Daisy Ridley describes the difficulties Trudy Ederle faced while attempting to break down barriers in Disney’s Young Woman and the Sea new featurette. Ridley and director Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) shine the light on Ederle’s incredible, record-breaking achievements, with producer Jerry Bruckheimer describing Ederle’s accomplishments as the ultimate underdog story.
In addition to Ridley, the inspirational film stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston, and Glenn Fleshler. Jeff Nathanson adapted Glenn Stout’s Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World and serves as a producer along with Chad Oman. Joachim Rønning, Daisy Ridley, and John G. Scotti executive produce.
“Daisy Ridley stars as the accomplished swimmer who was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905,” reads Disney’s synopsis. “Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the staggering achievement – a 21-mile trek from France to England.”
Young Woman and the Sea opens in theaters for a special engagement on May 31, 2024.
The one-minute teaser for Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent opens with Rusty Sabich (Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal) explaining that people misunderstand love. It needs time to grow. And in Rusty’s case, love has grown to involve an extramarital affair with a fellow prosecutor.
In addition to Gyllenhaal, the eight-episode limited series stars Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, and Nana Mensah. Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard and Kingston Rumi Southwick also star in the thriller based on Scott Turow’s bestselling novel.
“The gripping series takes viewers on a journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich is suspected of the crime,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis. “The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in ‘Presumed Innocent’ (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)
Presumed Innocent will premiere on June 12, 2024 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes will stream on Wednesdays.
The series comes from Emmy winner David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams. Kelley executive produces and serves as showrunner, with Rachel Rusch, Matthew Tinker, Dustin Thomason, Sharr White, and series star Jake Gyllenhaal also executive producing. Author Scott Turow is a co-executive producer. Anne Sewitsky directs episodes one, two, and eight, with Greg Yaitanes directing episodes three through seven. Sewitsky and Yaitanes also executive produce.
The series is a Bad Robot Productions and David E. Kelley Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
We’re down to the final three new episodes of CBS’s CSI: Vegas with season three episode eight which features a bizarre case involving a plastinated nervous system. Directed by Gina Lamar from a script by Gabriel Ho, episode eight – “The Artist is Present” – will air on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 10pm ET/PT. The season/series finale is set for May 19th.
Season three stars Paula Newsome as Maxine Roby, Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, Matt Lauria as Joshua Folsom, and Mandeep Dhillon as Allie Rajan. Ariana Guerra is Detective Serena Chavez, Lex Medlin plays Beau Finado, and Jay Lee is Chris Park.
“The Artist Is Present” Plot: The CSI team investigates when a plastinated nervous system is found hanging above a local car dealership. Also, Chavez and Max search for a missing source in their ongoing investigation of the robotics factory.
CSI: Vegas returns for its third season and continues the legacy of the global hit franchise. Amidst the neon lights and long shadows, dark threats lurk in Sin City. Maxine Roby (Newsome) leads her brilliant team of crime scene investigators – Catherine Willows (Helgenberger), Allie Rajan (Dhillon), Detective Serena Chavez (Guerra), Chris Park (Lee) and Beau Finado (Medlin) – as they use science to solve baffling mysteries. Chief among them: who framed their colleague, Joshua Folsom (Lauria), for a gruesome murder?
The most daunting and dangerous cases in the history of this storied franchise are coming, and the team will have to deploy the latest forensic techniques to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.
Prime Video’s ordered The Better Sister to series with Emmy nominee Jessica Biel (The Sinner) and three-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Banks (Modern Family, 30 Rock) attached to star. Biel and Banks will also executive produce the thriller, based on Alafair Burke’s bestseller.
The Better Sister has Olivia Milch (Ocean’s 8) and Regina Corrado (Mayor of Kingstown) on board as showrunners. Both will executive produce the series along with Fortunate Jack Productions’ Craig Gillespie (Pam & Tommy) and Annie Marter. Additional executive producers include Michelle Purple and Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner. Gillespie is also confirmed to direct.
“Beyond being an enticing thriller full of twists and turns, The Better Sister is a gripping story about family feuds and forgiveness,” stated Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios. “The brilliant duo of Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are sure to bring these characters to life in the most authentic way alongside Olivia, Regina, Craig, and the talented team at Tomorrow Studios. The series is in the best hands to bring Alafair Burke’s original IP to life for our global Prime Video customers.”
Author Burke will be involved as a consultant.
“We are so grateful to Tomorrow Studios for supporting us as we’ve explored the world of this family,” said Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, executive producers and showrunners. “Craig Gillespie, who tells vital and bold stories of people willing to go to extremes, brought the perfect vision for the series. And we couldn’t feel luckier to have Jessica and Elizabeth, who have awed us with their rich and layered work, as partners bringing these sisters and their secrets to life.”
“I’m excited to be re-teaming with Tomorrow Studios on this taut psychological thriller,” said Craig Gillespie, director and executive producer. “When I read Olivia and Regina’s propulsive scripts, I knew I wanted to be a part of it, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with these two world-class actresses for the first time. Watching them as rivaling sisters is going to be a blast.”
Prime Video offered this synopsis of the series:
The Better Sister is an electric thriller about the terrible things that drive sisters apart and ultimately bring them back together. Chloe (Biel) moves through the world with her handsome lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) hustles to make ends meet while trying to stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, laying bare long-buried secrets.
Fox’s The Cleaning Lady season three episode nine picks up in the aftermath of the big revelation about Jeremy. Episode nine, “From the Ashes,” airs on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 8pm ET/PT.
Elodie Yung leads the cast as Thony, Martha Millan plays Fiona, Kate del Castillo is Ramona Sanchez, and Eva De Dominici is Nadia. Santiago Cabrera plays Jorge, Faith Bryant is Jaz, and Sean Lew plays Chris. Mayans MC‘s Clayton Cardenas guest stars as Dante and Brandon Jay McLaren guest stars as Jeremy.
“From The Ashes” Plot: Ramona considers an offer from Thony that causes a shift in their dynamic. Jorge teams up with Nadia as a way to use her connections and Russo’s team gets closer to breaking their case open.
The stakes in season three are higher and more intense than ever. This season, Thony turns her efforts to bringing Fiona back to the US after she was deported to the Philippines, devising an extraction plan with Arman (Adan Canto) using Nadia’s plane. When he mysteriously disappears, Thony and Nadia begrudgingly team together to look for him.
Meanwhile, Fiona tries to manage the aftermath of her deportation to the Philippines while Thony explores drastic measures to get her back home as well as search for answers regarding Arman. While Thony is relieved that Luca’s medical issues have improved, he and Thony face a new threat that may keep them apart, while Chris makes a careless decision to help his mother Fiona but may jeopardize their futures as well as that of Jaz’s.
As Thony’s journey continues to unfold, she is completely alone. Her world is turned upside down as she fights to protect her family, forcing her to take steps that deepen a new association with a dangerous Cartel.
Bryan Cranston and Ty Burrell set up ‘Tightrope!’ comedy series (Photos Provided by Roku)
Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (Modern Family) is on board to star in and executive produce Tightrope!, a new comedy just greenlit by Roku. Six-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) will executive produce the six-episode season and his production company, Moonshot Entertainment, is attached to produce along with Burrell’s Desert Whale Productions and Village Roadshow Television.
“I was inspired by the on-the-nose old drama series of the ’50s, to mess with the whole thing and create a new version of a lunatic comedy, never seen before in a TV series. Tightrope is a result of a fever dream and conceived over a bowl of chili at Chasens, savvy?” stated Bryan Cranston. And Burrell said, “I’m so thrilled to be working with Bryan, and Roku Originals, on this bonkers (in the best way) idea of a show.”
Additional executive producers include Adam Small, Fax Bahr, and Moonshot Entertainment’s James Degus. Small and Bahr will direct the series.
Roku offered this series description, inspired by the crime drama that aired on CBS in 1959 and 1960: “Through reimagined dialogue and a new lead actor in Ty Burrell, Tightrope! reshapes the drama of the vintage 1950s series into a slapstick comedy, where Burrell plays a lone wolf detective following cases city to city, while he searches for his long-lost love who got away.”
“Since Tightrope! is a comedy about a detective (and finding a Wallenda seemed off-brand) we’re thrilled to have Ty Burrell and Bryan Cranston join us at Roku for this imaginative, funny series,” said Charlie Collier, President, Roku Media. “What a joy to welcome Ty and Bryan to the Roku Originals lineup, along with the Moonshot and Desert Whale teams and our partners at Village Roadshow Television. We’re pleased to add Tightrope! to our growing originals slate to delight our audiences.”
TNT’s The Lazarus Project season two trailer shows the world’s in jeopardy and George has to figure out what/who he’s fighting for. The trailer also warns that the only way forward is back. Sounds incredibly ominous when you throw in the creation of a time machine.
