Ryan Murphy reunites with his American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson for the Netflix series, Ratched. The just-released batch of photos and poster show Paulson playing Nurse Mildred Ratched, one of the most memorable characters from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Louise Fletcher played Nurse Ratched in the critically acclaimed 1975 film. Fletcher earned a Best Actress Oscar for her performance, Jack Nicholson scored a Best Actor Oscar, and Milos Forman was named Best Director. The film also took home Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars.
The cast of Murphy and Ian Brennan’s latest drama also includes Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, and Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson. Charlie Carver play Huck, Alice Englert is Dolly, Amanda Plummer is Louise, Corey Stoll is Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo is Charlotte, and Vincent D’Onofrio plays Gov. George Wilburn.
Murphy, Brennan, and Paulson executive produce along with Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Michael Douglas, Robert Mitas, and Tim Minear.
Netflix has set a September 18, 2020 premiere date for the eight-episode series.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.
On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.
The first season of The CW’s newest superhero series, Stargirl, continues with episode 12, “Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One.” Episode 12, the penultimate episode, was directed by Toa Fraser from a script by Melissa Carter and will air August 4, 2020 at 8pm ET/PT.
Brec Bassinger (Bella and the Bulldogs, School of Rock) leads the cast as Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl. The season one cast also includes Luke Wilson as Pat Dugan, Amy Smart as Barbara Whitmore, Trae Romano as Mike Dugan, Yvette Monreal as Yolanda Montez, Neil Jackson as Jordan Mahkent, and Anjelika Washington as Beth Chapel. Christopher James Baker plays Henry King Sr, Jake Austin Walker is Henry King Jr, Meg DeLacy is Cindy Burman, Cameron Gellman is Rick Tyler, and Hunter Sansone plays Cameron.
“Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E Part One” Plot: AND SO IT BEGINS — With the ISA on their trail, Courtney (Bassinger), Pat (Wilson) and the team regroup to figure out their next steps. Meanwhile, Rick (Gellman) makes a breakthrough, and the team prepares for a showdown with the ISA.
Season 1 Description, Courtesy of The CW
When Courtney’s (Bassinger) seemingly perfect life in Los Angeles gets upended with a move to Blue Valley, Nebraska with her mother Barbara (Smart), stepfather Pat (Wilson) and stepbrother Mike (Romano), she finds herself struggling to adapt to her new town and high school. But when Courtney discovers that Pat is harboring a major secret about his past, she ultimately becomes the unlikely inspiration for a new generation of superheroes.
Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica Swale makes her directorial debut with IFC Films’ Summerland. The just-released clip from the drama features Gemma Arterton explaining what Summerland is to a young boy played by Lucas Bond.
Arterton and her Summerland co-star Gugu Mbatha Raw reunited with Swale after starring in her award-winning play, Nell Gwynn. The cast of Swale’s feature film directorial debut also includes Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay.
“Summerland is a pagan idea of what heaven is,” stated Swale. “It’s a notion of a place that exists alongside ours. And the idea that you can communicate between Summerland and normal life by leaving signs or messing with the edges is something that’s not specifically pagan, that’s borrowed from a notion of lots of different myths and legends. It’s more about what Summerland represents. It represents the possibility of something beyond and of something magical.”
Swale’s behind the scenes team includes director of photography Laurie Rose, production designer Christina Moore, editor Tania Reddin, and costume designer Claire Finlay-Thompson.
Summerland opens in select theaters and on VOD/Digital platforms on July 31, 2020.
Gemma Arterton stars in ‘Summerland’ (Photo Courtesy of IFC Films)
The Plot:
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she’s to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she’s resistant. It’s not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
Melanie Field and Dakota Fanning in ‘The Alienist’ season 2 episode 3 (Photograph by Kata Vermes / TNT)
TNT’s The Alienist season two episode three begins with Sara (Dakota Fanning) being hypnotized by Laszlo (Daniel Brühl). She doesn’t want to subject Señora Linares to something she does not fully believe in, so she tries it out for herself.
She sees herself as a child, 12 years old and running with a balloon. She seems happy until she looks down and notices her hands are covered in blood. She somehow wakes herself up and tells Laszlo to stop.
The Isaacson brothers join Sara, Laszlo, and John (Luke Evans) at Sara’s office to examine the clothing the Napp baby was found in. It appears to have a black substance on it and when Sara’s assistant, Milly (Georgia Lowe), asks what it is they reveal it’s charcoal and blood.
Upon further examination of the baby’s dress it appears to be handmade. They’re debating whether Dr. Markoe has done this or a woman, perhaps a woman who is angry. Maybe she can’t have a child or lost a child.
Another of Sara’s employees, Bitsy (Melanie Field), comes in with a list of donors to the Lying-In Hospital since this particular hospital relies on donations. John recognizes one of their names. Sara asks if they can meet with him.
Later, Sara meets John at his fencing practice where he’s sparring with his friend Ogden Gildersleeve (Paul Reid), the donor John recognized. John pretends Sara’s visit is unexpected and Ogden seems to take a liking to Sara. He agrees to lend his help, however, she needs it.
