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British star Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, Des, Atonement) will play prolific sex attacker John Worboys in a new ITV true crime series.

ITV’s director of drama Polly Hill has commissioned the four-part show, Believe Me, written by the BAFTA-winning Jeff Pope and produced by his production company Etta Pictures (part of ITV Studios).

The series will tell the true story of the three victims of Worboys, dubbed the “black cab rapist” by the British press after he used his profession as a licensed taxi driver to prey on the women of London in a spate of crimes committed between 2006 and 2008.

Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses) Miriam Petche (Industry) and Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves) will star as the women Worboys sexually assaulted and ultimately made to feel as though they were “just not believed.” Believe Me will cover how Metropolitan Police failings allowed Worboys to remain undetected for years,...

A historian who loves war stories, Bernard Cornwell has written some of the best, most experted researched historical fiction novels around. It’s no wonder TV producers have been interested in them.

Cornwell's most famous work is the Sharpe series, about a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. It was adapted into a long-running BBC show that made Sean Bean a star. There’s also The Saxon Stories, which inspired the Netflix show The Last Kingdom, and The Warlord Chronicles, which would become the MGM+ series The Winter King.

All three TV series were great, but Cornwell has written many more books that would be perfect for adaptation. They all boast exciting characters, focus on unique periods in history and have plenty of action to keep readers enthralled. Let's look at some of the top candidates:

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The third season of House of the Dragon can’t come soon enough, and we understand your frustration—but don’t worry, there are a lot of similar shows on HBO Max that you can binge-watch over the weekend to satiate your brutal and bloody medieval show fix.

Stories set during the Middle Ages have been popular for quite some time, but Game of Thrones and its prequel saga seemingly propelled this type of show to major popularity. We get the appeal of it—there’s nothing like seeing noble knights in shining armor or kings and queens in regal attire.

Since Season 3 of the hit spinoff series is still in production, why not check out these similarly themed shows?

1. Deadwood Ian McShane in Deadwood / Credits: HBO

While Deadwood is set in the 1870s in South Dakota, it shares a lot of dramatic elements with the House of the Dragon.

Jesse Williams is here to take care of your every need, in the first trailer for his Prime Video action-drama, Hotel Costiera (seen below).

Releasing all six episodes Wednesday, Sept. 24 (on Prime Video in the United States as well as Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), Hotel Costiera stars Grey’s Anatomy alum Williams as Daniel De Luca, a half-Italian former U.S. Marine who returns to the land of his childhood as a “fixer” for one of the world’s most luxurious hotels, located on the spectacular coastline of Positano.

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Exclusive: NBC is developing a drama starring Jon Huertas, who will executive produce alongside The Rookie and The Recruit creator Alexi Hawley.

Former Arrow co-showrunner Wendy Mericle is writing the untitled project based on the novel Fire with Fire by bestselling author Candice Fox.

Executive producer Sherry Marsh acquired the rights to the book while under her deal at eOne. The company’s Mike Lombardo and Jackie Sacerio optioned the title. It comes from Lionsgate Television, where Hawley is under an overall deal, and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Huertas and Mericle executive produce alongside Hawley, through Perfectman Pictures and Marsh for Marsh Entertainment. Perfectman’s Rachel Abarbanell will co-executive produce.

This is Huertas’ return to acting following a two-year break while focusing on directing, and to NBC where he starred on their smash hit series This Is Us in...

Jamie Campbell Bower and Eddie Marsan are about to get in the ring...of power, that is. The acclaimed British actors are no strangers to fantasy and genre fare, given the former's time on Stranger Things and the latter's time appearing in, well, seemingly everything else, but neither have played in the acclaimed and beloved universe of author J. R. R. Tolkien — until now.

That's right, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has upped the star power ante in season three, tapping Bower and Marsan to join the cast for the series' next installment. The show is currently in pre-production in England, working out of a new home in Shepperton Studios. According to Prime Video, Bower will be a series regular, while Marsan will appear in a recurring capacity. Further details are currently being kept under lock and key, too precious for this world as it currently...

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Good news today for Avatar: The Last Airbender fans as we’ve just got word that the cast and crew will have a two-month break over Spring before diving back into filming over the summer for what will be the third and final season of the live-action adaptation.

Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender has been in production since October 2024 and is scheduled to wrap on March 21st, 2025, meaning that at the time of writing, the series is entering its final stages of production. Jabbar Raisani has returned to direct for season 2, along with Anu Menon, Amit Gupta (His Dark Materials), and, as just recently confirmed, Hiromi Kamata.

New production dates (courtesy of ProductionWeekly) suggest that the series will take a two-month break before diving back in on May 26th, with a scheduled wrap planned for August 1st, 2025. This wrap date seems really early, though, so...

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There are a bunch of big new series coming out of the United Kingdom throughout 2025, but one of our most anticipated is Toxic Town, which comes from the same production team behind Black Mirror. The new four-part limited series will tell the real-life Corby Toxic Waste Case story that dominated headlines in the UK. Here’s everything you need to know, including the brand-new first-look picture and confirmation that the series will be released in late February 2025.

It’s been several years in the making, with the streamer having first announced the project on August 10th, 2023. Jack Thorne, whose credits include National Treasure, Wonder, Enola Holmes, and more, is helming the project as the main writer with the exception of episode 3, which is co-written with Amy Trigg (Ralph & Katie). Minkie Spiro is directing all four episodes of Toxic Town. Her credits include Better Call Saul, Downton Abbey, and...

The Gangs of London will return to battle it out for control of the city's criminal underworld in 2025, and Sky and AMC+ have now released the first teaser for season 3 of the brutally-violent BAFTA-winning series.

The Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery-created crime drama has seen a spike in popularity since the first two seasons have been made available to stream on Netflix, and fans are eager to find out what happened to our main characters following the intense events of the previous batch of episodes.

In the season 2 finale, Sean Wallace and cop-turned-criminal Elliot engaged in a savage battle which culminated with the former close to death and hanging from a crane.

The season 3 teaser confirms that Sean survived (he does that), but now seems to be behind bars. As for Elliot, he appeared to lose any spark of his former self that remained following the death of his father,...

Exclusive: Double-bafta winning Mood creator Nicôle Lecky has cast her BBC thriller series, which has been given the title Wild Cherry.

House of the Dragon star Eve Best and The Penguin’s Carmen Ejogo are leading Wild Cherry, which has rolled cameras in south England after being teased at last year’s Edinburgh TV Festival. Lecky is creator, star and producer.

Ejogo is Lorna, a self-made, successful Black businesswoman from South London who has worked hard to get to where she is. Best plays her closest friend Juliet, a woman born into the privileged gated community they both call home. The safe haven is a place where bad things never happen until their kids are implicated in a shocking scandal at their exclusive private school and Juliet and Lorna are forced to take sides. The show is described as a “provocative and deliciously honest look at mother/daughter relationships in a haze of social media,...

The AMC Networks November 2024 schedule includes the season finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol and the premiere of Acorn TV’s new original detective series Inspector Ellis, starring Olivier Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Sharon D Clarke.

The month also features new film premieres, including AMC+ deep-sea thriller The Last Breath, Allblk original rom-com The Contract, and Sundance Now’s true crime documentary Dickweed on Legalization Day, among other new series, films, and specials.

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Shudder’s “Season of Screams” lineup continues with the debut of the series The Creep Tapes, based on the cult films Creep and Creep 2, from writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice.

The schedule includes new films, such as Doc of Chucky, an in-depth look at an iconic franchise; the Nick Frost-led Black Cab; dark orphanage tale Rita,...

Acorn TV has announced the titles that will be available on the AMC-owned streaming service in November 2024. The Acorn TV November 2024 slate adds to the service’s various acclaimed English and foreign-language dramas, engaging comedies, documentaries, and more.

The November schedule includes Acorn TV Originals Inspector Ellis and Whitstable Pearl Season 3, Acorn TV/Sundance Now co-premiere The Midwich Cuckoos: Village of the Damned, Acorn TV exclusive Maternal, and more.

Inspector Ellis Acorn TV November 2024 Highlights

Inspector Ellis (Acorn TV Original Series) – New Series Premieres Monday, November 4

Each 90-minute episode will see Ellis accompanied by her right-hand man DS Harper, played by Andrew Gower, arrive at a different local police station, where she will have to win over the local detectives and immerse herself in the cases she’s come to solve.

