Heads up people - The upcoming television programme thread - Page 43

trebor8273 · #**421** 31st August 2018, 01:39 PM

Both Jack Ryan (Amazon) and season two of Ozark (netflix ) are out today.The

bleakshaun · #**422** 5th September 2018, 03:41 PM

So Henry Caville is to be Geralt in Netflix's Witcher series. Would've been better if it was Mads Mikkelson.

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gag · #**423** 9th September 2018, 07:50 AM

The CW Developing Nancy Drew TV Series

The original teenage sleuth is attempting a return to the small screen, as The CW begins development on a new Nancy Drew drama. Fans of the classic book series will no doubt be excited to see how the age-old detective fares in modern times.

Created in the 1930s, the Nancy Drew books follow the story of the title character, an amateur sleuth, placed in a variety of mysterious situations by a multitude of writers, all writing under the pen name Carolyn Keene. Drew would go on to solve mysteries and inspire young women for nearly a century. Despite the evident popularity of the franchise, two Nancy Drew TV series have secured a spot in development hell over the past few years. Both CBS and NBC attempted to get an adaptation off the ground with little success, proving it a difficult endeavor transferring Nancy Drew's adventures to TV. That being said, simultaneous to this new CW venture, a Nancy Drew film is in the works starring IT's Sophia Lillis.

Deadline exclusively revealed the existence of the CW project, which will be headed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. The duo served as the guiding creative forces behind both The O.C. and Gossip Girl, and their track record looks to be perfect fit for a youth-targeted Nancy Drew series. Hopefully their iteration will fare better than past attempts. Set to follow Drew's life after graduating high school, this version sticks closer to the books, unlike both CBS and NBC's potential shows, which centered on a Nancy firmly into adulthood.

The Sophia Lillis-fronted film version is also following several past attempts to recreate the novels on film. In the 1930s, Warner Brothers produced a series of four B-films starring Glenda Farrell, which portrayed Nancy Drew in a different light - a ditzy girl replaced the well-known, competent detective. In 2007, Jerry Weintraub produced another interpretation, a film that starred future American Horror Story regular Emma Roberts. Those, combined with the two stalled TV adaptation attempts, adds pressure to both the new film and TV series to make things work. Perhaps between the two of them, one will manage to get off the ground successfully.

The current film world, where female protagonists are becoming more commonplace, provides the perfect opportunity to highlight the young heroine who started it all. Far more than the mere female equivalent of the Hardy Boys, this feminist role model deserves to be considered an example for young women of a new generation

https://screenrant.com/cw-nancy-drew...es-developing/

Susan Foreman · #**424** 13th September 2018, 06:19 AM

The TCM film listings for their monster movies in October, including Halloween night

**NOTE - I don't have access to TCM, so I am not sure if these are UK or US listings!

Wednesday October 3, 2018
8:00 PM The Unknown (1927) Dir: Tod Browning
9:00 PM The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Dir: Rupert Julian
10:45 PM The Monster (1925) Dir: Roland West

Thursday October 4, 2018
12:30 AM The Penalty (1920) Dir: Wallace Worsley
2:15 AM The Unholy Three (1925) Dir: Tod Browning.
4:00 AM He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Dir: Victor Seastrom

Saturday October 6, 2018
2:00 AM Deadly Friend (1986) Dir: Wes Craven
3:45 AM Demon Seed (1977) Dir. Donald Cammell

Sunday October 7, 2018
8:00 PM The Mummy’s Hand (1940) Dir: Christy Cabanne
9:30 PM The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) Dir: Reginald LeBorg
10:45 PM The Mummy’s Curse (1944) Dir: Leslie Goodwins

Monday October 8, 2018
12:00 AM Nosferatu (1922) Dir: F. W. Murnau.

