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10 hours ago
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‘The Sandman' Season 2 Trailer Teases Epic Conclusion For Tom Sturridge's Dream
'Everyone loves a good story. But all stories come to an end.' Netflix has released the official trailer for the second and final season of The Sandman. In Season 2, after a fateful reunion with his family, Dream of the Endless (Tom Sturridge) must face one impossible decision after another as he attempts to save himself, his kingdom, and the waking world from the epic fallout of his past misdeeds. To make amends, Dream must confront longtime friends and foes, gods, monsters, and mortals. But the path to forgiveness is full of unexpected twists and turns, and true absolution may cost Dream everything. More from Deadline 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery TKO Group Taps Netflix Public Policy Vet Dean Garfield For Newly Created Government Affairs Post In the trailer, Dream (Sturridge) fights to survive, as he faces gods, monsters and the ravages of Hell, not only for himself but for The Dreaming itself. 'The Dreaming will survive,' he says. 'Even if I do not.' Based on the DC comic series by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg, Season 2 will include storylines from many of the comics, including the 'Season of Mists', 'Brief Lives', 'The Kindly Ones', and 'The Sandman: Overture', collections, along with single-issue stories such as 'Tales in the Sand,' 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'The Song of Orpheus,' 'Thermidor,' and 'The Tempest,' among others. In addition to Sturridge, Season 2 stars Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Esmé Creed-Miles, Adrian Lester, Barry Sloane, Patton Oswalt, Vivienne Acheampong, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Ferdinand Kingsley, Stephen Fry, Asim Chaudhry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Razane Jammal, Ruairi O'Connor, Freddie Fox, Clive Russell, Laurence O'Fuarain, Ann Skelly, Douglas Booth, Jack Gleeson, Indya Moore, and Steve Coogan. Season 2 will launch with Volume 1 on July 3 (6 episodes) and Volume 2 on July 24 (5 episodes). There is a bonus episode on July 31. Allan Heinberg serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner. David S. Goyer and Gaiman executive produce and Jamie Childs directs all episodes. Writers include Ameni Rozsa, Alex Newman-Wise, Austin Guzman, Shadi Petosky, Jim Campolongo, Vanessa Benton, Jay Franklin, Greg Goetz and Marina Marlens. Warner Bros. Television is the studio. [youtube Best of Deadline 'Bachelor in Paradise' Cast Announcement: See Who Is Headed To The Beach For Season 10 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
17-04-2025
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The Sandman's Final Season to Roll Out in Two ‘Volumes' — Get Release Dates, Watch Teaser
The Sandman fans, Netflix just booked you an extended trip to The Dreaming. The fantasy series' upcoming second and final season will be broken in two parts TVLine has learned. Volume 1, which will consist of six episodes, will start streaming on Thursday, July 3. Volume 2, which will consist of five episodes, will follow on Thursday, July 24. More from TVLine It's Always Sunny Sets Season 17 Premiere Date, Offers First Look at Abbott Elementary Crossover - Watch Save the Dates: Taron Egerton-Jurnee Smollett Series Premiere, The Brutalist on Max and More Adolescence Rises to No. 3 on All-Time Netflix Top 10 - Will It Leapfrog Stranger Things 4 Next? In addition, Netflix released a teaser trailer that shows Morpheus, lord of a mystical realm known as The Dreaming, reuniting with his siblings. Season 2 will introduce us to a few new members of this mystical family, known collectively as The Endless: Destiny (Primary Colors' Adrian Lester), Delirium (who will be played by Hanna's Esme Creed-Miles) and The Prodigal (Revenge's Barry Sloane). You can see the siblings reunite, albeit not happily, in the video above. 