He caught it while in postproduction editing his upcoming BBC political thriller Roadkill, which stars Hugh Laurie.As the official synopsis for Beat the Devil reads:“Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions[...]
Sir David Hare, the writer of the BBC and PBS’ upcoming political thriller Roadkill starring Hugh Laurie, has written a one-man stage play, “Beat the Devil”, about catching COVID-19 and recovering from it Talk about “writing what you know.” Hare is certainly writing from personal experience He said he caught it from Roadkill director Michael[...]
Hugh Laurie (House, Avenue 5) plays a corrupt politician fighting for his life and freedom in a new BBC political thriller Roadkill The 4-part miniseries is written by David Hare, one of the UK’s top political playwrights and screenwriters The Forge, which produced National Treasure, is the production company behind it PBS Masterpiece is also[...]
The show stars Hugh Laurie as the hapless captain of a luxury space cruiser that gets thrown off course Instead of a six-month jaunt through the galaxy, the Avenue 5 is now going to take years to return to Earth That means a whole bunch of rich idiots and hapless crew members are stuck with[...]
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This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Space Opera
Unlike Star Trek where the best and the brightest solve problems together and save the day, Avenue 5 has about 5,000 entitled rich tourists, a captain who’s woefully out of[...]
But that's the comparison that actor Josh Gad made during the press junket for his new series Avenue 5 ("It’s the ‘Game of Thrones’ of comedy").The new space-bound series is a futuristic show set on an "ocean liner" (er, "space liner"?) helmed by Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie), funded by Herman Judd (Gad), and managed by[...]
A sci-fi comedy starring Hugh Laurie set on a holiday space ship that airs in a couple of weeks And considered that it might be a way to revisit in some strange twisted form, Finnemore's work on one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, Cabin Pressure, which he both wrote in its entirety and[...]
A new sci-fi sitcom created by On The Hour, The Day Today, Friday Night Armastice, I'm Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It and Veep's Armando Iannucci, it stars Hugh Laurie as Ryan Clark, the captain of space station, Avenue 5 Other familiar names from previous Armando Iannucci projects include Rebecca Front as Karen Kelly, a[...]
Hulu may have pulled the plug on the Hugh Laurie-led series Chance, but the British actor -- best known in the states as the brilliant and sarcastic Gregory House -- won't be roaming far from the streaming service Laurie has signed on for a key role in the upcoming six-part limited series Catch-22 Laurie will[...]
It features Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) as Dr Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist who works in San Francisco He finds himself pulled into the life of one of his patients, Jaclyn Blackstone, and it's a world filled with police corruption and abuse While dealing with his own personal issues of divorce and secrets of his[...]
A misleading report in the British trades this week put the project into questions, but the Ink Factory, who produces the series with BBC / AMC, had to come out and make an announcement that they have nothing to announce.“The Ink Factory, BBC and AMC are in the early stages of developing a potential second[...]
Hugh Laurie is coming off of both The Night Manager and Veep and right into a psychological thriller called Chance Based on the novel by Kem Nunn, Laurie plays Dr Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist who gets pulled into a world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness The series also stars Gretchen Mol,[...]
Not surprising they focus on Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) as he finally reveals what he really does to Jonathan Pine (Tom HIddleston) Le Carre uses Roper to illustrated the direct connections between warfare and corporate greed Also, the story is more about the fall of an empire than about the man who brought the empire[...]
But in the case of Richard Roper, Le Carre explains that Hugh Laurie is so close to the Roper he imagined that there was no sense of loss He feels the same way about Tom Hiddleston's portayal of Jonathan Pine.As much as I'm enjoying the adaptation of the novel, I think as a writer I'm[...]
This time the focus turns to his villain, Richard Roper played by the amazingly talent Hugh Laurie The author explains that Roper puts up a facade of happiness and control but there is a deep sadness underneath He also talks about how he personally followed the life he was building up for the character in[...]
AMC's miniseries The Night Manager is based on the work of John Le Carre' and features Tom Hiddleston (Thor) as the night manager of an Egyptian hotel recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer played by Hugh Laurie (House) The recently released featurettes below take a look at[...]
The adaptation of the John Le Carré novel stars Tom Hiddleston (Thor) and Hugh Laurie (House) It's the story of a former British soldier (Hiddleston) who is recruited as an intelligence officer and tasked with infiltrating the inner circle of an arms dealer (Laurie).The Night Manager premieres Tuesday, April 16th on AMC.[youtube]https://youtu.be/EGIqEKU2KZU[/youtube][...]
The Brad Bird directed film stars George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie The studio has released three new clips for the movie along with two B-roll videos of behind-the-scenes footage.Tomorrowland hits theaters on May 22nd.[youtube]https://youtu.be/_WbakJaYuYo[/youtube][youtube]https://youtu.be/pK8FikxGXOM[/youtube][youtube]https://youtu.be/J6apqe2_Yng[/youtube][youtube]https://youtu.be/eVI85TgPXLo[/youtube][youtube]https://youtu.be/fivuVlo5iuA[/youtube][...]
The film stars George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson,Keegan-Michael Key and Judy Greer Its directed by Brad Bird and co-written by Bird, Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen.The synopsis reads: Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere[...]
Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever.Featuring[...]
