Night Manager series 2 release date, Tom Hiddleston and everything you need to know Your complete guide to the next season.

DIGITAL SPY
Sam Ashurst
27 April, 2017

 SAM ASHURST
27 APRIL 2017

The legions of Tom Hiddleston fans campaigning for the actor to be the next James Bond were (almost) rewarded in early 2016, when The Night Manager began broadcasting on BBC One.

Essentially a long-form Bond flick spread across six episodes of television (based on a John le Carré book, as opposed to an Ian Fleming one), it followed Hiddleston's luxury-hotel night manager (and former British soldier) Jonathan Pine, as he's recruited as a spy and tasked with taking down a secret arms trade operating between Whitehall and Washington, DC.

Pine may have completed his mission, but if there's one thing James Bond taught us, a spy's work is never done.

It garnered huge critical, audience and award-ceremony success, being nominated for 36 awards and winning 11, including Golden Globes and Emmys. Which probably helped its chances of returning for a second series.

There's one significant element holding it back, but we'll get to that in a moment.

For now, here's all the very latest The Night Manager series 2 news and rumours

We've got some bad news for those desperate Googlers – there's literally no chance of a new series this year.

Still, 2017 has brought some good news to fans. In March of this year, director Susanne Bier confirmed that scripts for a second season were "slowly being developed".

This was the first official confirmation that series 2 was even being considered, and it was reason enough for The Night Manager maniacs to order a slap-up celebration meal via room service.

Bier told Broadcast: "We all very much want to do a season two, but the thing we absolutely do not want is to do something that does not live up to the level of season one. That would be a really bad idea."

Despite series one's massive ratings success / huge awards haul, the show has yet to be renewed for a second series.

The BBC and AMC, along with producers The Ink Factory, released a statement explaining the situation, saying they are in the "early stages" of development.

"[We] are in the early stages of developing a potential second series of The Night Manager, but nothing is definite yet and we have nothing to announce," they said.

Producer Simon Cornwell (who is also author John le Carré's son) has said that the show's creators "would love to do another series".

One possible – and fairly major – hold-up is the fact the source book was a one off, with no follow-ups.

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Benedict Cumberbatch offered role of Ian Fleming

DEN OF GEEK
News Simon Brew 17 Apr 2014 - 06:45

The creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, might just be played by Benedict Cumberbatch in an upcoming biopic...



What's that? You think it's been a little too long since the last Benedict Cumberbatch casting rumour, and you fancy another? Ah, right you are.

The planned biopic of Ian Fleming, the man of course who created James Bond 007, has had one or two bumps over the past few years. At one stage, Duncan Jones was set to direct, until his commitment to the Warcraft movie ruled out his involvement. However, the project - based on the 2009 biography of Fleming written by Andrew Lycett - is still going. And now Benedict Cumberbatch has been linked with the lead role.

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Joanna Lumley and her Bond girls kneel before Toby Stephens as 007

RADIO TIMES
Susanna Lazarus
3:44 PM, 18 March 2014



There are many perks to playing James Bond – expensive suits, cool gadgets, Martinis on tap and, if you're Toby Stephens, the attentions of Joanna Lumley...

The pair are starring together in a new Radio 4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's fourth Bond novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and, by the looks of it, they're having plenty of fun during recording...

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Cary Grant: Eight Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cary Grant by JANE BOURSAW on APRIL 9, 2013 · 2:00 PM ·(REEL LIFE WITH JANE)

1. From 1932 to 1942, he shared a house with Randolph Scott, whom he met on “Hot Saturday” in 1932. Scott often jokingly referred to Grant as his spouse. The 1940 census report shows Scott as head of household and Grant as his partner.

2. He loved the board game “Trivial Pursuit,” and played it shortly before his death in 1986.

3. He never said the words “Judy, Judy, Judy.” The famous quote is actually attributed to Larry Storch, a professional impersonator who greeted Julie Garland as she walked in during one of his comedy sets.

4. Cary was actually British, and became a U.S. citizen on June 26, 1942, changing his name from Archie Leach to Cary Grant.

5. He was offered the role of James Bond in “Dr. No,” but turned it down because at 58, felt he was too old. Ian Fleming is said to have modeled Bond partially after Grant.

6. He starred in 72 films throughout his career and never played the role of the villain.

7. Alfred Hitchcock is rumored to have said of Grant, “He’s the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.”

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Sean Connery: ‘Bond, James Bond’ at 50: A man who needs ‘Dr. No’ introduction (LA TIMES)

“Bond. James Bond.” It’s the most famous introduction in movies, of course, establishing Sean Connery as Bond and his special mixture of danger and sex. Yet our first real intro to 007 is the more iconic gun barrel teaser by title designer Maurice Binder, which has become an indispensable part of the cinematic ritual.

