“Insomnia” is a new episodic, psychological thriller TV series, created by Sarah Pinborough, starring Vicky McClure, Tom Cullen, Leanne Best, Anthony Calf, Billie Gadsdon, Lyndsey Marshal, Jade Harrison, Amy Marston, Michelle Bonnard and Rachel O’Meara, now streaming on Paramount+:
“…’Emma’, a successful woman thinks she’s losing her mind…
“…after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40.
“Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present…”
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“…’Emma’, a successful woman thinks she’s losing her mind…
“…after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40.
“Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present…”
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- 6/1/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Whether playing Di Kate Fleming in Line of Duty or a back-against-the-wall bomb disposal expert in ITV’s Trigger Point, Vicky McClure has mastered the art of procedurals over the years.
But in Paramount+ series Insomnia from The Crown producer Left Bank, in which she plays a career woman, Emma, who experiences a breakdown when she suddenly stops being able to sleep, the actor-producer bucked the trend.
“I feel like I’ve grown up, I’m 40 now,” McClure told an Insomnia Q&a in London late last month. “There’s a lot of procedural drama that I do and I enjoy it, but I was excited to step into something that felt different.” McClure added that she quite enjoyed walking in heels for the entirety of the series, for example.
McClure’s challenge was made trickier by the fact she has never suffered from insomnia – although “just a bad night...
But in Paramount+ series Insomnia from The Crown producer Left Bank, in which she plays a career woman, Emma, who experiences a breakdown when she suddenly stops being able to sleep, the actor-producer bucked the trend.
“I feel like I’ve grown up, I’m 40 now,” McClure told an Insomnia Q&a in London late last month. “There’s a lot of procedural drama that I do and I enjoy it, but I was excited to step into something that felt different.” McClure added that she quite enjoyed walking in heels for the entirety of the series, for example.
McClure’s challenge was made trickier by the fact she has never suffered from insomnia – although “just a bad night...
- 5/13/2024
- by Hannah Abraham
- Deadline Film + TV
Line of Duty star Vicky McClure is to lead the cast of Paramount+ UK drama Insomnia.
We first revealed details of the Left Bank Pictures series, an adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel, back in March and casting has now been revealed ahead of a planned 2024 launch. Furthermore, McClure’s production company Build Your Own Films has joined the production.
Also cast are Tom Cullen, Leanne Best, Lyndsey Marshal, Dominic Tighe, Jade Harrison, Corinna Marlowe, Robert Gilbert, Michelle Bonnard, India Fowler and Smylie Bradwell.
It has also emerged Börkur Sigthorsson will direct Insomnia and joins Andy Harries, Jessica Burdett, Tim Bricknell and Pinborough as executive producer.
McClure will play successful career woman Emma Averill, who fears she might be losing her mind, when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. A couple of weeks before her fortieth birthday Emma stops...
We first revealed details of the Left Bank Pictures series, an adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel, back in March and casting has now been revealed ahead of a planned 2024 launch. Furthermore, McClure’s production company Build Your Own Films has joined the production.
Also cast are Tom Cullen, Leanne Best, Lyndsey Marshal, Dominic Tighe, Jade Harrison, Corinna Marlowe, Robert Gilbert, Michelle Bonnard, India Fowler and Smylie Bradwell.
It has also emerged Börkur Sigthorsson will direct Insomnia and joins Andy Harries, Jessica Burdett, Tim Bricknell and Pinborough as executive producer.
McClure will play successful career woman Emma Averill, who fears she might be losing her mind, when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. A couple of weeks before her fortieth birthday Emma stops...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Credit “Wedding Season” for not taking the easy opening. It takes a lot of confidence to start up an eight-episode season with an “I object!” moment. It’s how the show introduces us to Stefan (Gavin Drea) one of 2022’s unluckiest characters, and not just because his gambit to break up the wedding of Katie (Rosa Salazar), the woman he loves, is dead on arrival.
His hopes at whisking Katie away for a fairy-tale ending aren’t the only thing that dies that day. At the reception, Katie’s intended Hugo (George Webster) and a number of his family members keel over on top of their chicken/steak/vegetarian option. While she somehow manages to escape unharmed, Stefan is hauled into an interrogation room to share everything he knows about the woman suddenly leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake.
There are glimmers in “Wedding Season” where you...
His hopes at whisking Katie away for a fairy-tale ending aren’t the only thing that dies that day. At the reception, Katie’s intended Hugo (George Webster) and a number of his family members keel over on top of their chicken/steak/vegetarian option. While she somehow manages to escape unharmed, Stefan is hauled into an interrogation room to share everything he knows about the woman suddenly leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake.
There are glimmers in “Wedding Season” where you...
- 9/8/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
At first, Hulu’s “Wedding Season” seems to be a charming enough take on a British “Four Weddings and a Funeral”-style romantic comedy, complete with a hopeless romantic boy, his boisterous friend group, and the enigmatic American girl he falls for the minute he meets her at — where else? — a wedding. But both Oliver Lyttelton’s take on the setup and the American at its center have more up their sleeves than a charming meet-cute. The second that initial layer’s peeled, “Wedding Season” (not to be confused with Netflix’s recent movie of the same name) is off and running in another direction entirely — a murder mystery with roots in the kind of deep corruption that would give Jason Bourne nightmares. Whether or not it all hangs together will be for the audience to decide, with all eight episodes out Sept. 8 on Hulu (but only seven made available...
- 9/8/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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The rom-com is a genre that leans into the restoration of order. No matter how messy things are when we start, by the end of a tiny 90 minutes, we can count on the boy getting the girl or the girl getting the boy or — as things get more progressive — the gender/gender identity/sexual orientation combination of your choosing, provided that we reach “happiness.” It’s a genre that’s satisfying, but the potential for dull inevitability has encouraged storytellers to subvert expectations, upping the stakes on the screwball antics and challenging our notions of what “happy” endings even look like.
The rise of more close-ended stories on the small screen has been particularly fertile ground for rom-com subversion, with results ranging from brilliant (Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World) to forgettable (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral) to ambitious...
The rom-com is a genre that leans into the restoration of order. No matter how messy things are when we start, by the end of a tiny 90 minutes, we can count on the boy getting the girl or the girl getting the boy or — as things get more progressive — the gender/gender identity/sexual orientation combination of your choosing, provided that we reach “happiness.” It’s a genre that’s satisfying, but the potential for dull inevitability has encouraged storytellers to subvert expectations, upping the stakes on the screwball antics and challenging our notions of what “happy” endings even look like.
The rise of more close-ended stories on the small screen has been particularly fertile ground for rom-com subversion, with results ranging from brilliant (Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World) to forgettable (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral) to ambitious...
- 9/7/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Disney+ has unveiled the official trailer for its first UK Original series, the rom-com action thriller Wedding Season.
The eight-episode series is genre-busting series telling the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is…
An action-packed romp across the UK and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, all while trying to prove their innocence.
Created and executive produced by up-and-coming screenwriting talent Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”) and Laura Scrivano (“The Lazarus Project”), the series stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi,...
The eight-episode series is genre-busting series telling the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is…
An action-packed romp across the UK and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, all while trying to prove their innocence.
Created and executive produced by up-and-coming screenwriting talent Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”) and Laura Scrivano (“The Lazarus Project”), the series stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi,...
- 8/12/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The first trailer for Hulu’s “Wedding Season” ensures that audiences will think twice before saying “I do.”
From the producers of “Broad City,” “Difficult People,” “Younger” and “Search Party,” this action-packed romantic comedy revolves around Katie and Stefan, who fall for one another at a wedding and begin an affair despite the pesky little reality that Katie is engaged. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police naturally think think Stefan is the culprit, he thinks Katie might have done it, and no one knows for sure what the truth is. Conspiracy and hijinx, of course, ensue.
“Wedding Season” stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi, Ioanna Kimbrook and Omar Baroud. All eight episodes will stream on Hulu Sept. 8.
Written by Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”), the...
From the producers of “Broad City,” “Difficult People,” “Younger” and “Search Party,” this action-packed romantic comedy revolves around Katie and Stefan, who fall for one another at a wedding and begin an affair despite the pesky little reality that Katie is engaged. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police naturally think think Stefan is the culprit, he thinks Katie might have done it, and no one knows for sure what the truth is. Conspiracy and hijinx, of course, ensue.
“Wedding Season” stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi, Ioanna Kimbrook and Omar Baroud. All eight episodes will stream on Hulu Sept. 8.
