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Tuesday’s “Ellen Page in Queen and Country?, Amber Heard in London Fields, Watch’s Legion, and Dead Boss remake” news

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Film

Sharon Horgan to direct Meet Me In Ten Years
More Agent Carter shorts for Marvel Blu-rays?

Film casting

Ellen Page to star in adaptation of Greg Rucka’s Queen and Country?
Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James…
…and Jaimie Alexander to star in adaptation of Martin Amis’s London Fields
Bruce Willis to star in The Prince
Lea Thompson joins Left Behind
Eric McCormack to star in The Architect, Dawn Olivieri to star in To Whom It May Concern

French TV

Carole Bouquet to replace Nathalie Baye on Les Hommes de l’Ombre

International TV

Australia’s ABC, HBO and BBC3 green light: Ja’mie: Private School Girl

UK TV

Lovefilm acquires: BBC America’s Copper

New UK TV shows

Watch green lights: Tony Jordan’s Legion

US TV casting

Paul Adelstein to recur on ABC’s Scandal

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: remake of BBC3’s Dead Boss
NBC orders: Katherine Heigl CIA drama pilot

New US TV show casting

Rory Kinnear, Harry Treadaway and Reeve Carney join Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
DB Sweeney to recur on ABC’s Betrayal
Stephen Rider to recur on ABC’s Lucky 7

ITV does a mash-up for its Where Drama Lives trailer

9 September 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

A+ for effort, even if some of the CGI is a bit wonky, this trailer from ITV shows off some of the best of its current as well as older dramas. See how many you can recognise.

You may notice, incidentally, that ITV can apparently only do crime and period drama well.

It finally had to happen…

9 September 2013 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

So I’m wanting to rewatch season one of The Almighty Johnsons, just to see if there were things flagged up way back when that I missed at the time. I check iTunes and it only has season 3, and only those episodes that have already aired on SyFy in the UK.

Curses.

So I stump up the cash and buy it from Amazon instead. Yay. I now have The Almighty Johnsons to watch.

Except… I’m flicking through Netflix a few days later and (shock!) they only have both seasons 1 and 2 to view for free (if you’re a subscriber, obviously). Yes, it had to happen one day: Netflix actually had something I wanted to watch, when I wanted to watch it and I didn’t bother to check, because it was so unprecedented.

Rats. Still, at least I have a DVD now…. and if you haven’t seen the show and you have Netflix, now’s your chance to watch it. It’s very good, even if it takes a little time to warm up.

The first teaser trailers for season 2 of Bron/Broen/The Bridge

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They even have English subtitles, you lucky people (you’ll need to press the caption button at the bottom of the first one to get the subtitles). The Independent reckons November for a UK broadcast, BTW.

Hannibal is back and the cast and crew are celebrating by wearing floral crowns

9 September 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

I do love Hannibal. Clearly the best new series this year, it’s clever, disturbing, beautiful to look at and filled with wonderful dialogue. I’d recommend getting it on Blu-Ray in the US, at least (extra features: Commentary from the Cast and Crew, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes, Unrated Episodes, Symphony of a Slaughter), although it’s not such an obvious buy in the UK (extra features: First Look Featurette, Forensics 101 Featurette).

Thankfully, despite getting some really crappy ratings in the US on NBC, it’s been renewed for a second season and filming is just about to begin. So everybody in the cast and crew is celebrating… by wearing floral crowns.

More pictures after the jump.

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Year: 2013

Tuesday’s “Ellen Page in Queen and Country?, Amber Heard in London Fields, Watch’s Legion, and Dead Boss remake” news

ITV does a mash-up for its Where Drama Lives trailer

It finally had to happen…

The first teaser trailers for season 2 of Bron/Broen/The Bridge

Hannibal is back and the cast and crew are celebrating by wearing floral crowns

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent