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Ghosts is still waiting for a Season 5 renewal from CBS. Luckily for fans, actor Utkarsh Ambudkar, who plays Jay Arondekar in the hit sitcom, believes one is on the way.

Speaking with Screen Rant, Ambudkar shared that he believes Ghosts has a better shot at being renewed than being canceled, noting that the sitcom has struck a chord with audiences. "It's one of those things where we are beloved by people, and I haven't experienced anything like it. Everywhere we go, especially if we're together, we're stopped by people out in the streets whose entire family watches Ghosts together," he explained. "We've struck the right chord with viewers, where they wanted something that they could sit down and watch with their whole family, which wasn't sugarcoated or saccharin and still had some edge; it has a lot of comedy and is still taking chances."

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Not all adaptations of Princess Diana's life and portrayal are on the same level, with some lacking truthful moments and depth. Kristen Stewart's portrayal of Diana in the film "Spencer" focused on her struggles with mental health and eating disorders, and while divisive, Stewart's performance was strong. Emma Corrin and Elizabeth Debicki delivered standout performances as Diana in "The Crown," capturing her younger years and maturing character, respectively.

Princess Diana was an internationally beloved figure, and her story has been told many times by different actors in movies, musicals, and TV shows like The Crown. The Princess came under intense public scrutiny while she was alive, and after her passing in 1997, many filmmakers took up the challenge of portraying her life with dignity and care. While this may be the case, not all adaptations of her experiences or portrayals of her as a person are on the same level.

Stars: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Caitlin Gerard, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Alan Cox, Nancy Carroll, Christopher Villiers, Vicki Pepperdine | Written by Reid Carolin | Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Magic Mike’s Last Dance sees Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh back together to finish what they started 11 years ago. This time, however, most of the magic seems to have gone, as too has the entertainment.

After the Covid pandemic Mike (Channing Tatum) has fallen on hard times, his business has gone under and he now finds himself bartending a rich charity event. After the event, he meets Max (Salma Hayek), the hostess of said event, who needs a spark added to her life. That spark comes in the form of a dance, a dance Mike gives her that will finally give her a sense of purpose, a sense of life she hasn’t felt in years. That spark...

Stars: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Caitlin Gerard, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Alan Cox, Nancy Carroll, Christopher Villiers, Vicki Pepperdine | Written by Reid Carolin | Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Magic Mike’s Last Dance sees Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh back together to finish what they started 11 years ago. This time, however, most of the magic seems to have gone, as too has the entertainment.

After the Covid pandemic Mike (Channing Tatum) has fallen on hard times, his business has gone under and he now finds himself bartending a rich charity event. After the event, he meets Max (Salma Hayek), the hostess of said event, who needs a spark added to her life. That spark comes in the form of a dance, a dance Mike gives her that will finally give her a sense of purpose, a sense of life she hasn’t felt in years. That spark...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review — Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Reid Carolin and starring Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek Pinault, Juliette Motamed, Caitlin Gerard, Alan Cox, Christopher Villiers, Vicki Pepperdine, Christie-Leigh Emby, Kasey Iliana Sfetsios, Suzanne Bertish, Christopher Bencomo, Gavin Spokes, Ethan Lawrence, Kylie [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Magic Mike’S Last Dance (2023): A Highly Entertaining and Energetic Romance from Director Steven Soderbergh...

It’s New Year’s Eve once again over at Trailers From Hell, so you know what that means, fellow cineastes: it’s Val Kilmer’s birthday!

As such, our Kilmer Birthday Committee (of one) will continue its annual tradition of watching one Val classic in celebration. Tonight’s entertainment: the criminally under-seen and intensely silly Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker adventure comedy Top Secret! (1984), a mash-up Elvis musical/spy caper parody picture. This relentlessly unserious entertainment carries special significance for Kilmerphiles, as it brought the world Val’s first-ever feature film role.

Now when Val Kilmer makes his celluloid acting debut, he’s not just some featured extra, or the 12th lead, or whatever. Don’t be silly. He’s the star, damn it.

In Top Secret!, that means he’s Nick Rivers, a Presley-esque rock and roller who finds himself inadvertently at the heart of an attempted hostile overseas takeover. This raucous...

Sky Studios has signed development and distribution deals with Free@Last TV, the indie behind the Agatha Raisin series, and Icelandic producer Sagafilm.

Under the “multi-year” deals, the Comcast-owned studio will work with the companies to co-develop new drama projects for international services. NBCUniversal Global Distribution will then take them to market.

Free@Last and Sagafilm can continue to develop projects outside of the arrangements, and Sky Studios has not taken any equity in the companies as part of the deals.