Written by Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”), the...
- 8/11/2022
- by Brandon Katz
- The Wrap
Disney+ is giving fans a first look at upcoming U.K. original series “Wedding Season” in a new trailer.
Not to be confused with the recent Netflix film, Disney+’s “Wedding Season” is a “genre busting” eight-part dark comedy that sees a bride’s new family poisoned on the night of her wedding.
The Maze Runner franchise’s Rosa Salazar plays Katie, who meets Stefan (Gavin Drea of “Vikings: Valhalla”) at a wedding. The duo quickly strike up an affair – despite the fact Katie is due to get married to someone else in two months. On the night of her wedding, Katie’s new husband is mysteriously found dead – along with his entire family – and Stefan quickly becomes the main suspect.
Stefan, meanwhile, is wondering whether Katie may be capable of more than just infidelity.
“The series is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the U.S. as...
Not to be confused with the recent Netflix film, Disney+’s “Wedding Season” is a “genre busting” eight-part dark comedy that sees a bride’s new family poisoned on the night of her wedding.
The Maze Runner franchise’s Rosa Salazar plays Katie, who meets Stefan (Gavin Drea of “Vikings: Valhalla”) at a wedding. The duo quickly strike up an affair – despite the fact Katie is due to get married to someone else in two months. On the night of her wedding, Katie’s new husband is mysteriously found dead – along with his entire family – and Stefan quickly becomes the main suspect.
Stefan, meanwhile, is wondering whether Katie may be capable of more than just infidelity.
“The series is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the U.S. as...
- 8/11/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu has set a premiere date and released photos for the new Wedding Season series. Starring Rosa Salazar, Gavin Drea, Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi, Ioanna Kimbrook, and Omar Baroud, the romantic comedy action-thriller series centers around a couple who meet at a wedding and start an affair. They soon find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation.
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- 7/26/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
“Wedding Season,” the first U.K. original series from streamer Disney+, will premiere on Disney+ Day on Sept 8. The romantic comedy-action thriller will stream on Disney+ globally, Star+ in Latin America and Hulu in the U.S.
The streamer also revealed several first look images.
The series tells the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite the former already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is. What follows is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, while trying to prove their innocence.
“Wedding Season” stars Rosa Salazar (“Alita: Battle Angel”) and Gavin Drea (“Vikings: Valhalla...
The streamer also revealed several first look images.
The series tells the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite the former already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is. What follows is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, while trying to prove their innocence.
“Wedding Season” stars Rosa Salazar (“Alita: Battle Angel”) and Gavin Drea (“Vikings: Valhalla...
- 7/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a first look at Disney+’s Wedding Season, which Deadline can exclusively reveal will launch September 8.
The show from The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions and Emily in Paris outfit Jax Media is one of Disney+’s flagship international offerings and was revealed a year ago as one of the first Disney+ UK originals. The genre-busting series will launch on September 8 on Disney+ globally, adult-skewing vertical Star in Latin America and Hulu in the U.S.
The show tells the story of Katie (Rosa Salazar) and Stefan (Gavin Drea) who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. Stefan and Kate blame each other and the search for the truth begins.
As with many of Disney+’s early British commissions, the eight-parter...
The show from The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions and Emily in Paris outfit Jax Media is one of Disney+’s flagship international offerings and was revealed a year ago as one of the first Disney+ UK originals. The genre-busting series will launch on September 8 on Disney+ globally, adult-skewing vertical Star in Latin America and Hulu in the U.S.
The show tells the story of Katie (Rosa Salazar) and Stefan (Gavin Drea) who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. Stefan and Kate blame each other and the search for the truth begins.
As with many of Disney+’s early British commissions, the eight-parter...
- 7/25/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney+ has unveiled its debut Spanish original series, set casts for upcoming romantic thriller Wedding Season / live action adventure Nautilus and acquired Fremantle dystopian drama Anna.
Created by Lourdes Iglesias and 12-time Goya Award-winners Jose Mari Goenaga, Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, Balenciaga (working title) will tell the story of a man who dares to defy his social status as the son of a seamstress and a fisherman. Using his natural talent, constant work and sharp nose for business, he goes on to become one of the most prominent fashion designers of all time.
The six-part show from Moriarti Produkzioak and Irusoin marks the start of Spain’s original content pipeline for Disney+ and is the 21st outside of the US, as the streamer looks to meet its target of 60 by 2024. Of the 21, 16 have been scripted and five non-scripted.
Meanwhile, Dancing Ledge Productions’ drama Wedding Season has boarded Valhalla’s...
Created by Lourdes Iglesias and 12-time Goya Award-winners Jose Mari Goenaga, Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, Balenciaga (working title) will tell the story of a man who dares to defy his social status as the son of a seamstress and a fisherman. Using his natural talent, constant work and sharp nose for business, he goes on to become one of the most prominent fashion designers of all time.
The six-part show from Moriarti Produkzioak and Irusoin marks the start of Spain’s original content pipeline for Disney+ and is the 21st outside of the US, as the streamer looks to meet its target of 60 by 2024. Of the 21, 16 have been scripted and five non-scripted.
Meanwhile, Dancing Ledge Productions’ drama Wedding Season has boarded Valhalla’s...
- 11/12/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Jan 31, 2020
Here are the differences between Harlan Coben’s book and the Netflix TV adaptation. Major spoilers ahead…
The following contains major spoilers for Netflix's The Stranger and comes from Den of Geek UK.
Harlan Coben's 2015 novel The Stranger is a story to give pause to anybody who thinks that an incognito tab or a fake online username will keep their secrets. Barring the most sophisticated spook tech, whatever an ordinary person does online is traceable to someone, somewhere. In Coben’s novel, that someone is the titular stranger, a revealer-of-wrongs who sets off a devastating chain reaction when they spill family secrets.
read more: The Stranger Review (Spoiler-Free)
Coben’s novel is now an eight-part Netflix show starring Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Dervla Kirwan, Shaun Dooley, Stephen Rea, Tony Head, Jennifer Saunders and Black Mirror’s Hannah John Kamen. From the book to the series, the action’s moved continents,...
Here are the differences between Harlan Coben’s book and the Netflix TV adaptation. Major spoilers ahead…
The following contains major spoilers for Netflix's The Stranger and comes from Den of Geek UK.
Harlan Coben's 2015 novel The Stranger is a story to give pause to anybody who thinks that an incognito tab or a fake online username will keep their secrets. Barring the most sophisticated spook tech, whatever an ordinary person does online is traceable to someone, somewhere. In Coben’s novel, that someone is the titular stranger, a revealer-of-wrongs who sets off a devastating chain reaction when they spill family secrets.
read more: The Stranger Review (Spoiler-Free)
Coben’s novel is now an eight-part Netflix show starring Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Dervla Kirwan, Shaun Dooley, Stephen Rea, Tony Head, Jennifer Saunders and Black Mirror’s Hannah John Kamen. From the book to the series, the action’s moved continents,...
- 1/31/2020
- Den of Geek
"MindFlesh," from director Robert Pratten, is now available for download from the companys website found below and several productions stills can be seen here. Involving an extraterrestrial force reviews are stating that "MindFlesh," is very Cronenberg-esque and a psychological journey through central character Chris Jackson's altered perspective. Also, on the companys website is the full trailer, that cannot be shown here, and several more productions stills. Have a look at some of the most bloody stills from the feature here including a full view of the alien antagonist.
The synopsis for "MindFlesh," here...
"Chris Jackson is a gateway for obsessions to pass from the ind to the physical world. To close the gateway he must face his childhood trauma before everyone he knows is killed by extraterrestrials (Mind-Flesh)."
Director: Robert Pratten.
Writers: Robert Pratten, and William Scheinman.
Cast: Peter Bramhill, Carole Derrien, Christopher Fairbank, Roy Borrett, Steven Burrell, Cordelia Bugeja,...
The synopsis for "MindFlesh," here...
"Chris Jackson is a gateway for obsessions to pass from the ind to the physical world. To close the gateway he must face his childhood trauma before everyone he knows is killed by extraterrestrials (Mind-Flesh)."
Director: Robert Pratten.
Writers: Robert Pratten, and William Scheinman.
Cast: Peter Bramhill, Carole Derrien, Christopher Fairbank, Roy Borrett, Steven Burrell, Cordelia Bugeja,...
- 5/23/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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