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My 30 years protecting the Queen: dry humour, heartfelt gifts and travelling the world by Hugo Daniel (September 17th 2022)

Taking in the beauty of a misty Scottish moor amid the bustle of a Balmoral grouse shoot, the royal protection officer Dick Griffin turned to check on his charge, the Queen, only to get the shock of his life.

It was September 1995 and, at first glance, the then 69-year-old monarch had disappeared. As he searched anxiously through the thick fog, he finally caught sight of her — lying flat on the ground, a dead grouse beside her.

“Because it was so foggy we couldn’t see [that the grouse had] hit her in the chest,” Griffin said. “You can imagine the velocity of something like that falling down to the ground — it just flattened her completely. So I had to get her up and discreetly brush all the feathers and plumes away from her. She was shaken up and badly bruised.”

The equerry who had shot the bird was understandably embarrassed. “But then [they] saw the funny side of it, because the Queen saw the funny side of it. She said, ‘What an odd thing to happen’.”

Griffin, 71, shared his memories of more than 30 years as a protection officer for the royal family over a cup of coffee in a Pret a Manger near Buckingham Palace. His son, Gareth, 42, is a uniformed firearms officer and was on duty at the palace when the Queen’s coffin arrived there on Tuesday evening.

Since her death, a news clip from the Platinum Jubilee has re-emerged in which Griffin revealed how, during a walk on the Balmoral estate, the Queen posed for a photo with two American tourists who did not recognise her.

He said he was glad the story had been a “comfort” to people, with many reposting it and calling it their “favourite Queen story”. He described her as a “remarkable, caring, wonderful person”.

Griffin, who had been due to have lunch with the Queen next month, will attend the smaller, more personal committal service at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel tomorrow after the funeral at Westminster Abbey. He says all seven police officers who worked for the monarch have been invited.

Griffin now gives talks about his career to raise money for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex air ambulance.

His three decades with the royals began in 1982 as part of a team that reorganised palace security after Michael Fagan broke into the Queen’s bedroom. After that, he was assigned to act as Prince Edward’s protection officer at Cambridge University from 1983 to 1986. He worked on assignment for Prince Philip for 13 years until 1999 and then for the Queen until he retired in 2013.

He travelled with the Queen and Prince Philip to 161 countries. “Often you were in the car with them, just chatting away. She would ask about my family and all my marathon running. Once I went to South Africa to do the Comrades marathon, which is 55 miles, and you had a chip on your shoe so people could follow you at home. She got one of her footmen in front of a computer for ten hours to follow me, to see how I was getting on. The footman wasn’t too impressed.”

When Griffin’s running club in Bromley, southeast London, held a party to celebrate his 100th marathon, the Queen marked the occasion with a letter, showing her wry sense of humour. In it, she jokes: “We are delighted that your employers allow you sufficient time to train for, and take part in, such events.”

At his first meeting with the Queen and Prince Philip in 1983 at Windsor Castle, a week before he went to Cambridge with Edward, the couple were keen to learn about the background of the man who would be guarding their youngest child.

“We were sitting on lovely chairs and the staff were giving us coffee and the Queen said to me, ‘Can you tell Philip and me what you used to do before you came to royalty protection?’

“It was probably a question I’d prefer they’d not asked, because my job for the past six years had been [at Scotland Yard’s obscene publications branch policing] prostitution, the brothels, the sex shops and pornographic cinemas.

“The Queen said, ‘Good gracious, Mr Griffin. What on earth does Edward need a police officer with your qualifications for?’ and, before I could answer, Prince Philip said, ‘I don’t know. But they can have some wonderful parties at Cambridge.’

“That was my first experience of Prince Philip and his one-liners.”

The next time Griffin met the Queen, he remembers her sitting on the floor of the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle to watch a private performance of a play that Edward and friends had originally performed at Cambridge, in which Griffin had a cameo role.

The roof was leaking. “Water was landing on top of the Queen’s head. She was all dressed up, having just come from dinner. Several members of the household offered her a seat, but she said ‘that’s not necessary’ and sat on the floor in the aisle and put a programme over her head to keep dry.

“That was one of my first impressions of the Queen, and I just thought, ‘What an amazing lady.’”

Griffin’s three-decade career as protection officer spanned security threats ranging from the IRA to Isis.

“Of course with Islamic terrorism and suicide bombers, we had to really ramp things up,” he said. “But nothing fazed the Queen and Prince Philip. We’d try to encourage them sometimes not to be so open on walkabouts, but nothing would change her.”

He was in the car with the Queen on the day two months after 9/11 when an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, New York. It would turn out to be an accident, but there were fears at first that it was terrorism-related.

“I was bringing the Queen back from Windsor Castle and my mobile phone rang and it was my son. I spoke to Gareth and he said there might be another terrorist attack.

“I told the Queen, and then, five minutes later, Tony Blair rings up to brief the Queen, and I always remember her saying, ‘Yes, prime minister, I know. My policeman’s son has just phoned to tell me.’”

In 2005 Griffin’s first grandchild, Joshua, was born and the Queen insisted on meeting him.

“She said to me in the car one day, ‘For the last nine months, all you’ve talked about is how excited you are about being a grandfather, and now your grandson has been born, you haven’t even bothered to introduce me.’ So I had to arrange a date and time so the Queen could have a cuddle. She was thrilled.”

He saw her love for her own grandchildren, too. For Christmas in 2010, Griffin and the other protection officers decided to give the Queen a wind-up clockwork duck that played music and laid an egg every 30 seconds, something they had found at a flea market on a recent state visit to the United Arab Emirates.

“My wife wrapped it up all beautifully with ribbons and gave it to the equerry to present it to the Queen on Christmas Day. We got this beautiful letter from the Queen saying how much she enjoyed it and Edward’s son, James, had so much fun playing with it.”

In the letter, the Queen wrote: “To the PPOs, many thanks for the unusual Christmas present from you all. It certainly livened things up and little James’s face was a picture when the duck laid her eggs! Thanks for making us laugh.”

When Griffin retired, in 2013, the Queen gave him the best gift of all. She had paid for him to have a retirement party in the state department at the palace, with 200 guests, and at eight o’clock she joined the party, with Prince Philip and the Earl of Wessex.

“That was the biggest present she could give me,” he said.

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Masterlist of Previous Polls

And Then There Were None - Philip Lombard

Anne of Green Gables series Anne Shirley Anne & Diana

Arthurian Legend Lancelot du Lac Arthur & Lancelot Morgan le Fay Guinevere & Morgan Gawain The Green Knight

As You Like It - Rosalind & Celia

Beowulf - Beowulf

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly Golightly

Brideshead Revisited - Charles & Sebastian

Carmilla - Carmilla & Laura

The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield

The Chronicles of Narnia - Edmund Pevensie

The Count of Monte Cristo - Eugenie & Louise

Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov & Razumikhin

Dracula Count Dracula Jonathan Harker Mina & Lucy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Jekyll/Hyde

The Divine Comedy - Dante & Virgil

Emma Emma Woodhouse Emma & Harriet

The Enchanted Island of Yew - Prince Marvel

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh & Enkidu

Eugene Onegin - Onegin & Lensky

Fahrenheit 451 - Guy Montag

The Famous Five series - George Kirrin

The Fate of the Crown - Valcour & Francisco de Paola

Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Victor & Henry Captain Walton

The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway Nick & Gatsby Jordan Baker Daisy & Jordan

Hamlet Hamlet & Horatio Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

The Haunting of Hill House - Eleanor & Theodora

Herbert West–Reanimator - Herbert West

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Huckleberry Finn

The Idiot Myshkin Rogozhin

The Iliad - Achilles & Patroclus

The Invisible Man - Jack Griffin

In Memoriam A. H. H. - Alfred Tennyson & Arthur Hallam

Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre

Jasper Jones - Charlie & Jasper

Jeeves and Wooster series - Jeeves & Wooster

Jude the Obscure - Sue Bridehead

Julius Caesar - Brutus & Cassius

Les Misérables Enjolras Enjolras & Grantaire Javert

Little Women Jo March Laurie Lawrence

Lord of the Flies - Piggy

The Lord of the Rings series Frodo & Sam Galadriel Boromir Fingon & Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Macbeth - Lady Macbeth

Mansfield Park - Fanny & Mary

The Merchant of Venice - Antonio

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck

Moby Dick - Ishmael

The Most Dangerous Game - General Zaroff

Mrs Dalloway - Clarissa

Much Ado About Nothing Benedict Beatrice

Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist

Orlando - Orlando

Othello - Iago

The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis Johnny & Dally

Peter Pan - Peter Pan

The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray Dorian & Basil Henry Wotton

Pride and Prejudice - Charlotte Lucas

Richard II - Richard II

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio

The Secret History - Richard Papen

A Separate Peace - Gene & Finneas

Sherlock Holmes Series Sherlock Holmes Sherlock & John James Moriarty which adaptation is the most queer?

The Talented Mr Ripley Tom Ripley Tom & Dickie

The Tempest - Ariel

To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout Finch

Twelfth Night Viola Corsino Olivia

Ulster Cycle (Celtic Mythology) - Cú Chulainn

Waiting for Godot - Vladimir & Estragon

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Gale

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Black dynamite season 1 episode 5 uncensored

The series ended on Januwith a total of 20 episodes in two seasons. Most episodes of the show were rated TV-MA (akin to the R rating of the movie itself) for bloody, stylized violence, strong sexual references (including nudity, references to prostitution, and depictions of sex acts), profanity and humor derived from racism and discrimination. The original music is by Adrian Younge (who also composed score for the hit film) for season 1 and Fatin "10" Horton for season 2. LeSean Thomas is creative producer/supervising director. Scott Sanders, White and Minns are producers. It was produced by Ars Nova, Jon Steingart, Carl Jones and Jillian Apfelbaum are executive producers, with Brian Ash as co-executive producer. as the restaurant owner Roscoe and Arsenio Hall as Tasty Freeze. Throughout the first and second seasons, Cedric Yarbrough also reprised his film role as Chocolate Giddy-Up, along with Jimmy Walker Jr. Debra Wilson as Amazon Moon Bitch Leader, Lil' Orphan Penny, Eartha K.I.T.T., Euphoria, Li'l Orphan Arnold, Li'l Orphan Rodney King, Li'l Rodney Munchkins, Givinya Morehead, Child Services Lady, Hotel Employee, Hoe Crowsīlack Dynamite actors Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson and Kym Whitley reprise their film roles as Black Dynamite, Bullhorn, Cream Corn and Honeybee, respectively.Gary Anthony Williams as George Washington Carver III, Radio DJ, Reporter.Denzel Whitaker as Donald the Accountant, Jermaine Jackson.Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins as Pam Grier, Reverse Strip Club Owner.Smoove as That Frog Kurtis, That Bastard Kurtis Kevin Michael Richardson as Melvin Van Peebles, Don Cornelius, Bill Cosby, Fred Berry.Christopher "Kid" Reid as John the John, Sun Tzu, Black Lucky, Jamaica Labour Party Member.Donnell Rawlings as A Cat Named Rallo, A Slave Cat Named Rallo.Clifton Powell as Crenshaw the Slime, Daddy Dynamite.Tim Blake Nelson as Chief Humphrey McGillihorn, The Wicked Bitch of the West Side, Donald Sterling, Television Executive, Cracker Cop, Director.Charlie Murphy as A Cat Named Rollo, A Slave Cat Named Rollo.Lil Mo as Nurse, Teacher, Rondell's Mom.Jonathan Kite as Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, James Bonds (Sean Connery and Roger Moore), News Reporter, Elvis Presley.Orlando Jones as Basehead, Flying Junkies, Stewie's Brother, James Brown.Carl Jones as Frank the John, Crenshaw Pete, Puppet Minion, Shark Victim, Stewie Fig Newton, Announcer, The Mayor of Beach City, Teacher, Laughing Prisoner.Eddie Griffin as Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney.John DiMaggio as Rip Tayles, Female Cop, J.Wu, Chinatown Assassin, R.A.C.I.S.T., Bill Cosby's Assistant, Dick Clark, Newscaster, Child, Reporter Erykah Badu as Fatback Taffy, Hoe Crows, Rita Marley, Wolf.Tichina Arnold as Tinbee's Singing Voice.Tommy Davidson as Cream Corn, The Boss Man.Byron Minns as Bullhorn, Rudy Ray Moore, Singer.Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite, Jim Kelly.Agent and full-time ladies man, Black Dynamite, who's out to avenge the death of his brother against kung-fu masters, drug-dealing pimps, and The Man. This animated blaxploitation action comedy-spoof follows ex-C.I.A. There is no place like KissAnime with free anime online so I uploaded this full anime here, now each person can watch this anime from here for free.Black Dynamite further chronicles the exploits of the central character, Black Dynamite and his motley crew. You do not have to fall in love with a action & adventure to enjoy this anime. My favorite anime of this director, and that’s saying something! This anime online seriously is incredible. Everytime I watch this anime online, I really enjoy the music, it is just pure soul of that anime. The anime is openly dreamlike, and like most dreams it moves uncertainly down a path with many turnings. action & adventurecategory did not create a better anime and you can now watch for free on this website. Strike the Blood is one of the biggest surprises of the year 2013. Forced together by circumstance, the two form an unlikely alliance as Kojou comes to terms with his abilities and they both struggle to protect the city from various emerging chaotic forces. Fearing Kojou’s destructive potential, the Lion King Organization sends in an apprentice sword-shaman, Yukina Himeragi, to monitor, and should he become a threat, kill the boy deemed the world’s most powerful vampire. It isn’t long before he is thrust into the center of attention when it is discovered that he is the fourth primogenitor, an immensely powerful vampire whom most consider to be merely a legend.

Kojou Akatsuki’s days as an ordinary high school student in the Demon District of Itogami Island come to an abrupt end after a fateful encounter leaves him with the remarkable abilities of a vampire.

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THE CAVALCADE OF AMERICA:  “SKYLARK SONG”

June 21, 1948

The Cavalcade of America ran on NBC Radio from 1935 to 1953. It featured events from American history, usually dramatizing the positive aspects of the nation’s past. Additionally, the show attempted to end criticism of its sponsor, the Du Pont Company due to negative publicity from profiting by producing gunpowder during World War I. 

Throughout the years, actors and actresses from Broadway and Hollywood were featured. The show was broadcast live from the Longacre Theatre in NYC and repeated later in the day. 

In 1952, the series was transferred to NBC television and lasted until 1957, nearly identical to the run of “I Love Lucy” on CBS. For six months the radio and television versions also overlapped. The TV version featured “Lucy” actors Robert Foulk, Dayton Lummis, Byron Foulger, Maurice Marsac, Ross Elliott, Roy Roberts, Hayden Rorke, Pierre Watkin, Will Wright, Nestor Paiva, Joi Lansing, Dorothea Wolbert, Don Rickles, Burt Mustin, Lurene Tuttle, Gladys Hurlbut, Paul Picerni, Richard Reeves, James Flavin, Larry J. Blake, Peter Graves, Rhodes Reason, Irving Bacon, Milton Frome, Eleanor Audley, Joe Mell, Mary Ellen Kay, Mario Siletti, John Banner, Harry Bartell, Robert Carson, William Fawcett, Mabel Paige, June Whitley Taylor, Iron Eyes Cody, Strother Martin, Norma Varden, Madge Blake, Ellen Corby, Dick Elliott, Vivi Janiss, Ida Moore, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank J. Scannell, Herb Vigran, and William Schallert. 

Synopsis: "Skylark Song" by Virginia Radcliff is the story of Grace Moore,  charting her climb from a small southern church choir to star of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 – January 26, 1947) was an operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. Born in Slabtown, Tennessee, she was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for  for her performance in One Night of Love. In 1947, Moore died in a plane crash at the age of 48. She published her autobiography in 1944 titled You're Only Human Once. 

In 1953, a film about her life was released titled So This Is Love starring Kathryn Grayson and Lucy’s friend Merv Griffin. The movie featured “Lucy” players Herb Vigran, Victorio Bonanova, Moroni Olsen, Mario Siletti, Ray Kellogg, Olin Howland, Tristram Coffin, Jack Chefe, and Barbara Pepper as Fat Girl with Sailor in Nightclub!

Lucille Ball (Grace Moore) may be the last person on earth one would consider to play one of the most famous opera singers of all time - but this was radio - and recordings of Grace Moore and studio singers were used to supplement the program. Ball affects a slight southern accent during the broadcast. Operatic trills and other miscellaneous singing by the character was provided by Marjorie Brett and Marjorie Hamilton. 

Lucille Ball signed the contract for “Skylark Song” on June 11, 1948 and was paid $3,500 for her work. 

The story starts when Moore is 17, convincing her father to allow her to attend music school. She goes to New York City where her father tells her to “only take parts in Shakespeare”.  She tells him she will report to theatrical impresario David Belasco to ask him if she can play Juliet.  

GRACE: “Hark! What light through yonder window breaks...”

Belasco stops her. Moore is reciting Romeo’s speech because that is the role she played in school. Lucille Ball purposely does a very stilted rendition, with a large country twang. 

Lucy Ricardo also did Romeo and Juliet in school, later hoping to repeat her triumph with Orson Welles. 

Belasco sends her to see composer and producer George Gershwin, who unfortunately hasn’t got a job for her.  

In 1920, Moore finally lands a job in the chorus of a Broadway show called “Hitchy-Koo.” The show was produced by Raymond Hitchcock (hence the unusual name) with music by Jerome Kern (”Showboat”).   

GRACE: “Well, Daddy, what do you think of your skylark, now?” 

Grace lands an audition at the Metropolitan Opera but is told that her Broadway work has damaged her classically-trained voice and sent away. 

GRACE: “I’m either a skylark or a mud hen. There’s nothing in between.”

A fortune teller named Carmen tells her that she should go to Europe and make her name. In a montage sequence, Moore trains in Europe. Now at the peak of her vocal range, Grace finally gets a job at the Metropolitan Opera as Mimi in La Boheme.  

Her proud father and mother attend Grace’s triumphant opening night. 

Announcer Ted Pearson sums up Grace’s remarkable journey, as well as her tragic death in a plane crash in Denmark. 

Pearson reminds us that next week on The Cavalcade of America Basil Rathbone will play Thomas Jefferson in “The Common Glory”...

...and that Lucille Ball will soon be seen in the Paramount Picture Sorrowful Jones, despite the fact that the film will not premiere until a year later, June 1949. Filming began on April 7, 1948. 

