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The last episode of BBC’s Sherlock aired in 2017. The detective series is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The British detective series stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat created the series.
When Sherlock ended with season 4, fans demanded the makers give them a fifth season. It will be seven years, and the hope for another season is only diminishing. However, the show’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss (who also plays Mycroft Holmes), revealed that he is interested in bringing the story to the big screen. Instead of a series, he would like to take the story further with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in a movie. But there’s an issue—read to know what.
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The last episode of BBC’s Sherlock aired in 2017. The detective series is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The British detective series stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat created the series.
When Sherlock ended with season 4, fans demanded the makers give them a fifth season. It will be seven years, and the hope for another season is only diminishing. However, the show’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss (who also plays Mycroft Holmes), revealed that he is interested in bringing the story to the big screen. Instead of a series, he would like to take the story further with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in a movie. But there’s an issue—read to know what.
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- 4/16/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
Tom Hiddleston seems to be on a roll when it comes to the small screen as the popular series The Night Manager recently got renewed for two more seasons. Based on the novel by John le Carré, the BBC series first aired in 2016 and co-starred Hugh Laurie. The show received acclaim from critics and audiences, with Hiddleston even winning a Golden Globe.
Hiddleston was last seen as Loki in the Disney Plus show Loki, which saw its second season. The second and third seasons of The Night Manager reportedly took a long time as they were working on the story with the late writer le Carré and his estate. The renewal of the show eight years after its first season gave many Sherlock fans hopes for a fifth season.
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Hiddleston was last seen as Loki in the Disney Plus show Loki, which saw its second season. The second and third seasons of The Night Manager reportedly took a long time as they were working on the story with the late writer le Carré and his estate. The renewal of the show eight years after its first season gave many Sherlock fans hopes for a fifth season.
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- 4/12/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
A bubbling conflict from the last series of the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing – the original show of the global Dancing with the Stars franchise – has broken through the surface with a celebrity contestant reportedly demanding she receive footage of her dance rehearsals to assist in a possible legal claim.
Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington was paired with professional dancer Giovanni Pernice for the most recent series, but only made it a few weeks into the series before she departed citing medical reasons.
Abbington did not return for the finale of the series before Christmas, amid reports of friction between the pair during rehearsals. Pernice, a former champion on the show, is known to be intensely competitive and quite the taskmaster with his celebrity partners.
Now, The Sun newspaper reports that Abbington has requested the video footage of her rehearsals with Pernice, as she takes legal advice, and that she believes...
Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington was paired with professional dancer Giovanni Pernice for the most recent series, but only made it a few weeks into the series before she departed citing medical reasons.
Abbington did not return for the finale of the series before Christmas, amid reports of friction between the pair during rehearsals. Pernice, a former champion on the show, is known to be intensely competitive and quite the taskmaster with his celebrity partners.
Now, The Sun newspaper reports that Abbington has requested the video footage of her rehearsals with Pernice, as she takes legal advice, and that she believes...
- 1/7/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Sherlock star Amanda Abbington has deleted her Twitter account amid a backlash over her being cast in the latest season of BBC entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing.
Abbington was among the first celebrities confirmed for Strictly, but she was almost immediately accused of being a “transphobe” and a “Terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) by fans of the dancing competition. Some threatened to boycott the show.
Abbington addressed the uproar in an Instagram video, which she titled: “A few thoughts on my Twitter Strictly boycott.” Abbington said the outcry resulted from a tweet she posted in March, in which she criticized a video of a drag artist performing in a “highly sexualized way” in front of children.
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Abbington was among the first celebrities confirmed for Strictly, but she was almost immediately accused of being a “transphobe” and a “Terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) by fans of the dancing competition. Some threatened to boycott the show.
Abbington addressed the uproar in an Instagram video, which she titled: “A few thoughts on my Twitter Strictly boycott.” Abbington said the outcry resulted from a tweet she posted in March, in which she criticized a video of a drag artist performing in a “highly sexualized way” in front of children.
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- 8/7/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Season eight of “Inside No. 9“, one of the best series you’re likely not watching, but should, is finally arriving stateside later this month thanks to streaming service BritBox.
Created by UK comedy duo Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (“Good Omens”), the genre-bending anthology series and its distinct style of dark humor will return to BritBox in its eighth season with new episodes on August 25!
Check out the delightfully deranged trailer below.
“Inside No. 9” is “an anthology series that has redefined the ‘bottle episode’ concept (for maximum claustrophobia). Outside of Shearsmith and Pemberton in different roles, the only constant is that every episode takes place inside a location that has a ‘number 9’ in it. A BAFTA award-winner for ‘Best Comedy,’ the show is known for its genre-bending approach to TV that merges dark humor with macabre twists. This season’s episodes range from a Christmas-themed special taking place...
Created by UK comedy duo Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (“Good Omens”), the genre-bending anthology series and its distinct style of dark humor will return to BritBox in its eighth season with new episodes on August 25!
Check out the delightfully deranged trailer below.
“Inside No. 9” is “an anthology series that has redefined the ‘bottle episode’ concept (for maximum claustrophobia). Outside of Shearsmith and Pemberton in different roles, the only constant is that every episode takes place inside a location that has a ‘number 9’ in it. A BAFTA award-winner for ‘Best Comedy,’ the show is known for its genre-bending approach to TV that merges dark humor with macabre twists. This season’s episodes range from a Christmas-themed special taking place...
- 8/2/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The heart of London, small-town Wales, or beautiful Florence— the world is your oyster with BritBox! The best-of-British media streamer has announced its August 2023 slate with plenty of diverse titles to choose from— from the classic satirical comedy series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” the critically acclaimed Welsh drama “The Museum,” the beloved 1980s romantic drama “A Room with a View,” and more.
Here are the top five titles coming to the platform we are most excited about at The Streamable!
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New to BritBox this month, the beloved British drama “A Room with a View” stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman touring Italy with her older cousin (Maggie Smith). While at a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming, free-spirited George Emerson...
Here are the top five titles coming to the platform we are most excited about at The Streamable!
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New to BritBox this month, the beloved British drama “A Room with a View” stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman touring Italy with her older cousin (Maggie Smith). While at a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming, free-spirited George Emerson...
- 7/28/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
“Sherlock” star Amanda Abbington has been tapped to appear in Ludovica Musumeci debut feature, “To the Girl I Once Knew.”
The film, which Musumeci writes and directs, has also cast Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Stella Lelouch (“The Reunion”).
They will join Frances de La Tour (“Harry Potter”), Calvin Demba (“The Rig”), Rhea Norwood (“Heartstopper”) and newcomer Oriane Pick. Amy Blair is casting director.
Production is set to start this summer.
“To the Girl I Once Knew” tells the story of Gabi (played by Pick) who secretly struggles with mental illness. When her long-term boyfriend suggests moving in together, she finds her life becoming even more complicated.
“Whilst addressing the stigma of mental health struggles, ‘To the Girl I Once Knew’ will be an uplifting and touching film about acceptance,” reads the logline.
Musumeci said: “‘To the Girl I Once Knew’ has been in the works for...
The film, which Musumeci writes and directs, has also cast Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Stella Lelouch (“The Reunion”).
They will join Frances de La Tour (“Harry Potter”), Calvin Demba (“The Rig”), Rhea Norwood (“Heartstopper”) and newcomer Oriane Pick. Amy Blair is casting director.
