What a difference a few weeks makes, eh? When Amando Iannucci's new comedy series Avenue 5 premiered back in mid-January, viewers and critics reacted with bafflement and confusion. 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, […]
Forty years in the future, things still suck in familiar ways. There's a space leisure industry now, and Avenue 5, the title cruise liner, is the top of the line. When a gravity mishap causes the 5,000 people onboard to crash against one side of the ship, it tips if off its course and a […]
Looking to fill that Game of Thrones gap with a new comedy series from HBO? Yeah, I don't think anybody is. 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 […]
Okay, so this is a Bleeding Cool story about someone tweeting a link to a Bleeding Cool story. Which means that it has the potential to get self-referential fast, If either Armando Iannucci or John Finnemore do it again, the whole thing could collapse upon itself in a singularity, forming a black hole of a […]
January 19th sees the launch of Avenue 5 on HBO in the USA and on the 22nd on Sky One in the UK. 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 […]
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 […]
As we move into the holidays, that entertainment dead zone starting just before Christmas and ending just after New Year's, there is going to be a lot of time for folks to catch up on shows they haven't had a chance to see. And while some of you have DVRs full of network shows you've […]
The Night Manager was a big success for BBC / AMC and there are talks about a second season. And that's all there is… talks. 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 […]
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, […]
As The Night Manager has wrapped up on AMC, author John Le Carre sat down for the final two segments of Author's Notes. 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 […]
Author John Le Carre has done another Author's Notes segment to go along with the fourth episode of AMC's The Night Manager. Here he talks about how as long as the character is on the page, the writer has his version of the character and the reader's have their version they create when reading. That […]
John Le Carre, one of the best spy novelist in the world, spends some more time talking about the new AMC series The Night Manager based on his novel. 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 […]
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 […]
AMC has release the first trailer for their new six-part miniseries event, The Night Manager. 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 […]
Disney is amping up their push on Tomorrowland. 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 second trailer for Tomorrowland ran doing the Super Bowl yesterday and at this point, we still don't very much about the plot of the movie. 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 […]
At NYCC, Disney released the first teaser trailer for Tomorrowland. The film stars George Clooney and Britt Robertson, and is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles) from screenplay he co-wrote with Damon Lindelof (Lost). From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland," a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared […]
Here's an interesting thought… Dr. Gregory House having a discussion about the virtues of humanity with Loki of Asgard. Okay, we're not going to get that… but THR is reporting that Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston have signed on to make a TV series/miniseries based on John Le Carre's novel The Night Manager. No US […]
From last night's Colbert Report – if you can't see it, go here. It's not so much "seven words you can't say on television" and more "seven things you can say on basic cable", as read out to classical music by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Colbert. But remember, circle-jerk is fine, jerk-off is not…
