As we move into May, BritBox is bringing a collection of classic series, new movies, and live events to its platform in the United States this month. After a seven-day free trial, a subscription to BritBox costs $8.99 per month and this month, you will be able to stream all three seasons of the beloved comedy “Stath Lets Flats,” the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards, this year’s installment of “Rhs Chelsea Flower Show,” and much more.
The Streamable’s experts have gone through the streamer’s slate for the month and we have pulled out five titles to recommend on BritBox in May 2024.
7-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month BritBox.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to BritBox in May 2024? “Stath Lets Flats” | Season 1: May 3, Season 2: May 10, Season 3: May 17
BritBox is dolling out the comedy in weekly installments this month. On Friday, May 3, the streamer will begin streaming...
The Streamable’s experts have gone through the streamer’s slate for the month and we have pulled out five titles to recommend on BritBox in May 2024.
7-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month BritBox.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to BritBox in May 2024? “Stath Lets Flats” | Season 1: May 3, Season 2: May 10, Season 3: May 17
BritBox is dolling out the comedy in weekly installments this month. On Friday, May 3, the streamer will begin streaming...
- 5/1/2024
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in May 2024, which include everything from new BritBox Originals to classic British fare. BritBox is a digital video subscription service offering the largest collection of British TV in the U.S. and Canada.
The May lineup includes the Sophie Rundle-led original After the Flood and the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards with P&o Cruises, streaming exclusively on BritBox in North America. Several notable BritBox series have been nominated for BAFTA TV Awards this year, including The Sixth Commandment, Time, Three Little Birds, Would I Lie to You, and Make It at Market, which will be returning for a second season on May 14.
BritBox is a digital subscription video-on-demand service offering the largest and most comprehensive, unmissable collection of British entertainment available all in one place.
BritBox delivers the UK’s favorite programs, ranging from brand new commissions to gems, across a variety of genres,...
The May lineup includes the Sophie Rundle-led original After the Flood and the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards with P&o Cruises, streaming exclusively on BritBox in North America. Several notable BritBox series have been nominated for BAFTA TV Awards this year, including The Sixth Commandment, Time, Three Little Birds, Would I Lie to You, and Make It at Market, which will be returning for a second season on May 14.
BritBox is a digital subscription video-on-demand service offering the largest and most comprehensive, unmissable collection of British entertainment available all in one place.
BritBox delivers the UK’s favorite programs, ranging from brand new commissions to gems, across a variety of genres,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
The label’s first project is Sky’s eight-part black comedy Sweetpea.
See-Saw Films has handed Heartstopper executive producer Patrick Walters his own label.
Fanboy aims to focus on high-end drama that explores worlds and genres that are fresh and original, celebrating unique and underdog perspectives. Its TV output will be overseen by Walters, alongside Helen Gregory, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman for See-Saw.
The label’s first project is Sky’s eight-part black comedy Sweetpea, which is based on Cj Skuse’s 2017 novel and was first announced three years ago.
Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon Lewis, who is stuck in a dead relationship,...
See-Saw Films has handed Heartstopper executive producer Patrick Walters his own label.
Fanboy aims to focus on high-end drama that explores worlds and genres that are fresh and original, celebrating unique and underdog perspectives. Its TV output will be overseen by Walters, alongside Helen Gregory, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman for See-Saw.
The label’s first project is Sky’s eight-part black comedy Sweetpea, which is based on Cj Skuse’s 2017 novel and was first announced three years ago.
Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell stars as Rhiannon Lewis, who is stuck in a dead relationship,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Marian McHugh Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Ella Purnell (“Yellowjackets”) will star in and executive produce “Sweetpea,” a female driven original drama series from pay TV operator Sky.
The series is adapted from C.J. Skuse’s novel of the same name by writer and executive producer Kirstie Swain (“Pure”), and written by Kirstie Swain (“Run”) and Krissie Ducker (“Killing Eve”), alongside Laura Jayne Tunbridge (“Nights”) and Selina Lim (“Sex Education”). The series will be directed by Ella Jones (“The Baby”), who also serves as executive producer.
Purnell stars as Rhiannon Lewis, who doesn’t make much of an impression – people walk past her in the street without a second glance. She’s continually overlooked for a promotion at work, the guy she likes won’t commit, and her dad is really sick. Then everything in her life turns upside down. Rhiannon is pushed over the edge and loses control. Rhiannon’s life transforms as she steps into a new,...
The series is adapted from C.J. Skuse’s novel of the same name by writer and executive producer Kirstie Swain (“Pure”), and written by Kirstie Swain (“Run”) and Krissie Ducker (“Killing Eve”), alongside Laura Jayne Tunbridge (“Nights”) and Selina Lim (“Sex Education”). The series will be directed by Ella Jones (“The Baby”), who also serves as executive producer.
Purnell stars as Rhiannon Lewis, who doesn’t make much of an impression – people walk past her in the street without a second glance. She’s continually overlooked for a promotion at work, the guy she likes won’t commit, and her dad is really sick. Then everything in her life turns upside down. Rhiannon is pushed over the edge and loses control. Rhiannon’s life transforms as she steps into a new,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
CinemaBlind’s Review – 100%
Slow Horses is back with its much-awaited third season, and I am happy to say that it is even better than what came before. The Gary Oldman dark comedy-drama has to be one of the best TV shows in the entire world, but sadly it is still not getting the attention it deserves.
Based on the third novel of the Slough House book series titled Real Tigers by Mick Herron, the new season starts in Istanbul with Alison Dunn (Katherine Waterston), an MI5 agent, and Sean Donovan (Sope Dirisu), head of security. The relationship between these two sets up the events for the upcoming episodes and while we don’t see the Slow Horses in the opening scene, they get caught up in this new mess pretty soon.
Credit – Apple TV+
When it comes to the Slow Horses, not much has changed. River (Jack Lowden) still resents everything about his job,...
Slow Horses is back with its much-awaited third season, and I am happy to say that it is even better than what came before. The Gary Oldman dark comedy-drama has to be one of the best TV shows in the entire world, but sadly it is still not getting the attention it deserves.
Based on the third novel of the Slough House book series titled Real Tigers by Mick Herron, the new season starts in Istanbul with Alison Dunn (Katherine Waterston), an MI5 agent, and Sean Donovan (Sope Dirisu), head of security. The relationship between these two sets up the events for the upcoming episodes and while we don’t see the Slow Horses in the opening scene, they get caught up in this new mess pretty soon.
Credit – Apple TV+
When it comes to the Slow Horses, not much has changed. River (Jack Lowden) still resents everything about his job,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Exclusive: Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) have landed the lead roles in the BBC’s upcoming crime drama series Dope Girls, we can reveal.
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.
Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...
- 11/15/2023
- by Rosy Cordero, Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
If you have to ask whether you’re being unreasonable, you probably are. And who’s asking that question in Hulu’s Am I Being Unreasonable? Everyone.