At the hospital, the woman we saw in the last episode giving birth is asking the doctor where her baby is. He simply states, “I’m afraid your child is with the angels now.” The woman becomes hysterical and they inject her with drugs to calm her down.
Sara takes a trip to the hospital and finds a room full of women lined up and breastfeeding. Another woman is being held down and having medication shoved down her throat. The matron (Heather Goldenhersh) finds her and asks if she’s lost. After introducing herself to the matron, she informs her she’s there to see Dr. Markoe.
In his office, Dr. Markoe (Michael McElhatton) recognizes Sara from the Martha Napp execution. She thinks he seems unconcerned the baby’s body was discovered after Martha was put to death. He tries to tell her that’s not true and she gets to the point; the baby was found poisoned with a substance that can be found in his hospital. She asks what happened the night the baby went missing. He attempts to blame the staff, calling them simple ward girls.
Sara wonders if there’s a report from that night and he tells her there isn’t. He claims they have nothing to hide and agrees she can see the room where Martha was kept.
The matron explains she was kept in a room by herself due to the fact she had a bowel infection. Sara asks if this infection was written down somewhere, surely in Martha’s file. If so, Sara would like to see it. The matron claims they can’t be giving it out to anyone.
The matron turns her attention to a nurse and asks why a patient is sleeping. It’s discovered she’s bleeding heavily. After the matron berates the nurse, she leaves to get the doctor. Sara takes that opportunity to question the nurse who introduces herself as Libby (Rosy McEwen). Sara is curious if she knew Martha Napp and if this was Martha’s room. (She doesn’t believe the matron.) Her suspicions are correct. Libby says, “It was when she came, but not the night you are talking about.”
Before Sara can ask anything further, the matron and doctor arrive and ask Libby to show Sara out.
On their way out, Sara asks Libby if she can tell her more about the maternal research ward. She asks if that was where Martha was kept that night. Libby states no, she was in delivery and postpartum. She adds that Martha’s roommate from that night won’t tell her anything. “But you will, won’t you?” asks Sara.
Libby says she can’t and doesn’t know what happened to Martha’s baby. She adds that none of them do.
Their conversation is abruptly cut short when a woman screams. A nurse is attempting to de-lice her, but the nurse seems to be pulling out her hair. The matron comes running in to help as the nurse is being overly aggressive and suggesting they chop off her hair. The matron tells the nurse, Colleen, to go to the doctor’s office immediately. The nurse responds with a firm, “No.”
Sara has been taking all this in and says if she the nurse doesn’t want to go to the doctor’s office, she’s quite certain she doesn’t have to. The matron doesn’t pay her any attention and says, “Colleen, you are to go to the doctor’s office right now!”
After stabbing the scissors into a bedside table, Colleen leaves.
Laszlo puts Martha and her baby to rest, throwing the blanket Martha gave him in the grave.
The Isaacson brothers are back at their lab discussing how strange it is for the baby’s stomach to be with them, but the child has already been buried. Marcus (Douglas Smith) talks about how we have a soul and conscience, while Lucius’ thinking is more along the lines of bodies being made of biological material. Lucius seems off and Marcus asks if something’s wrong. Lucius (Matthew Shear) tells him no. So far, the brothers have found poison, powdered carbon, and breastmilk in the baby’s system.
Sara’s waiting outside the hospital in her carriage for Libby to leave the hospital. She spots the young woman and offers to take her to lunch. When Libby seems hesitant Sara promises she can trust her.
Over lunch, Sara asks how the woman from earlier is doing – the one who was bleeding. Libby says she’s fine and then admits she knows why Sara invited her to lunch but claims she doesn’t know very much. Sara wants to know if anyone came and asked questions and wrote stuff done, and Libby says yes. When Sara asks if she would be able to see that report, Libby becomes nervous and says she must return to work soon. Sara assures her they still have time and Libby spots a photo of Sara’s dad she keeps in her watch. They soon realize they, unfortunately, have something in common. Both their fathers committed suicide.
Before parting ways after lunch, Sara confides in her that another baby has gone missing and she believes they are connected. Sara tells Libby who the missing child is and notes that baby once stayed at the hospital. Libby remembers them and recalls it was all very hush-hush. Libby says the matron kept that baby close to her and wouldn’t let anyone near the baby. Sara asks if she knows where the matron lives.
Obviously the answer was yes as Sara shows up at the matron’s place. An older tenant stops her from trying to enter the apartment and Sara tries to play it off saying she was going to knock but didn’t want to wake the baby. The woman informs her that tenant doesn’t have a child. Sara asks if the woman ever brings babies home. The neighbor says she used to from time to time but hasn’t done so in quite a while.
When Sara asks if she remembers the last time she brought a baby home, the woman reveals the last one she brought home she really showered with attention. But, she had to give her back. She adds that it was sad because she can’t have a child of her own.
