1ST 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN, HOLIDAY GRAINGER! 'POLDARK' SEASON FOUR PLOT DETAILS, CAST ADITIONS, FIRST PHOTOS! REBECCA FRONT JOINS!

  'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

FIRST PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN AND HOLIDAY GRAINGER

News from the British isles today! First photos have been released for the new science fiction series ELECTRIC DREAMS specifically for The Hood Maker episode with our dearest Richard Madden and Holiday Grainger! Each of the ten episodes is done by a different director and

This is fourth or fifth time for Madden and Grainger to star together

cast adapting one of the stories from Philip K. Dick's sf opus. Some of the other episodes of the Channel 4 and Amazon series will star Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Jack Reynor, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston!

One half of the series will air this Autumn, the other next year

THE HOOD MAKER is set in a world without advanced technology where mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. Their powers have unintended

The series will also air on Amazon around the world

implications and when the public begins to embrace mysterious telepath blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate. This will be opening episode of the series and will air September 17th!

  DEZZY'S VERDICT Short, and a bit cheap looking,the episode was still thoroughly intriguing with Madden and Grainger shining as the leading pair. They've always had a strong magnetism when together on the big or small screen.

  'POLDARK' SEASON 4

REBECCA FRONT JOINS THE CAST

Rebecca Front will play Ozzie's mother

News are also arriving from BBC who have started production on the fourth, and probably penultimate, season of hit period set series POLDARK! The new season, which will air next year probably in summer again after scoring great ratings this June and July, has added Rebecca Front and young Louis Davison in the cast!

 HELLO, LONDON!
Set in 1796, it will see Poldark (Aidan Turner) trying to defend Cornwall from an empowered George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), and risking everything as he embarks on a political journey which takes him to the capital. Ross strives to become a better man, but his dark and reckless streak is never far from the surface and will lead to him facing new enemies and suffering great losses. Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) finds her loyalties torn, Elizabeth (Heida Reed) tries to strengthen her marriage, Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) continues to be oppressed by husband Reverend Ossie Whitworth (Christian Brassington), and the Enyses (Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde) are tested as never

Louis Davison will play older Geoffrey Charles

before. The action of series four should run until the Christmas period of 1799.

NEW CAST!

After playing roles of snobbish, pompous mothers in Doctor Thorne and War and Peace costume dramas, Rebecca Front will do that again in the fourth season of POLDARK, by playing  Lady Whitworth, Ossie's formidable mother. Harry Richardson and Tom York return as Drake and Sam Carne, Beatie Edney as Prudie and Josh Whitehouse as Lieutenant Hugh Armitage, who remains smitten with adulterous Demelza especially after they scandalously shagged each other on the sand dunes of Cornwall. Little Louis Davison will play a more grown

Max Bennett will play one of the new baddies!

up Geoffrey Charles, Elizabeth's son and Poldark's nephew.The series will also have a new villain in evil Monk Adderley who is friends with George. Max Bennett will play him!

RICHARD MADDEN, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOIN 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES! MARTIN COMPSTON AND OTHERS JOIN 'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES 2ND SEASON! IAN MCKELLEN, GABRIEL BYRNE IN 'HAMLET REVENANT' MOVIE ADAPTATION

'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

RICHARD MADDEN AND HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOIN THE CAST

Rejoice, people! Two of our most favourite youngsters Richard Madden and Holliday Grainger will work together again and I think it will be their fifth time! They will star in The Hood Maker episode of ELECTRIC DREAMS anthology series in which each of the ten episodes will be done by a different director and cast adapting one of the stories from Philip K. Dick's sf opus. As I've informed you before some of the other episodes of the Channel 4 and Amazon series will star Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Jack Reynor, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston!

THE HOOD MAKER is set in a world without advanced technology where mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. Their powers have unintended implications and when the public begins to embrace mysterious telepath blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.

'VICTORIA' SECOND SEASON

LATEST CASTING ADDITIONS!

