NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: HONEYMOON WITH HARRY WITH KEVIN COSTNER AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL, ALL IN MONTE CARLO, THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS

   NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS  

HONEYMOON WITH HARRY FILM

We are having a day filled with a number of freshly announced book adaptations so let us jump right onto it starting with HONEYMOON WITH HARRY which will be turned into a movie at Prime Video based on best selling book by Bart Baker and what is more they already have two rather nice stars with Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal set as leads. This dramedy follows a man (Gyllenhaal) as he decides to go on a honeymoon with 

All In Monte Carlo will become a movie

his would-be father-in-law (Costner) after his fiancée dies two days before their wedding. 

 

 ALL IN MONTE CARLO

Also getting an adaptation to be penned by Anna Klassen is Anna Shilling's book ALL IN MONTE CARLO billed as First Wives Club meets The Devil Wears Prada, set in Monaco. The novel follows four women who cross paths in Monte Carlo, each, with their own story of betrayal. Together, the women form a secret pact, disguised as a book club, to exact revenge. But as their schemes unfold, they discover that getting payback, much like life itself, is rarely straightforward. 

  

THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS

Hulu is turning it into a TV series

Another streamer, Hulu has got their paws on another book they want to turn into a TV series. THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS by Kristy Woodson Harvey will be adapted by Brennan Peters as a story about the power of forged family — the family we choose, the family we fight to keep, again and again. It revolves around three girlfriends and their unbreakable bond forged in their childhood summers spent in North Carolina. Now in their 30s, each grappling with the harsh realities of adulthood, they’re forced to confront secrets and betrayals from both the past and present that threaten to unravel their chosen family

SEE MATTHEW LEWIS IN THE TRAILER FOR ACORN TV AND CHANNEL 5 COZY MYSTERY SERIES MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG

    SEE MATTHEW LEWIS   

IN MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG TRAILER

The latest to arrive from Channel 5 to us is that handsome rascal Matthew Lewis in the trailer for their brand new murder mystery drama series MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG based on the debut novel of Reverend Richard Coles. Matthew plays Canon Daniel Clement, who lives in Champton rectory with his opinionated mother, Audrey. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided. As lines are drawn and long-buried secrets threaten the village’s apparent calm, events take a deadly turn. Canon Daniel Clement becomes embroiled in a murder case when a cousin to the church’s patron is found stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. The six episode drama will first stream on Acorn TV in USA from September 29th before it moves over to Channel 5 sometime this Autumn. 

 

FIRST TEASER WITH TOM HOLLANDER AND NIAMH ALGAR IN SUN DRENCHED THRILLER SERIES THE IRIS AFFAIR FROM SKY TV

    THE IRIS AFFAIR   

FIRST TEASER FOR NEW SKY TV SERIES

Sky has released today first teaser for their new TV series THE IRIS AFFAIR with Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander leading the sun drenched thriller which also stars Harry Lloyd, Kristofer Hivju, Debi Mazar.  When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence and vanishes. What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia through the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic. It arrives this Autumn.

 

FIRST TRAILER FOR BBC'S RIOT WOMEN MIDDLE AGED LADIES PUNK ROCK BAND TV SERIES WITH JOANNA SCANLAN, TAMSIN GREIG, BEN BATT, ANNE REID

    BBC'S RIOT WOMEN   

PUNK ROCK TV SERIES FIRST TRAILER

Originally titled Hot Flush and now known over at BBC and Britbox as RIOT WOMEN is a six part series that will star Joanna Scanlan,Tamsin Greig,Ben Batt, Rosalie Craig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Anne Reid and Amelia Bullmore. I announced the series to you last Autumn if youremember, but today we have the first trailer from the series that will air sometime in October on BBC and on BritBox in USA.

