BBC Two has dropped the first images for MotherFatherSon, the upcoming eight-part series that marks Richard Gere’s first major TV drama role. Created by Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story), MotherFatherSon also stars Peaky Blinders‘ Helen McCrory and On Chesil Beach‘s Billy Howle…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley), Sinéad Cusack (Call the Midwife) and Paul Ready (The Terror) are among those joining Richard Gere, Helen McCrory and Billy Howle in Tom Rob Smith's eight-part drama for BBC Two, MotherFatherSon. As previously announced, Gere — in his first major TV drama role — will star…

Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory has been set as the lead in ITV’s six-part contemporary drama, Fearless. Witten and exec produced by Homeland‘s Patrick Harbinson, it’s billed as a legal thriller that’s “set in the crash zone where law and politics collide." Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing for ITV…

In a discussion with journalists today at TCA, Showtime President David Nevins said he would like to keep “Penny Dreadful going as long as possible.” While a renewal order hasn’t been given, executive producer John Logan  already has begun breaking story on a third season. The second season returns Sunday, April…

Broadway icon Patti LuPone will come aboard as a guest star for Season 2 of Showtime’s drama Penny Dreadful, which kicks off production this month in Dublin on 10 epiosdes to premiere next year. Meanwhile, Helen McCrory, who plays spiritualist Madame Kali, and Simon Russell Beale, who plays Egyptologist Ferdinand…