Free@Last is best known for its M.C. Beaton adaptation Agatha Raisin, starring Extras and Catastrophe actress Ashley Jensen. Sky One originally launched the show, only to cancel it. AMC’s Acorn TV then rescued the series and it was acquired by Sky One.

Other dramas on Free@Last’s slate include Caleb Ranson’s The Women, about Britain’s first policewoman, while it also has the rights...

"What I don't understand, is why anyone would buy a record sung by ten hairy-ass fisherman?" Ent. Film Distributors in the UK has debuted an official trailer for a dramedy titled Fisherman's Friends, based on the true story of a group of traditional folk singers from Cornwall. It's about a music exec from London who travels up to Cornwall in hopes of signing them, only to discover a group of shanty singing fishermen who aren't interested in fame and fortune. "As he's drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he's forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means." In the real world, they went on to release a few albums that became huge UK hits anyway. Fisherman's Friends stars James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, Christian Brassington, Daniel Mays, David Hayman, Noel Clarke, Sarah Winter, Maggie Steed, and Christopher Villiers. Looks like a bunch of "shanty singing fishermen" fun.

The BBC and Amazon have offered the first glimpse of John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot in the forthcoming adaptation of The ABC Murders. The two broadcasters have also rounded out the cast with filming now underway.

Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter), Kevin McNally (Pirates Of The Caribbean), Gregor Fisher (Love Actually) and Jack Farthing (Poldark) will join Malkovich, Rupert Grint, Tara Fitzgerald and Andrew Buchan in the Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited production.

A number of guest stars include Karen Westwood (The Alienist), Lizzy McInnerny (The Crown), Anya Chalotra (Wanderlust), Eve Austin (In The Flesh), Christopher Villiers (Hetty Feather), Suzanne Packer (Keeping Faith), Michael Shaeffer (Rogue One), Cyril Nri (Cucumber), Henry Goodman (Genius: Einstein), Tamzin Griffin (A Fantastic Fear Of Everything), Ian Pirie (Sunset Song), Shane Attwooll (Dark River) and Terenia Edwards (Peter Rabbit).

Malkovich says, “I’m honored to have been asked to play Hercule Poirot. It’s a...

Stars: Adam Rayner, Eliza Dushku, Roger Moore, James Remar, Thomas Kretschmann, Enrique Murciano, Sammi Hanratty, Kirsty Mitchell, Yani Gellman, Greg Grunberg, Beatrice Rosen, Ian Ogilvy, Alec Secareanu, Sonalii Castillo, Christopher Villiers | Written by Jesse Alexander, Tony Giglio | Directed by Ernie Barbarash

An expanded version of a failed TV pilot, whose first trailer debuted waaay back in 2013, this iteration of The Saint is already on the backfoot before it begins. You have a rejected pilot, “fixed” with reshoots, Twice(!) – which is why Ernie Barbarash is now the credited director and not Simon West (Con Air, Tomb Raider) who is now credited as Executive Producer instead – and featuring not one but Two previous Saints in the cast, Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy, just to remind you of how good both actors were in the role… Oh, and then there’s memories of the Val Kilmer movie to sour the audiences view...

Don't you find that some days that there are tasks that you meant to do but never got round to doing? Hoovering, washing up and writing thank you cards for Christmases and birthdays. They all tend to get lumped to the back of the brain in the pile of chores that's as big as a hippopotamus.

Even The Doctor finds that there are some things that are long overdue. Places to go. People to meet. When you're a busy Time Lord saving planets all the time, the little things tend to get overlooked. So having mentioned an outer space Orient Express at the end of The Big Bang, The Doctor's been somewhat distracted ever since. What with killer astronauts, Trenzalore and regeneration taking up most of The Doctor's time, it's little wonder that it's taken him until now to get round to taking Clara along for one last fling aboard the Tardis.

There’s one of two things you can be almost guaranteed of when you see a story that takes place on a train – romance, or a murder.

Mummy On The Orient Express

By Jamie Mathieson

Directed by Paul Wilmshurst

As a farewell fling, The Doctor takes Clara on a trip aboard the Orient Express in space, exactingly copied from the original, except for the bit about being spaceworthy. It becomes quickly apparent that all is not well on the craft – a mysterious unseen beast is killing people exactly 66 seconds after the victim sees it – and no one else does. It turns out this particular journey is a massive two-fold trap – the ship is filled with scientists versed in areas of research that pertain to the beast, and are pressed into service to capture it, by any means necessary.

The Doctor quickly joins the press gang, understanding that the only way...

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Thanks to the BBC, here is a superb new gallery to get you in the mood for this week’s Doctor Who episode, Mummy on the Orient Express! Click each preview to view in full resolution. Guest starring Frank Skinner, singer Foxes, David Bamber, John Sessions (Death Comes to Time), Christopher Villiers (The King’s Demons) and...

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Peter Capaldi's Doctor takes a trip on an Orient Express train with a difference in this week's episode of Doctor Who.

'Mummy on the Orient Express' will see the Doctor face off with an undead creature, and features guest appearances from Foxes, John Sessions and Frank Skinner.

Episode eight of the Peter Capaldi era is written by Jamie Mathieson (Dirk Gently, Being Human) and directed by Paul Wilmshurst.

1. Popstar Foxes will make a cameo

2. Frank Skinner makes his debut as Perkins

3. Capaldi's Doctor will square up to a mummy

4. Daisy Beaumont looks like she might have just seen the mummy

5. David Bamber is cast as Captain Quell

6. Skinner is such a fan of the show he has a cardboard cut-out Dalek in his bedroom

7. Capaldi looks like he's channelling Pertwee with this week's outfit

8. A first look at Christopher Villiers as Professor Moorhouse

Mummy on the Orient Express...

Frank Skinner is such a big fan of Doctor Who that he even has his own five-foot cardboard Dalek in his bedroom, so it must be a dream come true for the comedian to find himself joining the show for this week's episode 'Mummy on the Orient Express'.

Skinner is cast as Perkins in the exciting new episode, which also guest stars David Bamber, singer-songwriter Foxes, John Sessions and Christopher Villiers.

Speaking about landing the role, Skinner said: "I love this show. I subscribe to Doctor Who Magazine, I've got a Tardis ringtone, a five-foot cardboard Dalek in my bedroom and when I got the call saying they wanted me to read for the part, I was in the back of my tour bus watching episode three of 'The Sensorites'. I am beyond excited."

Showrunner Steven Moffat joked that he gave Skinner the part to stop him camping out in his garden.

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The BBC has today released details of Doctor Who Series 8 episode 8, Mummy On The Orient Express. With guest stars Frank Skinner, Foxes, David Bamber (Valkyrie, Steven Moffat’s Chalk) and Christopher Villiers (1983 serial The King’s Demons, Top Secret, Emmerdale) joining Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, the synopsis plays out like this… The Doctor

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Frank Skinner is to make a guest appearance on Doctor Who.

The comic will star in an episode from Being Human writer Jamie Mathieson, though details of his character are yet to be announced.

"I love this show," Skinner said. "I subscribe to Doctor Who Magazine, I've got a Tardis ringtone, a five-foot cardboard Dalek in my bedroom and when I got the call saying they wanted me to read for the part, I was in the back of my tour bus watching episode three of 'The Sensorites'. I am beyond excited."

Steven Moffat - Doctor Who's lead writer and executive producer - added that Skinner has been "pitching vigorously to get into" the series "for a while".

"He's been volunteering to be 'third monster on the left' as long as I've been in this job," Moffat revealed.

"But now, in Jamie Mathieson's sparkling script, we finally have...

Jamie Mathieson's episode of Doctor Who series 8 will guest star Frank Skinner alongside Peter Capaldi...

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The casting news for Doctor Who series 8 is getting a little more regular now, and here's the latest: Frank Skinner has a guest role in the new series.

He's going to appear in the episode that's been penned by Jamie Mathieson for the new run. Mathieson, on his blog, wrote that "I was a stand up for a living for quite a few years. When I was trying to figure out how to do it in 1996, his first two stand up videos were part of my boot camp, so there is a nice synchronicity for me to be writing lines for him to deliver nearly twenty years later".

Skinner himself has said that "I love this show. I subscribe to Dr Who magazine, I've got a Tardis ringtone, a five-foot cardboard Dalek in...

Jack The Giant Killer Trailer. Bryan Singer‘s Jack The Giant Killer (2012) movie trailer stars Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, and Stanley Tucci. Jack The Giant Killer‘s plot synopsis: ”‘Jack the Giant Killer’ tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.”

This modern day Jack and the Beanstalk actually looks better than I thought it would look.

Movie Review: 'Land Gold Women'; Star Cast: Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi; Writer-Director: Avantika Hari; Rating: *** 1/2 -  has its heart at right place.

There is a nip in the British air. The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers.

But honour killing in 'civilized' England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.

It's astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away.

Starring Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi

Written & Directed by Avantika Hari

There is a nip in the British air…The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers, and that too when references are made to supposedly primitive practices in the psychologically-undeveloped section of North India.

But honour killing in ‘civilized’ England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.

It’s astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away with our cynical reading of the volatile subject. The script approaches its gentle characters, a cultured Muslim family keeping its head high(and veiled, of course) in a super-cosmopolitan society that constantly threatens to blow the lid off the conservative core of the family nucleus.

