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Post by Stranger on Jun 16, 2014 21:09:43 GMT
The following are others within House Dulver that may be chosen as characters by players. While a little of their background has been written already, these quasi-pregens are up for grabs and whoever claims them may draw up their own stats for these characters as they see fit.
Lady Falyse Dulver
Lady Falyse was born a Lannister in a manor house upon a hill in the city of Lannisport. Her marriage to Harald Dulver has never been much more than dutiful. As duties go, though, it could have been far more onerous than it was. Harald Dulver was not a handsome man, and his house was not powerful nor particularly wealthy in comparison to the rest of the westerlands, but it was ancient and thick with history and Harald was clever, shrewd, ambitious, and at least not cruel or deliberately hurtful. And Falyse was not a Lannister of the Rock, but rather the third daughter of a distant cousin to Lord Tywin and his get. The heir of Dulver seemed a good match for young Falyse.
Twenty years on and Falyse (now Lady Dulver) still feels so of her marriage. Her husband is astute in the management of his holdings and each day of his rule has seen the fortunes of their family advance. Lady Dulver lives secure in the knowledge that her sons will inherit a greater domain than her husband did and her daughter’s prospects are good for a very profitable marriage. If there is little love in the marriage, it is a small price to pay.
Lady Falyse does not often take part in her husband’s councils. The vagaries of mine yields and the price of wool at market do not interest her, but she runs her household as her husband rules his domain, with skill, wisdom and a willingness to squeeze the use out of every scrap.
Lady Falyse is not so cool as her husband, though. She knows the names of all those that serve under her roof. She knows their families and the circumstances of their lives. She congratulates them on the birth of a child or grandchild and consoles them upon the death of their loved ones.
If Lord Harald and Lady Falyse differ it’s on the subject of faith. Falyse grew up dutifully attending services in the sept at Lannisport. From the time she left her mother’s breast, she was in the care of a septa who saw to her education in all matters of faith and womanhood. The lessons stuck and Falyse came to her marriage with an enduring reverence for the Seven and those that were sworn to their service.
For the majority of their marriage Lady Falyse’s faith has been a non-issue. She and the children would descend the causeway for regular services in the Sept on the Heath. Lord Harald abstained, as was his wont. There was no need for discussion on the matter. But when their firstborn was anointed, the subject was broached, and like opening a cask of rotten smelt in the middle of a banquet, what had been a peaceful, profitable marriage suddenly suffered from the stink in the air.
The tension lurks beneath the surface of things and rarely surfaces as more than short comments from either Lord or Lady Dulver, but each of those words is a dry twig on a growing heap of tinder. Should there be a spark—a gesture made by Walton perceived as rebellious by his lord father, a confrontation between Lord Harald and Septon Arlyn—then that tinder could become a blaze.
Horas Dulver
Young Horas, just seventeen his last nameday, is much like his father in both manner and appearance. Sadly, he has inherited precious little of his father’s acumen. He is a poor manager, sums vex him something terrible, and he has never been any great shakes in a fight. What he does have, though, is a certain sort of low cunning well-suited to scheming, cheating, and tyranny.
When Lord Dulver acquired a swathe of good, green farmland and turned it over to his younger son, Horas did his level best to withhold his baser impulses. But as crop after crop has failed, the youngster’s restraint has failed. Thus far he has limited his cruelties and depredations to poor travelers and others that will, should their fortitude prove insufficient, not be missed. But it won’t be long before one of the smallfolk under his dubious protection will utter the name Blackthumb in his hearing. When the dam on Horas Dulver’s wrath finally breaks there will be many a wailing mother in the newest of the Dulver lands.
Helen Dulver
Little Helen is just six years old, far too young to be hatching schemes of her own. She has her mother’s fair hair, her father’s quick mind, and a daring curiosity all her own. Helen is her mother’s treasure. Lady Falyse rarely goes anywhere without her daughter. She dresses the girl in clothes to match her own and bears the burden of little Helen’s education on her own shoulders.
Helen’s father treasures her as well, though for entirely different reasons. Even though her flowering is still years away, Lord Harald has already turned Maester Falstan to making lists of potential husbands. When Helen is at last of marriageable age, no one will say she made a poor match.
Ser Gambol Hill
Gambol Hill is the natural son of Lord Harald’s grandfather, Lord Willas Dulver—called the Girlfather for the eight daughters he got on his lady wife before finally sowing a male heir in her womb. Once she’d borne her husband the son he sought, Lady Dulver counted her duty done, it’s said, and turned her husband out of her bedchamber. When Lord Willas got a boy on a shepherd girl out on the heath a dozen years later, she had little to say on the matter.
