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From the high skies to the depths of the oceans, Sir David Attenborough is back behind the camera and mic to go long on the planet’s mammals. Across six episodes, the renowned naturalist and three-time Emmy will cover the history and evolution of the animal group from the end of the Cretaceous Period to the present day, uncovering and revealing the secrets to their success as they’ve conquered the Earth.

“Mammals” premieres on Saturday, July 13 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on BBC America and will be available to watch on AMC+ the same day. A new episode will be available every Saturday through Aug. 17, plus a behind-the-scenes making-of episode on Aug. 24. You can watch with 7-Day Free Trial of Philo.

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Hot off his appearance at Wimbledon, beloved naturalist and three-time Emmy winner Sir David Attenborough is back on TV with a new documentary series from BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit that is sure to enlighten and entertain in equal measure. The six-episode series “Mammals,” which comes more than two decades after Attenborough’s “The Life of Mammals,” explores the intricacies and intelligence of various mammals, revealing the traits and behaviors that have allowed them to flourish, learn and evolve over millions of years on Earth.

The first episode (airing Saturday at 8/7c on BBC America and streaming on AMC+) centers on nocturnal mammals that have thrived in darkness, including the fennec fox, while additional episodes focus on water-dwelling mammals and those that have learned to survive in extreme hot and cold climates. As is custom of the best nature documentaries — a distinction that includes most, if not all, of those...

Gorgeous scenes of monkeys, bears, lions, and other creatures are featured in the new trailer for BBC America and BBC Studios Natural History Unit’s Mammals. Backed by a reworked version of Coldplay’s “Paradise,” narrator Sir David Attenborough describes what it takes for mammals to survive in the modern world.

“The BBC’s Natural History output has long been a source of joy and wonder to the world and it’s an honour be a part of this stunning new series. It’s a dream come true to assist Sir David Attenborough and his team in their ongoing mission to celebrate the beauty of our planet.” – Coldplay

The six-episode documentary series will premiere this summer on BBC America and AMC+.

“To be bringing together the supremely creative talents of Coldplay and Thomas Farnon, the composer behind the Mammals score, to collaborate on the global hit, ‘Paradise,’ is incredible,” said executive producer Roger Webb.

Joe Wright, director behind the Golden Globe and multi-bafta winning films Pride and Prejudice, The Darkest Hour and Atonement, is set to direct and executive produce The Department, based on the acclaimed French espionage political thriller The Bureau, from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios. Wright replaces Clooney, who initially was slated to direct the series.

Also boarding the series are Tony Award-winning writer Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth, who will executive produce and pen all 10 episodes. Clooney and Heslov will executive produce through their Smokehouse Pictures along with David C. Glasser and 101 Studios.

Given a straight-to-series at Showtime in 2023, The Department will premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime later this year.

Michael Fassbender is reported to be in talks to star in the series.

“Joe Wright is a visionary director with a gift of focusing on...

BBC Studios has tapped Nicola Pinn for the newly-created role of chief operating officer of factual productions.

BBC Studios factual managing director Kate Ward unveiled Pinn’s promotion.

Pinn moves up from her previous role as factual’s director of production. She will continue to lead production and business management across BBC Studios’ factual portfolio as well as other areas including governance, strategic partnerships and financial and creative goals.

Ward also revealed that Katie Benbow has been appointed director of strategy, a role which will see her work closely with BBC Studios partners in global media and streaming as well as focusing on content strategy and investment. Benbow will also managed the indie partnerships team, which is led by Tom Young.

Pinn and Benbow take up their new positions immediately.

The appointments were made to strengthen the senior production team and ensure BBC Studios factual arm will continue to deliver...

Sir David Attenborough presents ‘Mammals’ season 1 (Photo Credit: Alex Board/Bbca/BBC Studios)

BBC America, AMC+, and Sir David Attenborough turn their attention to mammals with their latest natural history series, Mammals. The six-part series will premiere this summer, 20 years after Attenborough’s Life of Mammals.

“Being mammals ourselves, the animals featured in the series and the stories told about them are instantly relatable. It’s impossible not to admire a mother capuchin monkey who’s able to provide her baby with a drink in a dry, sun-baked forest or a chimpanzee father giving his family a lesson in finding honey buried underground,” said Roger Webb, executive producer. “This connection to us, makes Mammals an incredibly engaging and compelling piece of television – one that will also lead us to question our role in the lives of the wild mammals we share the planet with.”