Back at the hospital, the woman who just gave birth and lost her child wakes ups to see the matron trying on a gorgeous gown the rich man who got her pregnant sent over. The woman begins to cry, stating she doesn’t want the dress. Bizarrely, the matron dances around the room in the dress.
Libby sneaks into where the files are kept and secures Martha’s file. She suddenly hears the doctor’s voice draw near and he’s standing in front of the door. She overhears him talking to former chief Thomas Byrnes (Ted Levine) and complaining about Sara Howard showing up there. He explains the matron caught her snooping and he’s sure the hospital’s donors wouldn’t like what’s going on. Thomas asks if there’s anything to unearth on the Martha Napp case that could connect the hospital to the missing Spanish baby. Markoe assures him of course there isn’t and both men finally walk away.
Emily Barber and Luke Evans in ‘The Alienist’ season 2 episode 3 (Photograph by Kata Vermes / TNT)
Violet (Emily Barber) shows up at The New York Times with her little dog and asks John about the papers he’s holding. He reveals they’re death certificates of the babies at the Lying-In Hospital. Regretting she asked, she asks him not to tell her such horrible stories because they’ll give her nightmares. She’s actually there to obtain the guestlist for their upcoming wedding.
Sara pays Laszlo a visit while he’s in a session with a boy. He allows her to come in and watch. After the session, he asks if she’s gotten anywhere with the Martha Napp case. She says sadly no, but she feels she has a confidant who will help. She has suspicions about the matron. Laszlo thinks they’ve reached an impasse. Sara informs him not quite; Señora Linares has agreed to be hypnotized.
As the session begins, Señor Linares (Diego Martin) is skeptical. Sara assures him she herself has been hypnotized and it will be all right. Laszlo asks Señora Linares (Bruna Cusí) what she sees. She describes a painting in the Metropolitan Museum and he instructs her to turn away from the painting. We see her walking in the park outside the museum. As Laszlo repeatedly asks who or what she sees, she faints.
While Marcus goes over what he discovered about the chemicals mixed together in the baby’s body, Lucius’ guilty conscience gets the best of him and he confesses he needs to tell his brother something. He reveals he did something horrible and explains Thomas came to see him one day and he told him about the Linares case. Marcus asks why he would do that and Lucius explains Thomas had threatened Marcus. Thomas warned he would find a way to destroy Marcus if he didn’t give him information about the Linares case.
John, Sara, and Laszlo discuss what went wrong with Señora Linares and how they could fix it for the next session. Señora Linares once was a painter so she sees things very vividly. John suggests maybe they can get her to paint next time. Sara believes they should ask Señora Linares’ art teacher, Cecilia Beaux, to assist them.
Cecilia agrees to help them since the baby’s life is at stake.
Laszlo puts Señora Linares under again and asks where she is. She relives her visit to the park outside the Museum of Art on the day her baby disappeared. She describes where she is and they realize she’s at The Tea House. She believes she’s being watched and describes a dark presence that’s threatening her as female. She can’t see it, but she can feel it. She’s afraid. “She is close. I feel it. I can sense it,” says Señora Linares.
She sees a flash, like a gunshot. She sees the woman and describes her heart as beating fast. She wakes and says it is gone.
Sara and Milly go to The Tea House to investigate and Sara spots a photographer. When he takes a photo, there’s a flash – like a gunshot. She tells Milly to ask him if he still has anything from that day.
Libby meets Sara outside her building and hands over the Martha Napp file. She needs to put it back before anyone realizes it’s missing. Libby has to leave and asks if she can pick up the file from Sara the following day.
It’s the night of John’s bachelor party and he doesn’t seem interested in it, wanting to call it a night early on. Ogden tries to talk him out of it and suggests they slum it somewhere and get a nightcap. John agrees but says he gets to choose where they’re going.
Laszlo picks up on John’s subdued behavior and asks if they should have a toast together. They toast to John’s grandmother who would be happy John is marrying Violet.
Sara’s still at her office looking over papers when John and Laszlo show up asking her to join them. At first, she declines because she isn’t interested in attending John’s bachelor party. He insists this part of the evening will be an intimate setting with his closest friends. She picks up on Laszlo being intoxicated and finally agrees.
Sara tells them in the carriage she has the file on Martha Napp and her baby. She also informs them of her plan to have someone go into the hospital undercover. She thinks she’ll send in her assistant, Bitsy.
The group shows up at the Oyster Saloon where they know the bar owner. (It’s the same bar they were in looking for Goo Goo Knox.) Cyrus (Robert Wisdom) the owner congratulates John on his engagement while Sara asks Ogden about getting someone employed at the Lying-In Hospital. He admits it sounds very cloak and dagger-ish but seems happy to help her.
John asks Cyrus if his daughter is still studying the law. She is, but Cyrus admits this isn’t the best place for her to do that. John recalls she used to work for the newspaper in Philly and suggests maybe he can get her a job at The New York Times. Cyrus is stunned by the suggestion and very appreciative of the offer.