Production is set to start this summer.
“To the Girl I Once Knew” tells the story of Gabi (played by Pick) who secretly struggles with mental illness. When her long-term boyfriend suggests moving in together, she finds her life becoming even more complicated.
“Whilst addressing the stigma of mental health struggles, ‘To the Girl I Once Knew’ will be an uplifting and touching film about acceptance,” reads the logline.
Musumeci said: “‘To the Girl I Once Knew’ has been in the works for...
- 6/29/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
This review contains spoilers.
It’s a real study that Gareth cites in his call to Dermot O’Leary’s radio show. Published in the British Medical Journal in 1993, Scanlon, Luben, Scanlon and Singleton asked the question “Is Friday the 13th bad for your health?” Yes, was their conclusion, due to an increased risk of hospital admission as a result of transport accidents. “Staying at home is recommended.”
Trust the writers of Inside No. 9 – a show where dark fates lurk around every corner – to devise a scheme whereby a character takes the precautionary measure of staying at home on Friday the 13th, only for their wife to be killed in a transport accident right outside their front door on Saturday the 14th. Against gods with this capricious and cruel a sense of humour, nobody can win.
Right up until that tragic dumbshow played out through the living room window, it...
It’s a real study that Gareth cites in his call to Dermot O’Leary’s radio show. Published in the British Medical Journal in 1993, Scanlon, Luben, Scanlon and Singleton asked the question “Is Friday the 13th bad for your health?” Yes, was their conclusion, due to an increased risk of hospital admission as a result of transport accidents. “Staying at home is recommended.”
Trust the writers of Inside No. 9 – a show where dark fates lurk around every corner – to devise a scheme whereby a character takes the precautionary measure of staying at home on Friday the 13th, only for their wife to be killed in a transport accident right outside their front door on Saturday the 14th. Against gods with this capricious and cruel a sense of humour, nobody can win.
Right up until that tragic dumbshow played out through the living room window, it...
- 5/4/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: The BBC has defended plans to film an American Idol-style acting competition series after performers compared the format to The Hunger Games.
The show, working titled Bring the Drama, was announced last month and promises to give untapped acting talent a shot at the big time with the winner securing agency representation and a role in a BBC drama.
Wall to Wall, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned production company behind Netflix’s Glow Up, has begun casting for the six-part series and applicants are being told that they must not have attended drama school or had an agent for acting work.
The BBC said Bring the Drama aims to provide a break for those who have been unable to access professional training or representation.
But the show has angered some in the acting community, who raised concerns about the format and called on the BBC to give better...
The show, working titled Bring the Drama, was announced last month and promises to give untapped acting talent a shot at the big time with the winner securing agency representation and a role in a BBC drama.
Wall to Wall, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned production company behind Netflix’s Glow Up, has begun casting for the six-part series and applicants are being told that they must not have attended drama school or had an agent for acting work.
The BBC said Bring the Drama aims to provide a break for those who have been unable to access professional training or representation.
But the show has angered some in the acting community, who raised concerns about the format and called on the BBC to give better...
- 5/3/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Amanda Abbington is joining the “nepotism” conversation currently happening in Hollywood.
The 48-year-old actress recently expressed that she believes she would not have landed her role as Mary Watson in “Sherlock” if it weren’t for her past romantic relationship with Martin Freeman, who plays her husband on the show Doctor John Watson.
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“Because I was with Martin at the time, there was a lot of [accusations of] nepotism being banded about,” she explained on the “Full Disclosure” podcast. “It’s true, it was that.”
Abbington further detailed how the writers thought her previous intimate relationship with Freeman would make her well-suited for the show’s character.
Read More: Kaia Gerber Weighs In On Nepotism Debate: ‘I Won’t Deny The Privilege That I Have’
“Both Mark [Gatiss] and Steven [Moffat, the show’s writers] said they were trying to figure out who the best...
The 48-year-old actress recently expressed that she believes she would not have landed her role as Mary Watson in “Sherlock” if it weren’t for her past romantic relationship with Martin Freeman, who plays her husband on the show Doctor John Watson.
Read More: All The Celebs Who’ve Reacted To The ‘Nepo Baby’ Controversy
“Because I was with Martin at the time, there was a lot of [accusations of] nepotism being banded about,” she explained on the “Full Disclosure” podcast. “It’s true, it was that.”
Abbington further detailed how the writers thought her previous intimate relationship with Freeman would make her well-suited for the show’s character.
Read More: Kaia Gerber Weighs In On Nepotism Debate: ‘I Won’t Deny The Privilege That I Have’
“Both Mark [Gatiss] and Steven [Moffat, the show’s writers] said they were trying to figure out who the best...
- 2/24/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Amanda Abbington has revealed she believes “nepotism” helped land her role in hit BBC drama Sherlock.
Abbington was cast as Mary Watson, the wife of Sherlock Holmes’ friend and detective partner Doctor John Watson in 2014. At the time, Abbington was in a long-term relationship with Martin Freeman, who played Watson.
“Because I was with Martin at the time, there was a lot of [accusations of] nepotism being banded about,” she told the Full Disclosure podcast. “It’s true, it was that.
“Both Mark [Gatiss] and Steven [Moffat, the show’s writers] said they were trying to figure out who the best person would be to play Mary and they thought it would be the person who was going out with him.
“It made sense. And we’d worked together on many things.”
Sherlock, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch as the genius sleuth, ran on the BBC and PBS Masterpiece between 2010 and 2017 and was created by Moffat and Gatiss. Abbington...
Abbington was cast as Mary Watson, the wife of Sherlock Holmes’ friend and detective partner Doctor John Watson in 2014. At the time, Abbington was in a long-term relationship with Martin Freeman, who played Watson.
“Because I was with Martin at the time, there was a lot of [accusations of] nepotism being banded about,” she told the Full Disclosure podcast. “It’s true, it was that.
“Both Mark [Gatiss] and Steven [Moffat, the show’s writers] said they were trying to figure out who the best person would be to play Mary and they thought it would be the person who was going out with him.
“It made sense. And we’d worked together on many things.”
Sherlock, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch as the genius sleuth, ran on the BBC and PBS Masterpiece between 2010 and 2017 and was created by Moffat and Gatiss. Abbington...
- 2/24/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Both Billy Crudup and Vincent Cassel join us on this week's show, the former to talk about Apple's retro future series Hello Tomorrow, and the latter about international espionage thriller Liaison, also on Apple TV+.
But that's not all, because we also hit the dating apps with Jesse Eisenberg in Disney+'s Fleishman Is In Trouble and take on the criminal underworld with Amanda Abbington in Desperate Measures on Channel 5.
Listen to the episode in the player above, or on your podcast app of choice. And if you want to subscribe to Pilot TV+, find all the details here.
But that's not all, because we also hit the dating apps with Jesse Eisenberg in Disney+'s Fleishman Is In Trouble and take on the criminal underworld with Amanda Abbington in Desperate Measures on Channel 5.
Listen to the episode in the player above, or on your podcast app of choice. And if you want to subscribe to Pilot TV+, find all the details here.
