Showing posts with label DICKENSIAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DICKENSIAN. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

ENCHANTING TRAILERS FOR NEW YEAR'S NEW EPIC SERIES 'JERICHO' WITH JESSICA RAINE, HANS MATHESON, 'DICKENSIAN' WITH TOM WESTON JONES, PAULINE COLLINS, STEPHEN REA

'JERICHO' EPIC TV SERIES
TODAY'S WILDERNESS, TOMORROW'S FUTURE
We continue reminding you of all the epic series beginning around New Years, starting today with ITV's JERICHO which will air in January starring Jessica Raine and Hans Matheson. Set in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the 8 part drama focuses upon the shanty town of Jericho, home to a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they’ve been brought together to build. Rough, rustic and remote with a carnival atmosphere, Jericho is a community of pioneers, settlers and outcasts, people with secrets to hide and those looking to start again.


'DICKENSIAN' EPIC TV SERIES
ENCHANTING NEW TRAILER
Meanwhile, rival BBC is all ready and set to start airing their wonderful new half hour series DICKENSIAN from Saturday December 26th! The enchanting 20 part drama will be set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens' critically acclaimed novels, bringing together some of his most iconic characters as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. Stephen Rea as Inspector Bucket, Tom Weston Jones as Meriwether Compeyson, Pauline Collins as Mrs Gamp, Ned Dennehy as Scrooge, Anton Lesser as Fagin, Caroline Quentin as Mrs Bumble, are all set to star!

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

CHRISTMAS 2015 ON BRITISH TV: 1ST PHOTOS FROM BBC'S 'DICKENSIAN' VICTORIAN SERIES, AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE' WITH AIDAN TURNER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, RAFE SPALL'S 'HARRY PRICE GHOST HUNTER', TIMOTHY SPALL'S 'FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN'

CHRISTMAS PHOTOS FROM
'DICKENSIAN' VICTORIAN SERIES
We're going British today, taking a peek into festive TV programmes on the isles this Christmas with new photos! BBC is finally ready to start airing 20 half hour episodes of DICKENSIAN drama in which some of ... ...  the most famous of Dickensian characters, including Mrs Bumble, Mrs Havisham and Mr Scrooge, live together in the same street of Victorian London! The cast is lead by legendary British thespians Caroline Quentin, Pauline Collins and Stephen Rea! The 90 metre cobbled ... ... street in which they all live has a pub, a church, law courts, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Three Cripples Pub, and, of course, Fagin's Den!

'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE'
AIDAN TURNER, DOUGLAS BOOTH  
BBC is also set to air long awaited small screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's bestselling novel AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at Christmas too! The 1930's three part mini series revolves around ten strangers on an island who are killed one by one. Charles Dance, Miranda Richardson, Douglas Booth and Aidan Turner lead the cast!
FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN
Over at Sky One you can watch brilliant Timothy Spall as  FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN a three fart series about Fungus, his wife Mildew and son Mould who struggle to fit in with the “drycleaners” (people) of Daventry. It’s a tale of slimy monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door.

RAFE SPALL AS
'HARRY PRICE: GHOST HUNTER'
ITV will bring us our deeply beloved Rafe Spall in TV movie HARRY PRICE: GHOST HUNTER which is. based on a novel by Neil Spring, set in 1920s London following Britain’s most famous real-life ghost hunter and sceptic, Harry Price, who investigated tales of the paranormal and supernatural. 


Tuesday, November 10, 2015

BBC TRAILER TEASES NEW SERIES FROM TOM HIDDLESTON, AIDAN TURNER, JUDI DENCH, JAMES NORTON! KELLAN LUTZ, KELSEY GRAMMER, LI BINGBING IN 'NEST' SF MOVIE! 'THE LAST KING' NORDIC EPIC GETS US RELEASE

LI BINGBING'S 'NEST' CASTS 
 KELLAN LUTZ, KELSEY GRAMMER
Remember how earlier this year I told you that gorgeous Asian star Li Bingbing will lead NEST horror fantasy movie? Well, now she's got herself a dashing partner in the muscly form of Kellan Lutz and the two of them will also see Kelsey Grammer as an addition to the international cast! The film is being planned as the largest ever budgeted Chinese Australian coproduction. To be filmed in 3D, NEST tells the tale of a team of scientists who discover a swarm of deadly, intelligent and carnivorous funnel web spiders. Battling through an ancient labyrinth, the team must learn the secret behind the spiders’ heightened abilities before its too late

  NORDIC 'THE LAST KING' EPIC
GETS A USA RELEASE 
Two trailers for you today, starting with the first teaser for Nordic epic movie BIRKEBEINERNE which hits Nordic cinemas next February and has just been bought for US distribution as THE LAST KING. The film stars Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki) and Kristofer Hivju (Game Of Thrones) as medieval warriors who embark on a perilous journey through the snowy and icy Norwegian mountains to take their dying king’s infant son to safety and save the throne from the evil Bishop. As I told you before, also starring Pål Sverre Hagen and Thorbjørn Harr, and set at the beginning of the 13th century this epic adventure brings the story of the greatest flight which changed Norwegian history forever.


  NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER
REVEALS TONS OF NEW SERIES
Your second trailer for this Monday is a truly gorgeous BBC trailer announcing some of the new dramas coming to TV this season, including new glimpses of WAR AND PEACE epic series, DICKENSIAN period set drama, HOLLOW CROWN with royal Judi Dench, SHERLOCK, LUTHER, Tom Hiddleston's THE NIGHT MANAGER and even Aidan  Turner from AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Agatha Christie mini series!

Friday, September 25, 2015

RICHARD MADDEN, DUSTIN HOFFMAN LEAD 'MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE' EPIC TV SERIES! TIM ALLEN'S 'LAST MAN STANDING' STARTS 5TH SEASON! 'DICKENSIAN' BBC SERIES PHOTOS WITH STEPHEN REA, PAULINE COLLINS, TOM WESTON JONES

MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE  
RICHARD MADDEN AND DUSTIN HOFFMAN LEAD NEW EPIC SERIES
Now the news of the day is extremely exciting: our dearest Prince Charming and King of the North Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman are set to lead the cast of new eight part historical TV series MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE which would chronicle the rise of the Medici family and the Italian Renaissance! THE MAN IN THE HIGHT CASTLE's Frank Spotnitz is producing the series following the story of the family’s ascent from simple merchants to power brokers who sparked an economic and cultural revolution, in the process creating a long list of powerful enemies. Richard Madden will play enterprising son Cosimo de’ Medici, and Hoffman is family patriarch Giovanni de’ Medici.

'DICKENSIAN'  BBC SERIES
FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED
Continuing TV news, but this time coming from United Kingdom, check out the first photos from BBC's ambitious new historical series DICKENSIAN which will have 20 half hour episodes starting this Autumn. The series is set in the realm populated by fictional characters from Charles Dickens’ novels including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street. The all-star cast is lead by Stephen Rea, Pauline Collins, Caroline Quentin, Peter Firth, Tuppence Middleton, Ellie Haddington, Sophie Rundle, Anton Lesser, Ned Dennehy, Adrian Rawlins, Joseph Quinn, Tom Weston-Jones and others. Check out the glimpse into DICKENSIAN and WAR AND PEACE in BBC Autumn trailer.


'LAST MAN STANDING' 
 SEASON 5 OF TIM ALLEN SITCOM
Are you ready for the return of hilarious Mike Buckster and his family? Because this Friday marks the start of the fifth season of beloved ABC family sitcom LAST MAN STANDING starring Tim Allen and Nancy Travis.  In the new season Mike has returned from being on a fantastic two-month road trip, travelling to far-flung places for Outdoor Man, the sporting goods emporium where he is marketing director. It’s great to be back with his wife, Vanessa, and their three daughters, but finds a lot has been going on at home as well as the job since he’s been away. Vanessa is dealing with her new teaching job and with the empty nest syndrome, their oldest daughter Kristin (Amanda Fuller) has married the father of her son Ryan (Jordan Masterson), their midde daughter Mandy (Molly Ephraim) is scoring success with her fashion line, while their youngest Eve (Kaitlyn Dever) is finishing high school!

Sunday, May 31, 2015

BBC PREPARING 'DICKENSIAN' EPIC TV SERIES SET IN A STREET WITH ALL DICKENS' CHARACTERS WITH CAROLINE QUENTIN, TOM WESTON JONES, PAULINE COLLINS! CHANNING TATUM TO PRODUCE 'TWO KISSES FOR MADDY' TOUCHING DRAMA!

CHANNING TATUM HAS
'TWO KISSES FOR MADDY'!
Now, it isn't yet known if he will star in it too, but Hollywood hunk Channing Tatum will produce the big screen adaptation of popular best selling novel TWO KISSES FOR MADDY from Matthew Logelin for Sony Pictures. The heart breaking story of the emotional book revolves around a father who must raise his newborn daughter alone after his wife tragically dies 27 hours after childbirth. As Maddy grows older, her father gives her two kisses each night, one from himself and one from her mother.

'DICKENSIAN' BBC EPIC DRAMA
WITH ALL DICKENS' CHARACTERS
Meanwhile, in TV news, something rather interesting coming from BBC! They are preparing a 20 half hour episode series DICKEN- SIAN which will bring together some of the writer's most iconic characters as their lives intertwine in unique and surprising ways in 19th Century London.
The stellar cast will include Caroline Quentin (as 'Oliver Twists' Mrs Bumble), Peter Firth, Stephen Rea (as tenacious Inspector Bucket from 'Bleak House'), Pauline Collins (as gin-tippling Mrs Gamp from 'Martin Chuzzlewit'), Tuppence Middleton, Sophie Rundle, Omid Djalili, Anton Lesser, Ned Dennehy, Adrian Rawlins and Tom Weston-Jones. The 90-metre, cobbled 19th century street which has already been built by the studio for Dickens' characters to inhabit will also welcome Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham among other literary faces!