Network: SundanceTV.
Episodes: 12 (hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: September 27, 2017 — Tbd.
Series status: Ending.
Performers include: Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Shelley Conn, Danny Webb, Rita McDonald Damper, Chu Omambala, Finn Bennett, Akbar Kurtha, Oliver Maltman, Tsion Habte, Ethan Risk, and Frasier Risk.
TV show description: A modern gender politics drama, the Liar TV show comes from Jack Williams and Harry Williams. Throughout the series, the narrative explores conflicting points of view and recollections about the one night two people shared.
Bright, blunt, and headstrong, Laura Nielson (Froggatt) is a popular English teacher at the local secondary school. When the story kicks...
Episodes: 12 (hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: September 27, 2017 — Tbd.
Series status: Ending.
Performers include: Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Shelley Conn, Danny Webb, Rita McDonald Damper, Chu Omambala, Finn Bennett, Akbar Kurtha, Oliver Maltman, Tsion Habte, Ethan Risk, and Frasier Risk.
TV show description: A modern gender politics drama, the Liar TV show comes from Jack Williams and Harry Williams. Throughout the series, the narrative explores conflicting points of view and recollections about the one night two people shared.
Bright, blunt, and headstrong, Laura Nielson (Froggatt) is a popular English teacher at the local secondary school. When the story kicks...
- 5/1/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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What will happen to Laura and Andrew when the truth comes out? Will the Liar TV show be cancelled or renewed for a second season on SundanceTV? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Liar, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A psychological thriller on the SundanceTV cable channel, Liar stars Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Shelley Conn, Danny Webb, Rita McDonald Damper, Chu Omambala, Finn Bennett, Akbar Kurtha, Oliver Maltman, Tsion Habte, Ethan Risk, and Frasier Risk. While the widowed Dr. Andrew Earlham (Gruffudd) thinks they had a perfect first date, school teacher Laura...
What will happen to Laura and Andrew when the truth comes out? Will the Liar TV show be cancelled or renewed for a second season on SundanceTV? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Liar, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A psychological thriller on the SundanceTV cable channel, Liar stars Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Shelley Conn, Danny Webb, Rita McDonald Damper, Chu Omambala, Finn Bennett, Akbar Kurtha, Oliver Maltman, Tsion Habte, Ethan Risk, and Frasier Risk. While the widowed Dr. Andrew Earlham (Gruffudd) thinks they had a perfect first date, school teacher Laura...
- 5/1/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Austin Film Festival has unveiled its second wave of films for the 25th anniversary lineup which includes closing-night pic The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman. The fest kicks off Oct. 25 and continues through Nov. 1.
Based on the real-life story, The Front Runner follows charismatic politician Gary Hart, who was considered the overwhelming front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination when his campaign was sidelined by the story of an extramarital relationship with Donna Rice. The pic, which recently screened at Telluride and then at the Toronto International Film Festival will close out the fest on Nov. 1 with director Jason Reitman in attendance.
Also screening at this year’s fest will be Yogos Lanthimos’s The Favourite starring Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz as well as Asghar Farsadi’s Everybody Knows starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
The festival will also mark four world premieres including British drama Undercliffe, the...
Based on the real-life story, The Front Runner follows charismatic politician Gary Hart, who was considered the overwhelming front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination when his campaign was sidelined by the story of an extramarital relationship with Donna Rice. The pic, which recently screened at Telluride and then at the Toronto International Film Festival will close out the fest on Nov. 1 with director Jason Reitman in attendance.
Also screening at this year’s fest will be Yogos Lanthimos’s The Favourite starring Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz as well as Asghar Farsadi’s Everybody Knows starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
The festival will also mark four world premieres including British drama Undercliffe, the...