Scott Alexander served as a producer...

Kevin Macdonald Helming Klitschko Doc For Sky

Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald is helming a Vitali Klitschko documentary feature for Sky. Produced by Docsville Studios and Sky Studios, Klitschko: The Fight of his Life (working title) will gain access to the former heavyweight boxing world champion along with his brother Wladimir, who together dominated the sport for more than a decade. Now the longest serving Mayor of Kyiv, the feature-length doc charts Vitali’s journey from the ring to political office, ultimately leading the defence of the capital when it was attacked by Russian forces in February 2022. Macdonald, who won an Oscar for One Day in September, recently struck deals with Plan B and Banijay. The Klitschko feature is on a slate preceding Sky’s Up next event in London tonight that also includes Ibiza Narcos, a follow-up to Liverpool and Dublin Narcos, along with Black Widow, which follows the decade-long police...

James Corden’s new SiriusXM interview series “This Life of Mine with James Corden” will launch Feb. 1 on a new channel dubbed “Stars” (Channel 109), as well as on the satcaster’s app. SiriusXM was set to announce the premiere date on Thursday, along with the inaugural list of guests: Martin Scorsese, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Tom Ford, Jeremy Renner, David Beckham, Billy Porter, Julianne Moore and Odell Beckham Jr. (More will be revealed at another date.)

“Featuring in-depth, richly-produced conversations between Corden and a variety of prominent

guests on the people, places, possessions, music, and memories that made them, ‘This Life of

Mine’ will tell the never-before-heard stories that shaped the people at the top of their field

across film & television, sports, fashion, music, theater, business, and more,” reads the official logline for the show.

Stars, which also launches on Feb. 1, reps the newest channel for SiriusXM. New episodes of...

Six months after ending his run as host of CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” the host is getting back into the interviewing game. SiriusXM is set to announce Monday that Corden will be the host of a new weekly series, “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” marking the multi-talented star’s first foray into the audio world.

“This Life of Mine” is expected to launch in early 2024. According to SiriusXM, the show “will feature in-depth conversations with the world’s biggest stars, discussing the people, places, moments, and memories that made them who they are today. From favorite music and movies to books and advice, the show will seek to tell the untold stories of some of the most well-known public figures.”

The new Corden series will be available to SiriusXM subscribers on the satellite radio broadcaster’s app, as well as in-car. SiriusXM is expected...

James Corden has put away his desk and swapped it for a recording studio. The Brit, who exited The Late Late Show earlier this year after an eight-year run, is turning to audio after striking a deal with SiriusXM.

This Life of Mine with James Corden marks the Mammals star’s debut weekly audio show and will launch in early 2024. It will feature in-depth conversations with stars discussing the people, places, moments, and memories that made them who they are today. From favorite music and movies to books and advice, the show will seek to tell the untold stories of some of the most well-known public figures.

It will be available exclusively for SiriusXM subscribers in-car and on the SiriusXM app. More details will be unveiled at a SiriusXM on November 8.

The deal was brokered by CAA.

“I am thrilled to be joining SiriusXM,” said Corden. “Scott and the whole...

Kate Ward joined BBC Studios, the corporation’s commercial arm, last year to oversee its factual portfolio. Ward moved over from Vice Studios, where she was global president, and has jumped into the challenge of stewarding one of the world’s most powerful factual brands, which includes 66-year-old leader in the space the BBC’s Natural History Unit (Nhu).

Ahead of Ward’s trip to Mipcom, she sat down with Variety to discuss the changes she’s implemented over the past year and what she’s looking forward to spotlighting in Cannes.

How would you describe your remit as head of BBC Studios’ factual portfolio?

I’m in the really, really lucky position that BBC Studios Factual is one of the pillars of our production business. We are working across an incredible range from natural history, specialist factual, docs, popular factual and formats, so we’re really reaching across the whole of that factual genre.

The workout isn't over, folks. The third and final season of Physical has another round of uptempo beats to experience. At first glance, the final season of the hit dark comedy from creator Annie Weisman and executive producer/star Rose Byrne appears to be the best one of all. Season three drops on Wednesday, Aug. 2, on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes of a 10-episode season that director/executive producer Stephanie Laing calls “bigger and bolder than seasons one and two.” New episodes drop weekly, every Wednesday through Sept. 27.

