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Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington Developing "British Western" Thriller
Isn't that every third family in Britain these days? The Cost of Living Crisis is hitting everyone hard over there, yo! Image: HBO According to Deadline, Empire of Dirt is the working title, and the series is being produced by Harington and Netflix series Top Boy writer Daniel West's Thriker Films with New Pictures[...]
State Secrets Hidden & Uncovered In Channel 4 The Undeclared War Q&A
Shows such as Comic Strip Presents, The Tube, The Snowman, Flowers, The Word, Saturday Live, Shameless, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Desmonds, Bremner Bird And Fortune, Brass Eye, Nightingales, Peep Show, Absolutely, The Inbetweeners, Green Wing, The Eleven O'Clock Show, Ali G, Misfits, Black Mirror, This Is England, Derry Girls, Gogglebox,[...]
"Lovecraft Country": HBO's J.J. Abrams/Jordan Peele Series Adds Abbey Lee in Recasting; Jamie Chung, Jordan Patrick Smith as Recurring
Television. Yann Demange (Top Boy) will direct and executive produce the first episode; with Underground's Misha Green writing the pilot and serving as showrunner, and executive producing alongside Peele, Abrams and Ben Stephenson Daniel Sackheim (The Americans, Jack Ryan, True Detective) is set to direct and executive produce. Lovecraft Country introduces us to 25-year-old Koren war vet Atticus Black (Majors),[...]
FX Adapting James Clavell's Feudal Japan Novel 'Shogun' as 10-Episode Limited Series
Announced by FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf during today's Televison Critics Association's (TCA) summer press event, the project is set to be filmed in the UK and Japan; and will be the network's largest international production to date. Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) is set to direct several episodes, with Eugene Kelly[...]
Lovecraft Country: Luther's Wunmi Mosaku Joins Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams HBO Series
Television. Yann Demange (Top Boy) will direct and executive produce the first episode; with Underground executive producer/showrunner/writer Misha Green writing the pilot and serving as showrunner, and executive producing alongside Peele, Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Mosaku will play Rudy Dandridge, a hustler just like her half-sister Leticia, only her hustles haven't paid off[...]
'Hostiles' Jonathan Majors Taking HBO's Journey Through Lovecraft Country
Abrams' Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television. Yann Demange (Top Boy) will direct and executive produce the first episode; with Underground executive producer/showrunner/writer Misha Green writing the pilot and serving as showrunner, and executive producing alongside Peele, Abrams and Ben Stephenson. "When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything[...]
Lovecraft Country: Yann Demange to Direct Jordan Peele Project for HBO
Credit: YouTube Top Boy director Yann Demange is about to make his U.S television debut in a big way: the British helmer will direct and executive produce the first episode of HBO's high-profile dramatic series adaption of Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele's (Get Out) Monkeypaw Productions, J.J[...]
Gareth Edwards's Monsters Getting Television Series Adaptation
Gareth Edwards's directorial debut will be sliming and crawling its way to our screens, as UK broadcaster Channel 4 is set to adapt the Rogue One helmer's Monsters as a television series. Ronan Bennett (Top Boy) is expected to serve as series showrunner, with newcomers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing Edwards is expected to have some[...]
Top Boy: Netflix And Drake Revive British Crime Drama For Season 3
Looks like Dushane and Sully will be running the mean streets of London for another season, as Netflix has ordered a new season of British crime drama Top Boy The first two seasons originally aired in 2011 and 2013 the U.K on Channel 4 and are currently available globally on the streaming service Now, the[...]