EXCITING WAR OF THE WORLDS BBC FANTASY SERIES TRAILER IS HERE WITH RAFE SPALL, ELEANOR TOMLINSON! WORLD ON FIRE WW2 SERIES STARTS TONIGHT WITH SEAN BEAN, JONAH HAUER KING, LESLEY MANVILLE

  'WORLD ON FIRE' SERIES

BRINGS WW2 TO BBC TONIGHT!

World on Fire starts tonight at BBC in UK

The latest of the new period set series to premiere at the start of the new Autumn TV season is World War II epic saga WORLD ON FIRE which launches tonight at BBC! The seven episode mini series, which will also air on Masterpiece PBS later on in USA, tells the story of World War Two through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict. Based on real lives the series takes us across the first year of the war, from ordinary life in Manchester to the beaches of Dunkirk, getting right under the skin and into the hearts and minds of those

Jonah Hauer King takes the lead role of translator Harry Chase!

living their lives during this extraordinary time as they grapple with the unthinkable: a world in flames.

The Story Of The Series 
Summer 1939. Translator Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) is working at the British Embassy in Warsaw, falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia

Sean Bean and Lesley Manville are Harry's mother and the father of Tom and Lois

(Zofia Wichłacz). When German tanks roll into Poland and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia are faced with terrible choices. With her life

Julia Brown is Mancunian factory worker Lois Bennett, Hary's girlfriend

in grave danger, the only way for Kasia to be safe is to escape. Can Harry help her - and if he does, how will he ever explain himself to factory worker and

Brian J. Smith is gay war surgeon Webster O'Connor fighting for his lover and his patients in Paris

singer Lois Bennett (Julia Brown), the girl he left behind in Manchester? As the Nazi threat spreads across Europe, Kasia must choose between love and

Ewan Mitchell is Tom Bennett who joins the army!

fighting for her country, Harry must find his place in the world, and Lois seizes new opportunities the war throws up. The conflict overturns everything for Harry's snobbish mother Robina (Lesley Manville) and for Douglas

Zofia Wichlacz is Polish waitress Kasia who joins Polish resistance

(Sean Bean), Lois' pacifist father, and her firecracker younger brother Tom (Ewan Mitchell), who joins the navy and finds himself under fire in one of the first major battles of the war. In Berlin, outspoken American journalist

Helen Hunt is American journalist Nancy Campbell

Nancy (Helen Hunt) risks her life trying to help her neighbours the Rosslers from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime‎, while in Paris Nancy's nephew, medic Webster (Brian J. Smith) refuses to leave the city and the man he loves.

  'THE WAR OF THE WORLDS'

BRINGS ALIENS TO EARTH

BBC has also launched earlier today the first exciting trailer for their long delayed series THE WAR OF THE WORLDS which will also air sometime

The War of the Worlds will air this Autumn on BBC

this Autumn as the small screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' famous sf classic! Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson, Rupert Graves and Robert Carlyle star

Rafe Spall takes the lead role in the new sf series

in the story set in London during the Edwardian era, where George and Amy's attempt to start a life together as a young couple is interrupted by a Martian invasion of Earth!