The big buzz this time around is the addition of Zooey Deschanel, who joins the cast, marking her first television role since playing Jess on New Girl. In Physical, Deschanel's character, Kelly Kilmartin, is a network sitcom star eager to make a mark in the expanding fitness universe of the early ’80s. Expect Kelly to become a rival to ambitious...

Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy, whose absurdist social satire “Feathers” won the Cannes Critics’ Week prize in 2021 and went on to make a major splash, is set to helm “Mammals,” an English-language drama that will be a reflection on Western capitalism and family ties.

El Zohairy’s sophomore film, which will feature still unspecified actors from different countries, is being co-written by the buzzed-about auteur with British Egyptian writer-director Mohamed Adeeb, who wrote the hit Egyptian TV series “Bimbo,” directed by Amr Salama.

“Mammals” takes its cue from events in Adeeb’s life which in turn inspired El Zohairy to draw inspiration from the life of his father, who died in 2016 in the United States, where he was an immigrant living under difficult conditions, he said. In the film, a young man visits his distant father in one of the world’s most lavish resorts. When he arrives there he discovers that,...

Blink49 Studios has signed Fifth Season exec Mal Stares as Senior VP, Global Scripted.

Fifth Season is a Blink49 backer and Stares had been working with her new boss Carolyn Newman prior to the appointment to the newly-created role.

She will work across the development and production of Blink49’s current and upcoming slate of scripted content spanning drama and comedy, while linking with creators, authors, writers, producers and broadcasters. Blink49’s slate includes Hallmark’s rodeo-themed family drama series Ride, CTV’s Sight Unseen from Sisters Troubetzkoy Productions and an adaptation of upcoming novel Hold My Girl, amongst others.

At Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content), Stares was Vice President of International TV production, leading the company’s expansion into Australia, New Zealand and Canada. During her tenure, she sold Amazon Prime Video’s first Australian original series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart starring Sigourney Weaver, played a role...

After eight years and too many musical moment to count, “The Late Late Show” is finally coming to an end this April. The CBS talk show first premiered in 1995 with Tom Snyder as its host. Now, as James Corden steps away from the series, that 12:37 a.m. time slot is about to become vacant.

Ahead of this chapter in TV history coming to an end, here’s everything you need to know about how to watch “The Late Late Show’s” final episode, what “The Last Last Late Late Show” is and what celebrities you can expect.

When Is “The Late Late Show with James Corden” Ending?

This Thursday, April 27, say goodbye to “The Late Late Show.” That means no more James Corden, no more “Crosswalk the Musical” and no more “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts.” As for “Carpool Karaoke,” this isn’t the last you’ll...

James Corden is coming to the end of his run as host of The Late Late Show.

The 44-year-old actor and comedian announced he was exiting the show last year, explaining he “always knew it was an adventure and I never ever considered it to be the final destination”.

Now, with Corden’s last show fast approaching, here’s a rundown of everything to expect, from the final guests to when it airs and what might be next for the Brit.

When is Corden’s final show?

After an eight-year run of hosting the CBS talk show, Corden’s last episode will premiere on Thursday 27 April at 12:37am Est.

Before he bids his final farewell, a one-hour Carpool Karaoke special will air at 10pm Est.

Corden has yet to reveal who his last Carpool Karaoke guest will be, but K-pop group Blackpink have been announced as one of the final three segments.

“The Late Late Show With James Corden” might be making its final curtain call on CBS this spring, but CBS Studios is continuing its partnership with Fulwell 73, the production company behind the late-night show and much more.

Fulwell 73 has re-upped its first-look development deal with CBS Studios for three more years, Variety has learned.

A person familiar with the agreement says the renewal deal began last fall. Under the pact, Fulwell 73 will continue to develop scripted, alternative and digital projects for the studio across broadcast, cable, streaming and digital platforms.

Fulwell 73 first inked a deal with CBS Studios in 2016. The company has been in business with CBS since 2015 when Corden began hosting “The Late Late Show,” which became a mega success for the company that has been defined by countless viral moments during its run.

In the years since, the company has been booming with projects across properties, and...

Commissions

The BBC Studios Natural History Unit has commissioned three series for BBC One, BBC Two and iPlayer. “Mammals” (6 x 60’), coproduced by France Televisions, Zdf and BBC America, offers insights into the most widespread animal group in the world.

