Tim Kirkby: Last News

Fleabag and Stranger Things star Brett Gelman is to lead Entitled, a Showtime/Channel 4 series about an American widower who must get to know his British wife’s estranged family in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside.

Chris McCausland & Lee Mack Set For Sky Festive Special

Jack Gleeson has joined the cast for the BBC reboot of The Famous Five and the actor looks worlds away from his most famous role.

Naman Ramachandran Casting for the beloved “Famous Five” stories of Enid Blyton, which are being reimagined for the BBC and ZDF by Nicolas Winding Refn, has been revealed. Diaana Babnicova is playing the role of George, alongside Elliott Rose as Julian, Kit Rakusen as Dick, Flora Jacoby Richardson as Anne, playing George’s cousins who come to stay at Kirrin Cottage. Making up the fifth member of the “Famous Five” is Kip, the Bearded Collie Cross playing Timmy the dog.

When you think of films and TV series by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, you think of dark, gritty stories. These are stories where anyone can die at any moment and the lines between good and bad are awfully blurry.

Naman Ramachandran The beloved “Famous Five” stories of Enid Blyton are being reimagined for the BBC and ZDF by Nicolas Winding Refn. The 3 x 90′ series is based on the 21 “Famous Five” novels and short stories Blyton wrote between 1942 and 1963. The series follows five daring young explorers as they encounter treacherous, action-packed adventures, remarkable mysteries, unparalleled danger and astounding secrets. It is created for television and executive produced by Winding Refn (byNWR) and Matthew Read (Moonage Pictures), in co-production with ZDF in Germany. The French territory is already presold to TF1. Filming is currently underway across the southwest of the U.K.

Showtime and Channel 4 comedy Entitled from the production company behind Fleabag has unveiled full cast and rolled cameras in Manchester.

WestEnd Films is launching international sales in Cannes on Sinner V. Saints, a comedy based on the true story of the so-called “manacled Mormon” sex scandal. Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are lined up to star. Tim Kirkby (Fleabag, Veep, The Pentaverate) is directing with shooting due to begin in the first quarter of next year in the U.S. and UK.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFreddie Highmore and Maisie Williams will star in an adaptation of a bizarre true story about an American ex-beauty queen who was accused of kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England.Entitled “Sinner V. Saints,” the movie is directed by Tim Kirkby (“Fleabag,” “Veep”) and will be sold by WestEnd Films, which is shopping the project to buyers in Cannes next week.

Netflix unveiled the second trailer for its six-episode conspiracy comedy The Pentaverate - premiering May 5 - that was created by and stars Emmy-winning writer Mike Myers.The 58-year-old Canadian comedian enlisted SNL's Emmy-winning make-up artists Louie Zakarian and Jason Milani in order to transform into eight distinct characters for the show.Mike's main protagonist comes in the form of Ken Scarborough, a reporter who loses his job at CACA News Toronto and sets off to expose an Illuminati-style secret society called The Pentaverate. Premiering May 5! Netflix unveiled the second trailer for its six-episode conspiracy comedy The Pentaverate, which was created by and stars Emmy-winning writer Mike Myers Aside from Ken, Myers plays a New England conspiracy theorist, a far-right radio host, a tech genius, and all four Pentaverate members including Alice Cooper's former manager Shep Gordon.Tim Kirkby directed the limited series inspired by a bit in Thomas Schlamme's 1993 black rom-com, So I Married an Axe Murderer, which starred the SNL veteran.But now, Debi Mazar - who played Susan in Axe Murderer - plays the Pentaverate's highly trusted executive assistant Patty Davis.

Mike Myers’ six-episode Netflix comedy series The Pentaverate is playing off the number 5 from the title in a big way for its release plans. Since joining Instagram a week ago, Myers had been teasing the first trailer with images prominently featuring the number. This morning, the account posted the teaser at 5:55 PM PT, announcing that The Pentaverate will debut 5/5.

The trailer for Last Looks - an action comedy starringMel Gibson as eccentric alcoholic actor andCharlie Hunnam as an ex-LAPD detective -was released on Friday.The movie - basedon the L.A. detective novel series by author Howard Michael Gould, who also adapted the story - follows Hunnam as Charlie Waldo, who comes out of retirement to solve the mystery ofAlistair Pinch's (Gibson) dead wife.The action-packed film is directed by Tim Kirkby and also starsMorena Baccarin, Rupert Friend, Dominic Monaghan, Lucy Fry and Cliff Smith.

“Last Looks” isn’t your average whodunnit movie. Instead of spending two hours checking murder suspects off the list, it focuses on just one suspect.

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to Last Looks, an action comedy toplined by Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson. Morena Baccarin, Rupert Friend, Dominic Monaghan, Lucy Fry and Cliff “Method Man” Smith also star in the pic, directed by Tim Kirkby (Brockmire) and originally titled Waldo after the lead character in Howard Michael Gould’s L.A. detective novel series on which the film is based.

Ken Jeong, Keegan-Michael Key, Debi Mazar, Richard McCabe, Jennifer Saunders and Lydia West have joined the cast of The Pentaverate, Netflix’s previously untitled half-hour comedy limited series, produced by and starring Mike Myers.