PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DIANE DE POITIERS HISTORICAL SERIES ON FRENCH KING'S FAVOURITE WITH HUGO BECKER, ISABELLE ADJANI, GERARD DEPARDIEU, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN

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THE KING'S FAVOURITE

Straight from the French court arrives new French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS which follows the life of the infamous French courtesan

The series is streaming on Salto

who held the French king in her wicked clutches for decades. Also known as THE KING'S FAVOURITE this costume drama is already streaming on French streamer Salto and will hit their France 2 channel from November 7th! The series has our dearest Hugo Becker as King Henry II, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France Catherine de Medici looking not very happy. Both Catherine and Diane look totally different than the ones depicted in The Serpent Queen series which is currently successfully airing over at Starz. The cast also has Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Joey Starr as Comte de Kervannes, Olivier Gourmet as Charles Quint, Guillaume Galienne as Ambroise Paré, Samuel Labarthe as François 1st, and Jeanne Balibar as Marguerite de Navarre! The project is also being offered to international buyers as two 100minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one. You can also check out a clip showing the king fondling Diane while they are preparing poor Catherine for their first wedding night.

 

  IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES
about the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty fueled rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici definitively compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself predict Diane's future? Can a simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches? Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.

 

ISABELLE ADJANI LOOKS IMPOSSIBLY YOUNG IN DIANE DE POITIERS EPIC TV SERIES CLIP ABOUT THE ROYAL LOVER OF HUGO BECKER'S KING HENRY II OF FRANCE

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FIRST CLIP IS HERE!

Straight from the French court we have the first clip from French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS and although short it does gives us the first glimpse on the main characters: Hugo Becker as King Henry II,

Isabelle Adjani looks very young in the series

Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France

The series will air on French TV later this year

Catherine de Medici looking not very happy.  To air sometime later this year on French Television, the project will be offered to international buyers as two 100 minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one.

 

  IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES
about the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty fueled

First glimpse of Hugo Becker as king Henry II of France

rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage

Gaia Girace as Catherine de Medice with the set crew

to Catherine de Medici definitively compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself predict Diane's future? Can a

Another photo of Catherine de Medici at the sets

simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches? Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.

NEW ISABELLE ADJANI PICS AS DIANE DE POITIERS FROM NEW HISTORICAL MINI SERIES! NAOMI WATTS IS SAVING BILLY HOWLE FROM A MOUNTAIN BLIZZARD IN INFINITE STORM SURVIVAL MOVIE TRAILER

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NEW ISABELLE ADJANI PICS

Isabelle Adjani shared this one on her Facebook

The production started last September over in France and the airing of the two 90 minute episode mini series DIANE DE POITIERS will be sometime this year on French television, but we have some new photos of Isabelle Adjani as the famous royal mistress. The cast will also include Samuel Labarthe as King François I, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, Gaia Girace as queen Catherine de Médici with Joey Starr as Count of Kervannes, Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Guillaume Gallienne as Ambroise Paré, Hugo Becker as king Henri II himself, and Jeanne Balibar

First photo of Isabelle in full costume at the sets in France

as Marguerite de Navarre. Diane de Poitiers was for more than twenty years the favorite of Henri II, King of France. A woman of character and legendary beauty, Diane nonetheless remained a simple courtesan and her position at

The series will probably be presented at Series Mania

court remained fragile. Wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici compromising his dreams of domination? And her passion with Henri, twenty years her junior, and without which she is nothing, can that really last forever?

  INFINITE STORM TRAILER  

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

The movie is out March 25th in USA

After she is done saving her kid from bad guys in Desperate Hour, Naomi Watts will try to save Billy Howle from certain death at a snowy mountain in INFINITE STORM which will storm its way into cinemas March 25th directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man (Billy Howle), and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. The movie is based on a true story! 

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S ULTIMATE GUIDE THROUGH ALL NEW EPIC, PERIOD SET AND HISTORICAL 2022 TV SERIES: FROM LORD OF THE RINGS AND VIKINGS, TO ROYAL COURTS, WILD WEST AND HISTORICAL VENUES

 UPCOMING 2022 EPIC SHOWS 

 WORLD'S MOST EXTENSIVE LIST

Your Spy is bringing you our traditional list of all the period set series to expect in the upcoming new year. We have a few ultra exclusive pics (Tom Jones, Hotel Portofino etc) and if you click on the links within the sections you will find out more about the series.

 

LORD OF THE RINGS

Without any doubt the most anticipated of the 2022 new epic shows and also, with the budget of over half a billion dollar, the most expensive series ever made is LORD OF THE RINGS which arrives to Amazon with

The second season is moving production over to UK from New Zealand

the first eight part season September 2nd. Set thousands of years before the events of the films, it will follow a group of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth. Morfydd Clark plays young queen Galadriel, and the second season is in works too.

