1ST THE LONG SONG BBC 19TH CENTURY JAMAICA SET SERIES TRAILER WITH JACK LOWDEN, HAYLEY ATWELL! HERMAN MELVILLE'S BENITO CERENO SLAVERY NOVEL TO BECOME SF SERIES! BLACK JACOBINS HAITIAN 18TH CENTURY REVOLUTION NOVEL TO BECOME TV SERIES

 'THE LONG SONG' TRAILER 

 FOR BBC JAMAICA SET SERIES

We are all about colonial slavery today! BBC One has released a trailer for THE LONG SONG which will start airing in UK December 18 as the three part  adaptation of the novel by Andrea Levy, starring Jack Lowden and Hayley Atwell.

THE LONG SONG IS SET
during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica and tells the story of the strong willed, young slave July (Tamara Lawrance) on a plantation

Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden lead the cast of The Long Song

owned by her odious mistress Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell). When a charming new arrival to the island, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden),

The three part mini series will start airing December 18th on BBC One

becomes the new overseer, July and Caroline are both intrigued by his seemingly revolutionary determination to improve the plantation for the

Our beloved Jack Lowden takes the male lead in the epic saga

slaves and mistress alike. Check out the trailer for the new three part historical mini series below and tell us what you think!:

 NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS

MELVILLE'S BENITO CERENO

Benito Cereno will become a sf series

Meanwhile, Deadline reports that Herman Melville's novella about a fictionalized revolt of a Spanish slave ship BENITO CERENO will be adapted into a TV series but set in deep space! Steven Katz will write and produce the story, inspired by the novella about slavery, the nature of man and good versus evil, and turned into a science fiction thriller which will revolve around an accidental encounter between a human commercial ship and an alien slave freighter, where the human captain navigates a world of inter species slavery in a distant future with frightening parallels to our past.
THE BLACK JACOBINS
You can also expect a TV series on Haitian Revolution since Kwame Kwei Armah will turn C. L. R. James' book THE BLACK JACOBINS into a historical drama.  The ten part saga will chart the history of the Haitian

The story of Haitian revolution will be turned into a TV series

Revolution of 1791-1804 beginning with the first slave revolt of 1791 and ending with the Haitian declaration of independence in 1804, while also exploring the nature of leadership, its compromises, its glories and the range of personal cost it claims.