Poster for ‘Alex Rider’ season 3 (Photo Courtesy of Amazon Freevee)
Amazon Freevee has set an April 5, 2024 premiere date for season three of Alex Rider, based on Anthony Horowitz’s fifth novel of the bestselling spy series. All eight episodes will drop on April 5th and will wrap up this chapter in Alex’s life.
“It’s been such a great experience seeing the fan reaction to the first two seasons of Alex Rider,” said author and executive producer Horowitz. “I am thrilled this upcoming season will focus on Scorpia, as the story will lead Alex and viewers to question everything they’ve learned so far.”
Returning cast members include Otto Farrant (Edge of the World) as Alex Rider, Vicky McClure (Line of Duty) as Mrs. Jones, Stephen Dillane (The Outrun) as Alan Blunt, Brenock O’Connor (Game of Thrones) as Tom Harris, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ (Rain Dogs) as Jack Starbright, and...
Amazon Freevee has set an April 5, 2024 premiere date for season three of Alex Rider, based on Anthony Horowitz’s fifth novel of the bestselling spy series. All eight episodes will drop on April 5th and will wrap up this chapter in Alex’s life.
“It’s been such a great experience seeing the fan reaction to the first two seasons of Alex Rider,” said author and executive producer Horowitz. “I am thrilled this upcoming season will focus on Scorpia, as the story will lead Alex and viewers to question everything they’ve learned so far.”
Returning cast members include Otto Farrant (Edge of the World) as Alex Rider, Vicky McClure (Line of Duty) as Mrs. Jones, Stephen Dillane (The Outrun) as Alan Blunt, Brenock O’Connor (Game of Thrones) as Tom Harris, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ (Rain Dogs) as Jack Starbright, and...
- 2/29/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The end is in sight for Alex Rider. The Anthony Horowitz spy thriller will wrap its run with the upcoming third season. All eight episodes will be released on April 5 on Amazon Freevee in the UK, U.S. and Germany, bringing the final chapter of Alex’s journey of self-discovery to a close.
“It’s been such a great experience seeing the fan reaction to the first two seasons of Alex Rider,” Horowitz said. “I am thrilled this upcoming season will focus on Scorpia, as the story will lead Alex and viewers to question everything they’ve learned so far.”
Based on Horowitz’s best-selling book franchise, Alex Rider is a London-based teenager who, unbeknownst to him, has been trained for the dangerous world of espionage since he was a child.
“We’re so excited to bring Anthony Horowitz’s fifth novel Scorpia to life with this upcoming season of the show,...
“It’s been such a great experience seeing the fan reaction to the first two seasons of Alex Rider,” Horowitz said. “I am thrilled this upcoming season will focus on Scorpia, as the story will lead Alex and viewers to question everything they’ve learned so far.”
Based on Horowitz’s best-selling book franchise, Alex Rider is a London-based teenager who, unbeknownst to him, has been trained for the dangerous world of espionage since he was a child.
“We’re so excited to bring Anthony Horowitz’s fifth novel Scorpia to life with this upcoming season of the show,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Season 3 of Amazon Freevee’s spy thriller series “Alex Rider” is in production in the U.K. and Malta.
Cast members Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure, Brenock O’Connor, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, and Marli Siu return. Joining them are Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”), Shelley Conn (“Bridgerton”), Kevin McNally (“The Crown”) and Jason Wong (“Strangers”).
Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television, “Alex Rider” is based on the bestselling book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. The series follows Alex, a teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.
Adapted by Guy Burt from “Scorpia,” the fifth Alex Rider novel, season 3 sets the teenage spy on the trail of his greatest enemy: the elusive criminal network known as Scorpia. Alex embarks on a personal mission to destroy Scorpia once and for all.
Horowitz...
Cast members Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure, Brenock O’Connor, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, and Marli Siu return. Joining them are Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”), Shelley Conn (“Bridgerton”), Kevin McNally (“The Crown”) and Jason Wong (“Strangers”).
Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television, “Alex Rider” is based on the bestselling book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. The series follows Alex, a teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.
Adapted by Guy Burt from “Scorpia,” the fifth Alex Rider novel, season 3 sets the teenage spy on the trail of his greatest enemy: the elusive criminal network known as Scorpia. Alex embarks on a personal mission to destroy Scorpia once and for all.
Horowitz...
- 1/19/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Nick Hamm’s The Hole is a vivid example of how a lie can take on a life of its own. In this 2001 psychological-thriller, inspired by Guy Burt’s 1993 novel After the Hole, the truth is distorted as authorities try to understand the horrible events that happened inside an abandoned fallout shelter. The survivor of this senseless tragedy recounts those harrowing eighteen days, telling two disparate versions of the same ordeal. By the end, no one — even the storyteller herself — can tell the difference between fact and fiction.
The deception is immediate in The Hole. Hamm and screenwriters Ben Court and Caroline Ip quickly endear Thora Birch’s character Liz to audiences as the bruised and disheveled teenager stumbles her way back to her home away from home. At a private school called Brabourne, Liz enters the abandoned campus, calls for help on a payphone, then finally unleashes a guttural scream.
The deception is immediate in The Hole. Hamm and screenwriters Ben Court and Caroline Ip quickly endear Thora Birch’s character Liz to audiences as the bruised and disheveled teenager stumbles her way back to her home away from home. At a private school called Brabourne, Liz enters the abandoned campus, calls for help on a payphone, then finally unleashes a guttural scream.
- 11/4/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Amazon Prime Video announced that the comedy special “Yearly Departed” will return for its second special this December, this time hosted by Yvonne Orji.
The new special will feature an all-female lineup of guests to be announced at a later date. They will bid farewell to the trends we are leaving behind in 2021, including hot vaxx summer, hermit life, ignoring the climate crisis and Zoom.
“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director and produced by a group of amazing female producers. I guess lightning can strike twice,” said Orji.
“Yearly Departed” is from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...
The new special will feature an all-female lineup of guests to be announced at a later date. They will bid farewell to the trends we are leaving behind in 2021, including hot vaxx summer, hermit life, ignoring the climate crisis and Zoom.
“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director and produced by a group of amazing female producers. I guess lightning can strike twice,” said Orji.
“Yearly Departed” is from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...
- 10/11/2021
- by Selome Hailu and Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
It was supposed to be over, but Alex Rider is about to get pulled right back in.
Season 2 of the British spy thriller will hit IMDb TV on Friday, Dec. 3, the streamer announced Monday, and we’ve got your first look.
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In the teaser embedded above, Alex is dropped into the deep end of a world he may not be ready for.
Season 2 of the British spy thriller will hit IMDb TV on Friday, Dec. 3, the streamer announced Monday, and we’ve got your first look.
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In the teaser embedded above, Alex is dropped into the deep end of a world he may not be ready for.