- 2/20/2023
- by James Dyer
- Empire - TV
Tubi has announced its first unscripted cooking series, “Kitchen Commando,” hosted by US Army Master Sergeant and White House chef Andre Rush. Executive produced by Gordon Ramsay, the new series enlists Chef Andre to help save struggling restaurants and reignite their passion for the service industry.
Over the 10-episode season, Chef Rush will visit restaurants in the D.C. area that are in need of his discipline, resourcefulness and talents to whip these restaurants back into shape. Chef Rush’s skills will be put the test in the first episode, when he meets a defeated married couple whose crab-themed restaurant is now a toxic mess.
“Kitchen Commando” premieres on February 12, 2023 with a new episode rolling out every Sunday for ten weeks. “Kitchen Commando” is a Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay Global production.
Also in today’s TV news:
Renewals
“Say Yes to the Prom” is back for its 11th...
Over the 10-episode season, Chef Rush will visit restaurants in the D.C. area that are in need of his discipline, resourcefulness and talents to whip these restaurants back into shape. Chef Rush’s skills will be put the test in the first episode, when he meets a defeated married couple whose crab-themed restaurant is now a toxic mess.
“Kitchen Commando” premieres on February 12, 2023 with a new episode rolling out every Sunday for ten weeks. “Kitchen Commando” is a Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay Global production.
Also in today’s TV news:
Renewals
“Say Yes to the Prom” is back for its 11th...
- 1/24/2023
- by Charna Flam and Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been five years since there’s been new Sherlock, and considering no one has said it’s been canceled yet, there’s still hope for more. In fact, co-creator Steven Moffat recently addressed the series’ future. Moffat would “start writing tomorrow” if given the opportunity and Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were to reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, then quipped, “They’re on to bigger and better things but, Martin and Benedict, please come back?” (via Deadline). That, of course, leads to the simple question: Would you watch a Sherlock Season 5? The fourth season saw the death of Watson’s wife, Mary (Amanda Abbington), as well as the aftermath and the videos she’d left behind for the two men. The last episode, “The Final Problem,” also included the reveal that Sherlock and Mycroft (co-creator Mark Gatiss) have a sister, Eurus (Sian Brooke...
- 1/4/2023
- TV Insider
Steven Moffat has said “we’ve just started talking about” a second season of acclaimed BBC/Netflix drama Inside Man and reiterated that he would “start writing Sherlock tomorrow” if stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman agreed to return.
While promoting his debut West End play The Unfriend on this morning’s BBC Today program, the Sherlock creator and former Doctor Who showrunner said “we’re looking at the enthusiastically-nodded-about graphs and apparently [Inside Man] performed quite well.”
The Stanley Tucci and David Tennant-starrer, which has been available on Netflix in the U.S. since Halloween, was well received critically. While its overnight audience was low, episodes of the show in which Tucci plays a convicted killer solving crimes from an American jail consolidated on 28-day catch-up above the 5M mark.
Moffat said this is reflective of the changing nature of TV ratings.
“You don’t get a [ratings] number...
While promoting his debut West End play The Unfriend on this morning’s BBC Today program, the Sherlock creator and former Doctor Who showrunner said “we’re looking at the enthusiastically-nodded-about graphs and apparently [Inside Man] performed quite well.”
The Stanley Tucci and David Tennant-starrer, which has been available on Netflix in the U.S. since Halloween, was well received critically. While its overnight audience was low, episodes of the show in which Tucci plays a convicted killer solving crimes from an American jail consolidated on 28-day catch-up above the 5M mark.
Moffat said this is reflective of the changing nature of TV ratings.
“You don’t get a [ratings] number...
- 1/3/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
"What do you two really think of each other?" Trinity Creative has revealed the official US trailer for the dark comedy film Decrypted, a wacky crypto film made by filmmaker Tom Sands. After debuting last year in the UK, the film is now available to watch on VOD in the US if anyone is curious - "the feature film that is taking the crypto community by storm." An outrageous and provocative film about a mismatched Nsa team who kidnap Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, to get the info they need to destroy cryptocurrencies. The botched interrogation forces together a group of people who then get into all kinds of trouble. The cast includes Talisa Garcia, Sophia Myles, David Hoflin, Amanda Abbington, Kevin McNally, Clive Francis, Aki Kotabe, Don Gilet, and Sophie Barker. This looks too dumb and kooky to be any good. But I'm glad someone is willing to...
- 12/7/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If you thought We Are Not Alone was going to be the kind of comforting comedy you get from Ghosts you’ll quickly find out you’re wrong. The opening scene, in which the main character Stewart ends up suddenly covered in his best friend’s innards after he gets crushed by an alien messaging device, is a pretty big clue that this is a departure into a slightly more grown-up territory.
This new feature-length Dave comedy doesn’t waste any time: we’re straight into the action, discovering Earth has been invaded and conquered by the Gu’uns, a blue, large-foreheaded alien race with Very Big Guns. The Gu’uns don’t muck about – their takeover has included blowing up New Zealand, nixing everyone’s mobile phone signal and blasting the Chancellor of England into space (so it’s not all bad news), and in a brief appearance from...
This new feature-length Dave comedy doesn’t waste any time: we’re straight into the action, discovering Earth has been invaded and conquered by the Gu’uns, a blue, large-foreheaded alien race with Very Big Guns. The Gu’uns don’t muck about – their takeover has included blowing up New Zealand, nixing everyone’s mobile phone signal and blasting the Chancellor of England into space (so it’s not all bad news), and in a brief appearance from...
- 11/28/2022
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Former Britain’s Got Talent star Jonathan Goodwin has reflected on the stunt that left him paralysed.
In October 2021, Goodwin performed an escapology stunt in which he planned to remove a straight jacket while hung upside down between two suspended cars 30 feet in the air.
The cars, however, were released prematurely and Goodwin was crushed between them.
His fiancée, Sherlock star Amanda Abbington, revealed the news on the podcast Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner, stating: “He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs. Third degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.”
She added: “He’s paralysed now, he’s in a wheelchair. Unless there’s a kind of stem cell surgery or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he’ll be like that forever.
In October 2021, Goodwin performed an escapology stunt in which he planned to remove a straight jacket while hung upside down between two suspended cars 30 feet in the air.
The cars, however, were released prematurely and Goodwin was crushed between them.
His fiancée, Sherlock star Amanda Abbington, revealed the news on the podcast Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner, stating: “He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs. Third degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.”
She added: “He’s paralysed now, he’s in a wheelchair. Unless there’s a kind of stem cell surgery or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he’ll be like that forever.
- 10/18/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
ITV has unveiled a slate of new comedy commissions, most of which will premiere on Itvx, its upcoming free streaming service.
New comedy titles include “Plebs: Soldiers of Rome,” “Deep Fake Neighbour Wars,” “Ruby Speaking Count,” “Abdulla” and “Significant Other.”
“The arrival of Itvx gives us more opportunities to commission a broad range of comedies and a dedicated place for the genre to call home,” said Nana Hughes, ITV’s Head of Comedy. The executive added that ITV aspired to showcase a “huge cross section of contemporary, diverse and inclusive comedy.”
“We want to take risks but most importantly we want our audiences to find shows that reflect them and make them laugh,” Hughes continued.
“Plebs: Soldiers of Rome” is a a feature-length special based on the award-winning comedy series “Plebs” which has had five successful seasons. “Plebs” is directed and written by Sam Leifer and co-written by Tom Basden.
