Netflix releases first trailer for series two of Altered Carbon

Series one of Altered Carbon was an in an interesting addition to the crime drama genre, and mixed Blade Runner-style sci-fi with traditional noir.

Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, the series is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future.

Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitised; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent.

Series two is on the way, and now we have a trailer.

As we reported a few months ago, Anthony Mackie takes over the role of Takeshi Kovacs from Joel Kinnaman.

Joining the cast in this series are Simone Missick as Trepp, an expert bounty hunter known for her ability to track down anyone in the Settled Worlds… for the right price; Dina Shihabi as Dig 301, an out-of-work A.I. programmed to assist human archaeologists, who finds a new purpose when she meets Poe; Torben Liebrecht as Colonel Ivan Carrera, the dogged leader of a Protectorate Special Forces unit known as the “Wedge”, who are hunting Kovacs; Lela Loren as Danica Harlan, the charming and ambitious governor of planet Harlan’s World; And James Saito as Tanaseda Hideki, a centuries-old Yakuza boss who controls organized crime on Harlan’s World and shares a history with Kovacs.

They say we have conquered death – then why can we never escape it? 2.27.20 #AlteredCarbon pic.twitter.com/lR1BDnt2Sy

— Altered Carbon (@AltCarb) February 4, 2020

And, furthermore, we now know when it’s going to be broadcast on the streaming service, and it’s soon.

Altered Carbon (Series 2): Thursday 27th February, Netflix

READ MORE: OUR REVIEW OF SERIES ONE OF ALTERED CARBON

Sky One drops first trailer for gangland thriller Gangs Of London

One of the series we’ve been keeping an eye on is Sky One’s new gangland drama, Gangs Of London.

When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace (Joe Cole) to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.

The series is directed by Gareth Evans, Corin Hardy and Xavier Gens and has a cast including Joe Cole, Colm Meaney, Sope Dirisu and Michelle Fairley.

Look out for it soon.

Sky Atlantic releases first trailer for The Undoing

Sky Atlantic have released the first trailer featuring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in The Undoing – A HBO limited series based on the book You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz.

It looks goooood.

 

Grace Fraser is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

Directed by Susanne Bier and written by David E. Kelley, The Undoing stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland, Noah Jupe, Edgar Ramirez, Lily Rabe, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Matilda DeAngeli and Noma Dumezweni.

We’ve been told to look out for this later this spring.