Syfy’s released the first full trailer for season two of the comic book-inspired series, Krypton, along with the new season’s premiere date and poster. Krypton will return to the network’s primetime lineup on June 12, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT.
The trailer and premiere date announcement was timed to celebrate the first appearance of Superman in a comic book. The character debuted in Action Comics #1 on April 18, 1938.
The series’ cast is led by Cameron Cuffe (The Halcyon) as Seg-El. Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch) is Lyta-Zod, Shaun Sipos (The Vampire Diaries) is Adam Strange, Colin Salmon (Arrow) is General Dru-Zod, Ann Ogbomo (World War Z) is Jayna-Zod, and Aaron Pierre (Britannia) is Dev-Em. The cast also includes Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) as Kem, Wallis Day (Will) as Nyssa-Vex, Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) as Brainiac, and Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) as Val-El.
Krypton is based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Cameron Welsh (Constantine, The Last Ship) is the showrunner and executive produces with David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Dark Knight Trilogy).
The Plot, Courtesy of Syfy:
“What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, Krypton follows Seg-El (Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe.
Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow.
The full trailer for Child’s Play, the 2019 edition, reveals the Buddi dolls are programmed to control electronics within their owner’s home (think Alexa but with a creepy doll body). So not only can the homicidal doll kill its owner with actual weapons, Chucky’s going to be able to turn electronics against his targets. As if Chucky wasn’t creepy enough in the original films…
The cast of the 2019 Child’s Play includes Aubrey Plaza (Legion, Parks and Recreation), Gabriel Bateman (The Dangerous Book for Boys, Lights Out), and Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows). Mark Hamill (the Star Wars films) will be providing the voice of Chucky. Brad Dourif voiced the killer doll in the film franchise’s previous installments. Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) directed from a script by Tyler Burton Smith, based on characters created by Don Mancini.
Seth Graham-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions (It, It: Chapter Two) produced the new Child’s Play. The behind the scenes team includes cinematographer Brendan Uegama, editor Tom Elkins, production designer Dan Hermansen, costume designer Jori Woodman, and set decorator Rachel Robinson.
The Plot:
“A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic, Child’s Play follows Karen (Aubrey Plaza), a single mother who gifts her son Andy (Gabriel Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.”
CBS All Access’ original drama Strange Angel will return for its second season on Thursday, June 13, 2019. New episodes will be unveiled each Thursday to CBS All Access subscribers.
The subscription service’s premiere date announcement was accompanied by the release of the first teaser trailer for the upcoming second season.
The cast of Strange Angel includes Jack Reynor as Jack Parsons, Rupert Friend as Ernest Donovan, Bella Heathcote as Susan Parsons, and Peter Mark Kendall as Richard Onsted. Angus Macfadyen joined the season two cast playing Aleister Crowley.
The series is based on George Pendle’s book. Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins) created the series and executive produces with David DiGilio, Ridley Scott, and David W. Zucker. Clayton Krueger is a co-executive producer.
The Plot:
“The period drama explores the bizarre true story of Jack Parsons, a man who straddled the worlds of science and the occult, pioneering America’s rocketry program while simultaneously practicing sex magick rituals as a devotee to Aleister Crowley’s religion, Thelema.
At the conclusion of Strange Angel’s first season, Jack and his team from Caltech made a scientific breakthrough that secured the military’s interest as the country neared the brink of war. In season two, the U.S. is fully engaged in World War II, transforming Jack’s rocketry work into a lucrative business and further entrenching him in the military-industrial complex. While Jack’s career takes off, he and his wife Susan’s devotion to their new occult religion grows, leading them to invite the sex cult into their Pasadena mansion and Jack to forge a personal relationship with the group’s notorious founder, Aleister Crowley himself.”
Terry Gilliam’s commitment to making a Don Quixote movie spans nearly 30 years, encompasses multiple disasters on set, and dozens of casting changes. Financing came and went, and still Gilliam persisted. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the result of three decades of dedication to a basic idea, although the story itself changed and evolved over the years.
Adam Driver stars as Toby, an advertising director who takes a trip down a rabbit hole into the world of Javier the cobbler (an outstanding Jonathan Pryce) who’s under the impression he’s the actual Don Quixote. Javier had been cast to play the role in a student film 10 years prior and has transformed into a living and breathing Don Quixote, complete with tilting at windmills, ever since.
