Just as we are waiting for their new epic show Britannia to start airing next week, British Sky has released a trailer for the second season of another of their historical dramas JAMESTOWN which was, as you probably know, our
The second season should air its eight new episodes next month!
favourite epic series last year (together with Medici Masters of Florence). The second season of the drama, which was a huge success for Sky last year, will start airing this February!
SKY'S JAMESTOWN
set in the early 17th Century, tells the story of three
courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England,
and make the journey of
Alice and Silas found out they're expecting a baby last season
a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in
America as the wives of the male colonists who have lived more than 10
years without women.The first season
Matt Stokoe returns as broken hearted blacksmith James Read
showed them settling and finding
their place bravely and courageously in the town ruled by men and hunger
for gold and power. As you remember the final
Will Verity, played by Niamh Walsh, take over her husband tavern?
scene had a shocker of
black slaves being brought into JAMESTOWN and the second season will
obviously deal with all the ghosts that were disturbed by it.
THE OLD CAST RETURNS
Naomi Battrick, Sophie Rundle and Niamh Walsh return as the female protagonists, our beloved boys Stuart Martin, Matt Stokoe and Gwilym
Stuart Martin returns as the man in love Silas Sharrow!
Leereturn as their supporters and lovers (Gwilym just in the first episode as he dies and leaves Jocelyn fending on her own), with Jason Flemyng and Burn Gorman ruling the town again as governor and secretary. Ben Star
Charismatic Gwylim Lee as the goodhearted Samuel Castell sadly dies
is back as everyone's fave doctor of the town! Abubakar Salim, Abiola Ogunbiyi and Rachel Colwell join the second season cast as the new
Ben Starr is back as the charming doctor Christopher Priestley
members! Carnival Films that also did Downton Abbey, Hollow Crown, Dracula, Last Kingdom and many others of our favourite historical dramas is also producing this one!
Deadline reports that a new book from The Martian author Andy Weir titled ARTEMIS will be turned into a movie directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. To be published November 17th, it centres on
The directing duo was recently kicked out of Star Wars spinoff
Jasmine Bashara, aka Jazz, just another too-smart, directionless twenty something chafing at the constraints of her small town and dreaming of a better life. Except the small town happens to be named Artemis — and it’s the first and only city on the moon. She’s got debts to pay, her job as a porter barely covers the rent, and her budding career as a smuggler isn’t exactly setting her up as a kingpin, much to her disappointment. So when the chance at a life-changing score drops in her lap, Jazz can’t say no, and she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.
Scott Eastwood leads the cast
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING
FIRST MOVIE SEQUEL POSTERS HAVE ARRIVED
Meanwhile, exciting first character posters have been released today for PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING, a follow up to Guillermo del Toro's science fiction action blockbuster Pacific Rim from 2013! Directed this time by Daredevil's and Spartacus' Steven S. DeKnight, the action packed sequel will now have the cast lead by Scott
This will be DeKnight's first movie
Eastwood, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, Rinko Kikuchi and John Boyega. It is interesting that half of Spartacus TV series cast will star in this one including Dustin Clare, amazing Daniel Feuerriegel and Nick Tarabay. The sf adventure in which humans use massive robot fighters to defend themselves from alien invasion is scheduled for next March. The sequel will show what happened to the Jaeger technology after the world was freed from Kaiju.You can also check out the first, freshly released trailer for the movie below and tell us what you think.
After White Princess and Harlots earlier this week, we're continuing with first trailers for new period set dramas that will air this year! To air sometime soon Sky One's JAMESTOWN will have eight episodes following the first people who came to settle in America. It comes from Carnival films which did Downton Abbey, Last Kingdom, Hollow Crown and Dracula!
NEW LIFE, OLD SECRETS Set in 1619, JAMESTOWN follows the settlers as they establish a
community in the New World. Amongst those landing on shore are a group
of women destined to be married to the men of Jamestown, including three
spirited women from England: Jocelyn (Naomi Battrick), Alice (Sophie
Rundle) and Verity (Niamh Walsh). Leaving their old lives behind, these
women have embarked on this journey to start afresh, fulfil their dreams
and become the female pioneers of an exciting new western outpost.
EPIC TV STARS IN THE CAST
The male cast of the new series is rather stunning including our beloved TV hunks Stuart Martin (Lorenzo from Medici: Masters of Florence) and Matt Stokoe (the pacifist teacher from Village), as well asJason Flemyng, Max Beesley, Shaun Dooley, Steven Waddington and Burn Gorman (And Then There Were None).