“Big Little Journeys” (3 x 60’), coproduced by PBS, follows the real-life adventures of six tiny animals as they voyage into the unknown. “Wild Scandinavia” (3 x 60’), coproduced by PBS and Sveriges Television, and narrated by actor Rebecca Ferguson (“Dune”), celebrates the wildlife, landscapes and culture of the furthest northern reaches of Europe.

BBC Studios is handling international distribution and will present the series to international customers at BBC Studios Showcase taking place on Feb. 27 and 28.

Meanwhile, the BBC has also commissioned two one-off entertainment shows to celebrate the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. “The Greatest Show on Earth” (working title), produced by Little Gem, will celebrate 25 years since the U.K. last hosted the contest,...

“The Late Late Show” will be coming to an end with James Corden’s exit at the end of the show’s 2023 season. Next in line to replace the coveted time slot, however, is a reboot of the series “@Midnight”.

A source tells Et, “CBS is eyeing ‘@Midnight’ to replace ‘The Late Late Show’. They’re ready for something different. Hosted late night talk shows are expensive to produce.” CBS, meanwhile, is not commenting on the potential new late-night lineup.

“@Midnight” ran 600 episodes on Comedy Central between 2013 and 2017. Its new iteration is said to have Stephen Colbert serving as executive producer, per a report from Deadline, alongside Funny or Die, the company behind the original series on Comedy Central.

The move gives “The Late Show” host another hour of late-night that he is involved in, in addition to also executive producing Comedy Central series “Tooning Out The News” and “Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God...

CBS is dipping back into the recent past to fill the late night slot that’s soon to open up when its The Late Late Show With James Corden departs.

The network is set to replace the long-running Late Late Show franchise with a reboot of comedic panel game show @midnight, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Stephen Colbert, who hosts The Late Show for the network, is on board as executive producer of the revived program that aired 600 episodes on Comedy Central before signing off in August 2017.

Reps for CBS declined to comment.

@midnight, which launched in October 2013, aired Mondays through Thursdays on the basic-cable network, with host Chris Hardwick asking internet-themed questions to three comedian guests. Hardwick is not expected to have direct involvement in the new iteration of @midnight, which hails from Funny or Die and won two Emmys for creative achievement in interactive media social TV...

Former “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah crashed “The Late Late Show” on Thursday to help James Corden with a segment entitled “Side Effects Only.”

“If only there was someone who could help me with this bit. I sort of need somebody who has experience reading a teleprompter, someone who has experience sitting behind a desk,” Corden said before being interrupted by Noah

Following the applause, Corden asked Noah how it feels to be sitting behind a desk again, to which he replied, deadpan: “Stifling.”

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The first topic the pair covered was leaving your late night show, with Corden listing side effects including not having to wear a suit or pants “because you’re not on TV every night” and not having to talk about the 2024 presidential election.

Noah chimed in with other side effects,...

James Corden says he’s actually performing when hosting The Late Late Show.

The British actor and comedian has helmed CBS’s late-night show for seven years, beginning in 2015. In April 2022, he announced he was quitting the talk series in spring 2023, once he has reached 1,250 episodes.

In a new interview with NBC10 Boston’s Hub Today, Corden was asked what the pivot from acting to hosting was like for him.

“I guess I see it all as a performance, really,” the 44-year-old shared. “I see it all as a character that I’m sort of playing.”

While gesturing and speaking in his famously animated late-night tone, Corden said: “Like, it would be odd if I got home and opened the fridge and was like, ‘Look who’s here tonight! Stick around, we’ll be right back!’”

Although he generally sees acting and presenting to be similar, he explained that “ultimately...

James Corden has revealed that he nearly played Brendan Fraser’s lead role in The Whale.

The film, which has been generating a huge amount of Oscars buzz, stars Fraser as a 42-stone English teacher desperately trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter before it is too late.

The Whale has marked a big comeback for Fraser, who has been mostly out of the limelight for the last decade, after name-making roles in The Mummy trilogy and Crash.

It has now emerged that Corden was almost the movie’s leading man.

Corden told Deadline reporter Pete Hammond, before a Q&a for his new show Mammals: “I was going to play that part, and Tom Ford was going to direct.”

The film went on to be directed by Darren Aronofsky, and Corden reportedly said that Ford ultimately didn’t take the reins as he had wanted more complete control of the project.

