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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the comedy The Beat Beneath My Feet, starring Luke Perry. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by John Williams from a screenplay by Michael Müller, The Beat Beneath My Feet has the following synopsis: A painfully shy teenage boy with secret but grand rock and roll aspirations lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves an anti-social, former Rock God who faked his death eight years ago. The teenage boy works out who the mysterious neighbour is and blackmails...

Young Arthur – bullied at school and struggling with his dad Johnny Vegas – seeks sanctuary at his local pool

Sheffield-based YouTuber Luke Cutforth here ventures into – that dread phrase – long-form content, with a thin slip of YA fantasy (drawn from a novel by Caroline Smailes) about a humiliated schoolboy retrieved from the brink of self-sacrifice. Cutforth clearly knows his way around a camera, which isn’t always the case at the industry’s lower-budget end; with cinematographer Josh Winslade, he makes atmospheric use of his primary location, Manchester’s Victoria Baths, recast as an abandoned spa. Yet the pacing proves sluggish, and the adaptation broadly unpersuasive: a fifth-former’s creative writing assignment, with clunky exposition and potential elements of autobiography that elicit sporadic cringes.

Cutforth has engineered one noteworthy casting coup. We know young Arthur (James Tarpey) has it bad because he’s being raised by Johnny Vegas, welded into a...

Exclusive: London-based sales outfit 7&7 Producer’s Sales Service has set The Drowning of Arthur Braxton, the debut feature from popular YouTube star Luke Cutforth, for international release next month in the UK, Australia, and Scandinavia via international content distributor Rights Booster Ltd.

The film, which picked up the award for Best UK Feature at the 2021 Raindance Film Festival, will also be released in North America via Kaczmarek Digital Media Group.

Based on Caroline Smailes’ 2013 cult novel of the same name, the flick follows an awkward, heavily bullied schoolboy from a dysfunctional home who encounters first love, mystery, and danger when he discovers a beautiful water nymph hiding in a magical abandoned Victorian public swimming pool.

The film stars James Tarpey as Arthur, Rebecca Hanssen as Delphina the water nymph, and British comedian and actor Johnny Vegas (who also serves as the film’s executive producer) in the heart-wrenching role of...

The completed film is directed by YouTube star Luke Cutforth.

London-based 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service has acquired worldwide rights to The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton, the completed debut directorial feature of UK YouTube star Luke Cutforth.

The film is an adaptation of Caroline Smailes’ 2013 novel of the same name, and is a coming-of-age story about a bullied schoolboy who encounters first love when he discovers a beautiful water nymph hiding in an abandoned Victorian swimming pool.

It stars James Tarpey, Rebecca Hanssen and Johnny Vegas, who is also an executive producer.

The film shot back in 2016, produced by Joshua Winslade for the UK’s Fireflight Film.

The White Princess’ Billy Barratt will star alongside Game of Thrones’ Michelle Fairley, Strike’s Tom Burke and Traitors’ Stephen Campbell Moore in a BBC feature-length drama about the age of criminal responsibility.

The 12-year old Barratt, who featured in the Starz White Princess drama alongside Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer, will play Ray, a 12-year-old boy on trial for murder, in Responsible Child.

The 90-minute drama will air on BBC Two later this year and is produced by Broadchurch producer Kudos and 72 Films.

Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Shaun Dingwall (Topboy), Debbie Honeywood (Sorry We Missed You), Angela Wynter (Les Miserables) and James Tarpey (Our Robot Overlords) round out the cast.

Based on real events, the drama is told in two time frames and follows the events that led up to the murder and trial. Ray (Barratt) and his 23-year-old brother Nathan (Tarpey) are arrested after stabbing their mother’s partner.

Exclusive: Freeform has passed on its drama pilot Breckman Rodeo, from writer Steve Lerner, The Americans executive producers/showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and new Freeform corporate sibling FX Productions.

Breckman Rodeo, starring Jess Gabor and Noah Le Gros, was one of three hourlong pilots at Freeform, along with Party of Five and Motherland, all of which had been garnering solid buzz. The Party of Five reboot was the first of the bunch to score a series pickup in February, followed by the witches-themed Motherland: Fort Salem, which was picked up to series in March, leaving Breckman Rodeo as the only outstanding pilot.

