflix’s movie THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB joining Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie. Chris Columbus directs the film about a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case. Mirren is ex-spy Elizabeth, Kingsley is ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim, Brosnan is former union activist Ron and Imrie is ex-nurse Joyce.

PBS MASTERPIECE GIVES US THE FIRST LOOK AT THEIR NEW MINI TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF THE FORSYTE SAGA

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FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW SERIES

PBS Masterpiece has been so kind to send us the first image from their new TV series adaptation of THE FORSYTE SAGA  featuring Millie Gibson as Irene and Joshua Orpin as Soames. The series that is now in production follows the lives of the wealthy Forsyte family in 1880s London and their tale of love, loyalty, ambition and betrayal. Francesca Annis, Stephen Moyer, Jack Davenport, Tupence Middleton and Eleanor Tomlinson also star.

SEE RACHEL GRIFFITHS AND MARTIN HENDERSON RUN A BROTHEL IN NEW MADAM COMEDY TV SERIES

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TEASER WITH RACHEL GRIFFITHS

Premiering July 4th over in New Zealand is their new comedy series MADAM in which Australian star Rachel Griffiths plays the head of a brothel with Martin Henderson as her husband. The ten

Madam starts her business this July

episode series sees her playing Mack Leigh who lives in small-town New Zealand with her husband Rob and their two sons.

What was meant to be a short visit became permanent thanks to the free healthcare for their disabled son. When Mack discovers Rob’s been seeing a sex worker, she’s surprisingly not angry but inspired. After all, sex work is legal in New Zealand, and her marriage has lacked intimacy for years. Always a renegade and a bit of an entrepreneur, Mack learns the only brothel in town is run by a douchebag. With no money and no experience, she decides to open her own ‘feminist, ethical brothel. Mack forges Rob’s signature on a home loan, leases a motel, and recruits an eclectic swagger of mostly rookie sex workers.

 

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPELLING TV DRAMA THE NEWSREADER SEASON 3 WITH SAM REID, ANNA TORV

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SEASON THREE ARRIVING THIS AUTUMN?

At least that is what we are expecting, for the third season of brilliant Australian series THE NEWSREADER to arrive probably in September to ABC. Anna Torv and Sam Reid are leading the show

Third season was shot earlier this January

again alongside William McInnes, Marg Downey, Chum Ehelepola, Stephen Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chai Hansen, Phillipa Northeast and Daniel Henshall.  

 

SEASON THREE STORY

We first met Dale Jennings (Reid) and Helen Norville (Torv) in 1986 when a fledgling Dale was desperate to be a star newsreader, and Helen was fighting to be taken seriously as a journalist. Now Dale and Helen have finally achieved both these long held dreams. Dale is News At Six’s ‘King of News’, fronting the show solo he has become the most beloved name in news, a Gold Logie nominee, permanently number one in the nightly ratings. Meanwhile Helen’s fearless international reporting has won her great acclaim. But when a cynical network move sees the two former lovers pitted in direct competition, their kinship will be tested as never before. Over the course of 1989, Helen and Dale will compete to cover a cascade of historical events, from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the boycotts of South Africa’s Apartheid, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PERIOD SET GERMAN TV SERIES HOUSE OF PROMISES SEASON 2 AVAILABLE NOW ON PBS MASTERPIECE

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SECOND SEASON OF PERIOD SET DRAMA

Season two is available as of this Friday

Beside Greetings from America, which I spotlighted for you last Sunday, there is another period set drama from Deutchland coming to the small screens this month. Or to be more precise, it is already here: as of this weekend, June 14th, the second season of popular German historical series HOUSE OF PROMISES (Das Haus der Träume), which already aired over in its homecountry on RTL, is available on PBS Masterpiece channel over on Prime Video for the viewers in Northern America. SBB is streaming it Down Under for the viewers in Australia with the first season also available on that streamer!

 

AFTER THE EVENTS IN THE FIRST SEASON

second season of the series set in the 1920's department store in Berlin, finds Vicky (Naemi Florez) a department manager at the Jonass department store and with a new partner, Wilhelm (Lucas Reiber) who proposes to her. Her daughter’s daddy, Harry (Ludwig Simon), is still floating around in her life, too. Meanwhile, Harry’s father, Arthur Grünberg (Alexander Scheer), the department store’s owner, works on expanding Jonass by opening another store but with the rise of the Nazi party he receives order to fire his Jewish staff, which is why he decides to relocate his family to New York. 

 

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

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NEW IMAGES FROM THE EPIC SERIES

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 we have new images from this sprawling historical saga which director Artyom Nasybulin has finished filming over in St. Petersburg. The show is set to premiere sometime this 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.

 

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.

 

SEE NICO MIRALLEGRO IN NEW SIX PART EXOTIC PRISON THRILLER STAGS SERIES AT PARAMOUNT PLUS

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IN FIRST IMAGES FROM STAGS TV SERIES

Back in November your trusted spy told you that Paramount Plus had ordered a new UK original drama which they were shooting over at Tenerife and now we have the first images from. the six part STAGS series which follows groom-to-be Stu (Nico Mirallegro) and his friends on his stag do in South America. It should air later this August in UK.

 

WHAT WAS MEANT TO BE

a week of drink, debauchery and fun takes a dark turn. Instead of boarding a flight back to the UK, the stags are sent to a lawless prison island run by two warring siblings. Quickly it becomes clear that the stags need to pick a side to have any chance of survival. Friendships are tested and life-long loyalty is sacrificed as Stu and his mates begin to question who will make it home alive. 

WHO ARE THE STAGS?

Corin Silva and Charlie Cooper will play Stu’s close childhood friends, Ryan and Ant, whilst Sophie Lenglinger and Paul Forman will play his university friends, Clem and Hugo. Asim Chaudhry will also join the cast as Stu’s work mate, Greg. Stu’s in-laws John and Kai will be played by Cavan Clerkin and Jojo Macari, whilst Paulina Galvez and Oscar Foronda are Selma and Branco Quispe, the two siblings who rule the prison Stu and his friends find themselves in.

MGM + ORDERS TV SERIES BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S THE INSTITUTE WITH BEN BARNES IN THE LEAD

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STEPHEN KING'S THE INSTITUTE SERIES

MGM Plus has ordered eight episode series adaptation of Stephen King's THE INSTITUTE with Ben Barnes in the lead role. When 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens

Ben Barnes will take the lead role

at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson (Barnes) has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide. Tim Jamieson is a disillusioned ex-cop who takes a job as the night knocker in a small town, withdrawing from the world until Luke’s plight reignites him and gives him something to believe in. Mary Louise Parker will be  Ms. Sigsby, the charming but iron-willed director of the Institute and a true believer in its awful mission. She’s certain history will come to see her as a hero.

KATE WINSLET TO LEAD HBO PERIOD SET SERIES TRUST FROM TODD HAYNES

  KATE WINSLET TO LEAD  

TRUST MINI SERIES BY TODD HAYNES

After The Regime and Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet will do a show for HBO again this time with Todd Haynes as director. TRUST, based on a Hernan Diaz novel, is a story told from multiple, competing perspectives, in which a 1920s Wall Street tycoon amasses a sudden fortune but loses a beloved wife. Decades later, his attempts to control the narrative of his life are undone by a biographer who uncovers the ultimate secrets of the legendary marriage.