2019 looks set to be a huge year for HBO, with the final season of Game Of Thrones and the premiere of the new Watchmen series both set to be major events in the televisual calendar. The network has now shared a sneak peek at what’s in store, including footage from those two and a whole lot of others.
In advance of the show’s hotly anticipated final season of Game of Thrones, HBO have released the first teaser trailer for Westeros’ endgame… Unfortunately, there’s no appearances by any of the show’s remaining characters – neither Lena Headey’s Cersei Lannister, Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen or Kit Harington’s Jon Snow appear – but it’s a high budget … >
It’s been a long time in the making but Nic Pizzolatto’s crime drama, True Detective is finally set to return in January on HBO.. After a divisive second series, starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn, True Detective season three has enlisted Oscar winner Mahershala Ali for the lead role alongside Stephen Dorff and Carmen Ejogo. According to … >
In HBO/Sky’s upcoming four-part drama, Catherine the Great, Helen Mirren will be portray the Russian empress – and we’ve got fresh details on the series… The drama, which was announced earlier this year, will focus on the monarch towards the end of her reign and her romance with Gregory Potemkin. Mirren will assume leading lady duties … >
With Westworld season 2 premiering this weekend on HBO in the US and on Sky Atlantic in the UK, it seems an opportune time to confirm that a third season of the show is in the works. That’s not a massive surprise, granted, but it’s still worth noting. Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores in … >
One of HBO’s most acclaimed series, the western Deadwood, was also one that ended prematurely. The show ended after three seasons, cancelled by the network thanks to not particularly impressive ratings. However, since it left our screens in 2006, rumours have rumbled about a revival. And more recently, it came to light that plans for … >
In a bumper day for Game Of Thrones news, we have no less than three hot Westeros updates to share with you: one explaining the show’s past, one teasing the present production of season 8, and one relating to those future spinoff projects. We’d better get a shuffle on, then… First up, a morsel of … >
The biggest and most surprising television deal of the year? That’d arguably be the reported quarter of a billion dollars that Amazon has forked out to make at least two seasons of a Lord Of The Rings television show. Amazon won the bidding war for the show, but one notable company ducked out very early … >
There’s plenty of news coming out of the Television Critics Assoc. press tour over in the US at the moment, much of it courtesy of HBO’s new programming president, Casey Bloys. Chief among the snippets he put out into the world yesterday was news on season 3 of Nic Pizzolatto’s atmospheric crime series, True Detective.
Katja Herbers, who’s previously starred on critically acclaimed series such as The Leftovers, The Americans and Manhatten, has been added to Westworld for its upcoming second season.