The slippery slope from reality to this particular delusion was made possible by Toby. 10 years ago he shot a student film and convinced Javier to play the part. Toby has since moved on, but Javier’s stuck in this twisted alternate reality in which he’s become the character. When Toby returns to the town to shoot a commercial featuring a different Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, he takes inspiration in his old student film to get over difficulties in the shoot.
Toby reconnects with Javier, still in character, and Javier mistakenly believes Toby is his friend, Sancho. Together, this unlikely duo faces new adventures as Miguel de Cervantes’ characters spring to life in the modern day.
Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.’
If you were able to completely understand every little nuance in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, then it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam film. Gilliam’s films can confound and frustrate, but they’re rarely boring or ordinary. His Don Quixote project is definitely not the latter. It’s weird, wild, and ultimately entertaining.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote could have used another round of editing to chip away some filler material, but the story is mesmerizing and driven by an outstanding performance by Adam Driver. Driver’s such a refreshing surprise among the current batch of actors in his age group. He’s proven himself fully capable of tackling a wide range of genres, and his deadpan delivery in Gilliam’s take on Don Quixote is pitch perfect. If there was ever a role that challenged Driver to just let loose and embrace the crazy, this is it. Driver nails Gilliam’s material, biting off the dialogue and dissolving into the lunacy with a perceptible glee.
Terry Gilliam’s resume as a director is a mix of brilliance (Brazil, Time Bandits, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and creative misfires (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Tideland, The Brothers Grimm). The Man Who Killed Don Quixote lies somewhere in the middle. Given the fact a Terry Gilliam Don Quixote project has been talked about for three decades, the end result is a bit of a letdown. But I do wonder if I didn’t know the backstory, if I wasn’t aware of all the fits and starts and had no inkling of Gilliam steadfastly clinging to a Don Quixote project for all these years, would I have viewed the finished film through different eyes? Maybe I expected too much given the number of years Gilliam had to prepare and sharpen the script.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is clever, confusing, and sure to delight Terry Gilliam fans. Adam Driver fans will also be entertained by the actor’s commitment to bringing this bizarre tale to life. There’s a specific audience out there ready to accept and appreciate The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but I think it’s also such a weird little film that it might just win over a new generation of Terry Gilliam admirers seeking relief from the ordinary.
GRADE: B-
Running Time: 132 minutes
Release Date: April 10, 2019 followed by an expanded release the week of April 15th
Directed By: Terry Gilliam
Written By: Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni
Presented By: Fathom Events and Screen Media Films
In the new promotional video for Rocketman, director Dexter Fletcher describes the project as “Elton John’s magical retelling of his own life.” Fletcher acknowledges that because of the nature of Sir Elton John, the “storytelling allowed us to totally indulge in fantasy and imagination.”
The minute and a half video focuses on Sir Elton John and his journey from a young musical prodigy to a singer/songwriter loved by billions across the globe. Rocketman star Taron Egerton notes that it’s amazing Elton John, a working class kid, became one of the biggest icons in the world. Jamie Bell, who plays John’s collaborator Bernie Taupin, says the film’s more than a biopic. “It’s exactly how an Elton John story should be told.”
“It had to be as honest as possible,” says the Rocketman himself, Elton John. “The lows were very low, but the highs were very high. And that’s how I wanted the film to be.”
The cast is led by Taron Egerton (the Kingsman films) as Elton John. Jamie Bell is Elton’s longtime lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin; Richard Madden plays Elton’s first manager, John Reid; and Bryce Dallas Howard is Elton’s mother, Sheila Farebrother. Matthew Vaughn, David Furnish, Adam Bohling, and David Reid served as producers, and Sir Elton John, Steve Hamilton Shaw, Michael Gracey, Claudia Schiffer, and Brian Oliver executive produced.
Paramount Pictures will release Rocketman in theaters on May 31, 2019.
The Plot:
Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight into international superstar Elton John. This inspirational story – set to Elton John’s most beloved songs and performed by star Taron Egerton – tells the universally relatable story of how a small-town boy became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture.
The CW’s announced their expanded 2019 summer primetime schedule will include the debut of six new series. The newcomers will join returning shows Burden of Truth, Masters of Illusion, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and The Outpost to make up the network’s summer lineup. In addition, four midseason series – iZombie, Jane the Virgin, In the Dark, and The 100 – will continue into the summer months.
