FIRST TEASER WITH TOBY REGBO, BEN HARDY AND JOANNA SCANLAN IN 1860S SET TV SERIES THE CADBURYS ON THE FOUNDERS OF THE FAMOUS CHOCOLATE EMPIRE

     THE CADBURYS    

1ST TOBY REGBO PERIOD SET DRAMA TEASER

And yes, it is about the chocolate empire! New U&Original period set drama THE CADBURYS will be a six episode warm hearted family drama following the visionary Cadbury family, the underdogs of the cocoa world, on their journey towards creating the world famous Cadbury’s chocolate bar and we have the first teaser from this lovely new series for you. The series will air next year on U and will also stream on BritBox for the viewers in North America. See the lovely teaser below the post.

  WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE SERIES? 

In 1860s Birmingham, when chocolate as we know it doesn’t yet exist, two very different brothers, Richard (Toby Regbo) and George Cadbury (Harry Gilby), find themselves in charge of their family’s failing cocoa business. Together, they have the radical genius and burning ambition to turn Cadbury into one of the world’s most beloved confectioners – if they can only learn to trust and rely on each other. Their sister Maria (Jessica Barden) is navigating her own role within the family and the business, but things become even more complicated when she falls in love with Cadbury’s biggest rival, Francis Fry (Ben Hardy) and is forced to question where her true loyaltiesreally lie. Infused with historical delights and magical invention, The Cadburys is about how we build, break and rebuild the bonds of family - and how the sweetest things in life are rarely simple. Pearce Quigley stars as their father, John Cadbury. Poppy Gilbert as Richard's eventual wife, Elizabeth Adlington with Joanna Scanlan as her mother, Dorothy Adlington. Mathew Baynton will appear as fellow British chocolatier Joseph Rowntree.

 

MGM+ ORDERS AMERICAN HEIRESS 19TH CENTURY SET SERIES BASED ON DAISY GOODWIN'S BOOK THE LAST DUCHESS

    AMERICAN HEIRESS  

MGM + ORDERS NEW PERIOD SET SERIES

MGM + has ordered a TV series adaptation of Daisy Goodwin's AMERICAN HEIRESS aka The Last Duchess with Julianna Margulies in the cast. In 1893, beautiful and vivacious Cora Cash is a ‘dollar princess’

Daisy Goodwin also wrote Victoria series

reluctantly brought to England by her mother the formidable Mrs. Cash (Margulies) in search of the ‘one thing she can’t buy at home, a title.’ Cora thinks she is in love with Teddy, an American artist, but when she falls off her horse in a hunting accident and wakes up in Lulworth Castle, the seat of the 12th Duke of Wareham, all her certainties are challenged. Cora wants above all to do the right thing, but in the morally ambiguous world of the ‘naughty nineties’ England where the first rule is never to comment on a likeness when visiting the nursery, she struggles to know what path to follow. Her mother Isabella meets her match in the Double Duchess, a woman who goes through dukedoms like kid gloves. Will Cora find a place in this world of intrigue where everyone knows the rules except her – will she choose the Old World or the New?

NETFLIX UNVEILS FIRST IMAGES AND STREAMING DATE FOR THEIR AGE OF INNOCENCE 19TH CENTURY SET TV SERIES ADAPTATION

   AGE OF INNOCENCE  

TV SERIES TO START NEXT FEBRUARY

Sometime last year I told you that Netflix was preparing a new TV series adaptation of AGE OF INNOCENCE and today the streamer has announced that it will stream February 18th next year and we have a slate of new images from the show. Camila Morrone stars as Ellen Olenska, Kristine Froseth as May Welland, Ben Radcliffe as Newland Archer and Margo Martindale as Mrs. Manson-Mingott in the series of forbidden love in 19th century New York a passionate and heart-rending love triangle exploring themes of freedom, duty, identity and love in all its forms. The cast will also include Fiona Glascott as May’s mother; Belinda Bromilow as Newland’s mother; and Emma Shipp as Newland’s ummarried sister. The long list of supporting actors includes our dear Anna Madeley from All Creatures Great and Small and Will Tudor. This fresh take is true to Wharton’s novel but will speak to a new generation as we traverse the ballrooms and bedrooms of these young people, asking the question what is love — and what is lust? And should we ultimately be driven by our heads or by our hearts?