- 9/12/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Is this psychological thriller one of those limited event series that will remain a single installment mini-series, or will ITV and SundanceTV decide to renew their Liar TV show for a second season? If Liar does get a pickup, will it focus on the same characters, or will it morph into an anthology? Stay tuned. A modern exploration of gender politics, Liar stars Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Shelley Conn, Danny Webb, Rita McDonald Damper, Chu Omambala, Finn Bennett, Akbar Kurtha, Oliver Maltman, Tsion Habte, Ethan Risk, and Frasier Risk. While the widowed Dr. Andrew Earlham (Gruffudd) thinks they had a perfect first date, school teacher Laura Nielson (Froggatt) has a very different perception. The SundanceTV drama examines the respective truths of both Laura and Andrew and ponders where to draw the line between fact and...
- 11/25/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Check out the new season one key art poster (above) and teaser (below), for the new Liar TV show. A psychological thriller from creators Harry Williams and Jack Williams, Liar premieres on Sundance TV on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Liar stars Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Warren Brown, Shelley Conn, Richie Campbell, Jamie Flatters, Danny Webb, Chu Omambala, and Akbar Kurtha. The six-part SundanceTV series is from Two Brothers Pictures and is co-produced with ITV and All3 Media. Read More…...
- 8/9/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Family Guy‘s Peter Griffin might be in for a meth of trouble.
TV’s erstwhile Walter White, aka Bryan Cranston, will voice Peter’s new boss at the Pawtucket Brewery during Season 16, it was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend. Claws‘ Niecy Nash will also lend her voice to the episode, as the wife and business partner of Cranston’s character.
RelatedClaws Renewed for Season 2
The previous brewery manager, Angela, was voiced by the late Carrie Fisher and will appear briefly in the upcoming season. (Fisher recorded lines for at least one more episode before...
TV’s erstwhile Walter White, aka Bryan Cranston, will voice Peter’s new boss at the Pawtucket Brewery during Season 16, it was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend. Claws‘ Niecy Nash will also lend her voice to the episode, as the wife and business partner of Cranston’s character.
RelatedClaws Renewed for Season 2
The previous brewery manager, Angela, was voiced by the late Carrie Fisher and will appear briefly in the upcoming season. (Fisher recorded lines for at least one more episode before...
- 7/25/2017
- TVLine.com
The biggest Austin Film Society event for this week (an advance screening of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) is already sold out, but It still has some gems on the calendar. The org is hosting a secret double feature at the Afs Screening Room on Sunday afternoon with Fred Frey, a film collector who specializes in European exploitation and crime films. He'll be screening two rare 16mm prints from his private collection.
On Wednesday night, Afs is teaming up with IndieMeme for Katiyabaaz (Powerless), a documentary about the Indian city of Kanpur and the limitations of their electrical grid to power over 3 million residents. Filmmaker Fahad Mustafa will be in attendance for a Q&A. Thursday night brings another installment of Essential Cinema. This month's theme "Children Of Abraham/Ibrahim 9: Films Of The Middle East Diaspora" and this week you'll get a 35mm print of the 1997 Miramax release My Son,...
- 2/27/2015
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 14th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and Diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 5 – 10) at the SoHo Tiffin Junction. Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 34 screenings (23 narrative, 11 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City.
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions – Marathi, Bengali and two films from the Northeast. In addition the festival covers cinemas from the neighboring South Asian countries – four films by Pakistani filmmakers, two from Sri Lanka – a feature and a documentary, and one from Nepal.
The festival’s Marathi films include Postcard and multiple-award winning films Astu and Fandry. Directed by Nagraj Manjule, Fandry received rave reviews in India, winning the grand jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival in October...
- 4/10/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Four years ago, it was Alice Creed’s disappearance act that brought one of the most memorable crime-thrillers in recent memory to the big screen. Now production has wrapped on The Disappearance of Lenka Wood, and whilst the two films are related purely in so far as their names are similar, that similarity will somewhat inevitably lead to comparisons in the coming months.
With the New York- and Turkey-set, Taken-esque thriller officially wrapped, the first poster has been released, giving us a look at Petra Bryant making her feature debut as the eponymous Lenka Wood.
A New York couple’s honeymoon in Turkey is turned upside down when the wife is kidnapped. Her ex-military husband has to act quickly, and violently, to get her back alive.