- 10/11/2021
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
In today’s Global Bulletin, Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV announce new casting for Season 2 of “Alex Rider,” investment is approved for Bottle Yard Studios in the U.K., the BIFAs announce Tom Felton will host this year’s online ceremony, Nent Studios UK sells three formats in Vietnam and Cruchnyroll picks up “Tsukimichi – Moonlit Fantasy” for streaming outside of Asia.
Casting
Eleventh Hour Films has announced expanded casting for Season 2 of its popular Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV series “Alex Rider.”
Adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s popular YA series, “Alex Rider” tracks a teenager in London who has been clandestinely trained as a spy since childhood. Season 2 will adapt “Eagle Strike,” the fourth book from the popular series.
“Die Another Day” and “Lost in Space” actor Toby Stephens joins the cast as tech billionaire Damian Cray, while Rakie Ayola (“Noughts and Crosses”) will play CIA deputy director...
Casting
Eleventh Hour Films has announced expanded casting for Season 2 of its popular Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV series “Alex Rider.”
Adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s popular YA series, “Alex Rider” tracks a teenager in London who has been clandestinely trained as a spy since childhood. Season 2 will adapt “Eagle Strike,” the fourth book from the popular series.
“Die Another Day” and “Lost in Space” actor Toby Stephens joins the cast as tech billionaire Damian Cray, while Rakie Ayola (“Noughts and Crosses”) will play CIA deputy director...
- 2/1/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Bad Bunny is joining Season 3 of Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” and Disney Plus exclusively shared a trailer for “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse” with Variety.
Casting
Netflix announced that Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino and Bad Bunny (née Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) have been cast in Season 3 of “Narcos: Mexico.” The crime drama series shares the story of the war on drugs through Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna), who led the Guadalajara Cartel. Méndez joins the series as a cop names Victor Tapia, while Guerra takes on the role of a drug trafficker and Rubino plays a journalist hoping to expose corruption. Bad Bunny will guest star as Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a young upper-class man who joined the “Narco Juniors.”
Renewals
IMDb TV and Amazon Prime Video have picked up a second season of “Alex Rider” ahead of the first season’s U.
Casting
Netflix announced that Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino and Bad Bunny (née Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) have been cast in Season 3 of “Narcos: Mexico.” The crime drama series shares the story of the war on drugs through Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna), who led the Guadalajara Cartel. Méndez joins the series as a cop names Victor Tapia, while Guerra takes on the role of a drug trafficker and Rubino plays a journalist hoping to expose corruption. Bad Bunny will guest star as Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a young upper-class man who joined the “Narco Juniors.”
Renewals
IMDb TV and Amazon Prime Video have picked up a second season of “Alex Rider” ahead of the first season’s U.
- 11/10/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, has confirmed an early season 2 renewal for its hit spy thriller series Alex Rider, from Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures TV.
The renewal, which had been expected, comes ahead of the series’ Season 1 premiere in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Latin America. The first season premieres Nov. 12 on Prime Video in Italy, then on Nov. 13th on IMDb TV in the U.S. and on Prime Video in Canada and Latin America. The series quickly became a hit after it premiered on Prime Video in the UK, Australia and Germany this summer.
The next season will be based on Eagle Strike, the fourth novel in Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling Alex Rider franchise, and will stream exclusively on IMDb TV in the U.S., and Prime Video in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Latin America New Zealand and the UK.
Written by Guy Burt,...
The renewal, which had been expected, comes ahead of the series’ Season 1 premiere in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Latin America. The first season premieres Nov. 12 on Prime Video in Italy, then on Nov. 13th on IMDb TV in the U.S. and on Prime Video in Canada and Latin America. The series quickly became a hit after it premiered on Prime Video in the UK, Australia and Germany this summer.
The next season will be based on Eagle Strike, the fourth novel in Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling Alex Rider franchise, and will stream exclusively on IMDb TV in the U.S., and Prime Video in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Latin America New Zealand and the UK.
Written by Guy Burt,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service, and Amazon Prime Video announced today that it has renewed the spy thriller series Alex Rider for a second season.
The series has yet to debut stateside, but it will do so on Friday, November 13.
The next season will be based on Eagle Strike, the fourth novel in the best-selling Alex Rider franchise, and will stream exclusively on IMDb TV in the U.S., and Prime Video in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Latin America, New Zealand and the U.K.
Alex Rider became a hit after it premiered on Prime Video in the UK, Australia and Germany this summer.
It stars Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a London based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.
Executive Producer and franchise author Anthony Horowitz, said of the renewal."
“I couldn’t be happier with the response to...
The series has yet to debut stateside, but it will do so on Friday, November 13.
The next season will be based on Eagle Strike, the fourth novel in the best-selling Alex Rider franchise, and will stream exclusively on IMDb TV in the U.S., and Prime Video in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Latin America, New Zealand and the U.K.
Alex Rider became a hit after it premiered on Prime Video in the UK, Australia and Germany this summer.
It stars Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a London based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.
Executive Producer and franchise author Anthony Horowitz, said of the renewal."
“I couldn’t be happier with the response to...
- 11/10/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films is gearing up to start shooting the second season of Anthony Horowitz’s spy thriller Alex Rider from the start of next year.
Sony is yet to officially confirm Season 2, but Deadline understands that the drama is slated to begin a 22-week shoot from January 25 in Bristol, south-west England.
This is slightly later than originally intended. When we revealed the Season 2 renewal in June, Eleventh Hour was hoping to get into production this year, but the pandemic has created widespread disruption to shoot dates.
Alex Rider’s first season was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions. Sony later sold it to Amazon’s ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV in the U.S. and Amazon Prime in the UK. It is not clear if Sony will go it alone again on Season 2, or if it will work with a co-production partner.
Sony is yet to officially confirm Season 2, but Deadline understands that the drama is slated to begin a 22-week shoot from January 25 in Bristol, south-west England.
This is slightly later than originally intended. When we revealed the Season 2 renewal in June, Eleventh Hour was hoping to get into production this year, but the pandemic has created widespread disruption to shoot dates.
Alex Rider’s first season was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions. Sony later sold it to Amazon’s ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV in the U.S. and Amazon Prime in the UK. It is not clear if Sony will go it alone again on Season 2, or if it will work with a co-production partner.
- 11/3/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Paley Center for Media’s annual fall television event has moved beyond “previews.” This year, the robust slate will include some sneak peeks at upcoming series, such as Hulu’s “Monsterland” and Netflix’s “Emily in Paris,” but it is also celebrating shows that already launched — and weeks earlier — such as Netflix’s “Away,” Fox’s “Filthy Rich” and HBO’s “We Are Who We Are.”
Still dubbed the 14th annual PaleyFest Fall TV Previews, the festival is going virtual this year, in accordance with ongoing health and safety concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic. All panels will be viewable on official sponsor Verizon’s Yahoo Entertainment Channel. Citi returns as the official card of the festival and its members can preview panels first, as of today, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m. Et. The panels will then be live for the public starting on Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. Et, with...
Still dubbed the 14th annual PaleyFest Fall TV Previews, the festival is going virtual this year, in accordance with ongoing health and safety concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic. All panels will be viewable on official sponsor Verizon’s Yahoo Entertainment Channel. Citi returns as the official card of the festival and its members can preview panels first, as of today, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m. Et. The panels will then be live for the public starting on Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. Et, with...
- 9/29/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Apple TV Plus released the trailer for new comedy series, “Ted Lasso,” and “Alex Rider” gets release dates in new territories, including the U.S. and Germany.
Dates
“Alex Rider,” a coming-of-age spy thriller series, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in Germany and Austria on Aug. 7 and on IMDb TV in the U.S. on Nov. 13. It will also be available on Amazon in Latin America later this year. The series, which is based on Anthony Horowitz‘s second book in the Alex Rider series (“Point Blanc”) stars Otto Farrant in the titular role. Horowitz, Jill Green, Eve Gutierrez, Guy Burt and Andreas Prochaska executive produce. The show already launched in the U.K. and Ireland through Amazon, and it was previously announced to be launching on that service in Australia on July 31 as well.
Executive News
WarnerMedia Entertainment announced Kristy Chan as...
Dates
“Alex Rider,” a coming-of-age spy thriller series, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in Germany and Austria on Aug. 7 and on IMDb TV in the U.S. on Nov. 13. It will also be available on Amazon in Latin America later this year. The series, which is based on Anthony Horowitz‘s second book in the Alex Rider series (“Point Blanc”) stars Otto Farrant in the titular role. Horowitz, Jill Green, Eve Gutierrez, Guy Burt and Andreas Prochaska executive produce. The show already launched in the U.K. and Ireland through Amazon, and it was previously announced to be launching on that service in Australia on July 31 as well.
Executive News
WarnerMedia Entertainment announced Kristy Chan as...
- 7/14/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
Alex Rider Season 2 is officially in the works at Sony Pictures Television.
Developed by screenwriter Guy Burt, and based on the bestselling book series by Anthony Horowitz (creator of U.K. WWII-era detective series Foyle’s War), Sony’s Alex Rider follows the titular teen (Otto Farrant), who discovers a family legacy in the spy game after his late uncle/adoptive father seemingly dies under mysterious circumstances. Subsequently recruited by MI6 subdivision the Department of Special Operations, Alex undergoes a transformative training process for a job that uproots his adolescent life.
The second season renewal of Alex Rider arrives, via Deadline, shortly after the TV series made its June 4 debut, specifically in the franchise’s homefront, on Amazon U.K. However, while it has yet to arrive in most countries, including the U.S., Sony is reportedly close to landing a deal for platforms in the U.S., Australia and China.
Developed by screenwriter Guy Burt, and based on the bestselling book series by Anthony Horowitz (creator of U.K. WWII-era detective series Foyle’s War), Sony’s Alex Rider follows the titular teen (Otto Farrant), who discovers a family legacy in the spy game after his late uncle/adoptive father seemingly dies under mysterious circumstances. Subsequently recruited by MI6 subdivision the Department of Special Operations, Alex undergoes a transformative training process for a job that uproots his adolescent life.
The second season renewal of Alex Rider arrives, via Deadline, shortly after the TV series made its June 4 debut, specifically in the franchise’s homefront, on Amazon U.K. However, while it has yet to arrive in most countries, including the U.S., Sony is reportedly close to landing a deal for platforms in the U.S., Australia and China.
- 6/17/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Alex Rider, Eleventh Hour Films’ TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling teen spy novels, looks set for a second season.
Deadline understands that Sony-backed Eleventh Hour is targeting a return to production later this year after the first season was picked up by Amazon in the UK, as well as a host of international broadcasters.
Alex Rider’s first season was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions without a network or streamer attached.
It is not clear if Sony will go it alone again on Season 2, or if it will work with a co-production partner. Amazon came on board in May and debuted the drama in the UK on June 4.
Sony has said that the show, which was penned by Guy Burt (Bletchley Circle), is close to finding a home in the U.S., Australia and China after the 12 books...
Deadline understands that Sony-backed Eleventh Hour is targeting a return to production later this year after the first season was picked up by Amazon in the UK, as well as a host of international broadcasters.
Alex Rider’s first season was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions without a network or streamer attached.
It is not clear if Sony will go it alone again on Season 2, or if it will work with a co-production partner. Amazon came on board in May and debuted the drama in the UK on June 4.
Sony has said that the show, which was penned by Guy Burt (Bletchley Circle), is close to finding a home in the U.S., Australia and China after the 12 books...
- 6/17/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Television has sold its upcoming “Alex Rider” teen spy series to nearly 100 territories around the world.
Produced by Spt-backed Eleventh Hour Films, the adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s novels was the first series commissioned by Spt’s international production and distribution divisions on spec, greenlighting the project independently to be distributed worldwide.
Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has picked up the series for their streaming service Viaplay in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Lionsgate-owned streamer Starzplay has licensed the show for broadcast in multiple territories across the Middle East and North Africa, while Mnet has acquired the series for Showmax across Sub-Saharan Africa including South Africa.
The series has also been picked up by Moviestar Plus in Spain, Kinopoisk HD in Russia, and will air on Nova in Greece, and DSmart in Turkey. Axn will broadcast the series across multiple European territories, including Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic,...
Produced by Spt-backed Eleventh Hour Films, the adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s novels was the first series commissioned by Spt’s international production and distribution divisions on spec, greenlighting the project independently to be distributed worldwide.
Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has picked up the series for their streaming service Viaplay in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Lionsgate-owned streamer Starzplay has licensed the show for broadcast in multiple territories across the Middle East and North Africa, while Mnet has acquired the series for Showmax across Sub-Saharan Africa including South Africa.
The series has also been picked up by Moviestar Plus in Spain, Kinopoisk HD in Russia, and will air on Nova in Greece, and DSmart in Turkey. Axn will broadcast the series across multiple European territories, including Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon has snapped up the UK rights to Alex Rider, Eleventh Hour Films’ TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling teen spy novels.
The streamer will drop the first eight-part series on June 4, featuring Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a British teenager who has unknowingly been trained as a spy since childhood.
Alex Ryder has been two years in the making and was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions without a network or streamer attached.
Eleventh Hour is part-owned by Sony and its CEO Jill Green is the husband of Horowitz. The author has penned 12 books on the reluctant secret agent, selling more than 20M copies worldwide.
Horowitz and Green are executive producers alongside Eve Gutierrez. The series writers are Guy Burt and Andreas Prochaska, who also co-directed the show with Christopher Smith.
Stephen Dillane and Vicky McClure also star in the series as members of The Department,...
The streamer will drop the first eight-part series on June 4, featuring Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a British teenager who has unknowingly been trained as a spy since childhood.
Alex Ryder has been two years in the making and was fully financed by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions without a network or streamer attached.
