Exclusive: Dagmara Domińczyk (Succession) and Don Harvey (The Deuce) are set as series regulars in We Own This City, HBO’s upcoming limited series from The Wire’s executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos. Also cast in recurring/guest star roles are Delaney Williams (Law & Order: Svu), David Corenswet (The Politician), Ian Duff (The Republic of Sarah), Lucas Van Engen (City on a Hill), Gabrielle Carteris (Bh 90210), Treat Williams (Everwood) and The Wire alum Dominick Lombardozzi. They join previously announced cast Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector, Rob Brown, McKinley Belcher III, Larry Mitchell and Wunmi Mosaku.
The six-hour limited series, to be directed and executive produced by Reinaldo Marcus Green, is based on The Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption. The series will chronicle the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s...
The six-hour limited series, to be directed and executive produced by Reinaldo Marcus Green, is based on The Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption. The series will chronicle the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s...
- 8/16/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, the English Premier League renews rights deals for three years; Stephen Graham-starrer “Boiling Point” sells wide; Nent Group sets terrorism drama “Red Election”; Endeavor Content strengthens management team; and Alchimie and All3Media International launch SVOD channel Inside Outside in the U.S.
The English Premier League soccer championship has agreed a proposal for a three-year renewal of U.K. live and non-live broadcast agreements with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport.
The rights deal worth £5 billion ($7 billion) was agreed in 2018 and will now be rolled over from 2022-2025.
This follows approval in principle for the renewal from the U.K. government after a period of consideration where the League cited the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enabled by an exclusion order from the government, the League will conclude the renewals without the normal broadcast rights tender process.
As part of the deal,...
The English Premier League soccer championship has agreed a proposal for a three-year renewal of U.K. live and non-live broadcast agreements with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport.
The rights deal worth £5 billion ($7 billion) was agreed in 2018 and will now be rolled over from 2022-2025.
This follows approval in principle for the renewal from the U.K. government after a period of consideration where the League cited the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enabled by an exclusion order from the government, the League will conclude the renewals without the normal broadcast rights tender process.
As part of the deal,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Stephen Dillane (Game Of Thrones), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack), and James D’Arcy (Homeland) will headline Nordic noir spy thriller Red Election, which is set at Scandi streamer Viaplay and is co-produced by A+E Networks International.
Housed at Swedish production outfit Mopar Studios, Deadline first mooted the 10-part series in January. Production has now wrapped following a six-month delay last year, when filming was shut down after just two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Set against the backdrop of a terrorist plot in London, Red Election centers on Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson (played by Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne) and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy (Leonard), who are pitched together in a desperate race against time.
Caught in a web of lies, murder, and power struggles, they soon realize they can’t trust anybody and that the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
Housed at Swedish production outfit Mopar Studios, Deadline first mooted the 10-part series in January. Production has now wrapped following a six-month delay last year, when filming was shut down after just two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Set against the backdrop of a terrorist plot in London, Red Election centers on Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson (played by Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne) and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy (Leonard), who are pitched together in a desperate race against time.
Caught in a web of lies, murder, and power struggles, they soon realize they can’t trust anybody and that the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
- 5/12/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Jun 1, 2017
Some exciting new UK drama and comedy commissions are making their way to TV over the next year or so…
We know, we know. You still have two episodes of Fargo season two before you can think about starting season three. You’ve already fallen behind on American Gods. Your planner memory is chock-a-block with Big Little Lies and that Oj Simpson thing and some Spanish prison series your workmate bullied you into recording. You’re struggling to make time for Twin Peaks. New Game Of Thrones is just around the corner. And guess what, Netflix UK have just added a whole new season of It’s Always Sunny, those sods. You need a list of new TV show recommendations like you need a hole in the head.
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And yet, as long as they keep making them, we’ll keep recommending them.
Some exciting new UK drama and comedy commissions are making their way to TV over the next year or so…
We know, we know. You still have two episodes of Fargo season two before you can think about starting season three. You’ve already fallen behind on American Gods. Your planner memory is chock-a-block with Big Little Lies and that Oj Simpson thing and some Spanish prison series your workmate bullied you into recording. You’re struggling to make time for Twin Peaks. New Game Of Thrones is just around the corner. And guess what, Netflix UK have just added a whole new season of It’s Always Sunny, those sods. You need a list of new TV show recommendations like you need a hole in the head.
See related Metroid: Other M Nintendo Wii review
And yet, as long as they keep making them, we’ll keep recommending them.