Gambol was a stout boy and grew into a stout young man. He was clever, too. There were a great many whispers around the Stony Heath that it was his natural son that Lord Willas preferred over the odd young man that was his trueborn heir. Legitimization from the crown was an expensive request in those days, and the insult to his wife’s family would have been intolerable.
So Gambol Hill stayed a bastard and in time came into the service of his half-brother. Gambol had proven himself an able student at arms, and after that a more than able teacher. He’s been master-at-arms in Deepen Hall for twenty years and few know the lay of the land as he does. Long ago, when his father was lord, Gambol decided to stay out of family politics, but neutrality isn’t blindness. Gambol saw his halfbrother’s madness, his nephew’s promise and he sees the storm brewing in the Dulver family now.
Maybe it’s age that’s softening his resolve, or maybe it’s the memory of the house he came into, divided on itself, but Ser Gambol Hill is more and more considering confronting the Dulver men. Young Walton loves him and looks up to him as he might a father. Lord Harald respects his uncle and just might listen if the old man had something to say. But then again, Gambol’s name is Hill, not Dulver, and a bastard learns caution early and for a reason. Perhaps he could avert a family disaster, but he’s just as likely to get himself turned out for his trouble. For now, he waits and watches and hopes.
Karyl Kays
Karyl Kays is a broad man of middling height with blunt fingers and shoulders like a bull. He descends from a line of stonemasons near as long as the Dulvers they’ve served. It’s the Kays who’ve cut near every stone out of the Deepmont, the Kays alone that know how deep the cellars of Deepen Hall go. The Dulvers have always kept them well, and the Kays have returned the favor with good and faithful service. There are few in the westerlands who know as much as the Kays about the cutting and shaping of stone, and stone is one of the few things the Stony Heath has in abundance. People come from across the seven kingdoms to the Stony Heath for Dulver stone and the Kays men to work it.
Stingy as Lord Dulver is known to be with every other commodity at his disposal he is uncommonly generous in hiring out his master stonemason. The reason for that is simple: Karyl Kays is a spy.
Karyl Kays’ knowledge of stone and masonry gives him a unique insight into the strength of a castle’s fortifications. He has just as keen an eye for defensive weak points. Granted, the information he gleans from his surveys of Lord Dulver’s neighbors is unlikely to yield immediate gains, but Harald Dulver plans for the long term. With Kays’ help, his lordship has assembled siege plans for half the castles in the Riverlands and a fair number of those around King’s Landing as well.
Karyl Kays grows old and has no sons to take up his tools. His wife died years ago without bearing any children and Karyl has never remarried. Loneliness wears upon him as the years pass. If the right woman were to come along, there is little Karyl Kays would not do for love.
Persal Littlefoot
As the old saw goes, Persal Littlefoot has forgotten more about mining than any man in the westerlands has ever known. He can smell copper and shits lead. But he’s “cursed by the gods for the sin of greed,” he says. Each time he’s sought after nobler ores, disaster has followed soon after. The last time he lost a son to poisonous stones that came up out of a silver mine he’d sunk. Before that he lost a leg hunting for gold in the hills Ashemark, and the time before that his favorite mule in a flood while sifting for gemstones on a little stream that feeds the Mander. After his son, old Persal decided he’d rather live poor than die rich.
Persal has spent the last 25 years digging copper and lead out of the hills of the Stony Heath and, when need arose, heading up Lord Dulver’s sappers. No one is more cunning at digging tunnels than Persal Littlefoot.
Thus far, Littlefoot hasn’t tested his curse digging for iron. On the Heath he’s had no opportunity to do so, but Lord Harald’s been asking questions about the best lands for iron and the means for harvesting it. Persal has enjoyed a rare comfort in his lordship’s service. If Lord Dulver comes into the rights to iron-rich lands, Persal will have a decision to make.
Maester Falstan
Maester Falstan is a newcomer to Deepen Hall, but it didn’t take him long to discern the reason he was brought within its walls. Before Falstan came, Septon Arlyn was the most learned man in the district as well as the most popular. Lord Dulver, unable to match the septon’s easy manner with the smallfolk, hired Falstan to subvert his place as healer and scholar.