Laszlo draws everyone’s attention so he can deliver a toast to John. Surprisingly, it’s a very touching, heartfelt, and beautiful speech. With the way Laszlo is you never know what’s going to come out of his mouth. Most of the time he manages to offend someone, but not in this instance.
As the episode ends, we see baby Anna crying and a woman picking her up. Of course we can’t see the woman, but whoever it is appears to be breastfeeding the baby.
Regina King stars in ‘Watchmen’ (Photo by Mark Hill/HBO)
HBO’s Watchmen and Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel pulled in the most 72nd Emmy Awards nominations, but it was Disney+’s The Mandalorian and its 15 nominations that proved to be biggest surprise. The Mandalorian even snagged a Best Drama Series nod where it will be competing against Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Killing Eve, Ozark, Stranger Things, and Succession.
Watchmen‘s 26 topped the list followed by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with 20. Overall, Netflix was way ahead of the pack with an incredible 160 nominations.
Jimmy Kimmel will host and executive produce the 72nd Emmy Awards set for September 20, 2020 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC.
2020 Emmy Awards Nominees in Key Categories:
Best Comedy Series
”Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO)
“Dead to Me” (Netflix)
“The Good Place” (NBC)
“Insecure” (HBO)
“The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
“Schitt’s Creek” (Pop)
“What We Do in the Shadows” (FX)
Best Drama Series
”Better Call Saul” (AMC)
“The Crown” (Netflix)
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)
“Killing Eve” (BBC)
“The Mandalorian” (Disney+)
“Ozark” (Netflix)
“Stranger Things” (Netflix)
“Succession” (HBO)
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson — “Black-ish” (ABC)
Don Cheadle — “Black Monday” (Showtime)
Ted Danson — “The Good Place” (NBC)
Michael Douglas — “The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
Eugene Levy — “Schitt’s Creek” (CBC Television)
Ramy Youssef — “Ramy” (Hulu)
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Christina Applegate — “Dead to Me” (Netflix)
Rachel Brosnahan — “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
Linda Cardellini — “Dead to Me” (Netflix)
Catherine O’Hara — “Schitt’s Creek” (CBC Television)
Issa Rae — “Insecure” (HBO)
Tracee Ellis Ross — “Black-ish” (ABC)
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Prime Video)
D’Arcy Carden – “The Good Place” (NBC)
Betty Gilpin – “GLOW” (Netflix)
Marin Hinkle – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Prime Video)
Kate McKinnon – “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Annie Murphy – “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop TV)
Yvonne Orji – “Insecure” (HBO)
Cecily Strong – “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Mahershala Ali – “Ramy” (Hulu)
Alan Arkin – “The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
Andre Braugher – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (NBC)
Sterling K. Brown – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
William Jackson Harper – “The Good Place” (NBC)
Daniel Levy – “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop TV)
Tony Shalhoub – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
Kenan Thompson – “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman — “Ozark” (Netflix)
Sterling K. Brown — “This Is Us” (NBC)
Steve Carell — “The Morning Show” (Apple)
Brian Cox — “Succession” (HBO)
Billy Porter — “Pose” (FX)
Jeremy Strong — “Succession” (HBO)
Best Actress in a Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston — “The Morning Show” (Apple)
Olivia Colman — “The Crown” (Netflix)
Jodie Comer — “Killing Eve” (BBC)
Laura Linney — “Ozark” (Netflix)
Sandra Oh — “Killing Eve” (BBC)
Zendaya — “Euphoria” (HBO)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Nicholas Braun – “Succession” (HBO)
Billy Crudup – “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)
Kieran Culkin – “Succession” (HBO)
Mark Duplass – “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)
Giancarlo Esposito – “Better Call Saul” (AMC)
Matthew Macfadyen – “Succession” (HBO)
Bradley Whitford – “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)
Jeffrey Wright – “Westworld” (HBO)
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Helena Bonham Carter – “The Crown” (Netflix)
Laura Dern – “Big Little Lies” (HBO)
Julia Garner – “Ozark” (Netflix)
Thandie Newton – “Westworld” (HBO)
Fiona Shaw – “Killing Eve” (BBC America)
Sarah Snook – “Succession” (HBO)
Meryl Streep – “Big Little Lies” (HBO)
Samira Wiley – “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)
Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Jeremy Irons — “Watchmen” (HBO)
Hugh Jackman — “Bad Education” (HBO)
Paul Mescal — “Normal People” (Hulu)
Jeremy Pope — “Hollywood” (Netflix)
Mark Ruffalo — “I Know This Much Is True” (HBO)
Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Cate Blanchett — “Mrs. America” (FX)
Shira Haas — “Unorthodox” (Netflix)
Regina King — “Watchmen” (HBO)
Octavia Spencer — “Self Made”
Kerry Washington — “Little Fires Everywhere” (Hulu)
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Uzo Aduba – “Mrs. America” (FX Networks)
Toni Collette – “Unbelievable” (Netflix)
Margo Martindale – “Mrs. America” (FX Networks)
Jean Smart – “Watchmen” (HBO)
Holland Taylor – “Hollywood” (Netflix)
Tracey Ullman – “Mrs. America” (FX Network)
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – “Watchmen” (HBO)
Jovan Adepo – “Watchmen” (HBO)
Tituss Burgess – “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend” (Netflix)
Louis Gossett Jr. – “Watchmen” (HBO)
Dylan McDermott – “Hollywood” (Netflix)
Jim Parsons – “Hollywood” (Netflix)
Best Limited Series
”Little Fires Everywhere” (Hulu)
“Mrs. America” (FX)
“Unbelievable” (Netflix)
“Unorthodox” (Netflix)
“Watchmen” (HBO)
Best Variety Talk Series
”The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central)
“Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” (TBS)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO)
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
Best Competition Series
”The Masked Singer” (Fox)
“Nailed It” (Netflix)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1)
“Top Chef” (Bravo)
“The Voice” (NBC)
Best Television Movie
“American Son” (Netflix)
“Bad Education” (HBO)
“Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings” (Netflix)
“El Camino” (Netflix)
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)
Netflix just unveiled new details on Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a CG animated series executive produced by three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg. The streaming service confirmed the season one voice cast and released a teaser trailer along with photos as well as the series’ poster.
