THE WAR IS STILL BREWING IN BEER BREWERS HISTORICAL TV SAGA OKTOBERFEST 1905 SECOND SEASON WITH KLAUS STEINBACHER

   OKTOBERFEST 1905  

A SEQUEL TO GERMAN EPIC TV SAGA

I have no idea how I wasn't informed about this, I even find it scandalous, but it seems that one of our favourite of Netflix historical dramas OKTOBERFEST: BLOOD AND BEER which streamed on 

The second season aired in Germany last Autumn

the streamer back in 2020, actually got a sequel or a second season OKTOBER FEST 1905 recently but done only by German network ARD without the assistance of Netflix. It aired last Autumn in Germany and I hope we will manage to find it somewhere to watch it as I really liked the first season. Our lovely Klaus Steinbacher returns as Roman Hoflinger alongside Misel Maticevic and Martina Gedeck. The story of the series, which followed the rise of rival beer producers and their war which turned Oktoberfest beer festival into a bloody battlefield, returns five years later, and the brewery clan conflicts still persist. Curt's ambitious plans create tension with his son-in-law Roman, while a potential new rival emerges. Check out the trailer below and send us a message if you find this second season available for download somewhere. 

 

SEE RAFE SPALL IN THE DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES PERIOD SET MYSTERY TV SERIES

  FIRST RAFE SPALL PICS  

FROM THE DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Swiss Sky and German ARD have unveiled first images from their new mini TV series THE DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES which is set to arrive sometime next year with Rafe Spall in the lead role. The series begins with one of the most famous moments in literary history: the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls. While the world believes the master detective perished in his final duel with Professor Moriarty, the series reveals for the first time what happened during the three mysterious years between his disappearance in 1891 and his return in 1894 – a chapter that Arthur Conan Doyle left untold and which now finds its story.

TV NEWS BULLETIN: NEW HISTORICAL SERIES ON MAD KING LUDWIG OF BAVARIA, ROBIN HOOD RENEWED FOR SECOND SEASON AT MGM PLUS! ED SKREIN JOINS GOD OF WAR

   TV NEWS BULLETIN  

KING LUDWIG II HISTORICAL TV SERIES

Beta Film together with German ARD and Swiss SRF is preparing historical series LUDWIG on Bavarian king Ludwig II who took the throne in 1864 and was considered to be a bit mad spending lavishly on outlandish and extraordinary projects like building castles on the top of the mountains. The series follows psychologist Gustav Zimmermann (Felix Mayr) who is tasked with reviewing a psychiatric report on the King (Luis Pintsch), a document that will ultimately determine whether he is declared incompetent to rule. This work brings him closer to revealing the secrets of the royal ruler: his struggles with power, his longing for freedom and his profound forbidden love. Aaron Friesz, Carlotta Bähre, Jonathan Kriener also star.

 

  ROBIN HOOD RENEWED FOR SEASON TWO

Meanwhile, MGM Plus has renewed their epic series ROBIN HOOD for the second season with Jack Patten, Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen. Season two expands the world beyond Sherwood and Nottingham into the treacherous courts of England, France, and Rome, transforming the outlaw rebellion into a high stakes battle for the soul of a kingdom. As the Angevin empire threatens to tear itself apart, Rob and Marian are drawn into the orbit of kings and queens, forced to wield the very instruments of Norman power to secure a future for the Saxons. 

 

ED SKREIN JOINS GOD OF WAR

Ed Skrein will play Baldur

Ed Skrein has been cast as Baldur in Prime Video's TV series adaptation of GOD  OF WAR game. He is the youngest son of Odin (Mandy Pitinkin), charismatic, unpredictable and armed with a razor-sharp tongue, Baldur lives by his own rules. As a boy, Baldur was cursed; this curse denied him the ability to feel pleasure and physical sensation. This fuels an insatiable anger and bloodlust in Baldur, who favors a brawling fighting style that blends his immense power with the raw impact of his fists. Above all else, he longs for an opponent that can truly match his prowess in battle. An opponent that can finally make him feel something.

TRAILER AND AIR TIME FOR GREECE SET SO LONG, MARIANNE TV SERIES ON THE LOVE BETWEEN LEONARD COHEN AND HIS MUSE

 SO LONG, MARIANNE SERIES 

ON THE LOVE LIFE OF LEONARD COHEN

The series arrives this September

A trailer is here for Canadian and Norwegian series SO LONG, MARIANNE that tells the legendary love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen (Alex Wolff), and his muse Marianne Ihlen (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) who inspired the titular song. It’s an intimate tale of two lonely people falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time. Anna Torv, Noah Taylor and Peter Stormare also star. Ben Lloyd Hughes plays Allen Ginsberg.  It starts on ARD in Germany September 22nd and then on Canadian streamer Crave September 27th and will also be on ITVX in UK.

 

THEIR STORY 

 crosses the world, travelling from Norway to Greece, New York and Montreal, with the majority of the series filmed on the picturesque Greek island of Hydra where they lived during the 1960s. There, they joined legendary Australian novelists Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston, the matriarch and patriarch of a bohemian group of writers, artists, poets, and outcasts who were exploring a new world of free love, drugs, and artistic freedom, but also experiencing the rivalries and jealousy that accompanied their intense, interwoven lives.

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES ON FRANZ KAFKA WITH JOEL BASMAN AND DAVID KROSS

 NEW FRANZ KAFKA SERIES 

COMING THIS EASTER TO ARD AND ORF

German national broadcaster ARD and the Austrian one ORF have teamed up on new Franz Kafka mini TV series titled simply KAFKA. The new six parter will start airing March 25th in the year that marks a hundred years since his death. Based on the three part Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, the series follows Kafka’s (Joel Basman) difficult relationship with his father (Nicholas Ofczarek) and his love affairs with Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská (Liv Lisa Fries) and Dora Diamant, but also his close friendship with Max Brod (David Kross).

 

IN THE NEW MINI TV SERIES 

Kafka's vacation spot, already ravaged by tuberculosis, is transformed in his imagination into the dark and mythical village of his last and most famous novel, “The Castle”. But he also meets his last great love, Dora Diamant (Tamara Romera Ginés). The two lived in Berlin for a few months and spent Kafka's last days together in the Kierling sanatorium outside Vienna. Franz (Joel Basman) grew up as one of many children in a Jewish middle-class merchant family in Prague. He became enthusiastic about writing from an early age and wrote several texts. One of his best friends, Max Brod (David Kross), is his greatest admirer and encourages him to keep publishing his texts. He himself is a respected writer and full of energy and drive. He believes in Kafka's talent and drives him tirelessly. He is known for his many affairs and his warm-heartedness, which could hardly distinguish him from his shy friend.

 

JOEL BASMAN, DANIEL BRUHL TO LEAD CAST FOR NEW FRANZ KAFKA PERIOD SET MINI SERIES FOR ARD AND ORF

 NEW FRANZ KAFKA SERIES 

SETS LEAD CAST AT ARD AND ORF

German national broadcaster ARD and the Austrian one ORF are teaming up on new Franz Kafka mini TV series titled simply KAFKA. The new six parter should arrive next year when June 2024 marks the hundred years since his death. Based on the three part Kafka biography by Reiner

First cover art with Joel Basman as Franz Kafka

Stach, the series follows Kafka’s (Joel Basman) difficult relationship with his father (Nicholas Ofczarek) and his love affairs with Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská (Liv Lisa Fries) and Dora Diamant, but also his close friendship with Max Brod (Daniel Bruhl).