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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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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- 4/5/2024
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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,...
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,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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...
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...
- 4/4/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
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.
Arts...
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.
Arts...
- 3/27/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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,...
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,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
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...
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...
- 3/14/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“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,...
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,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
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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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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- 3/7/2024
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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...
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...
- 3/7/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
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...
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...
- 3/6/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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!
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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...
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...
- 2/15/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
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,...
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,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“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...
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...
- 11/2/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
On November 1, 2023, Hulu released the first three episodes of “Black Cake,” a new series based on the New York Times bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson. The streamer describes it as a murder mystery with a diverse cast and a global setting, taking place in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland, England and Southern California. Early reviews are positive, scoring it at a perfect 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes from six critics.
Eleanor Bennett (Chipo Chung) loses her battle with cancer, leaving her children a flash drive that holds untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America; the stories shock her children and challenge everything they know about their family’s origin. The ensemble cast includes Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Faith Alabi, Ashley Thomas and Glynn Turman. Read our full review round-up below.
See Thanks to Meryl Streep, this Golden Globe category could see first comedic winner in 13 years
April Prince of Black Girl Nerds writes,...
Eleanor Bennett (Chipo Chung) loses her battle with cancer, leaving her children a flash drive that holds untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America; the stories shock her children and challenge everything they know about their family’s origin. The ensemble cast includes Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Faith Alabi, Ashley Thomas and Glynn Turman. Read our full review round-up below.
See Thanks to Meryl Streep, this Golden Globe category could see first comedic winner in 13 years
April Prince of Black Girl Nerds writes,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Since the pandemic, Black female-driven content with universal appeal has found a home on Hulu. Stepping away from the cliched stories that have too often defined others’ efforts, each new project from the streamer, be it “The 1619 Project” or the recent “The Other Black Girl,” grows increasingly more ambitious. “Black Cake,” produced by Oprah Winfrey, pushes the boundaries even further by centering on a biracial, immigrant woman’s experience.
Adapted from Charmaine Wilkerson’s New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, the sweeping eight-episode family drama from showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar revolves around a Jamaican Chinese woman who has lived an epic life spanning various parts of the globe. The problem is: Her past has been kept hidden from her children. Only through a flash drive of audio recordings played after her death do they learn that they know very little of her story. As their mother unravels her life from the grave,...
Adapted from Charmaine Wilkerson’s New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, the sweeping eight-episode family drama from showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar revolves around a Jamaican Chinese woman who has lived an epic life spanning various parts of the globe. The problem is: Her past has been kept hidden from her children. Only through a flash drive of audio recordings played after her death do they learn that they know very little of her story. As their mother unravels her life from the grave,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
Hulu’s Oprah-Produced Mystery ‘Black Cake’ Is Most Enticing When It Looks Toward the Past: TV Review
We all keep things to ourselves, secrets that, if brought to light, could harm — or even shatter — us or those we love most. While many people have only a few personal confidences tucked away in their hearts, others envelop themselves in a lifetime of lies to survive. Based on Charmaine Wilkerson’s New York Times best-selling novel and adapted for television by Marissa Jo Cerar, “Black Cake” is an eight-episode odyssey stretching from Jamaica’s shores to Scotland’s glens. The series tells one young woman’s story of survival and perseverance whose circumstances and choices reverberate into her children’s lives a generation later.
A beautiful and gutting mystery drama led by rising star Mia Isaac, “Black Cake” is a thoughtful tapestry of what we conceal so we might remain whole. The show opens in the dark of night in the late 1960s. Covey (Isaac), a distressed 17-year-old girl,...
A beautiful and gutting mystery drama led by rising star Mia Isaac, “Black Cake” is a thoughtful tapestry of what we conceal so we might remain whole. The show opens in the dark of night in the late 1960s. Covey (Isaac), a distressed 17-year-old girl,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Aramide Tinubu
- Variety Film + TV
How well do we really know the people we love?
Hulu tackles that question and more in another book-to-screen adaptation with the genre-bending, time-spanning family drama Black Cake,
Hulu released the trailer for the series, making its debut on November 1.
