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Season 4 of Slow Horses premieres on Apple TV+ following its recent nine Emmy nomination success

Slow Horses, the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ espionage series, premiered its fourth season yesterday to much anticipation. Based on the best-selling Slough House novels by our client Mick Herron, the show continues to follow the misfit spies of MI5’s Slough House, led by the brilliantly caustic Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman.

Season 4 arrives on the heels of the show’s impressive recognition ahead of the 2024 Emmys, where it has received nine nominations, solidifying its place as one of television’s top drama series. The Times has described the fourth season’s opening episodes as “not far short of perfect”, while The Guardian has described the cast as “even more stellar” and the directing as “faultless”.

The 2024 Primetime Emmy awards ceremony is on the 16th of September.

 

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Sky Kids have commissioned an animated series of the Ten Little series of books

Sky Kids have commissioned an animated series of the hugely popular ‘Ten Little’ series of books, written by DHA author Mike Brownlow and illustrated by Simon Rickerty.

The series will be called ‘Ten Little…who?’, and will be a comedy animation series based on the best-selling picture books written by Mike Brownlow and illustrated by Simon Rickerty.

Each episode will feature characters such as elves, pirates, dinosaurs and more, who will all walk, talk and sing numbers all the way to encourage playfulness with numbers. It is set to air in 2025, with a preview to launch in December with Ten Little Elves.

Andy Potter has been announced as the head writer for new Nickelodeon and Milkshake! animated series Tim Rex in Space

Andy Potter has been announced as head writer for the new Nickelodeon and Milkshake! animated series Tim Rex in Space.

Tim Rex in Space follows a T-Rex named Tim, his big brother Tommy, little sister Tia, and triceratops Kai as “they tackle kid-shaped adventures with dino-sized solutions in space”.

The series features Cassian Swan-Mckee as Tim, Ace Gil as Tommy, Hope Delaney as Tia, and Jamie Smart as Kai. The voice cast also includes Stephen Alan Yorke, Nim Miller, Sophia Nomvete, Jessica Robinson, Alex Carter, and Lorraine Bruce.

The show will premiere in 2025 on Nickelodeon channels in the U.S. and internationally, as well as on Milkshake! in the U.K.

You can read more here.

Teresa Palmer, Jim Sturgess and Florence Hunt have been cast in the upcoming TV adaptation of Jane Sanderson’s ‘Mix Tape’.

Teresa Palmer, Jim Sturgess and Florence Hunt have been cast in the upcoming TV adaptation of Jane Sanderson’s ‘Mix Tape’.

Irish production company Subotica have teamed with ‘Lion’ and ‘Berlin Syndrome’ producers Aquarius Films on the series, with Boat Rocker handling international distribution. The series is already set to air on Australian streaming service Binge.

Palmer and Sturgess will play Alison and Daniel, two friends now living on opposite sides of the planet, who reconnect through a song from their shared past.

Also joining the cast are Mark O’Halloran, Jonathan Harden, Siobhan O’Kelly, Alexis Rodney and Sara Soulié. Jo Spain is adapting the novel, with Lucy Gaffy directing. Aoife O’Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica, and Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford of Aquarius Films are producing, with Alison Hurbert-Burns, Lana Greenhalgh and Clare Mirabello, David Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg, Nick Nantell, and Boat Rocker’s Erik Pack serving as executive producers.

“’Mix Tape’ is sure to delight audiences around the globe and hit all the right notes by bringing romance, nostalgia, and music together with artful storytelling for an unforgettable series,” said Pack, SVP global sales and co-production at Boat Rocker Studios.

Read more about it here.

The second series of World Productions’ critically acclaimed Karen Pirie drama has begun production in Scotland

The second series of World Productions’ critically acclaimed Karen Pirie drama has begun production in Scotland.

Adapted from Val McDermid’s books, ITV and award-winning production company World Productions have announced filming has commenced on the highly-anticipated second series of cold-case murder drama Karen Pirie.

The drama will see the return of Lauren Lyle as the fearless young Scottish investigator Karen Pirie. Also reprising their roles are Chris Jenks (Sex Education), Zach Wyatt (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Steve John Shepherd (Harry Potter), and Rakhee Thakrar (Wonka).

Karen Pirie was one of the most watched new dramas on ITV in 2022, launching with 6.6m viewers and averaged 5.9m across each episode.

CEO and Executive Producer, Simon Heath at World Productions said:

“I’ve never been asked so often about when a character is returning to our screens. Well Karen is back again – as whip smart as ever with an intriguing new cold case from the 1980s. Drawn from Val’s terrific novel, Emer’s tremendous scripts have attracted an exciting new guest cast to join our established names. I can’t wait for everyone to see the finished show.”

Read more about the returning series here.

Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s ‘Little Disasters’ for Paramount+.

Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s ‘Little Disasters’ for Paramount+.

Coma, Big Boys and People Just Do Nothing producers Roughcut Television are making ‘Little Disasters’ in association with Fremantle, which has international distribution rights outside the UK and Ireland, where Paramount+ has them.