New comedy titles include “Plebs: Soldiers of Rome,” “Deep Fake Neighbour Wars,” “Ruby Speaking Count,” “Abdulla” and “Significant Other.”
“The arrival of Itvx gives us more opportunities to commission a broad range of comedies and a dedicated place for the genre to call home,” said Nana Hughes, ITV’s Head of Comedy. The executive added that ITV aspired to showcase a “huge cross section of contemporary, diverse and inclusive comedy.”
“We want to take risks but most importantly we want our audiences to find shows that reflect them and make them laugh,” Hughes continued.
“Plebs: Soldiers of Rome” is a a feature-length special based on the award-winning comedy series “Plebs” which has had five successful seasons. “Plebs” is directed and written by Sam Leifer and co-written by Tom Basden.
- 8/22/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Dn first caught From A Strange Land, Caroline’s Steinbeis’ joyful comedy drama about finding shared ground, at The Shortest Nights in 2021. Back then the film grabbed us as a work which balanced a light and playful tone with a thematic interest in how different perspectives can converge to find a commonality. It’s about a curious neighbour who visits a family who’ve recently moved into her street but when she arrives in their home she’s given a most unusual greeting. Echoing the work of Richard Curtis, Steinbeis brings a typically British sensibility to the humour in her debut short, something which is always a pleasure to watch when done as deftly as it is here. Dn is delighted to premiere From A Strange Land film on our pages today alongside a deep dive with Steinbeis on her journey from theatre to film, the filmmaking lessons she learnt on set,...
- 8/11/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
The fiancée of stuntman Jonathan Goodwin has shared a new update about his condition following his near-fatal accident while on set for America's Got Talent: Extreme in October 2021. "He's paralyzed now, he's in a wheelchair," Amanda Abbington said on the May 2 episode of the Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner podcast. "Unless there's a kind of stem cell surgery or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he'll be like that forever." Jonathan was rushed to the hospital on Oct. 14, 2021, to undergo surgery after he sustained multiple injuries while rehearsing a daredevil stunt for NBC's America's Got Talent: Extreme. At the time, sources told TMZ...
- 5/5/2022
- E! Online
Escape artist Jonathan Goodwin has been left paralyzed following an accident while filming America’s Got Talent: Extreme. Goodwin was hospitalized after a stunt went wrong during rehearsals for the NBC talent show last October. According to reports at the time, the former stuntman was crushed between two cars after failing to free himself from a straitjacket while suspended in the air. A police report revealed that he had suffered multiple broken bones and lacerations. Now Goodwin’s fiancée, Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington has given an update on his condition and opened about the accident on the Out to Lunch podcast with Jay Rayner. “He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs,” she revealed. “Third-degree burns, broke his spine, and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.” Abbington added that Goodwin is “paralyzed now” and...
- 5/4/2022
- TV Insider
Four months after Jonathan Goodwin narrowly escaped death while competing on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent: Extreme,” the stuntman announced on Instagram that he has been released from the hospital.
“Four months later… finally out of hospital,” he posted on Feb. 20 alongside a picture of himself and fiancée Amanda Abbington. “My birthday today… can’t think of a better way to spend it than with my love.”
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On Oct. 15 of last year, Goodwin was rehearsing a daredevil stunt in which he was to escape from a straitjacket while hanging upside down between two cars suspended 70 feet in the air. If the stunt had gone as intended, he would have freed himself and dropped onto an air mattress waiting below. While Goodwin managed to pry himself loose from the straitjacket,...
“Four months later… finally out of hospital,” he posted on Feb. 20 alongside a picture of himself and fiancée Amanda Abbington. “My birthday today… can’t think of a better way to spend it than with my love.”
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On Oct. 15 of last year, Goodwin was rehearsing a daredevil stunt in which he was to escape from a straitjacket while hanging upside down between two cars suspended 70 feet in the air. If the stunt had gone as intended, he would have freed himself and dropped onto an air mattress waiting below. While Goodwin managed to pry himself loose from the straitjacket,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
It was an extra special birthday for Jonathan Goodwin. The stuntman, who suffered injuries from a near-fatal accident on the set of America's Got Talent: Extreme in October, has been released from the hospital. "Four months later… finally out of hospital," he wrote on Instagram Feb. 20 alongside a photo of himself with his fiancée actress Amanda Abbington. "My birthday today… can't think of a better way to spend it than with my love." Goodwin was rushed to the hospital after he was injured while rehearsing a stunt for the show on Oct. 14. A video obtained by TMZ showed the escape artist suspended in the air by a cable while wearing a straitjacket, with a...
- 2/22/2022
- E! Online
Beryl Vertue, the renowned British television producer and founder of Hartswood Films, died on Saturday, her family has confirmed. She was 90.
No cause of death has been given but her daughters, Sue and Debbie Vertue, who worked with her at Hartswood Films, confirmed she died “peacefully” and surrounded by family.
“It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we have to share the sad news that mum/Beryl passed away peacefully last night,” her daughters and Hartswood Films co-producers Sue and Debbie said in a statement. “It wasn’t Covid, it was just her nearly 91-year-old body saying enough is enough.”
“We were there so the passing was as good as one could hope for. Nothing wrong with her brain – even earlier this week she was grilling us both about work. It’s really impossible to believe that she has gone though, because I know we’re not alone in...
No cause of death has been given but her daughters, Sue and Debbie Vertue, who worked with her at Hartswood Films, confirmed she died “peacefully” and surrounded by family.
“It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we have to share the sad news that mum/Beryl passed away peacefully last night,” her daughters and Hartswood Films co-producers Sue and Debbie said in a statement. “It wasn’t Covid, it was just her nearly 91-year-old body saying enough is enough.”
“We were there so the passing was as good as one could hope for. Nothing wrong with her brain – even earlier this week she was grilling us both about work. It’s really impossible to believe that she has gone though, because I know we’re not alone in...
- 2/13/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
It’s no accident that Harlan Coben’s Stay Close lands on Netflix on the 31st of December. That’s a precision release strategy calibrated to hit the exact spot between viewers’ reduced mental capacity and increased desire to gaze upon luxurious marble kitchen islands on the last day of the year. A Harlan Coben thriller is succour to a weakened state. With their gentle, leafy suburbs and upper middle-class homes – every soft-close cabinet of which is squirming with secrets – they make a binge-watch par excellence. Nothing nails you to your sofa quite like a ludicrously unlikely drama about people with big houses and dark pasts.
From Safe to The Five, The Stranger, and soon, Stay Close, here’s what makes the English-language Harlan Coben adaptations addictive yet undemanding viewing.
They’re all essentially the same
20 years ago: a Thing! Today: that Thing has returned to haunt someone living in...
From Safe to The Five, The Stranger, and soon, Stay Close, here’s what makes the English-language Harlan Coben adaptations addictive yet undemanding viewing.
They’re all essentially the same
20 years ago: a Thing! Today: that Thing has returned to haunt someone living in...