The first three installments will premiere on that day, followed by an episode a week until it concludes.
Black Cake is a series based on the New York Times Bestseller of the same name written by author Charmaine Wilkerson.
The novel was featured in Oprah's Book Club and thus is brought to us by Marissa Jo Cerar from Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Aaron Kaplan of A Million Little Things and The Chi's Kapital Management.
The series is a family drama and murder mystery and spans the globe, following a story that takes viewers from Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England, and Southern California.
The series follows Covey, a young runaway bride...
Hulu tackles that question and more in another book-to-screen adaptation with the genre-bending, time-spanning family drama Black Cake,
Hulu released the trailer for the series, making its debut on November 1.
The first three installments will premiere on that day, followed by an episode a week until it concludes.
Black Cake is a series based on the New York Times Bestseller of the same name written by author Charmaine Wilkerson.
The novel was featured in Oprah's Book Club and thus is brought to us by Marissa Jo Cerar from Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Aaron Kaplan of A Million Little Things and The Chi's Kapital Management.
The series is a family drama and murder mystery and spans the globe, following a story that takes viewers from Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England, and Southern California.
The series follows Covey, a young runaway bride...
- 10/4/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
Black Cake is coming soon to Hulu. The streaming service has announced the premiere date for the new drama series with the release of a trailer. Eight episodes were produced for the series.
Starring Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi, and Glynn Turman, the Hulu series is based on the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson and takes place in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland, England, and Southern California. Ahmed Eljah, Simon Wan, and Sonita Henry have recurring roles in the series.
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Starring Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi, and Glynn Turman, the Hulu series is based on the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson and takes place in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland, England, and Southern California. Ahmed Eljah, Simon Wan, and Sonita Henry have recurring roles in the series.
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- 10/3/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"For the rest of my life I'm gonna keep looking over my shoulder." Hulu has unveiled an official trailer for a mystery thriller series titled Black Cake, created by Marissa Jo Cerar. Adapted from the novel of the same name written by Charmaine Wilkerson. Two estranged siblings delve into their mother's hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga. A drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting, from Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplans' Kapital Entertainment. A young runaway bride named Covey disappears in the shore in Jamaica in the late 1960s, under unknown circumstances or reasons. Fifty years later in 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...
- 10/3/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Hulu released a trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Black Cake” on Monday.
The generational saga, which comes from showrunner and executive producer Marissa Jo Cerar, combines a murder mystery with family drama. The first three episodes of “Black Cake” release Nov. 1 on Hulu. After the premiere, new episodes will release every Wednesday through Dec. 6.
“I’m sorry. Don’t hate me,” Adrienne Warren’s Benny says as she rushes into an office where her brother Byron (Ashley Thomas) already sits waiting for her. “I had car stuff and then I couldn’t find my keys.”
“You don’t get to just blow in here acting like you care all of a sudden,” Thomas’ Byron responds coldly.
“I’m not acting,” Benny replies. “Ma’s dead.”
“Read the will, please,” is all Byron says in return.
Based on The New York Times-bestselling book, “Black Cake” sets...
The generational saga, which comes from showrunner and executive producer Marissa Jo Cerar, combines a murder mystery with family drama. The first three episodes of “Black Cake” release Nov. 1 on Hulu. After the premiere, new episodes will release every Wednesday through Dec. 6.
“I’m sorry. Don’t hate me,” Adrienne Warren’s Benny says as she rushes into an office where her brother Byron (Ashley Thomas) already sits waiting for her. “I had car stuff and then I couldn’t find my keys.”
“You don’t get to just blow in here acting like you care all of a sudden,” Thomas’ Byron responds coldly.
“I’m not acting,” Benny replies. “Ma’s dead.”
“Read the will, please,” is all Byron says in return.
Based on The New York Times-bestselling book, “Black Cake” sets...
- 10/2/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Great Expectations is a classic tale reimagined, based on the novel of Charles Dickens. Directed by Steven Knight, Lucy Forbes, Brady Hood and Samira Radsi, starring Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Ashley Thomas .
