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This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: Bong’s back, Comic Relief returns, Severance ends and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Reel Talk

A big return for Bong Joon-Ho in Mickey 17, his delayed Robert Pattinson-starring science-fiction film, discussed here by Sam Stokes and guest Ian Buckley…

Britcom Goes to the Movies

Every two years, Britain launches Comic Relief in the West’s vain effort to help the African poor, and though that never changes, we do get some blinding sketches out of it. Rob Heath and Guy Walker return for a special episode to look at some of the best…

Illumination Above All

Get your mittens on as Severance reaches 2×10 ‘Cold Harbor’, the crazy climax to this thrilling second season, which innies Ian Buckley and Sarah Applegate are here to break down…

Modern Horror

One of the strangest and hardest to describe horrors in recent years,...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: a centenary of vampires, an Oscar success, a man without fear and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Vampire Videos

A milestone is reached by the blood-soaked due of Dan Owen and Hugh McStay as the podcast clocks 100 episodes with a fun, bumper length celebration with guests Mary Munoz, Dee Molumby and Aj Black, their dissection of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu with Chris Brosnahan, and much more. Fangs for everything, guys!

Academy Watch

The results are in and Bo Nicholson begins his analysis by discussing the confident victory of Sean Baker’s Anora…

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A great new hope for the MCU has arrived in Daredevil: Born Again, the first big Marvel show in some time, which means Hugh McStay, Ashley Thomas and guest Julia Mercado join forces to tackle 1×01 ‘Heaven’s Half Hour’ and 1×02 ‘Optics’…

At the Movies in the 90s

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Artists, tastemakers and executives converged in Kingston, Jamaica February 19 through 23, 2025 for the third annual Island Music Conference (Imc). Launched in 2023 by co-ceo’s Judith Ann Bodley and Sharon Burke, along with Chairman Orville “Shaggy” Burrell, the conference has quickly established itself as a premier hub for networking, music discovery, and critical discussions around the future of reggae and dancehall.

This year’s event, held primarily at Courtleigh Auditorium in downtown Kingston, brought together industry professionals for an array of panels, workshops and performances, offering both new and seasoned artists a chance to gain invaluable insights into the evolving music landscape.

The conference kicked off with a cocktail event Wednesday evening, followed by all-white dinner hosted by Shaggy. The “Boombastic” singer, who has long been a champion of dancehall reggae’s international expansion, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss his role in the conference and why he felt compelled to be part of it.

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: space spies, spectral forces, legendary critics and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Writers on Film

A legend is in the house with John Bleasdale this week as he invites on David Thomson, an emeritus international film critic across half a century, to discuss the joy of cinema. Plus! Don’t miss The Malick Hours where John talks about 2017’s Song to Song…

Modern Horror

There’s a ghost in my house, as the old Motown song goes, but just what is haunting the family in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence? A. J. Black and Hugh McStay try to find out…

Academy Watch

In the first of several pre-Oscar breakdowns of the Best Picture nominees, Bo Nicholson is joined by Sean Wilson to dig deep on Sean Baker’s Anora, plus he talks to Violet Hammond about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance…...

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Paradise is a sci-fi political conspiracy thriller series created by Dan Fogelman. The Hulu series is set in an idyllic community housing some of the most important people in the world, and it follows Special Agent Xavier Collins after the President of the United States is murdered. Paradise stars Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin, Percy Daggs IV, and James Marsden. So, if you loved the political intrigue, genre-blending plot, and compelling characters in Paradise, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Salvation is a sci-fi mystery thriller drama series created by Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro, and Matt Wheeler. The CBS series follows a group of people as they discover that an asteroid will hit the Earth in six months and destroy the planet.

