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HBO Releases The Nevers Trailer HBO has released the first trailer for its upcoming victorian superhero drama series, The Nevers. The first six-episode season of the series will debut on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max in April. According to the synopsis, "In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the 'Touched': people – mostly women – who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities - some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They...

'The Dig' Review: Why the Treasure Hunt Drama Should Be on Your Watch List Netflix welcomed "The Dig" on its catalog of films, and it quickly became a big hit among fans and critics. The Simon Stone-directed film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston. It tells the story of a group of excavators and what happened to them during the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. The treasure hunt drama features Carey Mulligan (Edith Pretty), Ralph Fiennes (Basil Brown), Lily James (Peggy Piggott), Johnny Flynn (Rory Lomax), Ben Chaplin (Stuart Piggott), Ken Stott (Charles Phillips), Archi...

READ MORE Is The Dig a true story? According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston. While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds. In July 1937, Edith wrote to local historians who eventually put her in touch with Ipswich Museum, which in...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story Behind Netflix's 'The Dig' How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesn't tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but The Dig has turned out to be exactly that. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn feature in the film based on John Preston's 2007 novel, also called T...

In 1938, excavator Basil Brown broke ground at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, investigating a series of mounds on the property of landowner Edith Pretty. There, he makes an overwhelming discovery: the mounds mark the burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king.  Director Simon Stone brings the narrative to life in “The Dig,” a recent Netflix film based on both the historical incident and John Preston’s novel of the same name. For a production about a significant discovery, it handles themes of exploration and the importance of history lightly, leaving everything at face v...