Network: Episodes: 37 (hour)Seasons: FiveTV show dates: January 19, 2013 -- TbdSeries status: EndingPerformers include: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Amanda Hale, Jonathan Barnwell, David Wilmot, and David Dawson.TV show description: This dramatic TV show begins in April 1889 in London -- six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing. H Division is responsible for policing one and a quarter square miles of East London, a district with a population of 67,000 poor and dispossessed and also filled with factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs. The men of H Division had hunted Jack the Ripper and failed to find him. When more women are murdered on the streets of Whitechapel, the police begin to wonder if the killer has returned.
- 2/27/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Quantico
Zimbabwean-born, Australian trained actor Rick Cosnett ("The Flash") has signed for a recurring role on ABC's new thriller series "Quantico". The show revolves around a group of young FBI recruits who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia.
Cosnett plays Elias Harper, an openly gay and comedic former defense attorney who used his rhetoric and savvy against FBI cases. Recruited by Miranda (Aunjanue Ellis) as an analyst for his brilliant mind, Elias loves to be right but also has a soft and kind-hearted side. [Source: Deadline]
The X-Files
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") and Robbie Amell ("The Flash") are both set to guest star in one episode of the upcoming "The X-Files" event series on Fox. Character details were scarce beyond the pair playing smart and confident agents for the bureau. The six episode run is currently in production. [Source: Variety]
Stateless
Cate Blanchett will develop and direct the...
Zimbabwean-born, Australian trained actor Rick Cosnett ("The Flash") has signed for a recurring role on ABC's new thriller series "Quantico". The show revolves around a group of young FBI recruits who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia.
Cosnett plays Elias Harper, an openly gay and comedic former defense attorney who used his rhetoric and savvy against FBI cases. Recruited by Miranda (Aunjanue Ellis) as an analyst for his brilliant mind, Elias loves to be right but also has a soft and kind-hearted side. [Source: Deadline]
The X-Files
Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") and Robbie Amell ("The Flash") are both set to guest star in one episode of the upcoming "The X-Files" event series on Fox. Character details were scarce beyond the pair playing smart and confident agents for the bureau. The six episode run is currently in production. [Source: Variety]
Stateless
Cate Blanchett will develop and direct the...
- 7/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Alexander Dreymon and Rutger Hauer are to star in The Last Kingdom.
Filming has begun on the BBC Two adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales, in which Matthew Macfadyen and David Dawson also feature.
The series of historical adventure novels penned by the Sharpe creator will be adapted by Good Cop writer Stephen Butchard.
Eight-part drama The Last Kingdom - named for the first book in the series - will be made by Downton Abbey producers Carnival Films.
Emily Cox, Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire), Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair), Peter Gantzler (A-klassen), Joseph Millson (Penny Dreadful), Alexandre Willaume, Rune Temte, and Henning Valin Jakobsen, Tom Taylor, Jocelyn Macnab and Madeleine Power also star.
Set in the year 872, the show will follow Uhtred - a hero raised by the same Vikings who slaughtered his Saxon parents.
"Cornwell's Saxon novels combine historical figures and events with fiction in an utterly compelling way,...
Filming has begun on the BBC Two adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales, in which Matthew Macfadyen and David Dawson also feature.
The series of historical adventure novels penned by the Sharpe creator will be adapted by Good Cop writer Stephen Butchard.
Eight-part drama The Last Kingdom - named for the first book in the series - will be made by Downton Abbey producers Carnival Films.
Emily Cox, Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire), Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair), Peter Gantzler (A-klassen), Joseph Millson (Penny Dreadful), Alexandre Willaume, Rune Temte, and Henning Valin Jakobsen, Tom Taylor, Jocelyn Macnab and Madeleine Power also star.
Set in the year 872, the show will follow Uhtred - a hero raised by the same Vikings who slaughtered his Saxon parents.
"Cornwell's Saxon novels combine historical figures and events with fiction in an utterly compelling way,...
- 11/24/2014
- Digital Spy
The 5th annual Strange Beauty Film Festival will feature three nights — and one afternoon — of gorgeous short films by local filmmakers and from filmmakers around the world on June 12-14 at the Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, North Carolina.
The Opening Night selection on June 12 will feature local films such as Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song, Alina Taalman’s The Descening Package and D.L. Anderson’s Bili Rubin; aswell as films from Rochester, NY; Chicago, Il; and as far away as London and Watford, England.
Some films to look out for throughout the rest of the festival include Fall 1+2 by Canadian filmmaker Aaron Zeghers; Lori Felker‘s award-winning Scattered in the Wind; and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage by acclaimed documentarian Georg Koszulinski that features the legendary Craig Baldwin.
Also, the Closing Night program on June 14 will feature Strange Beauty’s Aural Fixation, a program of experimental soundscapes curated by Jenny Morgan.
The Opening Night selection on June 12 will feature local films such as Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song, Alina Taalman’s The Descening Package and D.L. Anderson’s Bili Rubin; aswell as films from Rochester, NY; Chicago, Il; and as far away as London and Watford, England.
Some films to look out for throughout the rest of the festival include Fall 1+2 by Canadian filmmaker Aaron Zeghers; Lori Felker‘s award-winning Scattered in the Wind; and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage by acclaimed documentarian Georg Koszulinski that features the legendary Craig Baldwin.
Also, the Closing Night program on June 14 will feature Strange Beauty’s Aural Fixation, a program of experimental soundscapes curated by Jenny Morgan.