As a Black female cop, Ellis is used to being dismissed and overlooked but remains focused on her...

Colin Firth is a father desperately seeking justice in the first trailer for “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,” an upcoming limited series about the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 259 passengers and crew members.

In the Sky and Peacock show, Oscar winner Firth plays Dr. Jim Swire, whose daughter dies in the terrorist attack. In the aftermath, he becomes the spokesperson for the families of U.K. victims and embarks on a “relentless journey that not only jeopardizes his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system,” according to the show’s synopsis. “As the truth shifts under Jim’s feet, his view of the world is left forever changed.”

In addition to Firth, “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth” also stars Catherine McCormack as Jim Swire’s wife, Jane. The five-part series is a co-production between Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, and Sky Studios.

The world of Arthurian lore is packed with great adventures, high drama. love, lust, betrayal, battles and conniving magic users. Camelot was born from pagan myths turned into chivalric romance, and its archetypes run deep and ancient. It is no surprise that filmmakers have long interested in the story of King Arthur, with varying results. The following list of 16 Arthurian-themed film and TV projects ranks the best of those ambitious cinematic efforts.

16) First Knight (1995)

Columbia Pictures rolled out First Knight in the summer of 1995. A Jerry Zucker-directed Arthurian chivalric romance starring Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond and Ben Cross, First Knight is unique among Arthurian projects for its rejection of the story's magical aspects. First Knight looks to the early works of French poet Chretien de Troyes, who wrote about Arthur in the 12th century, for inspiration.

First Knight's script focuses on the classic relationship/love triangle between Lancelot,...

A film adaptation of the bestselling thriller novel The Woman in Cabin 10 is currently in the works at Netflix, and we've just learned some new information about this upcoming movie. Joining 2x Oscar nominee Keira Knightley (Black Doves) in the cast are many other talented actors, including Emmy winners Guy Pearce and Hannah Waddingham. Below, we shared everything there is to know about this movie so far.

The Woman in Cabin 10 is a thriller film based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ruth Ware. Simon Stone is signed on to helm the movie from a script he co-wrote with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (Snake Eyes). In addition, the film's producers are Sister and Debra Hayward, while the executive producers are Ilda Diffley and Richard Hewitt.

The story centers around a travel journalist who, while on a luxury cruise for a travel assignment, witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard one night.

I thought The Last Kingdom had found its replacement series sooner than expected, and I was disappointed to hear of its cancellation after just one season. If you're like me and enjoy a historical fiction/fantasy epic, you'll know that good ones are hard to come by, making any morsel of potential worth exploring. After the Seven Kings Must Die ending, there's been a void in my TV enjoyment left by the Netflix series. That was why I was thrilled about MGM+'s The Winter King and why I'm bummed that it won't be returning for season 2.

While not as well-executed as The Last Kingdom, I saw some potential that I thought was worth exploring further. With these big-budget costume shows, I often find that they take some time to grow on me. This was the case with Foundation and The Rings of Power, and in both cases, I'm grateful I stuck around.

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The Winter King season 2 could have continued the Arthurian fantasy created by Sony Pictures Television and Bad Wolf Studios for MGM+, but it is canceled. The medieval period drama is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwells The Warlord Chronicles which loosely adapts Arthurian legend and ties the mysticism of the myth of Arthur and Camelot with the history of Dark Age Britain. The 2023 TV adaptation stars Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.s Iain De Ceastecker as Arthur Pendragon, and the cast of The Winter King is one of the key reasons anticipation for season 2 was high.

The cast isnt the only reason hopes were high for a second season though, as the story of The Winter King proved to be incredibly suited for the small screen.

The sci-fi thriller Beacon 23 and historical drama The Winter King have both been cancelled at MGM+, though the two shows may still be rescued. Both shows premiered in the latter half of 2023, with The Winter King positioning itself as a retelling of Arthurian legends. As for Beacon 23, which starred Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey and Homecoming star Stephan James, it is based on the novels of the same name by Hugh Howey. The latter followed two characters who have to learn to trust each other after they're seemingly trapped at the end of the known universe.