The decision to not go forward with it comes a couple of weeks after Lauren Corrao joined Freeform as new head of original programming.

Created and written by Lerner and directed by Wendey Stanzler, Breckman Rodeo was an ensemble drama about a group of young rodeo riders in Cheyenne,...

Justified alum David Meunier is set as a series regular opposite leads Jess Gabor and Noah Le Gros in Freeform’s drama pilot Breckman Rodeo (working title) from writer Steve Lerner, The Americans executive producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions.

Created and written by Lerner, Breckman Rodeo (working title) is an ensemble drama about a group of young rodeo riders in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The show centers on Ashley (Gabor), a rodeo-as-hell spark plug who refuses to stay within the lines that have been drawn for her, and her boyfriend Brant (Le Gros), a rodeo prodigy torn between a content, quiet life and the rocky climb to superstardom. Brant, Ashley and their friends will have to reconcile the traditional values of their sport and upbringing with the changing realities of the 21st century.

Meunier will play Chucky, a man who has devoted his life to the rodeo. He...

In today’s TV news roundup, an exclusive first look at the upcoming Netflix children’s series “Motown Magic” and Anjelika Washington joins “Stargirl.”

First Looks

Variety has obtained an exclusive first look at upcoming Netflix children’s series “Motown Magic,” premiering worldwide on Tuesday, Nov. 20. Each episode’s plot is inspired by the themes and characters of classic Motown songs, featuring newly recorded covers by Ne-Yo, Becky G, Bj the Chicago Kid, Skylar Grey, Calum Scott, and Trombone Shorty. Smokey Robinson serves as executive music producer.

Dates

Season 2 of truTV’s comedy series “I’m Sorry” premieres Jan. 9 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. This season, Andrea (played by creator Andrea Savage) lands herself in new cringeworthy scenarios, joined by new guest stars Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation”), Lennon Parham (“Playing House“), June Diane Raphael (“Grace and Frankie”), Scott Aukerman (“Comedy Bang! Bang!”), Rob Huebel (“Transparent”), Anne Ramsay (“Mad About You...

Exclusive: Jess Gabor (Shameless) and Noah Le Gros (The Get Down) are set as leads in Freeform’s drama pilot Breckman Rodeo (working title) from writer Steve Lerner, The Americans executive producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions. Also joining as series regulars are Kayla Wallace (The Good Doctor), Diego Josef (Goliath), Vinnie Bennett (Human Traces), and James Tarpey(After Hours). Wendey Stanzler will direct the pilot and serve as co-executive producer. The pilot will begin production this month in New Zealand.

Created and written by Lerner, Breckman Rodeo (working title) is an ensemble drama about a group of young rodeo riders in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The show centers on Ashley (Gabor), a rodeo-as-hell spark plug who refuses to stay within the lines that have been drawn for her, and her boyfriend Brant (Le Gros), a rodeo prodigy torn between a content, quiet life...

Sci-fi series to be overseen by longtime Coronation Street producer Tony Wood.

Robot Overlords, the UK sci-fi feature starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley, is to get a spin-off TV series overseen by Tony Wood’s Buccaneer Media.

The agreement, signed with Piers Tempest and Jo Bamford’s Tempo Productions who produced the movie, will see Buccaneer Media create a TV series set in a parallel universe to the original movie, which features a group of survivors following the invasion of Earth by alien robots.

Robert Overlords director Jon Wright announced the adaptation at McM London Comic Con.

Wood is a British drama producer that worked on long-running soap Coronation Street for 12 years as well as Desi Rascals and Nickelodeon’s live action kid’s series House of Anubis.

Wood said the TV series of Robot Overlords would “reimagine” the story “for an international family TV audience”, compariing it to classic British sci-fi brands such as Quatermass...