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PLEASE NOTE, IN UK PRICES, THESE BOOKS AVERAGE 50P FOR PAPERBACK, £1 FOR HARDBACK. WE ARE SELLING REALLY CHEAP TO RAISE FUNDS TO REPAIR OUR COOKER, AND UPDATE OTHER FURNITURE PIECES BEFORE WE MOVE. Some books will be priced separately.

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Alex Connor - Memory of Bones Alice Sebold - Lucky Anchee Min - Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid #1) Andy Lane - Fire Storm (Young Sherlock Holmes #4) Angie Sage - MAGYK (Septimus Heap) Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1) Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths Anne Pellowski - Winding Valley Farm Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha Beverly Barton - The Murder Game (Griffin Powell #8) Bob Servant - Delete This At Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4) Brian Freeman - Immoral Carol Smith - Without Warning Chris Carter - The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter #1) Elizabeth Chadwick - Shadows and Strongholds Eoin Colfer - The Supernaturalist G.M. Berrow - Twilight Sparkle & the Crystal Heart Spell George R.R. Martin. - A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast (A Song of Ice & Fire #5.2) Jack London - The Call of the Wild & White Fang J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy James Joyce - Dubliners Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) Jo Nesbø - The Devil's Star (Harrry Hole #5) Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper John Lutz - Serial Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man #1) Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street Jonathon Nasaw - The Girls He Adored Julia Golding - The Gorgon's Gaze Kathryn Stockett - The Help Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Kenneth Oppel - Dusk Keri Arthur - Tempting Evil Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner L.J, Smith - The Forbidden Game (The Forbidden Game 1-3) - £2 Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry #5) Lindsey Davis - The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery #1) Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home Lisa Gardner - Say Goodbye Louise Welsh - A Lovely Way To Burn Lynda La Plante - Cold Shoulder Mark Billingham - Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2) Mercedes Lackey - The Wizard of Karres Michael Cordy - The Colour of Death Nick Stone - King of Swords Peter David - Fantastic Four Philip K. Dick - Paycheck Philip Pullman - The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart #3) R.J. Palacio - Wonder Rebecca Chance - Killer Queens Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Stories. Robyn Young - Brethren (Brethren Trilogy #1) Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (Wordsworth Collection) Scott Frost - Never Fear (Alex Delilo #2) Simon Kernick - Relentless (Tina Boyd #2) Steve Voake - The Dreamwalker's Child Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin Ted Eliott; Terry Rossio - Pirates of the Carribean - The Adventure So Far Tony DiTerlizzi - The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles #1) Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway Vittoria Bowles - Get Started In Italian William Jefferies - Bloody River Blues (John Bellam #2)

ALISON WEIR Innocent Traitor The Captive Queen The Lady Elizabeth

ANTHONY HOROWITZ - Nightrise (The Power of Five #3) Point Blanc (Alex Rider #2)

CECILIA AHERN If You Could See Me Now P.S, I Love You The Time of My Life

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1) The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2)

DAN BROWN Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon #1) The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2) The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon #3) Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) Deception Point Digital Fortress

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Eragon (Inheritance #1) Eldest (Inheritance #2) Brisingr (Inheritance #3)

HARLAN COBEN Tell No One (Standalone) / Back Spin (Myron Bolitar #4) (2-in-1) One False Move (Myron Bolitar #5) The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar #6) Gone For Good

JOE ABERCROMBIE The First Law Trilogy Box Set (Current eBay price £14, selling for £10)

JEFFERY DEAVER Shallow Graves (A Location Scout Series) The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1) The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme #2) The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme #7) Twisted (The Collective Stories of Jefferey Deaver)

KARIN SLAUGHTER A Faint Cold Fear Fallen (Will Trent #5) Indelible (Grant County #4) Skin Privilege (Grant County #6)

KATE MOSSE Labyrinth (Languedoc Trilogy #1) Sepulchre (Languedoc Trilogy #2)

LAUREN KATE Torment (Fallen #2) Passion (Fallen #3)

MICHAEL WHITE Michael White Michael White

NANCY HADDOCK La Vida Vampire (Oldest City Vampire #1) Last Vampire Standing (Oldest City Vampire #2)

P.J. TRACY Play to Kill (Twin Cities #5) Want To Play? (Monkeewrench #1)

ROBERT MUCHAMORE Black Friday (Cherub 2, #3) Man vs. Beast (Cherub #6) The Sleepwalker (Cherub #9)

SHERRILYN KENYON Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter #5) Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter #11)

SIMON BECKETT Written in Bone (David Hunter #2) Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter #3)

STIEG LARSSON The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium Trilogy #2) - £1 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) - £1

SUSANNA GREGORY A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew #1) Murder on High Holborn (Thomas Chaloner #9)

VICTORIA HOLT The King of the Castle The Secret Woman

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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Amazon ha renovado The Expanse por una sexta y última temporada

Cancelaciones

Pop ha cancelado One Day at a Time tras su cuarta temporada

Channel 4 ha cancelado GameFace tras su segunda temporada

Netflix ha cancelado Queen Sono tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Utopia tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Joss Whedon abandona The Nevers por motivos personales. [Fuente]

China Anne McClain (Lightning) no participará en todos los episodios de la cuarta y última temporada de Black Lightning por motivos personales.

Fichajes

Susan Sarandon (Feud, Ray Donovan), Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers), Busy Philipps (Cougar Town, Dawson's Creek), Griffin Dunne (This Is Us, I Love Dick) y Lillias White (The Get Down) participarán como invitados en la cuarta temporada de Search Party interpretando a Lylah, la tía adinerada de Chip (Cole Escola); Paula Jo, pueblerina fisgona y obsesionada con la Navidad; Donna DiMarco, antigua estrella adolescente que interpretará a Portia en una película sobre el asesinato de Keith (Ron Livingston); Richard Wreck, CEO de una empresa pastelera; y Wilma, presentadora de un talk show.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace, Blindspot) se une como regular a la tercera temporada de Jack Ryan. Será Elizabeth Wright, jefa de estación.

Anthony Konechny (Supergirl, Almost Human) será recurrente en la quinta temporada de Animal Kingdom interpretando la versión joven de Billy (Denis Leary).

Megan Suri (Atypical, The Brink) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Never Have I Ever como Aneesa, nueva estudiante de Sherman Oaks High  cuya confianza en sí misma y brillantez supondrán una inmediata amenaza a Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan).

Xavi de Guzmán (The 100, Take Two) será recurrente en Maid como Ethan, amigo de la niñez y compañero de trabajo de Sean (Nick Robinson) en el bar local.

Cynthia Quiles y Kerry O'Malley (Shameless, Snowpiercer) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Why Women Kill como Brenda y Mavis, miembros del club de Rita (Lana Parrilla).

Pósters

    Nuevas series

BBC encarga Toast In America, spin-off de Toast of London en el que Steven (Matt Berry; What We Do in the Shadows, Year of the Rabbit) se muda a Hollywood. Escrita por Berry (Toast of London) y Arthur Mathews (Toast of London, Father Ted).

Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls, Hollyoaks) y Jon Pointing (Plebs) protagonizarán Big Boys, sobre la improbable amistad entre un chico en el armario y un estudiante inquieto y maduro en el primer año de universidad, en Channel 4. Es una dramedia creada, escrita y narrada por el comediante Jack Rooke, que adapta sus shows en vivo. Seis episodios.

Canal+ y Quebecor encargan cinco episodios de la limited series The Night Logan Wakes Up, thriller psicológico ambientado en 1990 en el que Logan viola a Mimi rompiendo así su amistad con Jules, el hermano de Mimi, y enemistando a sus familias. Treinta años después, Mimi vuelve al pueblo tras la muerte de su madre. Escrita, dirigida y producida por Xavier Dolan (Matthias et Maxime, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan) y grabada en francés, es una adaptación de la obra La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé, de Michel Marc Bouchard, y estará protagonizada por los mismos actores: Julie Le Breton, Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, Eric Bruneau y Patrick Hivon, además del propio Dolan y Julianne Côte.

Starz desarrolla una antología sobre mujeres extraordinarias de la Historia. La primera temporada se centrará en Leonor de Aquitania, reina consorte de Francia e Inglaterra en el siglo XII. Escrita y producida por Susie Conklin (A Discovery of Witches), adaptará la biografía escrita por Alison Weir (1999) y la novela que la acompaña (2010).

Tod Williams (The Door In the Floor, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole) prepara un drama sobre el origen de Napoleón Bonaparte, emperador de Francia, que explorará su figura como hijo, hermano y marido. Busca cadena.

Fechas

Equinox llega a Netflix el 30 de diciembre

The Serpent se estrena en BBC One el 1 de enero

Tráilers y promos

Shameless - Temporada 11 y última

The Witcher - Temporada 2

Call Your Mother

Mr. Mayor

Equinox

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Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (born January 1, 1960) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Early life and career

He was born in 1960 in the Bronx. At the age of 7, his divorced, working-class parents got a scholarship for him and his brother to attend Walden School, a high-profile progressive private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Ligon graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in 1982. After graduating, he worked as a proofreader for a law firm, while in his spare time he painted in the abstract Expressionist style of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In 1985, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Work

Ligon works in multiple media, including painting, neon, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States.

