Month: August 2025

Apple TV+ announced that Slow Horses has been renewed for Season 7. The news arrives ahead of the show’s Season 5 premiere, set for Sept. 24.

The dark comedy stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the head of a group of British intelligence agents.  Season 5 will see the group try to figure out the deal with Roddy Ho’s (Christopher Chung) “glamorous new girlfriend.”

The series, inspired by Mick Herron’s Slough House books, got the green light for Season 6 in October. Apple TV+ executive Jay Hunt in a statement: “Slow Horses has won fans all over the world with its unique mix of self-deprecating British humor and high-octane action. I’m delighted viewers will have another season to enjoy Gary’s magnificent performance as Jackson Lamb alongside the Slow Horses’ slightly inept spycraft.”

Per an official release, “In Season 7, Lamb and his Slow Horses are on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state.”

Slow Horses also stars Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Samuel West, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan and Jonathan Pryce.  The series won its first Primetime Emmy Award in 2024 for ‘Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series,’ and was also nominated in four other categories.

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Abigail Spencer will star alongside Josh Charles in the upcoming Fox medical comedy “Best Medicine,” based on the popular British series Doc Martin. Production will take place this summer in upstate New York.

The official description of the series states that “the series centers on Martin Best (Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, especially local school teacher Louisa Glasson (Spencer), however tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.”

Spencer’s character of Louisa Glasson was played by Caroline Catz in the British series, and appeared in all 10 seasons of the original series. Spencer is known for her roles across a wide variety of shows like “Suits,” “Rectify,” “Mad Men,” “True Detective,” “Timeless,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”  She recently wrapped production on “Clean Hands,” in which she will star opposite Zach Braff and Esther McGregor.

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Ryan Gosling stars in the trailer for the new film Project Hail Mary, based on a novel by Andy Weir (author of ‘The Martian’).

Gosling portrays a middle-school science teacher Ryland Grace, who gets recruited by Eva (German actress Sandra Hüller) into a last-ditch effort to save the Earth from extinction, but winds up alone on a rocketship light-years from Earth with very little experience as an astronaut. The film is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, best known for writing and producing the Spider-Verse movies. In addition to Gosling and Hüller, the film also features Milana Vayntrub, Lionel Boyce, and Ken Leung.

Per the film’s official synopsis: “Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.”

Project Hail Mary is scheduled to open in theaters and IMAX on March 20, 2026; see the trailer: HERE.

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Taylor Swift revealed the cover art and tracklist for her 12th studio album “The Life of a Showgirl”, which will be released on October 3. The tracklist also noted that Sabrina Carpenter will be featured on ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, the title track to the new LP.

Swift shared the news on her social media channels, as well as during her appearance on Wednesday’s episode of the “New Heights” podcast, co-hosted by her boyfriend Travis Kelce, and his brother Jason Kelce.

Swift’s Instagram post was captioned: “And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3. Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift : Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott”. Martin and Shellback are the team behind some of Swift’s biggest 1989 and Reputation hit songs.

When speaking about the making the album, Swift shared on the ‘New Heights’ podcast that “It was something that I was working on while I was in Europe on The Eras Tour. I would be playing shows. I’d do like three shows in a row. I’d have three days off. I’d fly to Sweden, go back to the tour. Actually like working on this, I was physically exhausted at this point in the tour, but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be created.”

Variants of the 12-track “The Life of a Showgirl” are available for preorder on Swift’s website, including: four limited edition deluxe CD versions, containing a keychain, necklace, or bracelet; collectible artwork; three double-sided photo cards; and a colored glitter jewelry box, all contained in a high gloss box featuring the front and back cover album artwork. The limited edition deluxe CDs are available until August 16th, while supplies last.

The Life of a Showgirl marks Swift’s first full-length since 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

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Variety has learned that Anthony Boyle will star opposite Julia Garner in a Netflix limited series about the rise and fall of FTX titled “The Altruists.”

Boyle will star as Sam Bankman-Fried in the series, while Garner will play Caroline Ellison. James Ponsoldt — whose credits include Shrinking and The Spectacular Now — is to direct and executive produce the first episode.

As previously reported, Netflix has picked up eight episodes of the series. The official logline for “The Altruists” states: “the story of Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion.”

Netflix also announced the news on social media: “Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle will portray Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in the new limited series ‘The Altruists’. Two hyper-smart young idealists try to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye…only to seduce each other into stealing $8 billion”

Ellison was sentenced in 2024 to two years in prison after she became a key government witness legal proceedings related to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX; while Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year prison sentence for various financial fraud crimes.

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