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Two years after winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, “Ida” director Paweł Pawlikowski has begun work on his follow-up. “Cold War” is described by Deadline as a “passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments — who are fatally mismatched yet fatefully condemned to one another” that takes place in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.

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“Ida,” the first Polish film to win the foreign-language Oscar, also took home a BAFTA Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe (“Leviathan” won). Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig and Agata Kulesza (who was named Best Supporting Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role in “Ida”) all star in “Cold War,” about which little is currently known other than the premise.

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The mighty Paddy Considine has signed up for a role in Peaky Blinders series 3, which starts shooting today…

He’s currently on the big screen in the utterly disparate films Macbeth and Miss You Already, and now Paddy Considine has added another project to his slate – he’ll appear in Peaky Blinders series 3, which begins shooting today.

Mr Considine will play “the representative of a force beyond anything Shelby has previously encountered.” Dina Korzun (Last Resort) and Jan Bijvoet (Cordon) have also joined the show, as refugees from a foreign conflict who enlist the help of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby.

The new series will kick off with Tommy’s wedding day, before plunging its protagonist back into “the glamorous and dangerous world of international intrigue in 1920s Britain, putting his entire organisation and family at risk, and forcing him to question everything about his own ambitions and desires.”

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Jurors include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christine Vachon and Mabel Cheung.

The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has announced that Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski will head up this year’s Official Competition Jury.

Ida won the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Award for Pawlikowski, whose previous films include Last Resort and My Summer of Love.

The jury will include Chiwetel Ejiofor, star of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things

He will be joied by British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, Us producer Christine Vachon (Carol) and Chinese director Mabel Cheung (A Tales of Three Cities).

Pawlikowski said: “It is an honour to be Jury President for the BFI London Film Festival this year especially as my last film Ida won the Best Film Award in 2013 at the very beginning of its journey.”

The titles include:

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It’s an institution, in the best possible sense of the word. And nowadays it’s impossible to think of “the Beeb” without thinking of its filmmaking arm. This week BBC Films celebrated its 25th birthday, a quarter of a century of British independent filmmaking during which it has developed and produced over 250 films. The anniversary comes just a month after it won the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at the BAFTAs. From its first film, Anthony Minghella’s "Truly Madly Deeply" in 1990, just a smattering of the back catalogue reflects the quality of its output, much by directors nurtured at the start of their filmmaking careers: "Jude" (Michael Winterbottom), "Twenty Four Seven" (Shane Meadows), "Billy Elliot" (Stephen Daldry), "Last Resort" and "My Summer of Love" (Pawel Pawlikowski), "Eastern Promises" (David Cronenberg), "The Duchess" (Saul Dibb), "An Education" (Lone...

A beautiful film, and a mysterious one. I don’t quite know what to make of it, but I have been seduced by its evasive intrigue. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Ida is a beautiful film, and a mysterious one. Two viewings have not given me the first inkling of what to make of it, except to realize that I have been seduced by its evasive intrigue.

Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski (who wrote the screenplay with Rebecca Lenkiewicz) returns to his native Poland for the first time onscreen with a story of two women: 20ish orphan Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska), who has been raised by nuns and is about to take vows herself, and her aunt, 40s-ish Wanda (Agata Kulesza), her only living relative whom the Mother Superior insists Ida meet before making her lifelong commitment to the order.

Golden Globes are considering “Ida” directed and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski (“Last Resort", “My Summer of Love"), a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960's Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. The film premiered at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival and was also featured at the 2013 Toronto and 2014 Sundance film festivals.

“Ida” won the 2014 European Film Awards for Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Screenwriter, Best European Cinematographer and the People’s Choice Award. The film was named the Best Foreign Language Film by the New York Film Critics Circle and won the 2014 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Agata Kulesza) and Best Foreign Language Film. "Ida" is also nominated for the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film. It's also the Polish Oscar® entry and has made the 9-film shortlist.

Below is my interview with director Pawel Pawlikowski published last year prior to the film theatrical release:

I happen to love Jewish films and so when I saw "Ida" was playing in Toronto, it was first on my list of “must-sees”. However, I am no longer an “acquisitions” person, nor am I a film reviewer. My work keeps me out of the screening room because we work with filmmakers looking to get their films into the hands of those who will show their films. In other words, we advise and strategize for getting new films into the film circuit’s festivals, distributors' and international sales agents’ hands.

So I missed Ida at its Tiff debut. In Cartagena, where I was invited to cover the festival for SydneysBuzz and where I was gathering information for the book I have just completed on Iberoamerican Film Financing, it showed again in the jewel-box of a theater in this jewel-box of a city. But when I saw the first shots – and fell in love with it – I also saw it was subtitled in Spanish and rather than strain over translating, I left the theater. Later on, Pawel Pawlikowski and I sat next to each other at a fabulous dinner in one of Cartagena’s many outdoor squares, and we discussed the title of my book rather than his films which was a big loss on one hand but a big gain for me on the other because we got to speak as “civilians” rather than keeping the conversation on a “professional” level.

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Now Music Box is opening Ida in L.A. on May 2, 2014 at the Laemmle in L.A. and in N.Y. and I made sure to take advantage of my press status, not only to see the film but to interview Pawel on himself and the film.

There were two ways to look at this film: as a conceit, as in, “what a great story – a girl about to take her vows in the convent which raised her discovers she is Jewish and returns to the society which destroyed her family” -- or as a journey of a fresh soul into the heart of humanity and finds that she is blessed by being able to decide upon her own destiny within it.

Parenthetically, this seems to me to be a companion piece to the Berlinale film "Stations of the Cross", another journey of a fresh soul into the spiritual life of religion as she struggles in the society which formed her.

And so I began my interview with Pawel:

I could look at this film in two ways, I’ve heard the audiences talk about whether the film is Anti-Polish or Anti-Semitic, but that is not my concern, I want to know if it is just a great story or does it go deeper than that?