In the first moments of the premiere (now streaming on Hulu), we witness a romantic train station flirtation. A woman enters a soon-to-be departing train and a man kisses her goodbye under its threshold. Outside, snow falls in heaping flakes. Romantic, right? Until the doors close on the man’s jacket and he’s stuck dangling outside the train, like some kind of sick holiday ornament. Despite the woman’s frantic efforts to free him,...
In the first moments of the premiere (now streaming on Hulu), we witness a romantic train station flirtation. A woman enters a soon-to-be departing train and a man kisses her goodbye under its threshold. Outside, snow falls in heaping flakes. Romantic, right? Until the doors close on the man’s jacket and he’s stuck dangling outside the train, like some kind of sick holiday ornament. Despite the woman’s frantic efforts to free him,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
In the United Kingdom, Daisy May Cooper is a certified television star, a familiar enough presence as both an actress and series creator that she appeared on the British version of The Masked Singer earlier this spring. She was the Otter.
Had Cooper been revealed on the American Masked Singer in February, Jenny McCarthy probably would have been totally flummoxed. Cooper might have been familiar from a pair of Armando Iannucci projects — The Personal History of David Copperfield and Avenue 5 — but instead of This Country, an award-winning comedy she starred in and created with brother Charlie, we got U.S. remake Welcome to Flatch; and instead of the British smash hit Taskmaster, on which Cooper contributed to the 10th season, we got the American version of Taskmaster, which bombed in its lone Comedy Central season.
That’s changing, of course. American audiences are getting a crash course in Daisy May Cooper this spring,...
Had Cooper been revealed on the American Masked Singer in February, Jenny McCarthy probably would have been totally flummoxed. Cooper might have been familiar from a pair of Armando Iannucci projects — The Personal History of David Copperfield and Avenue 5 — but instead of This Country, an award-winning comedy she starred in and created with brother Charlie, we got U.S. remake Welcome to Flatch; and instead of the British smash hit Taskmaster, on which Cooper contributed to the 10th season, we got the American version of Taskmaster, which bombed in its lone Comedy Central season.
That’s changing, of course. American audiences are getting a crash course in Daisy May Cooper this spring,...
- 4/10/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Hulu has acquired Daisy May Cooper’s hit BBC comedy-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?
The streamer has taken U.S. rights to all six episodes of the genre-bending comedy, which was written by the This Country creator and Selin Hizli (Mum), and exec produced by Jack Thorne. Show will debut as a Hulu original on April 11. BBC Studios struck the deal, having shopped the show at Mipcom Cannes.
Am I Being Unreasonable?, which has been recommissioned for a second season, aired to critical acclaim on the BBC last September and is considered a frontrunner for the upcoming UK TV awards season.
The six-parter from Boffola Pictures and Happy Valley producer Lookout Point follows Nic (Cooper), a mother grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone whilst stuck in a depressing marriage. Only her son, Ollie, keeps her going. But when Jen (Hizli) arrives in town,...
The streamer has taken U.S. rights to all six episodes of the genre-bending comedy, which was written by the This Country creator and Selin Hizli (Mum), and exec produced by Jack Thorne. Show will debut as a Hulu original on April 11. BBC Studios struck the deal, having shopped the show at Mipcom Cannes.
Am I Being Unreasonable?, which has been recommissioned for a second season, aired to critical acclaim on the BBC last September and is considered a frontrunner for the upcoming UK TV awards season.
The six-parter from Boffola Pictures and Happy Valley producer Lookout Point follows Nic (Cooper), a mother grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone whilst stuck in a depressing marriage. Only her son, Ollie, keeps her going. But when Jen (Hizli) arrives in town,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Note: The following contains spoilers for “Slow Horses” Season 2 Episode 3
The death of a former MI5 agent set in motion a plot involving Russian sleeper agents in “Slow Horses” Season 2, and in Episode 3, “Drinking Games,” Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) learns that one of his own agents has also been killed.
Slow Horses Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns) and Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), who are also in a romantic relationship, were asked by James “Spider” Web (Freddie Fox) to run security on an upcoming meeting with an elusive Russian. After a fight, Min tailed their Russian contacts on his own, who quickly spotted him and pulled a gun on him… before inviting him in for several shots of vodka.
A wobbly and inebriated Min headed home on his bicycle, only to be hit by a car and killed in a tunnel. When Lamb and Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) arrived on scene, the...
The death of a former MI5 agent set in motion a plot involving Russian sleeper agents in “Slow Horses” Season 2, and in Episode 3, “Drinking Games,” Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) learns that one of his own agents has also been killed.
Slow Horses Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns) and Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), who are also in a romantic relationship, were asked by James “Spider” Web (Freddie Fox) to run security on an upcoming meeting with an elusive Russian. After a fight, Min tailed their Russian contacts on his own, who quickly spotted him and pulled a gun on him… before inviting him in for several shots of vodka.
A wobbly and inebriated Min headed home on his bicycle, only to be hit by a car and killed in a tunnel. When Lamb and Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) arrived on scene, the...
- 12/9/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Despite the heroism and quick thinking shown by disgraced MI5 agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) in Season 1 of “Slow Horses,” he’s back at Slough House under the disapproving eye of boss Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman). And, Lowden told TheWrap, Lamb still doesn’t have that much faith in River as “Slow Horses” returns for Season 2 to Apple TV+.
“It doesn’t matter what they do. They’ve got to do something really special to get back to where they want to be, I think,” said Lowden of his fellow “horses,” who include Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns), and tech whiz Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung).
As it turns out, saving a high-profile kidnap victim from decapitation wasn’t quite enough to get them reinstated with MI5.
“And also, do we [the audience] want them to [leave Slough House]? I mean, I do, I want River to be back exactly where he should be,...
“It doesn’t matter what they do. They’ve got to do something really special to get back to where they want to be, I think,” said Lowden of his fellow “horses,” who include Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns), and tech whiz Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung).
As it turns out, saving a high-profile kidnap victim from decapitation wasn’t quite enough to get them reinstated with MI5.
“And also, do we [the audience] want them to [leave Slough House]? I mean, I do, I want River to be back exactly where he should be,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
At a time when it feels like we’ve seen every romcom premise under the sun, the concept of two total strangers sharing a bed every night might be the first truly original idea I’ve heard in years. No wonder Beth O’Leary’s debut novel The Flatshare has been glued to the hands of train passengers and beach loungers since it was released in 2019. And now, among a sea of romantic comedies determined to deconstruct the genre, the TV adaptation on Paramount+ is charming and tightly written – knowing, but never snarky.
We open to the sight of mascara-streaked, recently dumped Tiffany (Jessica Brown Findlay), slumped on the floor as Paloma Faith warbles about how “only love can hurt like this”. In order to take control (and save money amid the hellish London rental market) post break-up, Tiffany is going to sublet a one-bed flat in south London. But this...
We open to the sight of mascara-streaked, recently dumped Tiffany (Jessica Brown Findlay), slumped on the floor as Paloma Faith warbles about how “only love can hurt like this”. In order to take control (and save money amid the hellish London rental market) post break-up, Tiffany is going to sublet a one-bed flat in south London. But this...