Eleventh Hour is part-owned by Sony and its CEO Jill Green is the husband of Horowitz. The author has penned 12 books on the reluctant secret agent, selling more than 20M copies worldwide.
Horowitz and Green are executive producers alongside Eve Gutierrez. The series writers are Guy Burt and Andreas Prochaska, who also co-directed the show with Christopher Smith.
Stephen Dillane and Vicky McClure also star in the series as members of The Department,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has taken U.K. rights to coming-of-age spy thriller “Alex Rider,” which will launch on the platform in June.
Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, the show is based on the second novel in Anthony Horowitz’s “Alex Rider” novels, “Point Blanc.” All eight episodes of the series will launch on Amazon on June 4.
The show was produced under a unique funding model that saw distributor Sony come on board in 2018 to fully finance the project without a lead commissioning broadcaster or platform attached.
The series stars Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a London-based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood to be a spy. Pressured to help investigate his uncle’s death, and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires, Alex goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.
In addition to Farrant, “Alex Rider” stars Stephen Dillane as Alan Blunt,...
Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, the show is based on the second novel in Anthony Horowitz’s “Alex Rider” novels, “Point Blanc.” All eight episodes of the series will launch on Amazon on June 4.
The show was produced under a unique funding model that saw distributor Sony come on board in 2018 to fully finance the project without a lead commissioning broadcaster or platform attached.
The series stars Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a London-based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood to be a spy. Pressured to help investigate his uncle’s death, and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires, Alex goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.
In addition to Farrant, “Alex Rider” stars Stephen Dillane as Alan Blunt,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Reign’s Toby Regbo is to star in the third and final season of Italian drama Medici.
The series will air over four nights in a primetime slot on Italian broadcaster Rai from December 2 with Netflix airing it after its domestic launch in early 2020. It will be branded an original Netflix series in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Canada, India and Taiwan.
Regbo will star alongside Daniel Sharman, and Synnøve Karlsen as well as Francesco Montanari and John Lynch, who joins for Medici The Magnificent: Final Season. Elsewhere, Troy: Fall of a City’s Johnny Harris and Bedlam’s Jack Roth form part of the international cast with Callum Blake, Aurora Ruffino and Sebastian De Souza.
Medici The Magnificent: Final Season starts a few months after the infamous Pazzi conspiracy that cost the life of Lorenzo’s brother, and nearly his own. Lorenzo, now a more complex and conflicted character,...
The series will air over four nights in a primetime slot on Italian broadcaster Rai from December 2 with Netflix airing it after its domestic launch in early 2020. It will be branded an original Netflix series in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Canada, India and Taiwan.
Regbo will star alongside Daniel Sharman, and Synnøve Karlsen as well as Francesco Montanari and John Lynch, who joins for Medici The Magnificent: Final Season. Elsewhere, Troy: Fall of a City’s Johnny Harris and Bedlam’s Jack Roth form part of the international cast with Callum Blake, Aurora Ruffino and Sebastian De Souza.
Medici The Magnificent: Final Season starts a few months after the infamous Pazzi conspiracy that cost the life of Lorenzo’s brother, and nearly his own. Lorenzo, now a more complex and conflicted character,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Alex Rider, the teen superspy series of novels that’s sold around 20M copies worldwide, is coming to the small screen in an eight-part series from Foyle’s War producer Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, with the Hollywood studio using a new funding model to set up the drama before taking it out to international buyers later this year.
The companies have unveiled the first trailer for the series, which stars Mrs Wilson’s Otto Farrant as the eponymous teen spy, and Deadline spoke to the team behind the project about its unusual origin story.
Created by author Anthony Horowitz, the first Alex Rider book Stormbreaker was published in 2000 and was later made into a feature film, directed by Geoffrey Sax, in 2006.
Horowitz teamed with Eleventh Hours Film, run by his wife Jill Green, to reboot it for television, taking the second book in the series, Point Blanc,...
The companies have unveiled the first trailer for the series, which stars Mrs Wilson’s Otto Farrant as the eponymous teen spy, and Deadline spoke to the team behind the project about its unusual origin story.
Created by author Anthony Horowitz, the first Alex Rider book Stormbreaker was published in 2000 and was later made into a feature film, directed by Geoffrey Sax, in 2006.
Horowitz teamed with Eleventh Hours Film, run by his wife Jill Green, to reboot it for television, taking the second book in the series, Point Blanc,...
- 9/30/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: One day after finding its Alex Rider, Sony Pictures Television has rounded out the full cast for its adaptation of the teen superspy drama. Game of Thrones star Brenock O’Connor and Stephen Dillane are starring alongside Doctor Who’s Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Broadchurch’s Andrew Buchan and Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure.
O’Connor, who plays Olly in the HBO drama, stars as Alex Rider’s jovial best friend Tom. The Rider household consists of Alex’s housekeeper Jack Starbright, played by Adékoluẹjo, and Ian Rider, his detached uncle and reluctant guardian, played by Buchan. Unbeknownst to Alex, Ian has been relentlessly training him since childhood and preparing him for the threatening world of espionage.
Alex and Tom lead ordinary teenage lives, navigating between school, girls and social lives until Alex’s world is quickly capsized as he is coerced by Alan Blunt, played by Dillane,...
O’Connor, who plays Olly in the HBO drama, stars as Alex Rider’s jovial best friend Tom. The Rider household consists of Alex’s housekeeper Jack Starbright, played by Adékoluẹjo, and Ian Rider, his detached uncle and reluctant guardian, played by Buchan. Unbeknownst to Alex, Ian has been relentlessly training him since childhood and preparing him for the threatening world of espionage.
Alex and Tom lead ordinary teenage lives, navigating between school, girls and social lives until Alex’s world is quickly capsized as he is coerced by Alan Blunt, played by Dillane,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sony has found its Alex Rider – Mrs Wilson star Otto Farrant has been chosen to front the small-screen reboot of the teen superspy.
Farrant, who played Nigel Wilson in the Ruth Wilson-fronted PBS Masterpiece and BBC drama, will play the eponymous character in the series, which is being produced by Sony Pictures Television and British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Anthony Horowitz’s novels in 2017.
The move comes after the producers opened a wide search for a young actor to play Alex Rider, a reluctant teen superspy who goes on missions to save the world.
Farrant has also previously had small roles in ITV and Netflix drama Marcella, War & Peace, The White Queen and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
Eight-part series Alex Rider is fully financed and in production after Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions teamed up...
Farrant, who played Nigel Wilson in the Ruth Wilson-fronted PBS Masterpiece and BBC drama, will play the eponymous character in the series, which is being produced by Sony Pictures Television and British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Anthony Horowitz’s novels in 2017.
The move comes after the producers opened a wide search for a young actor to play Alex Rider, a reluctant teen superspy who goes on missions to save the world.
Farrant has also previously had small roles in ITV and Netflix drama Marcella, War & Peace, The White Queen and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
Eight-part series Alex Rider is fully financed and in production after Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions teamed up...