In television news, still staying over in Britain, the second season of the hugely popular ITV series VICTORIA set to come back this Autumn with eight episodes plus a two hour Christmas special, has just added Martin Compston, Bruno Wolkowitch,  Emerald Fennell, Jo Stone-Fewings, Leo Suter and Michael Maloney to the cast with previously announced Diana Rigg! They will all join the second season which sees the Queen (Jenna Coleman) facing motherhood. She is now a working mother, trying to balance her responsibilities but with Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) still struggling to find a role for himself, there is an inevitable power struggle between husband and wife.

Martin Compston will be playing Dr Robert Traill, a key campaigner in the petition to gain awareness and support for those suffering from the potato famine in Ireland during the 1840s. French actor Bruno Wolkowitch will star as French King Louis Philippe, who Queen Victoria visits on her first outing to France. Nigel Lindsay returns as Sir Robert Peel, Alex Jennings as King Leopold, Peter Bowles as Duke of Wellington, David Oakes as Prince Ernest, Daniela Holtz as Baroness Lehzen and Catherine Flemming as the Duchess of Kent.

'HAMLET REVENANT'

CASTS SIR IAN MCKELLEN!

Brits in our last piece of news today as well: as 'Deadline' reports acting legend Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne will star in HAMLET REVENANT the latest big screen adaptation of Shakespeare's famous plays on the tragic Danish prince. Connie Nielsen and Lambert Wilson will also join them in the Ken McMullen directed film together with Medici star Lex Shrapnel!

HAMLET REVENANT follows a character caught amidst treasonous political upheavals, family crisis, sexual tensions and ambiguous friendships: a vortex of revenge, doubt and madness out of which no main character escapes. It brings to the surface the violence and destructive instincts that haunt the human psyche!

JACK REYNOR TO LEAD 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES 'IMPOSSIBLE PLANET' 2ND EPISODE! RICKY MARTIN JOINS EDGAR RAMIREZ, PENELOPE CRUZ IN 'VERSACE' MINI SERIES! BBC 'MINIATURIST' PERIOD SET SERIES 1ST PHOTO

'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

 JACK REYNOR IN 2ND EPISODE

TV news today, starting with Channel 4 and US Amazon's anthology sf series Phillip K. Dick's ELECTRIC DREAMS which will have ten episodes each with different stars, stories and directors. Jack Reynor and Benedict Wong have been announced as the stars of the second episode, based on Dick's story Impossible Planet.

Written and directed by The Night Manager’s David Farr, it will see them playing two disillusioned, disenchanted and indifferent space tourism employees who take up an elderly woman’s (Geraldine Chaplin) request for a trip back to Earth, the existence of which is a long debunked myth. She appears easily confused, plus she’s rich – so, for the right payment, what’s the harm in indulging her fantasies? However, as their journey unfolds, their scam begins to eat away at them and they ultimately find themselves dealt a bitter sweet surprise. Timothy Spall will lead the Tom Harper directed first episode based on The Commuter story.

'THE MINIATURIST' BBC SERIES

CASTS ANYA TAYLOR JOY, ALEX HASSELL AND ROMOLA GARAI

I've announced this one last year, but now we have the cast: Alex Hassell, Romola Garai and Anya Taylor Joy will star in BBC's period set three part series THE MINIATURIST based on Jessie Burton novel!  Set in 1686 Amsterdam it tells the story of Nella (Taylor-Joy) who moves to the city to become the wife of a wealthy merchant. Nella is given a miniature version of her new home, which is furnished by a Miniaturist, whose creations start to reflect real events in the house. She then starts to discover the secrets of the house and its inhabitants including her cold sister-in-law Marin (Garai).

'VERSACE' TV SERIES

RICKY MARTIN AS GAY LOVER

Over at FX it seems they are gathering Latin stars in the cast for their new mini series VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY. The series has now added Ricky Martin under Ryan Murphy's direction. Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz have already been cast in the lead roles.

In its ten episode run VERSACE will examine the shocking July 1997 assassination of Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez) on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by sociopath and serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss). Ricky Martin will play Versace’s longtime gay partner Antonio D’Amico while Penelope Cruz is set to portray Versace’s sister Donatella.