Painting

Although Ligon's work spans sculptures, prints, drawings, mixed media and even neon signs, painting remains a core activity. His paintings incorporate literary fragments, jokes, and evocative quotes from a selection of authors, which he stencils directly onto the canvas by hand. In 1989, he mounted his first solo show, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," in Brooklyn. This show established Ligon's reputation for creating large, text-based paintings in which a phrase chosen from literature or other sources is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988), a reinterpretation of the signs carried during the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968 — made famous by Ernest Withers’s photographs of the march —, is the first example of his use of text.

Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists like Lorna Simpson, Gary Simmons, and Janine Antoni. In 1993, Ligon began the first of three series of gold-colored paintings based on Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up comedy routines from the 1970s. The scatological and racially charged jokes Ligon depicts speak in the vernacular language of the street and reveal a complex and nuanced vision of black culture.

In A Feast of Scraps (1994–98), he inserted pornographic and stereotypical photographs of black men, complete with invented captions ("mother knew," "I fell out" "It's a process") into albums of family snapshots including graduation photographs, vacation snapshots, pictures of baby showers, birthday celebrations, and baptisms, some of which include the artist's own family. Like almost all of Ligon's art, this project draws out the secret histories and submerged meanings of inherited texts and images.

For Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–93), Ligon separately framed 91 erotic photographs of black males cut from Robert Mapplethorpe's 1988 "Black Book," installing them in two horizontal rows. Between them are two more rows of small framed typed texts, 78 comments on sexuality, race, AIDS, art and the politically inflamed controversy over Mapplethorpe's work launched by then-Texas Congressman Dick Armey.

Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books.

Installation art

In 1994, the art installation To Disembark was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The title alludes to the title of a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To Disembark" functions in both works to evoke the recognition that African Americans are still coping with the remnants of slavery and its ongoing manifestation in racism. In one part of the installation, Ligon created a series of packing crates modeled on the one described by ex-slave Henry "Box" Brown in his "Narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide." Each crate played a different sound, such as a heartbeat, a spiritual, or contemporary rap music. Around each box, the artist placed posters in which he characterized himself, in words and period images, as a runaway slave in the style of 19th century broadsheets circulated to advertise for the return of fugitive slaves. In another part of the exhibition, Ligon stenciled four quotes from a Zora Neale Hurston essay, "how it feels to be colored me," directly on the walls: "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background," "I remember the very day that I became colored," "I am not tragically colored," and "I do not always feel colored." Ligon found Hurston's writing illuminating because she explores the idea of race as a concept that is structured by context rather than essence.

Neon works

Since 2005, Ligon has made neon works. Warm Broad Glow (2005), Ligon’s first exploration in neon, uses a fragment of text from Three Lives, the 1909 novel by American author Gertrude Stein. Ligon rendered the words “negro sunshine” in warm white neon, the letters of which were then painted black on the front. In 2008, the piece was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society's group exhibit, "Black Is, Black Ain't"., and appeared on the Whitney Museum’s facade in 2011. Other neon works are derived from neon sculptures by Bruce Nauman; One Live and Die (2006) stems from Nauman’s 100 Live and Die (1984), for example.

Film

In 2009, Ligon completed short film based on Thomas Edison's 1903 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the character of Tom, Ligon had himself filmed re-creating the last scene of Edison's movie, which also provided his film's title: "The Death of Tom." But the film was incorrectly loaded in the hand-crank camera that the artist used so no imagery appeared on film. Embracing this apparent failure, Ligon decided to show his film as an abstract progression of lights and darks with a narrative suggested by the score composed and played by jazz musician Jason Moran.

Exhibitions

Ligon's work has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibition include the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); the Kunstverein München, Germany (2001), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); the St. Louis Art Museum (2000); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1998); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996). A first survey of Ligon's work opened at The Power Plant in Toronto in June 2005 and traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and the Mudam in Luxembourg. The first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to Ligon's work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2011. Group shows in which Ligon has participated include the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 1993), Biennale of Sydney (1996), Venice Biennale (1997), Kwangju Biennale (2000), and documenta 11 (2002).

In 2013, Ligon started writing letters to artists whose work had made an impression on him in his life, asking if he could borrow that particular work for an exhibition. While some of the letters were sent to living artists, others are letters that Ligon would have sent those of the past, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The resulting show at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015 featured work by 45 different artists from Warhol to Steve McQueen, as well as Black Panther Party posters, press shots and footage from the Birmingham riot of 1963.

Collections

Ligon's work is represented in many public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2012, the National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the painting Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988).

In 2012, Ligon was commissioned to create the first site-specific artwork for the New School's University Center building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. The work will feature about 400 feet of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass rendered in pink neon lights, running around the top of a wall in the center’s first-floor café.

Recognition

In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work. In 2006 he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.

In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 Black Like Me No. 2, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to the White House collection, where it was installed in the President's private living quarters. The text in the selected painting is from John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me, the account of a white man's experiences traveling through the South after he had his skin artificially darkened. The words "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" are repeated in capital letters that progressively overlap until they coalesce as a field of black paint. Art critic Jerry Saltz called this work a "black-and-white beauty."

Art market

On the occasion of Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s "Artists For Haiti" charity auction at Christie's in 2011, Jennifer Aniston set a record prize for Glenn Ligon's work by purchasing his Stranger #44 (2011). At $450,000, Aniston beat Ligon’s previous record of $434,500 for Invisible Man (Two Views) (1991), realized at Sotheby's in September 2010. Untitled #1 (Second Version) (1990), a painting in which the words "I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background" repeat again and again, sold for $2.6 million at Christie' New York in 2014.

Ligon is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles; Luhring Augustine in New York; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.

Personal life

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ligon donated $30,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in September 2016.

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Glenn Ligon

Happy birthday to Glenn Ligon.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Glenn_Ligon

Glenn Ligon (born January 1, 1960) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Early life and career

He was born in 1960 in the Bronx. At the age of 7, his divorced, working-class parents got a scholarship for him and his brother to attend Walden School, a high-profile progressive private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Ligon graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in 1982. After graduating, he worked as a proofreader for a law firm, while in his spare time he painted in the abstract Expressionist style of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In 1985, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Work

Ligon works in multiple media, including painting, neon, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States.

Painting

Although Ligon's work spans sculptures, prints, drawings, mixed media and even neon signs, painting remains a core activity. His paintings incorporate literary fragments, jokes, and evocative quotes from a selection of authors, which he stencils directly onto the canvas by hand. In 1989, he mounted his first solo show, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," in Brooklyn. This show established Ligon's reputation for creating large, text-based paintings in which a phrase chosen from literature or other sources is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988), a reinterpretation of the signs carried during the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968 — made famous by Ernest Withers’s photographs of the march —, is the first example of his use of text.

Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists like Lorna Simpson, Gary Simmons, and Janine Antoni. In 1993, Ligon began the first of three series of gold-colored paintings based on Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up comedy routines from the 1970s. The scatological and racially charged jokes Ligon depicts speak in the vernacular language of the street and reveal a complex and nuanced vision of black culture.

In A Feast of Scraps (1994–98), he inserted pornographic and stereotypical photographs of black men, complete with invented captions ("mother knew," "I fell out" "It's a process") into albums of family snapshots including graduation photographs, vacation snapshots, pictures of baby showers, birthday celebrations, and baptisms, some of which include the artist's own family. Like almost all of Ligon's art, this project draws out the secret histories and submerged meanings of inherited texts and images.

For Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–93), Ligon separately framed 91 erotic photographs of black males cut from Robert Mapplethorpe's 1988 "Black Book," installing them in two horizontal rows. Between them are two more rows of small framed typed texts, 78 comments on sexuality, race, AIDS, art and the politically inflamed controversy over Mapplethorpe's work launched by then-Texas Congressman Dick Armey.

Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books.

Installation art

In 1994, the art installation To Disembark was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The title alludes to the title of a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To Disembark" functions in both works to evoke the recognition that African Americans are still coping with the remnants of slavery and its ongoing manifestation in racism. In one part of the installation, Ligon created a series of packing crates modeled on the one described by ex-slave Henry "Box" Brown in his "Narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide." Each crate played a different sound, such as a heartbeat, a spiritual, or contemporary rap music. Around each box, the artist placed posters in which he characterized himself, in words and period images, as a runaway slave in the style of 19th century broadsheets circulated to advertise for the return of fugitive slaves. In another part of the exhibition, Ligon stenciled four quotes from a Zora Neale Hurston essay, "how it feels to be colored me," directly on the walls: "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background," "I remember the very day that I became colored," "I am not tragically colored," and "I do not always feel colored." Ligon found Hurston's writing illuminating because she explores the idea of race as a concept that is structured by context rather than essence.

Neon works

Since 2005, Ligon has made neon works. Warm Broad Glow (2005), Ligon’s first exploration in neon, uses a fragment of text from Three Lives, the 1909 novel by American author Gertrude Stein. Ligon rendered the words “negro sunshine” in warm white neon, the letters of which were then painted black on the front. In 2008, the piece was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society's group exhibit, "Black Is, Black Ain't"., and appeared on the Whitney Museum’s facade in 2011. Other neon works are derived from neon sculptures by Bruce Nauman; One Live and Die (2006) stems from Nauman’s 100 Live and Die (1984), for example.

