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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

A Woman of Substance review a lavishly absurd, cliche-packed tribute to simpler times

Barbara Taylor Bradford's 'A Woman of Substance' follows Emma Harte's rise from poverty to becoming the world's richest woman, now adapted into an eight-part miniseries starring Brenda Blethyn.
#crime-drama
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago
Television

Nicole Kidman's New Crime Show Is Surprisingly Captivating-and Goes Unexpected Places

Nicole Kidman stars as Kay Scarpetta in Amazon Prime's new series adaptation, blending family drama with forensic investigation as Kay confronts a murder matching a serial killer she caught 25 years ago.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
Television

Scarpetta review this Nicole Kidman show is a dire mess with an AI chatbot as a main character

Scarpetta adaptation with Nicole Kidman disappoints despite decades of development, delivering a sluggish procedural that strips the source material and fails to build tension or treat victims with dignity.
Television
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

Nicole Kidman's New Crime Show Is Surprisingly Captivating-and Goes Unexpected Places

Nicole Kidman stars as Kay Scarpetta in Amazon Prime's new series adaptation, blending family drama with forensic investigation as Kay confronts a murder matching a serial killer she caught 25 years ago.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Scarpetta review this Nicole Kidman show is a dire mess with an AI chatbot as a main character

Scarpetta adaptation with Nicole Kidman disappoints despite decades of development, delivering a sluggish procedural that strips the source material and fails to build tension or treat victims with dignity.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

It's a big saga with big hair': the bonkbuster remake of one of the biggest TV dramas ever

A Woman of Substance features intimate scenes filmed at dramatic Yorkshire locations, with an intimacy coordinator ensuring comfort and authenticity for the actors.
fromInverse
1 week ago

DC's 'Lanterns' Is Taking A Page From 'True Detective'

After a decade floundering both critically and at the box office, DC Studios has regained their footing under James Gunn. With the moderate success of last year's Superman and the groundwork laid by a relatively well-received second season of Peacemaker, it seems as if the days of DC's cinematic outings getting pummeled by the MCU are over, as well as their days of approaching the plate without a plan in hand.
Film
Media industry
fromBustle
1 week ago

Why 'Bridgerton' Season 4 Made A Major Change From The Books

Bridgerton Season 4 introduces a new Lady Whistledown in the finale, departing from Julia Quinn's source material to create fresh mystery and audience engagement.
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Emma Roberts Enlists in the Bride Wars

The original version followed childhood best friends in New York who get engaged at the same time and accidentally schedule their weddings on the same date and at the same location. The new version is keeping the name but not anything else, really. The series will be set in North Carolina and follow a wedding planner who moves to a new town and sparks a feud with the town's currently reigning wedding planner.
Television
Television
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Dexter Sol Ansell Has His Own Ideas About Egg's Future

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms presents a lighter, character-focused Targaryen story emphasizing friendship and small-scale adventures over epic violence.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Rachel Reid, the unassuming author of Heated Rivalry' whose universe has taken on a life of its own

Rachel Reid turned niche queer 'hockey smut' romance into a mass phenomenon with the Game Changers series and its HBO adaptation, selling over 650,000 copies.
Canada news
fromThe Walrus
4 weeks ago

The Sexy, Soaring, and Utterly Unstoppable Heated Rivalry | The Walrus

Heated Rivalry, adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers series by Jacob Tierney, became an internationally popular Canadian TV phenomenon blending hockey romance and cultural buzz.
fromInverse
1 month ago

35 Years Ago, Star Trek Rebooted A Lost Episode From A Canceled Series With Wild Results

In 1977, Star Trek was gearing up for a comeback. After being canceled in 1969 and enjoying a brief return as an animated series in 1973, the beloved sci-fi series was finally coming back to live action. History will tell you this resulted in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but before that, there were very serious plans for a sequel TV series, generally referred to as Star Trek: Phase II.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Island of peace': Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin to close but live on as TV series

An Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin conceived as an island of peace will close in the spring, but its Jewish and Arab owners say their dream will live on in a television series based on their unlikely partnership. Kanaan, a decade-old casual eatery in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital, gained an international profile for its message of unity over hate after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas and the outbreak of the Gaza war.
Berlin
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The New Game of Thrones Show's Hero Is ... Actually Really Great?

Sam Adams: Nadira! Hard to believe it's been 18 short months since the last time we gathered to assess the Season 2 finale of House of the Dragon. Fortunately, nothing important has happened in that time, so let's pick up right where we left off. Sort of. HBO's new series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes us back to Westeros, roughly the midway point between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. But,
Television
Television
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

Where in Hockey Heaven Was 'Heated Rivalry' Filmed?

