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Ran · 2023-03-31T19:35:23Z

Ran · Thursday at 02:35 PM

Wednesday at 02:30 PM

The Day of the Jackal: Eddie Redmayne to Star in Sky & Peacock Original Series

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Academy Award®, Tony Award, and BAFTA Film Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse, Trial of The Chicago Seven, The Theory of Everything) is set to star in the new original television series The Day of the Jackal in the lead role of the Jackal. He will also serve as executive producer on the project.

Based on the seminal Frederick Forsyth thriller and subsequent award-winning 1973 film adaptation of the same name from Universal Pictures, The Day of the Jackal is a bold, modern reimagining of the beloved and respected novel and film. While staying true to the DNA of the original story, this contemporary drama will delve deeper into the chameleon-like antihero at the heart of the story in a high octane, cinematic, globetrotting cat-and-mouse thriller, set amidst the turbulent geo-political landscape of our time.

BAFTA nominee Ronan Bennett (Top Boy, Gunpowder) is attached as writer and showrunner, with BAFTA nominee Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, Luther) set to direct the series.

Wednesday at 02:07 PM

Based on the best-selling novel Damage by Josephine Hart, Obsession stars Richard Armitage (Stay Close, The Stranger) as William, a London surgeon who seemingly has it all — a beautiful wife and family, respect amongst his colleagues, and a life that many people dream of having for themselves.

Except for William, it isn’t all that and a bag of crisps. So he embarks on an affair with his son’s fiancée (Charlie Murphy, Happy Valley, Peaky Blinders) — a steamy situation that turns into an erotic infatuation which threatens to change their lives forever.

Costarring Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London), and Rish Shah (Ms. Marvel), Obsession, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Thursday, April 13, exclusively on Netflix.

Wednesday at 04:10 AM

When you have a 35 year old Iago Aspas as a striker then you know this is a shit Spain team.

Tuesday at 02:57 PM

17 minutes ago, Zorral said:

I’ve hardly watched anything since early in February. The Night Agent (2023) Netflix Original is the first thing I’ve watched since Return. Quite preposterous, though not the part that is traitors in the White House, and other services. So we’re trying throughout to figure who it is; the first, i.e. most obvious suspect, is murdered before the end of the second episode. Since it is so ridiculous – o lordessa the dialogue! – its dumbness is equal to my jetlag dullness, thus it was good for priming watching again, and, watching, hopefully, better stuff.

The best thing, maybe the only good thing, about this series is the actor, D.B. Woodside, playing a Secret Service agent, who once took bullets meant for a POTUS, and who got hooked on painkillers via recovery. Most of us saw him first as Principal Wood in Buffy, and later, as the angel Amenadiel, the brother of the series's titulary Lucifer. Here he’s Agent Monks, a joy as always to see on the screen, and as sexy-swoony as ever.

I watched the whole thing for my sins!

Dear God,but the main male lead is the worst young actor i have seen recently. :ack:

Tuesday at 07:05 AM

The Good Mothers is a 2023 British-Italian crime drama streaming television series directed by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso. Adapted from the eponymous novel by Alex Perry, which is based on true events, the series depicts how the three courageous women inside the notorious Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia worked with newly minted female prosecutor, to bring down the criminal empire.

It won the Berlinale Series Award in the festival, the first time by any series. The Good Mothers will be available for streaming on 5 April 2023 internationally on Disney+ and on Hulu in the United States.

Sunday at 11:15 AM

New Rebus revealed!

https://thekillingtimestv.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/new-rebus-revealed/

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We’ve known for some time that Viaplay – the Nordic streaming service that recently launched in the UK – has been working on a new version Sir Ian Rankin’s Rebus.

Now we know who is going to play the revered Detective Inspector.

Outlander and Trust Me star Richard Rankin is stepping into the hallowed shoes, once occupied by Ken Stott and John Hannah.

Based on Rankin’s novels, Viaplay says that the series opens with 40-year-old police officer John Rebus (Richard Rankin) at a personal crossroads after a fight with a notorious mobster in Edinburgh.

March 26

So refreshing to see a positive and attacking England team...I'm talking of the U21 lads of course . They spanked France last night

March 24

Would Nagelsmann take the Spurs job?

March 23

Didn't know we have a deal with Converse!

March 23

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March 22

International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate ‘ambition and panache’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/14/international-booker-prize-announces-longlist-to-celebrate-ambition-and-panache
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-international-booker-prize-2023-longlist-13-things-you-need-to-know

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The list includes books from Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov as well as Indian novelist Perumal Murugan who declared himself ‘dead’ after protests against his workOne of Ukraine’s best known writers, a novelist back from the “dead”, and an author who dictated her book are among the long listed writers for this year’s International Booker prize.The list, said French Moroccan novelist and chair of judges Leïla Slimani, “celebrates the variety and diversity of literary production today”.This year’s 13-strong longlist contains three languages – Bulgarian, Catalan and Tamil – that have never appeared before. In total, the list comprises 11 languages with three writers – GauZ’, Zou Jingzhi and Amanda Svensson – whose work has appeared in English for the first time.

The shortlist of six books will be announced at London Book Fair on 18 April, with the winner announced at a London ceremony on 23 May.

2023

The 2023 prize is being judged by Leïla Slimani (chair), Uilleam Blacker, Tan Twan Eng, Parul Sehgal and Frederick Studemann.

Longlist

Boulder by Spanish author Eva Baltasar, translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches and published in the UK by And Other Stories.
Whale by Korean author Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Korean/American Chi-Young Kim and published in the UK by Europa Editions.
The Gospel According to the New World by French author Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox and published in the UK by World Editions.
Standing Heavy by Ivorian author GauZ’, translated from French by Irish translator Frank Wynne and published in the UK by MacLehose Press.
Time Shelter by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov, translated by American Angela Rodel and published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Is Mother Dead by Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund and published in the UK by Verso Fiction.
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, translated from Russian by Reuben Woolley and published in the UK by MacLehose Press.
The Birthday Party by French author Laurent Mauvignier, translated by American Daniel Levin Becker and published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
While We Were Dreaming by German author Clemens Meyer, translated by Katy Derbyshire and published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Pyre by Indian author Perumal Murugan, translated from Tamil by Indian translator Aniruddhan Vasudevan and published in the UK by Pushkin Press.
Still Born by Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel, translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey and published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Swedish author Amanda Svensson, translated by Nichola Smalley and published in the UK by Scribe UK.
Ninth Building by Chinese author Zou Jingzhi, translated by Singaporean Jeremy Tiang and published in the UK by Honford Star.

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March 20

https://ew.com/tv/ciaran-hinds-becomes-latest-game-of-thrones-veteran-to-join-the-rings-of-power/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=64187b4c85f51e000144c12e

"In addition to Hinds, Amazon also announced on Monday that Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie are joining the cast. Kinnear is perhaps best known for his role on the very first episode of Black Mirror, in which he played a beleaguered British politician who's blackmailed into having sex with a pig on live television, and just last year portrayed the shapeshifting embodiment of patriarchal oppression in Alex Garland's Men. Moodie, meanwhile, recently appeared in Sam Mendes' film Empire of Light and Showtime's TV adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth."