HILARY DUFF, CHRIS LOWELL, TOM AINSLEY, SURAJ SHARMA TO LEAD HOW I MET YOUR FATHER SPIN OFF SITCOM! ITV UNVEILS CAST FOR CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON PERIOD SET MINI SERIES

 HOW I MET YOUR FATHER 

SPINOFF SITCOM UNVEILS CAST!

Hilary Duff is leading the sitcom cast

Hulu has set most of the cast for their spin off comedy series HOW I MET YOUR FATHER which will take place in the near future, with Hilary Duff playing Sophie who tells her son the story of how she met his father Jesse (Chris Lowell). The retelling catapults us back to the year 2021, where Sophie and her close knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options. Francia Raisa is set to play Sophie’s roommate Valentina, an aspiring stylist, with Tom Ainsley as aristocratic Charlie, an aspiring model who fell in love

Tom Ainsley, Suraj Sharma, Chris Lowell take the male leads

with Valentina and moved after her to New York. Tien Tran will play Chris Lowell's character's adopted sister who is a lesbian, with Suraj Sharma as Jesse's best friend and roomate who owns a bar. It will be a multicamera sitcom.

 

   THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON NEW SERIES  

ITV SETS COSTUME DRAMA CAST

ITV has unveiled lead cast for their new period set TV series THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON a four part adaptation of Sara Collins novel.  Karla Simone Spence leads the cast as Frannie Langton, young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own

Karla Simone Spence takes the title role

story. Sophie Cookson is Madame Marguerite Benham and Patrick Martins is Laddie Lightning! Set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, the series narrates Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham. In a misguided and monstrous gesture Frannie is gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton (Steven MacIntosh), and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. As the plot twists and turns, events take a fateful turn as the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, with Frannie lying next to Marguerite. Frannie is accused of murder; a murder she has no recollection of, other than she couldn’t possibly have killed her mistress because she was devoted to her.

Sophie Cookson, Steven MacIntosh, Stephen Campbell Moore

Dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that night. She is deep into a laudanum addiction and unable to recall what happened. Will Frannie recall the haunting events of that night? All she knows is she loved Marguerite passionately and cannot believe she would have hurt her. But if not Frannie, who did commit the double murder? Others have motive, but only Frannie is accused and she will hang if found guilty. What hope does she have of clearing her name? Henry Pettigrew also stars.