PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ROMAN ERA EPIC TV SERIES BRITANNIA SEASON 2 WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, ELEANOR WORTHINGTON COX, MACKENZIE CROOK

  'BRITANNIA' EPIC TV SERIES

The new season starts November 7th

2ND SEASON CHARA- CTER PHOTOS

I'm sure that most of you will agree with me that the first season definitely was not what we expected we would see when they told us we were getting a new historical series about the Roman invasion of Great Britain. We expected to see mighty legions, brave Celtic queens and warriors in chariots, but instead we got crazed mystics, psychotic generals, a couple of weed smoking Roman junkies and the only even remotely likeable character dead right after she finally became the Celtic

David Morrissey returns as evil Roman general Aulus Plautius

queen. But it still was one of Sky's most watchable series last year (not that they have a lot of them) and the second season of BRITANNIA is ready to

Eleanor Worthington Cox returns as Celtic hope Cait

launch its brand new ten episodes November 7th and today you can feast your eyes on the crazy character photos (I did tell you most of the show seemed like

Nikolaj Lie Kass is again the crazy Divis aka The Outcast

it was written on tons of weed, so thus the psychedelic photos in the character photo gallery) and a new trailer which promises more action than the first season had.

  The Story Of The Second Season
Two years after arriving in Britannia, General Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) is Romanising willing Celt tribes with the help of the new Celtic

Liana Cornel will play a character named Ania in the new season

Queen Amena (Annabel Scholey), and crushing those who try to resist. But Aulus looks to have a hidden agenda that makes him an increasing threat to

Julian Rhind Tutt is cowardly Celtic prince Phelan

the Celts’ religious leaders the Druids. The only hope for the Druids and the resisting Celts is Cait (Eleanor Worthington Cox), a young girl being

Mackenzie  Crook plays both Veran and Harka in the series

trained by outcast Divis (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) to fulfil a prophecy set to save Britannia from the Romans. But when Druid leader Veran’s brother Harka

Gershwyn Eustache returns as troubled legionary Vitus

(Mackenzie Crook plays both of them), “the dead man”, wakes, the pair begin an epic battle of wills that divides the Druids and puts the prophecy in jeopardy.

FIRST PHOTOS AND TRAILER FROM AMAZON PRIME'S EPIC TV SERIES HERNAN ON THE INFAMOUS CONQUISTADOR HERNAN CORTES!

  'HERNAN' EPIC TV SERIES ON

THE INFAMOUS CONQUISTADOR!

Oscar Jaenada plays the lead role

I almost forgot about this one, but our spies over at Costumical World have reminded us of it today! A year or so ago your trusted spy informed you that Mexican Azteca TV is preparing a television saga on HERNAN Cortes, the infamous conquistador, and now we have the first photos and a trailer for the eight part historical extravaganza which will launch in Mexico November 24th and will later on air also in History Channel Latin America and Amazon Prime around the world! This one is, of course, not to be confused with Steven Spielberg's Cortes series also at Amazon which will see Javier

The new series launches in Mexico next month

Bardem playing the man who will destroy the empire of King Montezuma II. That one will have four episodes and we are waiting to hear the rest of the casting for it.

  The Story Of The Series
Marking the 500th Anniversary of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes’ arrival in Mexico, the series is set in 1519, following the conquest of

The series is considered to be the most expensive Hispanic show ever

Mexico by Cortés and his troops, and also featuring key characters’ perspectives of this tumultuous time in Mexico and Spain’s history. The series

The series will also air on History Channel in Latin America

aims to highlight both the encounter and contrast of these two cultures as well as the human side of Cortes, a skilled diplomat and a military genius who was beloved and despised in equal measure. The story of Cortes is full of

Hernan will air on Amazon Prime in the rest of the world

fascination for an unknown land, of passion for a people he could not control, betrayal within Cortés' own family and an unexpected love for La Malinche.

Who Is In The Cast?

