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Beloved British spy thriller branded “gorgeous” and “compelling TV” lands new UK home

Beloved British spy thriller branded “gorgeous” and “compelling TV” lands new UK home

Published by Sam Flores

A spy thriller starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman has been added to a new streaming platform in the UK. BBC series The Night Manager, based on the 1993 book of the same name by John le Carré, has just become available to stream on a different platform in the UK. Currently streamable on BBC iPlayer and Sky, the series adapted by David Farr has just landed on Disney+, but there’s a catch. Only season 1 of The Night Manager is streaming for Disney+ as well as Prime Video subscribers based in the UK, with fans of spy stories having to turn to one of the other platforms to watch season 2. Premiered in 2016, the first season of the show follows Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine, a former military officer now working undercover as a night manager at a luxury hotel in Cairo whilst on a mission to bring down arms dealer Richard Roper, played by Hugh Laurie. Olivia Colman stars as Pine’s boss, Angela Burr, the Head of the Foreign Office’s International Enforcement Agency, with …

Chinese Adaptation of The Night Manager Adds to Cast Ahead of Filmart

Chinese Adaptation of The Night Manager Adds to Cast Ahead of Filmart

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Ink Factory has expanded the cast of its Chinese-language adaptation of The Night Manager, adding a slate of new supporting players and special appearances. The additional lineup was unveiled on the eve of Hong Kong’s Filmart — Asia’s leading film and television content market, running March 17–20 — where the title could be a top draw among regional buyers. The new additions include veteran Hong Kong actor Michael Dao, Malaysian actor Frederick Lee, rising Hong Kong actor George Au, and Hong Kong performers Alan Luk, Justin Chu and Elizabeth Tang, alongside special appearances by Carl Ng and Amy Lo. The names join the previously announced leads Eddie Peng and Sean Lau, alongside Isabella Leong and Carman Lee. The project is a pan-Asian reimagining of John le Carré’s espionage classic, produced with 127 Wall Productions and set to premiere on Youku in mainland China in late 2026, with Fifth Season handling global sales outside China. Peng, a Taiwan-born star with major commercial pull across the Chinese-speaking world, has anchored big-ticket films such as Dante Lam’s Operation …

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Diego Calva always knew that Teddy Dos Santos’ story could only end one way on The Night Manager. In the long-awaited second season of the BBC/Prime Video spy thriller, Calva was introduced as Jonathan Pine’s (Tom Hiddleston) new antagonist, a young Mexican-Colombian arms dealer who turns out to be the biological son of Pine’s archnemesis Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). Following the suspicious death of his superior Rex Mayhew (Douglas Hodge), who had been investigating a potential high-level leak within MI6 connected to the shipment of weapons to Colombia, Pine secretly infiltrated Teddy’s criminal enterprise under the alias of Matthew Ellis. In Colombia, Pine crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), the woman he had tracked down and questioned in the wake of Mayhew’s death. Pine learned that Roxana was a Miami-based shipping broker whose company was owned by Teddy’s organization, and she had willingly participated in a suspicious shipment of machine tools between the U.K. and Colombia. Despite the fact …

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Tom Hiddleston knows that Night Manager viewers — much like his Jonathan Pine — will be left reeling after the season two finale of the Emmy-winning BBC and Prime Video series. Nearly a decade after The Night Manager earned the actor a Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations, Hiddleston has reteamed with writer David Farr for two more seasons of the spy thriller series. In the same vein as the first season, this second season and the forthcoming third installment both focus on the high-stakes, international game of cat and mouse between Hiddleston’s MI6 agent and Hugh Laurie’s morally corrupt arms dealer Richard Roper. Written by Farr and directed by Georgi Banks-Davies, the six-episode second season followed Pine as he journeyed to Colombia to secretly investigate a new arms operation headed by young businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Upon his arrival, Pine, under the alias Matthew Ellis, crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a Miami-based shipping broker connected to …

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

Tom Hiddleston Returns on Amazon

Published by Daniella Wilson

When he originally adapted John le Carré’s The Night Manager for BBC One and AMC, David Farr reshaped a key narrative thread from the 1993 novel involving the covert arming of Colombian drug cartels in order to keep the action centered primarily in the Middle East. Presumably, that felt like a more geographically timely approach. A cerebral thriller boosted by the performances from Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager was a huge hit in the UK and a major awards player in the States, but the six-episode series’ March 2016 finale felt generally resolved. AMC moved back in the le Carré catalogue to The Little Drummer Girl, another contained six-parter that I actually preferred for Florence Pugh’s star turn and the flashy direction from Park Chan-wook, though it was less of a smash. The Night Manager The Bottom Line Gets good once it stops living in the past. Airdate: Sunday, January 11 (Amazon)Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Hayley Squires, Paul Chahidi, Indira Varma, Olivia ColmanCreator: David FarrDirector: Georgi Banks-Davies The BBC …

TV in 2026: our most anticipated shows of the New Year

TV in 2026: our most anticipated shows of the New Year

Published by Sam Flores

It’s almost the end of 2025. Where did the days go? Suddenly, it’s time to start making hasty New Year’s resolutions and pondering what the year ahead promises. But if that seems a bit too depressing a prospect, fortunately, the next 12 months promise plenty of great TV to get excited about. From the fantastical world of Westeros to the equally depressing one of the Lord of the Flies, here’s what to look out for. Stranger Things Season 5: the finale It does feel a bit like cheating to add this one to the list, seeing as it comes out on New Year’s Eve in the US – but still, it’s out at 1am in the UK, which officially makes this the first must-watch show of 2026. The Duffer Brothers have a lot of tying-up of loose ends to do: there’s the monstrous Vecna to defeat, Will suddenly has superpowers and also the US military is on the loose. Chances that at least one of the 12 main cast members will die is decent. Netflix, …