Falstan, however, has a grander vision than simply tending to wounds and reading yet another dusty tome. He has already taken Lord Dulver’s measure, and decided that if the house’s standing is to improve, then he will need to take steps to ensure it. To that end, he has begun isolating Dulver’s other advisers so that he can become the sole voice Lord Harald turns to for advice. And that advice will point to a clear destination: battle.
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Post by Essie on Sept 28, 2022 15:14:00 GMT
Sven Botman has pulled out of Holland's U21 squad to reportedly focus on reclaiming a starting spot at Newcastle.
Erwin van de Looi's squad face friendly matches against Belgium and Romania this week, with Botman initially being called up after being overlooked for the senior side by Louis van Gaal.
But the 22-year-old centre-back withdrew from the U21 squad on Tuesday morning, with Newcastle Echo claiming he informed the Dutch FA of his decision because he wants to 'exclusively' focus on his club.
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The centre-back has been left out for three Premier League already this season, most recently Saturday's 1-1 draw with Bournemouth, and is now focusing on winning his place back for the match at Fulham after the international break.
Magpies boss Eddie Howe admitted recently Botman - who joined Newcastle in a £35million deal from Lille in the summer - is currently behind Dan Burn in the pecking order and will continue to partner Fabian Schar.
Howe said: 'We managed their load in the week where we had three games, so that was bringing Dan back.
'I just feel his leadership skills and his experience, we need that in our team at the moment.
Eddie Howe (left) admittedly recent Dan Burn (right) is above Botman in the pecking order
Sven is going to be an outstanding player and will play many, many games for this club. We love him to bits, but Dan just gets the nod at the moment.'
Botman has made seven appearances for Holland at U21 level, and was called up to the senior squad for the first time in November 2020.
Botman revealed last month he spoke with Howe after playing just one minute as a substitute in their opening game of the season against Nottingham Forest.
He told Chronicle Live: 'I spoke with the gaffer about it. He had his reasons and I had to accept it.
'And in the end, everything happens for a reason. At the moment I am happy and I am playing. So I hope it will continue like this and I will try to help the team as much as possible.'
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As the streaming wars continue, AT&T's WarnerMedia is gearing up to launch a new HBO streaming service: .
HBO Max has announced a variety of movies, docuseries, comedies, limited series, unscripted shows, kids content and more at various stages of development and production. It's also nabbed exclusive streaming rights for popular shows like Friends and Doctor Who.
AT&T has said it expects to spend between $1.5 billion and $2 billion on HBO Max next year. The service will cost $15 per month and is will launch in the US in May 2020.
Here's everything HBO Max has announced so far.
🚨Your new favorite HBO shows will also be available on @hbomax in 2020🚨
✅@westworldhbo
✅Succession
✅The Righteous Gemstones
✅Barry
✅@theoutsiderhbo
✅Lovecraft Country
✅The Undoing
✅Run
✅Perry Mason
✅The Plot Against America
✅Avenue 5
✅I Know This Much Is True
— HBO (@hbo) October 29, 2019
15 Minutes of Shame
Monica Lewinsky produces this documentary about public shaming. There's no release date yet.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
Starting in 2020, the animated series Adventure Time will be back in the form of four hour-long specials. Titled Adventure Time: Distant Lands, each one will focus on different characters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The special titles are BMO, Obsidian, Wizard City and Together Again.
Americanah
Based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi about a woman who leaves Nigeria for America, this limited series will star Lupita Nyong'o.
Anthony Bourdain documentary
This documentary will look at the life of the late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. There's no release date yet.
Avenue 5
Avenue 5, according to HBO, will offer "high satire" involving a cruise ship headed for space, 40 years in the future. The comedy series will star Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad and Zach Woods of Silicon Valley and comes from Veep creator Armando Ianucci. There's no release date yet.
Bad Education
A dark comedy starring Ray Romano, Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, this film is about a school superintendent under investigation by a school newspaper for embezzlement.
Betty
This comedy series follows a group of women "navigating their lives through the predominantly male-oriented world of skateboarding." There's no release date yet.
The Big Bang Theory
All 12 seasons of CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory will stream exclusively on HBO Max at launch. (Disclosure: CBS is CNET's parent company.)
Birth, Wedding, Funeral
This docuseries from Lisa Ling promises to "immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals." There's no release date yet.
Bobbie Sue
This comedy stars Gina Rodriguez as a young lawyer at a stuffy Boston law firm. There's no release date yet.
The Boondocks
The animated show is getting "two reimagined seasons" along with a 50-minute special in fall 2020. The original series will be available on HBO Max at launch.
Brad and Gary Go to...
Brad and Gary Go to... (working title) is a docuseries based on couple Brad Goreski and Gary Janetti's Instagram stories. Goreski is a celebrity stylist and Janetti is a writer and producer who's worked on shows such as Will & Grace and Family Guy. They will go on a "jet-setting culinary adventure around the globe." There's no release date yet.
Circe
Circe is based on a book of the same name by Madeline Miller. Variety reports the show is retells Greek myths through the eys of the goddess Circe. It'll have an eight-episode run. There's no release date yet.
College Girls (working title)
This Mindy Kaling show, which sounds like it's ripe for a sitcom format, follows freshman roommates. There's no release date yet.
Brand new series College Girls (wt) will follow three freshman roommates navigating hormones and higher ed together. What could sound better than that? Oh yeah, it's from the mind of @mindykaling, who will also serve as writer and showrunner.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Craftopia
Craftopia is an unscripted competition show with kids 9 to 15 jockeying against one another in the making of crafts. Production begins later in 2019.
Warner Bros.-produced CW dramas
CW shows like Batwoman, Katy Keene, Arrowverse and others will stream on HBO Max.
DC movies
HBO has said that releases from the last decade "will be available within our first year of launch, (plus) every Superman and Batman movie from the last 40 years."
It's not all about the heroes, either. Todd Phillips' @jokermovie is shattering box office records, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Don't miss Joker in theaters and it will be available to stream by HBO on HBO Max in 2020.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
DC Super Hero High
Executive produced by Elizabeth Banks, this half-hour comedy series centers around a groups of teenagers at a boarding school for "gifted" kids. There's no release date yet.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who will be coming to HBO Max.
BBC
The long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max, including the last 11 seasons, which will be available at launch.
Dune: The Sisterhood
The series, based on Frank Herbert's Dune novels, will follow an order of women known as the Bene Gesserit. Dune: The Sisterhood comes from Legendary Television, which is also behind the upcoming movie reboot. There's no release date yet.
Ellen's Home Design Challenge
Eight designers complete challenges on this design show from Ellen DeGeneres. There's no release date yet.
Equal
Equal is a four-part docuseries that tells the backstories of LGBTQ+ leaders, predating the Stonewall riots, with the last episode focusing on Stonewall. There's no release date yet.
Expecting Amy
Expecting Amy (working title) follows comedian Amy Schumer as she tours and prepares for her standup special while pregnant. There's no release date yet.
Finding Einstein
This docuseries is looking for the next generation of Einsteins. Produced by DeGeneres, the show is in development.
First Dates Hotel
In this dating show, based on a series from the UK called First Dates, singles at a hotel look for love. There's no release date yet.
The Flight Attendant
In this drama series, a flight attendant wakes up in a hotel room with a dead man and a whole lot of confusion, Deadline reports. Based on the 2018 novel by Chris Bohjalian, it stars and is executive produced by Kayley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) and also stars Rosie Perez. There's no release date yet.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
This '90s comedy starring Will Smith will stream on HBO Max.
Friends
The popular NBC comedy will also stream exclusively on HBO Max.
Full Bloom
Full Bloom is a floral arrangement competition.
HBO Max
Full Bloom is an eight-episode competition show in which florists will compete making floral creations. There's no release date yet.
The Fungies!
An animated series produced by Cartoon Network Studios, The Fungies is set in prehistoric times and follows Seth, a student at Fungietown Elementary.
Generation Hustle
This CNN Original Series brings to HBO Max a 10-part program about the "lengths young people will go to for fame, fortune and power. There's no release date yet.
Gen:LOCK
While the first season of this dystopian animated show starring Michael B. Jordan premiered on Rooster Teeth, the second season will be on HBO Max and later be available to Rooster Teeth members.
ICYMI, season 2 of gen:LOCK is coming to HBO Max in partnership with @roosterteeth. pic.twitter.com/vRHXWyqBFX
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
The Gilded Age
In this show, set in 1882, the daughter of a Southern general moves to New York City to live with her aunts. The Gilded Age stars Christine Baranski, Amanda Peet and Cynthia Nixon. It comes from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. There's no release date yet.
Grease: Rydell High
Grease: Rydell High is a musical series.
HBO Max
Riffing off the 1978 musical Grease, Grease: Rydell High is a musical series set in the 1950s. There's no release date yet.
The Greatest Space
The Greatest Space (working title) is a 10-part unscripted design competition show involving interior designers traveling to cities around the world in pursuit of a cash prize. There's no release date yet.
