THE WRONG MANs Teaser Unveiled

Check out the brilliant (and hilarious) teaser trailer below for The Wrong Mans, a brand new comedy series written by and starring MATHEW BAYNTON and his writing partner James Corden.

Post-production has just finished on the duo’s new comedy thriller for BBC2 (UK) and Hulu (USA). In a recent interview with the Radio Times, MATHEW describes the show as a “visually ambitious” six-parter that combines the scope of major American series with the quirky humour of the Coen brothers.

In The Wrong Mans, MATHEW and James play two loser office workers who become entangled in a deadly espionage caper after MATHEW‘s character – as seen in the awesome first-look trailer below – answers a ringing phone at the scene of an accident. The brilliant script has attracted an impressive supporting cast, including: Dawn French, Sarah Solemani, Rebecca Front, Emilia Fox, Dan Skinner, Nick Moran, Rufus Jones, Vincent Franklin and Paul Higgins.

Have a watch and get ready for what’s set to be one of the year’s most exciting new series. And check out the full Radio Times interview with MATHEW to get more details on this production and some of his other projects.

THE WHITE QUEEN – Starts Sunday

The BBC’s most recent period drama series The White Queen (a co-production with US premium cable network Starz!) will premiere this Sunday June 16th at 9pm on BBC1 and stars SIMON GINTY and FREYA MAVOR.

Based on the The Cousin’s War series of novels by Phillipa Gregory and developed for TV by Emma Frost, The White Queen is set in 1464, during the height of the War of the Roses, and tells the story of the women caught up in the ongoing conflict for the throne. The House of York’s young and devilishly handsome Edward IV is crowned King of England with the help of the master manipulator Lord Warwick “The Kingmaker”. But when Edward falls in love and secretly marries a beautiful young widow, the commoner Elizabeth Woodville, Warwick’s plan for control over the English throne comes crashing down around him. Frustrated by the new Queen’s influence he will stop at nothing to maintain his grip on the King.

SIMON plays John Woodville and FREYA plays Princess Elizabeth of York in the ten-part drama series, which also stars Max Irons, James Frain, Rebecca Ferguson, Janet McTeer and Amanda Hale. Here’s the trailer:

‘HAPPY ENDING’ Trailer

The official trailer is now up for feature film Not Another Happy Ending, starring HH clients IAIN DE CAESTECKER and FREYA MAVOR. Check it out below.

The romantic comedy set in Glasgow will receive its world premiere on 30th June as part of the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Directed by John McKay, Not Another Happy Ending is a feel-good film about successful author Jane Lockhart (Karen Gillan) who has become blocked due to the happiness she has attained from her new-found success. Desperate to get another novel from her, her publisher (Stanley Weber) realises he must ‘unblock’ her or he’s finished! The only trouble is, the worse he makes Jane feel, the more he realises he is in love with her…

IAIN plays cynical, child-hating school teacher Roddy. FREYA also appears in a guest role. You can keep up-to-date on the film’s Facebook, Twitter and Official Website.

Doon’s Quick-Cutting New Show

Coming soon to BBC4 – Quick Cuts, starring DOON MACKICHAN.

This brand new 3-part comedy series is a quick-cutting sitcom crossed with a sketch show, set in a hairdressing salon. The owner of ‘Quick Cuts’ is Sue (played by DOON), who turns a blind eye to the various faults, failings and eccentricities of her staff. Together with Sue’s relentlessly crooked boyfriend Trevor (Paul Reynolds), they are one big dysfunctional family.

The narrative sitcom element of Quick Cuts follows the lives of the staff while the semi-improvised sketch element will be the encounters between the customers and the hairdressers, with the camera acting as the mirror in the shop.

Don’t miss this hilarious new show, airing from Wednesday 19th June at 10pm on BBC4. And you can keep up-to-date by following the show @quickcutsteam on Twitter.

Sam Jones’ LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Love And Marriage is a brand new 6-part comedy series for ITV, cast by HH client SAM JONES.

The show centres on Pauline Paradise (played by Alison Steadman), a newly retired lollipop lady who returns home to see what her future holds, but doesn’t like what she sees: a non-communicative husband and the endless demands of her beloved adult children and their offspring. So this quintessential family woman – the matriarch of the family and everybody’s rock – decides to walk out on her life, causing a massive, emotional and funny impact on all the relationships around her.

While following Pauline’s journey, each episode also explores the other marriages in the family – focusing on a different couple each week. Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Larry Lamb and HH Voice client ASHLEY JENSEN also star. ROSS ARMSTRONG also plays a guest role in the show.

Love And Marriage premiered on ITV last night and the remaining five episodes will air every Wednesday night at 9pm on ITV.