Pawel immediately responded, I Think he said, “I am not a professional filmmaker, and I do not make a ‘certain type of film’. I make films depending on where I am in life. A film about exile, a film about first love. Films mark where I am in my life.

In the '60s, when I was a kid and first saw the world this was how I depicted it in this film…seeing the world for the first time…life is a journey and filmmaking marks where you (the audience) are in life and it marks where I am in life. Each film is different as a result.

After making "Woman on the 5th," about the hero’s (in my own head) being lost in Paris, a weird sort of production – directed by a Polish director with a British and an American actor and actress, I craved solid ground, a familiar place or a “return” to important things of the past, and I returned to a certain period in Poland which I found very much alive, for myself then and again as I made this movie and in Polish history itself.

Ida takes place 17 years after the war and shortly after after Stalin’s crimes were being made public by Krushchev. The Totalitarian State of Poland bent a bit; censorship was lifted a bit and a new culture was developing. Music was jazz and rock and roll. Poland was very alive then: the spirit of going your own way, not caring what anyone thinks, creating a style in cinema, in art, music...

I myself was a young boy in the '60s and I left Poland in '71 when I was 13 to stay with my mother in England where she had married a Brit. My father lived in the West; they were divorced and I went for a holiday and stayed.

I went to school in the U.K. but at 13, I was thrown out and I went to Germany where my father lived and matriculated there. I couldn’t go back to Poland as I had left illegally and was only allowed back in to visit in the late '70s. I returned in 1980 during Solidarity and from 1989 to the fall of the Wall, I went back often.

Ida is a film about identity, family, faith, guilt, socialism and music. I wanted to make a film about history that wouldnʼt feel like a historical film— a film that is moral, but has no lessons to offer. I wanted to tell a story in which ʻeveryone has their reasonsʼ; a story closer to poetry than plot. Most of all, I wanted to steer clear of the usual rhetoric of the Polish cinema. The Poland in "Ida" is shown by an ʻoutsiderʼ with no ax to grind, filtered through personal memory and emotion, the sounds and images of childhood…

I read you are going to make another film about Poland…

It is not about Poland but it is set in Poland. I am working on three projects, which is how I work. I keep writing and find one of them has the legs to carry me…which one is not yet known.

You mentioned in an interview with Sight and Sound your top 10 films…

Yes, which ones did you like? They ask me this every year and every year the list changes for me. There are other good ones, like Once Upon a Time in Anatolia…they are not all the old classics and they are not necessarily my favorites or what I think are “the best”. Again they depend on where I am in my own life.

The ones I like on your list were Ashes and Diamonds which I saw in New York in my freshman year in college, "La Dolce Vita" …"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Some Like It Hot."

I actually think "8 ½" is more remarkable than "La Dolce Vita." I also like "Loves of a Blonde" very much….

I found "Ashes and Diamonds" so extraordinary, I then had to see the actor in "Man of Marble" which took me to the next "Man of Steel" and Man of…whatever... until I thought I knew Wadja. What did you make of this film?

I saw it later as I was too young when it came out in the '60s. I saw it in the '70s when it was already a classic. Its impact on me was that it was well-done and about something. It is a comment about a man who decides whether to fight or to live. It could be remade in any country coming out of civil war.

To return to Ida, I noticed stylistic choices you made that I would like you to comment on.

The landscapes and interiors were very large and sparse. Interiors always had someone in the back ground moving, arranging or walking by in silence.

Yes there is always some life and the movements of people in the background are like music in the film, though it is not really music…

Yes, the music in the film is great. The magnificence of the classical music someone is playing, like the aunt…

Yes I only want to use real music at times that real music is part of the story. I didn’t want film music. I wanted it to come out of silence. It is part of the scene like the background movement of people. Each piece means something. The pop songs were key from the start. They were fatally imprinted on my childhood memory. They really color the landscape. Coltrane and stuff came from my adult self.

Incidentally, the late '50s and early '60s were great for jazz in Poland. There was a real explosion: Komeda, Namyslowski, Stanko, Wroblewski... Apart from telling Idaʼs story, I wanted to conjure up a certain image of Poland, an image that I hold dear. My country may have been grey, oppressive and enslaved in the early '60s, but in some ways it was 'cooler' and more original than the Poland of today, and somehow more universally resonant.

Iʼm sure that lots of Poles with a chip on their shoulder, and there are many, will fail to notice the beauty, the love that went into our film—and will accuse me of damaging Poland's image by focusing on the melancholy, the provincial, the grotesque… And then there's the matter of a Polish farmer killing a Jewish family… thereʼs bound to be trouble. On the other hand, thereʼs also a Stalinist state prosecutor of Jewish origins, which might land me in hot water in other quarters. Still, I hope the film is sufficiently specific and un-rhetorical enough to be understood on its own terms.

The music Ida’s aunt was playing before she…what are your thoughts about her aunt?

Neither Ida nor her aunt is typical. Wanda’s imprimatur is that she has no self-pity, no regrets, no sentimentality.

She had fought in the resistance rather than raise a family. She had been a super idealistic Marxist, became a part of the New Establishment and got drawn into the games and hypocrisy, sending people to death for “impeding progress”.

She reminds me of my father in some ways. Her acerbic sense of humor. I gave her some of my father’s lines.

Where Did The Character Of Wanda Come From?

When I was doing my post-graduate degree at Oxford in the early '80s I befriended Professor Brus, a genial economist and reformist Marxist who left Poland in ʻ68. I was particularly fond of his wife Helena, who smoked, drank, joked and told great stories. She didn't suffer fools gladly, but she struck me as a warm and generous woman. I lost touch with the Bruses when I left Oxford, but some 10 years later I heard on BBC News that the Polish government was requesting the extradition of one Helena Brus-Wolinska, resident in Oxford, on the grounds of crimes against humanity. It turned out that the charming old lady had been a Stalinist prosecutor in her late twenties. Among other things, she engineered the death in a show trial of a completely innocent man and a real hero of the Resistance, General ‘Nil’ Fieldorf. It was a bit of a shock. I couldn't square the warm, ironic woman I knew with the ruthless fanatic and Stalinist hangman. This paradox has haunted me for years. I even tried to write a film about her, but couldnʼt get my head around or into someone so contradictory. Putting her into Idaʼs story helped bring that character to life. Conversely, putting the ex-believer with blood on her hands next to Ida helped me define the character and the journey of the young nun.

