AIMEE LOU WOOD TO LEAD NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF JANE EYRE

    AIMEE LOU WOOD   

TO LEAD NEW JANE EYRE TV SERIES

Working Title is preparing a new TV series adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE with Aimee Lou Wood set as the lead and broadcasters in negotiations. Published back in 1847 novel and considered revolutionary for its first-person narrative style and approach to class, sexuality and female independence — it follows the titular heroine as she grows into adulthood and falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester.

BRONTE GIRLS PERIOD SET MINI SERIES! BELCANTO 18TH CENTURY SET ITALIAN OPERA TV SERIES! 1ST LOOK AT BBC'S THE WITCHFINDER 17TH CENTURY PERIOD SET COMEDY SERIES

   THE BRONTE GIRLS   

PERIOD SET TV SERIES

According to Variety, ZDF Enterprises and Parsonage Productions are developing a new drama, THE BRONTE GIRLS, a fictional account of the

The only Bronte sisters portrait was sold for 50,000 pounds

last summer which the three Bronte sisters spent together. The six part series is set in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, where Reverend Bronte’s three daughters, Charlotte (19), Emily (17) and 15 year old Anne spent their last summer together as teenagers. Theirs was not a prim and proper youth, the series imagines, painting a portrait which anticipates something of the passion of the sisters’ subsequent novels, which were to become literary sensations. With hormones raging, romances leading to sexual tension, political conflicts and guarded secrets, the sisters’ lives are anything but chaste in this fictionalized drama of three women and the men, young and old, who are caught up in this adventure

  BBC'S THE WITCHFINDER   

HISTORICAL COMEDY SERIES

It will be a six part comedy series

BBC 2 is preparing new period set comedy series THE WITCHFINDER following a witchfinder and his suspect on a road free road trip through an England gripped by civil war, famine and plague. It’s the year of our Lord 1645 and fear of witchcraft is rife. Puritanical Christianity, deep seated superstition and a willingness to scapegoat outsiders have created a tinderbox of suspicion in which few are safe.In this environment, witchfinding has flourished, as self appointed witch experts achieve hero status by investigating accusations of witchery and extracting confessions. A failing witchfinder (Tim Key) transports a suspected witch (Daisy May Cooper) across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever. But his captive is the

The series will air on BBC Two and BBC Player

worst possible travel companion: an inquisitive, uncouth woman whose ability to prick his pomposity and ask uncomfortable questions turns a straightforward journey into a life-changing ordeal.

 

 

  BELCANTO 18TH CENTURY  

TV SERIES FROM ITALY

Variety reports that Mariano Di Nardo, Antonio Manca and Federico Fava are preparing BELCANTO series set in 1798, as 14-year-old Carolina, her 17-year-old sister Antonia and their mother Maria seek refuge in the city of Milan after stabbing their violent father to death. The elder sister dreams of becoming a renowned singer, much as her mother once hoped for when she was the girl’s age. However, an unhappy and often violent marriage

The project will be offered to buyers at Berlin's Co Pro Series market

waylaid young Maria, who is now willing to go the extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is afforded every opportunity withheld from herself. Maria’s intense focus on the elder sister leaves little attention or affection for young Carolina however, who more modestly only dreams of earning her mother’s affection. Things go upside down however when a well-respected singing teacher in the cosmopolitan city renowned for its music discovers that Maria’s youngest is the true talent in the family.

PERIOD SET DRAMA WEDNESDAY: 'MARY ANNING & THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS' ON WORLD'S GREATEST FEMALE PALEONTOLOGIST AND NEW 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS' MOVIE ADAPTATION!

 'MARY ANNING' 

AND THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS!

Sharon Sheehan is directing the movie

Hollywood is kinda sleeping today, people, so I shall entertain you today with two low budgeted but still interesting period set movies. The first one is
actually based on a true person! MARY ANNING AND THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS should arrive into cinemas sometime this year!

The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning (Katharine Hamilton), an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was largely unrecognised. Predominantly unknown despite her spectacular finds, including Icthyiousauri, a Pterodactyl and

Katharine Hamilton plays England's female palaeontologist Mary Anning

Plesiosaurus, and notwithstanding the fact that Darwins' 'Origin of Species' was largely influenced by her work. She is at last becoming the most celebrated paleontologist of all time.

 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS' 

 THE LATEST MOVIE ADAPTATION

Now, I must admit that the casting for this one looks terrible or hilarious (admittedly the budget is just 100,000 pounds) to say the least, but who

The movie should hit cinemas this November

knows, maybe you'll like the latest movie adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS scheduled for opening in UK cinemas this November.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a wild, passionate tale of the intense and demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw (Shaori Morris) and Heathcliff (Paul Eryk Atlas), allegedly a Gypsy foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is degraded and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley (Marcus Churchill) and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years

Shaori Morris and Paul Eryk Atlas play the lead roles

later as a wealthy and polished man to find he is too late and that Cathy has married Edgar Linton (Richard Dee Roberts). He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his miseries. Unable to bear being parted from his love he curses her on her deathbed to never rest and always be with him and so begins

Elisaveta Abrahall is directing the latest adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel

20 years of her haunting his every waking and sleeping hour. A tale of love, hate, horror, haunting, but most of all a story about human nature. Emily Bronte wrote the greatest , most terrifying love story of all time.

NBC ORDERS JULIAN FELLOWES' 'THE GILDED AGE' 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK TV SAGA! WUTHERING HEIGHTS' SEQUEL 'ILL WILL' TO BECOME TV SERIES!

  NBC ORDERS 'THE GILDED AGE'

19TH CENTURY SAGA FROM DOWNTON ABBEY'S CREATOR

The series will have ten episodes

We mentioned this one many years ago and now it is finally and quite officially moving ahead as NBC has announced their work on new period set saga THE GILDED AGE from super popular Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. The ten episode series, to air next year, is set in 1880s New York, a period of immense social upheaval, of huge fortunes made and lost, and of palaces that spanned the length of Fifth Avenue. In the series, Marian Brook is the wide eyed young scion of a conservative family who will embark on infiltrating the wealthy neighbouring family dominated by ruthless rail road tycoon George Russell, his rakish and available son Larry, and his ambitious wife Bertha, whose “new money” is a barrier to acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set. Marian is about to experience a whole new world springing up right outside her front door. The project was first announced five years ago.

  'ILL WILL'  TO EXPLAIN

WHAT HAPPENED TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS' HEATHCLIFF

The book is out this March at Harper Collins

Speaking of period set classics, Wuthering Heights is getting a sequel in the form of a TV series! ILL WILL from Michael Stewart will be turned in an epic neo Gothic series which offers up the missing piece of the puzzle about Wuthering Heights‘ tortured hero: Where does Heathcliff, the ‘uncouth stable boy,’ go when he disappears from the moors halfway through the story? And what happened to him that he should return three years later a stupendously wealthy and educated man, primed to take revenge upon the Earnshaw family? As 'Deadline' reports, the series will explore the new narrative in combination with Brontë’s 1847 novel answering the question of what happened to Heathcliff, her enigmatic anti-hero. It will be done by Kudos, producers of Broadchurch and BBC's Troy Fall of a City.