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[cloggypop]

Vinyl is boss so far. Like Madmen meets Goodfellas with better music, much worse clothes and loads more drugs.

[Spy Bee]

[Barrington Womble]

 this is about a dozen episodes in isn't it? 

[Sugar Ape]

this is about a dozen episodes in isn't it?

More than that, it started in September last year.

[Red Phoenix]

Daredevil trailer, looks great.

 

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

More than that, it started in September last year.

And it's fucking average too

[lifetime fan]

The People Versus OJ Simpson starts tonight too.

[RobbieOR]

It started in America a couple of weeks ago. It's very good.

[Sputnik1]

J.J. Abrams. Stephen King. That'll do me. Just hope it does the book justice.

 

http://youtu.be/NXUx__qQGew[/YouTube]

 

Watched the first one, looks great so far. 

[manwiththestick]

Better call Saul second season is now on Netflix.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Better call Saul second season is now on Netflix.

All of it?

[skend04]

All of it?

No, just first episode. I don't think it's a Netflix original.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

No, just first episode. I don't think it's a Netflix original.

Okay, yeah. I've got the first episode but I'd hoped it was a package deal.

[Adebisi]

Not sure of James Franco as a serious actor but looks like something worth checking out.

[GR10 LFC]

Watched the first one, looks great so far.

Slightly disappointed as it doesn't seem to be strictly following the book. However, thought it was good despite that.

[Paul]

Like most Stephen King novels, 11.22.63 is fucking brilliant for the first two thirds or so and then deteriorates rapidly. I'd still watch that though.

[Sugar Ape]

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/news/a784493/taken-tv-series-vikings-actor-clive-standen-will-replace-liam-neeson/

 

Taken TV series: Vikings actor Clive Standen will replace Liam Neeson

 

 

Clive Standen is set to acquire a very particular set of skills, as he's been cast as Liam Neeson's character in the TV version of Taken.

 

The Vikings and Robin Hood actor will play Bryan Mills in the upcoming NBC series, which will serve as a prequel to the blockbuster franchise.

 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will follow Mills as he is recruited as a black-ops agent in the elite Emergency Covert Action Team.

 

 

Taken​ has already been picked up for a full series - and episode one will be directed by Alex Graves, whose previous work includes ​Game of Thrones​.​

 

Homeland's Alex Cary will act as showrunner and an executive producer.

 

 

Luc Besson, Matthew Gross, Edouard de Vesinne and Thomas Anargyros​ will all be executive producers.

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http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/lethal-weapon/253096/lethal-weapon-tv-series-casts-blunt-talk-s-golden-brooks
 

Lethal Weapon TV Series Casts Blunt Talk’s Golden Brooks

Fox’s upcoming Lethal Weapon TV series has added actress Golden Brooks for a co-starring role.

The current inauspicious reputation of television remakes might leave some thinking that the upcoming adaptation of the classic action film franchise, Lethal Weapon, is “too old for this s**t.” However, the series continues to add fresh faces, hoping to prove that notion wrong. Case in point, actress, Golden Brooks, recently seen opposite Sir Patrick Stewart in his uncharacteristically raucous comedy, Blunt Talk.

As Deadline reports, Brooks has been cast in the Fox Lethal Weapon series for the key role of Trish Murtaugh, the embattled wife of the show’s co-protagonist, Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans). The role of Trish was originated in the 1987 to 1998 films by Darlene Love, who played opposite of Danny Glover’s Roger, often being his source of emotional support in dealing with the high-stress job of being partner to Mel Gibson’s death-wish-sporting loose cannon, Martin Riggs.

Brooks has a put together a rather prolific film and television resume over the years from shows like Hart of Dixie, her longtime run on Girlfriends, and even a two-episode arc on Star Trek: Enterprise. However, she was recently seen on the aforementioned Starz series Blunt Talk, playing Vivian, the ex-wife and baby-mama of Stewart’s Walter Blunt, who is often depicted as being off-put by Walter’s erratic behavior. That straight-woman dynamic should translate well as Trish, who will undoubtedly be a critical proxy foil to the typically maniacal behavior of the (thus far, uncast) new version of Riggs.