Joining Spielberg (director of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park) as executive producers are Colin Trevorrow (director of Jurassic World), Frank Marshall (Jurassic World producer), Scott Kreamer, Aaron Hammersley, and Lane Lueras. Kreamer and Hammersley are the first season showrunners.
Season one will consist of eight 22 minute episodes and is set to premiere on September 18, 2020.
The voice cast includes Paul-Mikél Williams as Darius, Jenna Ortega as Brooklynn, Ryan Potter as Kenji, Raini Rodriguez as Sammy, Sean Giambrone as Ben, Kausar Mohammed as Yaz, Jameela Jamil as Roxie, and Glen Powell as Dave.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Set against the timeline of the blockbuster film Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous follows a group of six teenagers trapped at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. When the events of the film unfold and dinosaurs are unleashed across the island, each kid realizes their very survival rests on the shoulders of themselves and their fellow campers.
Unable to reach the outside world, our six teens will go from strangers to friends to family as they band together to survive the dinosaurs and uncover hidden secrets so deep they threaten the world itself.
A scene from ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)Poster for season one of the CG animated adventure series, ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)
The Conjuring investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren as well as the Amityville Horror house are among the topics covered on Travel Channel’s upcoming series of specials, Shock Docs. The series debuts on Monday, September 7, 2020 at 9pm ET/PT with new installments arriving throughout the fall.
“Travel Channel fans have an insatiable appetite for the classic cases that even the paranormal investigators revere,” stated Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel. “In these ‘shockumentaries,’ we start at the beginning and explore why these places and cases remain the most famous – and the most haunted – in the country.”
Each two hour special will cover one of America’s most documented paranormal encounters. The first special focuses on Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Details on Episode 1, “Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren:”
“Over the course of their 50-year career, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated thousands of hauntings. They documented some of the most famous cases ever recorded, including the Amityville Horror house, the real-life Rhode Island home behind The Conjuring films and the Bridgeport Poltergeist. Ed, a demonologist, and Lorraine, a clairvoyant, were an unassuming couple who devoted their lives to battling demonic forces inhabiting families or homes.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Warrens made numerous appearances on television talking about their cases and spreading the word about the paranormal and preternatural worlds that exist all around us. Their life’s mission: to prove the existence of good and evil; God and the devil. Along the way, they pioneered many techniques still used in the field today, including audio and visual recording devices, advanced electromagnetic devices and even produced their own television show.
This two-hour special features interviews with their daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Tony Spera, who share never-before-broadcast audio of Ed conducting interviews for the Bridgeport, Connecticut, poltergeist case, and rare video of the Warrens helping a young woman coming under demonic possession. Tony also has granted the production access to his catalog of footage from his television series, Seekers of the Supernatural. It includes many hours of Ed and Lorraine discussing their work with Tony.”
Season three of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on October 15, 2020. The third season will drop new episodes on Thursdays to subscribers of CBS’s video on-demand and digital streaming service.
The cast of the sci-fi drama is led by Sonequa Martin-Green as Commander Michael Burnham. Doug Jones plays Commander Saru, Anthony Rapp is Lt. Commander Paul Stamets, Mary Wiseman is Ensign Sylvia Tilly, Wilson Cruz is Dr. Hugh Culber, David Ajala is Cleveland “Book” Booker, and Michelle Yeoh plays Philippa Georgiou.
The series is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, James Duff, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth.
Season one premiered in September 2017 followed by season two in January 2019. Season one consisted of 15 episodes, season two had 14, and season three will offer up 13 one-hour episodes.
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of CBS All Access:
After following Commander Burnham into the wormhole in the second season finale, season three of Star Trek: Discovery finds the U.S.S. Discovery crew landing into an unknown future far from the home they once knew. Now living in a time filled with uncertainty, the U.S.S. Discovery crew, along with the help of some new friends, must work together to restore hope to the Federation.