White dots move across the screen and expand into the swirling rifling of a gun barrel, and then a silhouetted Bond walks, turns, and fires directly at us, causing blood to crawl down the screen and the barrel to wobble and fall. It’s pure Pop Art and symbolic of Bond always in motion and always in danger, according to Binder (better known for creating the erotically silhouetted girls in the main titles as further stylization). Bond is actually portrayed by stunt double Bob Simmons instead of Connery in the first three films (shot in black and white). But the trope has obviously been tailored for each actor while also becoming a reassuring sign of Bond’s return. That’s why fans were thrilled at the gun barrel’s deconstruction in “Casino Royale” but horrified when it was missing from the opening of “Quantum of Solace” (2008). Better late than never, though: the gun barrel appeared at the end to signal the completion of Bond’s rite of passage.

But, as Connery suggested, he had to create Bond on the spot. So when we discover him playing chemin de fer, his face is obscured, dealing cards, winning, and flirting with the tantalizing Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson) to raise the stakes. Interestingly, our full glimpse of Bond in a tux, smoking a cigarette and looking self-satisfied, is both refined and rough (you can never take the Scot out of Connery). This makes Bond uniquely appealing and unpredictable.




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For Your Ears Only - David Tennant is James Bond The actor is one of 12 British stars narrating Ian Fleming's 007 adventures - but who would make the best Bond? By Paul Jones (RADIO TIMES)

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is tackling another British cultural icon as he lends his voice to a new version of James Bond adventure On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Tennant is one of a dozen actors reading Ian Fleming’s Bond novels for 007 Reloaded, a series of audio books set for relase in September.

Also involved are Homeland's Damian Lewis, Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville and Toby Stephens, who played the part of Bond villain Gustav Graves in 007 movie Die Another Day.

READ MORE:  http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-06-18/for-your-ears-only---david-tennant-is-james-bond

New Thrillers and James Bond to Watch This Holiday Season (Huffington Post)

Brad Balfour

Veteran Interviewer; Pop Culture Chronicler         

Posted: 12/25/11 07:52 PM ET

 

Exotic locations, fast cars, beautiful women, and crazy gadgets are the excitements in today's cinematic thrillers -- whether they be spy-oriented, crime adventure, or a suspense mystery.

And with such films as Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows, Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy (all which opened this weekend or very recently), there's a good chance of catching one variation or another of the genre.

Of this bunch, all pretty much satisfy the basic strictures of these spy/cop/crime dramas -- good guys, skillful associates (at least one of them has to be an attractive, sexy woman -- or, in Tin Tin's case, a cute dog) nasty villains, wealthy magnates, fancy moves and incredible weaponry. Only Tinker Tailor is more of an arthouse production with more talk and little action.

Among these four, the Brad Bird-directed Mission Impossible best hits the genre's high points with the most balanced results. Between its smart use of humor (with the comic Simon Pegg as one of the IMF's skilled team), Tom Cruise's gymnastic moves and Paula Patton's sultry turns, the film's story pulses forward.

Though the digitally animated Tin Tin reigns as the latest advance in performance-capture, it also serves as a successor to director Steven Spielberg's love affair with adventure films seen through such series as the Indiana Jones tales -- and terrier Snowy makes for a much smarter, cuter sidekick than Shia LeBouf. In Tin Tin's case, this series has lots more gas in its narrative engine than the now-tired Indie Jones saga.

Both Sherlock Holmes and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo deal with bloodthirsty villains -- one who kills for perverse greed, the other for sadistic passions -- and present convoluted stories that come to uncertain conclusions. While they each offer slick, visually stimulating sequences of death and destruction, one seems a sleekly-made yet unnecessary remake (Dragon) and the other an almost too-peculiar re-imagining (Holmes).

Drawing on author John Le Carre's cerebral novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy investigates the secret agent landscape as an intellectual exercise. In director Tomas Alfredson's version, this story of spymaster George Smiley ferreting out a mole in the British espionage bureaucracy tries to recreate the novel's complex machinations, but it spurs more confusion than insight.

And all of these films have roots in a raft of source material, but the granddaddy of it all is the James Bond series, longest running franchise in film history.

Some of the series' cinematic excursions ranged far afield from Ian Fleming's original novels where the world's most suave, savvy spy was actually a lot grittier and more of a cold, ruthless operator.
While the filmic Bond increasingly relied on fancy gadgets to enhance the drama -- especially after the character became far more of coy caricature during the Roger Moore years -- it still influenced a crop of sometimes superior imitators. And now the character has returned to a harder edge through actor Daniel Craig's recent re-invention.

Normally the Bond films can only be viewed on various DVD and Blu-ray sets but they have been viewable all this month on Epix -- the premium entertainment service available on television, video-on-demand, online and on consumer electronic devices.

And they dovetail into today's marathon of Bond movies. So if you still hunger for the original thrills set in play through James, the following are viewable: Goldfinger (3:45 pm ET), Thunderball (5:45 pm ET), Live and Let Die (8 pm ET), and You Only Live Twice (10 pm).

For more info go to: www.EpixHD.com

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