The CW’s summer season kicks off on June 2nd with the second season premiere of Burden of Truth. Kristin Kreuk stars in the legal drama which will air on Sundays at 8pm ET/PT. Per the network: “After fighting for the justice of five sick girls in her hometown of Millwood, corporate attorney Joanna Chang (Kreuk) finds herself at a top law firm in Winnipeg ready to make a fresh start away from her previous firm. There, a new client draws her into the shadowy world of hackers, activists, and a political movement that won’t take any prisoners. The case leads Joanna through many twists and turns, until she eventually becomes a killer’s target. Her estranged father tries to assist her, which leads to an event that will change both their lives forever.”
Masters of Illusion returns for its sixth season with back-to-back episodes Friday, June 7th at 8pm ET/PT. The series debut of The Big Stage follows at 9pm ET/PT. Elizabeth Stanton and James Maslow host The Big Stage which is described as the “ultimate non-competitive platform for talented acts from around the world to display their mastery of performance, with disciplines ranging from singing and stand-up routines to impressive acrobatics and aerial dance, along with everything in between.”
The sixth season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us joins the network’s lineup on June 17th at 8pm ET/PT, with Whose Line Is It Anyway? taking the 9pm ET/PT time slot.
Season two of the fantasy drama The Outpost premieres on July 11th at 9pm ET/PT. The adventure series stars Imogen Waterhouse and Jessica Green and is executive produced by Dean Devlin, Jonathan Glassner, Marc Roskin, and Rachel Olschan-Wilson along with series creators Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin.
The Outpost season two picks up after the defeat of Dred. After reclaiming the Outpost, “Talon (Green) and Gwynn (Waterhouse) prepare for war. Talon delves deeper into demon summoning, while Gwynn recruits allies. The Prime Order trinity known as ‘The Three’ reveal mysterious powers as they send spies, assassins, and a devastating weapon to the Outpost. As Talon uncovers the legacy of her people, she must decide who to trust, and separate her real friends from her enemies before the Prime Order attacks.”
Details on The CW’s New Summer Series: (Premiere dates to be announced)
Bulletproof: Adrenalin-fueled and packed with compelling characters, Bulletproof follows two undercover cops, Bishop (Noel Clarke) and Pike (Ashley Walters) as they chase down hardened criminals in London’s East End. Despite their differences, Bishop and Pike work brilliantly together even when the chemistry between them looks set to explode.
Hypnotize Me:Hypnotize Me is a comedy game show, hosted by Taye Diggs. Based on the hit U.K. format (You’re Back In The Room), the show features physical comedy and unpredictable situations, as contestants work together in teams and are challenged to complete a variety of simple, everyday tasks, from frosting a cake to blowing up balloons… after being hypnotized. With big money at stake, these contestants need to work together as a team. However, their entranced states cause hysterical hurdles that not only sabotage their progress, but reveal aspects of their personalities neither they, their family nor their friends have ever before witnessed!
Mysteries Decoded: Over the course of each hour, the investigative documentary series Mysteries Decoded will delve deeper into some America’s greatest unsolved mysteries, exploring newly discovered evidence and utilizing high-tech tools in reopening each case. From Area 51 to the Salem Witch Trials, each investigation is led by Jennifer Marshall, an accomplished U.S. Navy veteran turned top-notch Private Investigator, as she mobilizes a team to embark on the formidable quest to bring closure to these long-lingering historical puzzles.
Pandora: Set in the year 2199, Pandora is a sci-fi action series about a resourceful young woman who has lost everything but finds a new life at Earth’s Space Training Academy where she and her friends learn to defend the galaxy from threats, both alien and human. When secrets about the nature of her own identity begin to surface, she must uncover the truth, and whether she will be humanity’s savior or the instrument of its destruction.
Red Bull Peaking:Red Bull Peaking is an unfiltered, intimate portrait of athletes, told in their own words and experienced from their perspective, during the 72-hour period immediately before, during and after a landmark event in their career. These up-close and personal narratives include iconic extreme sports stars Kelly McGarry, James Stewart and Jenny Rissveds.