Mark O’Neal (Wanted) stars opposite Bryant in the male lead, with Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24), Anais Alvarado, Simon Phillips (Airborne...
With the New York- and Turkey-set, Taken-esque thriller officially wrapped, the first poster has been released, giving us a look at Petra Bryant making her feature debut as the eponymous Lenka Wood.
A New York couple’s honeymoon in Turkey is turned upside down when the wife is kidnapped. Her ex-military husband has to act quickly, and violently, to get her back alive.
Mark O’Neal (Wanted) stars opposite Bryant in the male lead, with Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24), Anais Alvarado, Simon Phillips (Airborne...
- 10/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The kidnap thriller is written and directed by Paul Tanter.
Filming has wrapped on kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Lenka Wood.
Written and directed by British film-maker Paul Tanter, the film centres around a kidnapped woman whose ex-soldier husband attempts to free her. It is set in Turkey and New York.
Simon Phillips is producing for Press On Features and Runaway Features. Gloucester Place Films’ Nigel Thomas and Billy Murray are exec producing.
Czech actress Petra Bryant stars in her feature debut opposite Mark O’Neal (Wanted). Tom Knight (Kick Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24) and Billy Murray (Rise of Footsoldier) are all supporting.
The film is due for release summer 2014.
Filming has wrapped on kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Lenka Wood.
Written and directed by British film-maker Paul Tanter, the film centres around a kidnapped woman whose ex-soldier husband attempts to free her. It is set in Turkey and New York.
Simon Phillips is producing for Press On Features and Runaway Features. Gloucester Place Films’ Nigel Thomas and Billy Murray are exec producing.
Czech actress Petra Bryant stars in her feature debut opposite Mark O’Neal (Wanted). Tom Knight (Kick Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24) and Billy Murray (Rise of Footsoldier) are all supporting.
The film is due for release summer 2014.
- 10/1/2013
- ScreenDaily
4:00 Pm - 5:00 Pm
Ah blinky clock noise, how I've missed you. And thank you for that real-time note for the new people. New people are always so dumb and slow, they couldn't possibly make sense out of the hours passing one by one.
NYC makes its 24 setting debut with a creepy guy in a hoodie, aka shooting target. Never wear hoodies, people, they only identify you as a creepy bad guy. Also, drug houses are not safe. Welcome to New York! Hoodie guy walks up to an apartment and discovers his predictably dead friend in the shower, although I was expecting a chainsaw victim, so kudos on that tricky move. Hoodie creep immediately telephones the requisite scared chick who says "What the hell is happening?" over another dead guy at her end. Could it be ... some sort of plot? A shooter aims at hoodie guy again; it's the wrong one though,...
Ah blinky clock noise, how I've missed you. And thank you for that real-time note for the new people. New people are always so dumb and slow, they couldn't possibly make sense out of the hours passing one by one.
NYC makes its 24 setting debut with a creepy guy in a hoodie, aka shooting target. Never wear hoodies, people, they only identify you as a creepy bad guy. Also, drug houses are not safe. Welcome to New York! Hoodie guy walks up to an apartment and discovers his predictably dead friend in the shower, although I was expecting a chainsaw victim, so kudos on that tricky move. Hoodie creep immediately telephones the requisite scared chick who says "What the hell is happening?" over another dead guy at her end. Could it be ... some sort of plot? A shooter aims at hoodie guy again; it's the wrong one though,...
- 1/20/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
This latest effort from screenwriter Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette") examines cultural and identity clashes in myriad and interesting ways, but it attempts to pack so much into its brief 86-minute running time that it ultimately feels disjointed and unfocused.
The tale centers on a Pakistani immigrant supporting his family working as a taxi driver in northern England and portrays family conflicts created in part by his burgeoning romantic relationship with a prostitute. The most interesting aspect of "My Son the Fanatic" is its depiction of a reversal of traditional cultural clashes. The film is opening today in New York and Los Angeles via Miramax.