Greg Berlanti shows
The producer-extraordinaire responsible for the DC Universe shows on The CW is producing multiple properties for the new service, including a thriller starring Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco and two new DC Universe shows, including Green Lantern.
One more for @dccomics fans. In partnership w/ @gberlanti we're excited to bring to series the beloved Green Lantern AND intro audiences to Strange Adventures, about "man of two worlds" Adam Strange, an archaeologist-turned-intergalactic-hero when he's zeta-beamed to planet Rann
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai will be an animated prequel series based on the 1984 movie. There's no release date yet.
Hanna-Barbera cartoons
HBO Max will offer classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear and Popeye.
Heaven's Gate
This CNN original series is a four-part look at the infamous UFO cult. There's no release date yet.
The Ho's
The Ho's (working title) is a docuseries from Lionsgate TV about a wealthy Houston family originally from Vietnam. WarnerMedia says the eight-part program will be in the spirit of Crazy Rich Asians. There's no release date yet.
House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel set 300 years before Games of Thrones, delving into House Targaryen.
How to... With John Wilson
This comedy is a first-person documentary series "hosted by an anxious New Yorker who attempts to give everyday advice while dealing with his own personal issues."
January 22nd
January 22nd is a drama series dealing with the question of sexual consent and where the "distinction between liberation and exploitation lies."
Jellystone
Jellystone is an animated series that will showcase Hanna-Barbera characters like Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo and the venerable Snagglepuss in the town of Jellystone, where they all live.
Karma
This eight-episode unscripted competition show has 12-to-15-year-old kids solving puzzles and completing physical challenges as they "unravel how their social actions impact their success in the game." The series is in production. There's no release date yet.
I Know This Much Is True
Mark Ruffalo plays twins, but one of them has schizophrenia. The six-episode drama is based on Wally Lamb's 1998 book. It also stars John Lithgow. There's no release date yet.
Legendary
Legendary is an unscripted 10-part series where "divas will battle on voguing teams called 'houses,'" in competition for a cash prize. There's no release date yet.
Let Them Talk
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh, film Let Them Talk (working title) stars Meryl Streep and Candice Bergen. Streep plays an author who takes a trip with friends. Production started in August.
Little Ellen
This animated kids show stars a 7-year-old Ellen DeGeneres in her hometown of New Orleans. The series is 40 quarter-hour episodes. There's no release date yet.
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Looney Toons Cartoons is a new series starring the Looney Tunes characters in their "classic pairing, in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories." The series will have 80 11-minute cartoons. The full libraries of classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930-1969 will also be available at launch.
Love Life
This anthology series, produced by Anna Kendrick and Paul Feig, will follow one character per season through various romantic relationships -- one per episode, says The Hollywood Reporter. The first season will center on Kendrick. There's no release date yet.
Love Life - a comedy anthology series following the ever-charming @annakendrick47 as she falls in and out of love. Produced in partnership with @paulfeig, known for such hits as Bridesmaids and Spy.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Lovecraft Country
Jordan Peele, Misha Green and J.J. Abrams will produce this horror series based on a novel by Matt Ruff. There's no release date yet.
HBO shared some footage of Lovecraft Country, featuring Atticus Black looking for his missing father. He's walking through a forest, covered in blood and dodging monsters. We also see shots of people coming out of the ground and some epic gun fight scenes #HBOMax
— Abrar Al-Heeti (@alheeti_3) October 29, 2019
Made for Love
Another book adaptation, Made for Love is based on the 2017 novel by Alissa Nutting. Cristin Milioti plays a woman getting away from a tech billionaire who's implanted a chip in her brain to track not only her location but her emotions. Ray Romano plays her reclusive father, Variety reported. There's no release date yet.
Mare of Easttown
In this limited series, Kate Winslet plays a detective in a small town in Pennsylvania investigating a murder. There's no release date yet.
The Nevers
The Nevers will be a science fiction series from Joss Whedon. There's no release date yet.
The New Pope
This limited series follows 2016's The Young Pope.
Persona
This documentary from CNN Films looks at why people are so interested in personality testing. There's no release date yet.
Perry Mason
This new spin on the show from the late '50s- to the mid '60s is set in 1932. The limited series stars Matthew Rhys and is executive produced by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. There's no release date yet.
The Plot Against America
It's yet another adaptation of a book (The Plot Against America by Philip Roth), and HBO describes the show as a "reimagined history" starring Winona Ryder and John Turturro. David Simon and Ed Burns produce. There's no release date yet.