Robot Overlords took over our cinema screens back in March and now, according to the film’s director Jon Wright, the malignant mechanicals have their beady laser eyes on our tellies. Yes, they’re targeting a small screen spin-off. Wright announced the news at the McM London Comic Con, with word that Tony Wood (a veteran of Coronation Street among other things) will oversee the new show for Piers Tempest and Jo Bamford’s Tempo Productions, who were behind the film in the first place. “This series will really expand the canvas of the robot occupation and we are aiming to make an explosive show that the UK will be very proud of.”Though the film had Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley, Callan McAuliffe, James Tarpey and Ella Hunt among its cast, the show will boast a new ensemble and might also march on to TV under a different name. According to wood,...

Buccaneer Media has signed a deal to create a spin-off TV series based on the U.K. independent sci-fi adventure movie "Robot Overlords" at Tempo Productions.

Jon Wright helmed the film which opened in the UK in March and starred Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley, Callan McAuliffe, James Tarpey and Ella Hunt. The story features a group of survivors following the invasion of Earth by alien robots.

The new series will be set in a parallel universe to the movie. Jon Wright, the film's director, announced the small screen version at a London Comic Con event on Friday. The title and cast for the spin-off TV series is yet to be announced.

Producer Piers Tempest says: "This series will really expand the canvas of the robot occupation, and we are aiming to make an explosive show that the U.K. will be very proud of. Stay in your homes."

Source: Variety...

So much to love in this Brit kiddie sci-fi adventure, with its brilliant concept that really works on a small budget and a real sense of place. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a big ol’ sci-fi geek

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

So much to love in this Brit kiddie sci-fi adventure! It’s like classic Doctor Who — you know, like we haven’t gotten much of lately — except without the Doctor, of course. It’s a Ya postapocalyptic adventure not based on a book (it’s an original story). It’s set after the alien invasion, which is when, I’ve always felt, all the really interesting stories exist to be told and yet we haven’t seen many of them. And the AI ETs aren’t here for the water.

On Robot-occupied Earth, the new masters...

Jon Wright on directing Robot Overlords, working with Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson, and why he made an 80s-style family film.

Three films in, and Jon Wright is very much a director whose output is worth keeping an eye on. His first full feature, Tormented, was an effective horror with some strong moments, but it was Grabbers where he really struck gold. It remains, along with Tucker & Dale Vs Evil, our favourite horror comedy of recent times. Wright has taken a different turn for his new movie, Robot Overlords, a sci-fi movie aimed at a family audience. And he spared us some time to natter about it...

Can you put into words how you're feeling, on the eve of your film's release?

Well, I'm a bit nervous about the release, as you would be. Hoping it goes well. And I'm reading all the press that people are writing, which I actually think is very interesting.

James Tarpey leads the young cast in a new Sky1 sitcom series After Hours which has just started filming in Manchester.

He stars as Willow Hannigan, an 18 year-old jobless music lover who's just had his heart broken for the first time.

James (represented by United Agents) is a graduate of the Brit School, he played a young Eddie Marsan in Brit sci-fi comedy feature film World's End, and will next be seen in sci-fi action feature Our Robot Overlords.

Georgina Campbell (represented by Bloomfields Welch Management) plays Willow's ex-girlfriend Jasmine. Georgina, appeared in ITV's The Ice Cream Girls, and can currently be seen starring in the harrowing BBC Three docudrama Murdered By My Boyfriend.

Newcomer Fergus Van Gelder plays Willow's best friend Chris.

There are no jobs in the small Northern town Willow lives in, his beautiful ex-girlfriend has moved on to someone new and most of his mates have...

Ardal O'Hanlon and John Thomson are to star in a new Sky1 sitcom.

After Hours will be directed by The Royle Family's Craig Cash, and will be centred around growing up in a small Northern English town.

Jaime Winstone will also star in the six-episode series, alongside newcomer James Tarpey.

The show will follow Willow Hannigan (Tarpey), an 18-year-old music fan who has just had his first heartbreak. O'Hanlon will play his father Peter, who is an unemployed former milkman.

Thomson will star as Peter's best friend Geoff, while Winston will play Lauren, who runs the local internet station from a canal boat. The only thing that keeps Willow sane is listening to Lauren's radio show After Hours.

After Hours is written by Molly Naylor and John Osborne, who previously staged the Fringe show John Peel's Shed.

The series will launch on Sky1 in 2015.

Lucy Lumsden, Sky's head of comedy,...