- 12/1/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - TV
To celebrate the anticipated release of Season Two of Slow Horses on Apple TV+, we sat down with the show’s incredible ensemble to find out about the sophomore season and what fans can expect from it.
In season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
We sit down with Kristen Scott-Thomas and Jack Lowden, Gary Oldman and Saskia Reeves and Chris Chung, Rosalind Eleazar & Dustin Demri-Burns to chat about the ensemble, the unusual group of characters the show brings together, its uniquely British sense of humour, how expertly the show blends its sarcasm with its real-world scenarios and why they think the show struck such a chord with audiences earlier in the year.
In season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
We sit down with Kristen Scott-Thomas and Jack Lowden, Gary Oldman and Saskia Reeves and Chris Chung, Rosalind Eleazar & Dustin Demri-Burns to chat about the ensemble, the unusual group of characters the show brings together, its uniquely British sense of humour, how expertly the show blends its sarcasm with its real-world scenarios and why they think the show struck such a chord with audiences earlier in the year.
- 11/29/2022
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Plot: Long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
Review: Espionage is such a great concept that has factored into countless films and series over the years. Spies and secret agents make for thrilling storytelling that never lacks intensity or a deep well of material to make for entertaining tales. Still, when we think of spies on screen, the first thought is of James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt. The first season of Slow Horses presented a very different take on spies with a more realistic approach but one that was full of dark humor. Led by Gary Oldman as the irascible Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses is back for a second...
Review: Espionage is such a great concept that has factored into countless films and series over the years. Spies and secret agents make for thrilling storytelling that never lacks intensity or a deep well of material to make for entertaining tales. Still, when we think of spies on screen, the first thought is of James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt. The first season of Slow Horses presented a very different take on spies with a more realistic approach but one that was full of dark humor. Led by Gary Oldman as the irascible Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses is back for a second...
- 11/28/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for the much anticipated second season of ‘Slow Horses,’ the globally acclaimed espionage series starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman.
In the six-episode season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
The darkly humorous espionage drama follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping-ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Oldman stars as ‘Jackson Lamb,’ the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
Starring alongside Oldman in the ensemble cast are Academy Award-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas,...
In the six-episode season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London. When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
The darkly humorous espionage drama follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping-ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Oldman stars as ‘Jackson Lamb,’ the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
Starring alongside Oldman in the ensemble cast are Academy Award-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas,...
- 10/20/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The trailer for Apple TV+’s Slow Horses reveals the team will be attempting to find Russian sleeper agents embedded in British society. The critically acclaimed drama’s second season is based on Mick Herron’s second novel of the Slow Horses series, Dead Lions.
The cast is led by Oscar-winner Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and includes Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Dustin Demri-Burns, Christopher Chung, and Freddie Fox. Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) also star.
Will Smith – no, not that Will Smith – adapted Herron’s novel and serves as an executive producer. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, and Graham Yost are also on board as executive producers. The series is produced by See-Saw Films with Jeremy Lovering directing.
The cast is led by Oscar-winner Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and includes Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Dustin Demri-Burns, Christopher Chung, and Freddie Fox. Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) also star.
Will Smith – no, not that Will Smith – adapted Herron’s novel and serves as an executive producer. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, and Graham Yost are also on board as executive producers. The series is produced by See-Saw Films with Jeremy Lovering directing.
- 10/19/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Gary Oldman Gets Ensnared in a Ticking Time Bomb in First Trailer for ‘Slow Horses’ Season 2 (Video)
“Slow Horses” is back and better than ever for its second season, though things are not as simple as they seem when the Slough House takes on a case that leader Jackson Lamb feels is “too suspicious.”
After an ex-service agent dies with a mysterious note on his phone, “cicada,” a nickname for Russian sleeper agents embedded in British society, the group is back in action to unveil Cold War era secrets and prevent catastrophe.
As the team begins to uncover the threat posed by the activation of the agents, Lamb warns these secrets “couldn’t have been too well-hidden.”
“This feels too suspicious,” Lamb said, “there’s more to it.”
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Upon this revelation, Lamb commits to a new approach: “Sometimes the only way to work out why a trap has been set is to walk into it.
After an ex-service agent dies with a mysterious note on his phone, “cicada,” a nickname for Russian sleeper agents embedded in British society, the group is back in action to unveil Cold War era secrets and prevent catastrophe.
As the team begins to uncover the threat posed by the activation of the agents, Lamb warns these secrets “couldn’t have been too well-hidden.”
“This feels too suspicious,” Lamb said, “there’s more to it.”
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Upon this revelation, Lamb commits to a new approach: “Sometimes the only way to work out why a trap has been set is to walk into it.
- 10/19/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
The second season of Slow Horses looks like another winner for Apple TV+.
The streaming service today unveiled the trailer for the much anticipated second season of the globally acclaimed espionage series starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman, which will make its global debut on Friday, December 2.
Adapted from “Dead Lions,” Cwa Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s second novel in the Slow Horses series, the six-episode second season of the drama will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
In season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London.
When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
The darkly humorous espionage drama follows a dysfunctional team of British...
The streaming service today unveiled the trailer for the much anticipated second season of the globally acclaimed espionage series starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman, which will make its global debut on Friday, December 2.
Adapted from “Dead Lions,” Cwa Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s second novel in the Slow Horses series, the six-episode second season of the drama will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
In season two, long-buried Cold War secrets emerge which threaten to bring carnage to the streets of London.
When a liaison with Russian villains takes a fatal turn, our hapless heroes must overcome their individual failings and raise their spy game in a race to prevent a catastrophic incident.
The darkly humorous espionage drama follows a dysfunctional team of British...
- 10/19/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Am I Being Unreasonable? review: Daisy May Cooper is flawless in her first follow-up to This Country
When I first heard about Am I Being Unreasonable?, I assumed it was some satire on the parenting website Mumsnet. The people on it spend an inordinate amount of their supposedly busy days discussing difficult tradespeople or the unsavoury sexual habits of their “Dh” (Dear Husband). Oftentimes they seek validation for their actions from their fellow members, by asking “…am I being unreasonable?” Or “Aibu” in the Mumsnet argot.
The latest comedy vehicle from This Country’s creator and star Daisy May Cooper isn’t about Mumsnet as such, except that the character she plays, Nic, inhabits a quintessentially middle-class English environment (Cooper’s native Cotswolds by the looks of things), and she seems prone to asking the most intimate questions about herself on Mumsnet. She has a nice house, a clever little son who’s more mature than she is, and an eccentric cleaning lady. She struggles to make friends in the village,...
The latest comedy vehicle from This Country’s creator and star Daisy May Cooper isn’t about Mumsnet as such, except that the character she plays, Nic, inhabits a quintessentially middle-class English environment (Cooper’s native Cotswolds by the looks of things), and she seems prone to asking the most intimate questions about herself on Mumsnet. She has a nice house, a clever little son who’s more mature than she is, and an eccentric cleaning lady. She struggles to make friends in the village,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is now the highest-grossing title of the year at the UK-Ireland box office, overtaking ’Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’.
