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“Whenever I work, I’m like, ‘This will be the last time you do that,'” Jake Dunn laughs. “I just can’t believe it.” His candid disbelief is no surprise when the Nottingham-born star, fresh out of drama school, went straight into filming a Sally Wainwright show. Dunn might be best known to viewers as Thomas in Renegade Nell, Disney+‘s fantasy adventure penned by the Happy Valley creator, which was canceled after one season last year. “It does give you an understanding,” Dunn continues, “of when something is fizzing and exciting versus when something maybe doesn’t have that same impact on first read.” The 25-year-old would know better than a lot of people — he’s also worked on Jack Rook’s Big Boys, Nick Hamm’s historical epic William Tell and now turns to the BBC Three’s millennial coming-of-age drama based on the memoir by transgender journalist Paris Lees. What It Feels Like for a Girl,...

Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky selected this shot — which sees courtier Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) and newly appointed Queen of England Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips) walking silently through a magnificent hall toward an uncertain meeting with King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis) — because of the immense technical and emotional challenges it posed. “We need to help the audience understand the world of Tudor England 500 years ago, which is very unfamiliar to us,” he explains. “It’s a scene in which absolutely nothing is said. It’s all visual. has just had her first conjugal night with Henry VIII. Cromwell and Jane are in love and would have married if Henry VIII hadn’t intervened and stolen her for himself. That subtext has to be conveyed in this shot with no words.” The lengthy shot involved “tracking backward with...

Two pillars of broadcast syndication are coming to the streaming realm. Sony Pictures Television has inked streaming deals for its game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Hulu (as well as Hulu on Disney+) and Peacock will have next-day streaming rights to new episodes of the two shows starting in the fall. The multi-year deal marks the first time that in-season episodes of Jeopardy! and Wheel will stream the day after their broadcast airings; some of the two shows’ catalogs are available on other platforms and cable’s Game Show Network. “We are thrilled to bring America’s favorite game shows to an even wider audience on Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, and Peacock,” Sony Pictures Television chairman Keith Le Goy said in a statement. “Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune are two of the most successful game shows in television history, and we look forward to giving fans the best possible streaming access to our...

Mike Flanagan, who is steering Prime Video’s upcoming Carrie series, says the production looked at more than a thousand submissions for the lead role before deciding on Summer Howell. “I think we looked at 1,800 different candidates for that role,” Flanagan told The Hollywood Reporter at the premiere of his new film The Life of Chuck, his latest collaboration with Carrie author Stephen King. “It was an exhaustive process.” Sissy Spacek famously starred as telekentic teenager Carrie White in the 1976 film adaptation of King’s 1974 book, while Chloe Grace Moretz took on the role for the 2013 remake. Other actresses who have portrayed the character on both the big and small screen include Angela Bettis in a 2002 TV movie and Emily Bergl in the poorly reviewed 1999 sequel The Rage: Carrie 2. “I think we ended up with the right actor for the part,” Flanagan said...

This story was created in paid partnership with Hulu + Live TV. The next generation of Real Housewives has officially arrived. Next Gen NYC is Bravo‘s newest reality series following a group 20-somethings as they navigate life, friendship, love and adulthood in New York City. The 10-person core cast, who would commonly be characterized as “nepo babies” or “nepo baby adjacent,” includes four children of current and former Real Housewives: Brooks Marks (son of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s Meredith Marks), Riley Burruss (daughter of The Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Kandi Burruss), Gia Giudice (daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s Teresa Giudice) and Ariana Biermann (daughter of The Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Kim Zolciak-Biermann). Premiering on Bravo on Tuesday, June 3, at 9/8c, the series is also available to stream online with Hulu + Live TV. Plus, since the live TV streaming service is offering a three-day free...

“Keep it grounded, keep it real” has always been Andor creator Tony Gilroy’s mandate to his effects team. For the acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars drama’s second season, Gilroy’s marching order meant building a massive “flying” TIE fighter from the ground up, figuring out a fresh way to film a Speeder Bike chase, tweaking the iconic Stormtrooper laser blasts, and solving countless creative challenges (there were 4,140 effects shots). Below, Andor VFX supervisor Mohen Leo (who led the show’s digital effects team) and SFX Supervisor Luke Murphy (who tackled the show’s practical effects) discuss pulling off the season’s biggest visuals — as well as some of the smallest, which often turned out to be the trickiest. What was the hardest effect to pull off in season two? MOHEN LEO The most ambitious sequence was the TIE Avenger escape . That was in preparation...

A new documentary will shed more light on the 2023 Titan tragedy, the submersible that imploded while on a deep-sea mission to explore the Titanic wreckage. The two-hour Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster premiered on May 28 on Discovery and is now available to watch on demand via Discovery+ (seven-day free trial available) or Max on Prime Video and other streamers. The network previously teased the documentary with a video clip obtained by the U.S. Coast Guard in which a loud bang can be heard as OceanGate director of communications Wendy Rush was in contact with her husband, OceanGate CEO and pilot Stockton Rush, who was on board the Titan alongside Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman. All five passengers died when OceanGate imploded. At a Glance: How to Watch Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster Online Premiere date: May 28 at 9 p.m. PT/ET Channel: Discovery (TV...