- 12/8/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Stars: Sophia Myles, David Hoflin, Amanda Abbington, Kevin McNally, Clive Francis, Talisa Garcia, Akie Kotabe, Don Gilet, Sophie Barker | Written by Mick Sands | Directed by Tom Sands
When an extremely mismatched team of National Security Agency operatives take on a covert mission to kidnap the creator of Bitcoin – Satoshi Nakamoto – to extract, by any means necessary, the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies, things go wildly wayward in this raucous romp. The botched Nsa interrogation forces together a homophobic field agent, a feminist technical adviser, a transgender asylum seeker, a crypto-anarchist, a racist Brexiteer and an inclusionist MI5 agent. Of course sparks start to fly when their opposing beliefs clash in major way. But a truth drug reveals a newfound honesty with riotous consequences…
Opening with spiel about how Donald Trump’s administration classed the inventor of Bitcoin as a terrorist Then showing a photo of him hung on a...
When an extremely mismatched team of National Security Agency operatives take on a covert mission to kidnap the creator of Bitcoin – Satoshi Nakamoto – to extract, by any means necessary, the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies, things go wildly wayward in this raucous romp. The botched Nsa interrogation forces together a homophobic field agent, a feminist technical adviser, a transgender asylum seeker, a crypto-anarchist, a racist Brexiteer and an inclusionist MI5 agent. Of course sparks start to fly when their opposing beliefs clash in major way. But a truth drug reveals a newfound honesty with riotous consequences…
Opening with spiel about how Donald Trump’s administration classed the inventor of Bitcoin as a terrorist Then showing a photo of him hung on a...
- 11/12/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Escape artist Jonathan Goodwin spoke out for the first time since a stunt on the set of America’s Got Talent: Extreme sent him to the hospital.
“A couple of days ago my life took a complete left turn…and the out pouring of love from all the corners of the world; from people I didn’t even think would know or remember me…has just been astonishing,” he wrote on Instagram. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent their love and support. It literally has been a lifesaver.”
Among those wishing him well were his fiancée, British actress Amanda Abbington, who encouraged with the comment, “We’ve totally got this” on his post. Goodwin thanked his future wife in his missive and called her “the best thing to ever happen to me.”
America’s Got Talent judge Heidi Klum also commented on the post writing, “Sending you...
“A couple of days ago my life took a complete left turn…and the out pouring of love from all the corners of the world; from people I didn’t even think would know or remember me…has just been astonishing,” he wrote on Instagram. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out and sent their love and support. It literally has been a lifesaver.”
Among those wishing him well were his fiancée, British actress Amanda Abbington, who encouraged with the comment, “We’ve totally got this” on his post. Goodwin thanked his future wife in his missive and called her “the best thing to ever happen to me.”
America’s Got Talent judge Heidi Klum also commented on the post writing, “Sending you...
- 10/20/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Filming is underway on ambitious European drama series The Net, about corruption and conspiracies in the world of international soccer.
The Net will comprise four independent series, shot in their local languages, which will work as stand-alone dramas, but also as part of an interwoven narrative across 30 hours of storytelling.
The first of four seasons to get underway is Austria’s The Net – Prometheus, which will star Tobias Moretti (Bad Banks), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Benjamin Sadler (Tribes of Europa) and Nicholas Goh (Skyfall). Andreas Prochaska (The Winemaker) is directing Martin Ambrosch’s (Brock) script.
Set in Austria’s mountains, the drama will center on Georg Trotter (Moretti), a doctor and former doping agent who gave up his career after a tragic car accident badly injuring his wife Diana (Coulby) and killing his beloved son. Known as notorious doping hunter and “bloodhound”, Georg is offered to run a new,...
The Net will comprise four independent series, shot in their local languages, which will work as stand-alone dramas, but also as part of an interwoven narrative across 30 hours of storytelling.
The first of four seasons to get underway is Austria’s The Net – Prometheus, which will star Tobias Moretti (Bad Banks), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Benjamin Sadler (Tribes of Europa) and Nicholas Goh (Skyfall). Andreas Prochaska (The Winemaker) is directing Martin Ambrosch’s (Brock) script.
Set in Austria’s mountains, the drama will center on Georg Trotter (Moretti), a doctor and former doping agent who gave up his career after a tragic car accident badly injuring his wife Diana (Coulby) and killing his beloved son. Known as notorious doping hunter and “bloodhound”, Georg is offered to run a new,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist.
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
- 1/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
2020 in British TV comedy brought us Maisie Williams as a kickass survivalist in a pickle, and a new parenting comedy from the hugely talented Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison starring Martin Freeman.
To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson.
Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.
Breeders
After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.
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To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson.
Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.
Breeders
After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.
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- 1/12/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
‘A Perfect Planet’ Goes Global
BBC One and Discovery’s latest David Attenborough epic, A Perfect Planet, has secured a raft of international sales. The natural history series has pre-sold to Australia (Nine), Croatia (Hrt), Czech Republic (Czech TV), Denmark (Dr), Lithuania (Lrt), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia (Friday! and United Media Group), Spain (Movistar+), Slovenia (Rtvs) and Sweden (Svt). BBC Earth channels across Africa, Asia, Canada, Cee, Medme, Nordics and Poland will also premiere the series. Attenborough will use A Perfect Planet to explain how weather, ocean currents, the sun and volcanoes foster and shape the natural world. Made by Silverback Films, the series is co-produced with Tencent Penguin Pictures, Zdf German Television, China Media Group CCTV9, France Télévisions and The Open University.
‘Midsomer Murders’ Restarts Filming
Season 22 of hit British crime drama Midsomer Murders has gone into production in the pandemic era. Made by Bentley Productions, the...
BBC One and Discovery’s latest David Attenborough epic, A Perfect Planet, has secured a raft of international sales. The natural history series has pre-sold to Australia (Nine), Croatia (Hrt), Czech Republic (Czech TV), Denmark (Dr), Lithuania (Lrt), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia (Friday! and United Media Group), Spain (Movistar+), Slovenia (Rtvs) and Sweden (Svt). BBC Earth channels across Africa, Asia, Canada, Cee, Medme, Nordics and Poland will also premiere the series. Attenborough will use A Perfect Planet to explain how weather, ocean currents, the sun and volcanoes foster and shape the natural world. Made by Silverback Films, the series is co-produced with Tencent Penguin Pictures, Zdf German Television, China Media Group CCTV9, France Télévisions and The Open University.
‘Midsomer Murders’ Restarts Filming
Season 22 of hit British crime drama Midsomer Murders has gone into production in the pandemic era. Made by Bentley Productions, the...
- 10/7/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, El Gouna announces CineGouna Platform finalists, “Decrypted” gets back to filming in the U.K. after a five-month layoff, Zdf boards a Danish co-production and Vice appoints a new VP for its U.K. non-fiction branch.
Festivals
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Gff), rescheduled to take place in person Oct. 23-31, has announced the 18 finalist projects selected to participate in this year’s 4th edition of the CineGouna Platform for projects produced or co-produced by Mena countries, running Oct. 25-30.
Also in its fourth year, CineGouna SpringBoard, a co-production lab dedicated to supporting regional projects, will feature 65 projects in development and 34 films in post-production.
This year, 18 projects were selected to participate in CineGouna Platform, 12 in development and six in post. At the end of the Platform, a best project will be selected and receive the CineGounda Platform Certificate and a cash prize of $15,000.
“CineGouna...
Festivals
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Gff), rescheduled to take place in person Oct. 23-31, has announced the 18 finalist projects selected to participate in this year’s 4th edition of the CineGouna Platform for projects produced or co-produced by Mena countries, running Oct. 25-30.