By 1956, illusions about society were gone. Stalin’s crimes were revealed in 1961, there was a change of government, a new generation was coming of age. Wanda was a judge they called “Red Wanda” and had sent enemies of the state to their deaths. The older generation was left high and dry. Communism had become a shabby reality. Her despair was apparent– she had been heroic and now the system was a joke.

And then some creature from the past pops up and makes her reveal all she had swept under the carpet. She drank too much, there was no love in her life, only casual sex. But still she was straight-ahead, directed and unstoppable.

And then after the revelations of what had become of their parents and her child, her sister returns to the convent. There is nowhere for her to go. She hits a wall. She is heroic and there is no place for her in society anymore.

And Ida? Why did you choose such a person?

Ida has multiple origins, the most interesting ones probably not quite conscious. Let's say that I come from a family full of mysteries and contradictions and have lived in one sort of exile or another for most of my life. Questions of identity, family, blood, faith, belonging, and history have always been present.

I'd been playing for years with the story of a Catholic nun who discovers sheʼs Jewish. I originally set it in ʻ68, the year of student protests and the Communist Party sponsored anti-Semitic purges in Poland. The story involved a nun a bit older than Ida, as well as an embattled bishop and a state security officer, and the whole thing was more steeped in the politics of the day. The script was turning out a little too schematic, thriller-ish and plotty for my liking, so I put Ida aside for a while and went to Paris to make The Woman In The Fifth . I was in a different place at the time.

When I came back to Ida, I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted the film to be. My cowriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz and I stripped the whole thing down, made it less plotty, the characters richer and less functional. Ida became younger, more inexperienced, more of a blank slate, a young girl on the brink of life. Also we moved the story to ʻ62, a more nondescript period in Poland, but also a time of which I have most vivid memories, my own impressions as a child - unaware of what was going on in the adult world, but all the more sensitive to images and sounds. Some shots in the film couldʼve come from my family album.

In the course of the film, Ida undergoes a change. She becomes energized. When she returns to the convent you can see it in her body movements. It is the only time we used a hand-held camera to depict the new energy she has acquired. She is going into the spiritual in a different way. The old way elicited a giggle from her; she had seen the sensuality of the novice nun bathing…whether she is returning to the convent to stay is left to the viewer to decide.

The viewer is brought into a space of associations they make on their own, the film is more like poetry where the feeling of the viewer is the private one of the viewer, not one the film imposes.

Yes, each woman enters a new reality and comes out changed, and I was left thinking there was nothing better of the two life choices, the “normal” life of love and family and the “spiritual” life of simple living and silent devotion. There needs to be some balance between the two, but what is that? I still don’t know.

On a last note: I noticed in the end credits you thanked Alfonso Cuarón. Why was that?

Yes he liked the film a lot. There were many people I thanked, like Agnieszka Holland. These are friends I can show my work to. They protect me against critics and festivals. This group of friends can also be nasty, but they are honest friends.

Thank you so much Pawel for your insights. I look forward to meeting you again “on the circuit”.

To my readers, here are the nuts and bolts of the film:

Music Box Films is the proud U.S. distributor of "Ida," the award-winning film written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Ida world premiered at Telluride 2013 and Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci Award for Best Film; then played the London Film Festival where it won Best Film, and was the Grand Prix winner at the Warsaw Film Festival. It played as an Official Selection in the 2014 Sundance and New York Jewish Film Festivals.

Poland 1962. Anna (newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska) is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother’s sister Wanda. Her aunt, she learns, is not only a former hard-line Communist state prosecutor notorious for sentencing priests and others to death, but also a Jew. Anna learns from her aunt that she too is Jewish - and that her real name is Ida. This revelation sets Anna, now Ida, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. Ida has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation of Poland. And Wanda must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.

Following his breakthrough films "Last Resort" and BAFTA-award winning "My Summer of Love," "Ida" marks Polish-born, British writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski's first film set in his homeland. Ida stars Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. It will open in Los Angeles on May 2 at the Laemmle's Royal. (Music Box Films, 80 minutes, unrated).

Its international producers, Eric Abraham (Portobello Pictures), Ewa Puszczynska (Opus Film), Piotr Dzieciol (Opus Film) and coproducer, Christian Falkenberg Husum of Denmark sold about 30 territories in Toronto and to date it has sold to 43 territories where the film has opened.

Argentina - Cdi Films, Australia - Curious Film, Austria - Polyfilm is still playing it and to date it has grossed Us$10,733. Benelux – Cineart where it is also still playing and has grossed Us$185,026 in Belgium and Us$131,247 in The Netherlands, Canada – Eyesteelfilm and Films We Like, Czech Republic – Aerofilms, Denmark - Camera Film, Denmark - Portobello Film Sales, France - Memento Films Distribution where in three weeks it grossed $3,192,706, Germany - Arsenal and Maxmedien where it grossed $24,010, Greece - Strada Films, Hungary - Mozinet Ltd., Israel - Lev Films (Shani Films), Italy - Parthenos where it grossed $681,460., Norway – Arthaus grossed $59,920, Poland – Soloban where it grossed $333,714, Portugal - Midas Filmes, Spain - Caramel Films is still playing it and to date it has grossed $408,085, Sweden - Folkets Bio, Switzerland - Frenetic, Taiwan - Andrews Film Co. Ltd, U.K. - Artificial Eye and Curzon, U.S. – Music Box and Film Forum.

Production

(Poland) An Opus Film, Phoenix Film production in association with Portobello Pictures in coproduction with Canal Plus Poland, Phoenix Film Poland. (International sales: Fandango Portobello, Copenhagen.) Produced by Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska. Coproducer, Christian Falkenberg Husum.