 

NEW SERIES WILL FOLLOW

a group of middle-aged women who decide to enter a talent contest by forming a punk-rock band. After writing their first song, however, they realize they have plenty to say and now, the means to say it. As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything. As the story progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface, one that unexpectedly entangles the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle, and threatens to tear everything apart. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

SEE POSTER, STREAM DATE AND GORGEOUS IMAGES OF JAMES NORTON AND ANTHONY BOYLE AS BEER MAKERS IN NETFLIX PERIOD SET SERIES HOUSE OF GUINNESS!

   HOUSE OF GUINNESS SERIES  

The series arrives September 25th!

FIRST IMAGES WITH JAMES NORTON 

We have something with Jamesy Norton today as well, after the new images of him and the crew from King And Conqueror series which starts this Sunday on BBC! After the first set pictures which I showed you a month or so ago, we now have first poster, streaming date and official images from Steven Knight's period set series HOUSE OF GUINNESS about one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness Family! These new images are showing James Norton as Sean Rafferty and Anthony Boyle, who will play Arthur Guinness. 

THE STORY OF THE SERIES 

 is set in 19th century Dublin and New York, and it will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is one of the most beloved alcoholic drinks today. 

 STREAM DATE AND THE CAST

Beside the new images and the poster, Netflix also revealed today that the show will be available for streaming as of September 25th so we have one more thing to look forward to this Autumn! Beside the two of them in the leads, I told you previously that David Wilmot will be Bonnie Champion with Louis Partridge also in the cast. Danielle Galligan as lady Olivia Hedges, Seamus O’Hara, Jack Gleeson, Michael McElhatton and Fionn O’Shea will join them as well. 

MUDTOWN CRIME DRIME STARTS THIS WEEK WITH TOM CULLEN! SEE TRAILER AND AIR DATE

   MUDTOWN SERIES  

WITH TOM CULLEN STARTS THIS WEEK

Hitting small screens this week, August 20th over at U&Alibi channel in UK is Welsh six part series MUDTOWN a fresh, pacy crime thriller driven by brilliant, unique central characters and set in the atmospheric and visually distinctive city of Newport, Wales. At its heart is Claire (Erin Richards), a passionate local magistrate placed in a morally compromising situation when Pete (Tom Cullen), a charismatic gangster comes back into her life. Throughout six edge-of-your-seat episodes, Claire is forced to confront the blurred lines between right and wrong as her maternal instincts begin to clash with her duty to uphold the law. 

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BBC EPIC SERIES KING AND CONQUEROR WITH JAMES NORTON & NIKOLAJ COSTER WALDAU AS HAROLD OF WESSEX AND WILLIAM OF NORMANDY

 KING AND CONQUEROR SERIES 

SETS AUGUST AIR DATE AT BBC ONE

After trailer a few weeks ago with Nikolaj Coster Waldau and James Norton as leads in their eight part historical series KING AND CONQUERORin which they are playing 11th century figures William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex,respectively, with Emily Beecham as Harold’s wife Edith and Clemence Poésy as William’s wife Matilda, BBC has revealed the official start date of August 24th as well! The second episode will air the following evening and the rest will then continue on Sunday evenings. Over in USA this expensive historical drama will stream at a later date over on Prime Video, and on HBO Max in many smaller international markets. Beside a slate of brand new images from the series you can also check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

IT TELLS THE STORY OF

a clash that defined the future of a country, and a continent, for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown. 

WHO ELSE IS AT THE COURT?

