“Conflict is intimacy,” showrunner Paul W. Downs recently told EW in preparation for the eagerly anticipated second season of “Hacks,” suggesting a resumption of the biting tone which made season one an instant hit.
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Naman Ramachandran Sally Wainwright’s RTS-winning and BAFTA nominated hit “Gentleman Jack” will return for a second season on Apr. 10 on BBC One and iPlayer.
The BBC has released a trailer and images featuring Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle and Lydia Leonard in character as Anne Lister, Ann Walker and Mariana Lawton. The eight-part series is a Lookout Point production for the BBC, co-produced with HBO.The new season is set in Yorkshire, 1834.
All eyes are on Anne Lister and Ann Walker as they set up home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, determined to combine their estates and become a power couple. Anne Lister’s entrepreneurial spirit frightens the locals as much as her unconventional love life and, with Halifax on the brink of revolution, her refusal to keep a low profile becomes provocative and dangerous.
As in the first season, the second will also use the real life diaries of Anne Lister — part of which were written in code — as its source, with every part of Lister’s story based in historical fact. Returning for the second season are Gemma Whelan, Gemma Jones and Timothy West alongside Jodhi May, Katherine Kelly, Derek Riddell, Stephanie Cole, Peter Davison, Amelia Bullmore, Vincent Franklin, Shaun Dooley, Rosie Cavaliero, Joe Armstrong, Anthony Flanagan, and George Costigan.Joanna Scanlan, who recently won the leading actress BAFTA for “After Love,” joins “Gentleman Jack” in a guest role for season 2, playing Anne Lister’s outrageous former lover Isabella ‘Tib’ Norcliffe.“Gentleman Jack” season 2 (8×60’) is written by Sally Wainwright.
Executive producers are Wainwright and Suranne Jones, Faith Penhale and Will Johnston for Lookout Point and Ben Irving for the BBC. The new season is directed by Edward
.“Conflict is intimacy,” showrunner Paul W. Downs recently told EW in preparation for the eagerly anticipated second season of “Hacks,” suggesting a resumption of the biting tone which made season one an instant hit.
What if you could live again and again until you got it right? Metaphysical reincarnation sci-fi about life, death, family, and more? Yep, it’s an adaptation of Kate Atkinson‘s acclaimed novel, “Life After Life,” which is a BBC series debuting this month in the U.K. And it features quite the cast too, Thomasin McKenzie, known for “Leave No Trace,” “Jojo Rabbit,” and most recently a small role in “The Power of The Dog,” Sian Clifford from “Fleabag” and Jessica Brown Findlay from “Downton Abbey.” They star in the series alongside James McArdle, and Jessica Hynes, with Patsy Ferran, Harry Michell, Laurie Kynaston, Joshua Hill, and Maria Laird rounding out the cast.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has dropped a trailer for “The Takedown,” a cop comedy directed by “Lupin” helmer Louis Leterrier and starring Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte. The movie is a sequel to the French comedy “On The Other Side Of The Tracks.”Sy and Lafitte star as two cops with very different styles and backgrounds who are reunited for criminal investigation across France.
The BBC has acquired HBO Max’s Ansel Elgort-starring Tokyo Vice from Endeavor Content.
Eleven has lost her powers at the end of Stranger Things’ third season and they don’t appear to have returned in the first trailer for the long-delayed fourth season of the Netflix supernatural drama series.
Jack Johnson has announced the release of his first new album in five years, ‘Meet the Moonlight’ – listen to lead single ‘One Step Ahead’ below.The US singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album – the follow-up to 2017’s ‘All The Light Above It Too’ – will arrive on June 24 via Brushfire/Republic Records.Johnson made the album with acclaimed producer Blake Mills (Lana Del Rey, Weezer, Norah Jones), recording it at Sound City and EastWest Studios in Los Angeles and Johnson’s Mango Tree studio in Hawaii.“When Blake and I first got in touch we’d send each other playlists, and over time we realised we were drawn to music that sounds effortless despite all the effort put into making it,” Johnson said in a statement.
Gentleman Jack returns this Sunday evening for its long-awaited second season. Suranne Jones once again takes the lead as Anne Lister for the BBC One hit period drama.
Inside No.9 has been revealed – check it out below, along with details of a premiere date.Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s dark comedy anthology series began on the BBC in 2014, with its sixth series airing last year.A seventh series was confirmed by the BBC last year and its first episode will air on BBC Two and iPlayer on April 20.Confirmed guest stars include Daniel Mays, Jason Isaacs, Jessica Hynes, Sophie Okonedo, Diane Morgan, Daisy Haggard, Annette Badland, Siobhan Redmond and Ron Cook.Mark Gatiss, co-star and co-creator on The League Of Gentlemen, will also feature in the next series.Watch the creepy trailer for season seven, soundtracked by a brooding cover of ‘What A Wonderful World’, below.Speaking about the new series when it was announcement in September, Shearsmith and Pemberton said: “We hope you’ll join us and another incredible cast of actors for more surprises that will make your jaws drop and spines tingle.“Heads might even roll, and if not heads, definitely eyes.”Last year, Shearsmith told NME he believes the BBC anthology show could go on for another three series.“It just goes on,” he said. “It’s a brilliant thing but also horrific to try to keep coming up with the stories because there is such a high turnover of storytelling.