  WHAT IS THE STORY?

In the 1870s, New York City, Newland Archer, a gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City’s wealthiest families, is overjoyed by his engagement to beautiful but sheltered May Welland. However, when May’s cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives, Newland begins to question his choice of bride, as Ellen, who is in the middle of a scandalous divorce, challenges the status quo of New York’s upper society, while May represents the traditional values of Old New York.

JONATHAN BAILEY AND BILL NIGHTY TO FALL IN LOVE IN INSOMNIAC CITY TRUE STORY FILM, EMILY WATSON TO NURTURE A BABY GORILLA IN JOHN DANIEL POST WW1 MOVIE

   INSOMNIAC CITY MOVIE  

WITH JONATHAN BAILEY AND BILL NIGHY 

Well, that will be an unusual big screen couple: Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy are set to lead INSOMNIAC CITY film from Dominic Cooke about writer and photographer Bill Hayes and celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks. It follows Hayes as he arrives in New York City from San Francisco in the wake of a devastating loss. As he begins to rebuild his life, he falls unexpectedly in love with both the city and Oliver Sacks, whose writing and groundbreaking work in neurology made him one of the most distinctive voices in modern medicine.

 

  EMILY WATSON TO LEAD JOHN DANIEL

Also coming from Dominic Cooke is true story drama JOHN DANIEL that will star Emily Watson as Alyce Cunningham, a fiercely independent English woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a baby gorilla in the aftermath of the First World War. In 1918, the Cotswolds village of Uley is still raw from the losses of WWI, and Alyce Cunningham has built a solitary life behind a wall of wit and stoicism. That changes when her reckless nephew impulsively rescues a baby gorilla from the window of a London department store and, ignoring her protests, leaves her no option but to take him in. 

 

HEATED RIVALRY SERIES SHOOTING THIRD SEASON BACK TO BACK WITH THE SECOND AND GETTING A CHRISTMAS MOVIE SPECIAL?

    HEATED RIVALRY   

SETS 3RD SEASON & A CHRISTMAS MOVIE

While the first season of hit TV series HEATED RIVALRY is currently scoring millions released in cinemas as well, Deadline reports that together

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are back in season 2

 with the second season the third is also shooting! The second season will see Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams return as rival hockey players in love Illya and Shane. As you know, all of the books in the series feature a different hockey player and his sweet secret gay lover.

A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AS WELL?   

There will also be a Christmas movie to be released next December with book one characters Scott Hunter (François Arnaud) and Kip (Robbie

Francois Arnaud and Robie G.K. will lead the festive movie

 G.K.) in the focus as it will probably be based on Rachel Reid's festive story Merry Christmas, Scott and Kip! which depicts the series most popular duo’s first Christmas together. 

 

A NEW COUPLE IN SECOND SEASON

The second season will be based on Book 6, The Long Game, which continues Illya and Shane's story, while also introducing a new couple from

Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie join the second season

 Role Model book, Harris Drover and Troy Barrett, played by Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie. Troy Barrett is a hockey player on Ilya Rozanov’s team with a history of bullying while Harris Drover is the team’s cheerful social media manager.

BBC ORDERS THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER PERIOD SET TV SERIES BUILDING UPON JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION

  THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER  

BBC ANNOUNCES NEW COSTUME SERIES

It will be a ten part costume series

After The Other Bennet Sister, which is getting a three part Christmas special this December, BBC has announced work on a 10 part series THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER that will tell the story of Elizabeth Elliot, the overlooked eldest daughter from Jane Austen's Persuasion! Sarah Quintrell is adapting from author Janice Hadlow’s forthcoming novel of the same name. Persuasion focuses on Anne Elliot, whose family moves to Bath to reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. The new series will build on the approach established by The Other Bennet Sister, placing Elizabeth Elliot, a character confined to the margins, at the heart of her own story. The series will stream on BritBox for viewers in North America.