Cast joining Kruger and Joyner include Shelley Conn, Emily Taaffe, JJ Feild, Ben Bailey Smith and Stephen Campbell Moore. Ruth Fowler and Amanda Duke adapted the series which Eva Sigurdardottir will direct, and Sarah Vaughan is attached as executive producer alongside Roughcut’s Ash Atalla, Alex Smith and Marianna Abbotts.

When Jess (Kruger) takes her baby daughter to hospital with a head injury she can’t explain, close friend and on-duty A&E doctor Liz (Joyner) is forced to make the excruciating decision as to whether to call social services on her friend. The decision sets of a chain of events that show how a moment can fracture and nearly destroy families and friendships.

“We are big fans of Sarah Vaughan’s novel and thrilled to be working on this adaptation with Roughcut Television,” said Paul Testar, who commissioned the show for Paramount+ UK & Ireland. “Diane, Jo, Shelley and Emily embody our four mothers seamlessly and we can’t wait to see what each of them bring to the series.”

Read more about it here.

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson have been cast in the upcoming adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson have been cast in Apple TV+’s upcoming adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road.

Slow Horses producers 60Forty Films are staying in the Mick Herron business as they announce an adaptation of Down Cemetery Road. Thompson and Wilson will star and Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks will serve as lead writer, with Natalie Bailey serving as lead director. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Banks, Thompson and Herron will serve as executive producers.

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbour Sarah Tucker Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

“Down Cemetery Road has all the hallmarks of Mick Herron’s funny and acerbic writing, and I’m delighted we will be bringing it to life for Apple TV+ with such a stellar cast,” said Jay Hunt, creative director of, Apple TV+, Europe. “Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will make it an unmissable companion piece for Slow Horses on our service.”

Read more about it here.

Katharina Volckmer’s The Appointment will return to the stage at the Teatro Franco Parenti this April

Adapted and directed by Fabio Cherstich, the bold and powerful production returns to the stage from the 3 to the 11 of April 2024 following the immensely successful run in 2021. For more information and tickets, click here.

The Appointment was Katharina’s debut novel which has now been translated into 12 different languages and has been staged and broadcast on the radio multiple times.

The Appointment situates itself in a well-appointed examination in London, where we meet aa young woman as she  unburdens herself to a certain Dr Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, and her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland.

In a monologue that is both razor-sharp and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from outre sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the enduring legacy of shame. With The Appointment, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into contemporary British fiction.

All of Us Strangers has been released in the UK

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s film adaptation of Strangers by Taichi Yamada has been released in the UK.

Starring Paul Mescal (Aftersun, Normal People) and Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Pride), the movie has been called ‘an emotionally wrenching masterpiece’ by The Guardian. The adaption moves the novel’s ghostly Tokyo to dreamy London and focuses on a screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home who enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbour.

It’s been widely released throughout the UK and has been nominated for 6 BAFTA awards. You can watch the trailer here.

The French adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom releases on 6 February

We are delighted that the film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s classic Kensuke’s Kingdom will be released in French cinemas on 6th February. Sales of the title have reached 1.2 million in France alone, and Michael is currently undertaking a jam-packed press tour in Paris.

J Blakeson’s new thriller Culprits is now streaming on Disney+

J Blakeson’s thrilling series Culprits has landed on Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the USA, with all episodes available to stream.

The 8-part heist drama includes a star-studded cast of Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Candyman, Femme), Gemma Arterton (The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The King’s Man), Niamh Algar (Deceit) and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Cruella, The Good Place).

The series has been met with praise since it’s release on 8 November 2023, with The Guardian noting: ‘Is there a lack of heist dramas around? No. Is this a confident, stylish series with a brilliant cast? Yep. It’s an exciting, fast-paced watch that puts it at the top of its genre’.

Watch the trailer here.

Apple TV launches season three of Slow Horses

Based on Mick Herron’s spy series of the same name, Slow Horses follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents – and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb – as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces. The third season launched on Apple TV to stunningly good reviews from Variety, The Guardian, and more.

Watch the official trailer here.

 

 

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is topping Netflix’s global list of most watched Films

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die recently dropped on Netflix and has proved to be a worthy sequel to the five-season series that first hit screens in 2015. The film immediately hit the #1 spot on Netflix’s global list of their most watched films, while also topping the list in 92 countries including the UK.

Directed by Ed Bazalgette (The Witcher, Versailles) and written by Martha Hillier (Vera), The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is adapted from DHA author Bernard Cornwell’s series of Saxon tales. The film follows Uhtred, played by Alexander Dreymon, as he tries to bring peace to England in the wake of the death of King Edward. Yet rival heirs and the schemes of Danish king Anlaf threaten to destabilise the land and destroy the dream of a united England.

The film and all episodes of the television series are currently available on Netflix. Trailer link: Seven Kings Must Die | Official Trailer | Netflix – YouTube