Pretty Little Liars
The seven-season teen drama will stream on HBO Max.
Raised By Wolves
Two androids raise human children amid religious tensions. The 10-episode series is produced and directed by Ridley Scott.
Rap Sh*t
New series from creator of Insecure, Issa Rae.
Rap Sh*t, an original scripted series produced by @issarae exploring the music business in Miami through the eyes of three women - an upstart hip hop duo and their hustler manager.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Rick & Morty
Get Schwifty!
Interdimensional @adultswim mega-hit @rickandmorty will be streaming on #HBOMax in 2020! Peace among worlds! pic.twitter.com/8Jf4d9FhPo
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Run
A woman named Ruby gets a text "inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self reinvention" by taking a "journey with her oldest friend."
The Scoop
This CNN Films documentary follows the story of CNN's female political reporters. There's no release date yet.
Search Party
TBS show Search Party's third and fourth seasons will be available in spring 2020. The show follows a group of 20-somethings covering up a murder.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street's 50-year library of episodes will be available.
HBO Max
The classic children's show will premiere on HBO Max with 35 new episodes, as well as access to the show's library going back 50 years. Along with other Sesame Street content, there will be annual specials and two new animated series. Elmo is also getting his own pseudo late-night talk show.
South Park
All 23 seasons, as well as three upcoming seasons of the animated show South Park hit HBO Max in June 2020. New episodes will be available 24 hours after airing on Comedy Central.
Stand-up specials presented by Conan O'Brien
Comedian Conan O'Brien will curate and/or host five comedy specials showcasing up-and-coming comics, as well as established comics.
Starstruck
This six-part comedy show follows what happens when a young woman sleeps with a celebrity. It'll be broadcast on BBC Three in the UK and streamed on HBO Max in the US. There's no release date yet.
Station Eleven
Based on the 2014 book by Emily St. John Mandel about a flu pandemic that wipes out most of the world, this 10-episode limited series will star Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday). There's no release date yet.
Studio Ghibli films
Studio Ghibli
The entire film library from this Japanese animation house will be available at launch. Notable titles include Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke.
Super Intelligence
This comedy from New Line Cinema tells the story of what happens when a woman's (Melissa McCarthy) TV, phone and microwave start talking back. She's being watched by AI, and humanity is in danger. There's no release date yet.
The Third Day
This six-episode series is split into two halves. Both deal with a "mysterious" island off the British coast. The Third Day stars Jude Law, Naomi Harris and Emily Watson.
Tig N' Seek
Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, Tig N' Seek is about an 8-year-old named Tiggy and his cat, Gweeseek (who builds gadgets) as they work for the Department of Lost and Found for Wee Gee City.
Tokyo Vice
This series, based on a memoir of the same name by Jake Adelstein about his time on the police beat in Japan, will star Ansel Elgort and Ken Wantanabe. Michael Mann will direct the pilot. There's no release date yet.
Tokyo Vice - an action series based on a true story following a young American journalist who dives into the dangerous underbelly of Tokyo. Starring @anselelgort in his first television project and shot entirely in Japan.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
Tooned Out
Tooned Out is a part live action, part animated. Character Mac starts seeing cartoon characters and they help him though a "very rough patch in his life."
The Undoing
When Grace's (Nicole Kidman) husband (Hugh Grant) goes missing right before her book gets published, she has to deal with a "chain of terrible revelations." This limited series comes from David E. Kelley. Donald Sutherland also stars. It's based on a 2014 book called You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. There's no release date yet.
Unpregnant
Based on a young adult novel by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, this movie tells the story of two teenage girls who go on a road trip to New Mexico after one finds out she's pregnant. HBO Max confirmed production in September. There's no release date yet.
From Greg Berlanti comes Unpregnant: the story of college-bound Veronica, a scholastic young woman who finds herself with a positive result on the only test she'd ever want to fail.
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 29, 2019
We R Who We R
This series is about American teenagers living in on a US military base in Italy.
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Gunmen killed three soldiers in an ambush in the southern Philippines on Thursday in violence that coincided with the president's visit to the region to pledge support for a 2014 peace deal with Muslim rebels that has eased decades of fighting.
There was no indication the attack on the soldiers in the island province of Basilan was connected to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.´s attendance at a ceremony with former Muslim rebel leaders in another southern province.
But the midday killings underscored the complex security issues the newly elected leader faces.