Also in its fourth year, CineGouna SpringBoard, a co-production lab dedicated to supporting regional projects, will feature 65 projects in development and 34 films in post-production.
This year, 18 projects were selected to participate in CineGouna Platform, 12 in development and six in post. At the end of the Platform, a best project will be selected and receive the CineGounda Platform Certificate and a cash prize of $15,000.
“CineGouna...
- 8/17/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Paapa Essiedu, one of the breakout stars of BBC/HBO’s I May Destroy You, and Gangs Of London actor Joe Cole have joined the cast of ITV’s Black Lives Matter-inspired drama shorts series Unsaid Stories….
Deadline last week revealed the four-part anthology series, which will be made by Greenacre Films, the producer behind Netflix’s Michaela Coel-fronted feature Been So Long.
Essiedu and Pippa Bennett-Warner (Maxxx) will feature in Lynette Linton’s Look At Me, which focuses on the lives of a young professional couple in the aftermath of them being stopped by police while out driving on a date.
Cole and Adelayo Adedayo (The Capture) lead the cast for Anna Ssemuyaba’s I Don’t Want To Talk About This, which tells the story of a former couple who bump into each other at a friend’s party a few years after their split.
Nicholas Pinnock...
Deadline last week revealed the four-part anthology series, which will be made by Greenacre Films, the producer behind Netflix’s Michaela Coel-fronted feature Been So Long.
Essiedu and Pippa Bennett-Warner (Maxxx) will feature in Lynette Linton’s Look At Me, which focuses on the lives of a young professional couple in the aftermath of them being stopped by police while out driving on a date.
Cole and Adelayo Adedayo (The Capture) lead the cast for Anna Ssemuyaba’s I Don’t Want To Talk About This, which tells the story of a former couple who bump into each other at a friend’s party a few years after their split.
Nicholas Pinnock...
- 7/27/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon has acquired the rights of Anna Paquin-led “Flack,” three months after it was canceled by Pop TV.
Pop TV canceled the drama, which stars Anna Paquin as a Don Draper-esque PR maven Robyn, days before it was supposed to premiere its second season. Amazon will get both seasons.
“Flack” also stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene. Other Season 2 guest stars include Jane Horrocks, Giles Terera and Amanda Abbington, reprising her role as Alexa. Season 2 also features Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim.
Also Read: Pop TV Cuts Three Series Including Anna Paquin's 'Flack'
“Flack” is written by Oliver Lansley, produced by Debs Pisani and executive produced by Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams of Hat Trick Productions. Pete Thornton executive produces for UKTV with Paquin executive producing for Casm alongside Stephen Moyer, Cerise Hallam Larkin and Mark Larkin. Season...
Pop TV canceled the drama, which stars Anna Paquin as a Don Draper-esque PR maven Robyn, days before it was supposed to premiere its second season. Amazon will get both seasons.
“Flack” also stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene. Other Season 2 guest stars include Jane Horrocks, Giles Terera and Amanda Abbington, reprising her role as Alexa. Season 2 also features Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim.
Also Read: Pop TV Cuts Three Series Including Anna Paquin's 'Flack'
“Flack” is written by Oliver Lansley, produced by Debs Pisani and executive produced by Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams of Hat Trick Productions. Pete Thornton executive produces for UKTV with Paquin executive producing for Casm alongside Stephen Moyer, Cerise Hallam Larkin and Mark Larkin. Season...
- 6/11/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Anna Paquin’s Flack has found a new home in the U.S. after Amazon picked up the dark comedy drama.
This comes after the series, which was created and written by Oliver Lansley, was surprisingly dropped by ViacomCBS’ Pop TV, a week before the second season was set to air. Seasons one and two will air via Amazon in the U.S. and Canada
Deadline understands that Amazon’s deal also gives it the right to consider a third season of the show, which is produced in association with British broadcaster UKTV.
Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, Flack stars True Blood’s Paquin as a master of the dark arts of PR. It is produced by Episodes producer Hat Trick Productions and Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films.
It marks a nice turnaround for the show, a 45-minute series that sees Paquin take on an anti-hero role,...
This comes after the series, which was created and written by Oliver Lansley, was surprisingly dropped by ViacomCBS’ Pop TV, a week before the second season was set to air. Seasons one and two will air via Amazon in the U.S. and Canada
Deadline understands that Amazon’s deal also gives it the right to consider a third season of the show, which is produced in association with British broadcaster UKTV.
Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, Flack stars True Blood’s Paquin as a master of the dark arts of PR. It is produced by Episodes producer Hat Trick Productions and Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films.
It marks a nice turnaround for the show, a 45-minute series that sees Paquin take on an anti-hero role,...
- 6/11/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Anna Paquin’s dark comedy drama Flack may well find another home in the U.S. after it was abruptly pulled by Pop TV.
Yesterday, it emerged that the ViacomCBS-backed network was pulling three of its five original series, including Flack, Florida Girls and Best Intentions. Flack was set to launch its second season on Pop on March 13.
However, Jimmy Mulville, who runs Flack producer Hat Trick Productions, told Deadline that he was “confident” of finding a new Stateside home for the series, which is co-produced by Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films. A co-production with British broadcaster UKTV, it will still air on UKTV’s W network in March.
“It’s sad to end the show on Pop, the first season did well for them and UKTV,” said Mulville. “I’m confident that we’ll be able to find another home for the show. There’s no shortage of platforms.
Yesterday, it emerged that the ViacomCBS-backed network was pulling three of its five original series, including Flack, Florida Girls and Best Intentions. Flack was set to launch its second season on Pop on March 13.
However, Jimmy Mulville, who runs Flack producer Hat Trick Productions, told Deadline that he was “confident” of finding a new Stateside home for the series, which is co-produced by Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films. A co-production with British broadcaster UKTV, it will still air on UKTV’s W network in March.
“It’s sad to end the show on Pop, the first season did well for them and UKTV,” said Mulville. “I’m confident that we’ll be able to find another home for the show. There’s no shortage of platforms.
- 3/5/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“One Day at a Time” Season 4 will premiere Mar. 24, while “Flack” Season 2 will premiere Mar. 13, Pop TV announced Monday.
The new season of “One Day at a Time” will be the first to air on the ViacomCBS network after it picked the show up post-Netflix cancellation.
“The enthusiastic response from fans since announcing our new season of ‘One Day at a Time’ has been thrilling,” said Brad Schwartz, president, Pop TV. “The series is more important than ever with its unmatched ability to tackle topical social issues through the lens of a relatable, loving family. The exceptionally talented team behind and in front of the camera make us proud to have ‘One Day at a Time’ at home at Pop TV.”
This fourth season will air in the Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. time slot beginning Mar. 24, but it will move to 9 p.m. on April 14, after “Schitt’s Creek” concludes its final season.
The new season of “One Day at a Time” will be the first to air on the ViacomCBS network after it picked the show up post-Netflix cancellation.
“The enthusiastic response from fans since announcing our new season of ‘One Day at a Time’ has been thrilling,” said Brad Schwartz, president, Pop TV. “The series is more important than ever with its unmatched ability to tackle topical social issues through the lens of a relatable, loving family. The exceptionally talented team behind and in front of the camera make us proud to have ‘One Day at a Time’ at home at Pop TV.”
This fourth season will air in the Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. time slot beginning Mar. 24, but it will move to 9 p.m. on April 14, after “Schitt’s Creek” concludes its final season.
