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Idris Elba to lead real-time thriller series Hijack for Apple TV+

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Idris Elba (Luther) has signed on to lead the limited Apple TV+ series Hijack, a thriller about a hijacked airplane with Elba negotiating for the passengers’ survival. Elba will star and executive produce Hijack, which will be told in real time as the “hijacked flight makes a seven-hour journey toward London and authorities on the ground […]

Apple TV+ thriller series Now & Then gets a trailer and poster

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Apple TV+ has released a poster and trailer for Now & Then, the upcoming bilingual thriller series which centres on five friends as they are reluctantly reunited after being confronted with a dark secret from their past; take a look here… Now and Then is a multi-layered thriller that explores the differences between youthful aspirations […]

Apple TV+ ups periscope on sequel to Tom Hanks WWII drama Greyhound

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Having already been tossed around the release schedule in 2019, Sony Pictures abandoned ship at the start of the pandemic when they sold Tom Hanks WWII drama Greyhound to Apple TV for a reported $70M. It sounds as though it was money well spent because the studio have announced that they are set to move […]

For All Mankind heads to Mars in season 3 teaser

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Apple TV+ has announced that its award-winning alternate history sci-fi series For All Mankind will touch down on Mars when its third season premieres on the streamer this June. Check out the official date teaser here…  The propulsive new season of the alternate-reality series takes viewers to a new decade, moving into the early […]

Jason Momoa is Apple TV+’s Chief of War

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In addition to an upcoming third season of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama See, Aquaman star Jason Momoa is set to reunite with Apple TV+ for the limited series Chief of War, which has been given a straight-to-series order from the streamer. Created by Momoa and Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, with Momoa writing, executive producing and starring, […]

Rose Byrne returns in Physical season 2 first look images

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Apple TV+ has announced that its acclaimed dark comedy series Physical will be returning to the streaming service for its second season this June. Starring and executive produced by Rose Byrne and created by Annie Weisman, season two of the series finds Sheila Rubin (Byrne) “having successfully launched her first fitness video only to encounter […]

Harrison Ford headed to the small screen for Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking

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Having spent the last few years performing something of a greatest hits tour of his most iconic characters – Han Solo, Rick Deckard, Indiana Jones – Harrison Ford has decided to do something he hasn’t done since a 1993 episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and that’s make a small-screen appearance. According to Collider […]

Rachel Zegler to lead voice cast of Apple and Skydance’s Spellbound

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Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) will lead the voice cast of Spellbound, an animated musical from Apple Original Films and Skydance. Zegler will play Princess Ellian, a “tenacious princess who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters and threatens to cover Lumbria […]

New trailer for Shining Girls starring Elisabeth Moss and Wagner Moura

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Ahead of its premiere this April, Apple TV+ has released a new trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ 2013 novel Shining Girls, which centres on Kirby (Elisabeth Moss), a newspaper archivist who teams up with veteran reporter Dan (Wagner Moura) to investigate a recent murder which may be linked to a brutal assault […]