1ST 'OPHELIA' TRAILER WITH DAISY RIDLEY, NAOMI WATTS, CLIVE OWEN, TOM FELTON, GEORGE MACKAY! 1ST 'ALL IS TRUE' PHOTO WITH KENNETH BRANAGH AS SHAKESPEARE NEXT TO JUDI DENCH, IAN MCKELLEN

   1ST 'ALL IS TRUE' PHOTO

FROM KENNETH BRANAGH FILM WITH JUDI DENCH, IAN MCKELLEN

1st photo has been released for Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare drama ALL IS TRUE which also stars Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, set in 1613 when Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground.

The movie will get a limited week long release in December ahead of the awards season but will get official release date in 2019

Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife (Dench) and daughters. In so doing, he is forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. McKellen is the Earl of Southampton.

   'OPHELIA' TRAILER

STARRING DAISY RIDLEY, CLIVE OWEN AND NAOMI WATTS

Speaking of Shakespeare first trailer has been released for Claire McCarthy's OPHELIA period set drama which is arriving into cinemas next January starring Daisy Ridley as the titular character.  She plays the most

Daisy Ridley and George MacKay are Ophelia and Hamlet

trusted lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Danmark (played by Naomi Watts). She soon captures the attention of Prince Hamlet (played by George

Massimo Cantini did the amazing costumes in the movie

MacKay) and a forbidden love blossoms. As war brews, lust and betrayal begin to tear Elsinore Castle apart from within in this reimagining of the

The movie is based on a book by Lisa Klein

famed Hamlet. The movie, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival also stars Clive Owen as Claudius and Tom Felton as Laertes and Nathaniel Parker as the king! 

FREEZING FIRST TEASER AND POSTERS FOR 'AMUNDSEN' PERIOD SET ADVENTURE ON ARCTIC EXPLORER ROALD AMUNDSEN

   'AMUNDSEN' TRAILER

STRAIGHT FROM THE SOUTH POLE

Amundsen arrives next February!

Earlier last week the spy introduced you to the Pippi Longstocking Finish author biopic and today here is another Scandinavian movie for you: first teaser clip and teaser posters for AMUNDSEN Nordic period set adventure describing the life story of Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen who led the first expedition that managed to find the South Pole in 1911! He then became the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926. Directed by Kon-Tiki Oscar nominated director Espen Sandberg the movie will also depict the tragedy he brought on himself and others by sacrificing everything in the icy wastelands to achieve his dream. Kon-Tiki star

Oscar nominated Espen Sandberg is directing this one as well

Pål Sverre Hagen is again taking the lead, with Katherine Waterston, Jonas Strand Gravli, Trond Espen Seim and Christian Rubeck also in the cast! The movie hits Nordic cinemas next February

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PETER JACKSON'S MORTAL ENGINES POST APOCALYPTIC ADVENTURE WITH ROBERT SHEEHAN, HERA HILMAR, HUGO WEAVING! CHARACTER POSTERS AND TRAILER

   'MORTAL ENGINES'

APOCALYPSE COMES ON WHEELS!

Are you excited, spylings? The cities on wheels from MORTAL ENGINES are tumbling into your cinemas beginning of December finally bringing

Mortal Engines arrive this December

Philip Reeve's famous YA saga onto the big screens. Christian Rivers, who worked as storyboard artist on LOTR, Hobbit and all other Peter Jackson's movies, is directing the film produced by Jackson himself. The $100 million movie, set in a post apocalyptic world ravaged by the surviving cities which now roam around on giant wheels eating each other for fuel, covers the first book of Reeve's saga which has four novels (translated by your spy for the readers in his country).

IN MORTAL ENGINES  

Peter Jackson has a cameo in the movie!

Tom is a twenty something Londoner who has only ever lived inside his travelling hometown, and his feet have never touched grass, mud or land. His first taste of the outside comes quite abruptly: Tom gets in the way of the masked Hester's attempt to kill Thaddeus Valentine, a powerful man she blames for her mother’s murder, and both Hester and Tom end up thrown out of the moving "traction" city, to fend for themselves. Trying to stop the predator city who wants to devour everything in front of itself, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy and Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw aviator with a bounty on her head.

