PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON PRIME VIDEO NEW HISTORICAL WW2 ASIA SET SERIES NARROW ROAD TO DEEP NORTH WITH JACOB ELORDI, SIMON BAKER, CIARAN HINDS

 NARROW ROAD TO DEEP NORTH 

PRIME VIDEO TV SERIES WITH JACOB ELORDI

New series will air during Easter holidays

Prime Video Australia has unveiled new posters for their new five part historical series THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH based on Richard Flanagan's novel which will stream from April 18th. Set against the shadows of World War II, it tells the epic story of Lieutenant Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi, with Ciaran Hinds as the older version), and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Olivia DeJonge younger version, Heather Mitchell older) shaped his life. In UK it will air on BBC One, in German speaking countries on Sky, with HBO Max airing it in Central and South Europe.

It will air in five hourlong episodes

Movistar + will stream it in Spain and Universal + in South America, RTE in Ireland and Nova in Greece.

 

THE STORY OF THE SERIES IS TOLD

over multiple time periods, as we journey from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man, and later in life, as a respected surgeon and Australian war hero. Simon Baker will also star alongside Essie Davis, William Lodder, Eduard Geyl, Thomas Weatherall, Christian Byers and Sam Parsonson. This love story that will take audiences through the darkest of times, an intimate character study illustrating the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and an investigation into a marriage and an unforgettable love affair. Check out the trailer below for the series that premiered at Berlin Festival and tell us what you think.

 

STAY HOME AND WATCH ESSIE DAVIS & RUPERT PENRY JONES SOLVE EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES IN MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS EPIC ADVENTURE TONIGHT AT ACORN

     'THE CRYPT OF TEARS'

SENDS MISS FISHER TO EGYPT!

The movie aired last month in Australia

Here's another programme that might make you to stay home as a good citizen during the corona lockdown: airing tonight at Acorn TV in USA is period set adventure movie MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS which will arrive also on Alibi in United Kingdom next month after already playing in Australian cinemas. It is the feature film version of the popular TV series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries aired in more than a hundred countries around the world, based on the series of Phryne Fisher novels written by Kerry Greenwood, in which Essie Davis plays private detective Phryne Fisher. This time she is solving mysteries in Egypt together with Nathan Page as her partner Detective Inspector Jack

Australian diva Essie Davis plays the lead role in the movie as well

Robinson, Rupert Penry Jones as First Lieutenant Jonathon Lofthouse, Daniel Lapaine as Lord Lofthouse, Khaled Naga as Sheikh Kahlil Abbas and legendary Miriam Margolyes as Prudence Stanley!  The movie, the first in a planned trilogy, was directed by Tony Tilse!

In The Crypt Of Tears
Miss Fisher embarks on a new adventure in a globe trotting romp of mystery and mayhem across the exotic 1920s deserts of the Negev, glamorous manor-house ballrooms, and the darkened back alleys of London in order to

The original series aired in more than 120 countries around the world in three seasons

find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records. After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, Phryne Fisher begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds,

Nathan Page returns as Miss Fisher's partner Inspector Jack Robinson

ancient curses and the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of Shirin's forgotten tribe. British aristocrats whose lives were impacted by the events of World War I in Mandated Palestine become caught up in the mystery as well!

1ST TRAILER FOR 19TH CENTURY DRAMA TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG WITH GEORGE MACKAY, NICHOLAS HOULT, CHARLIE HUNNAM, ESSIE DAVIS, RUSSELL CROWE, JACOB COLLINS LEVY

  TRUE HISTORY OF KELLY GANG

TRAILER WITH A STELLAR CAST

I don't usually cover gangster movies, especially not one as disgustingly violent as this one, but I'm showing you the first trailer and poster for TRUE

The movie hits cinemas next January

HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG for two reasons: a) it has the most amazing cast of Australia's best, b) it comes from Down Under, particularly Stan who gave us Bloom series last year. A big screen adaptation of Peter Carey's novel, the movie, starring George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe, Jacob Collins Levy, Sean Keenan, brings the highly fictionalised story of Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s. To this day, Kelly continues to cause division in opinions: some celebrate him as Australia's equivalent of Robin Hood, while majority