TVLine confirms that Beacon 23 and The Winter King have both been axed at MGM+. In the case of Beacon 23, the thriller's run is ending after two seasons and 16 episodes. The Winter King, meanwhile, had already been cancelled by co-producer ITV and will not be picked up by MGM+. Still,...

The Winter King, a 10 part historical fantasy series, has been cancelled after its first season, which aired on Itvx in the UK and MGM+ in the US. The series, adapted from Bernard Cornwell’s trilogy, stars Iain De Caestecker as Arthur Pendragon, the central character in this epic story. De Caestecker’s performance illustrates Arthur’s transformation […]

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How much must Arthur sacrifice in the first season of The Winter King TV show on MGM+? As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like The Winter King is cancelled or renewed for season two. MGM+ and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of The Winter King here. *Status Update Below.

An MGM+ historical fantasy drama series, The Winter King TV show stars Iain De Caestecker, Eddie Marsan, Ellie James, Nathaniel Martello-White, Stuart Campbell, Daniel Ings, Valene Kane, Jordan Alexandra, and Simon Merrells with Steven Elder, Andrew Gower, Aneirin Hughes, Emily John, Tatjana Nardone, Ken Nwosu, and Billy Postlethwaite. The story retells the Arthurian legend and is set in the...

The Legend of King Arthur is one and done on MGM+. The Winter King has been cancelled, so there won't be a second season. The first season of ten episodes finished being released in November on the American outlet.

A historical fantasy drama series based on Bernard Cornwell's trilogy of novels, The Winter King TV show stars Iain De Caestecker, Eddie Marsan, Ellie James, Nathaniel Martello-White, Stuart Campbell, Daniel Ings, Valene Kane, Jordan Alexandra, and Simon Merrells with Steven Elder, Andrew Gower, Aneirin Hughes, Emily John, Tatjana Nardone, Ken Nwosu, and Billy Postlethwaite. The story is a retelling of the Arthurian legend and is set in the fifth century, long before Britain was united. It’s in a brutal land of warring factions and tribes. The series follows Arthur Pendragon (De Caestecker), the illegitimate son of King...

Beacon 23 has been cancelled after two seasons by MGM+ while the freshman series The Winter King will not return to the Amazon streamer after it was axed by Itvx in the U.K., Deadline has confirmed.

Beacon 23, based on the best-selling book by Hugh Howey, is a sci-fi psychological thriller starring Lena Headey and Stephan James as Aster Calyx and Halan Kai Nelson, respectively, two people brought together by fate at the end of the known universe. Aster, a government agent, and Halan, an ex-military man, find themselves trapped together inside one of many Beacons that serve as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers.

Every Beacon is run by one highly trained human and a specialized Artificial Intelligence. Aster mysteriously finds her way to the lonely Beacon-keeper Halan, and a tense battle of wills unfolds. Halan begins to question whether Aster is friend or foe, as her ability to...

To understand this story, you have to first know that there is a streaming service called MGM+. I don't think I've ever met a single person who subscribes to MGM+, which may explain why some of its programming is being canceled. TV Line reports that neither The Winter King nor Beacon 23 will be returning for additional seasons.

The Winter King ran for one 10-episodes season last year. I watched it because I'm a big fan of the books it's based on: Bernard Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles, a novel trilogy about the life of King Arthur filtered through Cornwell's prodigious gift for grounded historical fiction.

By and the large, the series disappointed me. It was a spotty adaptation of Cornwell's books, and I can't imagine it exciting newcomers. I'm sad that the show wasn't better — I would have settled for longer-lived, cause there's some great stuff from the books...

A former TV queen and current TV king are both ending their short-lived reigns on MGM+. Neither Beacon 23 nor The Winter King will return to the streamer for additional seasons, TVLine has learned.

Loosely based on Hugh Howey’s short story of the same name, Beacon 23 stars Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Stephan James (Homecoming) as Aster and Halan, individuals who end up in confinement together at the furthest reaches of the universe. The sci-fi series streamed for two seasons from 2023 to 2024, totaling 16 episodes.

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The Legend of Vox Machina will continue to be told on Prime Video.