Wednesday October 10, 2018

8:00 PM The Devil’s Bride (1968) Dir: Terence Fisher
10:00 PM (Horror of) Dracula (1958) Dir: Terence Fisher
11:30 PM Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965) Dir: Terence Fisher

Thursday, October 11, 2018
1:15 AM Horror Hotel (aka City Of The Dead) (1960) Dir: John Llewellyn Moxey
2:45 AM The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) Dir: Dan Sharp
4:30 AM Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966) Dir: Dan Sharp

Saturday October 13, 2018
2:15 PM The Seventh Victim (1943) Dir: Mark Robson
8:00 PM The Fearless Vampire Killers or, Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck (aka Dance of the Vampires) (1967) Dir. Roman Polanski

Sunday October 14, 2018
8:00 PM Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Dir: Charles Lamont
9:30 PM Mummy’s Boys (1936) Dir: Fred Guiol
10:45 PM The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958) Dir: Rafael Portillo

Monday October 15, 2018
12:00 AM Faust (1926) Dir: F. W. Murnau

Tuesday October 16, 2018
12:15 AM The Black Hole (1979) Dir. Gary Nelson

Wednesday October 17, 2018
8:00 PM The Old Dark House (1932) Dir: James Whale
9:30 PM The Walking Dead (1936) Dir: Michael Curtiz
10:45 PM Isle of the Dead (1945) Dir: Mark Robson

Tuesday October 16, 2018
12:15 AM Bedlam (1946) Dir: Mark Robson Cast
1:45 AM Die, Monster, Die! (1965) Dir: Daniel Haller
3:15 AM The Sorcerers (1967) Dir: Michael Reeves
5:00 AM The Terror (1963) Dir: Roger Corman, et. al.

Friday October 19, 2018

8:00 PM Carry on Screaming! (1966) Dir: Gerald Thomas

Saturday October 20, 2018
2:00 AM Dreamscape (1984) Dir: Joseph Ruben
3:45 AM Dead Sleep (1990) Dir: Alec Mills

Sunday October 21, 2018
8:00 PM The Mummy (1959) Dir: Terence Fisher
9:45 PM The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964) Dir: Michael Carreras
11:15 PM The Pharaoh’s Curse (1957) Dir: Lee Sholem

Monday October 22, 2018
12:30 AM The Phantom Carriage (1921) Dir: Victor Seastrom
2:30 AM Eyes Without a Face (1959) Dir: Georges Franju
4:15 AM A Woman’s Face (1941) Dir: George Cukor

Monday October 22, 2018
8:00 PM The Frankenstein Myth (2018)
9:00 PM Son of Frankenstein (1939) Dir: Rowland V. Lee
11:00 PM The Frankenstein Myth (2018)

Tuesday October 23, 2018
12:00 AM The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Dir: Terence Fisher
1:30 AM Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) Dir: Terence Fisher
3:15 AM Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970) Dir: Terence Fisher
5:00 AM The Mysterious Doctor (1943) Dir: Ben Stoloff

Wednesday October 24, 2018
8:00 PM White Zombie (1932) Dir: Victor Halperin
9:15 PM Mark of the Vampire (1935) Dir: Tod Browning
10:30 PM Night Monster (1942) Dir: Ford Beebe

Thursday October 25, 2018
12:00 AM The Human Monster (1939) Dir: Walter Summers
1:30 AM The Devil Bat (1940) Dir: Jean Yarbrough
2:45 AM The Corpse Vanishes (1942) Dir: Wallace Fox
4:00 AM Spooks Run Wild (1941) Dir: Phil Rosen
5:15 AM Bowery at Midnight (1942) Dir: Wallace Fox
9:45 AM The Canterville Ghost (1944) Dir: Jules Dassin

Saturday October 27, 2018
2:00 AM The Hand (1981) Dir: Oliver Stone
4:00 AM The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) Dir: Robert Florey
6:00 AM The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) Dir: George Pal
11:30 AM The Tell-Tale Heart (SHORT) (1941) Dir. Jules Dassin
2:15 PM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Dir: Victor Fleming
6:00 PM The Power (1968) Dir: Byron Haskin
8:00 PM The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10:00 PM The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) Dir. Alan Rafkin

Sunday October 28, 2018
12:00 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949) Dir: Richard O. Fleischer
1:30 AM House of Dark Shadows (1970) Dir: Dan Curtis
3:30 AM Night Of Dark Shadows (1971) Dir: Dan Curtis
5:30 AM Black Cats and Broomsticks (SHORT) (1955) Dir: Larry O’Reilly
8:00 PM The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) Dir: John Gilling
10:00 PM Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) Dir: Seth Holt