Film

In 2009, Ligon completed short film based on Thomas Edison's 1903 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the character of Tom, Ligon had himself filmed re-creating the last scene of Edison's movie, which also provided his film's title: "The Death of Tom." But the film was incorrectly loaded in the hand-crank camera that the artist used so no imagery appeared on film. Embracing this apparent failure, Ligon decided to show his film as an abstract progression of lights and darks with a narrative suggested by the score composed and played by jazz musician Jason Moran.

Exhibitions

Ligon's work has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibition include the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); the Kunstverein München, Germany (2001), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); the St. Louis Art Museum (2000); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1998); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996). A first survey of Ligon's work opened at The Power Plant in Toronto in June 2005 and traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and the Mudam in Luxembourg. The first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to Ligon's work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2011. Group shows in which Ligon has participated include the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 1993), Biennale of Sydney (1996), Venice Biennale (1997), Kwangju Biennale (2000), and documenta 11 (2002).

In 2013, Ligon started writing letters to artists whose work had made an impression on him in his life, asking if he could borrow that particular work for an exhibition. While some of the letters were sent to living artists, others are letters that Ligon would have sent those of the past, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The resulting show at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015 featured work by 45 different artists from Warhol to Steve McQueen, as well as Black Panther Party posters, press shots and footage from the Birmingham riot of 1963.

Collections

Ligon's work is represented in many public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2012, the National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the painting Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988).

In 2012, Ligon was commissioned to create the first site-specific artwork for the New School's University Center building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. The work will feature about 400 feet of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass rendered in pink neon lights, running around the top of a wall in the center’s first-floor café.

Recognition

In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work. In 2006 he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.

In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 Black Like Me No. 2, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to the White House collection, where it was installed in the President's private living quarters. The text in the selected painting is from John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me, the account of a white man's experiences traveling through the South after he had his skin artificially darkened. The words "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" are repeated in capital letters that progressively overlap until they coalesce as a field of black paint. Art critic Jerry Saltz called this work a "black-and-white beauty."

Art market

On the occasion of Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s "Artists For Haiti" charity auction at Christie's in 2011, Jennifer Aniston set a record prize for Glenn Ligon's work by purchasing his Stranger #44 (2011). At $450,000, Aniston beat Ligon’s previous record of $434,500 for Invisible Man (Two Views) (1991), realized at Sotheby's in September 2010. Untitled #1 (Second Version) (1990), a painting in which the words "I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background" repeat again and again, sold for $2.6 million at Christie' New York in 2014.

Ligon is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles; Luhring Augustine in New York; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.

Personal life

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ligon donated $30,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in September 2016.

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USA; Michael Moss Accidental Orchestra HELIX CD Release Show Friday, May 18th 7-10 PM Westbeth Community Room

CD Release Party for Michael Moss / Accidental Orchestra: HELIX Friday, May 18, 2018 7-10 PM Westbeth Community Room 155 Bank Street entrance (between West St. and Washington St.) New York, NY 10014 Tickets: $10 donation New CD

Michael Moss the Accidental Orchestra HELIX (4th Stream Records ERG 10013) Street Date: March 24, 2018 Jason Kao Hwang, Rosi Hertlein, Fung Chern Hwei (violins), Stephanie Griffin (viola), Lenny Mims and Carol Buck (cellos), Steve Swell (trombone), Vincent Chancey (French horn), Waldron Mahdi Ricks (trumpet), Richard Keene (oboe), Elliott Levin (flute, tenor saxophone), Ras Moshe Burnett (soprano and tenor saxophones), Michael Lytle (bass clarinet), and myself, Michael Moss (Bb clarinet), Steve Cohn (piano), Billy Stein (guitar), Rick Iannacone (ambient guitar), Larry Roland (string bass), Warren Smith (percussion, vibraphones), Badal Roy (tabla), Chuck Fertal (drums), and Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells and percussion). Listen On Bandcamp  

Free Jazz Composer Michael Moss Debuts Two Major Compositions On His New Release HELIX. Multi-instrumentalist/composer Michael Moss, a veteran of New York’s free jazz scene, has assembled a brand-new band, the Accidental Orchestra, featuring 22 of the most exciting improvisers on the jazz scene today. His new CD HELIX is the premiere recording of a pair of his latest extended compositions. HELIX kicks off with “The Old One,” which gets its title from Einstein’s name for God. Moss describes this five-piece suite as “an initiation into sacred ground.” He views it as part of a musical tradition stretching from the earliest ritual over the dead to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, through Native American rites of passage into the spirit world, the Jewish mourner’s Kaddish, and Buddhist funeral rituals. Moss wrote "See Sharp or Be Flat/C# or Bb" while recovering from a fracture suffered in tripping over a curb. The composer brings a quirky sense of humor to the situation, right down to deciding to name his ensemble the Accidental Orchestra in memory of the incident. Moss aimed to let the band swing on this contrapuntal theme and variations mixing jazz, rhythm and blues, and the joy of dance. “Throughout I refer to Norwegian Wood (The Beatles), I Feel Good (James Brown), and Bags Groove (the Modern Jazz Quartet), but do not resort to familiar big band tropes,” Moss explains. “This is a type of string orchestra, but with lots of jazz musicians pushing the boundaries.” The Chicago-born, Madison, Wisconsin-educated Michael Moss has been an active member of the New York jazz scene for 50 years, earning recognition for his skill and imagination as a multi-reed player, and for the freshness and intensity of his writing. The self-described “farthest-out cat” was a mainstay of Manhattan’s famed loft jazz scene, playing with Sam Rivers, Dave Liebman, Paul Bley, Annette Peacock, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Richie Beirach and scores of others. He’s equally at home from a duo setting to an orchestra of 50-plus players. As a composer, Moss assigns time signatures to segments of his pieces, but the final form of any given composition depends entirely on the interaction of the musicians.  A sense of space marks much of his work.  Though, like most avant artists he shifts tempos frequently and sometimes drops the meter altogether, he and the group under his direction tend to listen more and play in the openings.  Though his music clearly arises from the jazz tradition, Moss draws heavily from disparate folk idioms.  American blues and Latin rhythmic influences are obvious in his work, but Israeli folk melodies (out of his own Jewish origins) or Tibetan chants (appropriated on a trip to India) are equally likely to emerge in his performances.  Listeners can’t help but be captivated by what they hear, as they accompany Moss and the Accidental Orchestra on this life-long journey. "Playing free, but still playing together--it's a question of moving forward by moving backwards and sideways at the same time," Moss says obliquely, and yet the music seems to do just this, and makes sense. Robert LaBrasca, Press Connection and Rolling Stone writer (1986). "Moss' music is conceptually complex and musically brilliant, reaching across ages, cultures and continents for rhythms, phrases, melodies, and harmonics to produce a sound which is fascinating yet unsettling because it is foreign but so familiar." Fred Waitzkin liner notes Michael Moss/Four Rivers Cross Current (1978). What The Press Is Saying About HELIX  "This is a stunning achievement – one that demands our attention." Grady Harp, Amazon, April 2, 2018   "This fantastic album gets a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED from me, with an “EQ” (energy quotient) rating of 4.99." "The 20:37 “C# or Bb” is not only my choice from this album, it’s also my personal favorite improvised set (yet) in 2018!  All the players in the orchestra challenge the boundaries on this one, & I’ve no doubt that those of you who thrive on music that stimulates creativity (in many different directions at once) will be playing this one over & over & OVER again!" "The orchestra Michael assembled for this stunning trip is amazing in and of itself…over fifteen minutes of far-out fun for all." "If it’s etherspace you’re craving for in your listening adventures, you’ll find “Mind Of God” the perfect blend of cool and cacophonous." Rotcod Zzaj,Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion ReviewsFebruary 27, 2018   Michael Moss Uses Experimental Jazz To Bring Helix To Life "While there are swing elements and other traditional jazz elements, but the form here is completely experimental. This is jazz of big ideas. And probably not for beginning jazz fans. Still, there is an energy and perceptiveness that keeps audiences listening, and that might be the most important thing of all." "From folk melodies to Renaissance orchestras, to Latin, blues and more, Moss has a nearly encyclopedic array of musical influences. According to Moss, he wants to stretch America’s musical heritage into the future while acknowledging its past innovators such as Louis Armstrong and Scott Joplin. With “Helix” it sounds as though he is doing exactly that." "The album succeeds as an experimental album based on a theme – – listeners with traditional expectations of jazz will be surprised or disappointed. But putting traditional restraints on free-flowing experimental jazz is to miss the point of the form." Dodie Miller-Gould, lemonwire, February 15, 2018   "If Avant Garde, free-form jazz is your preference, you will enjoy listening to the outer limits of Dr. Michael Moss’s artistic creativity. Michael Moss is a 50-year veteran of the New York “free” jazz scene. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and a composer, Chicago-born. At times, this music reminds me of the Chicago Art Ensemble, except that this production features a twenty-two piece orchestra. The Moss production is all over the place, spewing energy and combining instruments and notes in a unique and often dissonant manner."  "I was particularly drawn to the final “SEE SHARP OR BE FLAT” composition that features a provocative violin solo with complimentary string ensemble support. This composition gives more opportunity for individual players to step forward and solo. I found the guitar solo to be outstanding with Warren Smith’s percussion bright and tasty beneath it."  "If you have a taste for a project that’s out-of-the-ordinary, the Accidental Orchestra will soothe your palate." Dee Dee McNeil,February 28, 2018 "It is a work to be heard without prejudices, reminiscent of certain episodes of the music of Anthony Braxton."  "There is everything from the more traditional jazz, with a swing of the rhythm section, to more material and abstract moments like in the long Inception, with instruments like the djembe or the tabla that give a sense of world, or the oboe of Richard Keene, with his nasal sound that stands out on the whole set." "Between moments more free and others more tied to the mainstream Moss demonstrates its music culture and the ability to consistently put together moments inspired by different historical periods." "A great record of this big band." Vittorio Lo Conte, Music Zoom, April, 2018   "The music and albums of this native of Chicago are always distinguished by their originality, and often the use of elements of various ethnic musical cultures."  "In general - an excellent album for advanced fans of jazz music and, probably, quite a complex work for neophytes." Leonid Auskern, Nestor Media, March, 2018   "Sun Ra-ish Swing" "The Accidental Orchestra is comprised of a “Who’s Who” of the New York Improvised Music Scene." "A dissonant, yet strangely colorful and delightful series of chords emerge with a startling intensity." “See Sharp or Be Flat”begins with a shout of joy. It’s a jazz expression of an acceptance of all the good and bad things life throws at us."  “Bridge”swings, walks, and flows like a rich liquid, as if it is urging you to follow its path."  "Moss cultivates an intricate musical garden, then allows it to run wild, knowing quite well the trajectories each living thing will take."  "A master of multiple reed instruments, and compositions . . . Moss knows how to handle himself. His musical inspirations are not limited by genre, culture, or historical period.  To transcend the constant danger of self indulgence and perform music that serves to communicate real ideas and real experiences in service of higher ideals is the sign of a master. Michael Moss and the Accidental Orchestra have accomplished this." Dawoud Kringle,DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY, March, 2018  