- 1/14/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Pop TV has set 10 p.m. Friday, March 13, for the Season 2 return of dark comedy Flack, starring Anna Paquin. The premiere date was announced Monday during the network’s presentation at TCA.
The six-episode second season also features new cast members Sam Neill, Daniel Dae Kim and guest star Martha Plimpton. Executive producer Stephen Moyer will direct two of the season’s episodes. The entire second season will be available on app Pop Now and via cable and Svpd after the first episode airs on the network.
Season 2 picks up with Robyn (Paquin) putting her life back together after her myriad addictions got the better of her at the end of Season 1. Focusing on rebuilding her relationship with her sister and keeping her clients out of the headlines, she must also face a new and unexpected revelation head-on. Meanwhile, her boss Caroline (Sophie Okonedo) is surprised to see her ex (Neill) return,...
The six-episode second season also features new cast members Sam Neill, Daniel Dae Kim and guest star Martha Plimpton. Executive producer Stephen Moyer will direct two of the season’s episodes. The entire second season will be available on app Pop Now and via cable and Svpd after the first episode airs on the network.
Season 2 picks up with Robyn (Paquin) putting her life back together after her myriad addictions got the better of her at the end of Season 1. Focusing on rebuilding her relationship with her sister and keeping her clients out of the headlines, she must also face a new and unexpected revelation head-on. Meanwhile, her boss Caroline (Sophie Okonedo) is surprised to see her ex (Neill) return,...
- 1/13/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Good Wife” and “Raising Hope” alum Martha Plimpton will guest star on Season 2 of Pop TV’s “Flack” as Clara, the dead mother of Robyn, Anna Paquin’s character, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
Recently renewed for Season 2 and currently in production in London, “Flack” is a described by the network as a drama “with darkly comedic situations set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations.”
Plimpton will appear in one episode as the woman “whose suicide has left a lasting emotional impact on her daughter.”
Also Read: Anna Paquin's 'Flack' Renewed for Season 2 at Pop TV, Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim Join Cast
Along with Paquin, “Flack” stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene.
Previously announced guest stars for Season 2 include Sam Neill (Paquin’s “The Piano” co-star) and Daniel Dae Kim (“Hawaii Five-0”), as well as Jane Horrocks,...
Recently renewed for Season 2 and currently in production in London, “Flack” is a described by the network as a drama “with darkly comedic situations set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations.”
Plimpton will appear in one episode as the woman “whose suicide has left a lasting emotional impact on her daughter.”
Also Read: Anna Paquin's 'Flack' Renewed for Season 2 at Pop TV, Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim Join Cast
Along with Paquin, “Flack” stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene.
Previously announced guest stars for Season 2 include Sam Neill (Paquin’s “The Piano” co-star) and Daniel Dae Kim (“Hawaii Five-0”), as well as Jane Horrocks,...
- 8/12/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Anna Paquin’s dark comedy Flack is coming back for a second season on Pop TV and UKTV.
Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim and Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill are joining the cast of the six-part season, with Paquin’s True Blood co-star and husband Stephen Moyer making his series directorial debut with two episodes.
Flack is an original co-production between the CBS-owned U.S. cable network and UKTV’s W. Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, the series kicked off production this week in London.
Neill will reunite with his The Piano co-star Paquin as he joins the cast for a multi-episode arc as Duncan, who has a very complicated relationship with the PR agency boss, Caroline (Sophie Okonedo). Kim also will star as Scott Cole, a tech titan who begins a romance with someone at the firm.
Paquin returns as Robyn, whose work...
Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim and Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill are joining the cast of the six-part season, with Paquin’s True Blood co-star and husband Stephen Moyer making his series directorial debut with two episodes.
Flack is an original co-production between the CBS-owned U.S. cable network and UKTV’s W. Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, the series kicked off production this week in London.
Neill will reunite with his The Piano co-star Paquin as he joins the cast for a multi-episode arc as Duncan, who has a very complicated relationship with the PR agency boss, Caroline (Sophie Okonedo). Kim also will star as Scott Cole, a tech titan who begins a romance with someone at the firm.
Paquin returns as Robyn, whose work...
- 8/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Pop TV has caught itself some more Flack, renewing the Anna Paquin-led drama for a second season.
The cabler also announced that Paquin’s The Piano co-star, Sam Neill, as well as Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim, have boarded the cast for Season 2, while executive producer (and husband-of-Paquin) Stephen Moyer will direct two episodes.
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Filming on the six-episode co-production with UKTV’s W Network is underway now,...
The cabler also announced that Paquin’s The Piano co-star, Sam Neill, as well as Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim, have boarded the cast for Season 2, while executive producer (and husband-of-Paquin) Stephen Moyer will direct two episodes.
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Filming on the six-episode co-production with UKTV’s W Network is underway now,...
- 8/2/2019
- TVLine.com
Anna Paquin-led drama “Flack” has been renewed for a six-episode second season at Pop TV, the now-fully-CBS-Corporation-owned network revealed during the Television Critics Association Friday.
In addition to the Season 2 renewal news was the announcement that Sam Neill (Paquin’s “The Piano” co-star) and Daniel Dae Kim (“Hawaii Five-0”), will be joining the cast of the Pop Original, which is set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations. Neill will have a multi-episode arc as Duncan, “who has a very complicated relationship with the PR agency boss, Caroline,” while Kim will play Scott Cole, “a tech titan who begins a romance with someone at the firm.”
Paquin returns for Season 2 of “Flack” as Robyn, “whose work and home lives collided catastrophically at the end of season one, when she could no longer resist the temptations of her myriad addictions,” per Pop.
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In addition to the Season 2 renewal news was the announcement that Sam Neill (Paquin’s “The Piano” co-star) and Daniel Dae Kim (“Hawaii Five-0”), will be joining the cast of the Pop Original, which is set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations. Neill will have a multi-episode arc as Duncan, “who has a very complicated relationship with the PR agency boss, Caroline,” while Kim will play Scott Cole, “a tech titan who begins a romance with someone at the firm.”
Paquin returns for Season 2 of “Flack” as Robyn, “whose work and home lives collided catastrophically at the end of season one, when she could no longer resist the temptations of her myriad addictions,” per Pop.
Also Read: Pop TV Orders...
- 8/2/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
If there’s one thing we know for certain about the future of Sherlock, it’s that it’s messy. Despite the massive global following the mystery series has received since its 2010 debut, its fourth season – and especially its finale – was plagued by fan, critic, and even some of the performers’ disapproval.
However, there are still a great deal of people who hope that a fifth season happens. Star Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wouldn’t mind reprising the role, but not to “hold your breath.” And creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have already boldly expressed their interest in continuing the show, though they’ve cited their involvement in Dracula as their number one priority.
The latter is probably the main reason the BBC has yet to comment on the possibility of another installment, though there are a lot of things to consider.
Among the most important details is...
However, there are still a great deal of people who hope that a fifth season happens. Star Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wouldn’t mind reprising the role, but not to “hold your breath.” And creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have already boldly expressed their interest in continuing the show, though they’ve cited their involvement in Dracula as their number one priority.
The latter is probably the main reason the BBC has yet to comment on the possibility of another installment, though there are a lot of things to consider.
Among the most important details is...