James Corden has opened up about his decision to leave The Late Late Show after eight years.

In April, the British actor announced that he was stepping down from hosting the US late night show in 2023.

On Monday (2 January), Corden appeared on Drew Barrymore’s daytime talk show, where the former child star asked him when he knew it was the right time to “walk away”.

“Look, it’s not easy in any way to walk away from something… [when] I’ll never work in a better environment than the one I work in now,” he said, with tears in his eyes.

“Nothing about leaving the show was to do with not enjoying it, I love it. But the truth is it became a very easy decision because I always knew it was an adventure and I never ever considered it to be the final destination.”

Corden, 44, then explained that he...

James Corden is starting the new year with some blunt honesty, explaining exactly why he’s leaving his position as host of “The Late Late Show” this year. According to the host, it “became a very easy decision” in the end.

During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” Monday, Corden explained that leaving the show had nothing to do with not enjoying it, but everything to do with his family and home life. And though he said “it’s not easy, in any way” to hang it up, he admitted that, in the end, the decision came fairly easily.

“The truth is, it became a very easy decision because I always knew it was an adventure, and I never ever considered it to be the final destination,” Corden said.

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Few movies released in 2022 are as defined by a single actor as “The Whale.” Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play of the same name has earned mixed reviews, but the Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600-pound man has received overwhelming praise.

In her IndieWire review of the film, Leila Latif wrote that: “without Brendan Fraser’s innate charm and ability to project gentle sadness through the slightest flicker of his huge blue eyes, ‘The Whale’ wouldn’t have that much else going for it. Faultless performances from Morton and Chau illuminate complicated relationships with Charlie, a man at once lovable, frustrating, and dishonest.”

She continued: “For Fraser, ‘The Whale’ is a confident leap forward into the movie-star status that he rightfully deserves. For the normally more muted Venice audience who typically scramble for the exit the moment the film ends, just the sight of Fraser...

Regardless of the immense talent of Brendan Fraser and his incredibly human performance on display, Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter's fatphobic stage play, "The Whale" is a difficult movie to champion. Yes, we all want Fraser to succeed. Yes, it's a delight to see Sadie Sink showcase her skills outside of "Stranger Things" and Taylor Swift's short films. But to ignore the deeply problematic ways in which fatness is presented on screen in "The Whale" is to do a disservice to the very real people who navigate the world in fat bodies every single day.

I make no qualms about how much I detest Hunter's stage play, and still cannot fathom why anyone thought this film was a good idea. Alas, we live in a fatphobic society where fat folks are viewed as not only acceptable targets for ridicule, hatred, or pity — it's encouraged to...

James Corden has revealed that he auditioned to play hobbit Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings film series from director Peter Jackson.

Unfortunately, the process didn’t go particularly well for the Late Late Show host, as he notes in an episode of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast published on Tuesday. “Everyone, every single person in London auditioned for Lord of the Rings. Everybody,” Corden says in a segment, which you can view above. “I auditioned for Samwise…and I was doing it, Josh. I was doing the accent and everything.”

Corden said that two of his friends also went in to audition, with all three landing callbacks to take place the next day. “And then we got called back the next day,” Corden recalls. “And then none of us got called back after that.”

The actor landing the role of Samwise — the best friend and...

“Anyone who isn’t wracked with a huge amount of doubt I can’t understand,” admits James Corden. For our recent webchat he continues, “Everything I do, I’m thinking, ‘should I be here?’ I don’t even think it’s the nature of being a performer, I think it’s the nature of being a human being.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

Corden stars in the dark comedy series “Mammals” on Amazon Prime. He plays Jamie, a chef who discovers heart-breaking secrets about his wife. The show deftly shifts from high drama to nuanced comedic beats as it explores love and infidelity. Twists are revealed in a fashion befitting a mystery, providing a context that changes the light in which the characters are seen.

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“Mammals” is written by Jez Butterworth, who won the Best Play Tony...

Exclusive: Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones continues to expand its already impressive ensemble.

Henry Lloyd Hughes, Moran Rosenblatt and Sam Woolf are joining the Hulu Originals limited series that’s based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times Bestseller by the same name.

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Hughes will play the series regular role Genek, the eldest of the Kurc siblings who carries himself with irresistible charm and swagger. A lawyer by trade, he grapples with his pride and his faith as he navigates the horrors of war. Hughes was recently seen in the Apple TV series Mammals and will soon be seen...