Crew

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Screenplay, Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Camera (B&W), Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski; editor, Jaroslaw Kaminski; production designers, Katarzyna Sobanska, Marcel Slawinski; costume designer, Aleksandra Staszko; Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen; supervising sound editor, Claus Lynge; re-recording mixers, Lynge, Andreas Kongsgaard; visual effects, Stage 2; line producer, Magdalena Malisz; associate producer, Sofie Wanting Hassing.

With

Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Joanna Kulig.

BFI colleagues have paid tribute to Chris Collins, the BFI Film Fund Senior Development and Production Executive who lost his battle to cancer on Saturday, Nov 1.

In a letter to industry colleagues today, BFI Film Fund head Ben Roberts wrote: “We are all going to miss his loyalty, honesty and integrity, his warm dry wit, and his complete devotion to independent film and the film industry he loved.

“He was a champion for new filmmakers and a brilliant creative mind. I think we will all feel his loss quite profoundly.

“All our hearts and thoughts are with Chris’s wife Emma, his daughters Matilda and Jessie, and all his family.”

At the BFI Film Fund Collins had strategic responsibility for shorts and low budget film, taking a leading role in the creation of the BFI Net.Work, as well as projects which pushed the envelope of traditional filmmaking, including Amma Asante’s Belle and Jonathan Glazer’s [link...

BAFTA Award-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski made an astonishing pair of films in the first half of the last decade, with Last Resort and My Summer of Love. After a fairly quiet period he has returned with Ida, a poignant tale of a young nun in 1960s communist Poland trying to make sense of an unfamiliar world, which had taken the top prize at the London Film Festival. Beautifully shot in a stark monochrome, Ida is a sometimes difficult, understated gem of a movie that gives its audience much to think about during its brief, 80 minute running time.

Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna, a novice nun with little experience of the world outside the very basic convent she has grown up in since being left there as a baby. As it turns out, Anna has a surviving relative, her aunt Wanda Gruz (Agata Kulesza), who she is encouraged to get in contact with.

Speaking at Cartagena Film Festival, the director says he’s planning a multi-decade love story set in Poland, plus other international projects.

After the success of his Polish-language debut Ida, director Pawel Pawlikowski is planning another Polish film, which he describes as “a love story across 30 years,” loosely based on his own parents’ relationship. He calls it something of an “Eastern European version of the Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor story.”

The director was born in Poland but studied in the UK, where he made documentaries for the BBC and then made his early films such as Last Resort and My Summer of Love. He lived in Paris while making The Woman In The Fifth, but returned to Poland — the country he left at age 14 — to make Ida.

“[With Woman in the Fifth] I was a Polish guy in Paris with an English actress, an American actor a French crew, making a thriller that is not a thriller. And I knew...

Retrospective planned including his latest acclaimed drama Ida.

The 54th International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias (Ficci) in Colombia will welcome Polish-born, UK-based director Pawel Pawlikowski for a retrospective of his work.

His latest film Ida will screen as part of the festival’s Gemas strand.

The retrospective will include From Moscow to Pietushki, Dostoevsky’s Travels, Last Resort, My Summer of Love, The Woman In The Fifth, Serbian Epics, Tripping with Zhirinovksy and Twockers.

The Embassy of Poland in Colombia is supporting the programme.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish nun drama adds to a growing haul of prizes. Other winners include Starred Up and Of Horses and Men

Ida picked up the Crystal Arrow at the 5th Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21) in the French Alps last night.

The Best Actress Prize was jointly awarded to Ida’s Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. Trzebuchowska, who plays the titular role, collected the trophy at the awards ceremony

They are the latest in a string of top awards for the film, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, which tells the story of a novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation.

It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.

The film has picked up prizes at festivals around the world...

Other winners at the cinematography festival in Poland included Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.Scroll down for full list of winners

Competition winners at Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, were revealed today as the 21st edition came to a close with a gala awards celebration at the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

The winner of the top prize - the Golden Frog - went to Polish drama Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the latest in a string of top awards for the film.

Ida cinematographers Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski accepted the award.

The film stars newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.

It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for...

Polish director honoured for 'courageous' tale looking at the legacy of the Holocaust in his homeland

• Review: four stars for Ida

British-based director Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film, Ida, took the top prize at the close of the London film festival on Saturday night.

The Observer's former film critic Philip French announced the Best Film award, saying: "The jury greatly admired Ida, the first film made in his native Poland by a director who came to prominence while living in Britain. We were deeply moved by a courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation – the German occupation and the Holocaust – which continues to resonate."

The Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, was one of many who welcomed Pawlikowski's new work last week. Coming after the director's acclaimed Last Resort, from 2000, and My Summer of Love, made in 2004, it was, he wrote, "a small gem, tender and bleak,...

Other winners honoured at the glitzy ceremony included Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo, and Starred Up screenwriter Jonathan Asser.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has been crowned the Best Film at the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-20).

It saw off competition from the likes of Richard Ayoade’s The Double, Peter Landesman’s JFK drama Parkland and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson (click here for full list).

Ida stars newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a novice nun coming face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.

It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.

The film previously won the Fipresci International Critics’ Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and the top prize at Poland’s Gdynia Film Festival.

Ida is a co-production...

A helping hand is always appreciated when it comes to the foreign film Oscar race. It begins with about 60 submissions from countries such as Albania all the way to Vietnam, and then dwindles down to about nine and then a lucky five format. Today’s pick-up of the Telluride/Toronto shown Ida, might benefit Poland’s bid for 2013. After projects failed to materialize, personal family matter issues and a tepid response to The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski the brilliant helmer behind Last Resort and My Summer of Love finds himself back in the winner’s circle with Ida and a pick-up from Music Box Films. Screen Daily reports that a winter/spring North American festival campaign followed by a late second quarter 2014 theatrical release is expected.

Gist: Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a young nun in 1960s Poland who discovers...