THE HEROES AND THE AVIATORS

The steampunk world has a rather rich gallery of characters lead by Robert Sheehan as Tom Natsworthy, a low-class apprentice historian of London

Robert Sheehan is lowly historian apprentice Tom Natsworthy!

thrown out of the city and forced to ally himself with Hester and the resistance. Hera Hilmar is Hester Shaw, a disfigured, fugitive assassin with a personal vendetta against Thaddeus played by Hugo Weaving. He is the

Hera Hilmar's Hester Shaw is a lot less disfigured in the movie than in the books

Head of the Guild of Historians and the father of Katherine Valentine (Leila George) who is a girl from London's elite circles. Jihae is Anna Fang, a pilot and leader of the Anti-Traction League, a resistance group banding against the

Hugo Weaving is conniving head historian Thaddeus Valentine

moving cities devouring Earth's resources. Ronan Raftery is Bevis Pod, an apprentice engineer whom Katherine befriends. Patrick Malahide is Magnus Crome, the very evil Mayor of London. Stephen Lang is Shrike, the

Jihae is rebel aviator Anna Fang who has her own flying ship!

last of an undead battalion of soldiers known as Stalkers, who were war casualties reanimated with machine parts. He raised Hester and now works for Crome.

BECOMING ASTRID TRAILER ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR! CBS ORDERS NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS: HALFWAY THERE, EMPEROR OF MALIBU, THE FOLKS, SIBLINGS, CAROL'S SECOND ACT, LIFE LESSONS, QUINTA & JERMAINE

   NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS

FRESHLY ORDERED BY CBS

Iliza Shlesinger will lead HalfWay There

A slate of new multicam sitcoms ordered by CBS: Iliza Shlesinger will star in HALFWAY THERE, which she also wrote, as a comic who prides herself on “guiding women” in her act. She is forced to put that to practical use when her half-sister moves in with her! CBS has also ordered a pilot for a comedy series from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan THE EMPEROR OF MALIBU about two very different families, one from Shanghai with new money and one from the U.S. East Coast with old money, who learn to co-exist when their children get married.

They also bought a Gail Berman multicam THE FOLKS which tells what happens when a momma’s boy marries a daddy’s girl, and their respective parents can’t let go. SIBLINGS multicam is also in development from Ranch and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia producers, which centres on two very different siblings who decide to live together and raise their kids

Patricia Heaton is returning to sitcoms in Carol's 2nd Act

after one of them gets divorced. Meanwhile, The Middle star Patricia Heaton will both topline and produce CBS new multicam sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT playing a woman who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. They're also doing a sitcom LIFE LESSONS from Eric Christian Olsen about a guy who is a professional failure at life and finds advice and friendship in the most unlikely of places… a class of first graders. Meanwhile, Superior Donuts star Jermaine Fowler will do another comedy for them: QUINTA & JERMAINE in which he and Quinta Brunson will star as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.

   'BECOMING ASTRID' TRAILER

ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR

We've seen movies on Winnie the Pooh creator, the Tolkien one is coming soon too, but from Finland comes a movie on the creator of famous children

Becoming Astrid arrives this Autumn

character Pippi Longstocking! BECOMING ASTRID already played in their domestic cinemas last September as well as in Scandinavia, but will hit rest of Europe and USA in limited release this month and November. Alba August is playing the lead role in the biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking who found inspiration in being a very young mother herself. The movie was directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen who also wrote the film together with her husband who is also a children's book author. 

EMMA THOMPSON, RUSSELL TOVEY TO LEAD BBC & HBO FUTURE SET 'YEARS AND YEARS' DYSTOPIAN DRAMA! ANYA TAYLOR JOY TO LEAD NEW 'EMMA' JANE AUSTEN MOVIE

   'YEARS AND YEARS' SERIES

EMMA THOMPSON & RUSSELL TOVEY TO LEAD FOR BBC, HBO

Emma Thompson will take the lead

Well, that's some really nice casting and I don't remember when was the last time we've seen Emma Thompson and Russell Tovey on BBC. They will join Rory Kinnear in YEARS AND YEARS a unique and ambitious six-part limited series charting one family surviving the future, their co production with HBO and French Canal +. As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, we follow the Lyons family as their complex lives converge on one crucial night in 2019. Then, over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of everyday life are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could ever change the world.