The streamer has released a trailer for Season 3 of the animated fantasy series, which will premiere Wednesday, Oct. 3 and drop three episodes per week for four weeks.

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Apple TV+ has rounded out the main cast of its upcoming series adaptation of the Mick Herron novel “Down Cemetery Road.”

Adeel Akhtar, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Tom Goodman-Hill, Darren Boyd, Tom Riley, Adam Godley, Sinead Matthews, Ken Nwosu, Fehinti Balogun, and Aiysha Hart have all been cast in the series.

They will appear alongside previously announced leads Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson.

The official description for the series states, “When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Tucker (Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.”

Akhtar will appear as Hamza. Stewart-Jarrett will play Downey. Goodman-Hill has been cast as Gerard, and Boyd has been cast as C.

Acorn TV has unveiled a first look at three-time Olivier Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Sharon D Clarke starring in the chilling and feature-length detective drama Ellis.

Set to premiere this November on Acorn TV, the riveting three-part series follows Dci Ellis (Clarke), a tenacious cop parachuted into failing investigations.

Each two-hour episode will see Ellis, accompanied by her right-hand man DS Harper, played by Andrew Gower, arrive at a different local police station, where she will have to win over the local detectives and immerse herself in the cases she’s come to solve.

As a Black female cop, Ellis is used to being dismissed and overlooked but remains focused on her work as a first-class murder detective, fueled by a determination for justice and a deep well of compassion for those who need it.

From Company Pictures, in association with Northern Ireland Screen, Ellis was commissioned for Acorn TV by Catherine Mackin,...

E! has released the trailer for Season 2 of “House of Villains,” the Joel McHale-hosted reality show that sees 10 of reality TV’s most infamous “villains” come together to outsmart and out-manipulate each other in a series of challenges to win a cash prize, and the title of “America’s Ultimate Supervillain.”

The show has been slated for a two-night premiere, with the first episode to be broadcast live on E!, Bravo, Syfy and USA on Oct. 9 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt and the second on the same time on Oct. 10. Following the premiere, the series will air in its regular Thursday timeslot at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on E! and will be available to stream on Peacock.

The trailer features the season’s malicious cast, all reunited at the iconic lair (mansion) from Season 1, with “RuPaul’s Drag Race’s” Kandy Muse iconically declaring, “You are going to come into the house of villains?...

The first winners of the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed today as the Television Academy unveiled its honorees in the juried categories spanning animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design.

Netflix toon series Blue Eye Samurai was the lone multiple honoree, and it took three juried Emmys — winning for Storyboard, Production Design and Character Design, the last of which was shared with Max’s now-wrapped Clone High. Another canceled Max toon, Scavengers Reign, took the toon prize for Background Design. See the full list below.

The streamers and HBO dominated the juried awards. Other winners include Max’s Adventure Time and Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Peacock’s In the Know and Disney+’s What If… and the documentary Jim Henson Idea Man from director Ron Howard.

Winners will receive their statuettes during the two Creative Arts Emmys ceremonies next month. Most will be...

On August 14 the television academy announced the winners in several juried categories that will be presented at the Creative Arts Emmys in September. The juried awards are judged by a panel of TV professionals in applicable peer groups, who can choose one winner, multiple winners or perhaps no winner at all after the entrants have been evaluated and discussed.

The big winner was Netflix’s “Blue Eye Samurai” with three trophies for Best Individual Achievement in Animation. It’s worth noting that Netflix’s “Arcane” also won three juried awards in advance of winning Best Animated Program in 2022, so this might be good news for “Samurai” in more ways than one.

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The following juried awards will be presented Saturday, September 7:

Best Individual Achievement in Animation

Background Design

Scavengers Reign • The Signal • HBO | Max • Max in association with Titmouse Animation...

Netflix’s “Blue Eye Samurai” leads the winners of the juried categories at the 76th Emmy Awards, the Television Academy announced Wednesday.

The animated series will be presented with Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Design, Production Design and Storyboard at the Creative Arts Emmys, which take place Sept. 7 and 8 at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. An edited broadcast will air Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. Pt on Fxx.

Other juried category winners from animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design include Max’s “Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake,” Max’s “Clone High,” an immersive experience for Disney+’s “What If?” and Disney+ doc “Jim Henson Idea Man.”