Fox’s medical drama The Resident continues with season two episode 21 airing on Monday, April 22, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT. The episode’s titled “Stuck As Foretold” and finds the medical staff trying to treat patients during a blood shortage.
The season two cast includes Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, Emily VanCamp as Nicolette, and Manish Dayal as Devon Pravesh. Shaunette Renée Wilson is Mina Okafor, Malcolm-Jamal Warner is Dr. AJ Austin, Jane Leeves is Dr. Kit Voss, and Glenn Morshower plays Marshall Winthrop.
The “Stuck As Foretold” Plot – When the hospital has a severe blood shortage, Conrad must try every avenue to save a patient’s life. Nic receives devastating news and is left worrying about her sister’s health, while Mina and Devon work with a new anesthesiologist who is not what she seems. Elsewhere, Kit considers the future of her intertwining relationships and Bell has an encounter with a woman from his past.
The Season 2 Plot:
Season two finds star resident Dr. Conrad Hawkins continuing to make difficult calls in the best interests of his patients. But, having rekindled a romantic relationship with nurse Nicolette “Nic” Nevins, the two now must face unresolved issues from their past. Conrad’s father, Marshall Winthrop, has taken over as head of Chastain, and comes into direct conflict with the hospital’s newly minted CEO, Dr. Randolph Bell.
Meanwhile, Dr. Mina Okafor continues to work with her larger-than-life mentor, Dr. AJ Austin. However, the skills of new ortho surgeon Dr. Kitt Voss could lead Mina on a different path. First-year resident Dr. Devon Pravesh becomes intrigued by new medical device rep Julian Booth, whose presence at the hospital will upend business as usual for everyone there.
“She lied to us, Iris. Since the first day she got here…about Thawne,” exclaims Barry (Grant Gustin) to Iris (Candice Patton) and the rest of Team Flash, obviously reeling from the reveal of Nora’s big secret about being mentored by the Reverse Flash, Eobard Thawne, in the opening scene of The CW’s The Flash season five episode 18.
Barry’s understandably upset about discovering Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) has been lying to everyone since she arrived. The rest of the team’s also in shock, with the noticeable exception of Sherloque (Tom Cavanagh). When he’s asked how long he suspected Nora’s secret, Sherloque admits since he first met her. His admission further upsets Barry and Iris and they vent their anger at poor Sherloque instead of where it belongs…at Nora, which Sherloque calls them on before he walks out of the cortex.
Iris wants to give Nora a chance to explain but Barry reminds her they can’t trust anything she says. Ralph (Hartley Sawyer) points out the truth would be in Nora’s journal. Barry tells Ralph to read it from the beginning.
Cut to Central City 2049 where Nora is late to the crime scene of a chemical truck robbery. (This scene is reminiscent of the first scene of Barry heading to a crime scene in the series pilot.) After looking over the area and doing some investigating, Nora believes the robber could be a speedster.
Back at Central City’s CSI Lab, Nora’s best friend Lia (Kathryn Gallagher) is a little concerned with Nora’s obsession with the one case The Flash never solved: Cicada. Nora receives a call from her mom and lets it go to voicemail.
The speedster Nora’s tracking was looking for special chemicals and so she and Lia visit a scientist who might be able to give them insight on the speedster’s interest in those particular chemicals. As she and Lia are leaving, they’re surprised by a flash of white lightning. They run back in and see a tall white speedster. “Oh God,” says Nora. “Yes, I am a god. The God of Speed,” says the white speedster. He then hits Nora with lightning, sending her crashing into furniture and leaving her unconscious before speeding away.
Nora wakes up in the hospital with Lia watching over her and claims she feels good. Lia informs Nora her mother called because she almost died. And it turns out while the paramedics were working on Nora they discovered a piece of tech inside her.
As Lia’s talking she accidentally drops the container with the device and Nora grabs it using her super speed without even realizing it. Nora speeds around, out of control and ends up crashing into a truck. (Again, another scene paying homage to season one when Barry first discovered his speed.)
Nora and Lia practice her speed at the lab. They hear about a heist taking place and Nora speeds off to play hero but since she doesn’t have control yet of her speed, she actually ends up being more of a problem for the cops than the robbers.
Nora feels bad about what happened and vents to Lia who’s supportive and encouraging. She also tells Nora that after more digging she discovered the tech that came out of her was made by S.T.A.R. Labs over 20 years ago and was dampening her powers.