 

SERIES FROM STARZ

Starz, the usual home of lavish epic dramas, is bringing us three of them this year: SERPENT QUEEN in which Samantha Morton plays famous

First photo from the sets of The Serpent Queen in France

Catherine de Medici with Colm Meaney as her hubby King Francis and Charles Dance as the pope . They also have a prequel to cult DANGEROUS LIAISONS 18th century French story with Alice Englert and Nicholas

John Heffernan as Duke of Somerset in Becoming Elizabeth

Denton as leads. Their BECOMING ELIZABETH will reveal young years of the Virgin Queen with Alicia von Rittberg, Tom Cullen,  Romola Garai, Jessica Raine, Jamie Blackley in the cast.

SHOGUN AT FX

FX has started production (which will last till April) on their small screen version of SHOGUN which means we might get it at the end of the year.

Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead role in new Shogun

Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead role a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him! Hiroyuki Sanada will be Lord Toranaga.

SERIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN

BBC is bringing us Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Alen in SAS ROGUE HEROES six part series on the creation of the famed Special Forces Unit. We might also get, over at ITV, a new version of Henry Fielding's

SAS Rogue Heroes will probably arrive rather soon to BBC

TOM JONES from the Poldark team. Solly McLeod plays the poor foundling in the story of the young man's complicated journey to find love and

Exclusive first look at Solly McLeod as Tom Jones

success in 18th century England. BBC is also bringing us GALLOWS POLE which follows a development of a criminal enterprise set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire, with George

Ultra exclusive first look at the cast of Hotel Portofino

Mackay, Tom Burke and Michael Socha in the cast. ITV and BRITBOX will air HOTEL PORTOFINO 1920s Italian riviera set mini series starring Natascha McElhone, Anna Chancellor and Lorenzo Richelmy.

 

THE ESSEX SERPENT

Apple has Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston leading six part THE ESSEX SERPENT which follows newly widowed Cora, who, having been released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the

Claire Danes will sport a lot of interesting costumes in the series

small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area. 

WILD WEST SET SERIES

We are probably most interested in BBC produced and Emily Blunt, Rafe Spall, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Toby Jones starring THE ENGLISH six part saga about a woman who seeks revenge on the man

First look at Matthias Schoenaerts as Django

she sees as responsible for the death of her son in the Wild West. Rival Sky is bringing us DJANGO in which Matthias Schoenaerts plays a gunslinger in the Wild West who is searching for his daughter who he believes escaped the

Douglas Booth and Dominic Cooper in That Dirty Black Bag series

murder of his family eight years ago. Tom Austen, Noomi Rapace also star. AMC has THAT DIRTY BLACK BAG a raw, epic and romantic spaghetti western series about the dark side of the Far West. Travis Fimmel,

Tom Blyth as Billy the Kid in new Epix historical series

Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper and Aidan Gillen star. Epix will have BILLY THE KID series in which Tom Blyth plays the young gangster. It comes from Michael Hirst.

 

WILLOW AT DISNEY PLUS 

Disney Plus has a new remake of the famous 80s cult classic WILLOW ready for 2022. Warwick Davis returns as a dwarf farmer who does magic.

First look at the cast that is shooting Willow over in UK

The story will take place years after the events of the film bringing new characters to the enchanted realm of fairy queens and two headed Eborsisk monsters! Ellie Bamber leads the now femalecentric cast. 

 

  NEW HBO EPIC SERIES 

HBO is of course headlining its epic offer with Game of Thrones spin off series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON! Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, Ryan Corr, Graham McTavish, lead the new saga

House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones spin off

following the story of the House Targaryen set 200 years before the events of the original series. In January, HBO is bringing us Julian Fellowes

Gilded Age comes from Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes

produced costume drama THE GILDED AGE set in the 19th century golden age of New York and following the clash between the new business families

Sarah Lancashire is famous cook Julia Child

and old aristocrats. They will also air JULIA series in which Sarah Lancashire plays famous TV cook Julia Child. David Hyde Pierce plays her husband.

 

 BOUNDLESS AT AMAZON

Amazon will take us on a sail across the seas in historical four episode saga BOUNDLESS in which Alvaro Morte and Rodrigo Santoro play

Rodrigo Santoro plays the lead role in Boundless series

Juan Sebastián Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan whose epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago is in the focus of the story. 

 

EPIC SERIES ON NETFLIX 

World's most popular streamer will launch this spring THE EMPRESS series on Austrian empress Sisi starring Devrim Lignau and Philip

The imperial couple in The Empress series on Sisi of Austria

Froissant as the imperial couple. They also have our dearest boys Leo Suter, David Oakes and Sam Corlett in VIKINGS: VALHALLA which

Valhalla already has the second season shot and done!

arrives February, set 100 years after Vikings series and centering on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King

Blood Origin is a six part prequel to Witcher series

William the Conqueror. They also have BLOOD ORIGIN prequel to their popular Witcher, with Laurence O'Fuarain and Michelle Yeoh leading

The cast aboard the ship in spooky series 1899

the cast of the series set in an elven world 1,200 years before the original show, centering on the origins of the very first Witcher. 1899 will be set on a 19th century spooky voyage ship whose journey becomes a trip to nightmare.