The most expensive Hispanic series in history is led by Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada as the conquistador. The cast also included Víctor Clavijo (Captain Cristóbal de Olid), Michel Brown (Captain Alvarado), Dagoberto

Dagoberto Gama plays king Montezuma II in the series

Gama (Moctezuma), Jorge Guerrero (Xiconténcatl), Almagro San Miguel (Captain Sandoval), Isabel Bautista (Marina / Malinche) and Aura Garrido (Doña Juana).

NEW POSTERS FOR BBC & HBO EPIC SAGA HIS DARK MATERIALS WITH JAMES MCAVOY AND NETFLIX ADVENTURE HOLIDAY IN THE WILD WITH ROB LOWE, KRISTIN DAVIS

  'HOLIDAY IN THE WILD'

SENDS KRISTIN DAVIS AND ROB LOWE AMONGST ELEPHANTS

The movie opens the festive season in two weeks

Two rather gorgeous posters for you at the end of the week, the first one is for new Netflix family adventure HOLIDAY IN THE WILD which is launching their two months long season of Holiday programmes November 1st! Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe star as a Manhattanite and a pilot who rescue an orphaned baby elephant. Far from the modern luxuries of home, Kate thrives amidst majestic animals and scenery. Her love for the new surroundings just might extend to the man who shared her journey. You can also check out the trailer below:

  'HIS DARK MATERIALS'

NEW POSTER AND TRAILER ARE IN

Meanwhile, BBC and HBO have revealed the first poster for their ambitious fantasy saga HIS DARK MATERIALS which starts November

His Dark Materials starts this November

3rd in UK and a day later in USA. The eight episode series, based on Philip Pullman novels, stars  Dafne Keen as Lyra Belacqua and James McAvoy as her uncle, Lord Asriel, who plays a senior member of the authoritarian church that Lyra fights against. 

The story is set in an alternate reality where humans are accompanied by magical animal companions called daemons. The evil Magisterium seeks to control this world and all the others connected to it  and the only way to do that is through sick procedures involving children and their sentient counterparts. It’s up to Lyra, and her

The series will have 8 episodes in the 1st season with the 2nd shooting shortly

daemon companion Pantalaimon to rescue the children. Along the way she will also have the help of armoured polar bear Iorek Byrnison who also talks. 

POLDARK'S AIDAN TURNER TO LEAD NEW EPIC TV SERIES ON LEONARDO DA VINCI! ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, NICOLE KIDMAN, WILLEM DAFOE TO LEAD NORTHMAN EPIC VIKING MOVIE

  AIDAN TURNER TO LEAD 

LEONARDO DA VINCI TV SERIES

TV and movie world have never been overly original, so why should we be surprised that another epic TV saga on famous painter LEONARDO da

Aidan Turner will take the lead role.

Vinci is in works just a few years after legendary Da Vinci's Demons. The new series will be produced by Frank Spotnitz who gave us Medici Masters of Florence and they already have the lead star: Poldark's Aidan Turner will portray Italian Renaissance genius whose many creative talents included painting, sculpture, architecture, science, mathematics and engineering, starting from when he was a young man. The new series will give life to a young Leonardo and not the old man with a beard we all are used to see. He too had a first job, he too had a master… he too had frustrations and failures. Each episode will focus on one of da Vinci’s masterpieces, inventions or projects as a means of capturing the man behind the creative genius.

  'THE NORTHMAN' VIKING SAGA

RECRUITS ALEXANDER SKARSGARD AND NICOLE KIDMAN

Speaking of things epic, this one has epic potential too: the movie news of the day is that Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman might lead a new Viking era movie THE NORTHMAN! And they won't be lonely in the

Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman already starred together

cast as director Robert Eggers is also looking to book  Anya Taylor Joy, Bill Skarsgård and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe for the movie as well. Not much is known about the plot of the movie other than it is being described as a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century.

RYAN REYNOLDS & JOHN KRASINSKI TO FIGHT IMAGINARY FRIENDS IN THE FANTASY COMEDY THEY'RE WRITING, DIRECTING AND PRODUCING!