Four More Endeavours

Good news! After the huge success of the first season of Endeavour, ITV has just ordered a second four-part series for the Inspector Morse prequel, which stars SHAUN EVANS in the titular role.

The first four-part series of the crime drama aired in April this year and consistently won its time slot for ITV, averaging 7 million viewers and a 25% share. The new series will be a quartet of 120-minute films set in 1966 in which SHAUN plays a young Morse, with Roger Allam as Detective Inspector Fred Thursday. Russell Lewis writes the series and novelist Colin Dexter, who created Morse, is a consultant to the show.

Congrats to SHAUN and the team – we can’t wait for new episodes next year!

AFTER EARTH – Out June 7

After Earth, one of this summer’s most anticipated blockbusters, hits UK cinema screens next week on Friday 7th June and stars Will Smith, Jaden Smith and HH client SOPHIE OKONEDO.

Set one thousand years after humanity’s resettlement on a habitable exoplanet outside of our Solar System, a peacekeeping organization known as the Ranger Corps is trained by a stern General named Cypher Raige (Will Smith). His son Kitai (Jaden Smith) is a rebellious teenager with a knack for mischief. Cypher’s wife Faia (played by SOPHIE) urges Cypher to take Kitai on a mission to Earth. But when the ship is damaged in an asteroid field and crash lands on the planet, killing all but Cypher and Kitai, the two must retrieve an emergency beacon by embarking on a perilous journey across uncharted terrain to signal for help.

After Earth is co-written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and promises to be packed full of action, new alien species and sc-fi thrills aplenty. Go see it on the big screen from 7th June. Here’s the trailer:

TVChoice Awards 2013

The longlist nominations are out for the 2013 TVChoice Awards. Congratulations to all nominated HH clients and the shows in which they star, listed below.

As always, the awards are open to the public vote, so you decide on the winners. You have until 14th June to cast your first round votes. So check out the nominees and get voting HERE.

Shortlist nominations will then be announced in July, when voting will reopen. The winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony at The Dorchester on Monday 9th September.

Nominated for Best Actor:

MARTIN COMPSTON for Line Of Duty

SHAUN EVANS for Endeavour

MATTHEW MACFADYEN for Ripper Street

Nominated for Best Actress:

POLLY WALKER for Prisoners’ Wives

MICHELLE DOCKERY for Downton Abbey

HAYLEY ATWELL for Life Of Crime

Also…

Nominated for Best International Show:
Once Upon A Time starring ROBERT CARLYLE, SARAH BOLGER and JULIAN MORRIS
True Blood starring LUCY GRIFFITHS
Game Of Thrones starring ROSE LESLIE and TOM WLASCHIHA

Nominated for Best Comedy Series:
Being Eileen starring WILLIAM ASH
Miranda starring TOM ELLIS and BO PORAJ
Plebs starring DOON MACKICHAN
Pramface starring BRONAGH GALLAGHER

Nominated for Best Entertainment Show:
QI hosted by STEPHEN FRY

Nominated for Best Factual Entertainment & Lifestyle Show:
Embarrassing Bodies voiced by ASHLEY JENSEN

Nominated for Best New Drama:
Broadchurch starring SUSAN BROWN
Falcón starring ROBERT LINDSAY, HAYLEY ATWELL and KERRY FOX
Life Of Crime starring HAYLEY ATWELL
Line Of Duty starring MARTIN COMPSTON
Mr Selfridge starring GRÉGORY FITOUSSI and AMY BETH HAYES
The Paradise starring MATTHEW McNULTY
Ripper Street starring MATTHEW MACFADYEN and JOSEPH GILGUN
Utopia starring RUTH GEMMELL

Nominated for Best Drama Series:
Call The Midwife starring PAM FERRIS
Case Histories starring ROSE LESLIE, PATERSON JOSPEH and NATASHA LITTLE
Downton Abbey starring MICHELLE DOCKERY
Endeavour starring SHAUN EVANS
Holby City starring JIMMY AKINGBOLA
Casualty starring ALEX WALKINSHAW
Prisoners’ Wives starring POLLY WALKER and LAURA FRANCES-MORGAN
The Syndicate starring AMELIA CURTIS

Good luck to all!

HOW TO CATCH A MONSTER

HH EXCLUSIVE:

HH client IAIN DE CAESTECKER has been cast in the leading role in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut How To Catch A Monster.

The feature film, which is also written and co-prodcued by Gosling, tells the tale of a single mother who is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son (played by IAIN) discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town. The film also stars Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith and Eva Mendes and is currently shooting in Detroit, Michigan.

We’ll bring you more information as it’s released.