Juried category winners are determined by a panel of professionals in the respective peer groups with the potential for zero to multiple winners per category.

No nominees are announced in advance. Instead, a one-step evaluation and voting procedure is adopted. Deliberations...

The final round of Emmy voting may not kick off for another day, but there are already Emmys to hand out. The juried awards, those screened by a panel of professionals in the appropriate peer groups — in this case animation, costume design, emerging media programming and motion and title design — were announced on Wednesday.

Winners include Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake and the Disney+ documentary Jim Henson Idea Man. The awards will be handed out during the Creative Arts presentations on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

The rest of the 2024 Emmy nominees will be voted on by their peers Aug. 15 through 26, with the Primetime Emmys scheduled for Sept. 15 on ABC.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation

Background Design

Scavengers Reign • The Signal • HBO | Max • Max in association with Titmouse Animation and Green Street

Noémie Leroux

Character Animation

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Netflix’s “Blue Eye Samurai” has taken the early lead at this year’s Primetime Emmys, landing three awards as the Television Academy announced this year’s winners in the animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design. HBO/Max leads in network tallies so far with four.

The juried category entrants are screened by a panel of professionals in their respective peer groups. And each category has the possibility of one, more than one or no entry winning an Emmy.

That’s why there were no nominees in these categories — instead, a one-step evaluation and voting procedure via “open discussions of each entrant’s work with a thorough review of the merits of awarding the Emmy.”

Juried awards will be presented during the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 8 at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live.

Here are the juried awards that will be presented Saturday,...

With production underway in Belfast, Ireland on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO has announced five new additions to the cast, along with a new director.

New cast members include Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country), Bertie Carvel (The Crown), Tanzyn Crawford (Tiny Beautiful Things), Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen) and Sam Spruell (Fargo). Bennett plays Aerion Targaryen, with Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, Crawford as Tanselle, Ings as Ser Lyonel Baratheon, and Spruell as Maekar Targaryen.

Also new to the production is Sarah Adina Smith (Lessons in Chemistry), who has joined to direct three of the six episodes. As previously announced, Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell will also star. Check out a first look still from the series below.

A drama series based on the novella The Hedge Knight from George R. R. Martin, the visionary whose A Song of Ice and Fire inspired Game of Thrones, A Knight...

The Winter King is a great prequel to The Last Kingdom, offering a deeper look into British history and setting the stage for the beloved series. Both shows explore complex themes such as nationhood, spirituality, and loyalty in different ways, providing a rich and engaging viewing experience. Sharing the same author, Bernard Cornwell, both The Last Kingdom and The Winter King capture the essence of his historical fiction and bring the past to life.

After the conclusion of The Last Kingdom with the feature-length Netflix movie Seven Kings Must Die, many fans remain eager to revisit Bernard Cornwell's immersive vision of pre-medieval England, with one television series providing the perfect opportunity. Beginning on the BBC and latterly moving to Netflix, The Last Kingdom proved hugely popular with audiences thanks to its charismatic characters and gripping story. Although the show focused on Alexander Dreymon's Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his story has come to a close,...

The renaissance of “Doctor Who,” which started its latest season this week, is a 20-year journey that is entwined with the establishment of a thriving TV production scene in South Wales, where it shoots, and the meteoritic rise of the production company Bad Wolf.

This dates back to 2003 when writer Russell T Davies was asked by the BBC’s then head of drama, Jane Tranter, to revive the show and to base the production in South Wales, an area hitherto known for coal mining and heavy industry. It was produced in 2004, overseen by BBC Wales head of drama, Julie Gardner.

When Tranter and Gardner relocated to Los Angeles to lead BBC Worldwide Productions and Adjacent Productions, they produced “Da Vinci’s Demons” for Starz, and again located the production in South Wales.

In 2015, Tranter and Gardner set up Bad Wolf, which takes its name from an episode of “Doctor Who,” and...

Kit Harington revealed his King Arthur film didn't happen due to a packed filming schedule, but he's glad he had time to dedicate to Game of Thrones. The movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was eventually made, but was cancelled along with its planned sequels. King Arthur movies struggle, but TV shows, like The Winter King, may be the character's future.

