EPIC TV SERIES NEWS
NEW SHOWS ON ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE ROMANOVS
With the news that
Amazon Prime has greenlit their
El Cid Spanish epic TV series for a second season, also comes info from
Starlings Television (they're producing Pandora for CW) that they are
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Greek Antena and German ZDF will coproduce
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currently in advanced stages of developing historical series on
ALEXANDER THE GREAT and spy thriller series
RED WINTER about the imperial family of Romanovs! The pilot for
Alexander the Great, which will be shot in Greece, is being written by
Tudors and
Vikings creator
Michael Hirst, while the
Romanovs series, written by
Stephen Kronish, is being done in the collaboration with Russia's national broadcaster Russia 1 and German ZDF. Together with
Brendan Foley, they are also preparing
SHERLOCK'S DAUGHTER series, a new take on the world’s greatest detective, following a young American woman who, after the mysterious
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El Cid will be getting another season after the first aired last month
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murder of her mother, travels to London to track down her biological father – the legendary Sherlock Holmes. But Holmes is not the mythical figure Amelia has come to expect.
Sounds like there will be a few good shows coming soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that, unlike UK that is making less and less epic shows due to being faced to make them woke by their government, other countries are still making and planning them.
DeleteAgreed, I hate it when they try to change history... I wish the makers would just portray history as accurately as possible without an agenda.
DeleteThey want to but woke governments won't let them do it, sadly. BBC for example refused ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL allegedly because it has no black characters, and it went to Channel 5 and became their biggest hit in half a decade.
DeleteGotta watch this!
ReplyDeleteHope it gets done.
DeleteAlexander sounds really good. Shot in Greece, so you know it will have some great scenery. I did love Tudors, so that attachment there gives me hope for this one!
ReplyDeleteHope they don't cast some idiot like Colin Farrell with a blond wig in the lead role.
DeleteUgh! I agree. That would be THE WORST!
DeleteThat film was so bad. I still have nightmares from Jared Leto's role and Colin's wig.
DeleteI suspect if Oliver Stone had another go at that movie he would change a few things. I did enjoy parts of it though, but that was the problem, it felt like lots of bits that didn’t fit together, hopefully, with 10 episodes, this may be more cohesive.
DeleteAnd when Stone was doing his Alexander, Bazz Luhrman was supposed to do his version with Leo Di Caprio as Alex and Nicole Kidman as Olympia and Russell Crowe as Darius. He stopped the project when Stone's became such a flop.
DeleteTheresa's comment was like she read my mind. I was sold at "shot in Greece". Assuming it's not shot in Athens, it may be worth the watch just for the views alone. :)
ReplyDeleteThey should be shooting in Macedonia if you ask me, the real home of Alexander, you know. The ex republic of my old country.
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