Following their collaboration on the Tom Hardy series “Taboo” and the upcoming “Great Expectations,” Ridley Scott and Steven Knight are going to reunite again. Deadline reports the pair are developing a 10-episode series, titled “Roads To Freedom,” but haven’t secured a financier or broadcaster as there are international suitors. 

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The WWII series will be based on the books by Sir Anthony Beevor and will be taking various international perspectives from the United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Germany, and France.

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Is it “Big Little Lies” or is it “Feud: Bette and Joan”?  It’s almost a coin flip at this point. Our gut says HBO takes the big prize here and Jessica Lange upsets Nicole Kidman in the Lead Actress category. But stranger things have happened… [Updated July 20]

Outstanding Limited Series

1. “Big Little Lies”
2. “Feud: Bette and Joan”
3.

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Huh. I gotta be honest, given that “Taboo” didn’t really capture the cultural conversation the way many expected it to, I didn’t think the show would have much of a chance at renewal. But reviews were mostly positive, and I suppose some slack can be cut when your series features Tom Hardy in the lead role. All of this is to say that “Taboo” is coming back for a second season.

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The Bingeworthy Breakdown is (if this works) a new occasional look at new series. An estimated 500 scripted seasons of TV will air in 2017, and to help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we’re going to look at the first episodes of the most notable of these to help you work out whether it’s worth tuning every week for them, waiting to binge later, or using the time to finally watch the final season of “Treme” or whatever else you’ve been waiting for.

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Peak TV isn’t wasting a single moment in 2017. Just barely a week after you ring in the New Year, the first must-watch series will arrive with “Taboo,” giving Tom Hardy fans an entire series to watch the actor do his thing, and bite into what looks like a helluva role. And after countless teasers and trailers, the first real deal clip from the show has arrived with Hardy doing his bug-eyed best.

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From Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott and Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders,” “Locke”) — when you see a top shelf trio like this on the same project, you should stand up and take notice. Created by Tom Hardy, Chips Hardy (Tom’s dad), and Steven Knight (Scott is an executive producer), “Taboo” is an eight-episode miniseries about an adventurer who returns to Britain from Africa along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

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By now you might have finished reading our massive 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 list. You might even be already through yesterday’s look at the stars of tomorrow with Best Breakthrough Performances. And so, to continue in this forward-looking, optimistic vein (frankly, all of us could use a little hope on the horizon), today we get to unveil our picks for the most exciting projects that we faithfully believe will be hitting our small screens for the first time in 2017.

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Around this time last year, we were all eagerly awaiting Tom Hardy‘s performance in “The Revenant,” and he certainly didn’t disappoint. However, the big screen has been lacking his presence ever since — with good reason. The actor has been busy making the upcoming FX series “Taboo,” and it looks like we’re going to get a healthy serving of Hardy that will more than satisfy.

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A savage man coming back to civilization — that seems to be the basic thrust of FX‘s upcoming series “Taboo,” and who better to lead that kind of story than Tom Hardy? The actor is making his latest foray onto television with the series, and we’re always on board for anything Hardy.

Written by Steven Knight, who crafted the terrific “Locke,” the show is set in 1814 and finds Hardy returning from Africa with some smuggled diamonds, and looking to build a business to rival the East India Company.

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Watch: Oscar Nominee Tom Hardy Gets Savage In First Trailer For FX Series 'Taboo'

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TV: Martin Scorsese & Benicio Del Toro Team For 'Cortes,' Remake Of 'Luther' In The Works & More

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Tom Hardy To Star In BBC Drama Series 'Taboo,' Produced By Ridley Scott, Penned By Steven Knight

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Since taking home the Golden Lion in 1997, Kitano’s won acclaim (or at least knowing chuckles and points at the screen) for his role in the cult classic “Battle Royale,” as well as for his glowering about in Nagisa Oshima’s period melodrama/thriller “Taboo.” As a director, Kitano’s own period action movie “Zatoichi” won considerable praise, including a cluster of awards at Venice ’04, but “In competition” at Cannes in 1999, his slice-of-life drama “Kikujiro” was soundly panned.

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It kind of fits, no? After all that garish motley crue do dress like retarded school children and are quite the colorful bunch to look at.

More on that in a second.

Hayooooga!
Remember that game you spent a shit load of time as a kid trying to properly throw fireballs and dragon punches at your frienemy pals in junior highschool?

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