NEW BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: HEARTSTRING DUET DARK ROMANTASY HORROR FROM LIV ZANDER AND AM I THE WAVE BASED ON SAY HER NAME FROM FRANCISCO GOLDMAN

    NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS   

HEARTSTRING DUET MADE INTO A FILM

Two new upcoming book adaptations for you today, starting with dark romantasy horror HEARTSTRING DUET series which consists

The book was self-published in April

 of two books Crown Me Dead and Crown Me Yours and which will get a movie treatment at Sony Pictures. Written by Liv Zander it is set in a kingdom cursed by a deadly plague, where Elara, the daughter of gravediggers, tends to the dead alongside what remains of her family. When her brother falls ill, a mysterious palace steward offers her a bargain that could save his life: seduce the reclusive king and make him fall in love with her, breaking the curse by dying at his hand. But as Elara uncovers the truth behind the curse, she must decide whether to become a willing sacrifice or fight for her own survival.It has been translated into 14 languages so far.

  

SAY HER NAME FEATURE ADAPTATION

Also getting a big screen movie treatment is Francisco Goldman's Say Her Name book based on his own life which will be titled as AM I THE WAVE? in movie take. Alejandra Márquez Abella is directing with Manuel García-Rulfo and Renata Vaca in the lead roles. It follows Francisco, an American novelist splitting his time between New York and Mexico, and Aura, a fellow writer and force of nature fighting to establish herself on her own terms. Their love story is passionate, funny, intellectual, and deeply alive, until a single, tragic wave on a beach in Oaxaca changes everything. 

 

 

MEGHANN FAHY AND ROSE BYRNE HIDE A SECRET IN THE GOOD DAUGHTER THRILLER TV SERIES WHICH STARTS THIS WEEK

    THE GOOD DAUGHTER   

 NEW TV SERIES STARTS THIS WEEK

The series starts this Thursday

The upcoming week ahead of us will be the week richest with premieres in the month of November. Beside the second batch of the second season episodes of Rivals at Disney and the premiere of the third season of epic series Rings of Power at Prime Video on Wednesday November 11th, the day after that, on Thursday we can expect not just the final season of The Empress historical series at Netflix but also the start of the new six episode thriller THE GOOD DAUGHTER which will air on Peacock and will also stream on Stan in Australia. You can check out the trailer below the post and tell us what you think. Will you be watching and streaming?

  

BASED ON THE NOVEL

by Karin Slaughter, the drama centers on sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne), who have spent the last 20 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte, a lawyer like her father, is the first witness on the scene. As the case unfolds and twists through painful memories and buried secrets, what emerges is not just a story of survival, but of enduring ties between a father, his daughters and the complex bond between sisters. Brendan Gleeson, Jake McDorman and Olivia Williams also star.

 

EMILE ZOLA'S CLASSIC NOVEL NANA TO BE TURNED INTO A 19TH CENTURY SET MOVIE DRAMA

    ZOLA'S NANA   

TO BE TURNED INTO A MOVIE DRAMA

Olivier Dahan will direct the movie

Under the French Greek co-production, and with the support of France Télévision and Canal+, Emile Zola's classic novel NANA will be turned into a movie by director Olivier Dahan known for La Vie en Rose. The book tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. She grows up in the slums of Paris and then has a brief career as an untalented actress before finding success as a courtesan. Although vulgar and ignorant, she has a destructive sexuality that attracts many rich and powerful men. Cruelly contemptuous of her lovers’ emotions, Nana wastes their fortunes, driving many of them to ruin and even suicide.

DANIELE STEEL'S 200TH BOOK MANHATTAN SET THE WHITTIERS TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

   THE WHITTIERS TV SERIES  

BASED ON DANIELE STEEL'S BOOK

It was her 200th book and Daniele Steel's book THE WHITTIERS will now be turned into a TV series by Cottage Industry Entertainment. It is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, home and being true to yourself. Connie and Preston Whittier raised their six children in a 

The book will become a TV series

once-grand Manhattan mansion. With the kids now grown-up, the family home remains somewhere they all love to return to. But on Connie and Preston’s annual skiing holiday in Europe, an avalanche hits their resort, resulting in unspeakable tragedy. Struggling to process their loss, each member of the Whittier family must also face their own personal struggles. Lyle is successful, but has an unhappy marriage, and Gloria is a genius on Wall Street but deeply lonely. Twins Caroline and Charlie work all hours on their growing fashion brand, but have no time to enjoy life. Benjie has personal challenges and requires additional support, and rebellious Annabelle has fallen in with a bad crowd. With the future of the family, and their home, in jeopardy, the siblings must come together to support one another, and each one must learn the importance of being true to oneself.