Mel B has named James Corden as “the biggest d***head celebrity” she’s ever met, claiming he’s “not very nice”.

The singer made the claim during an appearance on Channel 4 entertainment series The Big Narstie Show.

She also jokingly called out one of her Spice Girls bandmates, much to the surprise of the presenters.

When co-host Mo Gilligan asked her: “Who is the biggest d***head celebrity you’ve ever met?”, she did not hold back with her response.

“So, there’s a few,” she said, before reeling off: “James Corden, Geri Halliwell... and me.”

Gilligan replied; “But Geri – she’s your bandmate,” to which Mel B said: “I know. I love her to bits but she’s really f***ing annoying.”

The host then asked Mel B what James Corden had done to earn the label, and the singer explained: “I think you always have to...

You know that moment on Christmas Day when your well-intentioned post-dinner game of Monopoly has been derailed by one family member, slightly slurring their words, accusing the rest of you of cheating? The Traitors, BBC One’s new reality competition series hosted by Claudia Winkleman, is the TV version of that. Deception, lying and trickery are key to this new format, a high-budget reinvention of party games like Werewolf or Mafia, mixed with the grand castle setting of Cluedo.

As with any new board game, the show opens with a complicated set of rules. A group of 22 complete strangers from across the UK have been brought together to compete for a cash prize of “up to £120,000” (whatever that means). But among them will lurk the “traitors”, contestants who every night will attempt to “murder” members of the group without being caught. If any traitors remain in the game at the end,...

Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Stephanie Laing, all six episodes of Mammals are now available to stream on Prime Video. The series stars Late Late Show host James Corden, who plays Michelin-star chef Jamie Buckingham. But what starts as a romantic trip shifts into something else entirely turn when Jamie learns new truths about his wife that send him on a hunt for answers.

Melia Kreiling plays Jamie's wife, Amandine Buckingham, who attempts to pursue a new passion in the wake of a devastating tragedy. Melia Kreiling is known for several films and television series such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Tyrant, and Salvation. With Corden also serving as an executive producer for the show, the main cast includes Sally Hawkins, Colin Morgan, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Samuel Anderson.

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Actress Melia Kreiling chats exclusively with Screen Rant about her hopes for...

Sometimes a piece of culture becomes so deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness, that we forget how weird the core concept is. An animate sponge, for example, who wears nothing but a tiny, square shirt and trouser combo, or a felt frog who’s shacking up with a felt pig. The Addams Family is rather like that. A camp, gothic romp, populated with a series of characters who have become icons of eccentricity. Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Thing, Lurch: all instantly recognisable weirdos. But perhaps nobody from that famous family has broken out quite like troubled child Wednesday, who lends her name to the title of Netflix’s new, Gen Z-baiting, prequel.

Wednesday sees the Addams’s daughter, played here by Jenna Ortega (the latest star off the Disney conveyor belt), heading to Nevermore Academy, her parents’ alma mater and a special school for “outcasts” (she’s just been expelled...

James Corden is better known in the U.S. as a talk show host rather than an actor, but his resume is packed with lead and supporting roles in fictional movies and shows. The star has now teamed up with renowned British playwright Jez Butterworth for his latest project, the Prime Video series Mammals.

In the fantasy dark comedy, Coden plays Jamie, a chef who finds out his wife has been having an affair. In a surprise twist, his life drifts into a magical world. It’s a unique plot, but for those who wish to dive into similar shows, there are a few series to check out.

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While on a honeymoon with her husband, World War II nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall, mysteriously time-travels to 1743 Scotland. There, she falls for Highland warrior, a development that complicates her life forever.

Great costume design, likable characters, and...

Colin Morgan will return to the small screen with Amazon Prime's Mammals, opposite James Corden and Sally Hawkins. In a career spanning film, television, and theater, Morgan has played numerous roles, but none more beloved than Merlin in the BBC show of the same name.

Merlin remains popular today, with fans keeping the show very much alive on every corner of the internet. However, memes are a fan-favorite option to celebrate the clumsy, sassy, and powerful Merlin. These memes are funny and clever, but above all, they are a perfect summarization of who Merlin is as a character.

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Merlin and Arthur's dynamic is hilarious. They tease each other mercilessly and are constantly on each other's nerves. Arthur doesn't even mind when Merlin insults him, nor does anyone else around them; they know Merlin as a place of honor in Arthur's life,...

