KNIGHTFALL EPIC SERIES SECOND SEASON TEASER PUTS A SWORD BETWEEN TOM CULLEN AND MARK HAMILL!

    'KNIGHTFALL' EPIC SERIES

FIRST TEASER REVEALED!

Although the airing time ain't any time soon (June, 2019) History has revealed the first teaser for the second season of their KNIGHTFALL epic

New season will have Spartacus: War of the Damned Aaron Helbing as the brand new show runner and executive producer

series showing us Tom Cullen as Landry, the leader of the Templars, and Mark Hamill as a battle hardened Knight Templar veteran of the Crusades

Ed Stoppard returns as the betrayed king of France who wants revenge

who survived a decade of captivity in the Holy Land and is tasked with training the new initiates to the Order. He probably won't agree morally with

Genevieve Gaunt joins the court as the smart and brutal princess Isabella

Landry who impregnated the French queen, even though she was the wife of his best friend the king (Ed Stoppard), and then watched her getting killed

Tom Forbes joins the cast as brutally evil and impotent prince of France

by her husband for her treachery and adultery. The sword in the teaser obviously announces a divide within the order.

THE SECOND SEASON WILL
explore this dark time in history from the Templar perspective, embracing an authentically grittier, darker, and more brutal Medieval period than has ever been seen before. Tom Forbes joins the cast as Prince Louis of France, Clementine Nicholson as his wife Princess of Burgundy, Genevieve Gaunt is his sister princess Isabella of France.

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY CHANNEL'S NEW SF PERIOD SET TRUE UFO PHENOMENA SERIES PROJECT BLUE BOOK WITH AIDAN GILLEN, MICHAEL MALARKEY

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STARTS NEXT MONTH AT HISTORY

In the following few weeks your trusted spy will present you a couple of new TV and movie projects that are arriving next month. From January 8th at History Channel starts a new science fiction period set series PROJECT BLUE BOOK based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1969.

THE STORY OF THE SERIES   
follows Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen), a brilliant yet under-appreciated college professor, who is recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead a clandestine operation called PROJECT BLUE BOOK. Along with his

Aidan Gillen and Michael Malarkey lead the cast

partner, the debonair Air Force Captain Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey), he is summoned to investigate UFO sightings around the country and use science to discover what really happened. However, when some

The new series is based on true events

encounters cannot be explained away and cases remain open, Hynek begins to suspect that he has been duped by the government into a larger conspiracy to cover up the truth. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and rising Atomic

Blue Book is executive produced by Robert Zemeckis

Era, each episode will draw from the actual PROJECT BLUE BOOK case files, blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in US history.

PERIOD SET TUESDAY: MARK HAMILL, TOM FORBES, GENEVIEVE GAUNT JOIN 'KNIGHTFALL' EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 2! 1ST 'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES' BBC PERIOD SET SAGA PHOTOS WITH JAMIE DORNAN, MATTHEW RHYS

   'KNIGHTFALL' SEASON 2

GETS A NEW PRINCE AND A PRINCESS  PLUS A JEDI!

I must admit I wasn't at all excited when, earlier this year, History announced their mediaeval series KNIGHTFALL will be getting a second

Tom Forbes is the new naughty Prince of France

season, as the first one was mediocre at best, poorly written, mostly implausible with not a single likeable character (all of them were slimy, treacherous and immoral) but with the new cast additions being announced yesterday, I might change my mind and give it a go again.

KNIGHTFALL  which starred Tom Cullen as a knight Templar who is trying to solve a mystery of the Christ's chalice while also bedding French king's wife although he is supposed to be his best friend and mentor (it did see the said adulteress queen rightfully killed in the end) will now also have Mark Hamill, Tom Forbes and Genevieve Gaunt in the cast! Hamill will  be Talus, a battle hardened Knight Templar

Lovely Genevieve Gaunt is new Princess Isabella

veteran of the Crusades, who survived captivity for ten years in the Holy Land and is tasked with training the new initiates to the Order. Tom Forbes, whom we watched in Wolf Hall and The Bastard Executioner, will play Prince Louis, the violent and unpredictable son of King Philip (Ed Stoppard) and heir to the throne! Meanwhile, Genevieve Gaunt (who has just been crowned as queen Willow in The Royals) will play an older princess Isabella, the daughter of King Philip and well on her way to becoming the woman who history would call the she-wolf of France. Aaron Helbing (Spartacus: War of the Damned), is the new showrunner, taking over from Dominic Minghella.

   'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES'

1ST BBC SERIES PHOTOS WITH JAMIE DORNAN,MATTHEW RHYS

BBC has, meanwhile, released first photos from their new three part period set mini series DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES with Jamie Dornan, Matthew Rhys and Ann Skelly! A story of love, betrayal, deception and

The series is based on Eugene McCabe modern Irish Classic

revenge, it is set in the haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. It’s a world of spies, confessions and double dealings where neighbours observe each other and inform. The tale takes place over a desperately tense 24-hour

Matthew Rhys plays the father in the new BBC 2 series

period. It’s Beth Winters’ (Ann Skelly) 23rd birthday and also the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward (Jamie Dornan) to escape from her limited life and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner

Ann Skelly and Jamie Dornan lead the cast

stepfather Billy (Matthew Rhys). As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, the series sees a woman struggling to control her own destiny and will ultimately illuminate tensions that tear both families and nations apart.

1ST 'EMPEROR' CHARLES V EPIC MOVIE PHOTOS WITH ADRIEN BRODY, RUTGER HAUER, TOMAS KRETSCHMANN, OLIVER PLATT, PAZ VEGA! 'POLDARK' GETS 3RD SEASON WITH AIDAN TURNER

1ST 'EMPEROR' EPIC PHOTOS

ADRIEN BRODY IS CHARLES V!

Since your trusted spy is one of web's leading places for epic and historical projects, here's one, with a fresh poster, that I have to announce and it is currently in production: Lee Tamahori's 16th century epic movie EMPEROR, set for a next year release, will see Adrien Brody playing legendary Emperor Charles V, with Paz Vega as Queen Mary of Hungary, Oliver Platt as Pope Clement VII, Bill Skarsgard as Philip II of Spain, Eddie Marsan as Martin Luther, and with German superstar Thomas Kretschmann and movie legend Rutger Hauer also in the stellar cast!

LEE TAMAHORI'S EMPEROR 
 is an action epic about a young girl who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father by infiltrating his royal court. It happens in a world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation and treason in which Charles V is trying to hold together a fragmented empire... it's the 16th century revisited!

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

Charles V was a Duke of Burgundy and Holy Roman Emperor who ruled a massive Empire in which the sun never set including the Spanish Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Netherlands and extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia where he sanctioned the conquest by Castillian conquistadors of the Aztec and Inca empires. Although the four decades of his rule were marked by many wars (mostly against France, German princes and the Ottoman Sultan) in the end he abdicated in order to live and then die in a monastery instead on a battle field. 

BBC'S 'POLDARK' GETS 

 3RD SEASON WITH AIDAN TURNER

Meanwhile, while we're waiting for BBC to air, beginning of September in UK and end of it in USA, the 2nd season of popular period set series POLDARK, it has been announced that the 3rd has been ordered too! The 2nd season, starring Aidan Turner will be set in year 1794: Ross Poldark must traverse new family, new loves and new battles, as the French revolution casts a shadow over life in Cornwall. Eleanor Tomlinson returns as his wife Demelza!

SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY'S 'BARBARIANS RISING' EPIC SERIES WITH TOM HOPPER, BEN BATT AND 'CLEVERMAN' SF DYSTOPIAN SERIES WITH IAIN GLENN, RYAN CORR, FRANCES O'CONNOR

 'BARBARIANS RISING' EPIC SAGA

WITH TOM HOPPER & BEN BATT

Two programmes today that I've forgot to mention before and they are already airing, but it is never too late to catch up. BARBARIANS RISING is already on at History Channel around the world (mostly on Tuesday evenings, methinks). It is a mix of docu series with lavish live action scenes and it has a stellar cast including our beloved MERLIN and BLACK SAILS star Tom Hopper and Ben Batt whom we loved in GO BETWEEN.

THOSE WHO DEFIED ROME
Barbarians Rising tells the epic story of those who fought for independence from the world's first military dictatorship. Their names are legend, but their real stories have not been told before. Big themes will be explored through intimate, personal character profiles of history's greatest warriors, set against the violent backdrop of a world on fire. The characters include: Hannibal (Nicholas Pinnock), the brilliant military strategist and sworn enemy of the Empire who vows a blood oath at the age of 9 to avenge his father's defeat; Spartacus (Ben Batt), the slave-turned rebel who led a people's revolt against Rome's elite; Boudica (Kirsty Mitchell), the Celtic warrior Queen, a woman who commanded men in one of the most ambitious attempts to overthrow a tyrant; and Attila the Hun (Emil Hostina). Arminius the leader of the Germanic tribes is played by Tom Hopper, while Gavin Drea is Alaric the King of Visigoths!

 'CLEVERMAN' SF SERIES

CONFLICTED DYSTOPIA

Also already airing, over at Sundance TV is Australian sf series CLEVERMAN airing Wednesday evenings! Set in the near future, CLEVERMAN is a startlingly original drama rooted in Aboriginal mythology. The series depicts a deeply conflicted and anxious dystopian society, fearful of a minority group living among them, endowed with extraordinary physical traits. One young man – The Cleverman – struggles with his own power and the responsibility to unite this divided world, but he must first overcome a deep estrangement from his older brother. Iain Glen, Ryan Corr and Frances O'Connor lead the cast.