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 10 - 12) Total gross to date Week 1. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) £12.1m £12.1m 1 2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
£5.6m £50.1m 3 3. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney)
£397,350 £41.5m 6 4. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
£205,252 £4.5m 5 5. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount)
£182,000 £26.5m 11
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.22
Universal’s Jurassic World Dominion has strutted straight to the top of the UK-Ireland box office in its opening weekend, taking £12.1m from 709 locations.
This...
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 10 - 12) Total gross to date Week 1. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) £12.1m £12.1m 1 2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
£5.6m £50.1m 3 3. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney)
£397,350 £41.5m 6 4. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
£205,252 £4.5m 5 5. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount)
£182,000 £26.5m 11
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.22
Universal’s Jurassic World Dominion has strutted straight to the top of the UK-Ireland box office in its opening weekend, taking £12.1m from 709 locations.
This...
- 6/13/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Mate, mate. You’re not going to believe this one mate. Really mate. Andrew Gaynord, Tom Parker and Tom Stourton’s debut feature is one that’s going to stay with you. Seriously, mate. Stourton plays Pete, recently returned from doing something unspeakably worthy and charitable with children abroad, and invited to celebrate his birthday with his posh university friends in someone’s parents’ fancy country pile, and oh mate, you’re not going to believe what happens. Because as well as likeable couple George and Fig (Joshua McGuire and Georgina Campbell), cripplingly posh Archie (Graham Dickson) and delicate Claire (Antonia Clarke) there’s also Harry (Dustin Demri-Burns), a local yokel who the gang have adopted for the weekend for a laugh, and, oh mate, it’s absolutely hilair.
What follows is the pitchest of black comedies, a scabrous atmosphere of awkward moments and unsettling mistrust that constantly feels like...
What follows is the pitchest of black comedies, a scabrous atmosphere of awkward moments and unsettling mistrust that constantly feels like...
- 6/13/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
‘All My Friends Hate Me’, ‘Earwig’ and ‘Il Buco’ also open this weekend.
Jurassic World Dominion is hoping to snare the top spot from Top Gun: Maverick at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, after two weeks at the number one for Paramount’s Tom Cruise hit.
Universal is distributing Jurassic World Dominion at 708 sites – Universal’s fourth biggest UK-Ireland opening of all time, behind No Time To Die (772),Downton Abbey: A New Era (746) and Downton Abbey (730). The Colin Trevorrow-directed title opened with 55m from early markets last week, and expands to North America, UK/Ireland, China, France, Germany, Australia and Spain this weekend.
Jurassic World Dominion is hoping to snare the top spot from Top Gun: Maverick at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, after two weeks at the number one for Paramount’s Tom Cruise hit.
Universal is distributing Jurassic World Dominion at 708 sites – Universal’s fourth biggest UK-Ireland opening of all time, behind No Time To Die (772),Downton Abbey: A New Era (746) and Downton Abbey (730). The Colin Trevorrow-directed title opened with 55m from early markets last week, and expands to North America, UK/Ireland, China, France, Germany, Australia and Spain this weekend.
- 6/10/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
All My Friends Hate Me is a film that uses anxiety as a means to explore humour and horror, and is set to entertain the masses with its release this week. To mark the film’s release we had the pleasure of speaking to its co-writers, Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer – while the former also plays the leading role Pete, in the movie. We look back over their long-standing friendship, and their dynamic as a writing-duo. They tell us why they decided to star/or not star in the film, and the casting of Dustin Demri-Burns. They also speak about the film’s themes, the reactions from audiences, and the notion of privilege. Watch the full interview with both Toms below.
Synopsis
Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him.
All My Friends Hate Me is out now.
Synopsis
Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him.
All My Friends Hate Me is out now.
- 6/10/2022
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow is forging Live at the Moth Club for UKTV, a comedy series from the legendary East London venue featuring major UK comedy stars such as Stath Lets Flats creator Jamie Demetriou and What We Do In The Shadows star Natasia Demetriou.
Airing on BBC Studios-owned UKTV channel Dave, the program will show performances from the club along with pre-recorded sketches showing what’s happening “backstage” and during production.
Others to take part include Demetriou’s Stath Lets Flats co-star Ellie White, Pls Like’s Arnab Chanda, Channel 4’s Cardinal Burns’ Dustin Demri-Burns and Seb Cardinal, The Bubble’s Ben Ashenden and Dreaming Whilst Black’s Alexander Owen.
This new wave of British comedians are partaking in some of the nation’s biggest comedy shows at present, led by Demetriou’s triple BAFTA-winning Stath Lets Flats for Channel 4, which is currently being taken out to the U.
Airing on BBC Studios-owned UKTV channel Dave, the program will show performances from the club along with pre-recorded sketches showing what’s happening “backstage” and during production.
Others to take part include Demetriou’s Stath Lets Flats co-star Ellie White, Pls Like’s Arnab Chanda, Channel 4’s Cardinal Burns’ Dustin Demri-Burns and Seb Cardinal, The Bubble’s Ben Ashenden and Dreaming Whilst Black’s Alexander Owen.
This new wave of British comedians are partaking in some of the nation’s biggest comedy shows at present, led by Demetriou’s triple BAFTA-winning Stath Lets Flats for Channel 4, which is currently being taken out to the U.
- 6/9/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite their undoubted comedy talents Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton’s debut feature feels too light on the funny to live up to its potential
Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton made their names as the comedy double-act Totally Tom who went viral some years ago with their (very funny) creation High Renaissance Man, about clueless public schoolboys at uni, but their jointly scripted debut feature film, directed by Andrew Gaynord (from TV’s Stath Lets Flats) is a weirdly unrelaxed dark satire.
An entitled thirtysomething called Pete (played by Stourton) has spent some years abroad doing self-congratulatory “gap yah” charity work with refugees, but now wants to reconnect with his old gang from university, one of whom offers to host a huge birthday weekend for Pete at his colossal country estate. There Pete discovers, to his increasing paranoid dismay, that they all now seem to be giggling at him behind...
Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton made their names as the comedy double-act Totally Tom who went viral some years ago with their (very funny) creation High Renaissance Man, about clueless public schoolboys at uni, but their jointly scripted debut feature film, directed by Andrew Gaynord (from TV’s Stath Lets Flats) is a weirdly unrelaxed dark satire.
An entitled thirtysomething called Pete (played by Stourton) has spent some years abroad doing self-congratulatory “gap yah” charity work with refugees, but now wants to reconnect with his old gang from university, one of whom offers to host a huge birthday weekend for Pete at his colossal country estate. There Pete discovers, to his increasing paranoid dismay, that they all now seem to be giggling at him behind...