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: Gothic monsters, award ceremonies, rubber-nippled heroes and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

At the Movies in the 90s

Get some drive thru and join A. J. Black and Mark McManus as the third season of their 90s podcast launches with a kitsch 1995 favourite, Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever…

Reel Talk

Sam Stokes bids you welcome to his coverage of the film on everyone’s lips – Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu. In what could be some kind of contractual break, there is not a Vampire Videos host in sight, however, as Sam is joined by guests Ashley Thomas and Baz Greenland to bite into this one…

CineHistorians

Returning after a festive break, the New Wave focused first season of the podcast reaches strange proportions as Carl Sweeney and Raquel Stecher tackle 2009’s Dogtooth as they look at the Greek Weird Wave…...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, festive Doctor Who, new Lord of the Rings and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Reel Talk / One Rules Them All

In an epic crossover fit enough to forge a ring, Sam Stokes brings his Reel Talk podcast together with Baz Greenland and Luke Winch’s One Rules Them All to discuss new animated Lotr film, The War of the Rohirrim…

The Tardis Crew

It wouldn’t be Christmas without Doctor Who and this year, Steven Moffat is on writing duties with 'Joy to the World’, dissected by Baz and Ben Greenland…

Writers on Film

A surfeit of episodes from John Bleasdale have arrived in recent weeks, including part two of a conversation with Terrence Malick’s cinematographer Jack Fisk, and this end of 2024 summation alongside a re-aired favourite, Walter Chaw on Walter Hill…

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Last year, a series called Black Cake was released on Hulu and Disney based on the New York best-selling book by Charmaine Wilkerson. The murder mystery thriller ended its first season after the finale debuted on December 6, 2023. Following the conclusion, there were some hopeful updates regarding the second season.

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However, a year later, reports have been rife that the series won’t return for another season. Though the news is not surprising, as it’s been 10 months since the show’s first season ended, the reason isn’t quite valid. In this article, we will explain why the second season got canceled.

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The decision to cancel the show came a few months ago. As per Deadline, Netflix was among the original streaming platforms for the project that...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our array of film and TV chats cover top 10 Disney films, classic Doctor Who and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

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Writers on Film

Lock your doors as John Bleasdale talks to writer James Rose about his Devil’s Advocate’s monograph on the terrifying Texas Chainsaw Massacre…

Vampire Videos

Hugh McStay and Dan Owen enter dark waters this week as they, alongside guest Dr. Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, tackles Abel Ferrara’s seductive take on the vampire mythos, 1995’s The Addiction…

The Magic Box

It’s a charm offensive in Lost this week with 1×08 ‘Confidence Man’, as Kurt North sits down with guest Cortlan Waters Bartley to chat about the swaggering Sawyer…

Modern Horror

Turn that frown upside down and join Hugh McStay and A. J. Black, alongside guest Kat Hughes, to discuss Parker Finn’s Smile and the recently released,...

Filming on Channel 4‘s new crime thriller In Flight, starring Katherine Kelly, is underway.

The new six-part series follows Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, The Long Shadow) as Jo, a flight attendant who finds her life turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling when her son is arrested.

Co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy), and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star), the show will also star Stuart Martin, Ashley Thomas, Bronagh Waugh, Harry Cadby, Corinna Brown and Ambreen Razia.

Set in Bangkok, Bulgaria, Istanbul and London, filming takes place in Belfast with funding support from Northern Ireland Screen.

“I am really excited to be taking on the role of Jo and I can’t wait to tell her compelling story,” Kelly said. “I am delighted to be working with Buccaneer Media again and it’s joy to be filming in Belfast.

Exclusive: UK network Channel 4 has boarded a crime drama starring Katherine Kelly about a single mother who is blackmailed into smuggling drugs.

Filming on the six-part In Flight is underway, with Kelly playing an air hostess who is forced to take desperate measures after her son is arrested. Alongside Channel 4, Prosieben has acquired rights to Germany, Sbs for Australia and Tvnz for New Zealand. Fremantle is handling international distribution.

Mike Walden and Adam Randall are the writers and Chris Baugh is the director. Buccaneer Media is producing.

Kelly’s character, Jo Conran, is a single mother whose son is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears not to have committed. When she approached by a gang who knows all about her situation, she is blackmailed...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our array of film and TV chats cover horror mega lists, comic pastiches and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Modern Horror Podcast

Straying a little away from their usual patch, Hugh McStay and A. J. Black dissect Variety’s recent Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time list, but how many modern horror pictures make the cut?

You Have Been Watching

It’s getting creepy on our dedicated British sitcoms podcast as hosts Rob Turnbull and Alex Lynch tackle the cult curio that is Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible…

Make It So

Star Trek: Lower Decks continues its fifth and final season, with host Geoff Owen and guest Ashley Thomas discussing 5×03 ‘The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel’…

Britcom Goes to the Movies

Rod Heath and Guy Walker go to the transatlantic comedy well this week as they look back...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our array of film and TV chat covers Terrifier, Joker and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

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Modern Horror Podcast

Prepare to run away screaming in disgust as A. J. Black and Hugh McStay discuss the horror, the horror, of the Terrifier franchise, including brand new Terrifier 3…

Britcom Goes to the Movies

Rob Heath and Guy Walker idle about this week as they dig deep into Robert Young’s star-studded 1993 comedy, Splitting Heirs…

The X-Cast

A. J. Black presents the beginning of a multi-part series putting together all the Five Questions of X across the podcast from 2015, all about The X-Files, here including guests such as New York Times best-selling authors Greg Cox and Keith R. A. DeCandido…

Reel Talk

Sam Stokes returns with a new run of Reel Talk, a movie podcast exploring brand new releases, here joined...

It might be too early to say that the "Frasier" revival is getting better. But after season 2, episode 5 brought back one of the best recurring characters from the original series, and with Peri Gilpin's Roz Doyle confirmed as a recurring guest for this season, things are certainly looking up for the show.

Star Kelsey Grammer has done his best to carry the modern incarnation of "Frasier," but he's thus far been hampered by a supporting ensemble that, try as they might, were never going to live up to the original series' excellent cast. As more characters from that beloved '90s sitcom return to the revival, however, the show has started to feel a bit more like the "Frasier" of old we all miss. It's bittersweet to recognize that the 2024 "Frasier" is only really good when it's more obviously pandering to our collective nostalgia, but that is, for better or worse,...

Dominic Orlando gets a special mention in the season 2 premiere of Amazon Prime's horror series Them, and for good reason. Them is a haunted house anthology show created for the streaming service, that first premiered in April 2021, with the subtitle, Them: Covenant. The second season, Them: The Scare, premiered a few years later in April 2024. Both seasons focus on Black families put into horrifying supernatural and sometimes disturbingly real situations. Created by Little Marvin, the series has earned mixed reviews across its seasons.

The first season of the show only has a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes but the second season has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Them: The Scare has the honor of opening with a dedication to Dominic Orlando, a writer for the series. Season 2, episode 1, "Are You Scared", is set in 1991 and centers on LAPD Detective Dawn Reeve (Deborah Ayorinde) who is assigned to a gruesome murder case that has...

There’s a wealth of things to listen to on the Film Stories Podcast Network, from critiques of Agatha All Along to dissections of The X-Files. Here’s what’s new this week:

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our shows have been busy bringing you an array of film and TV conversation. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

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Marvel have kicked off a brand new series in Agatha All Along, and our all-purpose MCU podcast is bringing the party to you, as hosts Hugh McStay and Ashley Thomas discuss the first two episodes. Don’t miss Hugh with guest Rob Turnbull chatting episode three too…

ChuckyVision

Sadly, Chucky the TV show was cancelled this week but our dedicated coverage of all things killer dolls will endure, as hosts Mark Adams and Dev Elson here discuss The Garbage Pail Kids Movie from 1987…

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It is one-and-done for Black Cake. Hulu has cancelled the drama series after one season on the streaming service. Created by Marissa Jo Cerar, the eight-episode first season debuted in November and finished in December 2023.

Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi, and Glynn Turman star in the series based on Charmaine Wilkerson's novel. The drama tells the story of a woman whose family discovers her secrets after she dies.

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Hulu is not proceeding with a second season of its original drama series Black Cake, starring Adrienne Warren and Mia Isaac. The news is not surprising as it’s been 10 months since Season 1 ended its run on the streamer.

This marks a formal resolution for the series, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey‘s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan‘s Kapital Entertainment, whose fate had been sealed for months. It didn’t necessarily have to be — I’d heard chatter that Netflix was interested in picking up the acclaimed drama but the inquiry didn’t go far as program relocations from one major streamer to another are very rare — and complicated — in the era of streaming wars.

Netflix had been among the original suitors for the project, which landed at Hulu in 2021 after a bidding war.

Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes,...

It’s one and done for Hulu’s Black Cake, which will not be back for a second season at the streamer, TVLine has learned.

The cancellation comes nearly a year after Black Cake first premiered on Hulu in November 2023. Its Season 1 finale, now a series finale, dropped on Dec. 6.