The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.
Release date
June 28
Where to Watch Great Expectations
Hulu
The Cast Olivia Colman Ashley Thomas Fionn Whitehead Johnny Harris
Shalom Brune-Franklin
Hayley Squires
Owen McDonnell
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The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.
Release date
June 28
Where to Watch Great Expectations
Hulu
The Cast Olivia Colman Ashley Thomas Fionn Whitehead Johnny Harris
Shalom Brune-Franklin
Hayley Squires
Owen McDonnell
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- 6/15/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
“If you want to make a TV drama about opium smokers, sadomasochists and imperial slavery in the 19th century, then write your own,” whines The Daily Mail‘s Peter Hitchens about Steven Knight’s new Great Expectations adaptation, presumably forgetting that in 2017, Knight did exactly that in 8-part Gothic Regency thriller Taboo.
Knight’s previous series starring Tom Hardy, bleeds into his take on Charles Dickens’ class and snobbery novel, which loses the comedy and grimes up the characters with the addition of adult content. Great Expectations returns to Knight’s constant theme of social mobility, moving away from ones roots, and the upper classes being mad, evil bastards, as explored in six series of Peaky Blinders.
Here’s the impressive cast amassed for this six-part drama.
Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham
Nobody needs an introduction to Olivia Colman, she’s been firmly in national treasure territory for years now,...
Knight’s previous series starring Tom Hardy, bleeds into his take on Charles Dickens’ class and snobbery novel, which loses the comedy and grimes up the characters with the addition of adult content. Great Expectations returns to Knight’s constant theme of social mobility, moving away from ones roots, and the upper classes being mad, evil bastards, as explored in six series of Peaky Blinders.
Here’s the impressive cast amassed for this six-part drama.
Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham
Nobody needs an introduction to Olivia Colman, she’s been firmly in national treasure territory for years now,...
- 3/26/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Hulu’s content library is about to get a little more Dickensian. On Sunday, March 26, Hulu will premiere its newest historical drama, an adaptation of the classic Dickens tale “Great Expectations.” The series focuses on a young Englishman dead-set on improving his station in life, until he finds out what that improvement might cost him in the end. Set in a time where social class was everything, this tale still has resounding messages for modern life. You can watch Great Expectations with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu.
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“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of “Pip,” an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious...
How to Watch ‘Great Expectations’ Series Premiere When: Sunday, March 26, 2023 Where: Hulu Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$7.99+ / month hulu.com About ‘Great Expectations’ Series Premiere
“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of “Pip,” an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious...
- 3/26/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
"Great Expectations", the new FX, BBC 6-part limited series adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story, executive produced by Ridley Scott, starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea and Matt Berry, premieres March 26, 2023 on Hulu:
"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
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"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
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- 3/25/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The talent behind FX and BBC series “Great Expectations,” “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ literary masterpiece, has spoken about it ahead of its premiere.
“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be. A critique of the class system, Dickens’ novel was published in 1861 after first releasing it in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860.
Fionn Whitehead stars as Pip, leading a cast featuring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell,...
“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be. A critique of the class system, Dickens’ novel was published in 1861 after first releasing it in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860.
Fionn Whitehead stars as Pip, leading a cast featuring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
During a virtual press conference Tuesday morning to promote the lavish new FX Productions/BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic “Great Expectations,” Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman talked about how she didn’t begin acting until her mid-teens and the fact that being able to work consistently in the profession rescued her from a life of perpetual mediocrity.
“I was 16 when I did my first play at school, which was the first time I was able to do anything because I was so rubbish at school,” admitted Colman, who plays the iconic role of Miss Havisham in the hotly-anticipated limited six-part rendition of the Dicken novel from “Peaky Blinders” creator-showrunner Steven Knight that streams exclusively over Hulu in the United States and BBC One in the UK beginning with a pair of episodes on March 26. “It was a few years before I realized I could really be an...