- 4/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Das Boot director Andreas Prochaska has signed on to helm the television adaptation of Alex Rider for Sony.
The director, who was behind the camera for the Sky drama that was recently picked up by Hulu, will direct and exec produce the first four episodes of the teen superspy drama.
The show is heading to the small screen after Sony’s international production and distribution divisions teamed up to greenlight an eight-episode series. Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions have teamed up together for the first time to pick up an original spec series. They are working with British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Horowitz’s novels last year.
The novels, written by Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz, chart the adventures of a reluctant teen superspy on his missions to save the world. The twelfth book in the Alex Rider series,...
The director, who was behind the camera for the Sky drama that was recently picked up by Hulu, will direct and exec produce the first four episodes of the teen superspy drama.
The show is heading to the small screen after Sony’s international production and distribution divisions teamed up to greenlight an eight-episode series. Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions have teamed up together for the first time to pick up an original spec series. They are working with British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Horowitz’s novels last year.
The novels, written by Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz, chart the adventures of a reluctant teen superspy on his missions to save the world. The twelfth book in the Alex Rider series,...
- 11/5/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Andreas Prochaska, the director of upcoming Sky and Hulu series Das Boot, has signed on to direct and executive produce drama series Alex Rider for Sony Pictures Television and Eleventh Hour Films, based on the best-selling young-adult series of novels from Anthony Horowitz.
The Austrian director (The Dark Valley) will direct and executive produce the first four episodes of the drama based on Point Blanc, the second book in the series, which is being adapted by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Guy Burt (Bletchley Circle, The Borgias).
Das Boot is inspired by the Oscar-nominated submarine movie and is an eight-part series that will debut in Sky territories ...
The Austrian director (The Dark Valley) will direct and executive produce the first four episodes of the drama based on Point Blanc, the second book in the series, which is being adapted by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Guy Burt (Bletchley Circle, The Borgias).
Das Boot is inspired by the Oscar-nominated submarine movie and is an eight-part series that will debut in Sky territories ...
- 11/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Canadian director Christian Duguay is directing the third season of Frank Spotnitz’s “Medici” television saga, which has started shooting in Rome with Italian actor Francesco Montanari attached to play radical preacher Girolamo Savonarola, who became leader of Florence after the Medici family’s overthrow in 1494.
Duguay succeeds Jon Cassar (“24”), who helmed “Medici: Masters of Florence. The Magnificent Part I,” which was the show’s second season.
Montanari, who broke out internationally with Sky’s “Crime Novel,” more recently played the relentless anti-Mafia prosecutor who is the central character in pubcaster Rai’s hit “The Hunter.” He won the best performance prize for this role at the Cannesseries festival in April.
In the third “Medici” season, “Medici: Masters of Florence. The Magnificent Part II,” Florentine statesman and ruler Lorenzo De Medici, played by Daniel Sharman, “has become a man who will have to fight against his demons and defend Florence...
Duguay succeeds Jon Cassar (“24”), who helmed “Medici: Masters of Florence. The Magnificent Part I,” which was the show’s second season.
Montanari, who broke out internationally with Sky’s “Crime Novel,” more recently played the relentless anti-Mafia prosecutor who is the central character in pubcaster Rai’s hit “The Hunter.” He won the best performance prize for this role at the Cannesseries festival in April.
In the third “Medici” season, “Medici: Masters of Florence. The Magnificent Part II,” Florentine statesman and ruler Lorenzo De Medici, played by Daniel Sharman, “has become a man who will have to fight against his demons and defend Florence...
- 8/28/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Teenage superspy Alex Rider’s exploits are coming to the small screen after Sony and British producer Eleventh Hour Films teamed up for an eight-episode adaptation of “Point Blanc,” the second book in Anthony Horowitz’s young-adult series. The show will follow reluctant spy Rider as he infiltrates a controversial correctional academy for the wayward offspring of the ultra-rich. Acting as an an unofficial agent for MI6, he investigates the sinister purpose of the academy.
Drama indie Eleventh Hour optioned the Rider books and created a spec series project that Sony has now boarded. Sony Pictures Television’s international production and worldwide distribution divisions, under Wayne Garvie and Keith Le Goy, respectively, will work on the project. A Rider series was originally being developed for ITV, but the U.K. broadcaster is no longer on board. Sony will fully fund and look for broadcaster or platform partners.
BAFTA award-winning screenwriter...
Drama indie Eleventh Hour optioned the Rider books and created a spec series project that Sony has now boarded. Sony Pictures Television’s international production and worldwide distribution divisions, under Wayne Garvie and Keith Le Goy, respectively, will work on the project. A Rider series was originally being developed for ITV, but the U.K. broadcaster is no longer on board. Sony will fully fund and look for broadcaster or platform partners.
BAFTA award-winning screenwriter...
- 7/24/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Teen superspy Alex Rider is heading to the small screen after Sony’s international production and distribution divisions teamed up to greenlight an eight-episode series.
Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions have teamed up together for the first time to pick up an original spec series. They are working with British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Horowitz’s novels last year.
The novels, written by Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz, chart the adventures of a reluctant teen superspy on his missions to save the world. The twelfth book in the Alex Rider series, Nightshade, is due to be published in 2019; the books have sold over 19 million copies and are particularly popular among young adult male readers. Alex Rider was previously adapted as a feature film in 2006 with The Weinstein Company.
The television adaptation does not currently have a broadcaster attached,...
Sony Pictures Television’s International Production and Worldwide Distribution divisions have teamed up together for the first time to pick up an original spec series. They are working with British indie Eleventh Hour Films, which optioned the screen rights to Horowitz’s novels last year.
The novels, written by Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz, chart the adventures of a reluctant teen superspy on his missions to save the world. The twelfth book in the Alex Rider series, Nightshade, is due to be published in 2019; the books have sold over 19 million copies and are particularly popular among young adult male readers. Alex Rider was previously adapted as a feature film in 2006 with The Weinstein Company.
The television adaptation does not currently have a broadcaster attached,...
- 7/24/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Busy UK-based indie Eleventh Hour Films has optioned the screen rights to Anthony Horowitz's bestselling Alex Rider novels. BAFTA winner Guy Burt is attached to script a large-scale family series based on the Ya books that chart the adventures of a reluctant teenage super-spy on his missions to save the world. The 10th book in Horowitz’s Rider collection, Never Say Die, was published today. Eleventh Hour is currently developing the idea with ITV, and is also in discussion…...
- 6/1/2017
- Deadline TV
Matchbox Pictures. Nowhere Boys has scored its first nomination for the British Academy Children.s Awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
The ABC3 teen drama created by Tony Ayres and produced by Beth Frey is in the running for the international award along with Cartoon Network's Clarence and Adventure Time and Disney Xd's Gravity Falls. BBC2/Lion TV.s gruesomely entertaining history show Horrible Histories leads the nominations with nods for comedy and writing for the Magna Carta episode and for Jessica Ransom's portrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots. Peppa Pig received its ninth nomination for pre-school: animation and its fourth in the writer category.