Exclusive: Pawel Pawlikowski’s well-received Telluride and Toronto drama gets Us and Canadian deal.

Music Box Films has snapped up Us and Canadian rights to Pawel Pawlikowski’s well-received Telluride and Toronto drama Ida in a deal between producer Eric Abraham and Music Box president William Schopf.

Newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a young nun in 1960s Poland who discovers her Jewish roots and an aunt she never knew she had, who was once a notorious Stalinist judge. Together they go on the road to uncover the truth about her past.

Review: Ida

Known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love, Ida marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski.

The film recently won the International Critics’ Prize (Fipresci Prize) in Toronto as well as the top prize at Poland’s recent Gdynia Film Festival along with Best Actress for Agata Kulesza and Best...

BBC sports presenter, praised for knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012, wins achievement of the year

Capping a summer that was almost as golden for her as it was for the winning athletes, Clare Balding was recognised on Friday for the Olympic and Paralympic coverage that prompted national admiration of her presenting skills, as she collected achievement of the year at the Women in Film and Television awards.

The sports presenter – praised for her knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012 – was the best known of three women honoured for their roles in broadcasting the Olympic Games.

Joining her on the awards podium were Tracey Seaward, who took the producer award for her work on Danny Boyle's spectacular opening ceremony, while Barbara Slater, the BBC's first female director of sport, won the inspirational woman award.

"I take the award on behalf of all of the women in sports television," Balding said after accepting her award.

London – Former BBC high-flying producer Ruth Caleb is joining forces with independent production banner Argonon's drama arm Leopardrama. Caleb, whose resume boasts movies Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort, Dominic Savage's Bullet Boy and TV's A Short Stay in Switzerland starring Emmy-award winner Julie Walters, will be working on Leopardrama's existing projects including a movie about the life of flamboyant Irish-born entertainer Danny La Rue, once billed as the world's most famous female impersonator. Caleb will also work on the much-anticipated Terence Davies movie, Mother of Sorrows, and will be tasked with developing new dramas for

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It's not scheduled to premiere until September 27th, but ABC is trying to get the buzz going early on its upcoming big-budget action drama "Last Resort". As a result, Yahoo! has posted the full pilot episode online for U.S. viewers and you can watch it below.

The show is set in the near future about a Us military submarine that goes against orders and refuses to fire its nuclear missiles. As a result the crew escapes and takes refuge at a Nato outpost where they set up a society becoming the smallest nuclear state in the world.

By Carson Blackwelder

Television Contributor

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The war for TV viewership began long before this fall’s slated premiere dates in September and October, and if any network took the opportunity to strike early this season, it had to be NBC.

In the TV business, ratings are key. Ratings determine how much networks can charge advertisers for airing commercials — the higher the rating, the higher the price tag. All of the networks want good ratings to make more money from advertising, and ratings are often the lifeline of a show, no matter how loyal its following. (Just look at NBC’s Community, which has a passionate fan base but has been moved to Fridays due to low ratings.) And in efforts to climb out of their fourth place slump, NBC has stepped up its game.

As part of its aggressive strategy, NBC aired the pilots of new series Animal Practice and Go On after the Olympics.

Imagine you are the captain of a nuclear submarine and you receive orders through an unusual communication channel to nuke a country. Do you follow through on this mysterious command? Last Resort examines what happens when the captain decides not to hit the launch button. The premiere airs on ABC later this month, but you can watch it online now.

By Rachel Bennett

Television Editor & Columnist

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Fall TV is officially here, and it kicks off tonight with the premiere of NBC’s new comedy The New Normal.

Don’t expect it to stay on Mondays, though: After today, it will move to Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m., following the Matthew Perry-led Go On (There will be a new episode tomorrow after the premiere of Go On).

As excited as I am for these two new series, their scheduling could not be more inconvenient. Not only do they air at the same time as ABC’s Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, but they also compete with Fox’s New Girl and The Mindy Project. What is a couch potato to do in times like these?

What’s more, this isn’t the only timeslot war I’m dealing with this fall. Take a...

No matter whom you plan on voting for this November, there’s one thing we can all agree on about President Obama: He has excellent taste in TV. The Potus told People Magazine in December that Homeland — Showtime’s terrorist thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, who grace the cover of EW’s Fall TV Preview this week — is one of two can’t-miss dramas on the White House DVR list (the other being HBO’s Boardwalk Empire). “We tend to be stunned over and over again by the response of the show,” says executive producer Alex Gansa.

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If you aren't wet-your-pants excited for fall television—or if you don't at least get a glee-inducing case of the tingles every time the thought of a DVR filled to the brim crosses your mind—you're in some serious need of guidance: True Blood and Mad Men and Girls were the talk of the summer, but Fall TV is the big stage of awe and intrigue and drama and really sexy people who truly shine in all of their sexy glory. Here, our Ology TV editors ranked one hundred 2012 shows from all the major broadcast networks as well as our top cable picks based on pure excitement: the shows we're most eager to see and see again in the coming months. Our number one pick for the best fall show might be obvious, but there's plenty more where that came from,...

Summer is coming to a close and the new Fall TV season is about to kick off with many series both old and new set to be launched in the United States and the United Kingdom over the next two months. There's so many in fact that it's a bit confusing as to when specifically each of these shows will premiere.

Today comes a handy schedule to keep you on track. The list has been divided into three - returning show season premiere dates in the U.S., new show pilot airdates in the U.S., and British series premiere dates in the United Kingdom.

The returning shows I'll personally be tuning in for before the year's out (in alphabetical order) - "30 Rock," "American Horror Story," "Bones," "Burn Notice," "Castle," "Dexter," "Doctor Who," "Fringe," "The Good Wife," "Homeland," "The Hour," "The Killing [Forbrydelsen]", "Merlin," "Q.I.," "Red Dwarf," "Sons of Anarchy,...

Hope your DVR's had a restful summer because they're going to be working overtime this fall when CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and The CW premiere their massive crop of new and returning shows!