A group of soldiers was walking to replace other troops ending their work shift at an outpost in Al-Barka town in Basilan when about seven men opened fire and killed three of them, provincial military commander Brig.
Gen. Domingo Gobway said.
Other soldiers returned fire in a brief clash but the attackers fled as army reinforcements approached, Gobway said.
The attackers were from a band of outlaws separate from the Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent Muslim militant group which still has a presence in Basilan despite years of battle setbacks, Gobway told reporters.
Troops were pursuing the attackers, he said, adding that the outlaws had lost some gunmen in a clash with troops in the province two months ago.
Not far from Basilan, Marcos Jr., who took office in June, spoke in Cotabato city and pledged continuing support to former Muslim rebel leaders who are now helping govern an autonomous Muslim region under the 2014 peace pact.
Regular elections in the five-province region, called Bangsamoro, are to be held after a transition period ending in 2025.
"We are steadfast in our commitment to the peace process here in the southern Philippines," Marcos Jr.
said. "So we push for socioeconomic development ... in areas affected by decades of conflict."
The peace pact involves the largest Muslim rebel group in the south of the largely Roman Catholic nation, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Thousands of its fighters are in a years-long process of giving up their firearms in exchange for livelihood support as they try to return to normal lives.
However, smaller militant groups, including the Abu Sayyaf, have continued to fight the government and wage sporadic attacks, especially in impoverished rural regions with weak law enforcement and many firearms.
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Post by Penney on Oct 3, 2022 23:36:00 GMT
Sex workers have shared intimate details of some of their most 'unusual' bookings with one woman revealing she was once paid to cover a man in cake.
In a series of interviews by from the workers reveal the requests which left them stunned and the bookings they will never forget.
One escort, known as Olive Pearl, described a booking where she was asked to play with party balloons.
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Sex workers have revealed the most unusual requests and career highlights - Evana De Lune, pictured, spoke about the moment she knew she 'had made it'
Known as The Real Sick B**ch of Melbourne, the man pictured left spoke about one of his first dates as an escort, while Jett Black, right, told a story about modeling underwear for a client
She explained the client asked two women to join him for the booking before instructing them to blow up the balloons and throw them around.
The man then requested they blow more balloons up 'to the point where it is nearly bursting'.
'At the point where it popped, he got a little fright, and that was the excitement,' she said.
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'It was an hour and a half of blowing up balloons, popping them and rubbing them against ourselves and that was it,' she laughed.
The escort has also been asked to help a client with his food fetish.
She said the man brought a chocolate cake with him to the booking, asked her to sit on it and then requested she rub it all over his body.
'In his hair, his face, everything,' she said, before adding it was a fun booking to be involved with.
Escort Olive Pearl, pictured, told two stories about clients who didn't want to have sex - one wanted her to pop balloons with a friend while the other wanted to be covered in cake
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People gathering in glorious sunshine to make their loved ones as miserable as possible... who doesn't love a wedding? HBO's Succession has always been a study of wealthy wretchedness, and season 3's penultimate episode spares no one in its bleak juxtaposition of untold opulence and unbearable emotional agony -- including one of the show's main characters in a riveting cliffhanger that has viewers on edge before Sunday's finale.
Featuring the long-simmering father-son showdown between Kendall and Logan, episode 8, titled Chiantishire, is streaming now on HBO Max. Spoilers ahead!
A fight for a knife in the mud
Life is a number on a piece of paper. It's a fight for a knife in the mud. That's Logan Roy's philosophy, beamed into every house in America.
Logan had a hard life, born into a working-class environment, sent away from his mother and abused by his uncle. He had to claw himself out of harsh circumstances. But wealth and success haven't lightened or enlightened him. They've only hardened his world view. Still hewn from granite, he stews in an aggressively misanthropic view of the world and the people in it.
The problem is, Logan forces his toxic world view on the world. Through his media operation, he poisons global discourse with this assertion that life is a fight, that other people will screw you and you have to screw them first. He thinks he knows how the world works. But he'd also rather poison his grandson than show his son even a scintilla of conciliation. To Kendall, he's evil.
Kendall's total disinheritance
Head shaved and clad in soft earth tones (but still wearing his medallion), a melancholy Kendall is the ghost at the feast. Except he's increasingly haunted by the kid who died at Shiv's wedding, now the subject of renewed press scrutiny and on top of that an opportunity for Logan to twist the knife.
Amid the beautiful scenery, Kendall has never been so unhappy. He and his fellow elite have all the luxury and privilege they could want, and it isn't what they need. Wealth is simply a weapon to be wielded, a bolster to an overweening sense of superiority that doesn't match their all too human insecurities.