“I was 16 when I did my first play at school, which was the first time I was able to do anything because I was so rubbish at school,” admitted Colman, who plays the iconic role of Miss Havisham in the hotly-anticipated limited six-part rendition of the Dicken novel from “Peaky Blinders” creator-showrunner Steven Knight that streams exclusively over Hulu in the United States and BBC One in the UK beginning with a pair of episodes on March 26. “It was a few years before I realized I could really be an...
- 3/8/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Great Expectations arrives on FX on Hulu next month, and a trailer teasing the reimaging of the Charles Dickens classic novel has now been released. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea, and Matt Berry, the limited series comes from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).
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- 2/21/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"If you really want to win the struggle, you will need more than love." FX Networks has revealed their full trailer for the 2023 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations, a mini-series arriving for streaming this March. It's a BBC / FX co-production, with an impressive cast. This looks so much darker and much grittier than any of the versions before it. The series follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith's apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter into high society. Great Expectations is Dickens' thirteenth novel and his last finished work, published in 1861. It has been adapted numerous times, including as feature films recently in 1998 with Ethan Hawke, and in 2012 with Ralph Fiennes. This 2023 series stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Fionn Whitehead as Pip, Ashley Thomas as Jaggers, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Great Expectations", the new FX, BBC 6-part limited series adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story, executive produced by Ridley Scott, starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea and Matt Berry, premieres March 26, 2023 on Hulu:
"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
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"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
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- 2/17/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
FX’s official trailer for Great Expectations provides our first good look at Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead (Emily) as Pip. The six-episode limited series will premiere on Hulu on March 26, 2023.
Based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel, the limited series also features Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella, Ashley Thomas as Jaggers, Johnny Harris as Magwitch, Hayley Squires as Sara Gargery, and Owen McDonnell as Joe Gargery. Laurie Ogden plays Biddy, Matt Berry is Mr. Pumblechook, Trystan Gravelle is Compeyson, and Rudi Dharmalingam is Wemmick.
The cast also includes Tom Sweet as Young Pip, Chloe Lea as Young Estella, Matthew Needham as Mr. Drummle, and Parth Thakerar as Herbert Pocket.
Steven Knight adapted Dickens’s work and serves as an executive producer. Additional executive producers include Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, and Kate Crowe. Great Expectations is an FX production in association with the BBC,...
Based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel, the limited series also features Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella, Ashley Thomas as Jaggers, Johnny Harris as Magwitch, Hayley Squires as Sara Gargery, and Owen McDonnell as Joe Gargery. Laurie Ogden plays Biddy, Matt Berry is Mr. Pumblechook, Trystan Gravelle is Compeyson, and Rudi Dharmalingam is Wemmick.
The cast also includes Tom Sweet as Young Pip, Chloe Lea as Young Estella, Matthew Needham as Mr. Drummle, and Parth Thakerar as Herbert Pocket.
Steven Knight adapted Dickens’s work and serves as an executive producer. Additional executive producers include Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, and Kate Crowe. Great Expectations is an FX production in association with the BBC,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
"What a prize creature we have fished from the river..." BBC revealed a very brief teaser for their new 2023 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations, a mini-series arriving for streaming this March. It's a BBC / FX co-production, with an impressive cast of stars that will make sure it's thoroughly entertaining. The 2023 series follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith's apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter into high society. Great Expectations is Dickens' thirteenth novel and his last finished work, published in 1861. It has been adapted numerous times before, including as feature films recently in 1998 with Ethan Hawke, and in 2012 with Ralph Fiennes. This latest 2023 series stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Fionn Whitehead as Pip, Ashley Thomas as Jaggers, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, and Matt Berry as Mr.
- 2/10/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Great Expectations is coming soon to Hulu. The six-episode limited series is a remake of the Charles Dickens classic novel and is being produced by FX and BBC. In the United States, it will be released on the Hulu streaming service.
Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea, and Matt Berry star in the series from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).
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Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea, and Matt Berry star in the series from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).