A Look Back at Season 2:
After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joining forces with Captain Christopher Pike on a new mission to investigate seven mysterious red signals and the appearance of an unknown being called the Red Angel. While the crew must work together to unravel their meaning and origin, Michael Burnham is forced to face her past with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.
Starting off right where the first episode ended, The CW’s Nancy Drew season one episode two opens with Nancy (Kennedy McMann) holding the bloody dress and questioning why a dead girl’s dress is in her attic. Her dad (Scott Wolf) comes home and talks to her about how sorry he is for keeping things from her. Nancy’s lost in thought, wondering if her dad could lie about his relationship with Karen, what else could he be lying about?
As if reading her mind, her dad asks if there’s anything she wants to ask him. Narrator Nancy says, “Yeah, are you the reason why she is known as Dead Lucy?” Instead, she tells him nope.
Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith) and George (Leah Lewis) are getting hot and heavy when he receives a call. He takes it and leaves the room, but George hears him say, “What do you mean they want to do an autopsy?” and “We need to get ahead of this thing now.”
Nancy shows up at the police station and sees they have a board listing suspects in the Tiffany Hudson case. The chief of police stops her from entering any further and wants to know what she’s doing there. She asks to see the cold case file for Lucy Sable. Chief McGinnis (Adam Beach) accuses her of interfering with his work yet again. He wants to know why she’s interested in Lucy Sable.
Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August) interrupts them to announce Ryan Hudson wants his wife’s body moved to the district morgue in New Hampshire. Ryan claims he wants a more reliable source. After Nancy says, “They are railroading your investigation,” the chief tells her suspects don’t get to hang around the police station and escorts her out.
Narrator Nancy is going over the suspects and why they couldn’t have done it, starting with Ace and then Bess. She questions whether Bess really lives with a rich aunt and if so why she is working at the local diner. She turns to George next. George claims to be some tough girl but she’s not so sure. But, then again, George is good at keeping secrets, like who’s the older man she was caught hooking up with during her senior year.
Nancy doesn’t think any of them have a motive except the one she’s sleeping with – Nick. Tiffany’s the one who put him away.
After putting things in her locker, she turns around to find Nick standing there. That scares her, but then he asks her out on a date to the beach that night. After first declining the invitation, she agrees to meet him.
George makes jokes about Tiffany not being the only dead thing around there, referring to the diner. (Too soon!) It appears no one wants to eat there since someone wound up dead in the parking lot. Bess (Maddison Jaizani) asks Nancy what the police said about the video of Tiffany. Nancy admits she didn’t show them because they would lock her phone up as evidence. She informs them Ryan’s having the body moved and believes that’s what someone would do if they were trying to cover up a murder. George gets defensive over that (gee, wonder why) and tells Nancy she’s looking in the wrong place.
Nancy thinks they should get their own autopsy and the rest of the gang wonders how that could possibly happen. Apparently, a scientist owes Nancy one because she solved a crime when she was 14. She explains all she needs is a sample of Tiffany’s blood.
Nancy stakes out the morgue and it appears she’s going to break into the building. She’s looking through the window when she catches a reflection behind her. Of course, when she turns around whoever it was is gone. When she goes to investigate a branch from a tree scares her and she has to have a pep talk with herself to get it together. Nancy reminds herself she doesn’t believe in ghosts.
Later, Ace (Alex Saxon) warns them they can’t go to the morgue after dark because it’s haunted by Lucy. The gang, of course, groans at that but Ace continues and says, “They say she wanders in after dark and searches for a long-lost body.” Nancy says they aren’t going to let ghost stories stop them. They’re going to go to the morgue at night. George wants to know why they have to help and Nancy points out that as a fellow suspect she should want to try to solve this.
Nancy goes over her plan and thinks she can get the coroner’s keycard. He’ll most likely be at the ceremony tonight and they can break in then. Bess points out that the van to transport Tiffany’s body is supposed to be there at 8:00pm and Nancy suggests they get it canceled. Ryan’s the one who arranged the pick-up and they could steal his phone to get the morgue’s number to call it off. Nancy asks George to get the phone.
Nancy heads to Nick’s shop and spots her mom’s car covered up. When she begins to lift the cover, Nick stops her by claiming it isn’t ready yet. He asks what she’s doing there and she confesses she needs something to break into a car because she’s trying to figure out how Tiffany died. Nick wonders how he can help and asks her to tell him more. She won’t, claiming she doesn’t want to get him in trouble.
George finds Ryan’s car parked with the window down. After reaching in and stealing his phone, Ryan appears and spots her. Fortunately, he didn’t see her take his phone. Right off she asks why he’s having Tiffany’s body moved. He acknowledges word travels fast around this town and says people like to go after families like his. He reveals Tiffany was heavily medicated. He doesn’t need that showing up on Page Six. He’s thinking of his family’s privacy and wants to protect that.
George believes his story and has a change of heart. She lies and says he dropped his phone and hands it back. Little do they know Nancy Drew, in full detective mode, is there and watches the whole exchange.