Monday October 29, 2018
4:00 AM Diabolique (1955) Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot
6:30 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Dir: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise
7:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956) Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
10:00 AM Children of the Damned (1963) Dir: Anton M. Leader
11:45 AM Village of the Damned (1961) Dir: Wolf Rilla
1:15 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Dir: Robert Aldrich
3:45 PM Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Dir: Robert Aldrich
6:15 PM The Nanny (1965) Dir: Seth Holt
8:00 PM Island of Lost Souls (1932) Dir: Erle C. Kenton
9:15 PM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) Dir: Rouben Mamoulian
11:00 PM Mad Love (1935) Dir: Karl Freund

Tuesday October 30, 2018
12:15 AM The Fly (1958) Dir: Kurt Neumann
4:15 AM The Frozen Dead (1967) Dir: Herbert J. Leder
5:30 AM Return to Glennascaul (SHORT) (1953) Dir: Hilton Edwards
6:00 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) Dir: John S. Robertson
7:15 AM The Magician (1926) Dir: Rex Ingram
8:45 AM The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Dir: Lothar Mendes
10:15 AM The Devil-Doll (1936) Dir: Tod Browning
11:45 AM The Mysterious Island (1929) Dir: Lucien Hubbard
1:30 PM Doctor X (1932) Dir: Michael Curtiz
3:00 PM The Return of Doctor X (1939) Dir: Vincent Sherman
4:15 PM King Kong (1933) Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
6:15 PM Things To Come (1936) Dir: William Cameron Menzies
8:00 PM Ghost Chasers (1951) Dir: William Beaudine
9:30 PM The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954) Dir: Edward Bernds
10:45 PM Spook Busters (1946) Dir: William Beaudine

Wednesday October 31, 2018
12:15 AM Spook Chasers (1957) Dir: George Blair
1:30 AM Master Minds (1949) Dir: Jean Yarbrough
2:45 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968) Dir: George A. Romero
4:30 AM The Plague of the Zombies (1966) Dir: John Gilling
6:00 AM Hands of a Stranger (1962) Dir: Newt Arnold
7:30 AM Dementia 13 (1963) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
9:00 AM Cat People (1942) Dir: Jacques Tourneur
10:15 AM Carnival of Souls (1962) Dir: Herk Harvey
11:45 AM Spirits of the Dead (1968) Dir: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
2:00 PM From Beyond the Grave (1973) Dir: Kevin Connor
4:00 PM Black Sabbath (1963) Dir: Mario Bava
6:00 PM Dead of Night (1945) Dir: Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton
8:00 PM House of Wax (1953) Dir: Andre DeToth
9:45 PM The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Dir: Roger Corman
11:15 PM The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Dir: Roger Corman

Thursday November 1, 2018
1:00 AM House on Haunted Hill (1958) Dir: William Castle
2:30 AM Theatre of Blood (1973) Dir: Douglas Hickox
4:30 AM The Last Man on Earth (1964) Dir: Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**425** 13th September 2018, 11:33 AM

Sadly that excellent listing is for the US.

It seemed that way when they were showing The Devil's Bride which i'm certain had it been the UK would have used it's title of The Devil Rides Out.

Then the article i saw says check your time zones for confirmed start times.

Justin101 · #**426** 13th September 2018, 11:44 AM

It's a shame because that line-up on the 31st is pretty good!
I'll be in Tokyo attending a massive Halloween street party so I'm not that bothered anyway

gag · #**427** 18th September 2018, 12:21 AM

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainm...t-release-date

Since its announcement back in 2017, the reboot of Charmed has been controversial for fans of the beloved original series, which ran on the WB from 1998 to 2006. The show about the Halliwell sisters -- initially Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), a trio of powerful witches -- remains a cult classic, and updating it for a modern era was always going to be tricky.

But The CW was up for the challenge. They assembled a team of creators from the hit series Jane the Virgin to revitalize Charmed for a new generation. The new series promises a more diverse, politically charged version of the story meant to reflect our chaotic times. We’ve already gotten a ton of information about the series -- including more detail about the characters, plot, and how this iteration promises to be very different than what came before -- pieced together below and updated as more becomes available.

When does the new Charmed premiere?
After years of being in the early production phase (the earliest discussions of a reboot go all the way back to 2013), we'll finally see The CW's Charmed on Sunday, October 14 in the 9pm timeslot, exactly 20 years and one week after the debut of the original series.

Is the premise still the same?
Basically, The CW is describing it as "a fierce, funny, feminist reboot" of the original. Their description also says that it "centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches. Between vanquishing supernatural demons, tearing down the patriarchy, and maintaining familial bonds, a witch’s work is never done."