- 6/8/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
When British MI5 agent River Cartwright is publically embarrassed by a failed training mission, he’s demoted to sifting through piles of papers and other boring administrative duties at the Slough House. He and his colleagues are dubbed “slow horses,” but one day, it all changes as the group becomes caught up in a dangerous scheme. […]
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- 5/11/2022
- by Rose Carter
- Uinterview
“Peaky Blinders” star Aimee-Ffion Edwards and “This is Going to Hurt’s” Kadiff Kirwan are set to join season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses,” Variety can exclusively reveal.
Although it has not yet been confirmed which parts Edwards and Kirwan will play, season 2 of the show about a group of MI5 no-hopers is understood to be based on “Dead Lions,” Mick Herron’s second book in the “Slow Horses” novels, which sees the addition of two new Slough House recruits: Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge.
The logline for the “Dead Lion” novel reads: “As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London’s newest, tallest skyscraper…”
As well as playing Esme Shelby opposite Cillian Murphy in “Peaky Blinders,” Edwards has...
Although it has not yet been confirmed which parts Edwards and Kirwan will play, season 2 of the show about a group of MI5 no-hopers is understood to be based on “Dead Lions,” Mick Herron’s second book in the “Slow Horses” novels, which sees the addition of two new Slough House recruits: Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge.
The logline for the “Dead Lion” novel reads: “As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London’s newest, tallest skyscraper…”
As well as playing Esme Shelby opposite Cillian Murphy in “Peaky Blinders,” Edwards has...
- 4/29/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Everything is coming down to the wire in the nail-biting finale of Apple TV+’s British spy thriller “Slow Horses,” as the Slough House crew try to find kidnap victim Hassan Ahmed (Antonio Aakeel) before his abductors can kill him, and save themselves from taking the fall for a false flag mission gone terribly wrong.
Director James Hawes, who helmed all six episodes of the series, talked to TheWrap about the satisfaction that Saskia Reeves’ character, Catherine Standish, the veteran agent of the group, finds in Friday’s finale when her old-school skills get results quicker than even those of tech whiz Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung).
Hawes told TheWrap how much he and Reeves enjoyed Catherine’s evolving arc over six episodes, from a grief-stricken recovering alcoholic to the spy she used to be, who can keep a cool head in a crisis, calmly point a gun at a fellow agent,...
Director James Hawes, who helmed all six episodes of the series, talked to TheWrap about the satisfaction that Saskia Reeves’ character, Catherine Standish, the veteran agent of the group, finds in Friday’s finale when her old-school skills get results quicker than even those of tech whiz Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung).
Hawes told TheWrap how much he and Reeves enjoyed Catherine’s evolving arc over six episodes, from a grief-stricken recovering alcoholic to the spy she used to be, who can keep a cool head in a crisis, calmly point a gun at a fellow agent,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
‘Slow Horses’ Sneak Peek: Jack Lowden’s Spy Gets Creative in Hectic Hospital Chase (Exclusive Video)
In this exclusive clip from the next episode of Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses,” sidelined British spy River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) must think fast when he spots one of Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas)’s “Dogs” coming for him at the hospital.
He may be stuck at Slough House with the rest of the MI5 screwups, but he proves he can be as resourceful as any field agent when it comes down to it.
The showdown comes after the horrific events of episode three, in which Slough House head Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) realizes he and his team of misfits will be left holding a very bloody bag.
The fourth episode, titled “Visiting Hours,” debuts on Apple TV+ on Friday, April 15.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Dustin Demri-Burns, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Paul Higgins, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Steve Waddington, Paul Hilton, Antonio Aakeel, Peter Judd, and...
He may be stuck at Slough House with the rest of the MI5 screwups, but he proves he can be as resourceful as any field agent when it comes down to it.
The showdown comes after the horrific events of episode three, in which Slough House head Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) realizes he and his team of misfits will be left holding a very bloody bag.
The fourth episode, titled “Visiting Hours,” debuts on Apple TV+ on Friday, April 15.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Dustin Demri-Burns, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Paul Higgins, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Steve Waddington, Paul Hilton, Antonio Aakeel, Peter Judd, and...
- 4/14/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
BFI has launched a new trailer for the dark British comedy ‘All My Friends Hate Me.’
Pete (Tom Stourton) is ready to leave his youthful indulgences behind and settle down with his girlfriend, Sonia (Charly Clive). When his uni friends invite him for a country weekend away to celebrate his birthday, he finds their immature ways haven’t changed. And he’s baffled by their spontaneous invitation to a feral stranger from the local pub to join them. With the atmosphere turning from tense to terrifying to surreal, Pete reaches breaking point. Is he being punished? Is he being paranoid? Or is he just part of some sick joke?
Directed by BAFTA-nominated Andrew Gaynord (Stath Lets Flats), the film also stars Dustin Demri-Burns, Joshua McGuire, Georgina Campbell, Graham Dickson, and Christopher Fairbank, Antonia Clarke and Kieran Hodgson.
Also in trailers – “Enjoy the ride…” trailer drops for season 2 of Netflix’s...
Pete (Tom Stourton) is ready to leave his youthful indulgences behind and settle down with his girlfriend, Sonia (Charly Clive). When his uni friends invite him for a country weekend away to celebrate his birthday, he finds their immature ways haven’t changed. And he’s baffled by their spontaneous invitation to a feral stranger from the local pub to join them. With the atmosphere turning from tense to terrifying to surreal, Pete reaches breaking point. Is he being punished? Is he being paranoid? Or is he just part of some sick joke?
Directed by BAFTA-nominated Andrew Gaynord (Stath Lets Flats), the film also stars Dustin Demri-Burns, Joshua McGuire, Georgina Campbell, Graham Dickson, and Christopher Fairbank, Antonia Clarke and Kieran Hodgson.
Also in trailers – “Enjoy the ride…” trailer drops for season 2 of Netflix’s...
- 4/11/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As anyone who’s even fleetingly dipped into the vast, storied genre of the British spy thriller can attest, there are a few different games afoot in “Slow Horses.” What looks at first like a story of restless, demoted spies finding their purpose gets quickly twisted up in MI5 politics. Then, a couple of hours into the six-episode season, the show tries to turn everything we thought we knew inside out. With its starry cast, handsome budget, and slick cinematography, the new Apple TV Plus drama (based on a Mick Herron novel and executive produced by Graham Yost) works hard to differentiate itself from every other MI5 narrative we’ve seen before. By season’s end, “Slow Horses” feels more familiar than truly innovative, albeit with some sharper acting and jokes than most others it’s following.
Case in point is the show’s choice to cast Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb,...
Case in point is the show’s choice to cast Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb,...
- 3/31/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Midway through Apple TV+’s new British spy series Slow Horses, veteran intelligence agent Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) studies a dead body at the bottom of the steps to his dingy office. Lamb’s mortified underling Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns) insists that he didn’t mean to kill this man. “Of course you didn’t,” Lamb sneers. “If you meant to kill him, he’d still be alive.”
Lamb’s contempt for Min extends to all of the agents under his command, and with good reason. The Slow Horses, Lamb included,...
