The second season of Big Little Lies will see the return of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley aka The Monterey Five. They will be joined by new characters including the amazing Meryl Streep! Streep plays Mary Louise, the grieving mother of Perry (Alexander Skarsgård) who died at the end of Season One. Mary Louise is there to get some answers about that fatal night. 

“I’m playing someone who is dealing with whatever the deficits of her parenting were, whatever the mysteries and how you can’t go back in time and fix something, all those issues,” Streep explained. “That was interesting to me.” 

The second season picks up after Perry’s death, which was caused by Bonnie (Kravitz) when she saw him getting aggressive with his wife Celeste (Kidman).

“We left off with a lie, so it would have been disingenuous not to mine that lie for all its malignancy,” writer David E. Kelley told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s going to result in more skewed fractures and fissures in the friendships between the women, some of the marriages, and some of the individual psyches.”

Per the official logline, the forthcoming season “will explore the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode…the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.”

Big Little Lies Season Two premieres, June 9.

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Deadline reports that both cast and creative team have said that there are no plans for any additional seasons of the HBO drama. When asked by reporters if there are plans for future seasons during the Television Critics Association press tour Friday, creator and executive producer David E. Kelley said, “There’s no such plan now. “It’s one and two, and we like our closure with season two, but that will probably be it.”

While series star and executive producer Reese Witherspoon joked that Kelley has said that before, Nicole Kidman, also star and exec producer reiterated the same sentiment. 

“There’s no plan for it to end, specifically,” Kidman said. “This was a long shoot for us, and it was an enormous amount of work, and we’re just amazed that we can be here. Not to compare it to the first one because artistically it’s a wonderful thing to take something and go and the success of the first one was so massive, so we go, ‘OK, let’s jump off the cliff.’ But at the same time, it is its own entity and hopefully it will be taken that way. It was definitely made with an enormous amount of love.” 

Big Little Lies Season 2 stars Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, Witherspoon, Kidman and Shailene Woodley. Joining the season’s cast is Meryl Streep who will star as Mary Louise, mother to Alexander Skarsgard’s Perry.

Big Little Lies returns in June. 

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This photo comes straight from HBO’s latest promo and it shows the Otter Bay Elementary moms standing in a police lineup, while still wearing their costumes from last season’s epic finale. A short clip also featured a first look at Meryl Streep, playing the mother of Alexander Skarsgård’s character.

Season 2 of Big Little Lies wrapped up back in August, and Witherspoon bid farewell to her co-stars and director Andrea Arnold in an adorable Instagram post. She thanked them for inspiring her, supporting her and making her laugh and cry, and said she can’t wait to see them all again.

Big Little Lies also stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and Zoë Kravitz and it should come back to HBO sometime this year.

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The series is based on the novel by Australian author, Liane Moriarty, about the lives of 3 women in a coastal town.

Produced by its stars, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, the show’s first season covered the contents of the book.

The series was so well-received by audiences that fans lucked out when it was announced that a second season would be filmed, with the addition of Meryl Streep as part of the award-winning cast.

Now, Nicole, who won both an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Celeste, has warned that third time might not be the charm.

“I think it would simply be hard to get the whole group together,” she told Variety about the prospects of a third season. “But we would love to do it.”

Season 2 of Big Little Lies comes out next year.

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This year’s awards have Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders, The End Of The F***Ing World, and The Crown going head to head for the Best Drama Series, while Big Little Lies, Feud: Bette and Joan, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Vietnam War will hope to get the title of Best International Programme.

The Crown has a chance to pick up the awards in Best Leading Actress (Claire Foy) and Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Kirby) as well, while Black Mirror will get the same opportunity in the categories for Best Leading Actor (Joe Cole) Best Supporting Actor (Jimmi Simpson).

You can check out the full list of BAFTA TV Awards nominations for 2018 below.

