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Netflix movie bonanza

Netflix movie bonanza for 2021 — new movies every week!

Subscribers are promised a Netflix movie bonanza with the streaming service releasing a new movie each and every week in 2021 With that many movies we clearly can’t go into any depth. What we can tell you is there will be award winning filmmakers, including Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God) and Adam … >

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Snowpiercer season 2 Sean Bean

Snowpiercer season 2 trailer and release data revealed

Netflix has revealed the trailer for Snowpiercer season 2 and it promises the keep up the action and intrigue. Plus there’s added Sean Bean! First we had the Snowpiercer film; not long after this was followed by Snowpiercer season 1. If you don’t know the idea, it’s a post apocalyptic drama set onboard a train. Not just any old train, … >

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David Walliams and Sheridan Smith Jack and The Beanstalk

Sheridan Smith to star in David Walliams’s take on Jack and the Beanstalk

Sky has announced details of two David Walliams After Ever After stories, including Sheridan Smith to star in a new take on Jack and The Beanstalk Following last year’s Cinderella: After Ever After, Sky has announced the commission of two further instalments of the entertaining, family-friendly specials for Sky One and NOW TV; Jack & The Beanstalk: … >

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The Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK

Danny Boyle to direct Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ memoirs

Dany Boyle is to direct a six-part series, Pistol, drawn from the memoirs of Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones Created and written by Craig Pearce with co-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, the series is based on Steve Jones’ Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol (available here on Amazon). Reading the report on industry website The Knowledge, Nick Grad, president, … >

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Netflix Umbrella Academy The Sparrow Academy

Sparrow Academy cast announced for The Umbrella Academy 3

It’s all gone very strange for The Umbrella Academy season 3 (and that’s saying something) as Netflix announces casting for the Sparrow Academy The picture above came from the Netflix Twitter stream along with the following text: The Sparrows are coming in season 3 The end of season 2 showed the existence of an alternate 2019 (alternate worlds … >

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Bridgerton showrunner talks seasons

Bridgerton showrunner dreams of eight seasons for the Regency hit

Chris van Dusen, the Bridgerton showrunner, has given an in depth interview to Collider and suggested we might get as many as eight seasons of the show Quick reprise. Bridgerton season 1 centres on the romance between the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), as well as numerous other characters from the Bridgerton … >

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Borgen cast announcement

Borgen cast announcement and some launch details

Today’s Borgen cast announcement brings some welcome news on progress with bringing this Danish show back to our screens Borgen is still happening. When Netflix took the opportunity to keep the show alive in early 2019 (as we reported at the time here), little was known of the casting (beyond central characters). Now we have … >

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Blake's 7 Turing Test free

Free Blake’s 7 Turing Test — from Big Finish #lockdownloads

Once again Big Finish is giving away a free audio adventure in lockdown each week — this week it’s Blake’s 7 Turing Test As before, Big Finish is giving away one free audio drama each week during lockdown and this week it all starts with Blake’s 7 Turing Test by Simon Guerrier. Every Monday, a … >

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