Nora says the regular police at the CCPD won’t be able to stop Godspeed but she can if she learns how to think like a villain speedster.
Nora visits Eobard Thawne in prison to pick his brain. Thawne quickly realizes via his powers of observation that Nora is a speedster. He won’t help her or answer any of her questions.
Lia and Nora get another lead on what chemical Godspeed will steal next and decide to try and get to it first. As the two young women try to move the heavy container of the chemical out, Godspeed shows up and again knocks Nora down (but not out) with his powers. Godspeed then speeds over to Lia, takes the chemical from her, and kills her with a vibrating speed punch. Nora can only scream, “No!” as she watches helplessly. Nora cradles Lia’s lifeless body in her arms in anguish.
Returning to present day and Team Flash reacts to what Ralph has been reading about Nora’s origin story. Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) believes Nora must have felt so alone, but Barry responds coldly, “She wasn’t.”
Iris heads to the pipeline, looks at a sulking Nora, and says, “Don’t make me regret this,” as she lets her out> They return to the cortex to tell the rest of Nora’s story to Barry and the team.
Back to 2049 where Nora is grieving the loss of her best friend. An older Iris walks in trying to be supportive and sensitive but actually comes off more like a nagging parent. Nora calls Iris out on Lia’s discovery of the tech inside her, and Iris admits having it put in her so she would never be a speedster. Iris isn’t apologetic at all, telling Nora she was protecting her from meta-humans and herself. Iris explains to Nora that she has lost so much she can’t lose her too. “Well, you just did,” replies Nora as she speeds off.
Back at her lab Nora’s informed by her boss they were able to analyze the DNA left by the speedster who killed Lia. His name is August Heart. Nora does some more digging at The Flash museum and realizes Godspeed’s lightning is turning blue like Zoom’s. He has been stealing the chemicals to try to make a stable version of Velocity 9. This discovery prompts Nora to visit Thawne again.
At first, Thawne refuses to help. But when she tells him Godspeed killed her best friend right in front of her, it seems to soften Thawne. (Is he reminded of what he did to Barry’s mother?) Thawne changes his mind and decides to help Nora catch Godspeed.
Using his cell’s one-way phone, Thawne coaches Nora. He has her speed up the side of the Central City Citizen Media building and across its rooftop with Godspeed chasing her. Thawne has Nora run in front of the satellite dishes and he gets hit by microwave pulses, knocking him out enough for the police to take him into custody.
Nora goes to see Thawne again and asks him to train her claiming he’s the only one who hasn’t lied to her. He tells her he can’t because his time on Earth is coming to an end, motioning to a countdown clock. “How much do you know about The Flash?” Thawne asks.
The next scene is of Nora rummaging through S.T.A.R. Labs, which has long been abandoned, and discovering Gideon. Gideon asks if she’d like to watch the video Barry recorded for her. Nora does and it appears to have been shot during a crisis. In the video Barry tells Nora if she’s watching it that means she’s a speedster like him. “I’m sorry I wasn’t there to help you learn how to use your powers. Remember my sweet Nora, I love you,” says Barry.
Back in present day, Nora wants her dad to understand her motivation. “I just wanted to see you, dad. Thawne showed me how.” Barry asks everyone for a minute alone with Nora. After Team Flash leaves, Barry asks how many times she went to see Thawne. She confesses it was five or six times. Barry says he understands why she came back to meet him and Team Flash. He can even understand her turning to Thawne for help, but he can’t condone her going back to him when she could have just reached out to them – especially after she learned Thawne killed Barry’s mother, her namesake.
“I don’t trust you, Nora. I can’t have anybody here with us that I don’t trust,” says Barry. “What are you saying?” asks an upset Nora. “It’s time for you to go home,” answers Barry as he speeds her back to 2049. “Please don’t do this, dad!” pleads Nora but Barry’s mind is made up. He warns her if she time travels again, he’ll feel it in the speed force. “Goodbye, Nora,” says Barry as he speeds off.
The final scene is with Thawne in his prison as he hears Barry speed in. “One wasn’t enough, you had to try to take my daughter from me too…My DAUGHTER!” yells Barry. “I knew you’d react like this, always so emotional. That’s why I had her keep this from you,” replies Thawne. “You can’t blame the little runner, Barry. She just wanted to spend some time with her dad. Don’t hold that against her,” says Thawne.