Best Drama Series
Line of Duty
Peaky Blinders
The Crown
The End Of The F***Ing World

Best Leading Actress
Claire Foy, The Crown
Molly Windsor, Three Girls
Sindead Keenan, Little Boy Blue
Thandie Newton, Line of Duty

Best Leading Actor
Jack Rowan, Born to Kill
Joe Cole, “Hang the DJ” (Black Mirror)
Sean Bean, Broken
Tim Pigott-Smith, King Charles III

Best Supporting Actress
Anna Friel, Broken
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Broadchurch
Liv Hill, Three Girls
Vanessa Kirby, The Crown

Best Supporting Actor
Adrian Dunbar, Line of Duty
Anupam Kher, The Boy with the Topknot
Brian F, O’Byrne, Little Boy Blue
Jimmi Simpson, “USS Callister” (Black Mirror)

Best International Programme
Big Little Lies
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Vietnam War

Best Scripted Comedy
Catastrophe
Chewing Gum
This Country
Timewasters

Best Female Performance in a Comedy Program
Anna Maxwell Martin, Motherland
Daisy May Cooper, This Country
Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe
Sian Gibson, Peter Kay’s Car Share

Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program
Asim Chaudry, People Just Do Nothing
Rob Brydon, The Trip to Spain
Samson Kayo, Famalam
Toby Jones, Detectorists

Best Mini-Series
Howards End
The Moorside
The State
Three Girls

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“I’m excited to announce the return of Big Little Lies,” HBO’s programming chief Casey Bloys. “David Kelley wrote beautiful scripts and Reese and Nicole were, once again, a force to be reckoned with, reuniting the cast and recruiting the talented Andrea Arnold to direct. We look forward to working with this amazing group of artists.”

If you are hoping to get new episodes soon, we have to disappoint you. Bloys discussed the potential release date with Vulture, saying that the filming is scheduled for spring of 2018 and that the second season will premiere in 2019. Creator of the series, David E. Kelley will again handle the writing duties. Although the rest of the cast didn’t sign on yet, the network is expecting their return.

Reese Witherspoon issued a statement following the announcement of season two, saying that she is excited to work with Arnold.

“I’m thrilled to be bringing back this talented team of artists,” – said Witherspoon. “It gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the lives of these intriguing and intricate Monterey families and bring more of their stories back to the audience who embraced and championed them. I’m beyond excited to be working with talented and acclaimed director Andrea Arnold who will be at the helm. Andrea’s unique storytelling style will be a welcome addition to the filmmaking team.”

Based on the novel by Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies premiered in February 2017 and immediately received critical acclaim, currently holding 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series earned 16 Emmy nominations, winning 8 of them. Since the initial seven episodes of Big Little Lies covered the novel material and had a “perfect ending,” there was a doubt that the show will return for season two. Still, after the success and critical acclaim, HBO approached Moriarty asking her to write a story for a second season.

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The actress took home the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her work in the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies. She managed to beat Carrie Coon, Jessica Lange, Felicity Huffman, Susan Sarandon, and her Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon for the trophy.

This is her first Emmy win in her illustrious career; in 2012, she was nominated in the same category for the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, which was her first acting appearance on TV since 1993.

Kidman didn’t forget Witherspoon during her acceptance speech. “Reese, I share this with you. Without you, I would not be standing up here,” she stated at the award ceremony.

Both stars will work together again in the crime drama Truly Madly Guilty, which is set to start shooting in the near future. Both Truly Madly Guilty and Big Little Lies were written by Australian author Liane Moriarty. Over the summer, talks of a second season for Big Little Lies began with both ladies looking to reprise their roles.

Before the year is out, she’ll appear in the psychological horror-thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer with Colin Farrell, who starred with her in the drama The Beguiled earlier this year. The film is directed by  Yorgos Lanthimos, who was nominated for two Oscars for his work in Dogtooth and The Lobster. Next year, the actress will appear in The Upside, Boy Erased, and become a part of the DC Extended Universe with Aquaman.

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The second season of Big Little Lies will see the return of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley aka The Monterey Five. They will be joined by new characters including the amazing Meryl Streep! Streep plays Mary Louise, the grieving mother of Perry (Alexander Skarsgård) who died at the end of Season One. Mary Louise is there to get some answers about that fatal night. 