We also know that the show is set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne -- a departure from the San Francisco setting of the original -- and it picks up after the murder of the sisters’ mother, a women’s studies professor. The women soon learn that they are witches, like their mother, and accept their new destiny as the Charmed Ones, who must use their tremendous powers to conquer supernatural demons.

Who plays the three sisters?
The reboot follows three siblings who follow the basic formula as the original Halliwell power trio, with a dash of their half-sister Paige (who was played by Rose McGowan starting in Season 4) thrown in for good measure. Taking on the Prue role as sensible eldest sister Macy is Madeleine Mantock from Into the Badlands and The Tomorrow People. It's up to her character to keep willful younger siblings Mel, an outspoken middle child played by Elementary's Melonie Diaz, and Maggie, a comparatively superficial college freshman played by Sarah Jeffery from Shades of Blue.

They've reimagined the supporting roles
Charlie Gillespie will play Maggie’s high-school boyfriend, Brian, and Ellen Tamaki will play Nico, a detective whose "romantic relationship with one of the sisters" -- probably Mel -- "complicates her investigation." As TV Guide points out, the two appear to be new takes on the original series’ Andy Trudeau (played by Ted King). Andy was a detective whose high school relationship with Prue (Shannen Doherty) complicated his own investigation.

Man in the High Castle’s Rupert Evans has also joined the cast as Harry, a professor with "an infuriating charm and a mysterious interest in the three sisters," according to TV Line. That description means he’s the show’s new Leo, played by Brian Krause in the original, who was the Halliwell sister’s Whitelighter, a guardian angel figure who protects and guides witches. (Sort of like Giles on Buffy.) In the old series, Leo fell in love with Piper (Holly Marie Combs), the middle sister, and the two had three children.

Ser’Darius Blain is also onboard to play Galvin, described by Deadline as "the ideal boyfriend -- funny, mellow, in touch with his emotions, totally on board to follow his lady across the country for her dream job." It was confirmed at TCA that Galvin is, in fact, Macy’s boyfriend. But that doesn’t mean things won’t change down the road; as fans will recall, Leo and Piper didn’t get together until much later, so it’s possible we’ll eventually get a love triangle.

Like Macy, Galvin is a scientist, which was changed for the pilot from his original profession as a filmmaker. "I loved that they changed my character...," Blain said at TCA. "Because I was a science nerd when I was a kid and now we have a black scientist on TV."

Charmed will get political
According to Cosmopolitan, an unnamed Trump-like politician factors into the pilot episode, when it's implied that the current president has something to do with the impending apocalypse, which the witches will fight to prevent. Mantock added that the reboot is "very rooted in what 2018 is."

The show will also tell stories about immigration and sexual harassment, utilizing its college campus setting to emphasize these forms of discrimination. In general, the reboot promises to be unabashedly feminist, and will focus -- above all else -- on the complex relationship between the sisters. "The idea that we’re sisters and we love each other and we care about each other is the first foundation of what feminism is -- loving each other and supporting each other despite anything else," said Diaz after the San Diego Comic-Con screening of the pilot, according to Bustle, which also noted that the pilot normalizes Mel’s sexual identity.

There's a real witch on the writing staff
Maybe the coolest thing about the new Charmed: An actual Latinx witch is part of the creative team. His name is Marcos Luevanos, a former writer for Life in Pieces, and he’s a member of a real-life coven. According to executive producer Jessica O’Toole, Luevanos would "meet once a week and do spells and put energy out there towards goals that they wanted to accomplish."

The original cast isn’t too thrilled about the reboot
The pilot debuted at SDCC to mostly positive reviews, but that hasn’t silenced some vocal critics, including the original cast. On Twitter, Holly Marie Combs voiced her annoyance, adding, "I will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago."

Shannen Doherty, for her part, called the reboot "offensive" on Twitter, noting that it should have been a differently named series using similar themes instead. Likewise, Alyssa Milano, who played youngest sister Phoebe, told Entertainment Tonight, "I wish that they would have come to us and we would have been involved since the beginning."

The backlash doesn’t bother those in charge of the reboot. CW president Mark Pedowitz said at TCA, "Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I have great respect for them as actors. But give the show a shot. It’s different." Luckily, fans will soon have the chance to make up their minds for themselves.