In some inescapable ways, James Corden and “Mammals” are made for each other. As a six-episode series, the new Prime Video show is the perfect length for someone taking the offramp from the late night TV freeway, as Corden will do when he exits “The Late Late Show” sometime next year. From a performance standpoint, this Jez Butterworth-written half-hour dramedy gives Corden the chance to step outside the Stage-to-Screen Adaptation Industrial Complex and originate a role of his own.

On paper, even the premise seems perfect for someone looking to move on from an eight-and-a-half year stint playing virality-optimized affability. Here, Corden is Jamie, an acclaimed chef trying to juggle a cratering marriage, a soon-to-open restaurant, and an amateur investigation into the identity of the man who may have thrown a wrench in both. This is not a show built on pleasant, carefree vibes. It’s a sprinkling of...

Melia Kreiling plays Amandine Buckingham on the Prime Video original series Mammals, premiering today (November 11) around the globe.

TV Fanatic got the chance to speak with Melia about working on the series.

Check out the full interview below.

TV Fanatic: Could you speak a bit about how you got involved with Mammals?

Melia Kreiling: I was looking for something different from what I've done before, and my agent sent me this project, and he said I could audition for it even though it was primarily for a French accent girl.

We weren't sure they would even consider me, but I sent in an audition and completely fell in love with the character. Just from the three scenes I had available, I could tell Jez Butterworth's writing is so spectacular. 

Yeah, that's kind of how it started, and then, I waited for a while, kept hoping, and then suddenly, they...

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Welcome to the 193rd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

This week marks our last episode of November as Dan and I are taking some extra time off for Thanksgiving. (Our next episode will be Dec. 2.) In this installment, we’ve got a deep-dive interview into the FX-produced Hulu limited series Fleishman Is in Trouble with author and first-time showrunner Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Plus thought-provoking segments on the state of Ryan Murphy at Netflix and what happened with Westworld at HBO.

Here’s how the episode plays out:

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Watching the new Amazon Prime series Mammals, I was reminded of an unsettling – and maybe even apocryphal – Margaret Atwood anecdote. When the author of The Handmaid’s Tale asked a male friend why men fear women, she was told that men are afraid that women will laugh at them. When she asked women what they feared in men, they told her they were afraid of being killed.

In Jez Butterworth’s surreal and funny miniseries on love and infidelity, James Corden – in an unfortunate callback to his recent tabloid troubles with a New York City brasserie – plays Jamie, an ambitious London chef about to open his dream restaurant. He and his wife, Amandine (Melia Kreiling), are on a babymoon to Cornwall when a series of notable events occur almost at once: the cottage next door is revealed to be occupied by Tom Jones (the real one), a majestic whale breaches the blue-black sea,...

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So maybe this isn’t exactly the ideal moment to be releasing a TV series in which James Corden plays a seemingly nice guy who turns out to be prone to impatience and irritation. That the series, Amazon’s Mammals, also has a restaurant backdrop is a particularly poisonous version of serendipity.

It muddles one’s ability to make an assessment as ostensibly non-controversial as saying that Corden is actually really good in Mammals. I mean, before he was doing karaoke with celebrities in a trailer-pulled car or publicly smooching disgraced former White House press secretaries, Corden was a Tony-winning actor. I can still easily imagine people complaining that Corden’s performance in Mammals is annoying, or they can’t view his character as anything other than annoying, as if that’s not the intended nature of the character he’s playing.

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The human preoccupation with the complexities of marriage will probably never fade. In fact, our preoccupation with the complexities of romantic entanglements, in general, will probably always be at the forefront of the emotional questions we ask ourselves. But marriage, being a sort of binding contract, fascinates us on a different level. The idea of belonging to someone else completely, and more still, trusting them implicitly as you give yourself over to them, is a beautiful one, and it is something that keeps people entering the arrangement of marriage every single day—even though we know, it takes very little to bring a house of love cards down.

Continue reading ‘Mammals’ Review: Marriage Is Under a Microscope In James Corden’s New Lackluster Dramedy at The Playlist.

