EXCLUSIVE: Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, Bohemian Rhapsody) and India Mullen (Normal People, Brassic) will lead the cast of an Irish drama series for AMC Networks’ Sundance Now and local broadcaster Virgin Media Television, we’ve learned.
16.08.2022 - 18:29 / variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPrincipal photography has started in Montreal, Canada, on female detective series “Wong & Winchester.” The show is backed by Citytv and Pixcom in association with 3 Arts and Lionsgate Television and will will premiere mid-season on Citytv and Citytv+.Starring Grace Lynn Kung (“Transplant,” “Fahrenheit 451”) and Sofia Banzhaf (“Closet Monster,” “Splinters”) the show is set up as a police procedural built around a bitter ex-cop turned private investigator and a naïve but ambitious newcomer.The series, with showrunner by Chris Pozzebon (“The Hardy Boys,” “Schitt’s Creek,” “Blindspot”) creator and co-showrunner Hollis Ludlow-Carroll, is produced by Nathalie Cécyre and directed by Stephan Beaudoin. Executive producers are Nicola Merola, Charles Lafortune and Sylvie Desrochers from Pixcom and Trevor Rotenberg and Luke Maxwell from 3 Arts.
The show marks the first collaboration of 3 Arts’ new office in Canada under the Lionsgate-3 Arts partnership. Lionsgate will handle all rights sales outside Canada.The unlikely partnership stems from the moment when Sarah Winchester (Banzhaf) is accidentally hires as Marissa Wong (Kung)’s driver.
The pair work side by side, despite their generation gap and their vastly different approaches to work, life, food, fun, society, politics, pets, sex, TV, and even their own gender. “As different as they are, they will become accomplices for our greatest viewing pleasure.
Grace and Sofia give ‘Wong & Winchester’ a modern twist on what a private investigator is supposed to be. With them, appearances are often deceiving, and the culprit is rarely the one we believe,” said Merola and Lafortune.
EXCLUSIVE: Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, Bohemian Rhapsody) and India Mullen (Normal People, Brassic) will lead the cast of an Irish drama series for AMC Networks’ Sundance Now and local broadcaster Virgin Media Television, we’ve learned.
Aller Simple” or “No Return.” Produced by French-Canadian firm Sphere Media, the six-episode psychological thriller premiered on prime-time earlier this year in Canada and has been a hit with critics and audiences. It plays on Noovo, where it has been the most watched drama in the channel’s history, and is available before linear broadcast via subscription on Crave TV. Written by Annie Pierard, Bernard Dansereau and Etienne Pierard-Dansereau, who all previously worked on Sphere’s “Epidemie” (aka “The Outbreak”), the show sees six complete strangers; a former policeman, an art-dealer, a retired teacher, a marketing director, a criminal lawyer and a businesswoman, en-route to a reclusive billionaire’s home when their helicopter makes an emergency landing deep in the forest. Having survived intact, they stumble across a fishing camp. But disturbing incidents suggest that it may not be a safe haven and there are as to whether the guests are really who they claim be.
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J. Kim Murphy Middle-earth may be going from film to television with Amazon’s new series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” but it turns out that that doesn’t mean the franchise is done with the big screen. The show will screen its first two episodes at fan events across the world on Aug.
EastEnders actress Samantha Womack's has shared developments in her continued battle with breast cancer, revealing she's now resting at home after surgery. Sharing the update via Instagram yesterday (August 18), the Ronnie Mitchell star wrote next to a photo of a bowl of soup: "Recuperating after breast cancer op. My love makes me turmeric and ginger in the morning and homemade butternut squash soup in the evening.
Samantha Womack is back home after confirming she's had breast cancer surgery and is now being looked after by her Coronation Street actor boyfriend, Oliver Farnworth, 40. The actress has undergone an operation, just days after announcing her diagnosis and taking to Instagram on Thursday (August 18), Samantha, 49, shared a photo of her delicious healthy dinner – a bowl of homemade soup – and wrote: "Recuperating after breast cancer op. "My love makes me turmeric and ginger in the morning and homemade butternut squash soup in the evening…….
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Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced the 29 projects selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (APM), a core strand of the festival’s industry activities, including new works from Thailand’s Aditya Assarat, China’s Wang Qi, Vietnam’s Le Bao and Myanmar’s Maung Sun, whose producer Ma Aeint is currently in prison in Yangon.
Twitch streamer Clara ‘Keffals’ Sorrenti woke up on August 5 to armed police raiding her home, pointing an “assault rifle” in her face. It follows a campaign of harassment she has experienced whilst streaming on Twitch, and she has now pleaded for help.In a video posted to her YouTube channel (via PC Gamer), Sorrenti detailed a harrowing experience with London (Ontario, Canada) police, where they raided her home, armed, after “every city councilor in the city of Ontario” received an email stating that she possesses an illegal weapon, had killed her mother, and planned to go to City Hall and shoot “every cisgender person” in sight.After being taken into custody, she claims the police took the email seriously despite it being “riddled with grammatical errors” and appearing more like “something a troll would say”.
EastEnders actress Samantha Womack, 49, announced that she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer as she paid tribute to Grease icon Olivia Newton-John, who suffered from the same disease, on Tuesday (August 9). The actress, who has also appeared in the West End, announced on Twitter that she is "starting my own battle with this disease" in a heartbreaking post as she paid tribute to Olivia Newton-John in the wake of her death. The Grease icon died aged 73 on Monday morning (August 8) at her ranch in Southern California, surrounded by her loved ones.
Former EastEnders star Samantha Womack has told fans she is fighting cancer following the tragic death of Olivia Newton-John. The actress, who was much loved by fans for playing Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC One soap, shared a picture alongside Olivia, whose passing was announced on Monday night (August 8).
Former EastEnders' star Samantha Womack has told fans she has cancer.