- 5/31/2017
- Den of Geek
Poldark
BBC One has ordered a ten-episode, third season of its Aidan Turner-led period drama "Poldark," months before the second season goes to air. Debbie Horsfield will adapt the new episodes from the novels by Winston Graham. Filming is imminent with a 2017 airdate eyed. Set in 1794, the French revolution casts a shadow over life in Cornwall in the new season which also stars Eleanor Tomlinson, John Nettles, Gabriella Wilde and Hugh Skinner. [Source: Deadline]
Star Trek
"Hannibal" and new "Star Trek" series showrunner Bryan Fuller will moderate a panel of past "Star Trek" actors at Comic Con this year with someone from every show involved to celebrate the franchise's 50th anniversary. William Shatner, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jeri Ryan and Scott Bakula will all be a part of the panel which will take place Saturday, July 23rd at 2pm. [Source: Variety]
Loch Ness
ITV has announced the new six-part serial killer drama series...
BBC One has ordered a ten-episode, third season of its Aidan Turner-led period drama "Poldark," months before the second season goes to air. Debbie Horsfield will adapt the new episodes from the novels by Winston Graham. Filming is imminent with a 2017 airdate eyed. Set in 1794, the French revolution casts a shadow over life in Cornwall in the new season which also stars Eleanor Tomlinson, John Nettles, Gabriella Wilde and Hugh Skinner. [Source: Deadline]
Star Trek
"Hannibal" and new "Star Trek" series showrunner Bryan Fuller will moderate a panel of past "Star Trek" actors at Comic Con this year with someone from every show involved to celebrate the franchise's 50th anniversary. William Shatner, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jeri Ryan and Scott Bakula will all be a part of the panel which will take place Saturday, July 23rd at 2pm. [Source: Variety]
Loch Ness
ITV has announced the new six-part serial killer drama series...
- 7/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
ITV is headed to Scotland for a new six-part serial killer drama Loch Ness. Written by Fortitude's Stephen Brady and exec produced by Tim Haines (Beowulf), Loch Ness centers on a community nourished and sustained by myth, and bordered by untamed nature. There, the search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for local detective Annie Cathro who is trying to cope with her first murder case. Filming is under way in the Highlands. ITV Studios is producing. La…...
- 7/6/2016
- Deadline TV
Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Verónica Echegui
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Eight”
Written by Ben Richards
Directed by Hettie Macdonald
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Nine”
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Nick Hurran
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
With the mystery of Professor Stoddart’s death reaching some conclusion, the town of Fortitude seemed out of the shadows when Shirley proceeded to brutally attack her own mother. The last two episodes have examined the aftermath of both Shirley’s attack coming to light, and Frank’s attempts to come to terms with his son’s apparent criminal activity, among other things. This has resulted in the pressure cooker environment of Fortitude threatening to bubble over as the town finds itself forcefully isolated from the mainland, and has led the show down some intriguing paths.
The paranoia gripping the town in the wake of Shirley’s attack on her mother has been fascinating to watch.
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Eight”
Written by Ben Richards
Directed by Hettie Macdonald
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Nine”
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Nick Hurran
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
With the mystery of Professor Stoddart’s death reaching some conclusion, the town of Fortitude seemed out of the shadows when Shirley proceeded to brutally attack her own mother. The last two episodes have examined the aftermath of both Shirley’s attack coming to light, and Frank’s attempts to come to terms with his son’s apparent criminal activity, among other things. This has resulted in the pressure cooker environment of Fortitude threatening to bubble over as the town finds itself forcefully isolated from the mainland, and has led the show down some intriguing paths.
The paranoia gripping the town in the wake of Shirley’s attack on her mother has been fascinating to watch.
- 3/20/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Fortitude, Season 1, Episodes 5, 6, and 7
Written by Stephen Brady (1.05), Simon Donald (1.06, 1.07)
Directed by Richard Laxton (1.05, 1.06), Hettie Macdonald (1.07)
Airs Thursdays at 10pm (Et) on Pivot
Holy crap, what the hell just happened?!? After weeks toying with the audience, teasing then backing away from genre elements and using the visual language of horror, sci-fi, and creature features, Fortitude commits in a big way with the viscerally disturbing climax of “Episode Seven”. Shirley’s attack of her mother is telegraphed somewhat, but that does nothing to prepare audiences for the intensity and transfixing horror of her actions, or her lack of remorse afterwards. It would seem Shirley doesn’t live there any more, hollowed out to make room for whatever spewed what looks to this critic like a clutch of eggs into Shirley’s mother’s (still living, let us not forget) body. From the atmospheric, tense scoring by Ben Frost to the detached,...
