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Ben Stiller has revealed that he implemented a “no phones” policy on the set of Severance, which he directs and executive produces.The actor and filmmaker explained that, while starring in Noah Baumbach’s 2010 rom-com Greenberg, the director’s style had a real effect on him.Stiller explained on Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast that the director didn’t allow chairs on set, something he then took on board when directing The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty a few years later. And then, when he’s directing Apple TV+ thriller Severance, Stiller has a “no phones” policy.He said of his time working with Baumbach, “I think it was like 10 days into shooting, and I’m like, ‘Where’s the chairs? Oh my God, there’s no chairs here.’ And that’s his choice because he doesn’t want to have people sitting around.”He explained that, while people were still able to find places to sit down, the lack of chairs helped keep everyone moving and focused on the task at hand.

Severance, the show he stars in, thanks to being sent DVDs.“I don’t have technology” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I’ve seen Severance on DVDs that they’re good enough to send me”.Walken also confessed to not using current forms of connection: “I don’t have a cell phone.

Björk has announced that a livestream of her new concert film Cornucopia will debut on Apple TV+ later this week.An hour-long version of the full-length film will air on the streaming service on Friday (January 24) at 7pm PT, or 3am on Saturday morning in the UK. The singer has also confirmed that the feature length version of the film will be coming to theatres later in the year.Ahead of the stream, the singer will also sit down for a rare interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music on Thursday (January 23) at 10am PT / 6pm UK time.“This has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping out,” she wrote on X/Twitter on Wednesday (January 22).

Keanu Reeves voiced the Lumon building in the latest season of Severance, series creator Dan Erickson has confirmed.The legendary actor’s voice can be heard in the ‘Lumon Is Listening’ video that is shown to the employees of Macrodata Refinement during the second season’s first episode, ‘Hello Mrs. Cobel’.Reeves voices a cartoon version of the Lumon building, which is shown to staff to attempt to prove to them that the company cares about them.in an interview with Collider, Erickson revealed that though various names were considered for the role, they wanted to go with someone they felt had a comforting voice.“All I can say is that we talked about a couple of different people for that role.

Noel Fielding has reportedly confirmed his return for the next series of The Great British Bake-Off despite rumours over his health.Last week, production on the second season of his Apple TV+ comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin was cancelled after the star left the show midway through shooting.The series, which offers a fictional take on the 18th century highwayman co-starred Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville and Shameless star David Threlfall. Season two co-stars were set to include Jason Isaacs and comedian Dawn French.Fielding’s agent at PBJ Management gave a statement to Deadline, saying: “One of the main cast members who has not been well is not recovered enough to complete the filming”.

Noel Fielding’s Apple TV+ comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin has been cancelled after the star left the show midway through shooting, a report claims.An article from Deadline has cited unnamed sources close to the production who allege the footage shot so far is not able to be condensed into a shorter season. The article also claims production insiders have told them Fielding was unavailable for scheduled filming dates, and that the show “ran out of road”.Fielding’s agent at PBJ Management gave a statement denying claims in the report, saying: “One of the main cast members who has not been well is not recovered enough to complete the filming”.

Apple TV+’s psychological thriller series Severance is under way, and fans can’t get enough of its earworm theme music.The first episode of the new run premiered on the streaming service on January 17, with new instalments arriving every Friday until its conclusion on March 21.The show, which was created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, stars Adam Scott as Mark, an employee of Lumon Industries who consents to a “severance” program that separates his work and non-work memories. Christopher Walken, John Turturro and Patricia Arquette also star.Apple’s synopsis for season two reads: “In Severance Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.“This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the centre of an unravelling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.

Apple TV+’s dystopian drama Silo has come to an end, but can fans expect a season three? Read on for all the details.The show is based on Hugh Howey’s trio of novels – Wool, Shift and Dust – and is set in a future where civilisation exists in a giant underground silo made up of 144 levels.Rebecca Ferguson, an executive producer on the series, leads the cast as an engineer who becomes invested in the mysterious past of the silo, with Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common and Tim Robbins co-starring.Graham Yost, writer of Speed and Mission To Mars and the creator of Justified, is the showrunner on Silo, with the first season having aired on the streaming platform in the summer of 2023.It returned on November 15 for its second run of 10 episodes, with the final instalment premiering on Friday (January 17).In a four-star review of the second season, NME described Silo as a “worthy successor” to the ’00s adventure drama Lost and added: “Silo season two doesn’t attempt anything too outlandish, fully aware that its enigma is what keeps us coming back. The mix of paranoia and politics makes for intriguing seasoning over a sci-fi show that plays into our fears of the post-apocalyptic wilderness.“And with Ferguson again in resolute form, building on her stellar work in the first season, Silo is a tantalising prospect, simply begging you to wrestle with its mysteries.