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- 2/8/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
On the anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday, FX Has set the premiere date for Great Expectations, Steven Knight’s limited series adaptation of Dickens’ classic. The series’ key art was also released today. The six-part series from FX and BBC will premiere Sunday, March 26 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and feature the first two episodes. Great Expectations is produced in association with the BBC who will air the series in the UK. Internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date. The newly released key art, true to FX and Steven Knight’s style, features one of literature’s most iconic characters, Miss Havisham ensnaring her pawns, Pip and Estella, in the headdress she still wears from her wedding that never was. Entangled in Miss Havisham’s bitter web are memorable elements from the...
- 2/8/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
FX announced today (Charles Dickens’ birthday) that it has set a premiere date of March 26 for “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight’s hotly anticipated six-part adaptation of the classic Dickens novel “Great Expectations” starring Fionn Whitehead as Pip, Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella and Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, with the first pair of episodes showing back to back at launch. The series will stream exclusively on Hulu in the United States and over BBC One in the UK.
Produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, the production is expected to be an Emmy dynamo in the limited series category later this year, poised for likely nominations in series, lead actor (Whitehead), lead actress (Brune-Franklin) and supporting actress (Colman) as well as for its writing and direction. Knight, the prolific British-born writer-director and an original screenplay Academy Award nominee in 2004 for “Dirty Pretty Things,” serves...
Produced by FX Productions in association with the BBC, the production is expected to be an Emmy dynamo in the limited series category later this year, poised for likely nominations in series, lead actor (Whitehead), lead actress (Brune-Franklin) and supporting actress (Colman) as well as for its writing and direction. Knight, the prolific British-born writer-director and an original screenplay Academy Award nominee in 2004 for “Dirty Pretty Things,” serves...
- 2/8/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
FX has finally set a premiere date for its Great Expectations limited series from writer/executive producer Steven Knight. The six-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel will premiere on Sunday, March 26, 2023 on Hulu with the release of the first two episodes.
The cast was announced in February 2022 and the first two official photos arrived in July 2022. FX chose to announce the premiere date on Charles Dickens’s birthday.
The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the series’ poster, along with a description of what the artwork represents:
“The newly released key art, true to FX and Steven Knight’s style, features one of literature’s most iconic characters, Miss Havisham ensnaring her pawns, Pip and Estella, in the headdress she still wears from her wedding that never was. Entangled in Miss Havisham’s bitter web are memorable elements from the tale including the decaying Satis House, clocks stopped at 20 minutes to nine,...
The cast was announced in February 2022 and the first two official photos arrived in July 2022. FX chose to announce the premiere date on Charles Dickens’s birthday.
The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the series’ poster, along with a description of what the artwork represents:
“The newly released key art, true to FX and Steven Knight’s style, features one of literature’s most iconic characters, Miss Havisham ensnaring her pawns, Pip and Estella, in the headdress she still wears from her wedding that never was. Entangled in Miss Havisham’s bitter web are memorable elements from the tale including the decaying Satis House, clocks stopped at 20 minutes to nine,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
"Great Expectations", the new FX, BBC 6-part limited series adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story, executive produced by Ridley Scott, starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Laurie Ogden, Rudi Dharmalingam, Tom Sweet, Chloe Lea and Matt Berry, premieres March 26, 2023 on Hulu:
"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...A young orphan takes great strides...
"...in order to change his life into that of a gentleman..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 2/7/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
On Charles Dickens’ birthday anniversary, FX dropped the trailer and announced the “Great Expectations” premiere date.
“Great Expectations” is a limited series adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Read More: Olivia Colman Reveals The Royal Prop She Took From The Set Of ‘The Crown’
The coming-of-age story chronicles Pip, played by Fionn Whitehead, an orphan who wishes there were more to his life until an abrupt twist of fate introduces him to the mysteriously peculiar Miss Havisham, played by Olivia Colman, and Estella, played by Shalom Brune-Franklin. The pair reveal to Pip a cryptic world of possibilities.
Pip will then have to weigh the costs of his new responsibilities and whether they’re leading his life on the path he truly wants to be on.
Read More: Olivia Colman Had A ‘Slightly Embarrassing Situation’ While Filming Sex Scene With ‘Empire Of Light’ Co-Star Micheal Ward
In the short trailer released on Tuesday,...