“I’m playing someone who is dealing with whatever the deficits of her parenting were, whatever the mysteries and how you can’t go back in time and fix something, all those issues,” Streep explained. “That was interesting to me.” 

The second season picks up after Perry’s death, which was caused by Bonnie (Kravitz) when she saw him getting aggressive with his wife Celeste (Kidman).

“We left off with a lie, so it would have been disingenuous not to mine that lie for all its malignancy,” writer David E. Kelley told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s going to result in more skewed fractures and fissures in the friendships between the women, some of the marriages, and some of the individual psyches.”

Per the official logline, the forthcoming season “will explore the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode…the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.”

Big Little Lies Season Two premieres, June 9.

The post Everything We Know About “Big Little Lies” Season 2 appeared first on EverydayKoala.

Deadline reports that both cast and creative team have said that there are no plans for any additional seasons of the HBO drama. When asked by reporters if there are plans for future seasons during the Television Critics Association press tour Friday, creator and executive producer David E. Kelley said, “There’s no such plan now. “It’s one and two, and we like our closure with season two, but that will probably be it.”

While series star and executive producer Reese Witherspoon joked that Kelley has said that before, Nicole Kidman, also star and exec producer reiterated the same sentiment. 

“There’s no plan for it to end, specifically,” Kidman said. “This was a long shoot for us, and it was an enormous amount of work, and we’re just amazed that we can be here. Not to compare it to the first one because artistically it’s a wonderful thing to take something and go and the success of the first one was so massive, so we go, ‘OK, let’s jump off the cliff.’ But at the same time, it is its own entity and hopefully it will be taken that way. It was definitely made with an enormous amount of love.” 

Big Little Lies Season 2 stars Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, Witherspoon, Kidman and Shailene Woodley. Joining the season’s cast is Meryl Streep who will star as Mary Louise, mother to Alexander Skarsgard’s Perry.

Big Little Lies returns in June. 

The post “Big Little Lies”: We Probably Won’t Get a Third Season appeared first on EverydayKoala.

This photo comes straight from HBO’s latest promo and it shows the Otter Bay Elementary moms standing in a police lineup, while still wearing their costumes from last season’s epic finale. A short clip also featured a first look at Meryl Streep, playing the mother of Alexander Skarsgård’s character.

Season 2 of Big Little Lies wrapped up back in August, and Witherspoon bid farewell to her co-stars and director Andrea Arnold in an adorable Instagram post. She thanked them for inspiring her, supporting her and making her laugh and cry, and said she can’t wait to see them all again.

Big Little Lies also stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and Zoë Kravitz and it should come back to HBO sometime this year.

The post Reese Witherspoon Teases Season 2 of “Big Little Lies” appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The series is based on the novel by Australian author, Liane Moriarty, about the lives of 3 women in a coastal town.

Produced by its stars, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, the show’s first season covered the contents of the book.

The series was so well-received by audiences that fans lucked out when it was announced that a second season would be filmed, with the addition of Meryl Streep as part of the award-winning cast.

Now, Nicole, who won both an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Celeste, has warned that third time might not be the charm.

“I think it would simply be hard to get the whole group together,” she told Variety about the prospects of a third season. “But we would love to do it.”

Season 2 of Big Little Lies comes out next year.

The post “Big Little Lies” Might Not See a Third Season appeared first on EverydayKoala.

This year’s awards have Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders, The End Of The F***Ing World, and The Crown going head to head for the Best Drama Series, while Big Little Lies, Feud: Bette and Joan, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Vietnam War will hope to get the title of Best International Programme.

The Crown has a chance to pick up the awards in Best Leading Actress (Claire Foy) and Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Kirby) as well, while Black Mirror will get the same opportunity in the categories for Best Leading Actor (Joe Cole) Best Supporting Actor (Jimmi Simpson).

You can check out the full list of BAFTA TV Awards nominations for 2018 below.

