Sunday, December 26, 2021

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S ULTIMATE GUIDE THROUGH ALL NEW EPIC, PERIOD SET AND HISTORICAL 2022 TV SERIES: FROM LORD OF THE RINGS AND VIKINGS, TO ROYAL COURTS, WILD WEST AND HISTORICAL VENUES

 UPCOMING 2022 EPIC SHOWS 
 WORLD'S MOST EXTENSIVE LIST
Your Spy is bringing you our traditional list of all the period set series to expect in the upcoming new year. We have a few ultra exclusive pics (Tom Jones, Hotel Portofino etc) and if you click on the links within the sections you will find out more about the series.
 
LORD OF THE RINGS
Without any doubt the most anticipated of the 2022 new epic shows and also, with the budget of over half a billion dollar, the most expensive series ever made is LORD OF THE RINGS which arrives to Amazon with
The second season is moving production over to UK from New Zealand
the first eight part season September 2nd. Set thousands of years before the events of the films, it will follow a group of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth. Morfydd Clark plays young queen Galadriel, and the second season is in works too.
 
SERIES FROM STARZ
Starz, the usual home of lavish epic dramas, is bringing us three of them this year: SERPENT QUEEN in which Samantha Morton plays famous
First photo from the sets of The Serpent Queen in France
Catherine de Medici with Colm Meaney as her hubby King Francis and Charles Dance as the pope . They also have a prequel to cult DANGEROUS LIAISONS 18th century French story with Alice Englert and Nicholas
John Heffernan as Duke of Somerset in Becoming Elizabeth
Denton as leads. Their BECOMING ELIZABETH will reveal young years of the Virgin Queen with Alicia von Rittberg, Tom Cullen,  Romola Garai, Jessica Raine, Jamie Blackley in the cast.

SHOGUN AT FX
FX has started production (which will last till April) on their small screen version of SHOGUN which means we might get it at the end of the year.
Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead role in new Shogun
Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead role a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him! Hiroyuki Sanada will be Lord Toranaga.

SERIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN
BBC is bringing us Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Alen in SAS ROGUE HEROES six part series on the creation of the famed Special Forces Unit. We might also get, over at ITV, a new version of Henry Fielding's
SAS Rogue Heroes will probably arrive rather soon to BBC
TOM JONES from the Poldark team. Solly McLeod plays the poor foundling in the story of the young man's complicated journey to find love and
Exclusive first look at Solly McLeod as Tom Jones
success in 18th century England. BBC is also bringing us GALLOWS POLE which follows a development of a criminal enterprise set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire, with George
Ultra exclusive first look at the cast of Hotel Portofino
Mackay, Tom Burke and Michael Socha in the cast. ITV and BRITBOX will air HOTEL PORTOFINO 1920s Italian riviera set mini series starring Natascha McElhone, Anna Chancellor and Lorenzo Richelmy.
 
THE ESSEX SERPENT
Apple has Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston leading six part THE ESSEX SERPENT which follows newly widowed Cora, who, having been released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the
Claire Danes will sport a lot of interesting costumes in the series
small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area. 

WILD WEST SET SERIES
We are probably most interested in BBC produced and Emily Blunt, Rafe Spall, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Toby Jones starring THE ENGLISH six part saga about a woman who seeks revenge on the man
First look at Matthias Schoenaerts as Django
she sees as responsible for the death of her son in the Wild West. Rival Sky is bringing us DJANGO in which Matthias Schoenaerts plays a gunslinger in the Wild West who is searching for his daughter who he believes escaped the
Douglas Booth and Dominic Cooper in That Dirty Black Bag series
murder of his family eight years ago. Tom Austen, Noomi Rapace also star. AMC has THAT DIRTY BLACK BAG a raw, epic and romantic spaghetti western series about the dark side of the Far West. Travis Fimmel,
Tom Blyth as Billy the Kid in new Epix historical series
Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper and Aidan Gillen star. Epix will have BILLY THE KID series in which Tom Blyth plays the young gangster. It comes from Michael Hirst.
 
WILLOW AT DISNEY PLUS 
Disney Plus has a new remake of the famous 80s cult classic WILLOW ready for 2022. Warwick Davis returns as a dwarf farmer who does magic.
First look at the cast that is shooting Willow over in UK
The story will take place years after the events of the film bringing new characters to the enchanted realm of fairy queens and two headed Eborsisk monsters! Ellie Bamber leads the now femalecentric cast. 
 
  NEW HBO EPIC SERIES 
HBO is of course headlining its epic offer with Game of Thrones spin off series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON! Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, Ryan Corr, Graham McTavish, lead the new saga
House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones spin off
following the story of the House Targaryen set 200 years before the events of the original series. In January, HBO is bringing us Julian Fellowes
Gilded Age comes from Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes
produced costume drama THE GILDED AGE set in the 19th century golden age of New York and following the clash between the new business families
Sarah Lancashire is famous cook Julia Child
and old aristocrats. They will also air JULIA series in which Sarah Lancashire plays famous TV cook Julia Child. David Hyde Pierce plays her husband.
 
 BOUNDLESS AT AMAZON
Amazon will take us on a sail across the seas in historical four episode saga BOUNDLESS in which Alvaro Morte and Rodrigo Santoro play
Rodrigo Santoro plays the lead role in Boundless series
Juan Sebastián Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan whose epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago is in the focus of the story. 
 
EPIC SERIES ON NETFLIX 
World's most popular streamer will launch this spring THE EMPRESS series on Austrian empress Sisi starring Devrim Lignau and Philip
The imperial couple in The Empress series on Sisi of Austria
Froissant as the imperial couple. They also have our dearest boys Leo Suter, David Oakes and Sam Corlett in VIKINGS: VALHALLA which
Valhalla already has the second season shot and done!
arrives February, set 100 years after Vikings series and centering on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King
Blood Origin is a six part prequel to Witcher series
William the Conqueror. They also have BLOOD ORIGIN prequel to their popular Witcher, with Laurence O'Fuarain and Michelle Yeoh leading
The cast aboard the ship in spooky series 1899
the cast of the series set in an elven world 1,200 years before the original show, centering on the origins of the very first Witcher. 1899 will be set on a 19th century spooky voyage ship whose journey becomes a trip to nightmare.
 
EPIC SERIES FROM FRANCE 
Another queen awaits us in Canal + series MARIE ANTOINETTE which will see Emilia Schule playing the 18th century queen with James
First look at the queen of France in Marie Antoinette
Purefoy also in the cast. Isabelle Adjani will play DIANE DE POITIERS in the two part series on the famous lover of French king Henry II, the
Isabelle Adjani is the royal mistress in Diane de Poitiers
husband of the above mentioned Catherine de Medici. They also have AND MOUNTAINS WILL BLOOM a six episode family saga set in 1837 in Provence with Guillaume Arnault in the lead. 
 
  EPIC SERIES FROM RUSSIA 
Russians are bringing us a historical saga on their tzarina ELIZAVETA in which Yulia Khlynina plays the heiress of Peter the Great. They also have Ilya Malakov playing a Russian boy who ends up in Turkish
First look at the tzarina Elizaveta in the new Russian epic saga
sultan's army in RUSSIAN PRISONER saga, and also DECEMBER in which Alexander Petrov plays famous poet Yesenin in his last days when he was in love with Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. You will also see Ivan
Our boo Ily Malakov is Russian Prisoner
Bosilychich in CASANOVA IN RUSSIA where he is seducing Catherine the Great and LAND OF LEGENDS in which Alexander Kuznetsov play 15th century prince Mikhail who tries to unite the people of Rus.
 
GERMAN PERIOD SET SERIES 
Coming from Germany next year we have a number of period set dramas. HOUSE OF PROMISES, set in the 1920s Berlin inside a newly
First look at the cast of House of Promises series
opened department store. BONN will, meanwhile, be a six-part political thriller about the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of WW2.
Hotel Europe will air sometime next year on German ARD
HOTEL EUROPA will be set between WW1 and WW2 in a hotel on the Rhine which hosted some of the most famous names of that time including Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. Currently we've no news on upcoming historical series coming from Italy or Spain, so if you have any info contact us freely!

21 comments:

  1. Just want to stop by to wish you a Merry Christmas!

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    1. Thank you, happy holidays to you as well, Angie!

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  2. Oh nooo The Essex Serpent will be in Apple? I don't have that. Good, they already have pictures of the Catherine de Medici series. Precuel to Les Liaisons Dangereuses? That sounds tantalizing. Is it possible to create a list of Continental period pieces?

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    1. I think Essex will be on some of the UK channels as well, most probably.
      Catherine de Medici is just a set photo, sadly, and it took extreme effort to find even that LOL
      I already have French, Russian and German series set for tomorrow :)
      Sadly, nothing Italian and Spanish as I'm out of luck with info on those for next year.

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    2. I have neither. I don't know about Italy, but apparently Spain has given up on epic drama due to pandemic surges.

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    3. i jusy checked RAI 1 they have someyhing called Citta Eterna about a starlet in 1963 Rome, another one on the life of Jesus, and apparently we will get the Third Season of My Brilliant Friend

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    4. Italy had a number of them announced, you have some of them on the bottom of my epic show sidebar, but they haven't issued any new info so I don't know if they are happening or not.

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  3. Tons of films! Woow i think 2022 will be better. Merry Christmas! Happy new year.

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    1. Sadly, I haven't heard of any Turkish historical shows coming up next year.

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    2. Hope 2022 better than the 2021 for the Turkey. Day by day Economic recession spread. Couple of films will play 2022 on the Netflix but i dont know they are about history or not.

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    3. But Russian Prisoner above is set in Turkey, our actor Ivan Bosilychich plays your sultan :)

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  4. Claire Danes bores me as much as Armie Hammer. How those two are still getting acting jobs is beyond me.

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    1. She truly is horrible and does not look good on the camera either.

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  5. I'll take a look at the promising Lord of the Rings...

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    1. I really hope that one does not disappoint as Amazon's Wheel of Time is really bad.

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  6. Hotel Portofino and Lord of the Rings for the win! Half a billion dollars means that best be the best show ever.

    Merry Christmas, Dez!!!!

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    1. Imagine if it flops with all that money! But Wheel of Time is utter crap and it already has one BILLION viewing hours!

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  7. I've never watched The Lord of the Rings movies.

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