New UK comedy
Starstruck, featuring New Zealander Rose Matafeo (
Dead Pixels, Funny Girls, Squinters, Have You Been Paying Attention?) will premiere on ABC in late June.
The six-part series follows the antics of Jessie (Rose Matafeo) as she navigates the complications that arise after having a one-night stand with a celebrity.
Created and co-written by Matafeo, it also features Tom Kapoor, Emma Sidi and Minnie Driver.
The series recently launched to positive reviews in the UK.
Co-written by Rose and Alice Snedden (Funny Girls, Bad News), Jessie is a millennial living in East London juggling two dead end jobs. Following a drunken New Year’s Eve hook-up, she finds herself navigating the awkward morning-after-the-night-before when she discovers that her random hook-up is actually the famous film star Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel; Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hulu; Indian Summers).
HBO has been searching for its new Game Of Thrones and this exuberant fantasy series ticks a lot of the boxes. Large cast of colourful characters? Check.
Rock stars Pink and Robbie Williams are more than ready for their close-ups.
Pink (real name Alecia Moore), has already been captured in a raw, revealing documentary called P!nk: All I Know So Far, by The Greatest Showman filmmaker Michael Gracey, who joined the arena leg of her world tour leading up to her sold-out stadium dates at Wembley in June 2019. The result streams on Amazon Prime from next Friday.
And Williams, this column can reveal, will be playing himself in a biopic of his life, by the same director. Gracey has been doing pre-production work on Better Man, a feature film, based on hours of conversation he had with the former Take That star.