The nominees for best feature are Big Hero 6, Inside Out, Paddington and Shaun the Sheep: The Movie. The awards will be handed out at the Roundhouse, London, on November 22, hosted by actor/comedian/screenwriter Doc Brown. Earlier...
The ABC3 teen drama created by Tony Ayres and produced by Beth Frey is in the running for the international award along with Cartoon Network's Clarence and Adventure Time and Disney Xd's Gravity Falls. BBC2/Lion TV.s gruesomely entertaining history show Horrible Histories leads the nominations with nods for comedy and writing for the Magna Carta episode and for Jessica Ransom's portrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots. Peppa Pig received its ninth nomination for pre-school: animation and its fourth in the writer category.
The nominees for best feature are Big Hero 6, Inside Out, Paddington and Shaun the Sheep: The Movie. The awards will be handed out at the Roundhouse, London, on November 22, hosted by actor/comedian/screenwriter Doc Brown. Earlier...
- 10/22/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Horrible Histories could be heading to success at this year's British Academy Children's Awards after being nominated in three categories.
The programme leads the nominations with nods in the Comedy and Writing categories, while Jessica Ransom is also nominated in the performer category for her turn as Mary, Queen of Scots.
Elsewhere, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm is nominated in the Comedy category, while star Harry Hill is also a contender.
Meanwhile, Peppa Pig is up for awards in the Preschool: Animation and Writer categories, while Operation Ouch! is in the running for a Factual award.
Operation Ouch! hosts Drs Alexander and Chris van Tulleken are nominated for Presenter awards, as are Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes of Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up.
Harriet's Army has nominations for Drama and Writer, while The Dumping Ground, Wolfblood and Katie Morag are all up for Drama awards.
All At Sea...
The programme leads the nominations with nods in the Comedy and Writing categories, while Jessica Ransom is also nominated in the performer category for her turn as Mary, Queen of Scots.
Elsewhere, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm is nominated in the Comedy category, while star Harry Hill is also a contender.
Meanwhile, Peppa Pig is up for awards in the Preschool: Animation and Writer categories, while Operation Ouch! is in the running for a Factual award.
Operation Ouch! hosts Drs Alexander and Chris van Tulleken are nominated for Presenter awards, as are Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes of Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up.
Harriet's Army has nominations for Drama and Writer, while The Dumping Ground, Wolfblood and Katie Morag are all up for Drama awards.
All At Sea...
- 10/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Jurassic Park's Sam Neill and The White Queen's Max Irons will mine the treasures of ancient Egypt in ITV's Tutankhamun.
Hannibal Rising director Peter Webber doesn't actually focus on King Tut's life, rather setting the drama in the historic discovery of his tomb.
Inspired by a real-life dig, Tutankhamun will chronicle the rise, fall and redemption of archaeologist Howard Carter (Irons).
The disgraced Carter's career is saved when he's hired by an eccentric aristocrat Lord Carnarvon (Neill) to search for the famous tomb in the 1920s.
ITV is set to begin filming on writer Guy Burt's scripts later this year in South Africa.
Meanwhile, the channel also announced today that ex- Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman will front a new drama based on the life of Queen Victoria.
Hannibal Rising director Peter Webber doesn't actually focus on King Tut's life, rather setting the drama in the historic discovery of his tomb.
Inspired by a real-life dig, Tutankhamun will chronicle the rise, fall and redemption of archaeologist Howard Carter (Irons).
The disgraced Carter's career is saved when he's hired by an eccentric aristocrat Lord Carnarvon (Neill) to search for the famous tomb in the 1920s.
ITV is set to begin filming on writer Guy Burt's scripts later this year in South Africa.
Meanwhile, the channel also announced today that ex- Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman will front a new drama based on the life of Queen Victoria.
- 9/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Max Irons and Sam Neill have joined the cast of ITV's event series "Tutankhamun".
Peter Webber ("Emperor") will direct and Guy Burt ("Jekyll and Hyde," "The Borgias") is writing all the episodes of this epic story of Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb.
Starting from 1905, Carter (Irons) was an eminent British archaeologist in his twenties whose license is revoked by Cairo's Antiquities Service.
After years spent broke and ostracised, a chance meeting with the dashing British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon (Neill) begins an unlikely friendship. The pair ultimately discover the last resting place of the boy-king in 1921 against all odds and at great personal expense.
Francis Hopkinson and Catherine Oldfield will executive produce and Simon Lewis will produce. Filming will take place in South Africa during the winter and early 2016.
Source: Deadline...
Peter Webber ("Emperor") will direct and Guy Burt ("Jekyll and Hyde," "The Borgias") is writing all the episodes of this epic story of Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb.
Starting from 1905, Carter (Irons) was an eminent British archaeologist in his twenties whose license is revoked by Cairo's Antiquities Service.
After years spent broke and ostracised, a chance meeting with the dashing British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon (Neill) begins an unlikely friendship. The pair ultimately discover the last resting place of the boy-king in 1921 against all odds and at great personal expense.
Francis Hopkinson and Catherine Oldfield will executive produce and Simon Lewis will produce. Filming will take place in South Africa during the winter and early 2016.
Source: Deadline...
- 9/18/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Max Irons and Sam Neill have boarded the cast of the ITV’s event series Tutankhamun. Acclaimed directer Peter Webber (Emperor) will be at the helm for the whole series, which follows the epic story of Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of one of Ancient Egypt's forgotten pharaohs, the boy-king Tutankhamun. Irons (Woman In Gold) will play Carter. Sam Neill will play Lord Carnarvon, who sponsored Carter’s expeditions. Guy Burt (Jekyll And Hyde, The Borgias)…...
- 9/18/2015
- Deadline TV
Channel 5 will air Spike's epic drama series Tut.
The six-hour miniseries was shot on location in Morocco and tells the story of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's rise to power and leadership of Egypt.
Channel 5's acquisitions manager Sebastian Cardwell said: "Tut is event television at its best.
"The series reveals the story behind one of history's biggest figures and is filled with epic high drama. I'm sure it'll be a hit with Channel 5 audiences."
Tut stars Ben Kingsley as Vizier Ay, the Prime Minister of the Egyptian Empire. Avan Jogia plays the title role of Tut.
The series also features Sibylla Deen, Alexander Siddig, Kylie Bunbury, Peter Gadiot, Iddo Goldberg and Nonso Anozie.
It premieres in the Us on Spike on July 19, with the UK premiere to follow soon after.
The acquisition of the exclusive UK rights is Channel 5's largest from one of its Us sister networks since its takeover by Viacom last year.
The six-hour miniseries was shot on location in Morocco and tells the story of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's rise to power and leadership of Egypt.
Channel 5's acquisitions manager Sebastian Cardwell said: "Tut is event television at its best.
