CLIP FOR BBC'S EPIC SERIES "PARADE'S END" WITH BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH! JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS IN NBC SHOW "DRACULA"! "ONCE UPON A TIME" ADDS SIR LANCELOT & PRINCE PHILLIP! LUKE MACFARLANE JOINS "BEAUTY & THE BEAST", JENNA DEWAN IN "AMERICAN HORROR STORY"

 Oh, my, now this is certainly a super exciting piece of news: if you miss all the passion and intrigues in the period set epic series THE TUDORS, you will be thrilled to hear that Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been offered the lead role in NBC's and Sky Living's DRACULA series,  which will have ten episodes. According to "Deadline", DRACULA, which was bought by NBC in January, is set in the 1890s and has been described as "Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors". It follows the iconic vampire as he arrives in London seeking vengeance against those who wronged him hundreds of years ago, all the time pretending to be an American entrepreneur extolling the virtues of modern science. However, his plans go awry when he falls in love with a woman who appears to be the reincarnation of his dead wife.

HOLLYWOOD SPY HEADLINES

Speaking of TV news,  Channing Tatum's wife, gorgeous Jenna Dewan Tatum has joined the second season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY FX series,in which she will play a love couple together with MAROON 5's Adam Levine.

Meanwhile, BROTHERS AND SISTERS actor Luke MacFarlane has joined NBC's Fall fantasy drama BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. According to "Digital Spy", MacFarlane, who is also known as the secret boyfriend of Wentworth Miller, will appear in the second episode as Philippe Bertrand, artistic director of a ballet company which Kristin Kreuk will investigate after a ballerina gets killed. Starring also Jay Ryan as the Beast, the show will air this October. ABC hit show ONCE UPON A TIME has cast TEEN WOLF star Sinqua Walls as Sir Lancelot in the second season. The character - portrayed as a "sword for hire" banished from his proud position on King Arthur's Round Table - will appear in at least two episodes.You already know that Sleeping Beauty (Sarah Bolger)

  and Mulan (Jamie Chung) will also appear in the second season alongside Captain Hook, Ariel and Aladin. But he's not the only one, since PRETTY LITTLE LIARS' gorgeous Julian Morris has been added as Sleeping Beauty's Prince Phillip, a man who’s traveled from a kingdom that’s in decline, a young, skilled warrior and selfless hero who’s the veteran of many tough journeys.

PARADE'S END TRAILER

Some time ago I've announced that SHERLOCK, THE HOBBIT and STAR TREK star Benedict Cumberbatch will star in BBC mini series

PARADE'S END, and now you can check out the first trailer which also includes promo material for TOP OF THE LAKE series with Elizabeth Moss, Holy Hunter and Lucy Lawless and DANCING ON THE EDGE with Matthew Goode. Set in World War I, the story of PARADE'S END will follow a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage founders almost as soon as it begins. His wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) has affairs, while he falls in love with another

woman, but he remains honourable for some considerable time to Sylvia. He goes to war and even loses memory at the battlefield. The mini series will follow ten years of his life.