Ryan Hudson spots Carson Drew and tries to engage in a little small talk. Carson is visibly annoyed and asks, “If you came to see me about your image problem, you might start by not calling them ‘townies’,” referring to what Ryan just called the locals. He asks Carson to be his lawyer and Carson declines. Ryan is done with the nice approach and tells Carson he knows his parents have him on retainer. Carson gives him advice to stop treating the town as if it’s just someplace he summers in because if he ever does go on trial for his wife’s death, these people are going to be his jurors.
Carson also informs him he promised his wife that he would never work for another Hudson again.
George returns to the diner and lies to Nancy saying it was a no-go; she could not get his phone. George stops in her tracks when Nancy calls her out. Nancy admits she saw her take it out of his bag. George accuses Nancy of spying on her, and Nancy reveals she believes there are two scenarios. One, she’s covering for the killer. Or two, she is the killer.
George points out that Nancy is the one who handed Tiffany her food and Nancy counters with George is the one who handed her the food to bring to Tiffany. Nancy also points out, “But I’m not the one sleeping with her husband.” George brings up high school and how Nancy’s friends were mean and would constantly slut shame her. Not stopping there, she hits her with a low blow when Nancy reminds her that was her friends; she never did it. George asks where all her friends are now. “Oh, wait, they don’t want to be friends with a girl with a dead mother,” says George, answering her own question.
Ace and Bess interrupt and want to know why they’re fighting. Nancy changes the subject and Ace asks her about the cell phone. She covers for George and says Ryan took it with him when he was jogging. The new plan is to delay the van by cutting it off. They make plans to meet up later.
The town gathers for its annual tradition of going to the beach, getting a bucket of seawater, putting it on their doorsteps, and then kicking it over when the church bells strike midnight. (It’s a really bizarre tradition.) If there’s just seawater that spills out, you live. If it turns to blood, you’re marked to die within the year.
Nancy and Nick are at the beach to collect a bucket of water when he confesses he knows she’s planning something. He says he’ll sit this one out but warns her to be careful. Carson’s also there with Karen and spots Nancy with Nick. Karen catches Carson’s attention, stating, “Someone got lost on their way to the Yacht Club,” referring to Ryan. The police are there, including the chief, as well.
Nick wonders who would ever trust a manipulated psycho like Ryan and Nancy replies, “You’d be surprised.” George overhears this and walks off.
George tries to tell Ryan something but he blows her off because they’re in public.
Nancy spots the coroner and breaks into his car to get his keycard. After closing the car door, she suddenly sees a pool of blood mixed with water coming out from under the car. After bending over to inspect it, she catches a reflection in the door’s window that isn’t hers – it’s a ghost. Clearly, that startles her and she jumps back.
When Nancy looks back down the blood is gone.
On the way back to the beach she considers she might be losing her mind. Bess interrupts her train of thought and asks what’s wrong. Nancy opens up that she may have seen something. Bess encourages her to tell her what she saw. Nancy confesses she thinks she saw a vision of a drowned corpse. Bess worries it’s Dead Lucy and she doesn’t want them to go to the morgue.
Just then Ace walks up and Bess tells him Nancy received a warning from Dead Lucy that she does not want them doing this. Nancy jumps in and says, “That’s definitely not what I said so forget I said anything.”
Yet in her mind she admits either she is going crazy or she’s being haunted.
Nancy stands in front of the morgue at night in her trusted black beanie and sends Ace a text letting him know she’s going in. She avoids the cameras as she sneaks in.
Bess and Ace are waiting for the coroner’s van and when they spot it, they flag it down. The driver’s a woman who happens to know all about cars. Not so lucky for them…
Nancy’s trying to figure out which body is Tiffany’s when she finds her.
Back to Ace, Bess, and the lady driving the van, Lisbeth (Katie Findlay). Lisbeth says she’s almost done fixing their car and they panic. Bess does something to the car to make it smoke and asks if that’s normal.
Nancy goes to move a sheet off a body, but to her surprise when she rips it off there isn’t any body. She then turns around and sees a door moving.
Lisbeth asks Bess to assist her and it appears Lisbeth is flirting with Beth. Ace picks up on that.
Nancy heads into the room with the moving door and discovers it’s the tissue sample room. She spots a file box on Lucy Sable and finds a sample of blood taken from the rocks she fell on. The box also contains a broken crown where strands of Lucy’s hair were found. That’s all that’s left.
Suddenly the alarm goes off. Nancy tries to use the keycard but it won’t work. George suddenly appears on the other side of the door and insists she’s there to help her. After breaking a small rectangular window on the door, she tells Nancy to give her the blood. If Nancy gets arrested at least she won’t have the blood on her.
After George runs off, Nancy is caught.
Bess and Ace get back to the diner and wonder where Nancy is. Bess thinks something must have gone wrong. Ace brings up Lisbeth and how he saw Bess give Lisbeth her number. Bess tries to tell him she doesn’t really date anyone – not boys or girls. She explains she’s been on her own for so long she hasn’t really dropped an anchor anywhere. He offers to be her anchor and she asks if he means in a friend way. He says yes.