What does it mean to be in a monogamous relationship? In Jez Butterworth’s Mammals, a silly yet strange dramedy starring James Corden and Sally Hawkins, it is the constraint, or at least the perception of such, from our more base desires. In this case, desire doesn’t solely refer to sex; it encompasses a life defined by excitement and independence that the characters have struggled to realize in their monogamous lives. It creates a disconnect for the characters as they all harbor secrets that they hold more closely than anything though rarely articulate. As a result, they end up finding their lives upended in ways both humorous and haunting that make for an intriguing if uneven experience over the series' six short episodes.

Prime Video is all set to premiere its much-awaited UK Original series ‘Mammals’ worldwide on November 11. The dark comedy-drama series stars comic-actor James Corden in the lead. He plays Jamie, a chef, who finds out that his wife Amandine (Melia Kreiling) is cheating on him. While fans are excited to see him in a serious role after ‘The Wrong Mans’, speculations of his character being inspired by real-life chef Jamie Oliver have become the talk of the town.

However, recently James Corden squashed all comparisons and said that Jamie Oliver is not the inspiration for the series. “Jamie Oliver was absolutely not the inspiration for Mammals,” Corden remarked. The British chef is popular for riding motorized wheels, and the series shows Corden riding a scooter. Addressing parallels between the two, Corden affirmed, “Jamie Oliver was on a moped.”

While the popular comedian-actor quashed all rumours, he candidly revealed if he...

Mammals is coming soon to Prime Video, and the streaming service has released a trailer teasing the dark comedy series. Starring James Corden and Sally Hawkins, the series explores marriage and what can happen after you find the 'one.' All six episodes of the series arrive on Friday. Melia Kreiling and Colin Morgan also star in the series.

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"Monogamy, it's a beautiful idea but… you have to admit it's pretty hard – right?" Amazon has debuted a main official trailer for an intriguing new streaming series titled Mammals, created by James Richardson, and written by famous screenwriter Jez Butterworth. In this darkly comedic drama series, revelations and secrets come to light and the complexity of modern marriage and fidelity are exposed. In a world of eight billion, what happens after we've found 'the one'? Can we stay true to the promises we strive to keep when, after all, aren't we all just mammals? "The magic of monogamy just might be an illusion in modern marriages." The series features James Corden, with Sally Hawkins, Meila Kreiling, Colin Morgan, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Samuel Anderson. There's something off about these two trailers - I can't even tell what is going on, what the main thread is, other than "Hey relationships are hard!

Carnival Row is coming to an end at Amazon with its upcoming second season.

This comes as the streamer set the premiere date for the second run of the Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne period drama series.

The series will return on February 17.

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It was renewed for a second season back in 2019, ahead of its launch, and was filmed in 2020.

In a fantasy world where humans and creatures clash, season two of Carnival Row picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate a.k.a. Philo (Bloom) investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension. Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for...

“In a world of eight billion, what happens after we’ve found ‘the one?’” That’s the tagline to Prime Video’s darkly comedic drama series “Mammals,” starring Tony, Emmy, and BAFTA winner James Corden and Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins. All six episodes of “Mammals” will premiere on November 11, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.

Continue reading ‘Mammals’ Trailer: James Corden & Sally Hawkins Unpack The Complexities Of Marriage & Fidelity at The Playlist.

The magic of monogamy just might be an illusion in modern marriages.

The trailer for “Mammals,” the latest Amazon Prime Video series from Stephanie Liang, asks what it means to find “the one” and have a successful marriage.

James Corden stars as Jamie, a chef whose world implodes after he discovers shocking secrets about his pregnant wife Amandine (Melia Kreiling) through sexts. Jamie enlists his brother-in-law Jeff (Colin Morgan) to help him find the truth about Amandine’s fidelity. Yet Jamie soon learns that Jeff’s marriage to his sister Lue (Sally Hawkins) is far from perfect, either. Jeff attempts to get through to Lue, but this only makes Lue descend deeper into a secret fantasy world. Meanwhile, after a tragic loss, Amandine delves into her passion for violin but finds solace from an unlikely source.

Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Samuel Anderson also star

The six-episode dark comedy series is written...

Award-winning comedian James Corden is facing a crisis in the new trailer for Prime Video's Mammals. Corden stars as Jamie Buckingham, a Michelin star chef whose life is upended upon discovering the secrets his pregnant wife Amandine (Melia Kreiling) has kept under wraps for some time. The new footage sees him looking for answers anywhere to make sense of the revelations, though he doesn't exactly find what he's hoping for.