'DURRELLS' SEASON 3 RETURNS NEXT SUNDAY WITH KEELEY HAWES, JOSH O'CONNOR! BBC HIRES TOM HOOPER, DAFNE KEEN FOR 'HIS DARK MATERIALS' EPIC ADAPTATION! CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT TO LEAD GEORGE CLOONEY'S WW2 SERIES 'CATCH 22'

CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT 

TO LEAD GEORGE CLOONEY'S WW2 MINI SERIES 'CATCH 22'

We're sticking to period set TV series today, starting with an announcement that Christopher Abbott has been cast as the lead in George Clooney's

Yes, Christopher does look like Kit Harington's prettier twin

mini series CATCH 22. Set in WW2 Italy it follows artful dodger Yossarian (Abbott), a US bombardier, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of CATCH 22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty. Clooney will direct and play a colonel.

'HIS DARK MATERIALS' 

 TOM HOOPER TO HELM, DAFNE KEEN TO LEAD AT BBC

BBC is adapting Dark Materials into mini series

BBC has found a director and actress for their eight part series adaptation of HIS DARK MATERIALS saga from Philip Pullman! Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) will helm and Wolverine's daughter Dafne Keen will star as Lyra, a girl from a parallel universe, in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later on joined by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny,

Dafne Keen will lead the cast as Lyra whom you've seen in Golden Compass

the two kids are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds! This epic has three books - Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass!

 'THE DURRELLS'  SEASON 3

TO START NEXT SUNDAY!

Meanwhile, ITV has set Sunday March 18th as the returning date for their mega popular series THE DURRELLS with its third season! You can check out the hilarious trailer for it below. Set in the period before WW2 it follows

The Durrells are based on the beloved series of British books

Keeley Hawes as a British mother who decided to relocate herself and her four kids over  to an abandoned villa on Corfu and start life from a scratch there. As you can see from the trailer her oldest son Larry (Josh O'Connor)

The third season of The Durrells returns next Sunday on ITV

will continue writing a new novel, her second son Leslie (Callum Woodhouse) will be seducing local women, her daughter Margo will enjoy love with Zoltan who appeared in the second season. Her youngest son Gerry

Tons of laughs and bright sun in the new season of The Durrells

will obviously continue to develop his little ZOO bringing new animals into their backyard! And Louisa Durrell will obviously try to hit it of with their Greek family friend?