Kit Harington has opened up about his scrapped King Arthur movie, revealing why he's glad the film wasn't made and how much it would have impacted his shooting schedule at the time. Harington is best known for his role as Jon Snow in Games of Thrones, having portrayed the major character throughout every season of the fantasy series. However, around the time he was filming, he was also in talks to star as King Arthur in a trilogy directed by David Dobkin.

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Jamie Dornan will lead the cast of a new crime noir series that has been ordered at Netflix titled “The Undertow,” Variety has learned exclusively.

“The Undertow” is based on the Nordisk Film Production As television series “Twin” created by Kristoffer Metcalfe. Dornan will star in the series as twin brothers Adam and Lee. Along with Dornan, the cast also includes Mackenzie Davis, Iain De Caestecker, and Gary Lewis.

The official description of the series reads: “Suffocating in a loveless marriage to Adam (Dornan), Nicola’s (Davis) life takes a dramatic turn when Adam’s long-estranged identical twin brother Lee (Dornan) comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled romantic past threatens to destroy the present. A split-second decision and a terrible accident drives Nicola to protect her children, and over the course of one week, Lee and Nicola are forced together, struggling to maintain a web of secrets and lies.

Harking back to those erotic thrillers of yore, especially from the 1980s and 90s, writer-director Joy Wilkinson’s 7 Keys, her debut feature, starts out full of promise and potential — much like the impromptu hook-up that gets the plot rolling. Unfortunately, like many an ill-starred love match, what follows is disappointing as things evolve in a lurid and yet strangely predictable direction. But while it all goes sour and south in the last act, there are definitely sparks of originality in the early running, supported by a brace of strong performances from Emma McDonald and Billy Postlethwaite, who deserve better than what the script gives them to work with.

Premiering in the Visions section at SXSW, this low-budget striver of a feature may find berths with streamers, and ought to at least attract attention from casting directors looking for new talents.

McDonald and Postlethwaite aren’t entirely unknown quantities. The...

Catherine McCormack (Slow Horses, Temple) has joined Sky and Peacock original limited series Lockerbie to star opposite Colin Firth.

McCormack will play the role of Jane Swire, wife of Dr. Jim Swire who will be played by Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning star Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase). The couple lost daughter Flora in the terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. The five-part series will explore their search for justice ever since.

Also joining the cast are Sam Troughton (Chernobyl) as Murray Guthrie, Mark Bonnar (Napoleon, Guilt) as Roderick McGill, Andy Nyman (A Small Light, Judy) as Edwin Bollier, Ardalan Esmaili (Opponent) as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and Selwa Jghalef (Layers) as Aisha.

In the attack, a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Parts...

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Colin Firth will star as a grieving father in Sky and Peacock’s true-life drama series Lockerbie.

The The King’s Speech and A Single Man actor has signed on to play Dr Jim Swire, a man who tragically lost his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on December 21, 1988. Swire and his wife, Pam, have doggedly pursued justice ever since.

Sky and Peacock’s limited series, a five-part Comcast co-production between Carnival Films, which is part of Universal International Studios, and Sky Studios, has also brought on Scottish playwright David Harrower as lead writer. Maryam Hamidi (Vigil) is guest writer on an episode, while Otto Bathurst is lead director. Jim Loach (Save Me) will also direct an episode.

The Lockerbie air disaster killed 259 passengers and crew, and a further 11 residents lost their life as the plane came down over the quiet Scottish town.

Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase) will star in the upcoming original limited event series Lockerbie about the December 1988 terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 for Comcast’s Peacock and Sky.

In the attack, a Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Parts of the aircraft crashed into a residential area, killing an additional 11 people.

Firth will portray Dr. Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora in the event.

“In the wake of the disaster and his daughter Flora’s death, Dr. Jim Swire (Firth), is nominated spokesperson for the U.K. victims’ families, who have united to demand truth and justice,” says a plot description for the series. “Traveling across continents and political divides, Jim embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardizes his stability,...

In any given year, British TV can be relied on to provide plenty in the way of crime drama, and 2023 was no different. Between these returning series and newcomers A Town Called Malice, Blue Lights, Marlow, Payback, Rebus, Steeltown Murders, The Gold, The Sixth Commandment, Wolf and more, crime continued to flourish on the small screen.

