NEW EPIC TV SERIES SALE ON 17TH CENTURY PIRATE MURAT REIS FROM NORTH AFRICA

  SALE EPIC TV SERIES  

ON 17TH CENTURY PIRATE MURAT REIS

As Deadline reports, an English language series, a co-production between Iceland and Sweden SALE will be presented at MipCom. Set in 1627, Salé will follow an Icelandic mother and daughter captured by Barbary privateers and sold into slavery in Morocco. Separated in the markets of Salé, they must forge new identities to survive, one clinging to her Christian faith and past, the other embracing Islam and a dangerous new world. Their fates become entangled with Jan Janszoon’s as his pirate empire faces threats from rivals and his own family. Frank Lammers will play Jan, also known as Murat Reis, a real-life Dutch sea captain who converted to Islam and became one of the most powerful pirate admirals in the North African city of Salé! Two 15 million euro seasons are planned. 

FIRST LOOK AT BRENDA BLETHYN AND JESSICA REYNOLDS IN CHANNEL 4 REBOOT OF THEIR CLASSIC SERIES WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE

    WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE  

FIRST LOOK AT BRENDA BLETHYN IN CHANNEL 4 LATEST CLASSIC TV SERIES REBOOT

Channel 4 has sent us the first image at Brenda Blethyn as the lead in the reboot of A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE  based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel with Jessica Reynolds playing the younger version. Story follows the tale of an impoverished, ambitious maid Emma Harte in Yorkshirewho takes a dizzying climb to become the world’s richest woman, gazing down on hersprawling empire from a luxury New York penthouse. Emmett J Scanlan will star as Adam Fairley, Lydia Leonard as Olivia Wainwright, Leanne Best as Adele Fairley, Ewan Horrocks as Edwin Fairley, Harry Cadby as Gerald Fairley, Will Mellor as Jack Harte, Lenny Rush as Frank Harte, Niall Wright as Mac, Robert Wilfort as Murgatroyd, Toby Regbo as Jim Fairley, Hiftu Quasem as Priya Chandra, Sophie Bould as Elizabeth Harte and Georgina Sadler as Polly.

SEE ALEXANDER SKARSGARD HAVING SOME KINKY FUN WITH HARRY MELLING IN PILLION MOVIE TRAILER

   KINKY ROMANCE PILLION   

ALEXANDER SKARSGARD SEDUCING HARRY MELLING IN A NAUGHTY MOVIE TRAILER

Pillion is out soon in cinemas 

Sounds hot, right? Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling lead fun and filthy romance with heart PILLION which follows Colin (Melling), a weedy wallflower letting life pass him by. That is until Ray (Skarsgård), the impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club, takes him on as his submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life,introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way. But as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another? See the trailer below for the movie that is out soon in theatres. Although it reportedly has tons of full frontal nudity and even massive orgies, the film is said to be delightfully warm and positive.

 

CHARLIE COX AND HALEY BENNETT TO LEAD SF MOVIE SYNTHETIC AS A RETIRED SOLDIER AND AN ANDROID

    SYNTHETIC SF MOVIE   

CHARLIE COX & HALEY BENNETT TO STAR

Your sf movie for today is a science fiction love story that will be the directorial debut of Oliver Ridge. SYNTHETIC will star Charlie Cox and Haley Bennett in the lead roles. The shooting has already finished for this film set in the near future, where a retired soldier’s isolated existence is shattered when a runaway female android seeks refuge on his farm. Lana Parrilla, Barkhad Abdi, Lovie Simone, Spenser Granese, and Jonathan Silverman will all also star.

PRIME VIDEO TO STREAM KEVIN COSTNER'S THE GRAY HOUSE 19TH CENTURY CIVIL WAR FEMALE SPIES TV DRAMA

   FIRST THE GRAY HOUSE   

COSTUME TV DRAMA POSTER IS HERE

Almost two years ago I told you about this one, but Kevin Costner has now released first poster for his six episode historical series THE GRAY HOUSE that tells the hidden history tale of four Southern women

The Gray House will arrive next year

 — a Virginia socialite and her mother, a formerly enslaved Black woman and a high-end prostitute — who served as key espionage agents for the Union. The foursome are credited as unsung heroes who helped end the nation’s brutal cleavage in 1865. They operated deep inside the corridors of Confederate power and transformed an underground railroad into an effective underground spy network, risking life and liberty. Mary-Louise Parker, Amethyst Davis, Daisy Head and Ben Vereen lead the cast. Costner and Morgan Freeman are producing. It has also been revealed now that the series will stream for the audience in USA over on Prime Video sometime early next year. The soundtrack of the series will feature new songs from Shania Twain and Jon Bon Jovi. Our dear Colin Morgan and Sam Trammell will also star.