YEARS AND YEARS  
 family saga is lead by Emma Thompson's Vivienne Rook, an outspoken celebrity turned political figure whose controversial opinions divide the nation. She’s a new breed of politician, an entertainer, a rebel, a trickster, and her rise to power leads us into an unknown future. Rory Kinnear is Stephen Lyons, a financial advisor and the family’s peace keeper who is married to Celeste (T’Nia Miller), an ambitious and opinionated accountant. Russell Tovey will play Daniel Lyons, a hard

Dearest Russell Tovey returns to BBC years after brilliant Banished drama

working housing officer and Stephen’s brother. Their sister Edith (Jessica Hynes), is radical, dangerous and calculating with a secret life. And completing the siblings is heavily pregnant Rosie (Ruth Madeley). Anne Reid presides over the family as Muriel, imperial grandmother to the Lyons.

   ANYA TAYLOR JOY IS

IS NEW JANE AUSTEN'S 'EMMA'?

Anya Taylor Joy will return to costume drama

Our second piece of news for today goes a bit more back in time: The Miniaturist star Anya Taylor Joy will lead new EMMA movie based on Jane Austen novel. Autumn de Wilde will direct the period set movie which follows  Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs by match making. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. She often tries to find a suitor for her best friend but fails because the suitors usually fall for herself. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings and is not considering her own happiness in love!

BEAUTIFUL 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3: THE HIDDEN WORLD' TRAILER WITH GERARD BUTLER AND CATE BLANCHETT!

   HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3

HIDDEN WORLD TRAILER SOARS HIGH WHERE DRAGONS FLY

The movie will first hit cinemas in Australia

Earlier last summer we were given a teaser and now we've got the first trailer for HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD which hits cinemas next January and February! Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harington, Jonah Hill are in the voice cast!

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

SUPER THRILLING 'BIRD BOX' SF TRAILER SEES SANDRA BULOCK FIGHTING ENEMY BLINDFOLDED! 'QUICKSAND' THRILLER TO REUNITE EMILY WATSON, DAVID TENNANT

    'QUICKSAND' THRILLER

TO TEAM UP EMILY WATSON AND DAVID TENNANT AGAIN

They already starred together back in 2013 in BBC miniseries The Politician’s Husband, but Emily Watson and David Tennant will join forces again in QUICKSAND thriller as a British couple Dan and Sarah who are living

David Tennant and Emily Watson will play a married couple again

idyllically on an Mediterranean island down in Greece. But their happiness comes to an end when their visiting son gets killed by a local youth. Dan, grief stricken, is offered a chance at revenge by a dangerous stranger who won’t take no for an answer, but the price of revenge is one more murder.

   'BIRD BOX' TRAILER SEES

SANDRA BULLOCK BLINDFOLDED

BirdBox hits Netflix December 21st!

Speaking of very tense thrillers, check out the first trailer for Sandra Bullock's BIRD BOX which will hit Netflix and selected cinemas December 21st! The cast also includes Tom Hollander, John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver and Rosa Salazar. 

In the wake of an unknown global terror, a mother must find the strength to flee with her children down a treacherous river in search of safety. Due to unseen deadly forces, the perilous journey must be made blindly. This fantasy thriller with an apocalyptic setting is directed by Academy Award winner Susanne Bier!

1ST TEASER FOR NETFLIX 'TIDELANDS' MERMAID TV SERIES WITH ELSA PATAKY, AARON JAKUBENKO, MATTIAS INWOOD, MARCO PIGOSSI, DUSTIN CLARE

   NETFLIX' 'TIDELANDS' 

MERMAIDS TV SERIES TRAILER

Tide is rising this December!

Netflix has released a teaser for their new supernatural series TIDELANDS which will be launched globally December 14th as their first Australian original drama. The eight part series about mermaids, coming from Secrets & Lies‘ Stephen M Irwin, stars Chris Hemsworth's wife Elsa Pataky, Charlotte Best, Spartacus and Shannara star Aaron Jakubenko, Dustin Clare, Marco Pigossi and Will's Mattias Inwood.

