TV NEWS: STUNNING 'BEOWULF' TV SERIES TRAILER! 'VERSAILLES' GETS 2ND SEASON! 'BATHORY' 16TH CENTURY TV SERIES! SEAN BEAN'S 'FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES' TO AIR IN USA! 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' SEASON 2 SET AT SEA! SANAA LATHAN LEADS 'INDICTMENT' EVENT SERIES!

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SEAFARING FEAR THE WALKING DEAD  SECOND SEASON

In today's short TV news, it has been announced that the second, 15 episode season of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD will largely be set on the ocean, since the characters are going to board the massive yacht, and there will be plenty of zombies even at the sea.

SANAA LATHAN LEADS NEW MINI SERIES

Fox has cast Sanaa Lathan as the lead star of Brian Grazer's event series INDICTMENT  which examines the dangerous aftermath of a police shooting when an African American cop kills a white teen in Tennessee!

EVA LONGORIA SELLS SITCOM TO ABC

Over at ABC Eva Longoria has sold yet another new sitcom from her production company. The untitled interracial family comedy will centre on an ambitious and meticulous Latino chef who runs a cafe with his unpredictable white father in law. She already sold BONITA AND MECHELLE sitcom to NBC where she will also star in HOT AND BOTHERED sitcom of her own.

SEAN BEAN'S 'FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES' TO AIR IN USA
A&E has bought ITV's upcoming FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES six episode epic TV series starring Sean Bean for USA airing. Bean plays a 19th century detective hunting down a killer who appears to be assembling humans from mutilated body parts in a copycat twist on the Frankenstein story.
'BATHORY' EPIC HORROR SERIES
CBS is also doing an epic horror series BATHORY with Joel Silver! The epic series follows Elisabeth BATHORY, the 16th century Hungarian Blood Countess. Considered the world’s most prolific serial killer, Báthory is believed to have murdered more than 600 girls bathing in their blood to preserve young looks.

'VERSAILLES' GETS 2ND SEASON!

News from Mipcom in Cannes say that Canal + has just ordered the second season of their King Louis XIV epic series VERSAILLES even before airing the first one in November with George Blagden in the lead role! It will cover time four years after the building of his palace in the first season.

'BEOWULF' EPIC SERIES GETS ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER

And also coming to Mipcom in Cannes is the first, extremely beautiful and atmospheric long trailer for ITV's epic fantasy series BEOWULF which you can see below starring Kieran Bew as the mythical hero alonside Ed Speleers as the young king.

FIRST 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' POSTER AND CAST PHOTO IS HERE! NATHANIEL PARKER IS KING OF PHILISTIA IN ABC'S 'OF KINGS AND PROPHETS' EPIC TV SERIES

  NATHANIEL PARKER JOINS

'OF KINGS & PROPHETS' SERIES

As you know it was supposed to start airing this Autumn on Sunday nights at ABC, but new historical series OF KINGS AND PROPHETS has been pushed to Mid Season in order for the producers to fix all the weak spots and improve the story. That also means some recasting, so the new face to be added to the cast is Nathaniel Parker as the cagey, shrewd and lethal King Achish, the King of Philistia who has been warring with King Saul (Ray Winstone) for years. The new series is an epic Biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.

  'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD'

GETS 1ST POSTER & CAST PHOTO

Meanwhile, first poster and cast photo have been released for THE WALKING DEAD companion series FEAR THE WALKING DEAD which should hit the small screens in more than 150 countries around the world later this summer, in August to be more precise!

  Kim Dickens leads the cast of the series, as a school guidance counsellor Madison living in Los Angeles at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. She is sceptical when she hears of the spreading zombie virus, but soon realises that she and her family are in grave danger. Cliff Curtis plays her fiancé Travis, Frank Dillane plays her dropout son Nick, and Alycia Debnam Carey is her responsible daughter Alicia. The series, which, apparently, won't include as much zombies as its older sister series, will also have Rubén Blades, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Sandrine Holt in the cast.