"The series reveals the story behind one of history's biggest figures and is filled with epic high drama. I'm sure it'll be a hit with Channel 5 audiences."
Tut stars Ben Kingsley as Vizier Ay, the Prime Minister of the Egyptian Empire. Avan Jogia plays the title role of Tut.
The series also features Sibylla Deen, Alexander Siddig, Kylie Bunbury, Peter Gadiot, Iddo Goldberg and Nonso Anozie.
It premieres in the Us on Spike on July 19, with the UK premiere to follow soon after.
The acquisition of the exclusive UK rights is Channel 5's largest from one of its Us sister networks since its takeover by Viacom last year.
- 7/10/2015
- Digital Spy
ITV is working on a new event series based around the discovery of Tutankhamun.
The four-part drama - from The Bletchley Circle writer Guy Burt - will tell the compelling true story of how Howard Carter came to discover the tomb of Ancient Egypt's boy-king.
Carter's incredible story will begin in 1905 as he leads an expedition to find lost treasures in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
However, he finds himself living rough when his license to dig is revoked, and he is forced to sell his previous finds in order to survive.
An unlikely friendship with a British aristocrat named Lord Carnavon brings Carter back to archaeology, and helps him make one of the most significant discoveries of the modern age.
The drama will be executive produced by ITV Studios' Creative Director of Drama, Francis Hopkinson, who has previously worked on Home Fires, Jekyll & Hyde and Wallander.
She said:...
The four-part drama - from The Bletchley Circle writer Guy Burt - will tell the compelling true story of how Howard Carter came to discover the tomb of Ancient Egypt's boy-king.
Carter's incredible story will begin in 1905 as he leads an expedition to find lost treasures in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
However, he finds himself living rough when his license to dig is revoked, and he is forced to sell his previous finds in order to survive.
An unlikely friendship with a British aristocrat named Lord Carnavon brings Carter back to archaeology, and helps him make one of the most significant discoveries of the modern age.
The drama will be executive produced by ITV Studios' Creative Director of Drama, Francis Hopkinson, who has previously worked on Home Fires, Jekyll & Hyde and Wallander.
She said:...
- 7/8/2015
- Digital Spy
Exclusive– Peter Webber is on-board to direct Tutankhamun, a major new four part TV series for ITV. The event series will follow the epic story of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of one of Ancient Egypt's forgotten pharaohs, the boy-king Tutankhamun. Guy Burt (Jekyll and Hyde, The Borgias) is writing and the story will focus on the personal story of Carter, a solitary man on the edge of society who became an iconic figure and an unlikely hero. The story unfolds…...
- 7/8/2015
- Deadline TV
My Mad Fat Diary star Ciara Baxendale (represented by Cole Kitchenn) leads the cast as Harriet in a new 3-part drama for Cbbc, Harriet's Army.
She is joined by 18 year old Sophie Wright (who played Tix in the first series of My Mad Fat Diary) as Violet Croft, with Harriet's brothers being played by Ben Ryan-Davies as Edward, and Max True as Sam. The ensemble cast also includes James Baxter as Stephen Croft, Matthew McGreevy as Jimmy, and Adam Thomas Wright as Lewis Brown.
Harriet's Army is a gripping new three-part Cbbc drama series, set during World War One and following a group of children in a small English town as they hold the Home Front and discover the true enemy within.
Fourteen-year-old Hattie is a girl who doesn’t fit in, and when she’s kicked out of the Girl Guides for getting involved in a fight, her...
She is joined by 18 year old Sophie Wright (who played Tix in the first series of My Mad Fat Diary) as Violet Croft, with Harriet's brothers being played by Ben Ryan-Davies as Edward, and Max True as Sam. The ensemble cast also includes James Baxter as Stephen Croft, Matthew McGreevy as Jimmy, and Adam Thomas Wright as Lewis Brown.
Harriet's Army is a gripping new three-part Cbbc drama series, set during World War One and following a group of children in a small English town as they hold the Home Front and discover the true enemy within.
Fourteen-year-old Hattie is a girl who doesn’t fit in, and when she’s kicked out of the Girl Guides for getting involved in a fight, her...
- 4/5/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
A trailer for the second series of The Bletchley Circle has been released by ITV.
The mystery drama - which stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Sophie Rundle and Julie Graham - returns for a new series on Monday (January 6).
Outnumbered's Hattie Morahan joins the cast for the new series, which will be comprised of a pair of two-part stories written by series creator Guy Burt.
Set a year on from the first series in 1953, Jean (Graham), Susan (Martin), Millie (Stirling) and Lucy (Rundle) reunite when former Bletchley Park colleague Alice Merren (Morahan) is accused of murder.
ITV described The Bletchley Circle as a "wonderful addition to our drama slate" when announcing the second series last May.
ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning Steve November said: "The Bletchley Circle is a wonderful addition to our drama slate last year and we're delighted that it's returning to ITV with two new and exciting stories.
The mystery drama - which stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Sophie Rundle and Julie Graham - returns for a new series on Monday (January 6).
Outnumbered's Hattie Morahan joins the cast for the new series, which will be comprised of a pair of two-part stories written by series creator Guy Burt.
Set a year on from the first series in 1953, Jean (Graham), Susan (Martin), Millie (Stirling) and Lucy (Rundle) reunite when former Bletchley Park colleague Alice Merren (Morahan) is accused of murder.
ITV described The Bletchley Circle as a "wonderful addition to our drama slate" when announcing the second series last May.
ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning Steve November said: "The Bletchley Circle is a wonderful addition to our drama slate last year and we're delighted that it's returning to ITV with two new and exciting stories.
- 1/3/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV has ordered a second series of The Bletchley Circle.
Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Sophie Rundle and Julie Graham will all return in four new episodes of the mystery drama, with Outnumbered's Hattie Morahan also joining the cast.
Series two will be comprised of a pair of two-part stories written by series creator Guy Burt.
Set a year on from the first series in 1953, Jean (Graham), Susan (Martin), Millie (Stirling) and Lucy (Rundle) reunite when former Bletchley Park colleague Alice Merren (Hattie Morahan) is accused of murder.
The second two-parter will follow Millie as she is abducted after becoming caught up in the murky world of people trafficking.
"The Bletchley Circle is a wonderful addition to our drama slate last year and we're delighted that it's returning to ITV with two new and exciting stories," said ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning, Steve November.
Jamie Payne (Doctor Who) will direct the opening two-part story,...
Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Sophie Rundle and Julie Graham will all return in four new episodes of the mystery drama, with Outnumbered's Hattie Morahan also joining the cast.
Series two will be comprised of a pair of two-part stories written by series creator Guy Burt.
Set a year on from the first series in 1953, Jean (Graham), Susan (Martin), Millie (Stirling) and Lucy (Rundle) reunite when former Bletchley Park colleague Alice Merren (Hattie Morahan) is accused of murder.
The second two-parter will follow Millie as she is abducted after becoming caught up in the murky world of people trafficking.