The Lethal Weapon series, will reportedly follow the general template of the film series, depicting the unhinged Riggs as a recent widower whose proclivity for staring death in the face puts him at odds with his partner in Murtaugh. However, with prospectively more time to dwell on pathos, the series will likely delve deeper into the makeup of these characters while perfunctorily carrying out crime-of-the-week procedural elements.

At the moment, Lethal Weapon is still in development and crucial news such as the casting of Riggs and the series’ release schedule have not yet been revealed.

[Sugar Ape]

One for those of us who frequent the book thread
 
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/netflix-altered-carbon-series-order-sci-fi-1201683629/
 

Netflix Picks Up Futuristic Sci-Fi Series ‘Altered Carbon’ Based on Book
 


Netflix has picked up a 10-episode series, “Altered Carbon,” based on the 2002 book of the same name, Variety has learned.

The sci-fi series hails from Skydance Television with Laeta Kalogridis writing, exec producing and serving as showrunner. Kalogridis co-wrote the screenplays for Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Shutter Island,” plus “Terminator Genisys” and she’s attached to the sequel for the latter.

Based on Richard K. Morgan’s novel, “Altered Carbon” is set in the 25th century. In the futuristic story, the human mind has been digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he had tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he’ll get a chance at a new life on Earth.

Along with Kalogridis, Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will also serve as exec producers.

“Altered Carbon” marks a growing slate of Netflix’s dramatic programming, following the psychological thriller “Gypsy.” However, exemplifying the company’s diverse content, Norman Lear’s “One Day At A Time” recently landed a modernized, Latino-twisted reboot at Netflix, which also just ordered a comedy centering around YouTube character Miranda Sings.

The straight-to-series order for “Altered Carbon” gives weight to Netflix boss Ted Sarandos’ recent statements, regarding the streaming giant’s spending plan for this year — at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. this past weekend, Sarandos said that Netflix would spend about $6 billion on content this year, encompassing original series and movies and acquisitions.

No launch date for “Altered Carbon” has been set.
 

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http://deadline.com/2016/01/american-gothic-antony-starr-cast-drama-justin-chatwin-megan-ketch-1201678150/

 

‘American Gothic’: Antony Starr Cast In CBS Drama Series

 

 

Banshee’s Antony Starr has booked a major role opposite Justin Chatwin and Megan Ketch in American Gothic, CBS’ upcoming murder mystery summer drama series from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios.

 

Created by Corinne Brinkerhoff, American Gothic centers on a prominent Boston family that is attempting to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice. Starr will play Garrett, the firstborn son of a prominent Boston political family. He inexplicably left town 17 years ago and returns home at the news of his father’s heart attack.

 

Starr, repped by Paradigm, Auckland Actors (NZ), and Impression Entertainment, has played the lead role of Lucas Hood in Cinemax’s Banshee for four seasons. His film work includes feature Wish You Were Here.

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http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/28/ricky-whittle-lead-neil-gaiman-american-gods-tv-starz

 

Ricky Whittle to play lead in TV version of Neil Gaiman's American Gods

 

British actor scoops role of Shadow Moon in Starz adaptation of novel charting war between ancient and modern deities

 

 

ormer Hollyoaks actor and Strictly Come Dancing finalist Ricky Whittle has scooped the lead role in one of the most hotly anticipated new TV shows of the coming year – the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

 

Oldham-born Whittle has been announced today as Shadow Moon, the protagonist of Gaiman’s 2001 novel which posits a war between the gods of the ancient pantheons and the newer deities representing modern life.

 

Production is due to start on the TV series, which will be broadcast on the American channel Starz, this spring. Since Fremantle Media was given the green light to begin work on the show last year, there has been much speculation as to who would play the part of Shadow, an ex-con who gets drawn into the war between the gods.

 

Gaiman said he was “thrilled” by the casting. “[Whittle’s] auditions were remarkable. The process of taking a world out of the pages of a book, and putting it on to the screen has begun. American Gods is, at its heart, a book about immigrants, and it seems perfectly appropriate that Shadow will, like so much else, be ‘Coming to America’. I’m delighted Ricky will get to embody Shadow. Now the fun starts.”

