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Sky has today revealed a first-look teaser for the highly anticipated return of Sky Original sci-fi thriller, ‘The Lazarus Project.’ When the world locks into a never-ending time loop that will ultimately end with the planet’s complete extinction, the Lazarus team must race against time to find a solution before humanity is wiped out forever. Among their number is resolute Lazarus agent, George (Paapa Essiedu), who’s been left in disgrace after betraying the organisation in the name of love. George is determined to redeem himself and win back the trust of his friends, colleagues, and the love of his life. But when he discovers that the cause he’s fighting is more sinister than it appears, George begins to suspect that the only person he can really trust is himself. The action packed second series is led by Emmy and BAFTA-nominated Pappa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), with...

Steven DeKnight, known for the Netflix version of “Daredevil” and “Jupiter’s Legacy,” has called Disney+’s upcoming reboot of the superhero drama an “old Disney scam.”

In 2022, it was announced that Disney+ would be moving forward with its own Daredevil series, titled “Daredevil: Born Again.” Though the series will see Charlie Cox reprise his role as the blind superhero, it will largely involve a different creative team than the one behind the Netflix original.

“It’s an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms back to first season. Needs to be addressed by all the guilds/unions and crushed!” DeKnight wrote on X.

The filmmaker’s post was part of a conversation about HBO’s recent cancelation of “Winning Time.” In response to the news that the series was cancelled after its second season, a NYC-based IATSE grip asked if he had to “post...

Drew Barrymore says she’s putting the return of her daytime talk show on hold amid backlash until the strike is over.

“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” Barrymore announced Sunday on Instagram. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today. We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.” See her post below.

CBS Media Ventures, which is behind The Drew Barrymore Show, also issued a new statement through a spkesperson Sunday morning, saying, “We support Drew’s decision to pause the show’s return and understand how complex and difficult this process has been for her.

Disney+ has set cast for UK psychological drama Playdate, adapted from Alex Dahl’s best-selling novel of the same name, and revealed details of its latest unscripted slate from Britain.

The series, directed by Eva Husson (Mothering Sunday), will star Denise Gough (Andor), Holliday Grainger (Strike), Ambika Mod (I Hate Suzie), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas), Bronagh Waugh (The Suspect) and Michael Workeye (This is Going to Hurt).

Deadline revealed the show, EPed by Nicola Shindler and Tanya Seghatchian, last month. General series synopsis reads: Elisa’s world is turned upside down when her young daughter Lucia is kidnapped at a sleepover. Who is the mystery woman who took Lucia, and what secrets does she know about Elisa?

The series is executive produced by Shindler (Nolly) for Quay Street Productions, Seghatchian and John Woodward (The Power of the Dog) for Brightstar, Johanna Devereaux, VP of Scripted Content for Disney+ Emea, and Alex Dahl,...

With Jackie Chan's new movie coming soon to theaters, the Hidden Strike cast has started making news, and it looks like one that will offer some fun and excitement for the veteran martial arts master. John Cena is also along for the ride in what is called an action-comedy. Hidden Strike takes place in the near future where Cena and Chan play two former special forces veterans paired up on a mission to escort some people over the "Highway of Death," which passes through Baghdad and is supposed to be one of the world's deadliest roadways. They then have to battle oil thieves, led by none other than Game of Thrones actor Pilou Asbaek.

There isn't much known about the Hidden Strike cast other than the three leads, but there are a few other recognizable faces who joined on to play mostly unknown roles. As for the main characters,...

The sci fi 'time-loop' TV series, "The Lazarus Project", stars Paapa Essiedu ("I May Destroy You"), Anjli Mohindra ("Bodyguard"), Tom Burke ("Strike"), Caroline Quentin ("Bridgerton"), Rudi Dharmalingam ("Wakefield") and Charly Clive ("Pure"), now streaming on Prime Video:

"...'George' is the latest recruit to 'The Lazarus Project' - a secret organization that has harnessed the ability to turn back time whenever the world is at the threat of extinction. George and his colleagues are the few people on Earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back.

"But when a freak accident harms someone close to George, Lazarus won't let him turn back time to undo it unless there is the threat of global extinction.

"Now George must choose to stay loyal or go rogue as he faces the question of: if you had the power to re-write your past, what would you sacrifice to do it?...

