PERIOD SET WEDNESDAY: FLORENCE PUGH JOINS CHRIS PINE, AARON JOHNSON IN 'OUTLAW KING' SCOTISH EPIC! 'QUACKS' BBC VICTORIAN SITCOM WITH RUPERT EVERETT, RORY KINNEAR, ANDREW SCOTT

FLORENCE PUGH IS

FEMALE LEAD IN 'OUTLAW KING'!

Florence will take the female lead

Sticking to our period set projects week, your first info for today comes from Netflix's epic adventure movie OUTLAW KING which has just cast Florence Pugh as the female lead next to Chris Pine and Aaron Taylor Johnson! As I've informed you before, Chris Pine plays legendary Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule of England in Scotland! Aaron Taylor Johnson is, meanwhile, set to portray his right hand man, another 14th century Scottish legend James Douglas! Florence Pugh has become famous this year with her role in Lady Macbeth movie and will also play King Lear's youngest daughter Cordelia next to Anthony Hopkins in another take on Shakespeare on BBC! She's obviously used to historical costumes.

'QUACKS' BBC SERIES

A PERIOD SET SITCOM INDEED

Speaking of BBC, they've released a trailer for their new period set comedy series QUACKS which will air on BBC 2! It's a raucous medical comedy set in Victorian London about four pioneers, friends and rivals -

Rorry Kinnear is Doctor Robert Lessing

fighting to make a mark on the world and save lives. Starring Rory Kinnear, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basden, Lydia Leonard and Rupert Everett.

MEDICINE AT ITS INFANCY  
The 1840s: a time when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when the medicine that we take for granted today was in its infancy, and when doctors experimented on themselves and each

Matthew Baynton plays a nervous psychiatrist

other. It’s an era when dentists numbed the pain with brandy, the insane were chained up, and the operating theatre was full of spectacle and showmanship where people would come to watch a surgeon beat his

Tom Basden will play a hedonistic dentist

amputation speed record. Robert (Rory Kinnear) is an extraordinary, ambitious showman surgeon who can take a leg off in 92 seconds. William (Mathew Baynton) is a nervous, kind psychiatrist (then

Rupert Everett will hate his patients as Dr Hendrick

called alienist) looking to transform mental care. John (Tom Basden) is a wild, hedonistic, dentist turned anaesthetist. Caroline (Lydia Leonard) is the headstrong, intelligent wife of Robert, who is

Lydia Leonard is Robert's intelligent wife

determined to fight against the male prejudices and patriarchy of Victorian society to realise her own medical ambition. Finally, there’s Dr Hendrick (Rupert Everett) - the President of the hospital and

Robert is a skilful, arrogant and quick witted showman

Physician to Royalty. He hates innovation and young people. And women. And patients. Andrew Scott will guest star as Charles Dickens.