Lamb’s contempt for Min extends to all of the agents under his command, and with good reason. The Slow Horses, Lamb included,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
‘All My Friends Hate Me’ Review: Scary-Funny British Satire Unpacks the Anxieties of Old Friendships
A scary-funny British satire that cringes in horror at the all too familiar sort of affluent, over-educated millennials who are somehow both self-obsessed and deeply ashamed of themselves at the same time,
Its story hinges on a simple notion about the unnatural forces that might compel a 31-year-old neurotic like Pete (co-writer Tom Stourton) to keep even his most toxic college friendships on life support: He’s mortified about the man he used to be, but the only people who can let him off the hook are the ones who knew him back then. They’re the only ones who might be able to appreciate how much he’s changed. So while Pete is plenty amped up for the rural getaway that his old chums have planned for his birthday — only real ’90s kids will fully understand how funny it is when he blasts “Sandstorm” by Darude to get the...
Its story hinges on a simple notion about the unnatural forces that might compel a 31-year-old neurotic like Pete (co-writer Tom Stourton) to keep even his most toxic college friendships on life support: He’s mortified about the man he used to be, but the only people who can let him off the hook are the ones who knew him back then. They’re the only ones who might be able to appreciate how much he’s changed. So while Pete is plenty amped up for the rural getaway that his old chums have planned for his birthday — only real ’90s kids will fully understand how funny it is when he blasts “Sandstorm” by Darude to get the...
- 3/24/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Pete (Tom Stourton) hasn’t seen his university mates in years. Ten years to be exact. It happens. Life happens. We reach adulthood, mature, and set goals for ourselves that the people who were closest to us during that formidable period simply cannot follow—their own ambitions lie upon different forks in the road. So resentment shouldn’t factor in. Nor should jealousy. Yet Pete can’t help wondering about both. A little voice in the back of his head wonders if a decade was too long to pretend things could pick up where they left off. Would their very posh upbringing think he abandoned them to work with refugees? Do they think he thinks he’s better than them for doing it? What if he thinks that?
To say this character is racked with anxiety undersells the truth that he’s ready to blow a gasket thanks to swirling paranoia,...
To say this character is racked with anxiety undersells the truth that he’s ready to blow a gasket thanks to swirling paranoia,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Whatever's going on will be handled by the real agents." Ha. Apple TV+ has revealed an official trailer for their new original series Slow Horses, adapted from Mick Herron's bestselling book of the same name. This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5, known as the Slough House, due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb, they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces. There has to be more to it than just that! I thought it be much funnier, but instead this reminds me of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The series ensemble cast includes Chris Reilly, Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar, Olivia Cooke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Walters, Freddie Fox, Jack Lowden, Sam Hazeldine, Dustin Demri-Burns, Antonio Aakeel, and Christopher Chung.
- 3/2/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Gary Oldman is a cranky MI5 agent saddled with “absolute losers” in the first trailer for spy series “Slow Horses,” which Apple TV+ released on Wednesday.
The six-episode series is based on Mick Herron’s first novel in the “Slow Horses” series, with the first two episodes debuting globally on April 1, followed by one episode every Friday.
Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but bitter veteran spy who ends up at the “Slough House,” a department of MI5, where agents who’ve made career-ending mistakes are relegated. It’s a dead-end where no interesting cases ever arise, until Jack Lowden’s still ambitious agent sees an opportunity to get back in the game.
Oldman takes a bit of pride in the group he oversees, telling Kristin Scott Thomas, “They’re a bunch of absolute losers. But they’re my losers.”
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Dustin Demri-Burns,...
The six-episode series is based on Mick Herron’s first novel in the “Slow Horses” series, with the first two episodes debuting globally on April 1, followed by one episode every Friday.
Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but bitter veteran spy who ends up at the “Slough House,” a department of MI5, where agents who’ve made career-ending mistakes are relegated. It’s a dead-end where no interesting cases ever arise, until Jack Lowden’s still ambitious agent sees an opportunity to get back in the game.
Oldman takes a bit of pride in the group he oversees, telling Kristin Scott Thomas, “They’re a bunch of absolute losers. But they’re my losers.”
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Dustin Demri-Burns,...
- 3/2/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
"Everyone's being mean, and I don't know what's going on..." Super Ltd has revealed an official trailer for a UK horror comedy film titled All My Friends Hate Me, marking the feature debut of director Andrew Gaynord. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and stopped by the London Film Festival in the fall. Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him. Is he being punished, or is he paranoid, or is he part of some sick joke? From co-writers Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer comes this dark comedy-horror mash-up for anyone who's ever experienced social anxiety and lived to tell about it. Terrifying! Tom Stourton stars along with Georgina Campbell, Joshua McGuire, Antonia Clarke, Charly Clive, Kieran Hodgson, Dustin Demri-Burns, Christopher Fairbank, and Graham Dickson. This looks utterly horrifying - have fun.
- 2/25/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Commissions
The BBC has commissioned six factual entertainment shows. In BBC Two series “Trailblazers,” produced by Studio Ramsay, Ruby Wax, Melanie Brown and Emily Atack follow in the footsteps of pioneering traveller Isabella Bird as they set off on their own American adventure across the Rocky Mountains. BBC Three adventure challenge series “Warrior Island,” from Wall To Wall West, follows eight young people who want to transform their body and mind. Celebrity couples put their relationship to the ultimate test in BBC One competition format, “Unbreakable,” by 110% Content. “Inside The Airport,” produced by Wonderhood Studios for BBC One, sees aviation expert Jeremy Spake at Heathrow, to see how the airport is coping during a time when the U.K. is emerging from the pandemic. And, following a successful pilot in 2020, engineering and adventure series “The Speedshop,” by Grant Wardrop Productions, follows custom bike builder Titch Cormack and his team as...
The BBC has commissioned six factual entertainment shows. In BBC Two series “Trailblazers,” produced by Studio Ramsay, Ruby Wax, Melanie Brown and Emily Atack follow in the footsteps of pioneering traveller Isabella Bird as they set off on their own American adventure across the Rocky Mountains. BBC Three adventure challenge series “Warrior Island,” from Wall To Wall West, follows eight young people who want to transform their body and mind. Celebrity couples put their relationship to the ultimate test in BBC One competition format, “Unbreakable,” by 110% Content. “Inside The Airport,” produced by Wonderhood Studios for BBC One, sees aviation expert Jeremy Spake at Heathrow, to see how the airport is coping during a time when the U.K. is emerging from the pandemic. And, following a successful pilot in 2020, engineering and adventure series “The Speedshop,” by Grant Wardrop Productions, follows custom bike builder Titch Cormack and his team as...
- 2/9/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Gaynord’s feature debut is set for release in 2022.
BFI Distribution has acquired UK comedy All My Friends Hate Me, for release in the UK and Ireland in 2022.
The deal was finalised just ahead of the film’s UK premiere at the 65th BFI London Film Festival on Friday (October 8). WME Independent handled the sale with BFI Acquisitions Manager Laura Dos Santos. it has already been acquired for North America by Super.
The film – which premiered at Tribeca – is Andrew Gaynord’s feature debut. Gaynord’s previous credits include Netflix series The Characters.