Related - 10 Most Promising New Fall Pilots

In the coming weeks, we'll be revealing our picks for Best and Worst New Shows, Most Exciting New Stars and Breaking Down The Biggest Timeslot Battles to help you plan your viewing schedule. But for now, lets keep it simple.

Video - Fox Releases 2 New Shows, Early!

Here are the premiere dates for all the new and returning shows fighting for your attention starting September 10!

September 10

The Voice - NBC, 8 p.m.

September 11

Go On - NBC, 9 p.m.

The New Normal - NBC, 9:30 p.m.

Parenthood - NBC, 10 p.m.

September 12

The X Factor - Fox, 8 p.m.

September 13

Glee - Fox, 9 p.m.

September 15

Saturday Night Live - NBC, 11:30 p.m.

September...

It’s that time of year again, and the fall television schedule is another trip into the wild. This is going to be an interesting fall, in part because last season had so many big efforts that didn’t go anywhere. You can see the wake of that effort in the listings, more as a matter of the absence of similar series.

Let’s take a look at what’s coming, and figure out just how much is worth watching, if anything is worth setting into your DVR, and how much of the week is going to be available for the cable networks to grab hold of you.

Sunday

Sunday has always been a strange night in the line-up, and we now see further evidence of each network trying to create their own niche, and get a stranglehold on their chosen demographic. It’s now a night that has pretty...

The broadcast networks have more than 20 shows debuting this fall, including a Revolution-ary drama from J.J. Abrams, a fresh take on the Green Arrow and a new incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. To help you prep for it all, TVLine is offering First Impressions based on the not-for-review pilots. Next up on our list…

The Show | Fox’s The Mindy Project (Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30c)

The Competition | NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS), Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (ABC), The New Normal (new, NBC) and Emily Owens, M.D. (new, The CW)

Related | Read Our First Impressions of ABC’s Last Resort,...

FX has unveiled a third promo for American Horror Story: Asylum — and there are truly no words to describe it. Why? Well, because we have no clue what’s happening in the teaser!

It appears to be an overhead shot of a zipper-top tub filled with milky-hued water. In it, a body writhes around, face-down. But, again, that’s just our interpretation.

Related | New American Horror Story: Asylum Teaser Delivers More Creepy Nunsense

Press Play below and then dissect the brainteaser for yourself in the comments.

Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…

• Newcomer Ed Skrein will portray...

With a ton of new shows airing this fall, we here at TV Fanatic are giving readers a look ahead into what's worth a valuable spot on your DVR. 

So far, Matt Richenthal has previewed Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue; while Dan Forcella told you to take a trip down to Nashville. 

I'm here to fill you in on one of the CW's new dramas - and let's just say Katniss Everdeen isn't the only person making bows and arrows popular. This fall, the network will premiere Arrow, a drama based on the superhero comic "The Green Arrow."

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When It Airs: Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.

Who It Stars: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, Colin Donnell, Paul Blackthorne, Susanna Thompson and Jamey Sheridan.

 Arrow Trailer

What It's About: Oliver Queen, debaucherous and sexy son of billionaire Robert Queen, is discovered alive five years after the family ship went down at sea.

The broadcast networks have more than 20 shows debuting this fall, including a Revolution-ary drama from J.J. Abrams, a fresh take on the Green Arrow and a new incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. To help you prep for it all, TVLine is offering First Impressions based on the not-for-review pilots. Next up on our list…

The Show | ABC’s Nashville (Wednesdays at 10/9c, premiering Oct. 10)

The Competition | CSI (CBS), American Horror Story (FX), Chicago Fire (new, NBC)

Related | Read Our First Impressions of ABC’s Last Resort, CBS’ Elementary, NBC’s Revolution, The CW’s Arrow and Fox’s The Mob...

Forget emulation or downloadable versions through Psn and Xbla--snk wants you to buy a Neogeo.

Details and specs after the jump.

You gamers out there with a healthy dose of Neogeo nostalgia (aka 32-bit Fever) can get the Neogeo X Gold preloaded with 20 games for $199 when it's released this holiday season. Along with the actual unit and games, Snk Playmore will throw in the Neogeo X Joystick. You can also output through the Neogeo X Station, a charging device/dock with a TV out.

As for the 4.3-inch LCD display handheld, it includes a game card slot, headphone jack, and internal speakers. No word on networking or online functionality.

You can find the list of 20 games included on the hardware below:

3 Count Bout

League Bowling

Art Of Fighting II

Magician Lord

Alpha Mission II

Metal Slug

Baseball Stars II

Mutation Nation

Cyber Lip

Nam 1975

Fatal Fury

Puzzled

Fatal Fury Special...

Sexy movie politicians who win our vote Satisfying salad entrées to make this week Pregnant Camila Alves wears a bikini with with shirtless Matthew McConaughey How to make your own nail decals with wax paper and nail polish Back-to-school essentials for your little rocker Styling suggestions that will help you master the tricky change of seasons British brands that should be on your design radar Get the pilot scoop on Last Resort Video:...

Which new shows should you immediately DVR? Which should you pretend were never given a greenlight to begin with?

In anticipation of the 2012-2013 season mostly getting underway next month, TV Fanatic is offering up previews of various new drama and comedies from around the dial. Matt Richenthal strongly recommended ABC's Last Resort and told fans not to expect greatness out of ABC's 666 Park Avenue.  

Now, I'm here to tell you a bit about another ABC drama, Nashville.

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When It Airs: Wednesday nights at 10 on ABC

Who It Stars: Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Powers Boothe, Charles Esten, Eric Close, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, and Robert Wisdom.

What It's About: A legendary country music star (Britton), whose star is beginning to fade, is offered by producers to join tours with up the young and sexy future of country music (Panettiere).

Why You Should Watch: Although the stars within Nashville don't get along,...

Once the Olympics wrap up in London, NBC will roll out many of its new and returning shows before the official Sept. 24 start date of the 2012-13 TV season. And good news, Matthew Perry fans: the Peacock is offering a special sneak peek tonight of his new comedy Go On.