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Based on Charmaine Wilkerson’s 2022 novel of the same name, Black Cake centered on two siblings — Benny and Byron Bennett, played by Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren and Them‘s Ashley Thomas,...

“Black Cake” won’t be returning for a second season at Hulu.

The streamer has opted not to renew the series, based on Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel of the same name, for a second installment. The news comes just under a year after “Black Cake” debuted in November 2023.

Taking place across Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California, the generational saga centers on a runaway bride named Covey (Mia Isaac), who disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned — or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder in the late 1960s, according to the official logline.

Her story is uncovered 50 years later in California when widow Eleanor Bennett (Chipo Chung) loses her battle with cancer and leaves her two estranged children, Byron (Ashley Thomas) and Benny (Adrienne Warren), a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America.

The official trailer for Frasier season 2 has been released. The trailer sees Frasier visiting the Seattle radio station from the original show and seeing his old friend Bulldog Briscoe. While the sitcom reboot has many new characters and adventures, the trailer reveals it is not afraid to embrace nostalgia.

The trailer for Frasier season 2 is a trip down memory lane for the lead character. The Paramount+ sitcom is a reboot of the Cheers spinoff show of the same name, which originally aired on NBC for 11 seasons between 1993 and 2004. The show follows Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) after he moves back to Boston from Seattle to become a Harvard lecturer and forge a better relationship with his son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). The show's ensemble cast also includes Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, Anders Keith, and Nicholas Lyndhurst. All six stars will return in the upcoming Frasier season 2.

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Introduction Adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens are numerous. Like ‘Shakespeare,’ if you can think of an alteration to the text, it has been done. Dickens' characters have sung, worn modern clothing, and even been played by muppets. FX in partnership with Hulu, has recently released their newest version of ‘Great Expectations’. The show sets up the classic story in an engaging way. Dickens’ penchant for poetry shines through Pip, the orphan who dreams of a better life. ‘Great Expectations’ follows Pip as he tries to rise in the social hierarchy. Young Pip is played by Tom Sweet. He combines a poetic and romantic disposition with an ambition that makes him stand out. He is raised by his cruel sister Sarah, played by Hayley Squires, and his kind brother-in-law Joe, played by Owen McDonnell. These characters not only give Pip a template to contrast himself with, but they also use him to their advantage.

The A Dream Given Form podcast continues to work through Babylon 5’s second season: listen to it right here.

In this weeks A Dream Given Form, Luke Winch and Baz Greenland are joined by guest Ashley Thomas to talk Bester’s return in season two’s ‘A Race Through Dark Places’, as Talia is forced to confront the insidious truth about the Psi Corps…

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Starz has revealed the trailer for Season 2 of “The Serpent Queen,” starring Samantha Morton. Featuring eight episodes, the second season of the historical drama series will return to the platform July 12.

Based on the book “Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France” by Leonie Frieda, the series details the life of the titular Queen Catherine (Morton), one of the longest-serving rulers in French history. She ruled the country for 50 years. The first season followed the young royal as she married into the 16th-century French court at 14 after being orphaned.

Catherine de Medici becomes the Queen Regent of France in the second season, as her son Charles IX has come of age. The trailer sees the royal try to avoid civil war in the country and going head to head with Queen Elizabeth I of England (Minnie Driver).

“Life is about what you’re willing to do to survive,” the Queen Regent states in the trailer.

Them's "Cat in a Bag" scene portrays violence against black people in the 1950s. The scene highlights real-world horrors faced by the Emory family before supernatural encounters. Creators and actors felt the scene was necessary to explore and depict the terror faced by black people.

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The "cat in a bag" scene from the first season of the horror anthology Them was a shocking inclusion that the creators stand by. Them is a black anthology horror show from Amazon Prime in the vein of American Horror Story, with a new cast of characters each season. The first season, titled Them: Covenant, follows a black family who moves from North Carolina to a white neighborhood in East Compton in the 1950s. Their idyllic life takes a turn for the sinister when their home becomes the focus of evil forces.

Them: Covenant, and the second season,...

On this episode of Reel Talk, your host Sam Stokes is joined by Ashley Thomas, a.k.a. The Nerdy Blogger, to talk about strong female protagonists Furiosa and Amy Winehouse.

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We’re thrilled to announce that over 30 new podcasts are joining the Film Stories family. More information right here.

Right at the infancy of Film Stories, nearly six years ago, it was an individual podcast that kicked things off. The Film Stories with Simon Brew podcast is now nearing its 400th episode, while Film Stories magazine has just made it to issue 50. Across live events, print magazines, videos and audio, it’s been the podcast that was the catalyst for it all.

Now, we’re excited to announce that podcasts are to become an even bigger part of the Film Stories family. The already-successful We Made This network of film and television podcasts is, going forward, now the Film Stories Podcast Network. And here’s the list of the programmes that are instantly adding hundreds of thousands of downloads a month to the Film Stories world…

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Frasier star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer keeps things in the family for Season 2 of his rebooted sitcom. Grammer's lineage will be fully displayed as his daughter gets cast in a key role.

Per Variety, Grammer confirmed his daughter, Greer, has been cast in Season 2 of the Frasier reboot, marking arguably her biggest role to date. Greer Grammer features as Alice, the daughter of Frasier Crane's long-time friend and former colleague, Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin), with her character described as being similarly "outgoing" and "free-spirited" as her mother.

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Frasier actor Toks Olagundoye hails lead star Kelsey Grammer, telling how he's similar to and different from the character he plays.

Greer has long followed in her father's footsteps, with the 32-year-old actor featuring in projects such as Nickelodeon's iCarly, the MTV teen dramedy, Awkward and the 2021 film, Deadly Illusions.

Kelsey Grammer's daughter, Greer Grammer, is cast as Roz's daughter in Frasier season 2. Alice Doyle, now in her late twenties, has inherited her mother's free-spirited ways. Alice's presence in Providence complicates Frasier's son Freddy's romantic plans.

Frasier season 2 has cast Roz's daughter, and the new actor has a major connection to Kelsey Grammer. Debuting in October 2023 from showrunners Joe Cristalli and Chris Harris, the revival follows Kelsey Grammer's titular character shortly after the death of his father and the end of a long-term relationship. He returns to Boston to reconnect with his son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott), now a firefighter Although the Paramount+ comedy focuses on a mostly new Frasier cast, Peri Gilpin reprised her role as Roz Doyle in the season 1 finale and will return in season 2.

Variety confirms that Greer Grammer, the daughter of star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer, has been cast as the grown-up Alice Doyle in Frasier season 2. Grammer,...

Roz isn’t the only Doyle reentering Frasier Crane’s orbit in Season 2 of the Paramount+ revival: Kelsey Grammer’s real-life daughter, Greer Grammer, has been cast as Roz’s all-grown-up daughter Alice, TVLine has confirmed.

Her casting comes on the heels of Peri Gilpin’s return as Roz in Frasier’s Season 1 finale. Gilpin will reprise her role as Dr. Crane’s former Kacl sidekick on a recurring basis in Season 2. (According to our sister site Variety, Season 2 of the sequel series will find Roz contemplating leaving her longtime home of Seattle.)

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Little Marvin hints at more eerie tales in store for Them, with a commitment to develop the project further. Star Deborah Ayorinde transitions from "Lucky" in Season 1 to Detective Dawn Reeve in Season 2 with confidence. Them's shift to the early '90s in Los Angeles reflects societal tremors post-Rodney King incident, unafraid to tackle racism.

Them creator Little Marvin recently shared hints about the future of his Prime Video horror anthology series. The show that masterfully combines supernatural elements with explorations of societal and racial tensions may just be gearing up for more eerie tales.

Speaking with ComicBook, Marvin expressed his commitment to continue developing the project, stating he is "a thousand percent" ready with ideas and hopes that Amazon is keen to support the series' growth. This comes at a crucial juncture for Them, as Amazon has only committed to the first two seasons thus far, and the...

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Deborah Ayorinde and Joshua J. Williams star together as mother and son in the second season of Prime Video's Them, known this time as Them: The Scare. For Ayorinde, it marks her second appearance in the anthology series; now, she portrays LAPD Detective Dawn Reeve, who is investigating a string of bizarre murders. Williams is a new addition to the series, portraying Ayorinde's son, Kel Reeve, and while the young actor might only have a handful of roles under his belt thus far, it's clear that he has the potential to be a star.

MovieWeb recently sat down with Ayorinde and Williams to dive into Them: The Scare, what it was like for Ayorinde to return to the mind of creator Little Marvin, and how Williams' first experience went. Both agreed on one thing: Little Marvin is a genius. Williams also touched...