The cast features the very best of Australian actors!

rightfully regards him as a murderous villain undeserving of his folk hero status! He was, however, the last expression of the lawless frontier in what was becoming a highly organised society. Justin Kurzel directs the movie out next January in Australia and Russia, and from February in the rest of Europe.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MACABRE MIND BLOWING THRILLER MINI SERIES LAMBS OF GOD WITH ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWD, SAM REID

     'LAMBS OF GOD' 

EVERY FAIRY TALE HAS DARK SIDE

The series is based on Marele Day novel

This one has just finished its four episode run over at Australian Foxtel who produced it, but if I'm not mistaken it is also airing on HBO's inter national cable channels so most of you can probably catch it there: Gothic thriller mini series LAMBS OF GOD starring Essie Davis, Emmy Award winner Ann Dowd and Sam Reid in a four part drama which centres around three eccentric, secluded nuns, each a generation apart, living on a

You can catch the series on HBO international cable channels

remote island in a dilapidated monastery, forgotten by time and the Church – until a priest unwittingly happens upon them. Unfortunately for him, it seems, judging by the poster and the trailer below!

LAMBS OF GOD FOLLOWS
 the journey of three Catholic nuns, Sisters Iphigenia (Essie Davis), Margarita (Ann Dowd) and Carla (Jessica Barden), who are the last

Essie Davis plays sister Iphigenia in the series

remaining members of the enclosed order of St Agnes. They have forgotten the world outside until a young priest, Father Ignatius (Sam Reid), pushes his way through the undergrowth in the hope of finding prime real estate. What

Ann Dowd plays sister Margarita in the series

unfolds is a psychological and frightening game of survival; a thrilling ride in which the nuns become criminals and Father Ignatius is forced to confront his own personal weaknesses.

FERAL NUNS IN A MONASTERY

The mini series is actually a small screen adaptation of a captivating Marele Day novel, in the form of a very atmospheric and highly stylized, a lush, evocative drama that is both ancient and incredibly modern, with its timeless

Jessica Barden is the youngest sister Carla

message of resilience, and the power of storytelling as a redemptive force. Written by Sarah Lambert, this epic and fantastical tale of faith, love and redemption was directed by Jeffrey Walker.

SPOOKY FIRST PHOTOS FROM NEW GOTHIC PERIOD SET MINI SERIES LAMBS OF GOD WITH ESSIE DAVIS, SAM REID, ANN DOWD

'LAMBS OF GOD'

GOTHIC SERIES WITH ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWD AND SAM REID

Rejoice, spylings, we have first photos from one of the most anticipated of this year's new epic shows! Period set Gothic thriller LAMBS OF GOD should hit Australian Foxtel sometime this year starring Essie Davis, Ann

The series will premiere next month at Series Mania in Lille, France

Dowd and Sam Reid in a four part drama which centres around three eccentric, secluded nuns living on a remote island, forgotten by time and the Church – until a priest unwittingly happens upon them.

LAMBS OF GOD FOLLOWS
 the journey of three Catholic nuns, Sisters Iphigenia (Essie Davis), Margarita (Ann Dowd) and Carla (Jessica Barden), who are the last

Our dearest Sam Reid plays the only man in the series

remaining members of the enclosed order of St Agnes. They have forgotten the world outside until a young priest, Father Ignatius (Sam Reid), pushes his way through the undergrowth in the hope of finding prime real estate. What

The series will air sometime this summer on Foxtel in Australia

unfolds is a psychological and frightening game of survival; a thrilling ride in which the nuns become criminals and Father Ignatius is forced to confront his own personal weaknesses.

FERAL NUNS IN A MONASTERY

As you can see from the photos, the mini series, a small screen adaptation of a  a Marele Day novel, will be very atmospheric and highly stylized, a lush,

The series was shot in Sydney and Tasmania!

evocative drama that is both ancient and incredibly modern, with its timeless message of resilience, and the power of story- telling as a redemptive force. Written by Sarah Lambert, it was directed by Jeffrey Walker.

