“The Star Beast” will air on November 25.
“Wild Blue Yonder” will air December 2.
“The Giggle” will air December 9.
All three episodes will air on BBC in the UK, and Disney Plus in the US and elsewhere. They’ll also mark the official return of David Tennant as the Doctor (it’s complicated), Russell T. Davies as showrunner, and Catherine Tate as the best of the modern companions, Donna Noble.
The film, Australia, is a big melodramatic epic starring Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat running a cattle station and Hugh Jackman as the dreamy drover who helps her. The new miniseries, Faraway Downs, will add over an hour of new footage and a whole new ending when it premieres on Hulu as a six-part mini-series on November 26.
“I got the idea and started to relook at the footage and realized I’ve shot enough to do it as episodic storytelling through a revisiting of the piece, not necessarily as a better film than Australia, but a different variation on the themes,” Luhrmann told The Wrap.
but the trailer is closer. Apple TV Plus just dropped it at New York Comic Con and its everything you’ve come to expect from the truly excellent alternate history show that explores a US space program that finds water on the Moon and eventually founds a colony on Mars. That means really entertaining science fiction and some dodgy looking old age make up.
This season is set in the early 2000s and focused on the expansion of the Martian Colony. But I’m particularly interested to see how it explores Apple’s 2000s history through props. In a universe where the iPod existed in the early 90s where has Apple gone ten years later?
Which means a lot of BBC shows like the classic superhero dark comedy Misfits and the very funny sketch comedy The Catherine Tate Show will be available for free to watch provided you can sit through the ads.
Its kind of wild how when these shows aired in the late 2000s and early 2010s they were virtually impossible to get in the U.S. unless you forked over money for cable TV and patiently waited for BBC America to air them. Now you can get them for free via FAST TV.
[Advanced Television]
He has not been appeased. At least according to this story from the Wall Street Journal.
Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management has an enormous stake in Disney, and to keep Peltz appeased, Disney has done a lot this year, including looking into selling ABC and big chunks of its business in India, finding a “strategic partner” for ESPN, and folding Hulu into Disney Plus.
But unfortunately, Disney’s stock price, much like my entire retirement portfolio, has not been doing great this year. So Peltz is still looking to get some seats on the board.
Paramount Plus is largely the house that Taylor Sheridan built, and to keep it in good working order it needs a steady stream of Sheridan properties.
The next one is based on the story of Bass Reeves. Reeves was one of the first Black deputy Marshalls in U.S. history, and is also frequently credited as being one of the inspirations for the Lone Ranger.
This new show is produced by and starring David Oyelowo, and co-stars Dennis Quaid and Forrest Goodluck and will start airing on Paramount Plus November 5.
The Signal Tower from 1924 was restored from a 16mm copy back in 2019 and got a new score in 2020. The film is a guy who changes railroad signals at the foot of a mountain. Everything is great until he and his wife reluctantly allow a fellow employee to board with them.
The film is considered one of the best of Universal’s early ones and what’s really impressive is just how goregously shot all its very real trains (and occasional train models) are. The film is a real treat and a good illustration of just how far (and in some cases not far) filmmaking has come.
It’s not embeddable but you can watch the whole film here. I’ve got it casting from my phone to my TV as we speak.
[San Francisco Silent Film Festival]