“Great Expectations” is a limited series adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Read More: Olivia Colman Reveals The Royal Prop She Took From The Set Of ‘The Crown’
The coming-of-age story chronicles Pip, played by Fionn Whitehead, an orphan who wishes there were more to his life until an abrupt twist of fate introduces him to the mysteriously peculiar Miss Havisham, played by Olivia Colman, and Estella, played by Shalom Brune-Franklin. The pair reveal to Pip a cryptic world of possibilities.
Pip will then have to weigh the costs of his new responsibilities and whether they’re leading his life on the path he truly wants to be on.
Read More: Olivia Colman Had A ‘Slightly Embarrassing Situation’ While Filming Sex Scene With ‘Empire Of Light’ Co-Star Micheal Ward
In the short trailer released on Tuesday,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
On this, the anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday, a release date has been announced for Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s limited series adaptation of the classic novel Great Expectations.
The six-part series produced by FX and BBC will premiere Stateside on Hulu on Sunday, March 26, with its first two episodes. (The BBC will air the series in the UK, while other international releases via the likes of Star+ and Disney+ will be announced at a later date.)
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The six-part series produced by FX and BBC will premiere Stateside on Hulu on Sunday, March 26, with its first two episodes. (The BBC will air the series in the UK, while other international releases via the likes of Star+ and Disney+ will be announced at a later date.)
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- 2/7/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
FX and BBC series “Great Expectations,” “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ literary masterpiece, has set a premiere date on Hulu.
The six-part limited series will premiere on March 26 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and feature the first two episodes on that date. FX made the date announcement on Feb. 7, Dickens’ 211th birth anniversary.
BBC will air the series in the U.K. and internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date.
“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost...
The six-part limited series will premiere on March 26 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and feature the first two episodes on that date. FX made the date announcement on Feb. 7, Dickens’ 211th birth anniversary.
BBC will air the series in the U.K. and internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date.
“Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost...
- 2/7/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Great Expectations, Steven Knight’s anticipated return to the world of Charles Dickens, has debuted its first teaser trailer (check it out above). The FX/BBC adaptation stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead as Pip along with Tom Sweet as the young Pip. In the brief look at the upcoming limited series, Miss Havisham meets young Pip when he arrives at Satis House for the first time, as she ominously grins, “What a prized creature we have fished from the river.”
The limited series is due to air in the spring on BBC One and iPlayer and will stream on Hulu in the U.S. Internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date.
Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life until...
The limited series is due to air in the spring on BBC One and iPlayer and will stream on Hulu in the U.S. Internationally, it will be available to stream on Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ under the Star banner at a later date.
Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life until...
- 2/6/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Great Expectations has found its Young Pip.
FX and the BBC’s upcoming adaptation from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has cast up-and-comer Tom Sweet in the role. He will star as the main character in the first two episodes mainly opposite Olivia Colman, who is playing Miss Havisham.
Sweet also starred as young Robert Catesby in the first three episodes of BBC One’s Gunpowder, which aired in 2017. Film credits include Where Hands Touch, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and Enjoy.
Sweet will be replaced from episode three onwards by Black Mirror Bandersnatch star Fionn Whitehead, at which point Pip grows up.
The highly-anticipated Dickens’ adaptation’s cast also includes Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle and Matt Berry.
Knight is a huge Dickens fan who has said Peaky Blinders owes much to the author.
He is also exec producing the six-parter,...
FX and the BBC’s upcoming adaptation from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has cast up-and-comer Tom Sweet in the role. He will star as the main character in the first two episodes mainly opposite Olivia Colman, who is playing Miss Havisham.
Sweet also starred as young Robert Catesby in the first three episodes of BBC One’s Gunpowder, which aired in 2017. Film credits include Where Hands Touch, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and Enjoy.
Sweet will be replaced from episode three onwards by Black Mirror Bandersnatch star Fionn Whitehead, at which point Pip grows up.
The highly-anticipated Dickens’ adaptation’s cast also includes Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle and Matt Berry.