  'IMAGINARY FRIENDS' 

TO TEAM UP JOHN KRASINSKI AND RYAN REYNOLDS

John Krasinski will write and direct as well

Well this would be the most adorable duo we've ever seen on the big screens! According to Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood superstars Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski might star together in new movie titled IMAGINARY FRIENDS which Paramount is about to grab for itself. John Krasinski will both direct and write it, while Ryan Reynolds will also produce it. 

  The Story
  A huge war was led among the major studios for this fantastical comedy in which Ryan would play a man who can see and talk to people’s imaginary friends, befriending those that have been forgotten or discarded. However, some imaginary friends, lacking

Ryan Reynolds will take the lead role

love and friendship, turn to the dark side, and it’s up to Reynolds’ character to save the world from those that become evil.

 A Huge Buzz Among Studios

The project caused a hot frenzy among the studio bosses when it was offered to them earlier this week. Ryan Reynolds already sold another high profile project earlier this month to Apple and also for a massive price, a musical comedy version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Krasinski is currently finishing A Quiet Place sequel.

KEELEY HAWES TO COPE WITH A LOSS OF HUSBAND IN DARKLY COMIC NEW MINI SERIES FINDING ALICE!

  KEELEY HAWES TO LEAD

NEW FINDING ALICE DRAMA

The shooting starts next January!

In recent years she's been in everything, from Traitors, Summer of Rockets and Durrells to Bodyguard, but you certainly won't see us complaining because we love our weekly doze of Keeley Hawes more than anything. Her latest gig will be a new thriller series over at ITV, a six part drama written especially for her FINDING ALICE

The Story focuses upon Alice’s honest, raw, blackly comic journey of grief, love and life after the death of her husband Harry. His accidental sudden death kicks up a storm of secrets and mess, debt, suspicion and criminality which Alice is forced to confront in order to survive. Harry dies after falling down the stairs when they move into their newly finished dream house. Harry designed it, so it’s weird and wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice, to go with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of 20 years is no more, and now she can’t open the garage doors. If that were her only problem… Men have a habit of hiding stuff that they don’t want to deal with, and Alice discovers that Harry was worse than most.

RUSSELL TOVEY AND BERTIE CARVEL TO LEAD NEW ITV MYSTERY THRILLER TV SERIES BECAUSE THE NIGHT

  RUSSELL TOVEY TO LEAD

BECAUSE THE NIGHT SERIES

Russell Tovey will take the lead role

He was brilliant this year in BBC's Years and Years drama, as he always is, but now our dearest Russell Tovey has another mini series set ahead of him: he will lead mysterious four part drama  BECAUSE THE NIGHT over at rival ITV. Bertie Carvel will also star in the story in which Russell Tovey plays well meaning but directionless Nathan, a man trying to escape his past. Nathan has a terrible secret he’s long prayed would stay buried and for which he’s long worked hard to make recompense. Almost a decade into his new and devoted married life, Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob (Bertie Carvel), an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions

Bertie Carvel will also star in the new series at ITV

which cleverly drive a tense and compelling narrative of psychological suspense, dread, love and possible redemption. The series is based on the novel Burial from the show's creator Neil Cross.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SPANISH EPIC TV SERIES THE PLAGUE SEASON 2 WITH SCARILY MESMERIZING NEW CHARACTER POSTERS AND TRAILER!

  'THE PLAGUE' EPIC TV SERIES

RETURNS WITH SEASON TWO!

Two years ago Spain gave us two magnificent epic TV series, Cathedral of the Sea and The Plague, and the second one is now finally getting its second

The new season starts November 15th at Movistar+

season. The new run of THE PLAGUE (La Peste) will start airing November 15th on Movistar, and if I'm not mistaken the first season aired both on BBC and Amazon, so I'm sure the new one will be distributed around the world as well set in the 16th century Seville after an outbreak of the bubonic plague. The new season will also have special airing tomorrow at this year's Mipcom in Cannes.