Best Drama Series
Line of Duty
Peaky Blinders
The Crown
The End Of The F***Ing World

Best Leading Actress
Claire Foy, The Crown
Molly Windsor, Three Girls
Sindead Keenan, Little Boy Blue
Thandie Newton, Line of Duty

Best Leading Actor
Jack Rowan, Born to Kill
Joe Cole, “Hang the DJ” (Black Mirror)
Sean Bean, Broken
Tim Pigott-Smith, King Charles III

Best Supporting Actress
Anna Friel, Broken
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Broadchurch
Liv Hill, Three Girls
Vanessa Kirby, The Crown

Best Supporting Actor
Adrian Dunbar, Line of Duty
Anupam Kher, The Boy with the Topknot
Brian F, O’Byrne, Little Boy Blue
Jimmi Simpson, “USS Callister” (Black Mirror)

Best International Programme
Big Little Lies
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Vietnam War

Best Scripted Comedy
Catastrophe
Chewing Gum
This Country
Timewasters

Best Female Performance in a Comedy Program
Anna Maxwell Martin, Motherland
Daisy May Cooper, This Country
Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe
Sian Gibson, Peter Kay’s Car Share

Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program
Asim Chaudry, People Just Do Nothing
Rob Brydon, The Trip to Spain
Samson Kayo, Famalam
Toby Jones, Detectorists

Best Mini-Series
Howards End
The Moorside
The State
Three Girls

The post Complete List of BAFTA TV Awards 2018 Nominations appeared first on EverydayKoala.

“I’m excited to announce the return of Big Little Lies,” HBO’s programming chief Casey Bloys. “David Kelley wrote beautiful scripts and Reese and Nicole were, once again, a force to be reckoned with, reuniting the cast and recruiting the talented Andrea Arnold to direct. We look forward to working with this amazing group of artists.”

If you are hoping to get new episodes soon, we have to disappoint you. Bloys discussed the potential release date with Vulture, saying that the filming is scheduled for spring of 2018 and that the second season will premiere in 2019. Creator of the series, David E. Kelley will again handle the writing duties. Although the rest of the cast didn’t sign on yet, the network is expecting their return.

Reese Witherspoon issued a statement following the announcement of season two, saying that she is excited to work with Arnold.

“I’m thrilled to be bringing back this talented team of artists,” – said Witherspoon. “It gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the lives of these intriguing and intricate Monterey families and bring more of their stories back to the audience who embraced and championed them. I’m beyond excited to be working with talented and acclaimed director Andrea Arnold who will be at the helm. Andrea’s unique storytelling style will be a welcome addition to the filmmaking team.”

Based on the novel by Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies premiered in February 2017 and immediately received critical acclaim, currently holding 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series earned 16 Emmy nominations, winning 8 of them. Since the initial seven episodes of Big Little Lies covered the novel material and had a “perfect ending,” there was a doubt that the show will return for season two. Still, after the success and critical acclaim, HBO approached Moriarty asking her to write a story for a second season.

The post “Big Little Lies” Officially Returns for Season 2 appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The actress took home the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her work in the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies. She managed to beat Carrie Coon, Jessica Lange, Felicity Huffman, Susan Sarandon, and her Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon for the trophy.

This is her first Emmy win in her illustrious career; in 2012, she was nominated in the same category for the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, which was her first acting appearance on TV since 1993.

Kidman didn’t forget Witherspoon during her acceptance speech. “Reese, I share this with you. Without you, I would not be standing up here,” she stated at the award ceremony.

Both stars will work together again in the crime drama Truly Madly Guilty, which is set to start shooting in the near future. Both Truly Madly Guilty and Big Little Lies were written by Australian author Liane Moriarty. Over the summer, talks of a second season for Big Little Lies began with both ladies looking to reprise their roles.

Before the year is out, she’ll appear in the psychological horror-thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer with Colin Farrell, who starred with her in the drama The Beguiled earlier this year. The film is directed by  Yorgos Lanthimos, who was nominated for two Oscars for his work in Dogtooth and The Lobster. Next year, the actress will appear in The Upside, Boy Erased, and become a part of the DC Extended Universe with Aquaman.

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