George bursts in and says, “Nancy got arrested! I got a bunch of dead people’s parts.” Ace seems intrigued while Bess focuses on Nancy being arrested. George warns them she’s putting what she has in the refrigerator and that nobody can touch it.
Karen questions Nancy, advising her this makes her look guilty. Nancy reminds her trespassing doesn’t make her a murderer. Karen warns she can’t help her if Nancy doesn’t trust her. Nancy says she can’t do this “with the one woman who completely broke my trust.”
Nancy sees something and asks Karen for a cup of coffee. When Karen gets up to get it, Nancy hops on her computer and starts going through messages Tiffany had on her phone – a phone that’s now logged as evidence. She finds the last text she sent to an unnamed contact and quickly writes down the number on her shirt before Karen returns.
Carson joins his daughter and tells Nancy what she’s being charged with. He confirms he’ll do everything in his power to get these charges dropped. He reminds her she’s not a kid and this detective stuff isn’t cute anymore. He reveals he also knows she broke into his filing cabinet at home.
Although he can’t say much, he says what he can tell her is, “I can imagine a scenario where they might be worried about Ned Nickerson’s connection to Tiffany Hudson. They might even speculate that he’d have a motive to kill her, but what I can also tell you is that a high-profile witness like Tiffany would have testified behind a screen to make sure the defendant never knew her identity.”
Carson tries to tell his daughter that as her attorney he has questions to ask her. She cuts him off saying she has questions first. She reveals she found a dress – a pink, bloodstained dress – in a trunk in the attic. He claims it was a prop he got to scare her mom. She brings up seeing him and her mom when she was little digging up that very trunk. He then claims the trunk belonged to a relative and after the relative died, they heard she buried valuables in it. He says it held China cups and steak knives.
Carson pays Nancy’s bail and she wonders where he got the money. He reveals he took on a new client – none other than Ryan Hudson himself. “So, you sold your soul to the devil, huh?” says Nancy.
Nancy shows up at the diner and attempts to thank George, but George ignores her. Nancy apologizes to her for what she did to George in high school, explaining that although she didn’t spread those rumors, she didn’t try to stop them. She’s sorry for being a part of what hurt her. George takes this opportunity to talk about Ryan. He told her he has nothing to hide but he does…and it’s her. She realizes he’d rather keep her hidden.
Bess and Ace come walking up with boxes and Bess explains she thought they might need their help. Ace randomly says, “As friends.” Bess tells him not to make it weird. Bess says the boxes are so she can mail her friend the body parts.
While Nancy is filling out the address, she’s thinking about how she’s starting to believe the town’s superstitions. She decides she’s going to figure out who killed Lucy as well.
Nancy goes to see Nick and he has a surprise for her. Her mom’s car is finished.
Narrator Nancy muses, “As midnight approaches and with it another year, who will live and who will die? Only the buckets will tell.”
Bess kicks over her bucket and then types out a text to Lisbeth suggesting they get together for dinner sometime. However, she changes her mind before sending it. Next up is Ace who kicks over his bucket. Nick stops his make-out session with Nancy to kick over his bucket. Meanwhile, Carson’s at the beach burning the dress with blood on it.
George kicks over her bucket and blood comes spilling out.
Nancy dials the number Tiffany texted (remember, she wrote it on her shirt while in custody) as she waits for Nick to knock over his bucket. Unfortunately, he comes back and she hangs up. However, before the show ends the cameras pan to a cell phone in Nick’s shop that now shows one missed call.
A scene from ‘The Witcher’ season 1 (Courtesy of Netflix)
Netflix is delving into The Witcher‘s backstory with The Witcher: Blood Origin limited series. The limited series will a six-part live-action prequel to The Witcher.
“As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story The Witcher: Blood Origin,” said executive producer and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. “A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books – What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans? I’ve always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization’s true story behind.
The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell the tale of the Elven civilization before its fall, and most importantly reveal the forgotten history of the very first Witcher.”
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Jason Brown, Sean Daniel, Tomek Baginski, and Jarek Sawko will executive produce. Author Andrzej Sapkowski is on board as a creative consultant.
“I am so thrilled to collaborate with Declan and the Netflix team on The Witcher: Blood Origin. It’s an exciting challenge to explore and expand The Witcher universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski, and we can’t wait to introduce fans to new characters and an original story that will enrich our magical, mythical world even more,” said executive producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich.
“It is exciting that the world of Witcher – as planned in the very beginning – is expanding. I hope it will bring more fans to the world of my books,” stated Andrzej Sapkowski.
Netflix’s The Witcher cast is led by Henry Cavill (Mission Impossible – Fallout, Man of Steel) as Geralt of Rivia. Anya Chalotra (The ABC Murders, Wanderlust) is sorceress Yennefer, Freya Allan (Third Day, Gunpowder Milkshake) is Ciri, and Joey Batey (Knightfall, Strike) plays Jaskier. No official casting announcements have been made for the prequel.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
