Wednesday, August 12, 2026

TRAILER AND AIR DATE FOR KIT HARINGTON AND FRANCOIS CIVIL A TALE OF TWO CITIES DICKENSIAN TV SERIES ADAPTATION FROM BBC AND MGM+

  A TALE OF TWO CITIES 
KIT HARINGTON AND FRANCOIS CIVIL TRAILER
New series starts September 6th
BBC One and MGM + have issued first trailer for their TV series adaptation of Charles Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES. The four parter will be set in London, 1782. Tensions run high in the war between France andBritain. A young woman, Lucie Manette (Mirren Mack) has her life upended when she receives a message from Paris - her father, assumed dead for almost 20 years, may be alive. The messenger, idealistic French emigré, Charles Darnay (François Civil), is arrested and charged with treason. Lucie enlists the help of a brilliant but erratic young lawyer, Sydney Carton (Kit Harington), to free Darnay in the hope he will lead her to Paris to track down her father. Lucie’s collision with Darnay and Carton unleashes a powerful and complex love triangle. Both men fight to be worthy of her love, and Lucie is torn over which one to choose. Yet neither man - physically so alike, spiritually poles apart - can escape the other. Instead, they find themselves bound together in life and death, through triumphs, tragedies, marriage, and murder. The series will arrive September 6th on MGM+.
 

12 comments:

  1. I read the book a few decades ago...would be interested in watching this.

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    1. I read it recently, but not liking this cast at all, they are all wooden and lacking in radiance.

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  2. I also read the book decades ago. Thank you for sharing this, Dezmond. If this cast is not to your liking, then I wouldn't be interested in this.

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    1. They are a bit bland, but I will personally give it a go as there are so few period set pieces on the telly these days.

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  3. DEZMOND, I'd like to see the film based on the Dickens' book.

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    1. It will be the first new series of the Autumn, methinks.

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  4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and still Jon Snow knows nothing

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  5. The book was fine. The casting here is not. This will be a pass for me.

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    1. I did not even like the movie overly much. I am currently reading Jane Eyre for the first time ever and it is so dull and dreadfully pathetic.

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