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We Own This City trailer sees HBO and The Wire’s David Simon back in Baltimore

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HBO has released the first trailer and images for We Own This City , a new limited series crime drama from The Wire creator David Simon which examines the corruption and moral collapse which led to the fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. Based on Justin Fenton’s book We Own This […]

UPDATE: Darth Maul was cut from early Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi scripts

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You might be aware that some people found things to criticise about 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, but that doesn’t apply to two characters who faced off as John Williams’ Duel of the Fates scorched itself into Star Wars lore; Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ray Park’s Darth Maul, and now news has emerged […]

Jessica Biel is axe murderer Candy Montgomery in trailer for Hulu true crime drama Candy

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Hulu has released the first trailer and images for the upcoming crime drama Candy. The limited series is based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel), a housewife who brutally murdered her friend Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey) with an axe in the small town of Wylie, Texas in 1980. Watch the Candy trailer […]

Netflix’s Transformers: BotBots animated comedy series rolls out its trailer

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Having delivered the nostalgia-fuelled, fan-favourite Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy, Netflix is taking the Transformers franchise in a new direction this month with the premiere of Transformers: BotBots. The first ever Transformers comedy series, BotBots follows a group of robots in disguise as everyday objects, who hide away on store shelves in the mall before […]

First images from The Essex Serpent starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston

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Apple TV+ has revealed three first look images from its drama series The Essex Serpent, the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel of the same, featuring Claire Danes as Cora Seaborne and Tom Hiddleston as vicar William Ransome; take a look here… “The Essex Serpent” follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) who moves to […]

Selena Gomez to develop reimagined Sixteen Candles series for Peacock

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Deadline reports Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building) is set to develop 15 Candles, a reimagining of the classic John Hughes coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, for Peacock. Gomez is developing it with Tanya Saracho (Vida) and Gabriela Revilla Lugo (Palm Springs). 15 Candles will follow “four young Latinas starting high school as they overcome their feelings of […]

New trailer for Gaslit starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn

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Starz has released a new trailer for Gaslit, the upcoming drama series based on the Watergate which centres on Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts), the wife of Nixon’s loyal Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn), and the first person to publicly sound the alarm on the President’s involvement in the political scandal; watch it here… Gaslit […]

Jack Black and Kung Fu Panda return for new Netflix series The Dragon Knight

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As odd as it sounds, National Panda Day is the perfect day to bring back a beloved animated character. Taking to his official Tik Tok account, Jack Black has announced that he will be reprising his role as the Kung Fu Panda, Po, with the Dreamworks character returning in the new Netflix series Kung Fu […]

Mike Myers is back playing multiple characters in teaser for Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate

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The last time we saw Mike Myers he was unrecognisable under prosthetics in Bohemian Rhapsody, and now he’s the master-of-disguise once again in the first teaser for his star-studded Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate. Not only will Myers mark his return to a starring role for the first time since 2008’s The Love Guru by playing […]