Prince Harry has paid tribute to the late Queen on the eve of the first anniversary of her death.
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“The Warlord Chronicles” novels by Bernard Cromwell. It’s a retelling of the famous King Arthur story set in Dark Ages Britain, where the land is divided into warring tribes who are constantly battling with the Saxons.
The show is gritty, bloody and sometimes campy, with bad wigs galore.It’s no masterpiece but, despite its flaws, there’s nonetheless enough in it to captivate fans of shows such as “Vikings” and its spinoff, and “House of the Dragon.” “The Winter King” begins with Arthur (Iain De Caestecker), the illegitimate son of the king who is a warrior on a battlefield. (Naturally, there are lots of closeups of his face looking grim and smeared with dirt and blood to establish what kind of show this is right off the bat.) When Arthur brings his slain brother’s body home to his abusive father, King Uther (Eddie Marsan), he’s furious and nearly kills Arthur.
But the king’s advisor, Merlin (Nathaniel Martello-White), convinces the king to banish Arthur instead. From there, the show jumps around in time — with the screen often reading “3 months later” or “8 years later.” It follows several different characters and their plotlines, along with Arthur, including Merlin’s protégé, Nimue (Ellie James), a witchy woman who can communicate with the gods but struggles between her apparent destiny and her desire for a regular life with a family; and Derfel (Stuart Campbell), a boy whom Arthur rescues from a mass grave.
The eight-year time jump shows that Derfel grew up in the idyllic village of Avalon following his rescue, but he feels compelled towards life as a warrior instead of a quiet farm life. (He and Nimue also have a bit of a star-crossed love.)When the king has a new baby boy, Mordred, and names him as his heir, Merlin
.Prince Harry has paid tribute to the late Queen on the eve of the first anniversary of her death.
Aramide Tinubu Fairytales can easily bend and twist into nightmares, which is the core sentiment of Apple TV+’s adaptation of Victor LaValle’s award-winning novel, “The Changeling.” In the series, a young father, Apollo Kagwa (LaKeith Stanfield), embarks on a desperate search for his wife, Emma Valentine (Clark Backo), after she vanishes following a horrific incident shortly after the birth of their first child. Lavalle, who narrates this eight-episode series, set his book in New York City — across decades and realms, infusing Norwegian fairy tales with elements from the Black American experience, Ugandan traditions and magical folklore.
How can one small business stand up to corporations? It might seem an unlikely question for a funeral home, but even that industry faces these issues. Maggie Betts’ “The Burial” looks at what happens when a small funeral home encounters corporate entities determined to corner the market on death care. The film, premiering at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, finds a skilled acting duo in leads, Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx.
Matty Healy appears to have a new woman in his life.
Numerous clips have been shared online regarding how self-importantly Aaron Sorkin and company took themselves while they were making “The Newsroom,” a show that practically announced itself as the last stand for human rights and journalistic decency in the world. Holding that impossible standard high in its third season is Apple TV+’s expensive hit “The Morning Show,” a program that makes it feel like if morning news in America falls, then the apocalypse is just around the corner.
Donald Trump has plastered his face and name on so many things over the years that it’s hard to keep track of it all. However, some believe that Mother Nature herself is putting his visage on an ancient site – Stonehenge.
Eighteen performing arts physical therapists, athletic trainers, and massage therapists employed on various live theatrical tours such as The Lion King, Wicked, and Moulin Rouge! have voted to join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, marking the first time IATSE will negotiate a collective bargaining agreement for such professionals.
Dennis Harvey Film Critic “Based on a true story” has become one of the most overused (and misleading) labels of our time. Still, its application to “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose” is duly warranted — and no less ridiculous for being so. The “true events” drawn on here remain dumbfounding: In the 1930s, a family living in a farmhouse on the Isle of Main claimed they played frequent host to an octogenarian mongoose from New Delhi whose mysterious powers were hardly limited to human speech.
After just one week atop Netflix’s English-language TV charts, Depp V. Heard has been bumped to No. 2 in favor of Who is Erin Carter?
Steve Harvey is setting the record straight about some of the recent rumors about him.
As Daisy Ridley waits to reprise her role as Rey in the “Star Wars” universe, she’s broadened her horizons with work like “Sometimes I Think About Dying.” For her next feature, she stars opposite Ben Mendelsohn for the tense survivalist thriller, “The Marsh King’s Daughter.” In Neil Burger‘s latest, Ridley play a woman with a secret past who ventures into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father (Mendelsohn).
EXCLUSIVE: We first told you about a year ago that Lionsgate was in talks with STX to distribute and market the Bob Simonds-run studio’s movies, and today we can report that both companies have closed a deal.
Charity Lawson and Dotun Olubeko are ready to start their life together. ET's Denny Directo spoke with the couple on Tuesday, following the season finale of, which saw the child and family therapist get engaged to the integrative medicine consultant.«It's a sigh of a relief,» Charity told ET of being out in the open. «We're just so excited.
Alison Herman TV Critic The MGM+ series “The Winter King,” adapted from a trilogy of novels by English author Bernard Cornwell, derives much of its plot from Arthurian myth. But in practice, the drama acts more like earthbound historical fiction than fairy tale or fantasy.
Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has tied with Making Space Media, the TV and film producer that places disabled voices front and center.
Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg has been telling some lies on their platform. There has been a lot of buzz about a potential fight between the billionaires, but now they are just pointing fingers at each other as to who is the real reason it’s not happening. On Sunday, the 39-year-old took to Threads to say he was moving on from the fight after trying to set “a real date” with the 52-year-old.
Sandra Bullock. Huh?In a lawsuit filed Monday by the former Baltimore Ravens star, Michael said Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy never adopted him, as the popular movie suggests. In fact, he said it was more sinister.
The government is funding the creation of 900 beds to help the NHS cope with winter pressures - but nothing has been allocated to any hospitals in Greater Manchester.
finale is fast approaching. At the conclusion of Monday's «Men Tell All» episode, fans got a sneak peek at the season 20 finale, during which Charity Lawson will have to decide between three men: Aaron, Joey and Dotun.«I am in love and I know that I am getting engaged but I don't know who it's going to be,» Charity admits in the preview.The finale comes on the heels of Aaron's arrival in Fiji, which came as a shock to Charity, given the fact the she sent him home the week before.«I was shocked.
Emmy-winning producer and director Mark Mylod has been with Succession for all four seasons, as has composer Nicholas Britell, who won an Emmy for the iconic theme of the series marking the three-time Oscar nominee’s first TV show. However, it was the stunner of a Episode 3 in the series’ final season, “Connor’s Wedding,” that was unlike anything they had tackled before on the show, and it presented unique challenges.