EL CID HISTORICAL SERIES SEASON 2 TEASER AND PHOTOS ARE HERE! BBC RELEASES 1ST PHOTOS FROM RIDLEY ROAD PERIOD SET SHOW WITH TOM VAREY, RORY KINNEAR, EDDIE MARSAN

  RIDLEY ROAD TV SERIES  

BBC RELEASES 1ST PHOTOS FOR POSTWAR THRILLER DRAMA

BBC has released first photos with newcomer Aggi O'Casey and our dear Village star Tom Varey as the leads of gripping new thriller RIDLEYROAD which will also air on PBS in USA. Based on a novel by Jo Bloom, it tells the story of a young Jewish woman, Vivien Epstein (Aggi O’Casey). After falling

Tom Varey will take the male lead in the new series

in love with a member of the 62 Group, she rejects her comfortable middle class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London, risking everything for her beliefs and for the man she loves. Inspired by the struggle of the coalition of Jewish men who stood up against rising neo Nazism in post

Aggi O'Casey takes the female lead in the new series

war Britain, Vivien is working with them when she realises that Jack, her missing boyfriend (Tom Varey) has been badly injured. Vivien infiltrates the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement which is becoming increasingly prominent in London. As Vivien descends further into the fascist organisation her courage

Ridley Road will air in four hourlong episodes at BBC and PBS

and loyalties are challenged. Rory Kinnear plays Colin Jordan, leader of neo Nazi movement NSM, Eddie Marsan also stars alongside Danny Hatchard, Samantha Spiro and Tracy Ann Oberman in the four part mini series!

 

  EL CID SEASON 2 TEASER 

TAKES US BACK TO ESPANA

Although I feast on epic shows like they're roasted potatoes, I do admit I found the first season of Amazon Prime's EL CID rather bland in taste and lacking in any even remotely delicious flavour, but for some reason the

historical saga, that brings the story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain, was renewed for another season which is coming to us soon as it is announced in the first teaser below and the

Francisco Ortiz returns as hotheaded prince, now king Sancho

first photos from the second season. Let us hope, the return will have better scripts, better acting and a better hairdo for the lead hero who was humiliated with the fugliest mullet in the first season, poor sod.

THE SECOND SEASON SHOULD

continue the story where it left off last December when King Fernando (Jose Perez), poisoned by his horrid daughter Urraca (Alicia Sanz) died and, instead of proclaiming his oldest son as his sole heir, divided the kingdom to

The first season featured a lot of female characters

all of his three sons Sancho (Francisco Ortiz), Alfonso (Jaime Olias) and García (Nicolas Illoro) making them the new kings of Castilla, León and Galicia. Devious princess Urraca will continue to weave her dark plots in the

Amparo Alcaraz has joined the cast as queen Alberta

shadows, while our hero Ruy (who, played by rather weak and non charismatic Jaime Lorente, did not even feel like the hero in the first season with not a lot of screen time) will have to fight to save the land, the royal family as well as

The second season will air sometime later this year, possibly soon

his own one. Of course, the disputes between all of them will probably lead to bloody battles. Elia Galera should return as their mother, treacherous and

The second season will also air on Amazon Prime

evil queen Sancha who plotted her husband's demise. Who needs enemies, when you have daughters and wives, right? Actress Amparo Alcaraz has joined the cast as queen Alberta.