Season two stars Emmy and BAFTA nominee Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Anjli Mohindra (Bodyguard), Tom Burke (Strike), Caroline Quentin (Bridgerton), Rudi Dharmalingam (Wakefield), and Charly Clive (Pure). Julian Murphy, Johnny Capps, Joe Barton, and Sky Studios’ Paul Gilbert executive produce.
“In the new season, resolute Lazarus agent George (Essiedu) has been left in disgrace after betraying the organization in the name of love. He is determined to redeem himself and win back the trust of his friends, colleagues, and the love of his life,” reads TNT’s synopsis. “But when he discovers that the cause he is fighting for is more sinister than it appears, George suspects that the only person he can really trust is himself.”
Season two premieres on Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT.
Manifest‘s Melissa Roxburgh guest stars as Colter’s sister, Dr. Dory Shaw, in CBS’s Tracker season one episode 11. Colter’s talked about his sister occasionally over the first 10 episodes, but episode 11 – “Beyond the Campus Walls – marks the first time we’ll meet her. Directed by Joel Novoa from a script by Travis Donnelly, episode 11 airs on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT.
And speaking of Colter’s family, Supernatural‘s Jensen Ackles guest stars in season one episode 12 as Colter’s brother, Russell Shaw.
Justin Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, Fiona Rene plays Reenie Greene, and Robin Weigert is Teddi. Abby McEnany stars as Velma and Eric Graise is Bobby Exley.
“Beyond the Campus Walls” Plot: When a grad student goes missing after a house party, his friends and family believe he buckled under the pressure of his research grant. But, after consulting with his sister Dr. Dory Shaw (Roxburgh), a professor at the school, Colter uncovers a trail of explicit photos and messages that lead him to uncover a dangerous – and deadly – conspiracy on campus.
Tracker stars Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a reward seeker, using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family. The series is based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver.
The final trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes reveals more about Mae, shows brutal ape-on-ape fight sequences, and ends with Proximus demanding Noa bend the knee. The Witcher‘s Freya Allan stars as Mae, a woman who’s retained the ability to speak and knows all of the humans’ secrets.
The first film of the new chapter of the franchise also stars Owen Teague (IT), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key), Peter Macon (Shameless), and William H. Macy (Fargo). Wes Ball (Maze Runner trilogy) directs from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Patrick Aison, based on characters created by Jaffa and Silver.
“Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows,” reads 20th Century Studios’ synopsis. “As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”
Ball, Jaffa, Silver, Joe Hartwick Jr., and Jason Reed serve as producers, with Peter Chernin (the Planet of the Apes trilogy) and Jenno Topping executive producing.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes opens in theaters on May 10, 2024.
CBS’s Ghosts concludes its shortened third season with the much-anticipated wedding of Isaac and Nigel. Season three episode 10, “Isaac’s Wedding,” airs on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 8:30pm ET/PT. Christine Gernon directed from a script by Lauren Bridges and John Timothy.
Rose McIver stars as Sam, Utkarsh Ambudkar is Jay, Brandon Scott Jones is Isaac, and Richie Moriarty is Pete. Danielle Pinnock plays Alberta, Asher Grodman is Trevor, Román Zaragoza is Sasappis, Rebecca Wisocky plays Hetty, Devan Chandler Long stars as Thorfinn, and Sheila Carrasco is Flower.
“Isaac’s Wedding” Plot: Isaac’s wedding day jitters are exacerbated by the arrival of a surprise guest, on the third season finale.
Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha (Sam) and Jay, a cheerful freelance journalist and up-and-coming chef from the city, respectively, who threw both caution and money to the wind when they decided to convert Woodstone Mansion, which Sam in inherited, into a bed & breakfast – only to find it was inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home.
The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer (Danielle Pinnock); a pompous 18th-century militiaman (Brandon Scott Jones); an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader (Richie Moriarty); a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009 (Devon Chandler Long); a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens (Sheila Carrasco); a slick ‘90s finance bro (Asher Grodman); a sarcastic and witty native from the 16th-century (Román Zaragoza); and a society woman and wife of a 19th-century robber baron who is Sam’s ancestor (Rebecca Wisocky), to name a few.
The opening of the B&B has been a source of intrigue, anxiety and curiosity among the spirits, but they will gladly put up with the commotion as long as they can continue to interact with a living inhabitant.