SEE FIRST IMAGE FROM BBC'S THE ROOM IN THE TOWER THIS YEAR'S A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS WITH TOBIAS MENZIES, JOANNA LUMLEY, POLLY WALKER

   THE ROOM IN THE TOWER  

FIRST FESTIVE DRAMA  IMAGE WITH JOANNA LUMLEY AND TOBIAS MENZIES

BBC's annual festive A Ghost Story for Christmas series TV movie from Mark Gattis will this year be THE ROOM IN THE TOWER and will see Tobias Menzies playing Roger Winstanley, who has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: An invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded ‘room in the tower’ becomes all too real. Joanna Lumley and Polly Walker also star.

MADS MIKKELSEN AND DIANE KRUGER TO PLAY A STRANDED ASTRONAUT AND HIS AI COMPANION IN AMI SF SURVIVAL MOVIE THRILLER

   SF MOVIE THRILLER AMI   

CASTS MADS MIKKELSEN AND DIANE KRUGER

Currently shooting over in Spain is science fiction survival thriller movie AMI directed by Fernando Szurman. The story focuses on an astronaut (Mads Mikkelsen) who crash-lands on an uncharted planet after a catastrophic accident, with only his Quantum AI companion Ami (Diane Kruger) left to aid in his escape. As he navigates an alien landscape and a battle for survival, he is forced to confront the fragility of memory, the isolation of space, and the resilience of the human spirit.

ELEANOR TOMLINSON, MATTHEW LEWIS, CALLUM WOODHOUSE TO LEAD NEW CHANNEL 5 MYSTERY SERIES THE FAMILY SECRET

   THE FAMILY SECRET  

MATTHEW LEWIS, ELEANOR TOMLINSON TO LEAD CHANNEL 5 MINI TV SERIES

Channel 5 has announced cast for new four part mystery series THE FAMILY SECRET that asks: what if your past isn’t what you think it is? Eleanor Tomlinson stars as Amanda Blakefield, whose life is a happy one with her husband, Jimmy (Matthew Lewis), and their son Luke. Amanda has her world shattered after she is left an enormous inheritance by a man she has neither met nor heard of before. Her life starts to disintegrate as she becomes embroiled in the world of The Worrall Family. The patriarch Martin Worrall (Denis Lawson), is head of a family which is bound in past secrets. As Amanda’s story leads her further and further into the Northumbrian countryside, she begins to unravel the past. And all of their lives are turned upside down. Rebecca Front stars as Martin’s wife Fiona, with Callum Woodhouse as his son Anthony, Stephen Tompkinson as farm worker Boots Maddison, Paula Wilcox as Amanda’s mother Linda, Danielle Walters as Amanda’s best friend Sandy, and Nina Wadia as solicitor Laura.

SEE FIRST IMAGE WITH JAKOB OFTEBRO FROM NEW NETFLIX POLICE SERIES THE CASE

   FIRST THE CASE  

IMAGE FROM NEW NETFLIX SERIES

Continuing our spotlight on new series from international markets, after Sweden and Baltics we are back to Sweden again with first image from THE CASE five part series which will stream next year on Netflix. Our dear Jakob Oftebro plays clean-cut lead investigator Thomas Berg who hunts a serial killer targeting his fellow police officers. In a desperate move, Thomas turns to his estranged father, Alfred (Peter Andersson), a once-respected but now out-of-favor ex-detective. They must put aside their difficult history to have any chance of catching one of Sweden’s most notorious killers.

VISIT 19TH CENTURY BALTICS IN NEW DETECTIVE VON FOCK HISTORICAL CRIME TV DRAMA

   DETECTIVE VON FOCK  

NEW BALTIC PERIOD SET TV SERIES 

It is a six episode period set drama

Staying in Europe to present you with another non English period set TV series after our visit yesterday to Sweden and To Cook a Bear, we are today in the Baltics with DETECTIVE VON FOCK six episode historical crime drama inspired by Ain Kütt’s novels with the story set in early 19th century Estonia, a time when Baltic Germans dominated high society. Beside the Baltic national broadcasters ERR, LTV and LRT, where it already aired last spring, if I got it correctly the series will air on ZDF in Germany as well. You can check out a rather stylish trailer for the series below the post as well with English 

Gorgeous Priit Pius takes the lead role

subtitles.

 

 THE STORY OF THIS NEW PERIOD SET SERIES FOLLOWS 

 shy young nobleman Paul von Fock (played by rather dashing blond actor Priit Pius) as he unexpectedly emerges as a sharp witted detective, solving crimes while navigating matters of inheritance and love. Newly appointed court assessor Paul von Fock, heir to Sagadi Manor, navigates a web of murders, missing fortunes, and identity puzzles with the aid of the mysterious Maria von Nottbeck, who he helps unmask in a shocking finale.