Month: November 2024

Apple TV+ announced that it renewed the series Slow Horse for Season 6.  Season 4 just concluded Oct. 9, and the show had been previously renewed for Season 5 back in January (which Apple TV+ has yet to announce a premiere date).

Slow Horses is a dark comedy / spy drama starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the leader of a dysfunctional team of MI5 rejects known as the Slow Horses. The show is based on the Slough House book series by Mick Herron. Season 6 is based on Herron’s novels Joe Country and Slough House.

Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce also star. Apple TV+ Europe creative director Jay Hunt said in a press release: “Audiences around the world have fallen in love with the Slow Horses, and I’m delighted that Gary Oldman will be leading this star-studded cast on another acerbic and action-packed adventure.” 

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Comedian Bill Burr and singer-songwriter Charli XCX will host two upcoming episodes of Saturday Night Live this month.

NBC said in a press release that Burr, 56, will host the Nov. 9 episode of the late-night sketch comedy show (marking Burr’s second time as SNL host). The actor/comedian is currently on tour with his Bill Burr Live stand-up comedy show, and will perform a series of dates in California beginning Nov. 17. Singer-songwriter Mk.gee will make his debut as musical guest Nov. 9, and is presently touring to promote his debut album, Two Star & The Dream Police.

Also announced was singer-songwriter Charli XCX, 32, who will pull double-duty as SNL host and musical guest on the Nov. 16 episode. It will mark Charli’s first time hosting, and third time performing; she released her sixth studio album, BRAT, in June as well as a remix version of the album in October.

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Netflix released the teaser trailer for The Electric State, the Russo Brothers film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. The film was inspired by the graphic novel written by Simon Stålenhag, and is set “in an alternate version of the ’90s.”

The retro-futuristic film follows Michelle (Brown) and her quest to find her younger brother after a robot uprising. An official description reads: “Michelle traverses the robot-ravaged US, accompanied by a mysterious toy robot and a roguish smuggler (Pratt).”

The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the brothers behind Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. Also starring in the film are Ke Huy Quan,  Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito and Woody Norman; with Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox and Jenny Slate voicing the robots.

The Electric State premieres Mar. 14 on Netflix; see the trailer: HERE.

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Former “Dawson’s Creek” star James Van Der Beek has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The actor announced his diagnosis in an interview with PEOPLE published Nov. 3, which read: “I have colorectal cancer. I’ve been privately dealing with this diagnosis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the support of my incredible family. There’s reason for optimism, and I’m feeling good.”  The 47-year-old Van Der Beek did not provide any other details about his diagnosis.

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer starts in the colon or the rectum. Symptoms include blood in the stool, changes in bowel habits, abdominal pain, bloated stomach, unexplained weight loss, vomiting and fatigue.

Van Der Beek is best known for his portraying Dawson Leery on “Dawson’s Creek” from 1998 to 2003.  He has been married to Kimberly Van Der Beek since 2010, and they share six children:  Olivia, 14; Joshua, 12; Annabel, 10; Emilia, 8; Gwendolyn, 6; and Jeremiah, 3.

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Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander and Olivia Williams will join the cast of the upcoming Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s Monster.

The trio join previously announced cast member Charlie Hunnam, who will star as Ed Gein in the next season of the Netflix anthology series. The third installment in the crime drama anthology series will dramatize the story of serial killer Ed Gein (portrayed by Hunnam), who was a twice-convicted murderer and a suspect in seven other slayings. Gein became infamous in the 1950s when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains.

According to sources, Metcalf will play Gein’s mother, Augusta, while Hollander will play Alfred Hitchcock and Williams will play Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife. While details regarding the plot are being kept under wraps, Gein went on to serve as inspiration for Norman Bates, the central character in Hitchcock’s 1960 classic film “Psycho.”

This will mark Metcalf and Williams’ first collaboration with Murphy, while Hollander recently worked with Murphy on the second season of “Feud.” Hollander portrayed Truman Capote in the second season of that anthology series, which debuted in January 2024.

Monster previously covered Jeffrey Dahmer in Season 1, and Lyle and Erik Menendez in Season 2. The series is created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.

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HBO released the trailer for Like Water for Chocolate on Tuesday, streaming on Max worldwide. Salma Hayek Pinault produced the Spanish-language series via her Ventanarosa Productions.

Like Water for Chocolate is based on the novel by Laura Esquival, and was previously adapted as a movie in 1992. In the show, Tita (Azul Guaita) and Pedro (Andres Baida) fall in love as children, but when they grow up Tita’s mother (Irene Azuela) commits Tita’s sister (Ana Valeria Becerril) to marry Pedro – and Tita is shown expressing her emotions in the kitchen.

In an interview with Variety, Hayek Pinault said that after six years of development, it is “so satisfying to finally see it on screen. ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ is a true jewel of Latin American literature and film. I wanted to find a new place and way to tell this story, so that a new generation can discover it and the people who already have a relationship with the story can rediscover it in a new format.”

New episodes premiere weekly on Sundays through the show’s finale on Dec. 8; check out the trailer: here.

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