All My Friends Hate Me is...
BFI Distribution has acquired UK comedy All My Friends Hate Me, for release in the UK and Ireland in 2022.
The deal was finalised just ahead of the film’s UK premiere at the 65th BFI London Film Festival on Friday (October 8). WME Independent handled the sale with BFI Acquisitions Manager Laura Dos Santos. it has already been acquired for North America by Super.
The film – which premiered at Tribeca – is Andrew Gaynord’s feature debut. Gaynord’s previous credits include Netflix series The Characters.
All My Friends Hate Me is...
- 10/11/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Imagine the protagonist of a Richard Curtis film woke up on the morning of whichever wedding or funeral they were to attend, suddenly cursed with self-awareness. The resulting movie, a comedy that elicits such bone-deep cringe it’s indistinguishable from horror, might look a lot like Andrew Gaynord’s “All My Friends Hate Me,” a ferociously witty, deeply British evisceration of upper-class Millennial anxiety, dedicated to the truism that if you can’t spot the asshole in any group of five or more people, the asshole is you.
Pete (Tom Stourton) is just back from a volunteer stint at a refugee camp, and is setting off in high spirits to spend his birthday weekend in the enormous stately home owned by his friend George (Joshua McGuire). Pete’s down-to-earth girlfriend Sonia (Charly Clive) will join him the following day, but initially it’s just going to be him and his...
Pete (Tom Stourton) is just back from a volunteer stint at a refugee camp, and is setting off in high spirits to spend his birthday weekend in the enormous stately home owned by his friend George (Joshua McGuire). Pete’s down-to-earth girlfriend Sonia (Charly Clive) will join him the following day, but initially it’s just going to be him and his...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
A group of grieving friends gather at a remote lakeside and start telling spooky stories in this effective comedy-horror
As the title suggests, this portmanteau film winks at the multi-stranded spookfest Tales from the Crypt (1972), but this time with even more winking and a fair few nudges thrown in for good measure. The umbrella narrative finds five university chums in their late 30s – two couples and another bloke, Paul (Dustin Demri-Burns) who’s brought along his trashy new girlfriend, Miki (Kelly Wenham) – assembling at a remote lakeside cabin to scatter the ashes of a sixth pal who drowned there a few years back, the result of a misadventure, suicide or maybe something more sinister.
There’s good-natured sniping over who forgot to bring food, moaning over the lack of phone signal and bitchier remarks from tart-tongued Martha (Laura Fraser) directed at Miki, who no one really likes. With well-timed rhythms and backchat,...
As the title suggests, this portmanteau film winks at the multi-stranded spookfest Tales from the Crypt (1972), but this time with even more winking and a fair few nudges thrown in for good measure. The umbrella narrative finds five university chums in their late 30s – two couples and another bloke, Paul (Dustin Demri-Burns) who’s brought along his trashy new girlfriend, Miki (Kelly Wenham) – assembling at a remote lakeside cabin to scatter the ashes of a sixth pal who drowned there a few years back, the result of a misadventure, suicide or maybe something more sinister.
There’s good-natured sniping over who forgot to bring food, moaning over the lack of phone signal and bitchier remarks from tart-tongued Martha (Laura Fraser) directed at Miki, who no one really likes. With well-timed rhythms and backchat,...
- 10/31/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Grimmfest, Manchester’s festival of fantastic films, will take place at the Odeon Great Northern warehouse from the 3rd – 6th October 2019. Now in its eleventh year, the festival prides itself on bringing the best new genre movies to Manchester, focusing on horror and premiering films that contain shocks, suspense, terror, mystery… and a fair bit of black comedy.
From the evening of Thursday 3rd October, fans will gather to catch the latest independent genre movies from around the world, on the biggest screen at the Odeon Great Northern. Throughout the 4-day festival Grimmfest will premiere six European premieres, 17 UK premieres 2 English premieres and 15 Northern premieres. Every movie will be new to Manchester. And that’s not all. Many of the film makers and stars will be attending the festival to present their films, answer audience questions and sign autographs.
Guest highlights this year include:
British comedian Johnny Vegas will be...
From the evening of Thursday 3rd October, fans will gather to catch the latest independent genre movies from around the world, on the biggest screen at the Odeon Great Northern. Throughout the 4-day festival Grimmfest will premiere six European premieres, 17 UK premieres 2 English premieres and 15 Northern premieres. Every movie will be new to Manchester. And that’s not all. Many of the film makers and stars will be attending the festival to present their films, answer audience questions and sign autographs.
Guest highlights this year include:
British comedian Johnny Vegas will be...
- 9/16/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Mackenzie Crook, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, Kelly Wenham, Dustin Demri-Burns | Written and Directed by Abigail Blackmore
A group of middle-aged friends gather at a remote lodge to honour a friend who recently drowned in a nearby lake. With emotions running high, everyone makes the most of a gloomy situation by celebrating the best way they know how: swapping silly, scary stories that would have earned a giggle from their dearly departed pal. Urban legends about a masked slasher, a paranormal ghost hunt and a post-apocalyptic wasteland soon lose their fun shock value as the sextet become stuck in a true terror tale that exposes dark secrets no one could have possibly foreseen.
Tales From the Lodge continues the very British tradition of the portmenteau horror – a genre that is synonymous with the UK horror industry of the 60s and 70s, companies like Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, and...
A group of middle-aged friends gather at a remote lodge to honour a friend who recently drowned in a nearby lake. With emotions running high, everyone makes the most of a gloomy situation by celebrating the best way they know how: swapping silly, scary stories that would have earned a giggle from their dearly departed pal. Urban legends about a masked slasher, a paranormal ghost hunt and a post-apocalyptic wasteland soon lose their fun shock value as the sextet become stuck in a true terror tale that exposes dark secrets no one could have possibly foreseen.
Tales From the Lodge continues the very British tradition of the portmenteau horror – a genre that is synonymous with the UK horror industry of the 60s and 70s, companies like Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, and...
- 8/30/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Longtime friends pass the time at an isolated cabin telling scary stories to each other, but it's not long before they find themselves embroiled in their own terrifying scenario that's all too real in Tales from the Lodge. Ahead of the horror comedy's world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, we've been provided with a new clip, images, and a poster for the latest film from writer/director Abigail Blackmore.
Tales from the Lodge will make its world premiere on March 13th at the SXSW Film Festival. The movie stars Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, and Kelly Wenham. For a sneak peek at the film's horror and comedic elements, check out the images, poster, and clip below, and stay up to date on Tales from the Lodge by visiting its official Facebook page.
Daily Dead will once again be in Austin to cover the SXSW Film Festival,...
Tales from the Lodge will make its world premiere on March 13th at the SXSW Film Festival. The movie stars Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, and Kelly Wenham. For a sneak peek at the film's horror and comedic elements, check out the images, poster, and clip below, and stay up to date on Tales from the Lodge by visiting its official Facebook page.
