Oscar-winning writer-director Kenneth Lonergan has undertaken the impressive task of adapting E,M. Forster’s Howards End for television. The limited series event – starring Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfayden and Tracey Ullman – will premiere on Starz in April, 2018. The first trailer follows…
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First Look Photo: Starz’s Howards End
Kenneth Lonergan’s first television adaptation – an adaptation of the classic E.M. Forester novel Howard’s End – is now in production in London. This four-part limited series is the story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an ever-changing world. Starz has released […]
Ripper Street: Season Five: DI Reid On Wrong Side of the Law
The fifth and final season of Ripper Street finds Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) and Long Susan (Myanna Buring) on the wrong side of the law following the brutal murder of their friend and colleague, Captain Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn.)
First Look: The Last Kingdom!
BBC America’s The Last Kingdom – a historical drama set in the Kingdom of Wessex, the last kingdom to resist the invading Vikings – will be sneak previewed during the third season premiere of Orphan Black on Saturday. The series is based on The Saxon Novels of Bernard Cornwell and has been adapted for television […]
Ripper Street Takes A Time Jump For Season Three!
BBC America’s Ripper Street is returning for a third season. Set four years after the events of season two, things have really changed: Detective Inspector Reid, Detective Inspector Drake (newly promoted) and Captain Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) have been separated; Long Susan has taken over the late Silas Duggan’s criminal enterprise. The robbery of a goods […]
BBC America’s The Last Kingdom Begins Production!
Production has begun on BBC America’s The Last Kingdom – based on the The Saxon Stories, the series of bestselling novels by Bernard Cornwell (also known for his excellent Sharpe novels). Set in the 9th century, many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings, only the […]
Ripper Street: Post Jack the Ripper; Pre-CSI!
It’s five months after Jack the Ripper has ceased his murderous spree and a walking tour of the sites of his killings stumbles across what appears to be a dead prostitute – killed in a very familiar manner. Now it’s up to Detective Inspector Edmund Reid to find the killer before the press can create […]