The New Season 
kicks off five years after the last great epidemic of plague in Spain. The plague now in the past, Seville remains the economic and cultural capital of the

The new season will visit Mipcom tomorrow at Cannes

western world, maintaining its trade monopoly with the Indies; its wealth and influence are only moving one way: Up. However, the same is true for the city’s population. As the number of people in the city and its hinterlands hits historical highs, the government is struggling to feed and provide public services for its people. Confronting huge social inequality, public discontent fuels organized crime. One mafia, the Garduña, rules the streets, taking advantage of the influx of local wealth and the inability of politicians to police the city. In the New World’s Tierra del Fuego, series protagonist Mateo (Pablo Molinero), his faith restored in humanity

The first season was expensive with 1,5 million euro budget per episode

by a community he encounters there, receives a letter from friend Valerio (Sergio Castellanos), under death threat from Seville’s new mob bosses. Once returned to Seville he tries to help Teresa (Patricia Lopez Arnais), the extraordinary feminist painter, to rescue female prostitutes enslaved in

The posters show the hand of la Garduna, Sevillian mafia! They are also adorned with symbolic elements such as pens, cards, keys or flowers. And the backgrounds are from the paintings of da Vinci, Rafael, Caravagio

Seville’s shanty slums, from the mob’s maws. Meanwhile, having helped crush a rising in Aragon, Pontecorvo, a young ambitious soldier is appointed Capitán General of Andalusia, to deal with the mob. But how far can one man turn back the tide of history?

GAL GADOT TO FIGHT THE NAZIS IN IRENE SENDLER HISTORICAL WW2 DRAMA! STRANGELY BIZARRE TRAILER FOR PERIOD SET DRAMA JUDY & PUNCH WITH MIA WASIKOWSKA, DAMON HERRIMAN

Gal Gadot will also produce the film

GAL GADOT TO LEAD

IRENE SENDLER WORLD WAR TWO MOVIE DRAMA

Two period set projects for you today, starting with Warner Bros who has hired Gal Gadot as the lead in their WWW2 movie IRENE SENDLER which she will also produce with her husband. The movie tells the harrowing story of a woman’s defiant stand against Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland and the incredible network she developed to care for and save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Following her arrest by the Gestapo during the height of the war, the drama becomes a race against time to save not only herself but the identities of the hidden thousands who’ll face certain execution.

  'JUDY & PUNCH' TRAILER

 TROUBLE BREWS IN SEASIDE

A strange, very strange, mix of comedy, drama, horror and period set thriller can be seen in the first trailer for JUDY & PUNCH which is out this November in UK, set in Seaside (nowhere near the sea), where puppeteers

The movie will hit UK cinemas next month after a run around film festivals

Judy (Mia Wasikowska) and Punch (Damon Herriman) are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob

Mirrah  Foulkes both wrote and directed the movie

rule. When small town puppeteer Punch accidentally kills his baby during a drinking binge his wife, Judy, having suffered a violent beating, teams up with a band of outcast heretics to enact revenge on Punch and the entire town of Seaside. 

GET ON BOARD A CLASSIC ADVENTURE IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR DISNEY'S 'JUNGLE CRUISE' WITH EMILY BLUNT, DWAYNE JOHNSON AND JACK WHITEHALL!

  'JUNGLE CRUISE' TRAILER

SENDS EMILY BLUNT AND DWAYNE JOHNSON TO AMAZON JUNGLE

Disney has launched the first trailer and poster for a movie that will possibly be one of next summer's biggest hits: JUNGLE CRUISE with

Jungle Cruise starts July 24th next year

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Inspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride, Disney’s JUNGLE CRUISE is an adventure filled, Amazon jungle expedition starring Dwayne Johnson as the charismatic riverboat captain and Emily Blunt as Lily Houghton, a determined explorer on a research mission. She is trying to find a tree that has healing powers. Also starring in the film are Edgar Ramirez (as the main villain at least judging by the trailer), Jack Whitehall (as her brother McGregor), with Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti. The sail starts July 24th, 2020! This is both Dwayne's and Emily's fourth movie for Disney.