To find out when to look out for the debut of some promising new shows (and beloved old ones), here is a complete chart of fall premiere dates.

Monday

Time

8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

10:00

10:30

CBS

Himym Sept. 24

Partners Sept. 24 (Series Debut)

2 Broke Girls Sept. 24

Mike & Molly Sept. 24

Hawaii Five-o Sept.

The broadcast networks have more than 20 shows debuting this fall, including a Revolution-ary drama from J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, a Nashville home for Connie Britton and a new comedy from Friends‘ Matthew Perry. To help you prep for it all, TVLine is offering First Impressions based on the not-for-review pilots. Next up on our list…

The Show | Fox’s The Mob Doctor (Mondays at 9/8c, premiering Sept. 17)

The Competition | 2 Broke Girls/Mike & Molly (CBS), Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars (ABC), The Voice (NBC), Major Crimes (new, TNT) and Gossip Girl (The CW)

The Cast | Jordana Spiro (My Boys...

It's August. The dog days of summer. The month may bring the heat, but it also brings excitement over the fall television season, which - for the most part - gets underway next month.

In anticipation, we're offering up previews of various new shows from around the dial. Having already seen the premiere, I strongly recommended ABC's Last Resort a few days ago. Now, it's on to the scariest address on the small screen: 666 Park Avenue.

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When It Airs: Sunday nights at 10 on ABC.

Who It Stars: Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Mercedes Masöhn, Robert Buckley, Helena Mattsson, Erik Palladino, Samantha Logan, Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn

What It's About: A young couple (Taylor and Annable) are hired as the managers of an apartment building in New York City that's owned by Olivia and Gavin Doran (Williams and O'Quinn), a pair of shady agenda-carrying individuals who may or may not have a close relation to Satan.

Fox had a solid series on its hands in the Shawn-Ryan-created cop drama The Chicago Code. Unfortunately, the 2011 Midseason show didn't earn the ratings it deserved, and it failed to receive a Season 2 order. On the bright side, Fox's loss was ABC's gain, as Ryan has since moved on to create Last Resort, which premieres on ABC this fall. And The Chicago Code star Jason Clarke was available to pursue feature roles, among which are parts in the upcoming John Hillcoat western drama Lawless, and Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. It seems like Clarke is a little bit everywhere these days, and that's a good thing. Deadline has reported that Clarke is joining the cast of Roland Emmerich's upcoming thriller White House Down, a film that will see Jamie Foxx as the president, and Channing Tatum a Secret Service agent tasked to protect him. Clarke may...

Chicago – Our newest calendar will be your ultimate resource for scheduling your TV viewing! Want to know what’s premiering next week? Next month? Curious when your favorite show is coming back? Bookmark our TV calendar and come back regularly for updates, complete with links to our coverage of your favorite shows!

August 6, 2012

“Go On” (NBC)

Animal Practice

Photo credit: NBC

August 12, 2012

“Animal Practice” (NBC)

“Hell on Wheels” (AMC)

August 13, 2012

“Grimm” (NBC)

“Hotel Hell” (Fox)

“Stars Earn Stripes” (NBC)

August 17, 2012

“Boss” (Starz)

August 19, 2012

“Copper” (BBC America)

September 10, 2012

“The Voice” (NBC)

September 11, 2012

“The New Normal” (NBC)

“Parenthood” (NBC)

“Sons of Anarchy” (FX)

September 12, 2012

“Guys with Kids” (NBC)

“The X Factor” (Fox)

September 13, 2012

“Glee” (Fox)

September 14, 2012

“20/20” (ABC)

“Shark Tank” (ABC)

“What Would You Do?” (ABC)

The Mob Doctor

Photo credit: Fox

September 16, 2012

“Boardwalk Empire” (HBO)

September 17, 2012

“Bones” (Fox)

“The Mob Doctor” (Fox)

“Revolution” (NBC)

September 19, 2012

“Survivor” (CBS)

September 20, 2012

“The Office” (NBC)

“Parks and Recreation...

Jay Karnes has booked a four-episode arc on new ABC submarine drama Last Resort. Karnes, repped by Greene & Associates, will play Secretary of Defense William Curry, a shadowy figure who may be behind the attack on the USS Colorado. Karnes will next be seen in the pilot for USA’ Graceland. Christine Woods is set for a guest arc on NBC’s new comedy Go On, about a guy (Matthew Perry) recovering from the death of his wife with the help of a support group. Woods, repped by Gersh and Emery Entertainment, will play his dead wife in flashbacks. She most recently starred in the NBC multi-camera pilot Daddy’s Girls this past season. Tim Griffin (NBC’s Prime Suspect) has been cast in a recurring arc on USA Network’s spy drama Covert Affairs. Griffin, repped by Pakula/King and Untitled, will play Seth Newman, a former field operative-turned-lawyer who...

Chicago – With ABC finally unveiling their premiere dates for their Fall 2012 schedules, we finally have a full picture of when each returning show and debuting show will hit the airwaves. Want to know when your favorite comedy is coming back? Want to know when your most-anticipated new drama finally launches? Check out our handy-dandy guide, network by network, to the entire Fall (including cable hits at the bottom) and come back over the next few months for reviews of most of these programs.

Fall 2012 By Network

CBS

9/19 - “Survivor”

9/24 - “2 Broke Girls”

9/24 - “Hawaii Five-0”

9/24 - “How I Met Your Mother”

9/24 - “Mike & Molly”

9/24 - “Partners”

9/25 - “NCIS”

9/25 - “NCIS: Los Angeles”

9/25 - “Vegas”

9/26 - “Criminal Minds”

9/26 - “C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation”

9/27 - “The Big Bang Theory”

9/27 - “Elementary”

9/27 - “Person of Interest”

9/27 - “Two and a Half Men”

9/28 - “Blue Bloods”

9/28 - “CSI: NY”

9/28 - “Made...

