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Showtime's new series, The Agency, a remake of the French spy series Le Bureau des Legendes (shortened to The Bureau for the American market), is full speed ahead in casting as filming prepares to get underway. The series, which was initially announced in early 2023, disappeared from the
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The never-ending, slow-rolling disaster at Paramount Studios continues despite the hope that the troubled studio would have landed a buyer or at least a rescue plan by now. Main shareholder Shari Redstone was 90% to closing a deal that would have sold the holding company National Amusements to
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At this point, just about everyone in the entertainment business knows that Paramount Pictures will not make it out of the streaming wars alive. It's not the first time something like this has happened; the real oldheads remember when RKO Pictures failed to make it when the transition
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Paramount is not having the best of decades. The flagship film company is the sixth oldest film studio in the world, so well known the anti-trust ruling that broke up the studio system was named for it. It survived that lawsuit, the advent of radio, the move from silent
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Strange things are afoot at Paramount+'s U.K. division. Besides the ongoing drama surrounding the potential (likely?) sale of its parent company, the international arm has been steadily cleaning house, slimming down its workforce, essentially abandoning much of its in-progress slate, and even going so far as
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The collapse of the Russian aristocracy towards the end of World War I was perhaps inevitable, considering Russia's shattering losses during the war and the reactionary policies of the extremely weak Tsar Nicholas II. However, the original revolution, which happened in February 1917, gave way to the Bolshevik
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In all the twists and turns of The Woman in the Wall, there were two that surprised me the most. The first came at the end of the first episode when Lorna actually took the body of the dead woman in her house and straight up put her in the
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The Woman in the Wall's penultimate episode opens with all the puzzle pieces finally in the same room now that Akande has opened up and shown Lorna that he, like her daughter, has a death certificate claiming he died of neglect in a Mother & Baby home. Yet,
The Woman In The Wall
If you’ve been watching The Woman in the Wall on Showtime or Paramount+, you've been experiencing some unspeakable history, unveiled piece by piece as the series unfolds. However, especially for American audiences, the concept of paces where families sent pregnant teenage girls, basically to forget about them,
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It was March 2022 when Paramount+ announced its first round of U.K. originals ahead of launching across the pond that coming summer. The streaming service promised this was just the tip of a very ambitious slate, aiming to greenlight 50 international titles by year's end to add
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Last week's episode of The Woman in the Wall ended with the genuinely shocking discovery that Lorna's putting Aoife Cassidy in the wall of her flat at the end of the premiere never happened, or if it did, someone removed the body. Either way, the woman
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Before we get into this week's The Woman in the Wall, let's talk about the elephant in the room, especially in light of the opening flashback where Lorna remembers telling Clemence she wished for a boy and Colman's dream sequence where Father Percy is