Rather than announcing just a couple of names, HBO has instead revealed a dozen actors who have joined Joss Whedon’s sci-fi drama The Nevers. The latest cast members are Olivia Williams (Counterpart), James Norton (Grantchester), Tom Riley (Dark Heart), Ann Skelly (Death and Nightingales), Ben Chaplin (The Children Act), Pip Torrens (The Crown), Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds), Amy Manson (Torchwood), Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family), Rochelle Neil (Death in Paradise), Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) […]
HBO Max gives straight-to-series order to fantasy adaptation Circe
According to Deadline, HBO Max is set to adapt the fantasy novel Circe with an 8-episode straight-to-series order. The novel was written by Madeline Miller and will be adapted by writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Circe is a “modern take on the world of Greek mythology told from […]
The Boys Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Good for the Soul’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Boys season 1… Things were never going to improve for anyone. Whether enhanced or otherwise this situation is messed up and groundwork is being laid for things to get considerably worse. Whether we are talking evangelical crowdfunded retreats, bible bashing brow beatings or messianic figureheads losing perspective […]
Peaky Blinders series 5 gets a first trailer from the BBC
The BBC has released the first trailer for the hotly-anticipated fifth series of Steven Knight’s acclaimed crime drama Peaky Blinders; watch it here… “Series five of Steven Knight‘s crime family saga finds the world thrown into turmoil by the financial crash of 1929. Opportunity and misfortune are everywhere. When Tommy Shelby MP (Cillian Murphy) is […]
Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and more to voice The Tiger Who Came To Tea animated adaptation
Channel 4 and Lupus Films have announced that Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), David Oyelowo (A Wrinkle in Time), Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner), David Walliams (Little Britain), Paul Whitehouse (The Fast Show) and seven-year-old newcomer Clara Ross are set to lend their voices to an animated adaptation of Judith Kerr’s classic children’s book The Tiger […]
Netflix’s Colombian crime thriller series Green Frontier gets a trailer
Ahead of its arrival on Netflix next month, the streaming service has released a trailer for its Colombian mystery crime thriller series Green Frontier (Frontera Verde), which has been created by Ciro Guerra, writer-director of the Oscar-nominated 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent; watch the trailer here… Deep in the Amazon, on the border of […]
The Writer Experience Podcast #60 – TV Development 1010 with Olivia Charmaine Morris, Director of Development at TBS
Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience Podcast… In this episode of The Writer Experience, Court and Harry chat with Olivia Charmaine Morris, a TV Executive and Director of Development, Original Scripted Programming, at the TBS Network. In 2019, Olivia received an Executive Shadow & Act RISING Award. Outside of the entertainment industry, […]
ITV releases trailer for Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon
ITV has released a trailer for the eight-part period drama Sanditon. Based on Jane Austen’s final unfinished novel of the same name, the series stars Rose Williams (Curfew), Theo James (Downton Abbey), Anne Reid (Hold the Sunset) and Kris Marshall (Death in Paradise); watch it here… Written only months before Austen’s death in 1817, Sanditon […]
Dwayne Johnson HBO comedy Ballers gets a season 5 trailer and premiere date
HBO has released a teaser trailer for the fifth season of the Dwayne Johnson-headlined comedy drama series Ballers along with a premiere date announcement of August 25th; check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm4uoCzJnQQ Success hits hard. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars in this series as a retired football superstar trying to reinvent himself as a financial […]
Official synopses for Marvel’s Howard the Duck, Hit-Monkey, M.O.D.O.K., Tigra and Dazzler Show and The Offenders
Earlier this month it was announced that Hulu is expanding its Marvel output beyond Runaways with four new adult animated series – Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey and Tigra and Dazzler Show – building to a limited series team-up entitled The Offenders. Check out the official synopses for the five shows here: Marvel’s Howard the Duck is […]