 Ingvar Sigurdsson is Fitzosbern, William’s protector since he was a boy and the closest thing he has to a friend. A grounded and straightforward soldier who has stood beside William his whole life.  Eddie Marsan is KingEdward, the weak and pious King of England; Juliet Stevenson is his mother, Lady Emma, the true power behind the throne; Jean Marc Barr is King Henry of France, a father figure to William and the uncle of William’s wife, Matilda, and an extremely dangerous man to have as your enemy; Geoff Bell is Godwin, the patriarch of the Godwin household and a fierce protector of Wessex and the Godwin legacy; Elliot Cowan is Sweyn, Harold’s eldest brother and arrogance personified; Bo Bragason is Queen Gunhild, the youngest Godwin sibling who married King Edward to secure Godwin blood on the throne; Bjarne Henriksen is Earl Siward, a rough, old-time Dane; Oliver Masucci is Baldwin, the father of Matilda and a cunning politician; Clare Holman is Gytha, Harold’s mother and a strong force in the Godwin family. Luther Ford will be Tostig, the youngest son of the Godwin family who idolizes Harold and wants to always do what is right for his family, but he’s yet to find his place in the world.  Elander Moore will star as cruel anddevious aristocrat Morcar,  Indy Lewis as the sheltered Margaret, Jason Forbes as the loyal Thane Thomas, Ines Asserson as the eligible Judith and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson as fearsome warrior Hardrada. Leo Legrand will play William’s half-brother, Odo, a cowardly opportunist. See the trailer below:

 

BAZ LUHRMANN FINDS THE GIRL WHO WILL LEAD NEW EPIC MOVIE JEHANNE D'ARC BASED ON THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC!

  BAZ LUHRMANN TO CAST

ISLA JOHNSTON AS JOAN OF ARC

About a year ago I told you that the director of Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann is  preparing his own take on the famous historical story of Joan of Arc titled JEHANNE D'ARC. According to latest news today, he has chosen Isla Johnston to play the young French peasant who believed God had sent her to lead an army. She believed she would save her country during the Hundred Years’ War. It will be the ultimate teenage girl coming of age story, set in the Hundred Years’ War in the 15th century.

SEE ALFIE ALLEN, MARTIJN LAKEMEIER, CHARLIE MURPHY, JACK GLEESON, COLM MEANEY IN SAFE HARBOR ACTION TV SERIES

  SAFE HARBOR SERIES 

WITH ALFIE ALLEN AND MARTIJN LAKEMEIER

Safe Harbor starts on SBS August 21st

Although it already aired in Holland earlier this year, eight part action thriller series SAFE HARBOUR will hit Australian SBS August 21st and it is also available from April on ITVX in UK. 

 THE SERIES FOLLOWS 

Tobias (Alfie Allen) and Marco (Martijn Lakemeier whom we watched in Maxima and Marie Antoinette), hackers who become involved with organised crime when they cross paths with members of the Irish mob, Sloane (Charlie Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Jack Gleeson). They employ them to hack into the security system of Europe's largest shipping port, in Rotterdam, to enable undetected deliveries of drug shipments. Colm Meaney also stars in the series originally made for Videoland Dutch streamer service. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?

 

PRIME VIDEO SETS CAST FOR THEIR EPIC BIBLICAL TV SERIES JOSEPH OF EGYPT WITH ADAM HASHMI IN THE LEAD ROLE

  CAST ANNOUNCED FOR  

EPIC JOSEPH OF EGYPT SERIES AT AMAZON

Two months ago I told you that Prime Video will make a new Biblical series JOSEPH OF EGYPT with The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins following Joseph the son of Jacob and Rachel who is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. But his ability to successfully interpret the Pharaoh’s 

Daniel Peera, Adam Hashmi, Alexander Siddig, Iris Bahr

dreams, which saves Egypt from a terrible famine, earns him favor and position. Betrayed by jealous brothers, Joseph defies all expectations and rises to incredible power in Egypt, second only to Pharaoh. But when his past catches up with him, he is confronted with the ultimate test. Now we know that Adam Hashmi has been given the lead role, with Alexander Siddig as

Matisse Ratron Neal, Amir Malaklou, Dakota Shapiro, Babak Tafti

 Jacob, Babak Tafti as Simeon, Daniel Peera as Reuben, and Iris Bahr as Leah. Also starring are Dakota Shapiro as Ashur, Tannaz Shastiri  as Eliuram, Ruben Vernier as Gad, Amir Malaklou as Judah, Moran Atias as Bilhah, Necar Zadegan as Zilapah, Matisse Ratron-Neal as Issachar, Shani Atias as Rachel, and Siya Maleki as Levi.