Happily though, that was far from all that UK TV offered this year. There was fantasy too, in the form of Netflix’s South London super-powers drama Supacell, ghost detective series Lockwood & Co., Greek and Roman mythology series Kaos, and sci-fi in Prime Video’s The Rig.

Add to all those the romances, dramas inspired by real-life, and several other book adaptations, period and otherwise plus music-based dramas Champion and This Town, and it was a pretty full slate.

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Rotten Tomatoes scores are often higher for recent TV shows compared to audiences, highlighting a credibility issue with the site's reliability. Critics may be more positive due to corporate influence, while audiences offer more genuine opinions, leading to a gap in scores. Despite differences, shows like Castlevania: Nocturne and The Winter King have been renewed despite low audience scores, indicating varied perspectives on quality.

Recent premieres or seasons of television shows have been favored higher in critics' eyes on Rotten Tomatoes compared to audiences. In terms of its credibility, it's been brought to light recently that Rotten Tomatoes is broken. For a variety of reasons, the site isn't the most reliable when it comes to the very quality of the content itself, but it can show the general attitude of viewers and critics.

Scores on Rotten Tomatoes have become crucial for many when deciding whether to watch a movie or television series.

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The last two decades of television have delivered an absolute lion’s share of Arthurian legends brought to life. Each series has had its own unique style, from the quirky humor of Merlin to the sex appeal of Camelot, though none are quite like MGM+’s epic new adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s The Winter King. While the series is rife with pagan mysticism, it is far more focused on being rooted in the realism of its historical context. Though the pagan priestesses and even Merlin (Nathaniel Martello-White) may have intuitive foresight, they are not all-powerful beings capable of otherworldly magic. Set in the period of late antiquity in Great Britain, following the Roman occupation and amid the conflict with the Saxons, The Winter King is a sprawling tale about a warrior’s rise to power during uncertain times. In this, Arthur (Iain De Caestecker) is not the rightful heir to the throne,...

Cider's mulling, turkey's turking, yams are yamming, and the Pilot TV podcast is getting ready for Christmas with this the Last regular show of 2023.

And, because this is essentially our yule send-off, Boydy runs through the vast array of shows coming your way between now and the new year, plus we review one of them: specifically, Mark Gatiss' latest festive frightener, Lot No. 249. We also head back to (Bernard) Cornwell country for the adaptation of his Warlord Chronicles, The Winter King on Itvx, and we find out whether Rick Riordan's Greek God saga lands safely on Disney+ with the arrival of Percy Jackson And The Olympians.

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MGM+ is returning to Beacon 23.

The premium cable network formerly known as Epix has officially picked up a second season of the sci-fi drama series starring Stephan James and Lena Headey.

The news comes as MGM+ just wrapped the first season of the drama from creator Zak Penn and aired a teaser for the second season of Beacon 23 (watch it below). Season two of the series, which was originally developed for Spectrum Originals and was poised to have a second window on AMC before the former bailed on originals, was already completed as filming on both cycles of the show was done back-to-back.

“The creative team behind Beacon 23 has masterfully brought Hugh Howey’s best-selling book to life, and we’re excited for fans to continue this journey into Beacon 23’s universe of suspense, emotion and unforeseen twists,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+.

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Sky and AMC+ Original have revealed further casting for the third series of ‘Gangs of London.’

Andrew Koji, Richard Dormer, T’Nia Miller, Phil Daniels and Ruth Sheen are to join the cast of the BAFTA-winning series.

Koji bursts onto our screens as an enigmatic, unnamed assassin at the heart of the unfolding mystery across the series, but who is he working for, and what are his true motives? Cornelius Quinn, played by Richard Dormer is a face from the past whose arrival awakens old rivalries for Marian Wallace and Ed Dumani. While T’nia Miller takes on the role of the formidable new Mayor of London set to wreak havoc for our Gangs. Also joining the cast are Phil Daniels and Ruth Sheen who play a married couple entrenched in the old school London gangster values.

in season 3, Ex-undercover cop turned gangster Elliot is now operating as a top-level criminal alongside the Dumanis,...