Superb Indian actor Om Puri plays Parvez, who moved to London 25 years ago and now lives with his loyal wife Minoo (Gopi Desai) and his teenage son Farid (Akbar Kurtha). Parvez is a mild-mannered, pragmatic man, comfortable with his role in Western society and eager to help his son make his way. He's particularly delighted with the boy's upcoming nuptials to the daughter of a local police chief.
Parvez becomes alarmed when the boy breaks off the engagement and starts selling his possessions. It turns out that Farid has embraced a rigid brand of Islamic fundamentalism and has also invited a Muslim priest and his group of followers to stay in their home.
Parvez finds himself increasingly at odds with his wife and son, and for solace turns to Bettina (Rachel Griffiths), a local prostitute who has often traveled in his taxi. The pair begin a tender romance, which only creates a further wedge between Parvez and his religious-fanatic son.
Kureishi's screenplay interestingly examines many provocative cultural, generational and religious issues, but the film seems to ramble and is often confusing in its storytelling. Fortunately, the two characters at the story's center are always interesting and complicated, and their relationship is depicted with a warmth and compassion that is highly engaging.
The stoic-looking Puri, with his large, pockmarked face, is an unlikely but winning romantic lead, and Griffiths once again displays her fascinating brand of sexy feistiness. Also excellent is Stellan Skarsgard as a hedonistic German businessman and regular customer of Parvez.
MY SON THE FANATIC
Miramax Films
Director:Udayan Prasad
Producer:Chris Curling
Executive producer:George Faber
Writer:Hanif Kureishi
Director of photography:Alan Almond
Production designer:Grenville Horner
Editor:David Gamble
Color/stereo
Cast:
Parvez:Om Puri
Bettina:Rachel Griffiths
Schitz:Stellan Skarsgard
Farid:Akbar Kurtha
Minoo:Gopi Desai
Fizzy:Harish Patel
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The tale centers on a Pakistani immigrant supporting his family working as a taxi driver in northern England and portrays family conflicts created in part by his burgeoning romantic relationship with a prostitute. The most interesting aspect of "My Son the Fanatic" is its depiction of a reversal of traditional cultural clashes. The film is opening today in New York and Los Angeles via Miramax.
Superb Indian actor Om Puri plays Parvez, who moved to London 25 years ago and now lives with his loyal wife Minoo (Gopi Desai) and his teenage son Farid (Akbar Kurtha). Parvez is a mild-mannered, pragmatic man, comfortable with his role in Western society and eager to help his son make his way. He's particularly delighted with the boy's upcoming nuptials to the daughter of a local police chief.
Parvez becomes alarmed when the boy breaks off the engagement and starts selling his possessions. It turns out that Farid has embraced a rigid brand of Islamic fundamentalism and has also invited a Muslim priest and his group of followers to stay in their home.
Parvez finds himself increasingly at odds with his wife and son, and for solace turns to Bettina (Rachel Griffiths), a local prostitute who has often traveled in his taxi. The pair begin a tender romance, which only creates a further wedge between Parvez and his religious-fanatic son.
Kureishi's screenplay interestingly examines many provocative cultural, generational and religious issues, but the film seems to ramble and is often confusing in its storytelling. Fortunately, the two characters at the story's center are always interesting and complicated, and their relationship is depicted with a warmth and compassion that is highly engaging.
The stoic-looking Puri, with his large, pockmarked face, is an unlikely but winning romantic lead, and Griffiths once again displays her fascinating brand of sexy feistiness. Also excellent is Stellan Skarsgard as a hedonistic German businessman and regular customer of Parvez.
MY SON THE FANATIC
Miramax Films
Director:Udayan Prasad
Producer:Chris Curling
Executive producer:George Faber
Writer:Hanif Kureishi
Director of photography:Alan Almond
Production designer:Grenville Horner
Editor:David Gamble
Color/stereo
Cast:
Parvez:Om Puri
Bettina:Rachel Griffiths
Schitz:Stellan Skarsgard
Farid:Akbar Kurtha
Minoo:Gopi Desai
Fizzy:Harish Patel
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 6/25/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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