Knight is a huge Dickens fan who has said Peaky Blinders owes much to the author.
He is also exec producing the six-parter,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Sonita Henry (Krypton) are joining the cast of Black Cake, Hulu’s drama from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Turman will play Charles Mitch, a successful lawyer in Newport Beach, Calif. whose top priority is to honor the final wishes of his dear friend and client Eleanor Bennett after she loses her battle to cancer. As Charles works with Eleanor’s family to complete her requests, he is persistent to keep the family together while simultaneously working through his own private grief. Turman is a series regular.
Henry will recur as Mabel Martin, a well renowned food expert, who enjoys a successful and quiet life with her son and her beloved parents. When her world is upended by a shattering revelation, she’ll be forced to question everything she has believed about her family,...
Turman will play Charles Mitch, a successful lawyer in Newport Beach, Calif. whose top priority is to honor the final wishes of his dear friend and client Eleanor Bennett after she loses her battle to cancer. As Charles works with Eleanor’s family to complete her requests, he is persistent to keep the family together while simultaneously working through his own private grief. Turman is a series regular.
Henry will recur as Mabel Martin, a well renowned food expert, who enjoys a successful and quiet life with her son and her beloved parents. When her world is upended by a shattering revelation, she’ll be forced to question everything she has believed about her family,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Lashay Anderson (Rebel Cheer Squad) and Faith Alabi (Industry) have been cast as series regulars opposite Adrienne Warren, Mia Isaac and Ashley Thomas in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Additionally, Ahmed Elhaj (Grantchester) has been tapped for a recurring role in the project.
Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, with a flash...
Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, with a flash...
- 7/20/2022
- by Sofia Behzadi
- Deadline Film + TV
Olivia Colman no doubt is a period piece “Favourite.”
The Oscar winner, who took home an Academy Award for portraying an emotionally stunted queen in “The Favourite,” transforms into the iconic spinster Miss Havisham for the upcoming FX and BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”
The limited series is currently filming in the UK and stars Colman as Havisham, an elderly woman once jilted at the altar who is revengefully wearing her wedding dress and veil until she dies. Havisham lives with her adoptive daughter Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin). Fionn Whitehead plays the lead character, orphan Pip.
The six-episode series is written and executive produced by Steven Knight and additionally stars Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam, and Matt Berry.
The coming-of-age story “Great Expectations” was first published by author Dickens in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, before culminating in the classic novel.
The Oscar winner, who took home an Academy Award for portraying an emotionally stunted queen in “The Favourite,” transforms into the iconic spinster Miss Havisham for the upcoming FX and BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”
The limited series is currently filming in the UK and stars Colman as Havisham, an elderly woman once jilted at the altar who is revengefully wearing her wedding dress and veil until she dies. Havisham lives with her adoptive daughter Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin). Fionn Whitehead plays the lead character, orphan Pip.
The six-episode series is written and executive produced by Steven Knight and additionally stars Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam, and Matt Berry.
The coming-of-age story “Great Expectations” was first published by author Dickens in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, before culminating in the classic novel.
- 7/12/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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FX and BBC are offering up a first glimpse of Great Expecations, the limited TV series now shooting in the UK and starring Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin.
Steve Knight’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel stars Colman as Miss Havisham, Whitehead as Pip and Brune-Franklin as Estella. They will appear in the six-parter alongside Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam and Matt Berry.
Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip, with the work first released by Dickens in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, ahead of becoming a classic novel.
Knight wrote and executive produces the Great Expectations adaptation, which is also executive produced by the team behind BBC’s 2019 A Christmas Carol adaptation, including Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker and Kate Crowe.
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FX and BBC are offering up a first glimpse of Great Expecations, the limited TV series now shooting in the UK and starring Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin.
Steve Knight’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel stars Colman as Miss Havisham, Whitehead as Pip and Brune-Franklin as Estella. They will appear in the six-parter alongside Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam and Matt Berry.
Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip, with the work first released by Dickens in a series of weekly chapters beginning in December 1860, ahead of becoming a classic novel.
