Emmy-nominated Tom Hollander (Dune: Prophecy, The Uprising, The Night Manager) has joined the Season 2 cast of AMC’s The Audacity in a recurring role. Production of Season 2 is underway in Vancouver, BC and will premiere in 2027.

Hollander will portray “Big Tim,” the powerful tech billionaire and CEO of Cupertino, whose carefully curated public persona masks his insatiable appetite for control and revenge.

From creator, writer and executive producer Jonathan Glatzer, The Audacity, set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world

Hollander joins previously announced Miriam Shor in a heavily recurring role as Randy Flemming, Jess McLeod, who’s been upped to series regular, reprising their role as Harper, and Usman Ally in a series regular role of Byron Zandani, along with the ensemble cast of Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein, Everett Blunck, Thailey Roberge and Ava Marie Telek.

The Audacity comes from Glatzer and executive producer Gina Mingacci (Killing Eve). The Audacity is an AMC Studios Production, with AMC Global Media holding worldwide rights to the series.

Hollander is repped by Anonymous Content, WME and United Agents

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead star Lauren Cohan and Jake Epstein (Degrassi: The Next Generation) are set to lead the ensemble cast of working-titled indie romantic comedy Both Sides Now.

Actor and director Eric Stoltz (Madam Secretary, Nashville) is directing from a screenplay by Hailey Lustig, founder of Three Birds Landing Productions, and composer Robbie Roth, which takes inspiration from their real lives.

The ensemble cast also features Erich Bergen (Love Story), Justin Chatwin (Shameless) and Brian Norris (The Cleaning Lady).

Both Sides Now follows a group of lifelong friends nearing 40 who return to the Jewish summer camp where they came of age to celebrate the impending wedding of Eddie (Epstein).

But when his best friend Lloyd (Bergen) invites Eddie’s first love and former camp sweetheart Erin (Cohan) to the bachelor weekend, the reunion becomes a reckoning with old relationships, unresolved love, and the question of what might have been.

Co-writers Lustig and Roth were born in the same Toronto maternity ward on either side of midnight and grew up together at summer camp and have been best friends for decades. Their friendship and shared experience of summer camp helped inspire the characters, relationships and world of the film.

The romantic comedy also features six original songs written by Roth and performed by the cast.

“We’ve been making each other laugh and sharing music and stories for as long as we can remember. Writing this film together feels wonderfully full circle,” said Lustig and Roth. “We share a history and a shorthand that made the process incredibly natural, and seeing these characters come to life, with original music woven through the story, has been thrilling.”

Stoltz said: “This script made me laugh, made me a bit nostalgic, and then caught me off guard emotionally – which is exactly what I love in a film. Hailey and Robbie have written something funny and deeply personal about friendship, first love, and the lives we choose for ourselves. Robbie’s songs are woven beautifully through that world.”

Both Sides Now is independently financed by Three Birds Landing Productions and marks the company’s debut feature film. The film is produced by Lustig, Carrie Mudd and Erin Berry, in association with Peacock Alley Entertainment.

Production began September 19 in Muskoka, Ontario, and is scheduled to wrap October 20.

Top TV talent and drama will “end up on YouTube or TikTok over time,” Sister boss Jane Featherstone has predicted.

Featherstone, whose credits include Black Doves, The Split and Chernobyl, said the funding model for premium drama on TV isn’t going anywhere for the time being, but she anticipates big changes in the medium to long term.

“Talent is like water, they will find the shortest way to the audience past all obstacles and our job is to make sure we’re on top of where audiences are,” Featherstone told the RTS London Convention. “Talent wants legitimacy and audience on main channels. I think that will change and premium will end up on YouTube or TikTok over time because great talent will jump out of mainstream organizations.”

Sister, which is run by Featherstone, Liz Murdoch and Lucinda Hicks, is keeping up with the times, Featherstone stressed, as she pointed to digital labels the company has struck deals with like After Party Studios and BBC broadcaster Amol Rajan’s new outfit.

“For us to be able to shift in this way is exciting,” said Featherstone.

She was speaking to one of the biggest talking points in the TV industry today on a panel at the RTS Convention alongside the likes of Expectation CEO Tim Hincks, whose firm makes Clarkson’s Farm.

Also looking to the future, Hincks predicted the UK TV industry’s terms of trade, which have been a financial bedrock for UK production companies for more than two decades, are “not long for this world.”

He stressed that indies will survive, adding: “There are lots of great independently minded people who have authority issues and have a burning desire to not be in a meeting for three hours where at the end of it someone says, ‘Shall we have a meeting about this?’.”

The producers were speaking at the same event as head honchos from Amazon, the BBC and Channel 4, along with talent like Jeremy Clarkson.