Written by Stephen Brady (1.05), Simon Donald (1.06, 1.07)
Directed by Richard Laxton (1.05, 1.06), Hettie Macdonald (1.07)
Airs Thursdays at 10pm (Et) on Pivot
Holy crap, what the hell just happened?!? After weeks toying with the audience, teasing then backing away from genre elements and using the visual language of horror, sci-fi, and creature features, Fortitude commits in a big way with the viscerally disturbing climax of “Episode Seven”. Shirley’s attack of her mother is telegraphed somewhat, but that does nothing to prepare audiences for the intensity and transfixing horror of her actions, or her lack of remorse afterwards. It would seem Shirley doesn’t live there any more, hollowed out to make room for whatever spewed what looks to this critic like a clutch of eggs into Shirley’s mother’s (still living, let us not forget) body. From the atmospheric, tense scoring by Ben Frost to the detached,...
- 3/6/2015
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Four”
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Richard Laxton
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
Not as immediately visually arresting or mystifying as its preceding episodes, the newest chapter of Fortitude is the first to feel like a typical murder mystery. There are a few nice transitions—a shot of the polio-stricken young boy sitting in an incubator cuts to a shot of a derelict statue, a restaurant mascot perhaps, lying supine in the snow—and the pulsating, unstable music is still as cutting as the sharpest winter wind, but gone are the flashier touches, the super-tight compositions. The show continues to move centrifugal from the mysticism of the first episode, which, while inevitable, nonetheless comes as a sort of disappointment, given the profound beauty of that first hour. As the plot expands, the mystery becomes less sublime and more in the vein of a typical prestige television show.
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Richard Laxton
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
Not as immediately visually arresting or mystifying as its preceding episodes, the newest chapter of Fortitude is the first to feel like a typical murder mystery. There are a few nice transitions—a shot of the polio-stricken young boy sitting in an incubator cuts to a shot of a derelict statue, a restaurant mascot perhaps, lying supine in the snow—and the pulsating, unstable music is still as cutting as the sharpest winter wind, but gone are the flashier touches, the super-tight compositions. The show continues to move centrifugal from the mysticism of the first episode, which, while inevitable, nonetheless comes as a sort of disappointment, given the profound beauty of that first hour. As the plot expands, the mystery becomes less sublime and more in the vein of a typical prestige television show.
- 2/15/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- SoundOnSight
We interview Fortitude's exec producer, who says that the Sky Atlantic drama is "a self-contained story that comes to an end"...
Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude, showing now on Thursday nights at 9pm, is a thriller, a mystery and an exploration of what can happen when murder takes place where you least expect it. Its cast, including Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci and Sofie Grabol, is no less impressive than its otherworldly Nordic backdrop.
We spoke to executive producer Patrick Spence about filming in Norway, the prospect of British writers’ rooms and why Fortitude is not a frozen western…
I think that what’s interesting about the show is the relationship between landscape and character. You’ve made an effort to film in Iceland, with the incredible scenery that, for the fictional town at least, masks a real sense of danger. The landscape is beautiful, but the environment can kill you.
Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude, showing now on Thursday nights at 9pm, is a thriller, a mystery and an exploration of what can happen when murder takes place where you least expect it. Its cast, including Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci and Sofie Grabol, is no less impressive than its otherworldly Nordic backdrop.
We spoke to executive producer Patrick Spence about filming in Norway, the prospect of British writers’ rooms and why Fortitude is not a frozen western…
I think that what’s interesting about the show is the relationship between landscape and character. You’ve made an effort to film in Iceland, with the incredible scenery that, for the fictional town at least, masks a real sense of danger. The landscape is beautiful, but the environment can kill you.
- 2/11/2015
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
Vera has been recommissioned by ITV1. The crime drama, which stars Brenda Blethyn as Di Vera Stanhope, will be granted a second series, according to The Guardian. The series, which is set in North East England, is based on a Stephen Brady (Silent Witness) adaptation of award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves's books. RocknRolla actor David Leon, who plays Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, stars opposite Blethyn. The first two episodes of the show, which has been nominated in the 'Best New Drama' category at the TV Choice Awards, attracted (more)...
- 5/19/2011
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
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