Knight wrote and executive produces the Great Expectations adaptation, which is also executive produced by the team behind BBC’s 2019 A Christmas Carol adaptation, including Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker and Kate Crowe.
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- 7/12/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
FX and BBC have given a first look at Steven Knight’s next adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic. The first photos have been released from the limited series Great Expectations. In them, you can see Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Fionn Whitehead as Pip, and Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella. Miya Mizuno/FX These images come as production continues in London. The six-part limited series also stars Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, Rudi Dharmalingam, and Matt Berry. Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip. Dickens first released it as a series of weekly chapters, beginning in December 1860, before it was published as a novel in 1861. Miya Mizuno/FX Knight will write and executive produce the limited series. Joining him as executive producers are Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott, Dean Baker, David W. Zucker, Kate Crowe, and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC. Great...
- 7/12/2022
- TV Insider
First-look images have been released of Olivia Colman (“Landscapers”) as Miss Havisham alongside Fionn Whitehead (“The Duke”) as Pip and Shalom Brune-Franklin (“The Tourist”) as Estella in “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight’s upcoming BBC/FX adaptation of “Great Expectations.”
The cast of the six-part limited series also include Ashley Thomas (“Top Boy”), Johnny Harris (“The Salisbury Poisonings “), Hayley Squires (“The Essex Serpent”), Owen McDonnell (“Killing Eve”), Trystan Gravelle (“A Discovery of Witches”), Rudi Dharmalingam (“The Split”) and Matt Berry (“Toast of London”).
Based on Charles Dickens’ oft-adapted literature classic, which debuted in a series of weekly chapters beginning in Dec. 1860 before it was subsequently published as a novel, “Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
Knight writes and executive produces the adaptation, the second Dickens adaptation from him, following “A Christmas Carol” (2019). These are the first two in a series of adaptations of Dickens’ novels...
The cast of the six-part limited series also include Ashley Thomas (“Top Boy”), Johnny Harris (“The Salisbury Poisonings “), Hayley Squires (“The Essex Serpent”), Owen McDonnell (“Killing Eve”), Trystan Gravelle (“A Discovery of Witches”), Rudi Dharmalingam (“The Split”) and Matt Berry (“Toast of London”).
Based on Charles Dickens’ oft-adapted literature classic, which debuted in a series of weekly chapters beginning in Dec. 1860 before it was subsequently published as a novel, “Great Expectations” is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
Knight writes and executive produces the adaptation, the second Dickens adaptation from him, following “A Christmas Carol” (2019). These are the first two in a series of adaptations of Dickens’ novels...
- 7/12/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Olivia Colman Is Unrecognizable as Miss Havisham in First Look at FX’s ‘Great Expectations’ (Photos)
Double Oscar winner Olivia Colman is unrecognizable in first look photos at FX and BBC’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations.”
In the two photos released Tuesday morning, Colman’s elderly Miss Havisham appears to be in the character’s trademark wedding dress. The image at the top of this page shows her opposite Fionn Whitehead as Pip, while the second image features her with Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella.
The six part-series hails from Steven Knight, who is writer and executive producer. It follows he coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan.
Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella (Miya Mizuno/FX) Also Read:
Olivia Colman to Play Miss Havisham, Fionn Whitehead to Play Pip in ‘Great Expectations’ Limited Series for FX and BBC
Dickens released the first installment of the book in December 1860. Chapters were released across the weeks and it was later printed in full novel form.
In the two photos released Tuesday morning, Colman’s elderly Miss Havisham appears to be in the character’s trademark wedding dress. The image at the top of this page shows her opposite Fionn Whitehead as Pip, while the second image features her with Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella.
The six part-series hails from Steven Knight, who is writer and executive producer. It follows he coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan.
Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella (Miya Mizuno/FX) Also Read:
Olivia Colman to Play Miss Havisham, Fionn Whitehead to Play Pip in ‘Great Expectations’ Limited Series for FX and BBC
Dickens released the first installment of the book in December 1860. Chapters were released across the weeks and it was later printed in full novel form.
- 7/12/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
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