 

EPIC SERIES FROM FRANCE 

Another queen awaits us in Canal + series MARIE ANTOINETTE which will see Emilia Schule playing the 18th century queen with James

First look at the queen of France in Marie Antoinette

Purefoy also in the cast. Isabelle Adjani will play DIANE DE POITIERS in the two part series on the famous lover of French king Henry II, the

Isabelle Adjani is the royal mistress in Diane de Poitiers

husband of the above mentioned Catherine de Medici. They also have AND MOUNTAINS WILL BLOOM a six episode family saga set in 1837 in Provence with Guillaume Arnault in the lead. 

 

  EPIC SERIES FROM RUSSIA 

Russians are bringing us a historical saga on their tzarina ELIZAVETA in which Yulia Khlynina plays the heiress of Peter the Great. They also have Ilya Malakov playing a Russian boy who ends up in Turkish

First look at the tzarina Elizaveta in the new Russian epic saga

sultan's army in RUSSIAN PRISONER saga, and also DECEMBER in which Alexander Petrov plays famous poet Yesenin in his last days when he was in love with Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. You will also see Ivan

Our boo Ily Malakov is Russian Prisoner

Bosilychich in CASANOVA IN RUSSIA where he is seducing Catherine the Great and LAND OF LEGENDS in which Alexander Kuznetsov play 15th century prince Mikhail who tries to unite the people of Rus.

 

GERMAN PERIOD SET SERIES 

Coming from Germany next year we have a number of period set dramas. HOUSE OF PROMISES, set in the 1920s Berlin inside a newly

First look at the cast of House of Promises series

opened department store. BONN will, meanwhile, be a six-part political thriller about the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of WW2.

Hotel Europe will air sometime next year on German ARD

HOTEL EUROPA will be set between WW1 and WW2 in a hotel on the Rhine which hosted some of the most famous names of that time including Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. Currently we've no news on upcoming historical series coming from Italy or Spain, so if you have any info contact us freely!

HUGO BECKER IS KING HENRY II, GERARD DEPARDIEU NOSTRADAMUS IN ISABELLE ADJANI'S DIANE DE POITIERS HISTORICAL TV SERIES ON FAMOUS ROYAL COURTESAN

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FINDS NEW KING OF FRANCE

It was supposed to be Nicolas Duvauchelle sitting on the French throne, but as the production is about to start next week, DIANE DE POITIERS

Hugo Becker is king Henry II in the new series

historical mini series has cast gorgeous Hugo Becker as Henry II, but you won't see us complaining as he is known as Jamie Dornan of France. With Isabelle Adjani playing his older lover Diane, the two 90 minute part series has also cast Gerard Depardieu as Nostradamus! Gaia Girace is queen Catherine de Medici, Samuel Labarthe will play François 1st. Virginie Ledoyen will be Anne de Isseleu and Marguerite de Navarre will be played by Jeanne Balibar. The series will air next year on France 2.

 OFFICIAL PLOT

Won't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici definitively compromise the dreams of his much older lover Diana, who does not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus himself predict Diana's future? Can a simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the Inquisition, which relentlessly hunts down

First look at Isabelle Adjani in the costume of Diane de Poitiers

Protestants and witches? Almost queen… More than queen… Diane de Poitiers, the hero of this new mini series, is a formidable flamboyant, an icon of fashion and a powerful, free woman.You can read more here.

BEHOLD ISABELLE ADJANI AS THE ROYAL COURTESAN DIANE DE POITIERS IN THE PERIOD SET FRENCH MINI SERIES! BEAUTIFUL DELICIEUX 18TH CENTURY MOVIE TRAILER ABOUT FIRST EVER FRENCH RESTAURANT

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FIRST ISABELLE ADJANI PHOTO

Behold the first photo of French diva Isabelle Adjani as the lead character in new French two part mini series DIANE DE POITIERS. This is just a costume rehearsal photo, as the production was pushed to September,

Isabelle Adjani takes the titular role

but it gives you a good impression. In the two 90 minute episodes from France 3, she will play the titular royal courtesan, who, endowed with insolent beauty and daring manager intermingling with politics, shared with King Henry II (Nicolas Duvauch- elle) twenty years her junior, the most burning passion in the history of France. In so doing, she defeated two dangerous rivals: the queen Catherine de Medici herself, whose name is associated with the bloody Saint Bartholomew's Night, and a royal favorite educated in the art of poisons. Jean Reno, Jeanne

The production will start this September in France

Balibar and Mathieu Amalric will also star in this 16th century historical saga. It is interesting that almost 20 years after playing queen Margot, the daughter in law of Catherine de Medici, Adjani will now play the lover of Catherine's husband.

 1ST DELICIEUX TRAILER FOR 

NEW FRENCH PERIOD SET FILM

Speaking of the French, check out the first poster and a really lovely and beautiful trailer for their period set movie DELICIEUX set in the world

Delicieux arrives to French cinemas September

of cooking and who is better in that trade than the French people? The movie already premiered at French Film Festival over in Melbourne (go figure) but it will arrive to cinemas next September. Directed and written by Eric Besnard, the film has the story set in France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman (Isabelle Carre), a chef (Gregory Gadebois) who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant.