Saturday, February 22, 2025

LONDON TV SCREENINGS SPOTLIGHT: COLD WATER WITH ANDREW LINCOLN, SANDOKAN WITH CAN YAMAN, FRENCH WW1 SET FANTASY SERIES THE SENTINELS

   LONDON TV SCREENINGS  
 COLD WATER WITH ANDREW LINCOLN
Showing next week at London TV Screenings open market are many interesting new series  and among them is COLD WATER which sees Andrew Lincoln returning to TV. Done for ITV Studios, it sees him play John, repressed and raging at his stay-at-home life, who moves his family to rural idyll Coldwater. There he is befriended by Tommy, a neighbor, a seeming pillar of the community, blissfully unaware that Tommy is harbouring horrifying secrets.

SANDOKAN WITH CAN YAMAN
Also being offered to the buyers in London next week is new adventure TV series remake of famous SANDOKAN who is this time played by Turkish heartthrob Can Yaman and with Ed Westwick and John Hannah also starring in the series inspired by the novel series of Emilio Salgari! Borneo in the mid-19th century is a paradise inhabited by the indigenous Dayak tribes, who live according to their ancient traditions but are ruled by the ruthless laws of the British Empire at the height of its colonial power. Sandokan lives from day to day without taking sides. He fights for himself and his pirate crew, which includes his loyal friend Yanez. But his life changes when he meets Marianne, the beautiful daughter of the British consul in Labuan, during a raid. It is the beginning of an impossible love story between two unexpectedly similar souls: Marianne, of noble blood but with the wild spirit of someone who grew up in a tropical paradise, and Sandokan, pirate leader and adventurer who carries the blood of warrior kings. On their trail is the legendary pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, who will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Marianne's heart. 


THE SENTINELS FROM FRANCE
France is, meanwhile, bringing over to London a fantasy series set in First World War THE SENTINELS which will air in France on Canal +. On a WW1 battlefield French Private Gabriel (Louis Peres) is wounded. His family is told he is dead. In fact, he has been chosen to be part of a secret research program to create a new kind of soldier. Inoculated with a mysterious serum, when he awakens, Gabriel is stronger and faster than a normal human. He is recruited into The Sentinels, a band of elite fighters. Based on the Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia graphic novels, the French-language drama launches on Canal+ in France later this year according to Deadline.

4 comments:

  1. I really liked the French crime series 'Engrenages' from Canal+ but I was really disappointed in 'Versailles' although I liked the actors and the scenery was very attractive. The story veered too far away from real history. It's not like the real history of Louis XIV wasn't interesting of its own right.

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    1. Versailles was boring and so is Marie Antoinette, sadly. French series are usually boring for some reason.

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  2. Would love to watch Cold Water! Will it steam on Netflix?

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