'After a fateful reunion with his family,' the official Season 2 logline reads, 'Dream of the Endless (played by Tom Sturridge) must face one impossible decision after another as he attempts to save himself, his kingdom, and the waking world from the epic fallout of his past misdeeds. To make amends, Dream must confront longtime friends and foes, gods, monsters, and mortals. But the path to forgiveness is full of unexpected twists and turns, and true absolution may cost Dream everything. Based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series, the second season of The Sandman will tell Dream's story arc in full to its thrilling conclusion.' The fantasy drama is based on Neil Gaiman's comic series of the same name. Gaiman, who is an executive producer on the show, has been accused of sexually assaulting multiple women; he denies the allegations. 'I'm far from a perfect person,' he wrote on his blog in January, 'but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.' The Sandman's cancellation came a few weeks after the allegations against Gaiman were the subject of a New York Magazine story. In addition to the trailer, Netflix released the first images from Season 2, which you can see below. Are you planning to watch Season 2? Hit the comments, and let us know! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
Yahoo
23-03-2025
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Charlotte Church addresses the media frenzy over her turning 16: ‘The tabloids were always right there'
Charlotte Church has reflected on the media frenzy surrounding her when she turned 16. The Welsh musician, who rose to fame as a classical singer aged 12 and went on to sell 10 million records, was subject to heightened attention from the tabloid press as a teenager. Radio DJ Chris Moyles publicly offered to take her virginity when she turned 16, the age of consent, and when Church fell pregnant with her ex-partner rugby player Gavin Henson at 21, the media had reported her pregnancy before she was able to tell her family the news. Speaking in a new interview with The Observer, Church said that her character was 'taken from me, and made into something salacious, or something to be ridiculed'. 'I've been made into this caricature: sexualised, patronised, ridiculed,' she said. Church gave an example of her appearance on Question Time in 2015, explaining: 'I suggested, as was being presented in research at the time, that climate change and drought played a role in war breaking out in Syria.' 'When I said it, it was all over the papers: 'Voice of an Angel, Brain of Angel Delight: Charlotte Church blames climate change for jihadis.'' Church believes that the tabloid media tried to make her a 'figure of ridicule who was thick, and a tart, and a drunk'. She continued: 'Now don't get me wrong, I got myself into certain…Well did I, actually? I mean, I had sex. I went clubbing with friends. Only the tabloids were always right there, poised to orchestrate any sort of downfall.' In 2021, Church detailed the effects in evidence to the Leveson inquiry, a public inquiry into the practices and ethics of the British press following the phone hacking scandal. 'I started to understand deeply what the experience me and my family had at the hands of the press really was,' Church told the paper. 'How dramatic and painful and shaming and ugly it was for us all. It really politicised me, seeing the insidious relations between police, press and government.' In 2023, Church opened her nature retreat centre in Wales, called The Dreaming, which offers respite for guests – but it immediately became a sanctuary for her to escape. 'Part of all this for me has been having the time to cocoon and to heal my wounds inflicted in that exposure,' she said. 'I was made such tabloid fodder, for such long periods of time, lots of people just saw me as a celebrity.' 'A piss-head celebrity, really. It was a time with lots of misogyny flying about, especially towards working-class women, or women who were outspoken.' Speaking to The Independent in 2022 about opening her retreat centre, she said she wanted to do her bit in helping 'save humanity and help us live more consciously and more fulfillingly with the natural world'. Rhydoldog House, the former home of designer Laura Ashley, has 49 acres of woodland and grounds. She said that her goal is to help 'people to relax, to slow down, to face themselves, to find beauty and nature, and to be loving'. 'All of the practices of capitalism are deepening our unhappiness, and our inability to live with ourselves,' she said. 'This constant entertainment, this constant distraction, means that we can't be connected.'