"The Bletchley Circle is a wonderful addition to our drama slate last year and we're delighted that it's returning to ITV with two new and exciting stories," said ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning, Steve November.
Jamie Payne (Doctor Who) will direct the opening two-part story,...
- 5/8/2013
- Digital Spy
Will Pope Alexander (Jeremy Irons) die? That was the burning question fans of The Borgias were left with when the pope took a sip of poisoned wine and fell to the floor in the final moments of Season 2. The answer to that question, however, won't be so black and white.
"This episode gave us the great opportunity to allow Alexander to be in a state suspended between death and life," creator and executive producer Neil Jordan says of the Season 3 opener. Adds writer Guy Burt: "That's how I wanted to start Season 3 ... with 'The pope is dying. The pope is dying. What do we do?'"
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"This episode gave us the great opportunity to allow Alexander to be in a state suspended between death and life," creator and executive producer Neil Jordan says of the Season 3 opener. Adds writer Guy Burt: "That's how I wanted to start Season 3 ... with 'The pope is dying. The pope is dying. What do we do?'"
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- 4/12/2013
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Although "The Hole" might spark easily made comparisons with "The Blair Witch Project" -- terrified teens stalked by an evil presence -- it is actually a shrewdly made chiller that has a good deal to offer. With the right handling, this film could make a nice hit in that hefty marketplace for "teens in peril" movies.
While the film is a U.K.-French production set firmly in rural England, the fact that the key young leads, Thora Birch and Desmond Harrington, are Americans tips us off that this is a film made for the international marketplace.
The film is structured in the form of a series of flashbacks, which gradually reveal more and more about the events, cleverly mixing true memories with alternate variations. The film opens impressively with the shocked, frightened Liz (Birch) wandering into a village where, in a series of flashbacks, she explains to psychologist Philipa Horwood (the always fine Embeth Davidtz) what has happened.
It seems she and fellow pupils from an English public school had gotten out of a school trip by hiding out in an old World War II bunker. Liz was keen to go into the hole with American hunk Mike (Harrington) because she had the hots for him, while fellow students Geoff and Frankie engage in a little quality time together.
Liz initially blames much of what happened to them in the hole on another student, Martin (Daniel Brocklebank), who she says was jealous of her feelings for Mike. But as the police interrogation of her and Martin continues, more and more is revealed of the actual events in the bunker. Without giving too much of the plot away, it becomes clear that someone is controlling the events in the bunker. As the bodies start to fall, fear and paranoia increase.
"Hole" is impressively directed by Nick Hamm (whose previous film was the romantic comedy "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence"). He makes great use of the frightening location of a dark, shadowy bunker, though his work is much assisted by a fine, intelligent script from Ben Court and Caroline Ip, who give depth and variation to their characters. The hole is nicely designed by Eve Stewart, and, as shot by cinematographer Denis Crossan, it makes for a fine twist on the old-dark-house format.
Birch is asked to offer different levels to her character as the truth behind what happened is gradually revealed, and she does an excellent job of presenting a character who lurches between shy and mousy to cunning and sociopathic. The rest of the young cast is impressive, especially Brocklebank as Martin.
"Hole" is a fine, tense piece of chilling entertainment that deserves to reach an audience.
THE HOLE
Pathe Pictures presents in association with the Film Council and Le Studio Canal Plus
Cowboy Films/Granada Film Prods. in association with Cowboy Pictures
Producers: Lisa Bryer, Jeremy Bolt, Pippa Cross
Director: Nick Hamm
Screenwriters: Ben Court, Caroline Ip
Based on the novel by: Guy Burt
Executive producers: Francois Ivernel, Andrea Calderwood
Director of photography: Denis Crossan
Editor: Niven Howie
Production designer: Eve Stewart
Music: Clint Mansell
Costume designer: Verity Hawkes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Liz Dunn: : hora Birch
Mike Steel: Desmond Harrington
Martin Taylor: Daniel Brocklebank
Geoff: Laurence Fox
Frankie Smith: Keira Knightley
Dr. Philipa Horwood: Embeth Davidtz
DCS Tom Howard: Steven Waddington
Running time -- 102 minutes
No MPAA rating...
While the film is a U.K.-French production set firmly in rural England, the fact that the key young leads, Thora Birch and Desmond Harrington, are Americans tips us off that this is a film made for the international marketplace.
The film is structured in the form of a series of flashbacks, which gradually reveal more and more about the events, cleverly mixing true memories with alternate variations. The film opens impressively with the shocked, frightened Liz (Birch) wandering into a village where, in a series of flashbacks, she explains to psychologist Philipa Horwood (the always fine Embeth Davidtz) what has happened.
It seems she and fellow pupils from an English public school had gotten out of a school trip by hiding out in an old World War II bunker. Liz was keen to go into the hole with American hunk Mike (Harrington) because she had the hots for him, while fellow students Geoff and Frankie engage in a little quality time together.
Liz initially blames much of what happened to them in the hole on another student, Martin (Daniel Brocklebank), who she says was jealous of her feelings for Mike. But as the police interrogation of her and Martin continues, more and more is revealed of the actual events in the bunker. Without giving too much of the plot away, it becomes clear that someone is controlling the events in the bunker. As the bodies start to fall, fear and paranoia increase.
"Hole" is impressively directed by Nick Hamm (whose previous film was the romantic comedy "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence"). He makes great use of the frightening location of a dark, shadowy bunker, though his work is much assisted by a fine, intelligent script from Ben Court and Caroline Ip, who give depth and variation to their characters. The hole is nicely designed by Eve Stewart, and, as shot by cinematographer Denis Crossan, it makes for a fine twist on the old-dark-house format.
Birch is asked to offer different levels to her character as the truth behind what happened is gradually revealed, and she does an excellent job of presenting a character who lurches between shy and mousy to cunning and sociopathic. The rest of the young cast is impressive, especially Brocklebank as Martin.
"Hole" is a fine, tense piece of chilling entertainment that deserves to reach an audience.
THE HOLE
Pathe Pictures presents in association with the Film Council and Le Studio Canal Plus
Cowboy Films/Granada Film Prods. in association with Cowboy Pictures
Producers: Lisa Bryer, Jeremy Bolt, Pippa Cross
Director: Nick Hamm
Screenwriters: Ben Court, Caroline Ip
Based on the novel by: Guy Burt
Executive producers: Francois Ivernel, Andrea Calderwood
Director of photography: Denis Crossan
Editor: Niven Howie
Production designer: Eve Stewart
Music: Clint Mansell
Costume designer: Verity Hawkes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Liz Dunn: : hora Birch
Mike Steel: Desmond Harrington
Martin Taylor: Daniel Brocklebank
Geoff: Laurence Fox
Frankie Smith: Keira Knightley
Dr. Philipa Horwood: Embeth Davidtz
DCS Tom Howard: Steven Waddington
Running time -- 102 minutes
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