Apple TV+’s dystopian drama Silo is over, but does Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette manage to return to Silo 18 by the end?The sci-fi show is based on Hugh Howey’s trio of novels – Wool, Shift and Dust – and is set in a future where civilisation exists in a giant underground silo made up of 144 levels.Ferguson, an executive producer on the series, leads the cast as engineer Juliette Nichols, who becomes invested in the mysterious past of the silo, with Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common and Tim Robbins co-starring.Graham Yost, writer of Speed and Mission To Mars and the creator of Justified, is the showrunner on Silo, with the first season having aired on the streaming platform in the summer of 2023.It returned on November 15 for its second run of 10 episodes, with the final instalment premiering on Friday (January 17).In a four-star review of the second season, NME described Silo as a “worthy successor” to the ’00s adventure drama Lost and added: “Silo season two doesn’t attempt anything too outlandish, fully aware that its enigma is what keeps us coming back. The mix of paranoia and politics makes for intriguing seasoning over a sci-fi show that plays into our fears of the post-apocalyptic wilderness.“And with Ferguson again in resolute form, building on her stellar work in the first season, Silo is a tantalising prospect, simply begging you to wrestle with its mysteries.

Severance, describing it as “peak television” and having them “locked in”.The sci-fi thriller has taken three years to follow up on its sensational first season, and arrived with a bang with first episode Hello, Ms. Cobel.

Severance Season 2 premieres on Apple TV+. When we last saw Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement department, they were scattered — and their innies were in the outside world thanks to Dylan (Zach Cherry) triggering the Overtime Contingency in a risky attempt to get to the bottom of their company’s shady activities. It all led to the “she’s alive!” heard ’round the world, as Mark (Adam Scott) learned that his outie’s late wife Gemma was still alive, and, in fact, Miss Casey, Lumon’s severed floor’s wellness counselor.Naturally, we’ve spent the last three years wondering where they’d go from here, but we don’t have to wait much longer.

Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence has said the show’s portrayal of Parkinson’s disease was inspired by Michael J. Fox.The second season of the comedy drama show has just completed its run on Apple TV+ and stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades, a therapist who has the neurodegenerative disease.Lawrence, who created the show alongside lead star Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), spoke about the influence that the Back To The Future star had in the character’s inception in a live interview with People earlier this month (December 12).“It’s cool to get to write about things you care about now,” Lawrence said.

Bad Monkey has been renewed for a second season.The Apple TV+ series, which is led by Vince Vaughn, is based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen and follows former police detective turned restaurant inspector Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), who is pulled into a world of greed and corruption after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing.The supporting cast includes L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat, Michelle Monaghan, and Jodie Turner-Smith.The first two episodes of the series, which was developed by Bill Lawrence (Shrinking, Ted Lasso) were released on August 14, with the finale landing on October 9, 2024.The novel spawned a sequel novel titled Razor Girl, but according to Variety, season two will not be based on that book.“Since Bad Monkey first made its debut on Apple TV+, this highly entertaining series became an instant fan-favourite,” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+.“Led by the incomparable Vince Vaughn as Andrew Yancy, alongside a brilliant ensemble cast, we can’t wait for everyone to experience more hilarious, sun-soaked, beachy misadventures from the mind of Bill Lawrence as the temperature rises even further in the next chapter of this engrossing murder-mystery.”It comes after Vaughn, recently expressed an interest in returning for more episodes.

Apple TV+ has renewed Silo for two more seasons, with the dystopian sci-fi drama set to end with its fourth season.Silo, based on a trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, is partway through its second season – it began on November 15, a year and a half after the first season began in May 2023. Another two seasons are expected to be enough to allow the show to tell the whole story.Showrunner and executive producer Graham Yost said in a statement: “It has been a richly rewarding experience to adapt Hugh’s epic novels with our partners at Apple and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this complete story to the screen over the course of four seasons.“With the final two chapters of Silo, we can’t wait to give fans of the show an incredibly satisfying conclusion to the many mysteries and unanswered questions contained within the walls of these silos.”Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote on X (Twitter): “Excited to share that Silo will return for a third AND fourth season! We’re thrilled to support the imagination and inspiration out of the UK as they continue to create world-class films and series.”Excited to share that “Silo” will return for a third AND fourth season! We’re thrilled to support the imagination and inspiration out of the UK as they continue to create world-class films and series.

