Amazon Prime is Resurrecting an Australian Mystery in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’

-

Amazon Prime is Resurrecting an Australian Mystery in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’

This May, Amazon Prime, and an all-star cast are headed to the Australian bush to tell one of the most famous stories in Australian history, Picnic at Hanging Rock. The six-part miniseries depicts the disappearance of three girls and their schoolteacher in the remote Australian wilderness.
Based on the eponymous 1967 novel of the same name, Picnic at Hanging Rock has long been a celebrated part of Australian culture. The book is presented as a true crime tale that begins 1900. While on a picnic a short distance from their remote boarding school, three young girls, and their math teacher took a hike around Hanging Rock. They were never seen again.
The miniseries follows the subsequent search for the young girls and the social and political fallout that occurs in the wake of the event.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hulu Saves Another Modern Classic TV Series

-
Image
Hulu Saves Another Modern Classic TV Series  PINTEREST.COM Today, streaming giant Hulu announced that it had acquired one of the most popular series of the last decade, the Texas-based football soap opera  Friday Night Lights . It’s another smart move (and another great series) for Hulu’s service, which continues it’s slow but steady growth. While Netflix continues to spend billions on seemingly dozens of new series, Hulu has contended itself dividing its budget between standout original programming ( The Handmaid’s Tale ,  Casual ,  The Path ) and snapping up series that have dropped off of Netflix’s ever-shrinking library.  Friday Night Lights  represents the latest release in Hulu’s aftermarket expansion. Hulu has made a regular habit of swooping in and buying the streaming rights to beloved series from recent years. They’ve already added  Parks and Recreation ,  30 Rock ,  How I Met Your Mother , and...
Read more
-
Image
Tina Fey Introduces Gilda Radner Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival Last night in New York City at the kickoff event for the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival, an audience screened the first documentary from filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito,  Love, Gilda , at the Beacon Theatre. The movie chronicled the career of beloved comedian Gilda Radner, focusing mainly on her years at  Saturday Night Live . Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal welcomed guests to the premiere screening, but  it was Tina Fey  who introduced the documentary, though she was not interviewed for the film. “I can personally attest, and I feel comfortable speaking for Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel Dratch, when I say that seeing Gilda as a kid, she was lovely and she was so authentically herself and so regular in so many ways,” commented Fey. “She was not a piece of casting. She was who she was on the TV. We all saw that and said, ‘I want to do that.’I...
Read more

Recorded Jail Call Reveals Robert Durst’s Regret About ‘The Jinx'

-
Image
Recorded Jail Call Reveals Robert Durst’s Regret About ‘The Jinx' Even though the six-part documentary aired over three years ago on HBO,  The Jinx  is still causing problems for accused murderer Robert Durst, the son of New York City real estate mogul Seymour Durst.  Yesterday in a Los Angeles courtroom , prosecutors played a record jail call from 2015 in which Durst tells an unnamed friend that he “definitely had a problem” in regards to the damning HBO docu-series. In the final episode of the documentary, Durst mumbles to himself while still wearing a microphone, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” To many, this comment seemed to be a confession to the murders of his wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, friend Susan Berman, and neighbor Morris Black. Also, during the fifth episode of the documentary, producers revealed they had a letter Durst sent to Berman in 1999 showing his handwriting and how he misspelled Beverly Hill. The hand...
Read more