By the end of the episode, Kendall's face down in a swimming pool, presumably dead drunk... and also possibly dead dead? As the camera swims below him and his beer bottle gently bobs into the depths of the luxury pool, some viewers took this to mean Kendall may have drowned. I admit that on first watch I rewound these final moments a couple of times, but that was to satisfy myself that surely he couldn't be dead. For me, Succession isn't the sort of show to deal in anything as melodramatic as a cliffhanger here.
The scene feels more to me like symbolism, Kendall adrift in a moment harking back to Logan's cruel taunt about a dead boy "sucking water." And he's basically the main character! The loss of Jeremy Strong's intense performance as the fulcrum of the show would surely deflate the planned season 4.
And yet it's also a cruel show. What could be more cruel than Kendall's death, tawdry and pointless with no resolution between him and his father? They had their showdown but it only made clear to Kendall that his whole crusade has been for nothing.
Meanwhile, off screen, the timing curiously lines up with a gloriously scathing New Yorker profile of Strong, in which creator Jesse Armstrong and Strong's his fellow actors are deliciously candid about their colleague's histrionic acting techniques. It's certainly got people talking ahead of the finale.
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Harriet Walter returns as a rather more subdued Lady Caroline, struck with fear of macaroni and memorials.
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The episode starts with Shiv in her comfies at home while the big deal goes through. But Roman's continual dismissiveness galvanizes her, not to mention a heart-to-heart with Lady Caroline. Ducking out of the bachelorette party (she presumably couldn't bring herself to call it the proper Britishism, a "hen do"), Shiv's mother shows a vulnerability and honesty rarely seen in the Roy clan.
But even when her mother vulnerably tries to unpush Shiv's buttons, a Roy can only take that as mashing down harder on the button in question. Lady Caroline mentions her mother would turn in her grave, evoking a line of generations of cold mothers. And as Shiv races to start a family, she's another dysfunctional prospective parent planting the seed of another generation. God help the poor kids.
Not to mention Tom, who feels a little raw after a night of spicy pillow talk strays into the realm of emotional cruelty.
Succession recaps
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Season 3, episode 5 recap: Mad emperors rock the vote
Chiantishire
The episode's title, Chiantishire, is a nickname for a part of scenic Tuscany in Italy popular with posh Britons (chianti is a local wine, and -shire is a common name for an English county). This is the picturesque setting for Lady Caroline Collingwood's lavish wedding to slime badger Peter Munion. But fans hoping for more brutal tongue-lashings from the waspish Lady Caroline will be disappointed, as even the acerbic aristocrat is mortified by Logan's petty feud with Kendall.
Meanwhile, middle-class bridezilla and serial bankrupt Munion is a shameless social climber currying favor with Logan. He's also in the care home business, which is a telling detail. The UK care sector has been plunged into crisis by the twin blow of COVID and Brexit. Of course a man like that wants to snuffle his snout into the trough of government.
Feeling lucky
"Going to Macau. Feeling lucky." These five words throw the garden party into a spiral of confusion as eccentric tech big shot Lucas Mattson fires off scattershot tweets. These oddball social media posts are reminiscent of Tesla founder Elon Musk and his frequently combative online stream of consciousness.
Is he a visionary businessman shrewdly exploiting modern technology to advance his position, or just a dick? LOL, as if those things are different.
But Mattson is also desperately unhappy. He's sleeping miserably on the floor until he can properly research the best possible mattress. It seems that being extremely online can be just as isolating and awful as being extremely wealthy.
But as we barrel into next week's finale, Mattson lobs a growth bomb under the deal. Now the top brass realize that for WayStar to survive they may face a boardroom bloodbath.
Is Kendall dead? Can Logan and Mattson save WayStar? Will Shiv knife Roman? All will be revealed (sort of, probably) in this week's season finale. Season 3, episode 9: All the Bells Say, airs Sunday, Dec. 12.
Successive thoughts
Just as the press sniff around Willa's past, Connor proposes to the woman he met when she was an escort. What a beautiful moment. Aaaand she'll think about it.
Can you believe we first met Greg getting high and spewing out of a theme park animal suit? That kid wouldn't know what to do with Comfrey, but now he's looking past her at a Contessa on the next rung of the date ladder.
Roman may have finally screwed Gerri, and not in the way he's been craving. Which gives Shiv an opportunity, even if it means coldly disregarding the sisterhood.
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