A$AP Rocky will star alongside Denzel Washington and Ice Spice in Spike Lee‘s upcoming movie Highest 2 Lowest.The Apple TV+ film – a loose adaptation of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa thriller High And Low – is due for release in summer 2025, with a release date yet to be confirmed.Lee, whose last film was 2020’s Da 5 Bloods, revealed more about the film with Deadline.High And Low starred Toshiro Mifune as a shoe manufacturing executive who ends up in a tense race against time to save his son from a kidnapper. Lee revealed that Highest 2 Lowest will feature Washington in the lead role – this time, as a “music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the business.”This will mark the fifth time Lee and Washington are working together, following 1990’s Mo’ Better Blues, 1992’s Malcolm X, 1998’s He Got Game, and 2006’s Inside Man.Lee revealed that Rocky also has “the main role” in the film alongside Spice.

Slow Horses.The actor, who played the villain Frank Harkness in season four earlier this year, said he will be returning to London in January 2025 for a two-and-a-half month shoot, at the International Film Festival of India in Goa (via Variety).He added: “Each season generally is a book, but also each season departs a little bit from those books. We’re getting to the point with ‘Slow Horses’ where the seasons are catching up to the amount of books that [Mick] Herron has written.”It comes after the Apple TV+ series was recently renewed for a sixth season, even before the fifth has aired.The fourth season concluded in September, ending a run of episodes which was roundly praised as the “best season yet”, sitting on an imperious 100% score on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.The show is based on the Slough House series of novels by Herron and revolves around a group of British intelligence officers who have been demoted after having made significant mistakes.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt action comedy Wolfs has been cancelled.The original film was released on Apple TV+ in September after a brief theatrical run. Directed by Jon Watts (Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy), it saw Clooney and Pitt playing two professional fixers who are forced to work together on a job, despite both preferring to work as lone wolves.The film had been widely expected to be granted a sequel, with Clooney, Pitt and Watts all returning, but Variety have confirmed that the second film will now not be going ahead.Watts gave an interview to Collider this week in which he promoted his new Disney+ Star Wars series Skeleton Crew.

Fleetwood Mac have announced a “fully authorised”, “definitive” documentary to chronicle the history of the legendary band – find out more below.Yesterday (November 19), the band confirmed on social media that a feature-length documentary from director Frank Marshall is in the works for Apple Original Films and Apple TV+.They wrote on social media: “It’s not a Rumour. From director Frank Marshall, this Apple Original Films documentary will take you on the epic journey of the generation-defining Fleetwood Mac.”A post shared by Fleetwood Mac (@fleetwoodmac)A premiere date has not yet been announced for the upcoming documentary, but will be available on Apple TV+ upon its release.

Note: This article contains major spoilers for the Bad Sisters season one finale and the second episode of season two.The cast of Bad Sisters have opened up about the surprising death in the second episode of season two.Adapted from the Belgium limited series, the Apple TV+ drama from Sharon Horgan follows a group of sisters who attempt to kill their abusive and murderous brother-in-law John Paul (Claes Bang). However, in the end, it was his wife Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) who finished the job off in an act of self-defence.The unexpected second season – which was ordered by Apple following the success of the first – opens with Grace settling into her new life while still harbouring guilt for her actions.

Disclaimer is streaming on Apple TV+ now, but what songs are included in the show? Find the full list below.The seven-episode show has been written and directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, Roma, Children Of Men), and stars Cate Blanchett as a famous documentary journalist who finds out she is a prominent character in a novel that reveals a secret from her life that she has spent her life trying to hide.The star-studded cast also includes Kevin Kline, a teacher with a grudge against Blanchett’s character, Sacha Baron Cohen as her husband, as well as Lesley Manville and Kodi Smit-McPhee.The first two episodes premiered on the streaming service on October 11, with three and four following a week later. Episode five arrives on Friday (October 25), with two further to come, the last arriving on November 8.Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Renee Knight, the show also boasts cinematography from longtime Cuaron collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki.The show features an original score by Finneas O’Connell, better known as Finneas, the brother and regular producer of Billie Eilish.

Severance has been released, with Adam Scott’s Mark Scout lost in a disorienting world – check it out below.The Apple TV+ series is set to return on January 17 for a 10-episode run that will conclude on March 21, a full three years after the high-concept show left viewers hanging at the conclusion of its critically acclaimed first season.The show, which was created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, stars Scott as Mark, an employee of Lumon Industries who consents to a “severance” program that separates his work and non-work memories. Christopher Walken, John Turturro and Patricia Arquette also star.Now, the trailer for season two shows Mark regaining consciousness in the elevator in which he was left at the end of season one, only to find himself plunged into an alienating, head-spinning world of endless corridors and creepy workmates.