 

In Gaiman’s novel, Shadow is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr Wednesday, a conman but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.

 

Showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green said in a statement: “We searched every continent and country and all the islands in between for our Shadow Moon, and we are lucky to have found Ricky. Fans of the novel will find he has every bit of the heart of the character they fell in love with.”

 

Whittle’s TV work includes The 100 and Hollyoaks, the soap that made his name, as well as British TV staple Holby City. The son of a former RAF serviceman, Whittle spent his early years travelling around the world and represented England and the United Kingdom at youth level in football and rugby. He came second in Strictly Come Dancing in 2009.

 

American Gods been translated into more than 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards for best novel. It was the first novel from Gaiman, then primarily known for his comics work on titles such as Sandman from DC/Vertigo. The novel reinvents the gods of myth and places aspects of them in modern-day America, brought over by waves of immigration in US history.

 

When the adaptation was announced, Gaiman said: “I am thrilled, scared, delighted, nervous and a ball of glorious anticipation. The team that is going to bring the world of American Gods to the screen has been assembled like the master criminals in a caper movie: I’m relieved and confident that my baby is in good hands.”

[Paul]

One for those of us who frequent the book thread

 

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/netflix-altered-carbon-series-order-sci-fi-1201683629/

 

 

Netflix Picks Up Futuristic Sci-Fi Series ‘Altered Carbon’ Based on Book

 

 

Netflix has picked up a 10-episode series, “Altered Carbon,” based on the 2002 book of the same name, Variety has learned.

 

The sci-fi series hails from Skydance Television with Laeta Kalogridis writing, exec producing and serving as showrunner. Kalogridis co-wrote the screenplays for Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Shutter Island,” plus “Terminator Genisys” and she’s attached to the sequel for the latter.

 

Based on Richard K. Morgan’s novel, “Altered Carbon” is set in the 25th century. In the futuristic story, the human mind has been digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he had tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he’ll get a chance at a new life on Earth.

 

Along with Kalogridis, Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will also serve as exec producers.

 

“Altered Carbon” marks a growing slate of Netflix’s dramatic programming, following the psychological thriller “Gypsy.” However, exemplifying the company’s diverse content, Norman Lear’s “One Day At A Time” recently landed a modernized, Latino-twisted reboot at Netflix, which also just ordered a comedy centering around YouTube character Miranda Sings.

 

The straight-to-series order for “Altered Carbon” gives weight to Netflix boss Ted Sarandos’ recent statements, regarding the streaming giant’s spending plan for this year — at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. this past weekend, Sarandos said that Netflix would spend about $6 billion on content this year, encompassing original series and movies and acquisitions.

 

No launch date for “Altered Carbon” has been set.

 

Fantastic! One of my favourite ever books.

[manwiththestick]

http://deadline.com/2016/01/american-gothic-antony-starr-cast-drama-justin-chatwin-megan-ketch-1201678150/

‘American Gothic’: Antony Starr Cast In CBS Drama Series

 

 

Banshee’s Antony Starr has booked a major role opposite Justin Chatwin and Megan Ketch in American Gothic, CBS’ upcoming murder mystery summer drama series from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios.

 

Created by Corinne Brinkerhoff, American Gothic centers on a prominent Boston family that is attempting to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice. Starr will play Garrett, the firstborn son of a prominent Boston political family. He inexplicably left town 17 years ago and returns home at the news of his father’s heart attack.

Starr, repped by Paradigm, Auckland Actors (NZ), and Impression Entertainment, has played the lead role of Lucas Hood in Cinemax’s Banshee for four seasons. His film work includes feature Wish You Were Here.

Thought by the title this was a remake of the ace 90's supernatural show. It doesn't appear to be.

[Anubis]

Thought by the title this was a remake of the ace 90's supernatural show. It doesn't appear to be.

Ha. That's what I thought as well. Gary Cole was ace in that.

[manwiththestick]

Ha. That's what I thought as well. Gary Cole was ace in that.

And the main bird in it was fit, let's not forget that..