THE STORY OF TIDELANDS  
 follows Cal McTeer (Best), a young woman who returns home to the small fishing village of Orphelin Bay after 10 years in juvenile detention and jail.

The series will hit Netflix globally December 9th!

When the body of a local fisherman washes ashore, Orphelin Bay’s clandestine relationship with drug smuggling is suddenly on public display. Cal must

Elsa Pataky plays the queen of mermaid tribe

uncover the town’s well-hidden secrets, while investigating a commune of outcasts who live in a hidden pocket of the bay — a group of beautiful and

Brasilian super hunk Marco Pigossi is Adrielle's love interest Dylan

dangerous half-Siren/half-human Tidelanders. Pataky plays the mysterious and alluring Adrielle Cuthbert, the leader of the Tidelanders who will go to any length to protect her tribe.

'ALIENIST' STARS LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL TO STAR IN THEIR SHOW'S CREATORS 'MY BEST FRIEND' COMEDY MOVIE!

   'MY BEST FRIEND' 

MOVIE TO UNITE LUKE EVANS AND DANIEL BRUHL AGAIN

Which one will be Luke, the sweet or the arrogant one?

Imagine that! The whole team of TNT's Emmy nominated period set series THE ALIENIST (which is getting a sequel) will join together again but this time on a movie! As 'Deadline' reports, Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl will star in the mini series' show runner and producer, Max Frye's and Rosalie Swedlin's new film! They will all gather again in MY BEST FRIEND, a dramedy movie English language adaptation of the 2006 French film Mon Meilleur Ami! The story in the original French movie revolved around two very different men – one arrogant and cold, the other sweet and talkative – whose lives are thrown together when one accepts a bet to find a best friend and the other agrees to teach him the secret to making friends.

LUKE'S OTHER GIGS 
Beside also starring in the Alienist sequel Angel of Darkness, you will also see Luke Evans in Luc Besson's movie ANNA next to Helen Mirren and Cillian Murphy and Russian star Alexander Petrov and also in Roland Emmerich's massive WW2 epic MIDWAY next to Patrick Wilson, Nick Jonas, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid and Aaron Eckhart!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON LAVISH HISTORICAL DRAMA MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS WITH SAOIRSE RONAN, MARGOT ROBBIE, JACK LOWDEN, JOE ALWYN, DAVID TENNANT, GUY PEARCE, GEMMA CHAN, MARTIN COMPSTON, BRENDAN COYLE

   'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' 

NEW POSTERS & TRAILER ARE IN!

The movie was directed by Josie Rourke

All bow, peasants, the queens have arrived! Are you excited, spylings, for the premiere of lavish historical drama MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS which should crown the Autumn movie season when it opens December 7th in Northern American cinemas? Or are you too put off by Saoirse Ronan's overly crude Scottish accent (the real Mary spoke with the French one after growing up on the French court as the dauphin's fiancée) or by the historical inaccuracies (Mary and Bess have never actually met in person but they seem to talk a lot eye to eye in this one)? The movie will open in the rest of the world in January

Mary's son George was Elizabeth's heir in the end

following Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, which finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of the compelling

The movie is based on a book by John Guy

Elizabeth I. Each young Queen beholds her "sister" in fear and fascination. Rivals in power and in love, and female regents in a masculine world, the two must decide how to play the game of marriage versus independence. Determined to rule as much more than a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both thrones!

THE ROYAL COURTIERS

Oscar winner Alexandra Byrne is doing the costumes

Beside Saoirse as the titular character, the cast also includes Margot Robbie as her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland,  Jack Lowden as Lord Darnley, Mary, Queen of Scots' second husband, Joe Alwyn as Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth's counsellor and lover, David Tennant as John Knox, a Protestant cleric and Mary's great adversary, Guy Pearce as William Cecil, Gemma Chan as Elizabeth Hardwick, a friend and confidante of Elizabeth I and keeper of Mary, Queen of Scots. Martin Compston as Earl of Bothwell, Mary, Queen of Scots' third husband, Ismael Cruz Córdova as David Rizzio, Mary's close friend and confidant. Brendan Coyle as Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, father of Lord Darnley! Ian Hart, Adrian Lester and James McArdle are also starring.