- 5/31/2019
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
Sherlock season 4 hasn’t gone down as the fandom’s favorite run, and it sounds like it wasn’t the best experience for one of the show’s stars, either. John Watson himself, Martin Freeman, has admitted that filming on the possibly final outing of the hit BBC detective series “wasn’t that much fun” as he was experiencing a tumultuous time in his personal life at that point.
Speaking with BBC Radio 4’s Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs, Freeman opened up about his split from longtime partner Amanda Abbington back in 2016. Abbington, of course, also starred on Sherlock as John’s wife Mary. This naturally made shooting episodes together while they had actual personal drama in their home life difficult. However, the actor also stressed that typically his experience working with Abbington was “great.”
“By the time of the last Sherlock that we’ve done we were...
Speaking with BBC Radio 4’s Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs, Freeman opened up about his split from longtime partner Amanda Abbington back in 2016. Abbington, of course, also starred on Sherlock as John’s wife Mary. This naturally made shooting episodes together while they had actual personal drama in their home life difficult. However, the actor also stressed that typically his experience working with Abbington was “great.”
“By the time of the last Sherlock that we’ve done we were...
- 4/3/2019
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
No other Martin Freeman-fronted project – be it a movie or TV show – has resonated with its viewers quite like Sherlock.
At least, that’s according to the man himself, who spoke to The Guardian (h/t Digital Spy) about the challenges of playing a character as iconic as Dr. John Watson, and why it’s nigh on impossible to please Sherlock fans.
Freeman has weighed in on the fandom debate before, and even got into hot water when his comments were blown out of proportion on Twitter, but now, the actor and former McU star focuses on the unrealistic expectations set by a small portion of fans, and why they have the potential to ruin the overall viewing experience.
Via The Guardian:
Probably nothing I’ve done… has resonated with certain parts of the world’s population the same way Sherlock has… It just hit a lot of buttons for people.
At least, that’s according to the man himself, who spoke to The Guardian (h/t Digital Spy) about the challenges of playing a character as iconic as Dr. John Watson, and why it’s nigh on impossible to please Sherlock fans.
Freeman has weighed in on the fandom debate before, and even got into hot water when his comments were blown out of proportion on Twitter, but now, the actor and former McU star focuses on the unrealistic expectations set by a small portion of fans, and why they have the potential to ruin the overall viewing experience.
Via The Guardian:
Probably nothing I’ve done… has resonated with certain parts of the world’s population the same way Sherlock has… It just hit a lot of buttons for people.
- 4/1/2019
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
As we all know, Sherlock‘s on indefinite hiatus right now due to the immense success of its two stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, with the show last returning to our screens for its fourth season in early 2017. Season 4 had a lot going for it, but if you weight it up against previous runs, it’s generally agreed to be the least popular of the lot.
While speaking with The Times, Sherlock‘s Amanda Abbington – who played John Watson’s wife Mary across seasons 3 and 4 – admitted that she was aware of the fans’ lukewarm reception to the run and also accepted that things got “very complicated” in the season’s three feature-length episodes.
“I don’t think they were very happy with the last series, I think it got very complicated.
Abbington then added that she thinks the fatal flaw may have been that the writers – co-creators Steven Moffat...
While speaking with The Times, Sherlock‘s Amanda Abbington – who played John Watson’s wife Mary across seasons 3 and 4 – admitted that she was aware of the fans’ lukewarm reception to the run and also accepted that things got “very complicated” in the season’s three feature-length episodes.
“I don’t think they were very happy with the last series, I think it got very complicated.
Abbington then added that she thinks the fatal flaw may have been that the writers – co-creators Steven Moffat...
- 2/13/2019
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Leading UK TV producer Nicola Shindler, founder of Red Production Company, is to become CEO of Studiocanal UK following the departure of long-time UK boss Danny Perkins.
Shindler will join from October 1 and will report to Studiocanal CEO Didier Lupfer. Maxime Saada, CEO of the Canal Plus Group and Studiocanal Chairman, just announced the hire to staff in London.
This is a semi appointment-from-within given that Vivendi-owned Studiocanal has owned a majority stake in Red since 2013. The highly-decorated Shindler will continue to oversee Red, where she has produced BAFTA-winning TV dramas including Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax. Her most recent feature was 2012 crime-drama Blood with Paul Bettany and Mark Strong.
In her new position at Studiocanal, Shindler will be tasked with setting up and running a new in-house film production arm developing British features. Studiocanal has a similar operation in France and is initiating the same in Germany.
Shindler will join from October 1 and will report to Studiocanal CEO Didier Lupfer. Maxime Saada, CEO of the Canal Plus Group and Studiocanal Chairman, just announced the hire to staff in London.
This is a semi appointment-from-within given that Vivendi-owned Studiocanal has owned a majority stake in Red since 2013. The highly-decorated Shindler will continue to oversee Red, where she has produced BAFTA-winning TV dramas including Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax. Her most recent feature was 2012 crime-drama Blood with Paul Bettany and Mark Strong.
In her new position at Studiocanal, Shindler will be tasked with setting up and running a new in-house film production arm developing British features. Studiocanal has a similar operation in France and is initiating the same in Germany.
- 9/12/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Safe” Season 1 on Netflix, including the ending.]
There isn’t likely to be a “Safe” Season 2, and anyone who’s finished the first season knows why.
Still, in an age of inexplicable renewals and extended limited series, it never hurts to have confirmation, and creator Harlan Coben provided as much as he could — on screen and off. In an interview with Digital Spy that emphasized all the answers to the Netflix murder-mystery were in Season 1, Coben said he wouldn’t “rule out” a Season 2, but later added he doubts it will ever happen.
That’s pretty emphatic as far as creator speculation goes, and Coben speaks even more clearly via the final episode: As a soapy, twist-driven mystery, “Safe” is all wrapped up. Rather than throw in a last-second reveal that upended the answers that had been building over the last few episodes, Coben chose to structure his project as eight episodes and out.
There isn’t likely to be a “Safe” Season 2, and anyone who’s finished the first season knows why.
Still, in an age of inexplicable renewals and extended limited series, it never hurts to have confirmation, and creator Harlan Coben provided as much as he could — on screen and off. In an interview with Digital Spy that emphasized all the answers to the Netflix murder-mystery were in Season 1, Coben said he wouldn’t “rule out” a Season 2, but later added he doubts it will ever happen.
That’s pretty emphatic as far as creator speculation goes, and Coben speaks even more clearly via the final episode: As a soapy, twist-driven mystery, “Safe” is all wrapped up. Rather than throw in a last-second reveal that upended the answers that had been building over the last few episodes, Coben chose to structure his project as eight episodes and out.
- 5/14/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
How dangerous is the first season of the Safe TV show on Netflix? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether TV shows like Safe are cancelled or renewed for season two. Netflix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the Safe season one episodes. We invite you to rate them for us, below. A Netflix drama, Safe stars Michael C. Hall, Amanda Abbington, Audrey Fleurot, Hannah Arterton, Louis Greatorex, Raj Paul, Joseph Sibtain, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Freddie Thorp, Tyler Conti, Emmett J Scanlan, Marc Warren, Nigel Lindsay, Laila Rouass. The thriller centers on Tom (Hall), a pediatric surgeon who lost his wife, Rachel, a year ago. Tom is bringing up his two...
- 5/13/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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