Paramount+ has premiered the first trailers for the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” spin-off series “1923” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. In the second season of 1923, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob and Cara back at Dutton Ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, and Aminah Nieves. Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton, and Jennifer Carpenter also star. “1923” returns on the Paramount+ streaming service on February 23rd 2025. The two teaser trailers can be found in the video archive.

All aboard! Season 2 of 1923 is finally here, and People has the exclusive first look! Fans of the Yellowstone prequel series will see season two follow Jacob and Cara Dutton back at Dutton ranch as a “a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business.” “With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana,” the official logline continues. “Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.” 1923 stars Harrison Ford as Jacob, an ancestor of the character Kevin Costner played in the present-day series. With wife Cara (Helen Mirren) by his side, the series follows the Duttons as they navigate the hardships of the era, including Western Expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. In addition to Ford and Mirren, season two will see the return of Brandon Sklenar, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Aminah Nieves, Julia Schlaepfer, Brian Geraghty, Timothy Dalton, Sebastian Roché, Robert Patrick, Darren Mann and Isabel May. The complete article and all first-look pictures can be found over at People.

The second update of film, tv and theatre stills features some great additions for two lesser-known and unseen projects: For the 1992 Los Angeles production of Alan Ayckborn’s “Woman in Mind”, for which we have never seen any production stills – we now have excerpts from the official theatre programme. There’s also a nice still from the 1993 Canadian series “The Hidden Room”, in which Helen guest starred in one episode. Other updates includes additions for “Cause Celebre”, various “Prime Suspect” episodes and new stills from the most recent “Golda”. Enjoy your Sunday.

Here comes another great batch of archival images for the archives, split into two updates. Updates included recently unearthed pictures of Helen Mirren at the Stratford Roundhouse, which was established in the gardens behind the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Between 1970 and 1972, actors and other theatre practitioners from across the RSC performed in a series of innovative, inventive pieces. Very little has been written about this project, which seems to have been erased from the RSC’s history. The complete research by Abigail Rokison-Woodall, titled “The Stratford Roundhouse: Stratford’s Forgotten Theatre” can be ordered over here. Other images include on-set pictures from “Blue Remembered Hills”, “Mrs. Reinhardt” and “White Nights”. The second batch of this update will be posted on Sunday.

According to Variety, Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have officially signed on to star in the Paramount+ series from Guy Ritchie and Ronan Bennett. It was previously reported that the trio were in final negotiations to join the show. The project had initially been developed with the title “The Donovans,” with plans to function as an across-the-pond spin-off of the Showtime series “Ray Donovan,” which was led by Liev Schreiber for seven seasons and a film adaptation. However, it has been reworked into a standalone series with no connections to that franchise. It was also previously reported that it was filming under the working title “The Associate,” but that is no longer the case. Production is now underway in London, with the untitled show slated to debut in 2025 on Paramount+ with Showtime. The official series description states that the show is “centered around two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal ‘fixer’ charged with protecting one of them at all costs.” Hardy will play Harry Da Souza, described as “a professional conciliator on behalf of the Harrigan family.” Brosnan will play Conrad Harrigan, “the head of a very successful Irish crime family based out of London for whom Harry works.” Mirren will play Maeve Harrigan, Conrad’s wife and the Harrigan family matriarch. “Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are masters at their craft and we are honored to have them lead the cast for Guy Richie’s new global, original series,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. “Guy, Jez Butterworth and Ronan Bennett’s creative prowess, coupled with these gifted actors, is the perfect recipe for what we believe will be the next brand defining series for Showtime on Paramount+”

On Thursday, Helen Mirren and her fellow L’Oréal Paris ambassadors attended the brand’s annual Women of Worth Celebration Gala. On the red carpet, Helen talked to “Extra” about wrapping both “The Thursday Murder Club – one of the great jobs of her career – and the second season of “1923” – for which she was more than ready and which is going to be spectacular. The interview can be watched in the video archive. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.

On we go with our most recent magazines update, featuring some great cover stories from the mid-2000s, promoting both “The Queen” and the final “Prime Suspect”. There are also articles on the releases of “The Tempest” and “The Debt”. As always, check out all updates in the list below. Enjoy your weekend.

New research by Age UK has found a third of people aged 65+ and almost a quarter of those aged 50-64 say they have been discriminated against due to their age The same study shows only a minority of pensioners have moderate or comfortable incomes, and most live on minimum incomes or in poverty. Age UK’s new report spells out the reality of population ageing in our society, and what it is to be an older person living in it. In so doing it confounds some of the outmoded myths and stereotypes that the Charity says are often holding us back from making the most both of our own later lives and of the asset that is our older population. The data-rich report, Why we want to change how we age, demonstrates how rapidly we are ageing as a society, yet Age UK points out that we frequently seem in denial of this fact, with successive governments unwilling to make the changes needed in response, preferring instead to ‘kick the can down the road’. The Charity is launching a new five-year strategy, after extensive consultation with older people and the Age UK network, among many others. Central to this strategy are ambitions around transforming public attitudes to ageing and older people; supporting older people to get the health and care they need; and tackling poverty and inequalities. The complete article can be read over here.

Ageing happens to us all but, as we get older, life can get tougher. Many will start to be treated differently, which can not only be very upsetting but also unfair. Everybody, regardless of their age, should feel included and valued and that is what Age UK is striving to achieve. This is an ambitious but truly important challenge, as things need to change and it’s in all our interests to ensure that older people are respected and treated as the individuals that they are. (Helen Mirren)

We’ve taken another deep dive into the archives. Here’s the first part of a comprehensive magazines update, starting in 1976 with a promotional interview for the Royal Court premiere of “Teeth ‘n’ Smile”. Some great covers have been replaced in better quality as well. For a complete list of updates, check out the list below.

Having a conversation with Dame Helen Mirren is a bit like having a conversation with Cicero. The Oscar-winning actor is a master of the art of digression: one minute you’re talking about fashion, the next you’re talking about Catholic convent school and before you know it, you’re on to Israel-Gaza. As we dart from one topic to another, an overriding theme emerges: cause and effect. It underlies a wider interest we both share in science; not with a capital S but rather, the science of possibility. Of consciousness. Of big ideas. And, naturally, of gags. I have known Mirren for years. We sat next to one another at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards about a decade ago, and we’ve never looked back. She is someone who can be hilariously matter of fact. “I always say, it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did, because he never got to see GPS,” she tells me. “It’s the most wonderful thing, my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable.” It’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did, because he never got to see GPS “But they’re tracking you, Helen!” I protest. “I know they are,” she replies. “I really don’t care.” At 79, Mirren is not only a national treasure but one of our most remarkably ageless actors, defying long-held expectations of a woman’s longevity on screen. In contemporary parlance, it’s like she’s ageing backwards. “I am older,” she admits, although she is “fairly healthy”. “I’m sure I’ll go all pear-shaped soon. But I’m not interested in being young. I’m interested in being exactly who I am.” Reaching this age, she says, is a privilege. “I never thought I’d be 79. I’m not full of youth, but I am life full. I much prefer that phrase… And I feel so grateful that I lived in a world without technology for quite some time. I knew a world without technology in a deep and full sense… Human connection was a very different thing back then.” Our conversation turns to what connects us: our shared heritage. Mirren’s father came to the UK from Russia as a boy during the First World War. “My dad had this weird Russian name and didn’t want us to live as outsiders in the British community, so we changed our family name when I was about seven or eight.” How Russian does she feel today? “I’d say I’m Russian from the waist down.” The complete article and podcast can be found here.