FIRST TEASERS AND PHOTOS FROM 'DAS BOOT' WW2 TV SERIES WITH TOM WLASCHIHA, JAMES D'ARCY, VINCENT KARTHEISER, LIZZY CAPLAN!

   'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES

WHEN BOYS BECAME MEN

Das Boot hits Sky this November

Your treat for this Saturday are new photos and the first trailer for World War II German TV series DAS BOOT which will hit Sky One (in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Italy) November 23rd and will later also air on Hulu in Northern America, AMC in Spain and Portugal and Epix and Viasat in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe! The series, which explores the emotional torment of life during World War Two, cost $33 million to make and is inspired by Lothar Günther Buchheim’s best selling novel which was

Das Boot series will also air on Hulu in Northern America

previously made into an Oscar nominated movie by Wolfgang Petersen! Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Lizzy Caplan, Vincent Kartheiser, James

These Uboat submarines were active from the first till the last day of the war

D’Arcy, Thierry Frémont, August Wittgenstein, Rainer Bock, Rick Okon, Leonard Scheicher, Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda and Stefan Konarske, are just of the names in the international cast!

DAS BOOT TV SERIES
 starts in the fall of 1942 in occupied France. Nazi submarine U-612 is ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new commander, Klaus Hoffmann

German submariners had the lowest survival rate of any branch of service of any country during World War Two. Of the some 40,000 men who served on U-boats, 33,000 were killed.

(Rick Okon). As the 40 young men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. Meanwhile, at the port of La Rochelle, the world of Simone Strasser spirals out of control as she is engulfed in a dangerous liaison and forbidden love, torn between her loyalty for Germany and the French Resistance, and causing her to question everything.

1ST TRAILER FOR NETFLIX' 'THE LAST KINGDOM' EPIC TV SERIES THIRD SEASON IS HERE WITH ALEXANDER DREYMON AND DAVID DAWSON!

   'THE LAST KINGDOM' SEASON 3

FIRST TRAILER IS FINALLY HERE!

It's here, arselings :) The first trailer for the third season of epic TV saga THE LAST KINGDOM is here! Netflix will air it November 19th with

The third season will start airing November 19th!

Alexander Dreymon returning as brave Uhtred of Bebamburgh! The series set in the 9th century when separate kingdoms were fighting against invading

New faces: Ola Rapace is Bloodhair!

Danes will also see David Dawson return as King Alfred. The series, now produced without BBC, only by Netflix, is again based on Bernard

New faces: Timothy Innes is Edward!

Cornwell's (who is set to appear in the series this season himself as one of the characters) popular historical mediaeval novels, this time the fifth and the

New faces: Thea Sofie Loch Naess is Skade!

sixth book in his Saxon Stories series - The Burning Land and Death of Kings!

Peri Baumeister is back as Uthred's wife Lady Gizela,  Eliza Butterworth

New faces: Magnus Bruun is Cnut!

as King's Alfred's evil queen Aelswith and Millie Brady as their daughter Princess Aethelflaed! Check out the first trailer below:

CHRIS PINE POSTER FROM 'OUTLAW KING' EPIC ADVENTURE WITH AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, MATT STOKOE, CALLAN MULVEY, BILLY HOWLE! CHRISTIAN CAMARGO, HERA HILMAR JOIN 'SEE' JASON MOMOA'S EPIC FANTASY SERIES

'SEE' EPIC FANTASY SERIES

 HERA HILMAR, CHRISTIAN CAMARGO JOIN JASON MOMOA

You will also watch Hera Hilmar in Mortal Engines

Just epic genre news for you today, spylings! Apple keeps casting stars for their ten part epic fantasy series SEE with the story set in a future when the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, to build, to hunt, to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins with sight is born. Christian Camargo and Hera Hilmar are the latest ones to join the cast which already includes Jason Momoa (as Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian)! Christian Camargo will be Tamacti Jun, the head of Queen Kane’s (Sylvia Hoeks) army while

Christian Camargo will play the general of the Queen's army!

Da Vinci's Demons' Hera Hilmar is Maghra, a determined mother. Alfre Woodard will play Paris, an advisor and priestess.

'OUTLAW KING' POSTER

AND CHRIS PINE'S NEKKID WILLY!