Hi everyone! Today I sat in on ABC's sessions at the Television Critics' Association press tour in Los Angeles. Here's what I saw and heard at the network's Last Resort panel.

Who among us hasn't taken an unexpected travel detour only to wind up in an uncomfortably tense situation? That's basically what ABC's Last Resort is about, except with a submarine, nuclear weapons, and treason. Other than that, it's very relatable! The new fantasy-sci-fi-thriller-drama from Executive Producer More >>...

Every season there’s one show that critics start piling on long before it premieres. This round it’s ABC’s The Neighbors, the aliens-next-door sitcom that has inspired the entertainment industry and viewers to exclaim a collective “Wtf?!”

I suspect viewers will rate a few other new broadcast comedies this fall as far worse (such as ABC’s Malibu Country*). The Neighbors is not without cleverness, and sure doesn’t lack for ambition. I’ve found a few defensive-sounding fans of the pilot out there (not me, but others). The whole premise is just so … so … goofy, and such...

The standoff between a number of "Modern Family" cast members and their network over contracts continues.

At a press event on Friday at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, ABC entertainment head Paul Lee was not able to announce that the confrontation -- which led to the cancellation of the first table read of Season 4 this week -- had been resolved. Lee was tight-lipped and stuck to a script every time he was asked about it.

"I expect the season to start on time," Lee said. "We're in the middle of negotiations at the moment. We're hopeful, we're optimistic we'll be able to resolve it."

Later at his Television Critics Association press tour panel, he was asked why the salary negotiations had gotten so contentious, but Lee didn't take the bait.

"I don't want to talk about the specifics. It's a wonderful show, they're a great cast and we're optimistic about it,...

The standoff between a number of "Modern Family" cast members and their network over contracts continues.

At a press event on Friday at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, ABC entertainment head Paul Lee was not able to announce that the confrontation -- which led to the cancellation of the first table read of Season 4 this week -- had been resolved. Lee was tight-lipped and stuck to a script every time he was asked about it.

"I expect the season to start on time," Lee said. "We're in the middle of negotiations at the moment. We're hopeful, we're optimistic we'll be able to resolve it."

Later at his Television Critics Association press tour panel, he was asked why the salary negotiations had gotten so contentious, but Lee didn't take the bait.

"I don't want to talk about the specifics. It's a wonderful show, they're a great cast and we're optimistic about it,...

The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman, Lacey V. Rose, Lesley Goldberg, Marisa Guthrie and Diane Gordon are covering the Television Critics Association panels at the Beverly Hilton. ABC takes center stage Friday, with panels on new series including Nashville, The Neighbors, 666 Park Avenue, How to Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), Malibu Country, Family Tools and Last Resort. The network also will spotlight Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars as well as the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards. THR's TV team is providing live updates here on all the panels at the semi-annual confab.

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Behold the sultry marketing art for ABC’s new supernatural drama series 666 Park Ave. Aside from the small clutching couple at 12 o’clock (co-stars Dave Annable and Rachael Taylor), the poster manages to convey a darkly sexy mood with only a massive ornate staircase. But what a staircase! Why it almost reminds you of… of a… well, let’s just say if Georgia O’Keeffe and H.R. Giger got married and built a house, their staircase might look just like this. The tagline: “New York’s Most Seductive Address.”

Starring Terry O’ Quinn, 666 airs starting Sept. 30 after Revenge on Sundays.

ABC has finally gotten around to announcing the start dates for their 2012-13 schedule. CBS is launching almost all of their season during the week of September 24th. Most of ABC's will debut during that week as well but they're saving others for October.

Returning shows on ABC include 20/20, America's Funniest Home Videos, Castle, Dancing with the Stars, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, Grey's Anatomy, Happy Endings, Last Man Standing, The Middle, Modern Family, Once Upon a Time, Primetime: What Would You Do?, Private Practice, Revenge, Scandal, Shark Tank, and Suburgatory.

New ABC shows premiering this fall are 666 Park Avenue, Last Resort, Nashville, and The Neighbors. You can read brief descriptions of these new TV series.

Now, all of the broadcast networks have released their fall start dates. Check out the other networks here: CBS, The CW,...

Because all the cool kids are doing it, ABC has also released their Fall 2012 premiere dates throughout September and October, starting with the Friday, September 14th premiere of Shark Tank—which I can only assume will feature sharks wearing tanks in some mind-blowing fashion (perhaps tanks in sharks?)—and includes the return of sophomores Revenge and Once (both debuting on September 30) as well as comedies Modern Family (September 26) and Happy Endings (October 23). But what might be the most interesting decision is the placement of Connie Britton-led drama Nashville in October, putting their buzziest new series on the backburner. For more television nonsense, visit our complete guide to this year’s fall schedule and continue your dependency on our witty and knowledgeable insight on all things relating to television—because why wouldn’t you?

| Related: Your Guide To ABC's 2012-2013 Schedule |

Friday, September 14

8pm: Shark Tank

9pm: What Would You Do?...

ABC has finally unveiled the premiere date calendar for its fall lineup, which includes five new shows and one major Sunday night shift. Read on and plan your vacations accordingly...

Friday, September 14

8 p.m. Shark Tank

9 p.m. Primetime: What Would You Do?

10 pm 20/20

Monday, September 24

8 p.m. Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars

10 p.m. Castle

Tuesday, September 25

8 p.m. Dancing with the Stars Results Show

10 p.m. Private Practice

Wednesday, September 26

8 p.m. The Middle (one hour)

9 p.m. Modern Family

9:30 p.m. The Neighbors

Thursday, September 27

8 p.m. Last Resort

9 p.m. Grey’s Anatomy

10 p.m. Scandal

Sunday, September 30

8 p.m. Once Upon a Time

9 p.m. Revenge

10 p.m. 666 Park Avenue

Wednesday, October 10

10 p.m. Nashville

Wednesday, October 17

9:30 p.m. Suburgatory

Tuesday, October 23

9 p.m. Happy Endings

9:30 p.m. Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23

Friday, November 2

8 p.m.