The Independent
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
As the world went mad over Trump, I did the sanest thing I could – took my golden retriever for a doggy sound bath
Look, I know how this sounds. You might be wondering if the poor woman is quite well, or whether someone should put in a call to NHS 111. However, this being a week in which we have Trump's crackers AI video and his Oval Office blowout, I would argue that mine is the only sane response. (I suggested to my colleague John Rentoul that at some point in the news we all reach the stage of doggy sound baths. 'I'm not sure,' he said thoughtfully, 'although I have taken my son's dog to the groomers.') This came about from my divine old neighbour Rosie, a vet whom I would quite happily follow into a fire. When she messaged about taking her jug (Jack Russell-pug cross, to me and you), Louis, to such an event at a pet shop in Battersea, I thought it the most dementedly camp thing I'd heard of in quite some time and immediately booked in my five-year-old golden retriever, Sybil, too. I do enjoy a sound bath. They're very popular with the sobriety brigade, so I've been to quite a few. Charlotte Church has trained as a practitioner for her Welsh retreat, The Dreaming. Alison Hammond couldn't quite hold it together when Church did one on This Morning, and yes, on paper, they are absolute woo. Vibrations to heal your body and mind through music? Hmmm. But music is healing – just ask anyone in a choir. And you can't argue with the execution. A sound bath has all the best bits of yoga – lying on a mat under a blanket – with none of the exercise: just a lovely lie-down that eases anxious feelings while someone plays gentle instruments at you. There's a huge one over in west Wimbledon filled with doughty women bringing goose-feather pillows, who need to be gently turned over when they start snoring. Sybil and Louis are both rescues and, as neighbours, spent a lot of time shouting at each other through the fence, going, 'Who? Who's there!' like a pair of deaf colonels. Rosie and I have worked hard to help them each become balanced, happy pets and they get on well when they can see each other. We weren't worried about them being in a room with six other dogs. A couple who liked sound baths had brought their little cockapoo. Two friends had come for a birthday treat with a panting pomeranian who looked like one of Studio Ghibli's soot sprites. There was another pom, named Gucci, whose owner said, rather shamefacedly: 'She came with the name – unfortunately, she suits it.' A lady and her cockapoo had travelled from Fulham (imagine there not being doggy sound baths in Fulham! West London is missing a trick from indulgent dog owners). But once the initial giggles had receded, it was rather lovely. Making sure your dog is happy and comfortable means that any residual tension is one step removed. You focus on your dog's wellbeing. I also focused on Rosie's wellbeing by moving my mat further towards the wall to stop Sybil insistently thumping her with her paw to get her to stroke her ears. My mind continued racing, as it always does, but the sound from the crystal bowls made me feel gloriously heavy: that distant feeling you get when coming round from a general anaesthetic. My thoughts whirled around until they became abstracts rather than pressing concerns. Sybil, who has never knowingly had a thought, clacked her chops agreeably. There was a period in the autumn when I would live blog Strictly Come Dancing on Saturdays, and do the same for missile threats between Israel and Iran on a Tuesday. Whatever you do for work, the disconnection is significant if you engage with social media and 24-hour news, especially now when Terry Pratchett's Discworld curse, 'May you live in interesting times', appears to have cursed us all for several years. There is the concern that you might rapidly become the embodiment of a headline from the US satirical site Reductress: ''Joy Is an Act of Resistance!' Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance'. An element of fiddling – or crystal bowling? Spooning your dog, certainly – while Rome burns. But goodness, as well as action, we need fun. We need silliness. Not in a bread-and-circuses way but in a 'remember why we're living' way. All of this novelty wellness stuff, whether piglet yoga or baby raves, seems faintly deranged until you do it. Spending time with a loved one in a different way is wonderful. My husband would rather die than be within 500 yards of a crystal bowl, but Sybil took it in her stride, spreading out like a sheepskin Ikea rug while keeping one part of her glued to me at all times. The dogs were fascinated and soothed by the sound. Even the panting soot sprite calmed down eventually. By the end, Louis was sitting at the front behind the crystal bowls, soaking up thanks as though he had been the one playing the music, and Sybil was curled up on my feet. There is enough baffling stupidity occurring in politics. Remembering good, honest silliness is a joy that helps to anchor us in what it is to be human – and to be more dog.