SAM REID, ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWD TO LEAD 'LAMBS OF GOD' GOTHIC EPIC PERIOD SET MINI SERIES! CHRIS EVANS TO FACE CATACLYSMIC DISASTER IN NEILL BLOMKAMP'S 'GREENLAND'

  CHRIS EVAN TO FACE

 DISASTER IN 'GREENLAND'!

We continue with casting news from Cannes this week as well, after a short break which we used to announced the newly ordered comedies. The hottest

Chris Evans is leading Greenland!

Avenger of them all, and also an amazing director in his own right, Chris Evans will star in Neill Blomkamp's new disaster movie GREENLAND! Not much is known about the film, except that it will be a character driven, high concept narrative about a family’s fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Before this, you will watch Chris in THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT next to Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman (talk about a hot hot hot cast) Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley, about the rescue of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to Israel in 1981.

  'LAMBS OF GOD' EPIC SERIES

 SAM REID, ESSIE DAVIS, ANN DOWN LEAD PERIOD SET MINI

Sam Reid will play the priest who suddenly arrives

While we're waiting for the premiere of their Picnic at Hanging Rock costume series, Australian Foxtel is already planning another interesting period set mini drama: their four part LAMBS OF GOD will star Emmy winner Ann Dowd and White Princess star Essie Davis in a dark, gothic story about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever. With Jessica Barden playing the third nun, our favourite boy Sam Reid will play the dangerous stranger.

AH, THAT NAUGHTY PRIEST    
Sisters of St Agnes must defend their lives, existence and beliefs when the handsome priest, played by Sam Reid, attempts to sell their dilapidated

Ann Dowd and Essie Davis will play the smitten nuns!

monastery. What unfolds is an epic and fantastical tale of faith, love and redemption which weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and the mysteries of the natural world!

PREVIEW CLIPS FOR QUEEN 'VICTORIA' EPIC SERIES WITH JENNA COLEMAN, RUFUS SEWELL AND JUDE LAW'S 'THE YOUNG POPE' TV SERIES! VINCENT REGAN, JOANNE WHALLEY JOIN 'WHITE PRINCESS' EPIC SERIES

'WHITE PRINCESS' EPIC SERIES

CASTS VINCENT REGAN, JOANNE WHALLEY AND OTHERS

A bunch of new actors have joined the cast of Starz' period set sequel series WHITE PRINCESS lead by Jodie Comer as Princess Elizabeth, who is now joined by Jacob Collins Levy as Henry VII, the paranoid king forced to marry an enemy to secure his throne! Essie Davis is her mother Dowager Queen Elizabeth “The White Queen” indomitable strategist and unwavering supporter of the York cause. Joanne Whalley will be widowed Duchess of Burgundy, her aunt, and sister to dead kings Richard III and Edward IV of England – a sensual, intelligent York woman who presides over her cultured court across the English Channel. As we wrote before, Michelle Fairley is Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII’s mother, the calculating mastermind behind his ascent to the Throne of England who works to fortify his rule, as York rivals continue to plot against them. Suki Waterhouse is Cecily of York, jealous younger sister to Princess Elizabeth, while their cousin Margaret Plantagenet – reluctant member of the York clan because of the precarious political position it puts her and her brother in at the Tudor court – is played by Rebecca Benson! Rhys Connah is Teddy, Caroline Goodall is Duchess Cecily, Kenneth Cranham is Bishop Morton and Vincent Regan is Jasper Tudor.

'THE YOUNG POPE' TRAILER

 JUDE LAW IS SMOKING PONTIFF

Two preview clips for upcoming period set series, starting with Jude Law's THE YOUNG POPE in which he plays the pontiff himself,  mysterious and contradictory, the first American pope in the devil's nest we call Vatican. Also starring Diane Keaton, the series will air this October on Sky, HBO and Canal +!

'VICTORIA' PREVIEW CLIP

 INTRODUCES THE QUEEN

While we're waiting for a regular trailer for ITV's upcoming new epic drama VICTORIA you can check out a preview clip in which Jenna Coleman's young queen VICTORIA is meeting her prime minister Lord Melbourne, played by Rufus Sewell, and other nobles for the first time.