- 6/5/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Gemma Arterton brings beauty, determination and moral goodness to one of the great female roles
A new theatre is often a challenge. Until weathered and worn by use, it can seem strangely cold and forbidding. But the extraordinary thing about the new indoor Jacobean theatre that is part of Shakespeare's Globe, is that it feels as if it's always been there and was just waiting to be uncovered.
Designed by architect Jon Greenfield, it is small, intimate, welcoming. It seats 340 people who sit tightly packed in two galleried tiers in a beautiful oaken building. I wouldn't say the backless seats are the height of sybaritic comfort but they force one to pay attention. But the real innovation is the use of candlelight in the tradition of 17th century theatre. Sliding panels at the back of the auditorium admit artificial light when needed but there is something rich,...
Gemma Arterton brings beauty, determination and moral goodness to one of the great female roles
A new theatre is often a challenge. Until weathered and worn by use, it can seem strangely cold and forbidding. But the extraordinary thing about the new indoor Jacobean theatre that is part of Shakespeare's Globe, is that it feels as if it's always been there and was just waiting to be uncovered.
Designed by architect Jon Greenfield, it is small, intimate, welcoming. It seats 340 people who sit tightly packed in two galleried tiers in a beautiful oaken building. I wouldn't say the backless seats are the height of sybaritic comfort but they force one to pay attention. But the real innovation is the use of candlelight in the tradition of 17th century theatre. Sliding panels at the back of the auditorium admit artificial light when needed but there is something rich,...
- 1/16/2014
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
- 5/3/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Ripper Street
BBC America has announced it's co-producing the new BBC crime series Ripper Street which has already started filming in London and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Myanna Buring and David Dawson.
The eight-episode run follows the 1889 aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders in London's East End and comes from "Waking the Dead" and "Mistresses" writer Richard Warlow. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Magic City
The Starz network has done it again, renewing its 1960's Miami-set period crime tale "Magic City" for a second season several weeks before the first episode goes to air. The first three episodes will debut on various platforms before the premiere goes to air on April 6th.
Starz previously did the same for the Kelsey Grammer-led "Boss" which rode in on great acclaim. However both praise for the show and the ratings quickly dwindled as the season went on, thus they're stuck with having to produce a second season.
BBC America has announced it's co-producing the new BBC crime series Ripper Street which has already started filming in London and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Myanna Buring and David Dawson.
The eight-episode run follows the 1889 aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders in London's East End and comes from "Waking the Dead" and "Mistresses" writer Richard Warlow. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Magic City
The Starz network has done it again, renewing its 1960's Miami-set period crime tale "Magic City" for a second season several weeks before the first episode goes to air. The first three episodes will debut on various platforms before the premiere goes to air on April 6th.
Starz previously did the same for the Kelsey Grammer-led "Boss" which rode in on great acclaim. However both praise for the show and the ratings quickly dwindled as the season went on, thus they're stuck with having to produce a second season.
- 3/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tamzin Merchant
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
- 9/5/2011
- by admin
Comedy; Donmar Warehouse; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, all London
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
- 6/19/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
BBC Four has announced an all-star cast for its Coronation Street 'origins' drama. EastEnders returnee Jessie Wallace takes on the role of Pat Phoenix, who became tart-with-a-heart Elsie Tanner, while Open All Hours star Lynda Baron will play Violet Carson, who landed the role of harridan-in-a-hairnet Ena Sharples. Renowned actress Celia Imrie, meanwhile, has signed to appear as Annie Walker performer Doris Speed and William Roache's real-life son James will portray a younger version of his father. The one-off drama is to tell the story of how ITV soap Coronation Street was born and how the show's creator Tony Warren - a younger version of whom will be played by David Dawson - brought Salford to life on television screens around the world. Then-Granada casting director Margaret Morris will be portrayed by Jane Horrocks, and (more)...
- 6/28/2010
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
The reclusive artist has made a rare screen appearance, alongside a kestrel. Cath Clarke reports
How do you tempt the notoriously reclusive painter Lucian Freud to appear in a film? With a kestrel, it turns out. And a zebra. It worked for Tim Meara, an artist and film-maker whose 15-minute short, Small Gestures in Bare Rooms, boasts cameos by the 87-year-old artist. In his first scene, Freud walks silently along Regent's Canal in London with a bird of prey perched on his hand. He holds it tenderly and respectfully, his beady eyes a match for the bird's. In another scene, he strokes the muzzle of a zebra while a dancer performs close by.
Small Gestures in Bare Rooms is Freud's first significant appearance on film since 1988, when he was interviewed by the BBC; though to see Small Gestures in full, you will have to go to the Pompidou in Paris for the gallery's Freud retrospective.
How do you tempt the notoriously reclusive painter Lucian Freud to appear in a film? With a kestrel, it turns out. And a zebra. It worked for Tim Meara, an artist and film-maker whose 15-minute short, Small Gestures in Bare Rooms, boasts cameos by the 87-year-old artist. In his first scene, Freud walks silently along Regent's Canal in London with a bird of prey perched on his hand. He holds it tenderly and respectfully, his beady eyes a match for the bird's. In another scene, he strokes the muzzle of a zebra while a dancer performs close by.
Small Gestures in Bare Rooms is Freud's first significant appearance on film since 1988, when he was interviewed by the BBC; though to see Small Gestures in full, you will have to go to the Pompidou in Paris for the gallery's Freud retrospective.
- 6/17/2010
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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