New Trailer for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Huge congrats to IAIN DE CAESTECKER whose pilot has been picked up and will now shoot a full season for 2013/2014.

IAIN stars in Marvel Studios’/Joss Whedon’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. for ABC, bringing the cinematic Marvel universe to television for the first time. The show centres around Clark Gregg’s Agent Phil Coulson (reprising his role from Marvel’s feature films) as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. IAIN plays Agent Leo Fitz, a technology guru. His character works alongside Elizabeth Henstridge’s weapons expert Agent Melinda May and the duo spend all their time together – mostly bickering – and are masters of their respective fields at a remarkably young age.

The show is set to be full of excitement and hi-octane action sequences. Here’s the official trailer:

LOVERS In Cannes

Screening ‘In Competition’ at Cannes this week is new vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring TILDA SWINTON and TOM HIDDLESTON.

In this unique take on the vampire-romance genre, TOM stars as Adam, an undead troubadour who haunts the musical underground, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities. He reunites and entwines romantically with his centuries-long lover, Eve (played by TILDA), though their idyll is soon interrupted by Eve’s wild and uncontrollable younger sister Ava (played by Mia Wasikowska). John Hurt and Anton Yelchin also star.

We’ll let you know as soon as the official release date has been announced. In the meantime, check out the two ‘sneak peek’ videos below:

Ambitious About Autism

LUKE TREADAWAY – who won the Best Actor Olivier Award for his portrayal of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time last month – is a new Ambassador for the charity Ambitious about Autism.

LUKE visited the charity and its school last year while researching his role in the play about a teenager who is a maths genius and has autism. He says: “It is an honour to be asked to be an Ambassador for Ambitious about Autism. [They were] incredibly helpful in our preparations for Curious Incident. Much of my understanding for what it might be like to live with autism came from visiting TreeHouse School and spending time with its Youth Patron, Cian Binchy. The vital work this charity does is something I look forward to supporting and helping in any way I can.”

Jolanta Lasota, Chief Executive of Ambitious about Autism, says: “We’re thrilled Luke is our new Ambassador and it’s a testament to his commitment to raising autism awareness that he’s agreed to further support our work with children and young people with autism.”

Visit the Ambitious about Autism website for further info on the charity and Luke’s involvement.

BAFTA Winners!

Huge congratulations go to HH clients BEN WHISHAW and MATTHEW McNULTY for their successes at Sunday night’s BAFTA Television Awards, 2013.

BEN WHISHAW won the Leading Actor actor award for his portrayal of Richard II in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: Richard II, beating off stiff competition from Sean Bean, Derek Jacobi and Toby Jones in this extremely prestigious category.

The BBC’s adaptation of John Braine’s post-war literary classic A Room At The Top, which starred MATTHEW McNULTY in the leading role, won the award for Best Mini-Series. Other nominees included Accused, Parade’s End, and Mrs. Biggs.

Congratulations to both clients and everyone involved in the productions!

OUT OF DARKNESS – Coming Soon

Out Of Darkness is a brand new independent short film, written and directed by HH client MANJINDER VIRK.

“An Aid worker’s experience of death is told through nine different voices, as if all the departed souls live through them.”

As well as writing and directing the short, MANJINDER also stars in the film, as do HH clients TOM HIDDLESTON, JIMMY AKINGBOLA and CHRISTINE BOTTOMLEY.

There has been a big buzz surrounding this upcoming short recently. Celebrated film critic Mark Kermode calls it “intriguing and thought-provoking”, with The Times describing it as “unflinching and emotionally raw”. You can follow the film on Twitter @HundredsofSouls.

We’ll let you know as soon as it’s released but in the meantime, check out the official trailer above, which has just gone live this week.

IN FEAR Trailer: Time To Get Scared!

The official trailer has finally been released for terrifying new British horror-thriller In Fear, starring IAIN DE CAESTECKER and ALICE ENGLERT in the leading roles.

The film, which made its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim, is director Jeremy Lovering’s tense psychological horror about a young couple’s fight to make it through the night. Driving to a music festival, Tom (IAIN) and Lucy (ALICE) have plans to stay at a countryside hotel. But with hotel signs leading them in circles and darkness falling, they soon become lost in a maze of country roads…and the target of an unknown tormentor. The film plays out in real time and hinges on a claustrophobic, unrelentingly tense visual style.

In Fear will be released in the UK in August. Check out the haunting trailer below:

Olivier Winners!

Huge congratulations go to LUKE TREADAWAY, who won the prestigious 2013 Olivier Award for Best Actor at Sunday night’s annual ceremony, for his stunning performance as Christopher in the National Theatre’s The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time. His performance in the multi-award-winning show has gained him much praise over the last few months, since the show’s opening at the National and subsequent transfer into the West End’s Apollo Theatre. This fantastic win tops off a great year for LUKE, who will be starring in the show until the end of August. The Curious Incident… won seven Oliviers in total, including Best New Play and Best Director.