Netflix’s raunchiest ever franchise is back with a bang.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Hughes (Echo 3) and Josh Plasse (iCarly) have signed on to star alongside Frank Grillo and Jaime King in the horror-thriller Man’s Son, which Remy Grillo is directing for XYZ Films.
An army veteran who won medals for his service was among three men locked up for their part in a huge cocaine dealing operation foiled by cops who hacked into their Encrochat messages.
HBO has released the official trailer for the eight-episode second season of creator Sally Wainwright’s “Gentleman Jack” ahead of its April 25 debut. “Gentleman Jack” is The story of pioneering lesbian Anne Lister, a mountaineer, landowner, businesswoman, and prolific diarist who “wrote in code in part about her sexual trysts and love affairs with women,” as nicely contextualized by the Advocate.
true-crime documentary,. Ahead of its April debut, ET has the first look at the upcoming four-part series, which features an exclusive interview with Jessop, who was by Jeffs’ side during his rise to power. The docuseries will revisit life inside the polygamous denomination led by Jeffs, who rose to power within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints during the ‘90s and had as many as 70 wives, including Jessop, by the early aughts.
Emiliano De Pablos Emmy Award-winning French toon production-distribution label Dandelooo has clinched a deal with pubcaster France Télévisions for Spanish award-winning 2D animated series “Jasmine & Jambo.”Targeting both upper preschoolers and parents, and bursting with musical notes and humor, “Jasmine & Jambo” is a 27-part series, produced by Barcelona-based company Teidees and Catalan broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya.Directed by Teidees co-founder Silvia Cortés, the show won best international series at the Festival Ecran Jeunesse and was nominated for the Quality in Children’s TV Worldwide award at Prix Jeunesse International.Ensuring a premier broadcast platform, “Jasmine & Jambo” will join the France Télévisions kids and family lineup, available first on streamer Okko from the Fete de la Musique – Music Day – in France on June 21. Also, onboard to bring the music series to Canadian kids are educational networks TFO and Knowledge.
Sex Pistols TV series, Pistol, has been released – check it out below.Created and written by Craig Pearce and directed by Danny Boyle, the six-episode show is set to premiere on Disney+ on May 31.Pistol is based on Steve Jones‘ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol and features a cast of newcomers, including Toby Wallace as Jones, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Anson Boon as John Lydon and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock.Arriving today (April 4) the brief official trailer for Pistol – titled ‘Destroy’ – sees Boon’s Lydon tell his bandmates that “the monarchy has stolen our future” before we hear of the start of “a youth revolution”.Elsewhere, there are snippets of the Sex Pistols performing onstage as well as a recreation of the moment that the band signed their record deal with A&M outside of Buckingham Palace.Check out the trailer here:An official synopsis for Pistol describes the show as being about “a rock and roll revolution”, reading: “The furious, raging storm at the centre of this revolution are the Sex Pistols– and at the centre of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones.“Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heart-breaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.”It continues: “This is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with ‘no future,’ who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.”Pistol also stars Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Talulah Riley as Vivienne Westwood, Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen and
It’s a bit pointless complaining about ignored or passed-over Oscar-worthy films, but if one were going to do such a thing, a pretty damn valid complaint would be French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of A Lady On Fire” being looked over by the Academy in the 2019/2020 season. ironically, that’s the same year that NEON, the company behind ‘Portrait,’ defeated the odds, surpassed the giants with more money around then, and won Best Picture for “Parasite.” Perhaps it was a combination of NEON having to put all their eggs in one basket, sacrificing another, and the Academy just seemingly over the moon about Bong Joon-Ho’s masterful film.
HBO Max original series picks up 15 years later, with the beloved original cast spending two months in Rivera Maya in Mexico. Three generations of Garcias sit in a beautiful room, while the family matriarch makes an announcement.
TV presenter Holly Willoughby was left visibly emotional as she filmed her brand new BBC challenge show, Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof. In a recently released trailer for the show - which sees famous faces pushing themselves to the limit in sub-zero temperatures - Holly, 41, can be seen looking glassy-eyed and fighting back tears as she watches on.The video begins as Holly, 41, introduces TV fans to the new series where a group of brave celebrities will take on a series of epic mental and physical challenges set by “The Iceman” himself - Dutch extreme athlete and cold-water therapy advocate, Wim Hof. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter As footage of the star line-up facing their fears and throwing themselves into the challenges plays, Holly’s voice can be heard saying: “Eight celebs.