Ewan McGregor, Eddie Marsan Jack the Giant Killer Set Photos have premiered. Bryan Singer‘s Jack The Giant Killer (2012) set photos for Ewan McGregor and Eddie Marsan show the two actors in armor with swords in tow. Jack The Giant Killer‘s plot synopsis: “A modern day fairy tale in which the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young farmer (Nicholas Hoult) leads an expedition into the giants’ kingdom in hopes of rescuing a kidnapped princess (Eleanor Tomlinson).” The Jack The Giant Killer story has been filmed many times, going all the way back to 1962 version directed by Nathan Juran and starring Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, and Torin Thatcher. This version of Jack The Giant Killer also stars Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Stanley Tucci, John Kassir, Lee Boardman, Christopher Villiers, Russell Balogh, Caroline Hayes, and David Frost. Look at the first Ewan McGregor, Eddie Marsan Jack the Giant Killer...

In The Spotlight — Emmerdale

This week we bid a fond farewell to Emmerdale’s Paul Lambert (out actor Matthew Bose) and Jonny Foster (Richard Grieve), by taking a look back at their relationship as they exit the series for a new life in Australia – oh, yeah, and to give their troubled marriage a second (or is it third?) chance. It’s been a long hard road for this couple that found their love tested time and again.

Matthew Bose (left) and Richard Grieve

During Paul’s years living in Emmerdale, he endured a series of unsuccessful relationships and tumultuous events including the night he rescued his neighbor Grayson Sinclair (Christopher Villiers) during an assault (and somehow managing to learn of Grayson’s bisexuality in the process0. Grayson’s wife, Perdy (who is aware of her husband’s bisexuality) instantly concluded Paul and Grayson were secretly lovers, but once Paul convinced...

Getting To Know … Shameless

The love life of gay teenager Ian Gallagher (Gerard Kearns) on the U.K. series Shameless has never been easy. Whether it’s having to steal a bed just so he can have sex with his hot new boyfriend (somehow landing in prison because of it), trying to keep his ongoing affair with a married man a secret, or that fling with a homophobic drug dealer who has a strange sexual quirk (big surprise), something always comes along to make finding love (or just getting laid) a trying ordeal for poor Ian.

Gerard Kearns as Ian Gallagher

Shameless, which airs on Channel 4, the same network that brings us Hollyoaks, is a dark and perverse comedy/drama about the twisted lives of the extremely dysfunctional Gallagher family, as well as their friends and their enemies. Created by Paul Abbott, who is also the executive producer, the series...

Screened at the Hollywood International Film Festival

Purportedly based on actual events, Guerilla Films' "Two Men Went to War" is a wobbly comedy-drama about two misfit members of England's World War II Army Dental Corps on an unconventional mission to take on the enemy.

Although the performances are solid enough, the direction (by John Henderson) and script (credited to Richard Everett, Christopher Villiers and Raymond Foxall, from Foxall's book "Amateur Commandos") are engaged in an ongoing tonal battle, with the upshot being that the film can never decide if it wants to be "Kelly's Heroes" or "Hogan's Heroes".

Deemed too old for active duty, a crusty sergeant (Kenneth Cranham) recruits a wet-behind-the-ears private (Leo Bill) to join him on an unsanctioned mission into occupied France.

Nothing goes as planned, but somehow the bumbling duo ends up stumbling across a German radar station and saving the day for the good guys, despite having gone AWOL in the process.

It's all quite inoffensive, and the rest of the cast -- including old pros Derek Jacobi, Phyllida Law (Emma Thompson's mum) and David Ryall as an amusing Winston Churchill -- are their usual capable selves. But in the end, the picture comes up sufficiently short on both the wit and action fronts to be declared a keeper.

Screened at the Hollywood International Film Festival

Purportedly based on actual events, Guerilla Films' "Two Men Went to War" is a wobbly comedy-drama about two misfit members of England's World War II Army Dental Corps on an unconventional mission to take on the enemy.

Although the performances are solid enough, the direction (by John Henderson) and script (credited to Richard Everett, Christopher Villiers and Raymond Foxall, from Foxall's book "Amateur Commandos") are engaged in an ongoing tonal battle, with the upshot being that the film can never decide if it wants to be "Kelly's Heroes" or "Hogan's Heroes".

Deemed too old for active duty, a crusty sergeant (Kenneth Cranham) recruits a wet-behind-the-ears private (Leo Bill) to join him on an unsanctioned mission into occupied France.

Nothing goes as planned, but somehow the bumbling duo ends up stumbling across a German radar station and saving the day for the good guys, despite having gone AWOL in the process.

It's all quite inoffensive, and the rest of the cast -- including old pros Derek Jacobi, Phyllida Law (Emma Thompson's mum) and David Ryall as an amusing Winston Churchill -- are their usual capable selves. But in the end, the picture comes up sufficiently short on both the wit and action fronts to be declared a keeper.