Updated, Day 46: After visiting many, many picket lines over the last month, we’ve learned that lots of pickets signs are reused for conservation purposes. And to that we say — screw the recycling. Bring on more of those sweet corporate burns!

Fortunately, many of the scribes haven’t lost their saucy touch.

“Let them drink Dom,” says one Zaslav-themed confection.

“Ted Sarandos ate my son,” says another.

Related: WGA Strike Picket Line Locations List For Los Angeles & New York

“The only thing that sucks more than corporate greed is Deadline’s comments section.” Way harsh, but so true.

Related: What Went Wrong? Writers & Studios Reveal What They Couldn’t (And Could) Agree On As Strike Is Set

Here is the latest from the front lines:

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Exclusive: AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Channel 5 are serving up a third season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries.

As with Season 2, the U.S./UK co-commissioners are preparing a Christmas special along with six episodes. Filming is currently underway, with the Christmas special set to air on Acorn TV and Channel 5 in 2023, while the rest of the season will continue in 2024.

Starring and created by Sally Lindsay, The Madame Blanc Mysteries sees renowned and respected antiques dealer Jean White (Lindsay) return with her expertise in the world of antiquities, proving to be the key to solving a series of murders and mysteries against the backdrop of the beautiful French village of Sainte Victoire.

Series creator, Lindsay, reprises her role and again joins forces with Sue Vincent (Mount Pleasant), who returns as Gloria Beaushaw and as series co-writer. Also reprising their roles are Steve Edge (Starlings), Robin Askwith (Strike), Sue Holderness...

“Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson clapped back Thursday at an education executive who was promoting incorrect information about her schooling history.

Jeanne Allen, CEO of the Center for Education Reform, called Brunson out on Twitter, claiming that she only attended charter schools for her entire education. The incorrect claim additionally implied that exploring charter schools’ relationship to public schooling in Philadelphia, as “Abbott Elementary” does, is not best left to the series’ creator.

“I’ll share it again. The creator, lead writer and co-producer of @AbbottElemABC @quintabrunson is from West Philly and attended charter schools her entire education,” Allen wrote on Twitter. “She reportedly loved it at the time, heaped praise on it. Once upon a time. Guess money talks.”

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Quinta Brunson Sets ‘SNL’ Hosting Debut for April 1 as Strike Looms

Brunson, whose sitcom series spotlights various issues in the public school system by featuring teachers working in underfunded and mismanaged environments,...

The BBC is reportedly preparing to renew its crime drama Strike, based on the books written by Jk Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Season six – which is yet to be confirmed by the corporation – would adapt The Ink Black Heart, the sixth novel in the detective series.

It would likely see Tom Burke reprise his role as the gruff private investigator Cormoran Strike, alongside Holliday Grainger as his sidekick Robin Ellacott.

The Ink Black Heart, published in August 2022, involves a storyline about a woman who is killed after being accused of transphobia.

In recent years, Rowling has made headlines for sharing her controversial views on transgender rights. She was first met with a backlash in June 2020 after calling out an article’s use of the phrase “people who menstruate”.

Since then, Rowling has repeatedly come under criticism for various comments, which many have accused of being transphobic.

Rowling has...

Find out where you can watch season 3 of the mind-blowing detective series, C.B. Strike, which is based on the work of two authors you might not expect.

C.B. Strike can be described as the show for true crime aficionados. It follows the story of a private detective named Cormoran Strike, who is a former war veteran that finds himself now working in London. He and his assistant, Robin Ellacot, take on the cases that have left the police force scratching their heads. These cases tend to be gruesome and brutal murders, and Strike’s background as a Special Investigation Branch investigator allows him to be able to solve these heinous crimes. It stars Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Killian Scott, and Natasha O’Keefe.

If you want to be thoroughly entertained by a thrilling tv show that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end,...

Exclusive: The Audiovisual Producers Finland (Apfi) today announced the slate of new series its members are bringing to Berlin (scroll down for the full list) alongside a new industry event titled Focus on Finland to be held during the festival.

Focus on Finland will be an official part of the Berlinale Series Market schedule and will feature an industry panel titled ‘Why So Series?’ which will focus on Nordic scripted comedy and drama series.

The panel will take place at CinemaxX Theatre on Potsdamer Platz on February 20 and will feature writer Brendan Foley (The Man Who Died), producer Jackie Larkin (Strike), commissioner Arttu Nurmi (Modern Men), and distribution executive Jean-Michel Ciszewski (Bnei Aruba). The panel will be moderated by Marike Muselaers, Chief Content & Partnerships Officer, Lumiere Group.

“This year we’re focusing on expanding the industry and audience perceptions of what makes Nordic Noir,” said Laura Kuulasmaa, Executive Director of Apfi.

The new Dcu offers new opportunities for DC's greatest characters to receive brand-new live-action iterations for the big screen, including the long-ignored Batman antagonist Mr. Freeze, whose ice-based powers make him a genuine threat to Gotham City. The iconic King of Cold has been a fan-favorite villain ever since his appearance in Batman: The Animated Series and a subsequent direct-to-video film, both of which greatly expanded upon what was formerly a rather one-dimensional character. Despite his popularity, Mr. Freeze has yet to receive a live-action adaptation that does him justice, though James Gunn's new DC cinematic universe has the opportunity to finally reverse this unfortunate trend.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar infamously portrayed Mr. Freeze in Joel Schumaker's Batman and Robin, becoming the first actor to ever do so in live-action. However, his performance was largely panned, and the script, unfortunately, relegated Mr. Freeze to a pun-spewing joke of a villain. Outside...

Warning: This review contains spoilers.

This is more like it! No, episode two of Troubled Blood wasn’t any more generous with the Robin/Strike underpants progress, but it was several times more exciting than the opener by dint of having something happen in the present day. Double points for that thing being Holliday Grainger’s Robin wearing a disguise and doing a fake accent (tick that off your Strike bingo card).

It wasn’t just one fake accent this episode, but two. First there was the welcome return of fictional toff Venetia Hall, then there was a cockney teenager in a baseball cap who infiltrated a nursing home with a chorus of innits and awrights. Robin’s Mr Ben selection of improv personas has always been one of Strike’s highlights, and this was no different. The scene in which the odious Luca Ricci was sniffing around our girl had tension,...

Warning: this review contains spoilers.

This isn’t promising. As a TV show, Strike‘s appeal has never been the ingenuity of its cases, with their cardboard characters, pantomime twists and baroque plotting. Instead, it’s always been about the chemistry between leads Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger, and an all-round sense of retro comfort. In the first episode of four-part series Troubled Blood, the chemistry was missing and the retro comfort had been swapped for a retro case that sucked the energy out.

Things start well enough, with a change-of-scenery trip to Cornwall where Cormoran is visiting adoptive parents Ted and Joan. She’s dying of cancer but keeping her terminal diagnosis a secret. More unexpressed pain for our King of unexpressed pain! Just what the doctor ordered. And here comes Robin, driving her clapped-out Land Rover all the way from London to St Mawes, a knight on a...

Strike: Troubled Blood really is an extraordinarily fine crime drama, where a range of exceptional talents come together to create something that is actually greater than the sum of its very formidable parts. That is something rare and to be cherished. And indeed watched, and I can unreservedly commend this four-parter as a highlight of your festive viewing. It starts brilliantly, but gets better, and there are some surprising and compelling star performances to come.

It’s the latest adaptation, by Tom Edge, of the Strike detective works of Jk Rowling, and probably the best. Tom Burke is once again in the title role of Cormoran Strike, the gruff but clever private investigator. Strike is an ex-soldier with a touch of Ptsd, a bit of a drink problem, and a troubled childhood. And his affection and respect for his resourceful business partner, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) always threatens, or promises,...

Warning: contains major spoilers for The Cuckoo’s Calling, The SilkworM, Career of Evil And Lethal White

To a childhood friend, he’s Bunsen. To his sister, he’s Stick. To the colleague whose life he saved, he’s Bob, and to his ex-fiancee, he’s Bluey. In the US, they know him as C.B. Strike, but in the UK, he’s Cormoran Strike, a Cornish Pi operating out of Soho’s Denmark Street. He’s the star of five detective novels by Robert Galbraith (an alias of J.K. Rowling), and he’ll soon be back on BBC One starring in his fifth miniseries Strike: Troubled Blood.

As it’s been over two years since we last saw Cormoran and his agency partner Robin Ellacott in the Strike: Lethal White finale, here’s a refresher on what we need to remember from last time around.

Robin and Matthew: the...