The Night Manager needs its striking leading lady to pair against Tom Hiddleston, and it’s found its second-season star. Variety reports that Camila Morrone is joining the series, which will see Hiddleston reprise his role as Jonathan Pine. Morrone’s character has not been revealed. Little is known about the new season, but it will pick […]
Tom Hiddleston returns for more of acclaimed BBC series The Night Manager
The Night Manager elevated Tom Hiddleston to a new level, and the actor is returning for a second season. Deadline reports Amazon Prime and BBC are developing a second season of the John le Carré adaptation of The Night Manager. Tom Hiddleston is set to reprise his role as Jonathan Pine, and original writer David […]
R.I.P. John le Carré (1931 – 2020)
Sad news today as word has come that famed espionage author John le Carré, born David Cornwell, has passed away. He was 89. The news was first shared by Jonny Geller, CEO of The Curtis Brown Group, le Carré’s literary agency, who said the author passed on December 12 after a short illness with pneumonia. […]
BBC and AMC set writers room for The Night Manager season 2
Back in March of last year it was announced that the BBC and AMC were in development on a second season of the John Le Carre adaptation The Night Manager, and now Deadline is reporting that a writers room has been set. Joining the previously announced Matthew Orton (Operate Finale) are Namsi Khan (Black Mirror), […]
How To Ruin A Film By Talking Down To The Audience
Neil Calloway is fed up with being told exactly where the action is taking place… There is one thing that can guarantee me to let out a disappointed sigh in the cinema before a word has been spoken on screen. It’s the appearance of a caption telling us where the action is taking place. After […]
In Praise Of The Short Series
Neil Calloway wishes TV producers would quit while they are ahead… The news was as disappointing as it was depressingly inevitable. The Night Manager – the best “limited drama” (we used to call them miniseries, but that makes it sound like a cheap daytime melodrama) of last year, is getting a sequel. I should be […]
Matthew Orton to write season 2 of The Night Manager
AMC and production company The Ink Factory are one step closer towards a second season of the hit miniseries, The Night Manager, based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré. According to Deadline, British screenwriter Matthew Orton has been hired to pen the second season. After The Night Manager‘s success, AMC and BBC […]
The Night Manager season 2 in development
The Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie-starring spy drama The Night Manager is currently in development for a second season. The first season aired both on the BBC in the UK and AMC in the US. The series received critical acclaim upon its release and has stoked more than a few flames in the direction of Hiddleston […]
Daniel Craig, it’s okay if you let Bond go
Tony Black on Daniel Craig’s future as Bond… We all knew this was coming. By we, I mean the legion of James Bond fans and aficionados who have followed the bizarre media whirlwind that seems to forever cascade around 007 himself, Daniel Craig. The Daily Fail (sorry, Mail!) apparently claimed Craig is done – that […]
TV Review – The Night Manager
The Night Manager Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Hugh Laurie. SYNOPSIS: Night manager of a wealthy hotel in Cairo, charming ex-Special Forces veteran Jonathan Pine is unable to prevent the murder of a woman connected to the secret arms dealings of British philanthropist Richard Roper, a man Pine […]