Heated Rivalry was filmed mainly in Ontario, using the province's varied locations to represent international settings and to track characters' rising wealth.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

His & Hers review this glossy thriller is ideal new year TV

His & Hers is a glossy, efficient six-part thriller that prioritizes slick production and plot propulsion over deep emotional exploration.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

We're your dream throuple!' The Night Manager is back and it's even steamier

Having not thought about the show for five years, a vivid image came to me in bed one night, he says. I saw a boy in a Colombian monastery, waiting for a black car to come over the hill. For some bizarre reason, I knew who those characters were. Suddenly, I was half-awake and the rest came flying out of me. I wrote it all down in case I forgot. In the morning, I looked at my notes and thought: This is good, actually.'
Television
Television
fromVulture
2 months ago

Fallout Season Two Plays the Long Game

Fallout season two moves protagonists to New Vegas as they pursue personal quests amid retro-futurist visuals, new villains, monsters, and stakes over energy and family.
Arts
fromARTnews.com
4 months ago

Sarah Hoover's Memoir 'The Motherlode' Is Being Turned Into a Television Series

TV drama adaptation follows a millennial art dealer confronting postpartum rage, brain fog, loss of sex, career and identity, and rejection of idealized mommy narratives.
fromVulture
4 months ago

Down Cemetery Road Series-Premiere Recap: Blow-up

In Mick Herron's 2003 debut novel Down Cemetery Road, the first of his Zoë Boehm series, protagonist Sarah Trafford gets involved in a neighborhood mystery mainly because she is bored. At least, that's how people around her see it - stuck in her picture-perfect house in Oxford with no career to speak of and her marriage slowly falling apart, she wants to feel useful.
Television
Television
fromRoger Ebert
4 months ago

MGM+'s "Robin Hood" Dazzles With Its Craft, Yet Lacks the Allure to Justify Its Creation | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

MGM+'s Robin Hood reimagines the legend in 1186, foregrounding radical ideas of sovereignty and ownership while evoking an older era of television.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole? review the idea for this comedy panel show is one of TV's laziest

Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole? turns Reddit AITA stories into a shock-driven panel show that often feels senseless and reliant on crass jokes.
#stephen-king
fromRoger Ebert
8 months ago
Film

MGM+ Adaptation of Stephen King's "The Institute" Won't Keep Students Awake | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

fromRoger Ebert
8 months ago
Film

MGM+ Adaptation of Stephen King's "The Institute" Won't Keep Students Awake | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
5 months ago

Garth Ennis, co-creator of The Boys': In most superhero comics, violence has no consequences'

Real-world superheroes would be a societal nightmare, exposing violence, corruption, and moral collapse through brutal satire and sprawling comics adapted into a hit television series.
#the-last-of-us
fromKotaku
9 months ago
Video games

One Of The Most Important Details From This Week's Last Of Us Episode Is A Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It Reveal

fromKotaku
9 months ago
Video games

One Of The Most Important Details From This Week's Last Of Us Episode Is A Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It Reveal

fromConsequence
7 months ago

Alien: Earth Creator Teases the FX Series' New Creatures, New Mythology, and New Horrors

Noah Hawley highlighted the advantage of having a franchise with minimal mythology, allowing flexibility in exploring the story within the established universe of Alien.
Film
#harry-potter
fromPolygon
8 months ago

How Netflix's Sandman series adapted two of the comics' most controversial characters

The second season of Netflix's The Sandman, launching July 3, faces the challenge of addressing Neil Gaiman's controversies while staying faithful to its source material.
Film
Film
fromPolygon
8 months ago

The newly announced adaptation of Neuromancer faces a real uphill battle

Apple TV Plus is developing a 10-episode series adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer.
fromInverse
8 months ago

'Foundation' Season 3 Review: Apple's Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Epic Is Better Than Ever

Foundation Season 3 has crafted its most urgent episodes yet, positioning itself as the true Game of Thrones in space, deserving a larger audience.
Film
fromwww.npr.org
9 months ago

Cold case mystery 'Dept. Q' focuses more on the characters than crime

The Nordic noir series Dept. Q, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck, explores complex cold cases, and the dynamics of its flawed protagonist within a fresh narrative setting.
Arts
#hbo
Media industry
fromIndieWire
9 months ago

Elisabeth Moss Was So Busy Directing the 'Handmaid's Tale' Finale, She Didn't Have Time to Cry

The final season of 'The Handmaid's Tale' highlights alarming real-world parallels to its dystopian themes.
fromVulture
10 months ago

Matthew Rhys's Frown Lights Up Towards Zero

Matthew Rhys, as Inspector Leach in Towards Zero, is a charismatic presence embodying hungover exhaustion and irritated scorn, making the adaptation looser and sillier than expected.
London politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
10 months ago

Neil Druckmann, creator of The Last of Us': Boredom is our biggest enemy; if the show feels boring, then we're doing something wrong'

Neil Druckmann’s journey from intern to leading content creator showcases how innovative storytelling can shift the boundaries of video game adaptations, especially with ‘The Last of Us’.
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