"MICHAEL MOSS/Helix:  The loft jazz mainstay puts together an Accidental Orchestra, in which the gang is all here, and sets out for places only hinted at in “Metal Machine Music’.  Using Einstein’s name for God as the jumping off point, I’ll bet this how things sound in heaven when Metatron dawdles over a second cup of coffee."

Chris Spector, Editor and Publisher, Midwest Record 

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Prime Video va camino de cumplir su primer año en España y aunque las cosas del catálogo van despacio, ya era hora de comentaros algunas de sus novedades.

Durante los 10 meses en los que lleva operando Prime Video en España hemos publicado varias entradas sobre algunas de sus series, sin embargo, no publicamos ninguna recopilación desde Febrero, por lo que va siendo hora.

Aunque la plataforma no se caracterice por la extensión de su catálogo, y mucho menos por la rapidez a la que se extiende, en estos 8 meses ha adquirido y recuperado bastante contenido. Cuando digo recuperado es porque muchas de sus series ya habían sido adquiridas por otras cadenas o plataformas que operaban en España, como es el caso de Transparent o Mozart in the Jungle en Movistar +, por lo que no podían incorporar al catálogo las últimas temporadas hasta que estas fueran emitidas en la cadena en cuestión. De todas formas esto no va a tardar en cambiar, pues el chollo de los 19’99 euros se va a acabar. Solo era cuestión de tiempo y ya sabemos que Amazon planea una subida de precio que rondará los 40-60 euros al año en su servicio Prime que incluirá lo que ya ofrece ahora y es posible que algún servicio más, como pasa en otros países de Europa.

Con esta subida de precio, el catálogo de Prime Video aumentará, con series originales y ajenas. Una de las grandes adquisiciones de Prime Video de cara a esta expansión ha sido American Gods, la serie de Starz llamada a ser la sucesora de Juego de Tronos. Además, el catálogo cuenta con otras series, como 2 temporadas de Fear The Walking Dead y las 6 de Downton Abbey, pero ahora nos vamos a centrar en las incorporaciones más recientes y las que nos esperan.

Kathryn Hann y Kevin Bacon en I Love Dick.

En agosto estrenaban una producción propia: The Last Tycoon, una serie ambientada en los estudios hollywoodienses de los años 30 con Matt Boomer y Lily Collins como protagonistas. Una serie que está pasando un poco desapercibida o no acaba de atraer al espectador. Escondida en el catálogo se encuentra I Love Dick, la adaptación de la novela del mismo nombre de Chris Kraus. Una serie que trata la obsesión sexual de la Chris (Kathryn Hann) por Dick, el personaje interpretado por Kevin Bacon. Una serie muy provocadora que tiene divido al público y a la vez una propuesta muy interesante desde una perspectiva feminista.

One Mississipi está apunto de estrenar su segunda temporada en español (27 de Octubre). Esta dramedia protagonizada Tig Notario se ha ganado el favor de la crítica y el público. Si no puedes esperar a que sea lanzada en español, puedes disfrutarla ya en VOSE. La que podrás disfrutar a partir de ya en español es The Tick, una comedia que se ríe de los superhéroes. Una peculiar pareja formada por una garrapata azul (Peter Serafinowicz) y un chico con un trauma infantil (Griffin Newman) deberán hacer frente al mal encarnado en el villano “The Terror”. También se acaba de estrenar, pero en VOSE, Lore, la adaptación del fenómeno podcast por el productor ejecutivo de The Walking Dead y el productor ejecutivo de Expediente X. La serie nos narrará 6 historias terroríficas basadas en eventos reales (o eso es lo que dicen). Lo que es seguro es que no dejará indiferente a nadie.

El 20 de octubre llega la tercera y última temporada de Red Oaks. Personalmente, esta serie supuso un grato descubrimiento y sin duda una de las series que merecen la pena dentro del catálogo de Amazon. Aquí acaban las fechas, no hay más estrenos anunciados por el momento. Sin embargo, hay algunas series que ya han terminado el rodaje y no tardarán en estrenarse, como The Man in the High Castle, que seguramente veremos a finales de año, u Oasis, el nuevo proyecto de Amazon protagonizado por Richard Madden (Juego de Tronos). Esta nueva serie se sube al carro de las misiones espaciales con un viaje a una colonia humana situada en un exoplaneta. El piloto ya ha podido verse en Estados Unidos y ha recibido buenas críticas. Cerrando el apartado series, ya podemos decir oficialmente que Mozart in the Jungle tendrá una cuarta temporada, así como Fleabag tendrá una segunda.

Para terminar, vamos a hacer un pequeño repaso al catálogo de películas. El género que más incorporaciones ha tenido en estos meses ha sido el documental, con títulos como Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon, Senna o Gaming: La Revolución Digital. Prime Video no es el catálogo con títulos más recientes, pero tiene joyitas como la trilogía del Padrino, Taxi Driver, Big Fish, No es País Para Viejos o Ghost in the Shell. Además, poco a poco van incorporando películas más recientes como Elysium, Capitán Phillips, Anna Karenina,  Malditos Bastardos, Watchmen…

Amazon tiene un gran camino que recorrer para competir con HBO y Netflix, pero estará en la lucha. Con sus series originales y haciéndose con los derechos de emisión de películas y series interesantes, Amazon será un duro competidor.

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From Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC - Wilf Orton interviews the President, Summer 2014 by Wilf Orton [Context: Richard 'Dick' Griffin, LVO, President for 2014/15 of the Blackheath and Bromley Harriers]

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LUCY ON THE DAIS - Part One

“The All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood”

November 30, 1986 on CBS

Directed by Dick McDonogh

Written & Produced by Paul Keyes

Music by Nelson Riddle

THE PARTY-GOERS

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (Honoree) is an actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After achieving success in the Western TV series “Rawhide,” he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and '80s. He has two Oscars for Directing and Producing Unforgiven (1992) and another two for Million Dollar Baby (1994). He received a special Oscar in 1994. At the age of 74, he was the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director to date. Eastwood won election as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in April 1986. A Mitt Romney supporter, he delivered a prime time address at the 2012 Republican National Convention to an empty chair representing Barack Obama. Eastwood has had personal relationships with a number of women, with partner Sandra Locke famously filing a palimony suit in 1989. He was married twice and also had a relationship with co-star Frances Fisher.  

Lucille Ball (Hostess) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes.

Monty Hall - Chairman of Variety Clubs International

Clint Eastwood's Family (center table)

Sondra Locke – partner of Clint Eastwood.  The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), Bronco Billy (1980), Any Which Way You Can (1980), Sudden Impact (1983)

Ruth Wood – Eastwood's mother

John Beldon Wood – Eastwood's step-father 

Jeanne Bernhardt – Eastwood's younger sister 

Alison Eastwood – Eastwood's daughter (age 14) by Maggie Johnson

Kyle Eastwood – Eastwood's son (age 18) by Maggie Johnson

Credited Entertainers & Speakers (with credits shared with Clint Eastwood, introduced by Monty Hall)

*Sammy Davis Jr.

Roberta Flack – Play Misty For Me (1971), Sudden Impact (1983)

Cary Grant

Merv Griffin - “Talent Scouts” (1963), “The Merv Griffin Show” (1967-74)

Jill Hollier

+*Bob Hope

Marsha Mason – Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

*Don Rickles – Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Nick Perrino and the Variety Club Orchestra

Don Siegel – Director of Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sarah (1970), The Beguiled (1971), Play Misty for Me (1971), Dirty Harry (1971), Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

James Stewart

Uncredited Attendees  (with credits shared with Clint Eastwood)

+Bea Arthur

Tom Bosley

Charles Bronson - “Rawhide” (1965)

Joan Collins

Tyne Daly – The Enforcer (1976)

Altovise Davis - wife of Sammy Davis Jr. 