“You always thought you were so much smarter than us, Thawne, but you lost. And now you’re finally going to get what you deserve,” says Barry as he speeds off. The countdown clock is at 9:57 and ticking down.
The Flash Season 5 Episode 18 Review:
Suspenseful, tragic, and reminiscent of season one episode one, season five episode 18 titled “Godspeed” shows the origin of Nora becoming XS as well as the story behind her becoming Eobard Thawne’s speedster student – all because she wanted to live up to (and meet) her father, The Flash. Once again Jessica Parker Kennedy is center stage as Nora as she discovers her powers and the truth about her father who she never knew. What makes it work is transporting the show to 2049 Central City, a sleek and brighter version than the current day Central City.
Applause and accolades must be given to Danielle Panabaker who directed this episode and did an amazing job bringing the “vibe “and feel of the first season to it. Most impressive were the scenes between Nora and Thawne in 2049 and the final scene between Thawne and Barry. Here’s hoping Panabaker directs future episodes of the series.
With Barry banishing Nora back to her own time and Team Flash not aware of his decision, things are most likely to get heated between Barry and Iris which in turn will put unnecessary stress on the team.
The as-yet-untitled Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard series has expanded its cast by three. CBS All Access announced Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful, Mr. Mercedes) and Isa Briones (American Crime Story: Versace) have signed on as series regulars.
The new entry in the Star Trek franchise will star Sir Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard, the character he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: Next Generation. The upcoming series will follow Picard in the next chapter of his life. The cast also includes Santiago Cabrera (Big Little Lies), Michelle Hurd (Lethal Weapon), and Evan Evagora, all of whom were previously announced as joining the series.
Alex Kurtzman, James Duff, Akiva Goldsman, Patrick Stewart, Michael Chabon, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth are on board as executive producers. CBS Television Studios is producing the series in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
In addition to his starring roles in Penny Dreadful and Mr. Mercedes, Harry Treadaway’s credits include Gringo with Charlize Theron, The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, and Honeymoon opposite Rose Leslie. Treadaway recently completed work on the fourth season of The Crown.
Isa Briones was part of the First National Touring Company of Hamilton and won an L.A. Ovation Award for Next to Normal.
Alison Pill’s credits include the Oscar-nominated film Vice starring Christian Bale as Vice President Dick Cheney, Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain, Snowpiercer starring Chris Evans, and Scott Pilgrim vs the World with Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Pill was recently featured in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Cult which revolved around the 2016 presidential election. She just wrapped up work on the first season of FX’s DEVS.
NBC’s New Amsterdam edges closer to the first season finale with episode 19 titled “Happy Place.” The new episode will air on April 23, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT and features the medical team attempting to save a police officer.
The cast of season one includes Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin, Janet Montgomery (Salem, This Is Us) as Dr. Lauren Bloom, Tyler Labine (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) as Dr. Iggy Frome, and Jocko Sims (The Last Ship, Masters of Sex) as Dr. Floyd Reynolds. Freema Agyeman (Sense8, The Carrie Diaries) is Dr. Helen Sharpe and Anupam Kher (The Indian Detective) plays Dr. Vijay Kapoor.
The “Happy Place” Plot – When a NYPD officer is hit by a car in the line of duty, the hospital is turn upside down trying to save her. Meanwhile, Kapoor (Kher) and Iggy (Labine) work with a patient struggling with a previous surgery.
The Season 1 Plot:
“Inspired by Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin (Eggold), the institution’s newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. How can he help? Well, the doctors and staff have heard this before.
Not taking “no” for an answer, Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital — the only one in the world capable of treating Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers and the President of the United States under one roof — and return it to the glory that put it on the map.”
Margot Bingham as Evie Garrison, Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe, and Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in ‘New Amsterdam’ season 1 episode 19 (Photo by: Zach Dilgard/NBC)Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds in season 1 episode 19 (Photo by: Zach Dilgard/NBC)Lauren Ridloff as Margot and Gameela Wright as Dr. Christiansen in season 1 episode 19 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Tyler Labine as Dr. Iggy Frome in season 1 episode 19 (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in season 1 episode 19 (Photo by: Zach Dilgard/NBC)
