Steven Moffat Responds To 'Time Traveler's Wife' Criticisms That The Show Promotes Grooming

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After reigning over the box office, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” will hit Disney+ this month.The Benedict Cumberbatch-led movie arrives on the streamer June 22, just a handful of weeks after its May 6 release.

Jodie Foster is joining the universe. HBO announced on Thursday that the acclaimed actress is set to star in the fourth season of their popular anthology crime drama. is currently in development, with Mexican filmmaker Issa López set to write, direct and executive produce.

Deadline reported.This marks Foster’s first major TV role as an adult. “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace,” HBO explained in the official description of the story.

Jodie Foster is set to star in the upcoming season of “True Detective” on HBO.The new season will officially be titled “True Detective: Night Country.” Here’s a logline for the installment:When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.Issa López has been tapped to write, direct, and executive produce.

Jodie Foster is heading into Night Country.

HBO’s adaption of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” were left “disturbed” and “haunted” by a sex scene that was depicted in Sunday’s second episode, as well as the original book.In the episode, Henry — played by Theo James — explains to his love interest, Claire (Rose Leslie), how his father found out about his time-traveling powers by awkward accident. A flashback scene shows a 16-year-old version of Henry using his powers to go back in time and perform oral sex on himself when his father walks in and sees the two versions of his son — both naked and in bed together.

Fans of Steven Moffat and David Nutter would be quick to point out that the two are no strangers to a good bit of time travel, being creatives behind great episodes of “Doctor Who” and “The Flash,” but their new series, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” is a whole new proverbial ball of time-slipping wax. READ MORE: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’: Steve Moffat’s Romantic Sci-Fi Series Remake Is An Icky, Tasteless Misfire The new series follows a love story between two characters, Henry DeTamble (Theo James) and Claire Abshire (Rose Leslie), with one small hitch: Henry involuntarily slips through time and meets Claire again and again throughout her life.

The Inbetweeners star James Buckley and his wife Clair Meek brought a splash of colour to the red carpet at a star-studded event in London. Sky's Up Next bash attracted a host of famous faces at Dury Lane's Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening where guests got an exclusive look at what’s coming up next on the channel.

In the 2009 adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” the titular time traveler Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana, soulful) explains that it works like gravity, big events pull him in. Opposite him sits the love of his life Clare (Rachel McAdams, radiant), who exclaims, “I was a big event.” “So it would seem,” he replies.

Rose Leslie and actor Theo James, follows the intricate love story of Clare and Henry — a time traveler — over six episodes that tests love, time and loss.Sign Up for HBO Max«All the boxes were ticked,» Leslie told ET. «Theo and I have both said that just by reading the [script] whilst we were auditioning, it really hammered home the fact that we would love to have been a part of this project and so we worked hard to get it.»In addition to , you can watch all of HBO's hit shows and blockbuster movies with an HBO Max subscription with plans that start at $10 per month.

Kit Harington has been photographed appearing clean shaven in a new look alongside his wife Rose Leslie. The Game of Thrones actor, who played Jon Snow in the series, was snapped attending the premiere of HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife at The Morgan Library in New York on May 11. His face was clean shaved as he ditched the facial hair which was synonymous with his character Jon Snow in the hit fantasy show.

Rose Leslie poses for a sweet pic with husband Kit Harington at the premiere of her new series, The Time Traveler’s Wife, held at The Morgan Library on Wednesday night (May 11) in New York City.

Theo James is enjoying a day out with his wife, Ruth Kearney.

Theo James and Rose Leslie reunite for a romantic drama with a timely twist.HBO's , the new six-episode adaptation of the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, follows married couple Clare Abshire (Leslie) and Henry DeTamble (James), whose marriage is complicated by time travel. Written by Steven Moffat () and directed by David Nutter (), the series also stars Desmin Borges as Gomez and Natasha Lopez as Charisse.Prior to joining Time Traveler's Wife, James and Leslie briefly worked together on though James admittedly doesn't recall their encounter.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticWhen it comes to “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” what’s old is new. Quite literally.Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, published in 2003, captured the imagination of a vast readership with its story of a marriage unmoored by a husband’s tendency to skip through time. The widespread swooning made a film adaptation, released in 2009 and starring Eric Bana as time traveler and Rachel McAdams as wife, a foregone conclusion.

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” into an HBO series because he’s a fan of the book.“It inspired the [‘Doctor Who’] episode ‘The Girl in the Fireplace,’” Moffat told The Post. “I had just read ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’, which I loved. And I said, ‘We should do an episode like that.’ And then, in [author Audrey Niffenegger’s] next book, she had a character watching ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’ on television.