Phyllis Diller

*Barbara Eden - “Rawhide” (1963 & 1964)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

*Eydie Gorme

*June Haver – wife of Fred MacMurray

Florence Henderson

Hal Holbrook

Brian Keith - “Rawhide” (1959)

*Harvey Korman

*Bernie Kopell

*Steve Lawrence

Michele Lee

*Fred MacMurray

*Dick Martin

*Gary Morton – husband of Lucille Ball

George Peppard

Lynn Redgrave

*Charles 'Buddy' Rodgers

*Cesar Romero

Mort Sahl

Joan Van Ark

Dick Van Patten

Jonathan Winters

* Appeared with Lucille Ball on one of her television series'

+ Appeared with Lucille Ball in films

THE ALL-STAR PARTY

Monty Hall says that this is the 11th annual Variety Club All-Star Party. The previous year President Ronald Reagan was honored. Two years earlier, Hall hosted the 1984 event honoring Lucille Ball. In 1982 Ball participated in the All-Star Party for Carol Burnett.

“All-Star Party for Lucille Ball” (1984) also featured Monty Hall, Sammy Davis Jr., James Stewart, Joan Collins, Bea Arthur, Joan Van Ark, and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The show was taped on September 28, 1986 on an NBC stage at the network's Burbank headquarters and broadcast by CBS on November 30. Proceeds from the evening were used to expand the existing drug and alcohol center operated by Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula, near Carmel.

The broadcast aired opposite “The Wonderful World of Disney” on ABC and sitcoms on NBC. It earned a 21 rating, winning its time period and the night. The highest rated of the “All-Star Parties” was for Frank Sinatra in 1983.

Hardly anyone in the large audience knew Clint Eastwood personally, as Sondra Locke recalled in her autobiography: 

"James Stewart, whom we'd never met, gave a speech; Joan Collins, whom we'd never met, sat very near us. Yet everyone acted like good friends."

Marsha Mason is the first to speak about Clint, talking about their recently finished yet-to-be-released film Heartbreak Ridge.

She introduces Roberta Flack, who performs “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Ewan MacColl from the film Play Misty for Me (1971). Flack thanks Eastwood for liking the song and introduces Bob Hope.

Bob Hope: “I won't say he's a tough mayor, but he's got a SWAT team to deal with overtime parking. His motto is 'Walk softly and carry a big percent of the gross.' Now that he's mayor they give the death penalty for jay-walking in Carmel.”

Hope compliments Cary Grant for looking good for his age. Eerily, the day before the party aired, Grant died. CBS paid tribute to Grant with the following statement after the closing credits:

Hope mentions Eastwood's only musical, Paint Your Wagon (1969). Hope sings his signature tune “Thanks for the Memory” with special lyrics for the occasion.  

Cary Grant reads a letter from President Ronald Reagan. Reagan was honored with an All-Star Party the previous year, 1985. Grant also read a congratulatory telegram from President Reagan in 1984, when Lucille Ball was honored.

Merv Griffin introduces newcomer Jill Hollier who sings “How Much I Care” from Pale Rider (1985) with melody by Clint Eastwood and newly written lyrics for the occasion by Sammy Cahn.  

Film Director Don Siegel talks about being assigned to direct his first Eastwood picture.  

Don Rickles takes the stage to 'roast' Eastwood and the other party attendees.

Sammy Davis Jr. says that his relationship with Eastwood goes back to “Rawhide.”  He sings “Misty” by Erroll Garner and Johnny Burke from the film Play Misty for Me (1971).  Davis has written an introduction to the song to be spoken by Clint Eastwood as Dave Garland, his disc jockey character from the film. 

Jimmy Stewart calls Clint “a credit to the motion picture industry” as both actor and director.

Jimmy Stewart: “He is an actor who took the art of acting back to basics. He is the common denominator of the common man. You portray a man of the world... you stick up for yourself and all the rest of us.”  

Monty Hall talks about the charitable endeavors of the Variety Clubs International. Lucille Ball takes the stage.

Ball: “Clint, you're such a big star because you're such a big hunk.”

Ball notes that Clint has filled the room with many of his past production and behind-the-scenes co-workers.

LUCY & CLINT

In 1972's “Lucy and the Group Encounter” (HL S5;E14) Lucy Carter says that if she were stranded on a desert island she would want Clint Eastwood to be there.

A year later, when Jackie Coogan played “Lucy's Tenant” (HL S6;E7), Lucy wonders why guys like Clint Eastwood don't rent rooms!  

In 1974, in “Milton Berle is the Life of the Party” (HL S6;E19), Harry says he wouldn't come to one of Lucy's parties even if Clint Eastwood were a guest! Nor would he be swayed by Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, or Princess Anne – but he changes his tune when it turns out to be Uncle Miltie.

In 1960, Clint Eastwood was one of Lucille Ball's first choices to play her romantic lead in the Broadway musical Wildcat. When he (and a few other A-list marquee names) were not available, she settled on Keith Andes (above).

After Lucille Ball's passing in 1989, Clint Eastwood sent a note of condolences to Gary Morton. The note is recreated in the 2004 book Lucy & Desi: The Real Life Scrapbook of America's Favorite Couple.

Genealogists say that Lucille Ball and Clint Eastwood are actually related! They are ninth cousins, once removed.  

Six months after playing Lucille Ball in the TV film “Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter” Frances Fisher started filming the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven (1992). The two had a personal relationship that produced a daughter in 1993. They are no longer together.  

This Date in Lucy History – November 30

"Too Many Crooks" (ILL S3;E9) – November 30, 1952

"Lucy Gets Her Maid" (TLS S3;E11) – November 30, 1964

"Lucy and Rudy Vallee" (HL S3;E12) – November 30, 1970

Part Two - “The All-Star Party for Carol Burnett”!

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Noticias de series de la semana: 'Russian Doll', renovada

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado Russian Doll por una segunda temporada

Comedy Central ha renovado Corporate por una tercera y última temporada

Netflix ha renovado Love, Death + Robots por una segunda temporada

Spectrum ha renovado L.A.'s Finest por una segunda temporada

Noticias cortas

Paul Wesley volverá a Tell Me a Story para su segunda temporada, esta vez interpretando a Tucker, un novelista que pasa las noches en vela en una cabaña en el bosque tratando de demostrar que es suficientemente bueno para su bella prometida. Esta temporada adaptará La Bella y la Bestia, La bella durmiente y Cenicienta.

Erica Gimpel (Trish) será regular en la segunda temporada de God Friended Me.

Steven Ogg (Pike) será regular en la segunda temporada de Snowpiercer.

La cuarta y última temporada de The Good Place tendrá catorce episodios.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise, The Accidental Tourist) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de GLOW como Sandy Devereaux St. Clair, antigua showgirl y ahora directora de entretenimiento del hotel y casino Fan-Tan en Las Vegas.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Swiss Army Man) se une al episodio musical de Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer) será Jill Ruckelshaus, una republicana que fue elegida por el presidente Ford para avanzar en los derechos de las mujeres, en Mrs. America.

Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical) sustituye a Bonnie Dennison como Jenny, hija de Carol (Patricia Heaton), en Carol's Second Act.

Sophia Lillis (Sharp Objects, It), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes), Wyatt Olef (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sofria Bryant (The Good Wife), Aidan Wojtak-Hissong (Falling Water) y Richard Ellis (Veronica Mars) protagonizarán I Am Not Okay With This.

Imelda Staunton (Pride, Harry Potter), Russell Tovey (Looking, Years and Years), Stephen Rea (The Honourable Woman, Counterpart), Francesca Annis (Dune, Lillie), Claudie Blakley (Lark Rise to Candleford, Grantchester) y Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack, Absentia) protagonizarán Flesh and Blood, sobre tres hermanos adultos (Tovey, Blakley y Leonard) cuya madre Vivien (Annis), de setenta años y recién enviudada, confiesa estar enamorada de un nuevo hombre (Rea). Staunton dará vida a Mary, la vecina de Vivien. Completan el reparto Sharon Small (Trust Me), Lara Rossi (Crossing Lines), Keir Charles (Love Actually), Vincent Regan (Victoria), David Bamber (The Bourne Identity), Stephanie Langston (Ransom) y Clara Indrani (Vera).

Kim Dickens (Treme, Fear The Walking Dead) se une como regular a Briarpatch. Será Eve Raytek, jefa de policía que deberá averiguar quién mató a la hermana de Allegra (Rosario Dawson).

Goran Visnjic (Timeless, ER) será recurrente en Dollface como el doctor Colin Brooks.

Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty) será Isabel, la madre de Simon, en Love, Simon.

Melanie Field (Heathers, Shrill) se une como regular a The Angel of Darkness, la secuela de The Alienist. Será Bitsy Sussman, protegida y ayudante de Sara (Dakota Fanning). Matt Letscher (The Flash, Narcos: Mexico) y Rosy McEwen serán recurrentes como el poderoso y adinerado Hearst y la enfermera Libby Hatch.