Also winning on the night was the Apollo Theatre’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which won the 2013 Best Revival award. The show starred KYLE SOLLER in his critically acclaimed performance as Edmund, which also earned him the 2013 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor In A Supporting Role. Congratulations go to KYLE and all involved in the production!

Midsomer’s New Sidekick

We are excited to announce that HH client GWILYM LEE has joined the cast of the hugely popular ITV drama Midsomer Murders as the show’s new regular.

GWILYM will play DS Charlie Nelson, taking the place of DS Jones (Jason Hughes) as the new partner of DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon). He and Dudgeon have started filming five new episodes this week for the sixteenth series of the show, due for transmission on ITV later this year.

To date, 291 people have died before their time in Midsomer – of those deaths, 268 have been murders, 12 have been accidental and 11 have been suicides, while 9 people have died of natural causes! So we can expect lots more death and intrigue to come in the new series.

Congrats GWILYM!

Award Nominations For Kings & Divas!

Huge congratulations go to both BEN WHISHAW and BERTIE CARVEL, each of whom has received prestigious award nominations this week.

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BEN WHISHAW has been nominated for the Best Leading Actor award at the 2013 British Academy (BAFTA) Television Awards, for the titular role in the BBC’s Richard II (The Hollow Crown). He is nominated alongside Derek Jacobi, Sean Bean and Toby Jones. The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday 12th May.

 

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BERTIE CARVEL has been nominated for three awards at the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards 2013, for his much celebrated role of Miss. Trunchbull in the RSC’s Matilda: The Musical, which has recently opened on Broadway. He is nominated for Favourite Actor in a Musical, Favourite Breakthrough Performance and, most fabulously, Favourite Diva Performance! In a line-up boasting some fantastic talent, BERTIE has actually received the joint highest number of nominations, alongside no other than Billy Porter and diva extraordinaire Bette Midler!

Matilda has also been nominated for Favourite New Musical and Favourite New Song (x3).

The Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, now in its 14th year, are the only major theatre awards in America voted on by Broadway’s biggest cheerleaders: the fans. So it’s time to GET VOTING! Voting is now open and everyone is eligible to cast their votes. It closes on Thursday, May 2nd at 12pm and the trophies will be handed out at a VIP ceremony on Sunday, May 5th.  Vote for Bertie HERE.

RUN AND JUMP At Tribeca

New feature film Run And Jump, starring EDWARD MACLIAM, will be screening at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival 2013 and premiering this Saturday.

Directed by Academy Award®-nominee Steph Green, this life-affirming film embraces the healing power of love and family in all of its idiosyncratic forms. The film follows the story of an Irish couple, Vanetia and Conor Casey, whose life changes when Conor (played by EDWARD) becomes mentally ill after suffering a stroke. Later comes Ted (Will Forte), an American neurologist who stays with the family to study and observe Conor whilst Vanetia (Maxine Peake) struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy.

Run and Jump is an unexpected, unconventional romance, intimate family portrait and emotional journey of recovery that ultimately uplifts through its heartfelt message of human connection and the power of acceptance.

Tribeca screenings take place on Saturday 20th April (6:30pm, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6), Monday 22nd (3:45pm, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8), Tuesday 23rd (8:30pm, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 4) and Friday 26th (6pm, AMC Loews Village 7 – 1).

Here’s the trailer:

A Happy Ending for EIFF

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that new feature film Not Another Happy Ending, starring HH clients IAIN DE CAESTECKER and FREYA MAVOR, will be the Closing Night film of the 67th edition of the Festival.

The red carpet will be rolled out at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on 30th June when the stars and filmmakers attend the World Premiere of this indie romantic comedy, set in Glasgow.

Directed by John McKay, Not Another Happy Ending is a feel-good film, unashamedly romantic, upbeat and funny. It tells the story of struggling maverick publisher Tomas Duval who, on discovering his only successful author Jane Lockhart is blocked, realises he must ‘unblock’ her or he’s finished – with her newfound success, she’s become too damn happy and she can’t write when she’s happy! The only trouble is, the worse he makes Jane feel, the more he realises he is in love with her…

IAIN plays cynical, child-hating school teacher Roddy. He can also be seen in upcoming 2013 feature films Filth and In Fear. FREYA plays Nicola Ball, and she can also be seen later in 2013 in the film Sunshine On Leith and is currently filming The White Queen for the BBC.

Not Another Happy Ending will be released officially later this year.