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Either in hindsight or by fantastic happenstance, there are moments in time when you can see an actor take on a role and own it so much that it changes the trajectory of their career. For Luke James, that role is undoubtedly Edmund Gaines in Prime Video's upcoming second season of Them, dubbed Them: The Scare. While he may have found success starring in shows such as Star and The Chi, in The Scare, James takes things to a whole new level by portraying a character with such depth in a disturbing fashion that it makes it hard to look away. One thing is for sure: Luke James is incredible here.

MovieWeb caught up with James ahead of the premiere of Them: The Scare on April 25, 2024, to talk about his role as Edmund, and how it felt to not only step into...

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The second season of Prime Video's horror anthology series, Them, drops on April 25, 2024, and while the first season was dubbed Covenant, this time around it's being billed as Them: The Scare, and takes viewers from the 1953 setting of the first season, all the way to 1991 Los Angeles after the release of the Rodney King video when racial tensions are at their peak. It sees the return of Deborah Ayorinde in the lead role, only this time, instead of playing a homemaker, she finds herself acting as an LAPD Detective investigating a string of bizarre murders.

Joining Ayorinde in the new season are Luke James, Joshua J. Williams, and legendary icon Pam Grier, who portrays Ayorinde's mother, Athena. MovieWeb recently had the opportunity to sit down with Grier to talk about her role in Them: The Scare, and what it was like to...

The Serpent Queen is returning soon to Starz. The cable network has released a trailer and first-look photos for season two of the historical drama, which was renewed in October 2022. Eight episodes have been produced for the second season.

The Serpent Queen series, which follows the life of Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton), stars Morton, Amrita Acharia, Enzo Cilenti, Barry Atsma, Nicholas Burns, Danny Kirrane, Sennia Nanua, Beth Goddard, Antonia Clarke, George Jaques, Minnie Driver, Angus Imrie, Emma McDonald, Stanley Morgan, Philippine Velge, Rosalie Craig, Isobel Jesper Jones, Bill Milner, Ashley Thomas, and Alexandre Willaume.

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Starz’s first teaser for The Serpent Queen season two declares in no uncertain terms that the “bad b*tch is back.” The teaser also provides our first good look at Oscar nominee Minnie Driver as Queen Elizabeth I.

The short teaser was accompanied by a batch of photos from the upcoming season set to premiere this summer.

Samantha Morton reprises her role as the titular character, Catherine de Medici. Additional returning season one stars include Danny Kirrane as Louis de Bourbon, Ray Panthaki as Charles Guise, Raza Jaffrey as Francois de Guise, and Enzo Cilenti as Ruggieri. Amrita Acharia returns as Aabis, Ruby Bentall is Angelica, Beth Goddard is Antoinette Guise, Ludivine Sagnier is Diane de Poitiers, and Rupert Everett is Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Season two’s new cast includes:

Angus Imrie as “Henry IV” the son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d’Albret, he appears uncivilized,...

Starz has released a first look at the second season of the captivating Samantha Morton-led historical drama The Serpent Queen. The photos tease the debut of Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver as the infamous ‘Virgin Queen’ Elizabeth I, who rivals Catherine in court in the delightfully wicked upcoming season.

In addition, Starz has also released the first teaser trailer, revealing that Catherine is willing to do anything to maintain her power.

The Serpent Queen tells the story of Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton), who, against all odds, became one of the most powerful and longest-serving rulers in French history. The lavish drama’s second season is set to return in Summer 2024.

Danny Kirrane (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Ray Panthaki (Away), Raza Jaffrey (Homeland), Enzo Cilenti (Free Fire), Amrita Acharia (Game of Thrones), Ruby Bentall (Firebrand), Beth Goddard (Manhunt), Ludivine Sagnier (Lupin), and Rupert Everett...

The trailer has been released for Them: The Scare. Them: The Scare is the second series of the Prime Video horror series Them. Prime Video’s answer to American Horror Story, Them is an anthology horror series featuring Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Alison Mill, and Melody Hurd.

Now, Prime Video releases the trailer for Them. Check it out below:

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Hannah Waddingham, Bella Ramsey, drama series Happy Valley and Squid Game: The Challenge were among the winners at the 2024 Royal Television Society program awards. The Rts unveiled the honorees in London on Tuesday evening.

The Sixth Commandment won the most awards with three, including for best limited series and best supporting actor Éanna Hardwicke. Comedy Extraordinary and drama Top Boy were among the other winners.

Waddingham was honored for her work as one of the hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest, while Ramsey won for their role in the prison anthology drama series Time.

The BBC led the winners across the more than two dozen award categories, being able to celebrate a total of 21 honors.

Last year, Kate Winslet and Kit Connor were among the Rts honorees. The organization last year also introduced several new awards categories.

The complete list of Royal Television Society program awards winners for 2024 follows.

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Netflix has revealed a slew of commissions out of the U.K., including a political thriller series starring Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones, the reality show “Buying London” and a TV adaptation of Marian Keyes’ bestselling novel “Grown Ups.”

As reported by Variety exclusively earlier, Netflix has also commissioned the Jamie Dornan crime noir series “The Undertow,” which will go into production in Scotland this year and premiere on the platform in 2025.

Also set for 2025, “The Choice” stars Jones and Delpy as the British Prime Minister and French President, respectively, in what is being described as a high-stakes political thriller.

Jones plays “Abigail Dalton, the recently elected British Prime Minister fighting for office thanks to a healthcare crisis. Vivienne Toussaint, played by Julie Delpy, is the first female French President campaigning for re-election no matter what — including tackling France’s borders. A summit between the two women could be the answer to their prayers,...

A splashy Netflix UK scripted slate features a historical series about the Guinness brewery from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and the latest ‘one-shot’ offering from Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini.

The prolific Knight is penning House of Guinness [working title] from long-time producing collaborator Kudos.

The show will tell the story of one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness Family. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, it will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is one of the most beloved alcoholic drinks today.

Netflix UK content boss Anne Mensah said...

Quick Links Them Season 2 Latest News Them Season 2 Release Date Them Season 2 Cast Them Season 2 Story Details Them Season 2: Further News & Info Them Season 2 premieres on April 25, 2024, titled "The Scare", set in the 1990s. Debby Ayorinde returns as LAPD Detective Dawn Reeve, with new cast additions like Pam Grier. Season 2 story moves on from the Emorys to a new horror tale in the 1990s, focusing on a gruesome murder investigation.

Them season 2 is officially on the way, and here's everything currently known about the new anthology series. Them premiered its first season, Covenant, on Amazon Prime in April 2021, and the story follows the Emory family as they move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, CA, in the 1950s. Over the next ten days, the Emorys are plagued by horrors from their racist white neighbors and the apparitions in their new home.

Series creator Little Marvin drew...

“Salem’s Lot” Will Skip Theaters to Stream Exclusively

The long-in-development film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” is being made, after all, but will no longer premiere in theaters, opting for a Max-exclusive streaming premiere this year with an official date to be announced later.

Originally intended for a September 2022 theatrical release, New Line Cinema pushed the film to 2023 citing the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown for delays before removing it from its release calendar entirely. King’s 1975 novel was first adapted for the screen with CBS’s 1979 miniseries starring David Soul.

“Salem’s Lot” is written and directed by Gary Dauberman (“Annabelle”). The new version will see Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) return to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot looking to come up with an idea for a new novel but discovers his hometown’s residents are becoming vampires.

The ensemble also features Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark,...

Prime Video's "Them" gets a second season as an anthology series, exploring LA's history in the 90s with a new twist and returning cast. "Them: The Scare" promises a gripping murder mystery in a chaotic 1991 Los Angeles. The horror series delves into LA's past with rich storytelling and iconic actors, combining history with a fearless look at the chilling unknown.

When it was released back in 2021, Prime Video’s Them was met with high praise, mainly thanks to the efforts of Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas, while at the same time being criticized for its graphic nature. Now, the horror series from creator Little Marvin is returning for a second season with Them: The Scare, which turns the show into an anthology series in the same vein of American Horror Story, with the returning cast portraying a whole new crop of characters.

Prime Video has revealed that all eight episodes...

Starz has announced the casting of 10 more actors for the second season of The Serpent Queen. Minnie Driver (above), Angus Imrie, Emma McDonald, Stanley Morgan, Philippine Velge, Rosalie Craig, Isobel Jesper Jones, Bill Milner, Ashley Thomas, and Alexandre Willaume are joining the historical drama's cast.

Starring Samantha Morton, Amrita Acharia, Enzo Cilenti, Barry Atsma, Nicholas Burns, Danny Kirrane, Sennia Nanua, Beth Goddard, Antonia Clarke, and George Jaques, The Serpent Queen series is based on Leonie Frieda's book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. The story follows the life of Catherine de Medici, who became one of the longest-ruling monarchs in French history.

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This year’s nominees for the Royal Television Society Programme Awards have been revealed, with Gary Oldman, Hannah Waddingham and Bella Ramsey making the cut.

The BBC leads the list with 51 nods across 30 categories, while Disney+ has earned its first nominations for “Extraordinary.” Channel 4 received 17 nominations, including for comedy series “Big Boys.” The leading actor — male category recognized Oldman (“Slow Horses”), Kane Robinson (“Top Boy”) and Timothy Spall (“The Sixth Commandment”), while Jodie Whittaker (“Time”), Tamara Lawrence (“Time”) and Sarah Lancashire (“Happy Valley”) are competing in leading actor — female.

“2023 was an outstanding year for U.K. creativity, and the nominations we have announced today highlight the breadth of genre-defining, exceptional programming that British audiences have enjoyed over the last 12 months,” Rts Programme Awards chair Kenton Allen said in a statement. “Despite the unpredictable times our industry currently faces, we at the Rts welcome the opportunity to come together as...

Minnie Driver joins ‘The Serpent Queen’ (Photo Credit: Mark Williams / Courtesy of Starz)

Oscar nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) has joined the cast of Starz’s The Serpent Queen season two as ‘Virgin Queen’ Elizabeth I. Driver’s will be a recurring role, while Angus Imrie (Fleabag), Emma McDonald (Moonhaven), Stanley Morgan (The Sandman), and Philippine Velge (Station Eleven) have come on board as series regulars.

Season two will also include new recurring characters played by Rosalie Craig (1899), Isobel Jesper Jones (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), Bill Milner (Son of Rambow), Ashley Thomas (Them), and Alexandre Willaume (The Wheel of Time).

Samantha Morton returns to lead the cast as Catherine de Medici in the period drama based on Leonia Frieda’s Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road) writes and executive produces the series, with Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games Franchise...

The stars are stepping out ahead of the 2024 BAFTAs!

Joe Alwyn joined Bridgerton stars Phoebe Dynevor and Rege-Jean Page at the 2024 Pre-bafta Filmmakers Dinner & Party hosted by Dunhill and Bsbp on Tuesday night (February 13) held at the Bourbon House in London, England.

The event was held to celebrate the British film culture and community ahead of the BAFTAs, which takes place on Sunday, Feb. 18. Check out the full list of nominations here.

Since the guestlist was so stacked, we pulled together pics of so many of the stars arriving at the party!

Click inside to see photos of the stars at the party…

Scroll through photos of so many stars who attended the pre-BAFTAs dinner…

Adjoa Andoh

Alfie Allen

Alison Oliver

Aml Ameen

Anthony Boyle

Anthony Welsh

Archie Madekwe

Fyi: Archie Madekwe is wearing a suit by Dunhill.

Asa Butterfield

Ashley Thomas

Ben Radcliffe

Billie Piper

Brian Cox & wife Nicole Ansari...

Disney+ has unveiled the official trailer ‘Black Cake,’ an adaptation of Charmaine Wilkerson’s best-selling novel of the same name.

In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. In present-day California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America. These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin.

The series is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The story takes place in Jamaica,...

“Black Cake” showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar and director Natalia Leite agree that the launch of the series’ first three episodes at once will enhance the audience’s curiosity and keep them watching the show.

Adapted from the bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, “Black Cake” tells the generational story of Covey (Mia Isaac), who has to abandon all traces of her life in order to escape her Jamaican island home in hopes of a better future. The story begins with Covey’s children, who only know their mother by the name “Eleanor Bennett” (Chipo Chung). She’s a woman who grew up in an orphanage in London before moving to Southern California’s Orange County with her husband Bert. Upon the death of their mother, Covey’s son Byron (Ashley Thomas) and daughter Bennedetta — who goes by “Benny” (Adrienne Warren) — reunite after years apart to...