Judith Light (Transparent, American Crime Story), Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones, Aquarius), Jay O. Sanders (Sneaky Pete, The Sinner), Desmond Harrington (Elementary, Dexter), Arliss Howard (Moneyball), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid's Tale, Pitch) y Ness Bautista (Sense8) se unen como regulares a Manhunt: Lone Wolf.

Laura Haddock (Guardians of the Galaxy, Da Vinci's Demons), Marta Milans (El embarcadero, Shazam!), Juan Diego Botto (Good Behaviour, Plenilunio), Nuno Lopes (São Jorge), Daniel Mays (Good Omens, Rogue One), Laurence Fox (Lewis, Victoria) y Angela Griffin (Turn Up Charlie, Ordinary Lies) protagonizarán White Lines.

Josie Totah (Champions, Glee) protagonizará el piloto de Good People junto a Whitney Cummings y Lisa Kudrow.

Natalie Gumede (Jekyl & Hyde, Doctor Who) será Mercy Graves, guardaespaldas de Lex Luthor, en la segunda temporada de Titans. Participará como recurrente.

Amir Wilson será Will Parry en His Dark Materials.

Julissa Bermudez (106 & Park), Becky Ann Parker (Men in Black), Josh Mostel (Big Daddy), Miles G. Jackson (The Last O.G.) y Jonno Davies (Spotless) se unen como recurrentes a The Hunt. Serán una enfermera, la secretaria de comercio, un rabino, un periodista y un guardaespaldas.

Huang Lu (She, a Chinese), Geoff Stults (Grace and Frankie, The Odd Couple) y Paul Yen (Magnum P.I., Young Sheldon) serán recurrentes en Little Fires Everywhere como Bebe Chow, residente ilegal; Mark McCullough, el marido de Linda (DeWitt); y Scott, dueño del restaurante chino en el que trabaja Mia (Kerry Washington).

David Costabile (Billions, Breaking Bad), Amy Landecker (Transparent, Doctor Strange) y Matt Lauria (Kingdom, Parenthood) se unen a Little Birds. Serán el padre de Lucy (Juno Temple) y su esposa y Bill, un camarero del club nocturno El Sirocco y artista bohemio.

Aasif Mandvi (A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Brink), Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Terror), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther), Sorcha Cusack (A Discovery of Witches, Father Brown), Chris Geere (You're the Worst, Modern Family), Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum, Strike), Ricky Grover (Zapped, Getting On), Ekow Quartey, Pik-Sen Lim, Todor Jordanov, Jassem Mougari (Legends) y Daniela Spataru protagonizarán This Way Up junto a Aisling Bea y Sharon Horgan.

Danny Vasquez (Ant-Man) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de You como Fincher, un policía quemado con su trabajo.

Pósters

  Nuevas series

Syfy prepara Lobo, un spin-off protagonizado por Emmett J. Scanlan (The Fall, Butterfly), que interpretará al personaje en la segunda temporada de Krypton.

Don Cheadle (Avengers, Black Monday), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns, La librería) y Helena Howard (Madeline's Madeline) protagonizarán Don´t Look Deeper, en desarrollo para Quibi. Ambientada en Merced, California, quince minutos en el futuro, se centra en una alumna de último curso de instituto que no puede evitar sentir que algo va mal. No es humana, no es una de nosotros. Esto pone en marcha una serie de acontecimientos que de pronto ponen su vida en peligro. Dirigida por Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Miss You Already) y escrita por Jeffrey Lieber (Lost, NCIS: New Orleans).

Sky y HBO producirán The Third Day, creada y escrita por Dennis Kelly (Utopia), sobre un hombre que es arrastrado a una misteriosa isla británica cuyos reservados habitantes y sus rituales comienzan a abrumarlo y le obligan a enfrentarse a un trauma de su pasado. Protagonizada por Jude Law (The Young Pope, Cold Mountain). Dirigida por Marc Munden (National Treasure). Seis episodios. 

El servicio de streaming de Warner encarga Tokyo Vice, que cuenta la historia de Jake Adelstein, el periodista americano que se infiltró en la policía metropolitana de Tokyo para destapar su corrupción. Protagonizada por Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, The Fault in Our Stars).

Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect, Shrill) producirá y dirigirá la adaptación de Over My Dead Body para el servicio de streaming de Warner. Es un podcast que sigue a Dan y Wendi, dos abogados cuya boda apareció en el New York Times pero que tendrán una ruptura que provocará un asesinato que involucrará a abogados muy valorados y conspiradores inesperados.

El servicio de streaming de Warner encarga Dune: The Sisterhood, visión femenina de la novela de Frank Herbert (1965). Escrita por Jon Spaihts. Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Prisoners) dirigirá el piloto.

La próxima adaptación de Agatha Christie para BBC será The Pale Horse. Sarah Phelps repite como guionista.

Morena Baccarin (Homeland, Deadpool), John Noble (Fringe, Sleepy Hollow) y Johan Glans (Swedish Dicks) protagonizarán Home Invasion, comedia de ciencia ficción que emitirá Viaplay en los países nórdicos y trata sobre una familia alienígena que debe invadir la Tierra. Seis episodios.

Dave encarga Meet the Richardsons, comedia sobre un matrimonio frustrado inspirada en Jon Richardson y Lucy Beaumont, protagonizada por ellos mismos y escrita por Beaumont.

Sandra Bullock desarrolla para Amazon una dramedia musical ambientada en los años 80 e inspirada vagamente en su vida en la universidad. La serie tratará temas como el SIDA, la salud mental o la cultura drag. Escrita por K.C. Perry (The Originals, Damien) y producida por Akiva Goldsman (Fringe, Titans) y John Legend (Underground, La La Land).

Hulu ha encargado ocho episodios de Fertile Crescent, sobre la guerra en Siria a través de los ojos de Antoine, un joven francés que busca a su hermana. Protagonizada por James Purefoy (The Following, Rome), Félix Moati (The French Dispatch), Mélanie Thierry (La Douleur), Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed, James Floyd, Dean Ridge, Julia Faure, François Caron y Céline Samie.

Cinemax encarga Trackers, thriller basado en la novela de Deon Meyer (2010) que cruza tres historias en Cape Town en una violenta conspiración que une crimen organizado, diamantes de contrabando, seguridad estatal, rinocerontes negros, la CIA y un plan terrorista internacional. Protagonizado por James Gracie (Madiga, The Wrong Mans), Rolanda Marais (High Rollers) y Ed Stoppard (Knightfall, The Frankenstein Chronicles). Dirigida por Jyri Kähönen.

Bridget Regan (Jane the Virgin), Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful), Barbara Hershey (Once Upon a Time), Nick Nolte (Graves), Gail Bean (Snowfall), Danielle Deadwyler (The Haves and the Have Nots) y Shane McRae (Sneaky Pete) protagonizarán Paradise Lost, una serie de misterio estilo Southern Gothic que emitirán Spectrum y Paramount. Escrita por Rodes Fishburne (Blood & Oil) y Arika Lisanne Mittman (Dexter), trata sobre una psiquiatra (Regan) que se muda con su familia desde California al pueblo natal de su marido (Hartnett) en Mississippi, donde descubrirán vergonzosos secretos que cambiarán para siempre las vidas de todos los involucrados.

Netflix encarga la comedia alemana The Last Word, sobre una oradora de elegías en funerales (Anke Engelke) que pierde la fe en su trabajo y trata de sabotear el funeral de su marido. Seis episodios. Escrita por Aron Lehmann y Carlos V. Irmscher.

Fechas

Beecham House se estrena en ITV el 23 de junio

Human Discoveries se estrena en Facebook el 16 de julio

La segunda temporada de Five Points se estrena en Facebook el 5 de agosto

La segunda temporada de The Neighborhood se estrena en CBS el 23 de septiembre

Bob Hearts Abishola se estrena en CBS el 23 de septiembre

All Rise se estrena en CBS el 23 de septiembre

La cuarta temporada de Bull se estrena en CBS el 23 de septiembre

La decimoséptima temporada de NCIS se estrrena en CBS el 24 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de FBI se estrena en CBS el 24 de septiembre

La sexta temporada de NCIS: New Orleans se estrena en CBS el 24 de septiembre

La tercera temporada de Young Sheldon se estrena en CBS el 26 de septiembre

The Unicorn se estrena en CBS el 26 de septiembre

La séptima temporada de Mom se estrena en CBS el 26 de septiembre

Carol's Second Act se estrena en CBS el 26 de septiembre

Evil se estrena en CBS el 26 de septiembre

La décima temporada de Hawaii Five-0 se estrena en CBS el 27 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de Magnum P.I. se estrena en CBS el 27 de septiembre

La décima temporada de Blue Bloods se estrena en CBS el 27 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de God Friended Me se estrena en CBS el 29 de septiembre

La undécima temporada de NCIS: LA se estrena en CBS el 29 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de Sorry For Your Loss se estrena en Facebook el 1 de octubre

La tercera temporada de SEAL Team se estrena en CBS el 2 de octubre

La tercera temporada de SWAT se estrena en CBS el 2 de octubre

La sexta y última temporada de Madam Secretary se estrena en CBS el 6 de octubre

The Birch se estrena en Facebook el 11 de octubre

Limetown se estrena en Facebook el 16 de octubre

Tráilers y promos

Succession - Temporada 2

Undone

Pennyworth

Divorce - Temporada 3

Harlots - Temporada 3

Godfather of Harlem