Daily Dead will once again be in Austin to cover the SXSW Film Festival,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After years of blockbuster movie roles, Idris Elba has solidified himself as a Hollywood mainstay, but it looks like his music career isn’t far behind.
It was announced Wednesday that the “Luther” and “Wire” star will be making his Coachella debut on April 13 and 20, in the company of artists like Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande, Tame Impala, Solange and Billie Eilish. And although some fans were surprised by the announcement, Elba’s Coachella appearance is just one of many in the British actor’s long musical career.
After entering the music industry at the age of 14, Elba has worked as a DJ and producer, performing at a number of prominent music festivals around the world including Essence Fest in New Orleans, the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall and the Glastonbury festival in southwest England. Additionally, he was on hand to perform a set at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding...
It was announced Wednesday that the “Luther” and “Wire” star will be making his Coachella debut on April 13 and 20, in the company of artists like Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande, Tame Impala, Solange and Billie Eilish. And although some fans were surprised by the announcement, Elba’s Coachella appearance is just one of many in the British actor’s long musical career.
After entering the music industry at the age of 14, Elba has worked as a DJ and producer, performing at a number of prominent music festivals around the world including Essence Fest in New Orleans, the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall and the Glastonbury festival in southwest England. Additionally, he was on hand to perform a set at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding...
- 1/3/2019
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
Idris Elba’s new Netflix comedy “Turn Up Charlie” will debut March 15, the streaming giant announced Thursday, as it also released the first images from the show.
Co-created by Elba and Gary Reich, “Turn Up Charlie” sees Elba star as a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a “manny” to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter (Frankie Hervey). Piper Perabo and Jj Feild co-star. The cast also includes Angela Griffin, Guz Khan, Jocelyn Jee Esein, Jade Anouka, Cameron King and Dustin Demri-Burns.
The eight-part series is co-produced by Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Reich’s Brown Eyed Boy Productions, with Elba and Reich serving as executive producers alongside Tristram Shapeero. Shapeero directs the series with Matt Lipsey. Martin Joyce and Ana Garanito serve as co-executive producers.
It’s the second comedy series Elba has created following Sky’s “In the Long Run,...
Co-created by Elba and Gary Reich, “Turn Up Charlie” sees Elba star as a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a “manny” to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter (Frankie Hervey). Piper Perabo and Jj Feild co-star. The cast also includes Angela Griffin, Guz Khan, Jocelyn Jee Esein, Jade Anouka, Cameron King and Dustin Demri-Burns.
The eight-part series is co-produced by Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Reich’s Brown Eyed Boy Productions, with Elba and Reich serving as executive producers alongside Tristram Shapeero. Shapeero directs the series with Matt Lipsey. Martin Joyce and Ana Garanito serve as co-executive producers.
It’s the second comedy series Elba has created following Sky’s “In the Long Run,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
After playing a detective who gets absolutely pummeled trying to investigate brutal crimes, it must be a fun change of pace to step behind some turntables. Netflix is giving Idris Elba the chance to do just that in “Turn Up Charlie.”
In addition to a March release date, Netflix also released the first look at the upcoming eight-part comedy, which features Elba as a down-on-his-luck DJ who helps babysit for a dear friend’s daughter. Tristram Shapeero — who’s worked as a director on a number of recent comedy classics, from “Community” to “Parks and Recreation” — will direct the first half of the season, while Matt Lipsey will take the second half.
“Luther” Season 5 may have already premiered to series-high ratings, but “Turn Up Charlie” will give Elba a chance to show off his comedy chops, which he showed most recently in last year’s SKy1 comedy “In the Long Run.
In addition to a March release date, Netflix also released the first look at the upcoming eight-part comedy, which features Elba as a down-on-his-luck DJ who helps babysit for a dear friend’s daughter. Tristram Shapeero — who’s worked as a director on a number of recent comedy classics, from “Community” to “Parks and Recreation” — will direct the first half of the season, while Matt Lipsey will take the second half.
“Luther” Season 5 may have already premiered to series-high ratings, but “Turn Up Charlie” will give Elba a chance to show off his comedy chops, which he showed most recently in last year’s SKy1 comedy “In the Long Run.
- 1/3/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Move over, This Is Us‘ Kevin Pearson: Another manny is coming to television this spring.
Netflix announced Thursday that its comedy series Turn Up Charlie, starring Idris Elba, will drop on Friday, March 15.
Turn Up Charlie stars Elba as a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a “manny” to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter, Gabby (newcomer Frankie Hervey).
Piper Perabo (Covert Affairs) and Jj Feild (Turn) round out the main cast, while newly announced guest stars include Angela Griffin (The Detail), Cameron King (Miss Peregrine’s...
Netflix announced Thursday that its comedy series Turn Up Charlie, starring Idris Elba, will drop on Friday, March 15.
Turn Up Charlie stars Elba as a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a “manny” to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter, Gabby (newcomer Frankie Hervey).
Piper Perabo (Covert Affairs) and Jj Feild (Turn) round out the main cast, while newly announced guest stars include Angela Griffin (The Detail), Cameron King (Miss Peregrine’s...
- 1/3/2019
- TVLine.com
Netflix has slotted Friday, March 15 for the premiere of new comedy series Turn Up Charlie, starring Idris Elba. The internet TV network also unveiled some first-look photos (see above and below) and rounded out the recurring cast, which includes Angela Griffin (Coronation Street), Guz Khan (Borderline), Jocelyn Jee Esein (Upstart Crow), Jade Anouka (Trauma), Cameron King (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) and Dustin Demri-Burns (The Spy Who Dumped Me).
Co-created and executive produced by Elba and Gary Reich, the eight-episode Turn Up Charlie centers on the titular Charlie (Elba), a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a ‘manny’ to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter, Gabby (Frankie Hervey). Piper Perabo and Jj Feild co-star.
Tristram Shapeero also executive produces and directs the series with Matt Lipsey. Martin Joyce and Ana Garanito are co-executive producers. The series...
Co-created and executive produced by Elba and Gary Reich, the eight-episode Turn Up Charlie centers on the titular Charlie (Elba), a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a ‘manny’ to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter, Gabby (Frankie Hervey). Piper Perabo and Jj Feild co-star.
Tristram Shapeero also executive produces and directs the series with Matt Lipsey. Martin Joyce and Ana Garanito are co-executive producers. The series...
- 1/3/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Gillian Anderson, Dustin Demri-Burns, Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj, Peter Schueller, Mirjam Novak, Kev Adams, Ivanna Sakhno, Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser, James Fleet, Tom Stourton | Written by Susanna Fogel, David Iserson | Directed by Susanna Fogel
Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.
Susanna Fogel’s The Spy Who Dumped Me advertises and sells itself as something along the lines of parody of sorts, and nothing could be further from the truth. In actual fact, Fogel’s film stands firm on its own two...
Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.
Susanna Fogel’s The Spy Who Dumped Me advertises and sells itself as something along the lines of parody of sorts, and nothing could be further from the truth. In actual fact, Fogel’s film stands firm on its own two...
- 12/27/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
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