Outlaw King starts streaming November 9th

And are you excited to see some mediaeval action over at Netflix who are releasing their OUTLAW KING November 9th? The movie will also be released in selected cinemas starring Chris Pine in a true David v Goliath story of how the great 14th Century Scottish OUTLAW KING Robert The Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat and repel the much larger and better equipped occupying English army. Aaron Taylor Johnson is another Scottish hero James Douglas, Florence Pugh is Robert's wife Elizabeth de Burgh, with James Cosmo, Matt Stokoe, Callan Mulvey, Tony Curran and Billy Howle as Prince of Wales also in the cast. Charming info: you will see Chris Pine's rebellious willy in one of the scenes in which the Scottish king is bathing in a cold loch!

DELIGHTFUL FIRST TRAILER FOR EXCALIBUR MODERN ADVENTURE 'THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING' WITH ASHBOURNE SERKIS, PATRICK STEWART, REBECCA FERGUSON

'THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING'

OLD SCHOOL MAGIC MEETS THE MODERN WORLD

The only thing the spy has for you today is a rather cute and innocently English trailer for THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING family adventure

Joe Cornish wrote and directed the movie

alongside the first poster for the movie which is out in UK and France next February before moving to Russia and USA in March.

THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING follows Alex (Andy's son Ashbourne Serkis the kid from Taboo epic series) who thinks he's just another nobody, until he stumbles upon the mythical Sword in the Stone, Excalibur. Now, he must unite his friends and enemies into a band of knights and, together with the legendary wizard Merlin (Patrick Stewart), take on the wicked enchantress Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson). With the future at stake, Alex must become the great leader he never dreamed he could be. Tom Taylor and Celia's son Angus Imrie also star!

NEW PHOTOS FROM UPCOMING EPIC TV SERIES 'LES MISERABLES' WITH DOMINIC WEST, LILY COLLINS, OLIVIA COLMAN, JOSH O'CONNOR, 14TH CENTURY 'THE NAME OF THE ROSE' WITH JOHN TURTURRO, RUPERT EVERETT, DAMIAN HARDUNG

NEW 'LES MISERABLES'

PHOTOS FROM BBC TV SERIES

After the first photos of the leading stars, BBC One has now released a few more photos from their six part TV series adaptation of famous LES MISERABLES which is hitting the small screens sometime this year, which

Josh O'Connor as Marius and Ellie Bamber as Cosette

means we can expect a trailer soon! Beside Dominic West as Jean Valjean, Lily Collins as poverty stricken mother Fantine and David Oyelowo as the

Lily Collins as poor Fantine

evil police inspector Javert, the cast also includes Olivia Colman as Madame Thénardier, Adeel Akhtar as Monsieur Thénardier, Josh O’Connor as Marius and Ellie Bamber as Fantine's daughter Cosette.

HUGO'S 19TH CENTURY STORY
directed by Andrew Davies, is turned into series which delves deep into the many layers of the classic novel, revelling in Jean Valjean and Javert's cat-

Dominic West and David Oyelowo as Valjean and Javert

and-mouse relationship, against the epic backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest. With striking intensity and contemporary resonance, Hugo’s novel

Olivia Colman as opportunistic Madame Thenardier

explores the struggles and triumphs of the underclass and the quest for a better life. The six part television adaptation of the renowned book will vividly

Adeel Akhtar as evil Monsieur Thenardier who runs a boarding house for kids

and faithfully bring to life the vibrant and engaging characters, the spectacular and authentic imagery and, above all, the incredible yet accessible story that was Hugo’s lifework.

'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'

1ST PHOTO FROM RAI TV SERIES

Speaking of epic drama, check out the first image from Italian Rai's English language series THE NAME OF THE ROSE which will air next spring. Set in Italy in 1327, it follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (John Turturro) and his novice Adso von Melk (Damian Hardung) as they arrive

BBC will air the series in UK, Sky in Germany, OCS in France. Sundance TV will air it in USA and Canada with local broadcaster airing it around Europe too.

at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a series of mysterious murders. While Baskerville and Melk investigate and search for the killer, they are hunted themselves by the merciless inquisitor Bernard Gui (Rupert Everett), who prosecutes those who criticize the Pope.