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ZEE5 has so far come up with a bunch of original web series, and out of all, this one certainly looks the most promising. The makers have assembled some fine actors here and each one fits their part perfectly.

Titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, the series will become an anthology. Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy will develop the second season under a multi-year overall television deal they have signed with Netflix.

Directed by Aruna Raje and produced by Priyanka Chopra, Firebrand does not hide what it sets out to be. In a day and age when feminism as a movement and feminist as an adjective are treated as much-abused terms, the film closely deals with issues women suffer from - child marriage, rape and abuse.

Almost 20 years into his career, Arjun Rampal is playing a pilot in ZEE5 web series The Final Call. Based on Priya Kumar’s novel I Will Go With You, The Final Call starts streaming from February 22.

The Highwaymen, starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, is directed by John Lee Hancock. Based on true events, the film starts streaming on Netflix from March 29.

Amazon Prime Video on Thursday announced that it has given a go ahead for the second season of Mirzapur. The gangster drama starred Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Divyendu Sharma, Rasika Dugal, Shriya Pilgaonkar and Shweta Tripathi.

The second trailer for Triple Frontier is not too different from the first one. It does not reveal much of the plot beyond the bare-bones. The film looks backed up by a decent budget -- a feature of some of Netflix's recent, higher-end films and the effects do look studio-calibre.

The Man in the High Castle's fourth season is expected to premiere later this year on Amazon Prime Video. Based on Philip K. Dick's novel of the same name, the series is set in an alternate universe where the Axis Powers won World War II and divided the United States into the Greater Nazi Reich.

The first season of Sacred Games was directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. The second season, however, is being co-directed by Kashyap and Masaan director Neeraj Ghaywan while Motwane still serves as showrunner.

Netflix has now officially bid adieu to Jessica Jones and The Punisher. The streaming service already cancelled Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevil in 2018.

Apart from Arjun Rampal, The Final Call stars a host of familiar faces, including the likes of Javed Jaffrey, Neeraj Kabi, Sakshi Tanwar, Pradeep Rawat, among others. It will start streaming on ZEE5 from February 22.

The show's main plotline will revolve around Radhe (a classical musician) and Tamanna (a free-spirited pop star) who come together to discover love and music, and in the course of this discovery, find themselves.

Emraan Hashmi, who recently starred in the film Why Cheat India, is making his web series debut with The Bard of Blood. The series is being produced jointly by Netflix and Shah Rukh Khan's production banner Red Chillies Entertainment.

A series based on Tom Hiddleston's Marvel character, Loki, has found a writer. Apart from writing the series, which will premiere on Disney's upcoming streaming video service, Disney+, Michael Waldron will also serve as the show creator and executive producer.

Amazon's Lord of the Rings series is said to be the most expensive web series ever with a budget of an incredible 250 million dollars, which is about the same as some of today's bigger-budgeted films. The series will apparently have five seasons.

Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain 2 first impression: Among the three leads, it is Gurdeep Kohli who aces her part. Her controlled performance makes her character relatable and likeable.

In today's superhero surfeit, a TV show or a movie has to be exceptional to distinguish itself. Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, if it is fair to judge it by its first episode, is just above average and seems hackneyed at that.

Reliance Entertainment, which has produced films like Golmaal Again, Simmba and Super 30, has acquired the rights of Vineet Bajpai's bestselling Harappa Trilogy to adapt into major motion-pictures or a multi-season original web-series.

ZEE5 announced 72 new original shows on the occasion of its first anniversary on February 14. The event was attended by Arjun Rampal, S Sreesanth, Pooja Bhatt, Shakti Kapoor, Saqib Saleem, Mahesh Bhatt and Goldie Behl among others.

The Amazon series Good Omens also features David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Frances McDormand, Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Miranda Richardson and Michael McKean.

Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain 2 actor Ronit Roy on the complexities of love, value of content in today’s time and being the romance king at the age of 53.

If The Umbrella Academy sounds weird to you and you are still excited about it, there is more where that came from. On Netflix, here are some of the strange, offbeat, and eccentric TV shows and movies you can watch.

The nine episodes series, Made In Heaven, produced by Excel Media & Entertainment and Tiger Baby, will stream on Amazon Prime from March 8. It deals with modern aspirations and the ever-changing value systems of modern Indians.