William Moseley

While we can expect a live action remake of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' to come eventually in the next few years, another version of the Hans Christian Andersen story is set to arrive later this year - and the new trailer has had people extremely divided.

'The Little Mermaid' is the new non-Disney version of the fairytale

It was supposed that this new version would perhaps be a more faithful adaptation of 19th century fairytale, but in fact it bears no similarity to the Andersen story or, indeed, the Walt Disney version. The new trailer sees a grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) reading a story of mermaids to her granddaughters, before flashing back to several decades previously where a reporter named Cam Harrison (William Moseley) sets out to discover the truth about Dr Locke's Miracle Mermaid Elixir. 

Continue reading: The Trailer For The Non-Disney Version Of 'The Little Mermaid' Has Arrived

Tonight US audiences get their first look at ‘The Royals’, E!’s new (and first ever) scripted drama, focusing on a fictional British royal family. Starring Elizabeth Hurley as the feisty matriarch Queen Helena, the series looks to be as melodramatic as ‘90210’ and as decadent as ‘Gossip Girl’. But is 'The Royals' actually worth turning over an hour of your Sunday evening to?

Elizabeth Hurley stars as Queen Helena in 'The Royals'.

At the center of the series is Elizabeth Hurley who seems to be always available when American television is in need of an upper-class British sexpot. But Hurley’s Queen Helena, or as The Los Angeles Times’ Mary McNamara describes her ‘an Ivanka Trumped-up version of Princess Diana’, seems to lack the necessary depth to make her watchable beyond the show’s first 15 minutes.

Continue reading: 'The Royals': Are The Critics Bowing Down To E!'s First Scripted Drama?