LAVISH 1ST PHOTOS AND TEASER FOR NEW EPIC TV SAGA 'MEHMED THE CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD' WITH KENAN IMIRZALIOGLU AS SULTAN MEHMED II!

  MEHMED THE CONQUEROR

1ST PHOTOS AND TRAILER  FROM NEW EPIC TV SERIES

Kenan Imirzalioglu plays the title role!

Two years after the spectacular Magnificent Century epic series ended with its Kosem Sultana spin-off, we are finally getting another lavish historical saga from Turkey! First teaser and first photos were released last week for MEHMED: CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD (Mehmed bir cihan fatihi) which will see Turkish superstar Kenan İmirzalıoğlu playing the famous Ottoman sultan who invaded Constantinople and brought Turks onto European ground back in the 15th century!

Mehmed was a ruthless warrior

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
Known for his bloody conquest of Constantinople (today's Istanbul) when he was only 21 back in 1453, Sultan Mehmed is both the most famous and the most infamous of all Turkish rulers who ended Eastern Roman Empire with his invasion. He was known for extreme cruelty and even his stepmother Serbian princess Mara, known also as Despina Mara, who not only raised him after his mother died at the court of his father Sultan Murad, but also secured his way to the throne and then became his official Valida Sultana (Mother Sultana), could not handle his impulsive nature and outbursts of cruelty. He did not stop at Istanbul, and during 30 years of rule he spread the territory of Ottoman Empire all over Anadolia and also in Europe as far as Bosnia and Serbia. He also strengthened Ottoman navy which he used to end up the two month long siege of Constantinople by transporting 80 of his war ships overland in order to surround the city both by sea and land. After he took over Constantinople he also conquered Despotate of Morea, the Empire of Trebizond and Serbia which he thought he had a claim on through his stepmother Despina Mara. He also conquered most of the Black Sea coast and Wallachia (although Vlad Dracula gave him tons of trouble there LOL). He also led war against Venice. According to most historical evidence he was bisexual and very aggressive and cruel to his lovers, both male and female ones. He even allegedly raped the little 14 year old son of the Constantinople general in front of him before beheading the whole family. One of the Wallachian princes was his lover too.

THE REST OF THE CAST

The series, which is expected to start airing sometime this year (I've heard possibly this March) on Turkish Kanal D will also have a cast consisting of Selin Demiratar as his consort Sultana Hatice although I hear she's been replaced in the meantime by Büşra Develi Mehmed so I guess we shall have to wait and see, Seda Bakan as another of his wives Sultana Chichek, Ertan Saban as Byzantine emperor Constantine and others.

'MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM' SULTANA EPIC TV SERIES SECOND SEASON TEASERS AND POSTERS! 'FULLER HOUSE' SITCOM 2ND SEASON POSTER AND DATE REVEALED

'FULLER HOUSE' 2ND 

SEASON POSTER AND DATE

TV news today, people, starting with the first poster for the second season of Netflix's popular sitcom FULLER HOUSE which successfully brought back the now grown up stars of Full House classic comedy series to the small screens earlier this year in a family friendly, warm half hour sitcom.

The second season has been announced for December 9th release and it is going to be holiday themed with episodes covering Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and more. With grown up DJ (Candace Cameron Bure), now a mother of three kids, having to decide between two gorgeous men who both want her, the second season will also bring back her old school boyfriend Nelson, the introduction of Joey’s wife and children, the arrival of a freakish D.J. clone and a special appearance from New Kids on the Block.

'MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM'

2ND SEASON TEASERS & POSTERS

An exotic delight for you today as well: Turkish Tims Productions has released today the first teasers and posters for the second season of the popular historical saga MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM about one of Turkey's most famous sultanas from the famous period called 'the sultanate of women'.

ERA OF SULTAN MURAD IV
New teasers give us the first looks at now grown up sultan Murad IV, now played by Turkish heartthrob Metin Akgülder, the 17th Padishah of the Ottoman Empire while addressing his subjects for the first time, and also the first look of gorgeous Nurgül Yeşilçay as his mother sultana KOSEM ! As you remember if you watched the first season (it airs in all Arabic countries, large part of Europe and Southern America), the first season ended with sultana KOSEM finally defeating all of her enemies and enthroning her eldest living son Murad to the Ottoman throne, inheriting the position of Valide Sultan, declaring herself the official regent to the crown. As the first teaser says the new season will mark the era of Murad IV which was known for brutality and absolutism.

FULL CAST SWITCH!

Since the first season ended with all enemies killed or destroyed, and with all of Kosem's children now grown up, the second season of KOSEM will be the most unprecedented one, possibly in worldwide sense too, because it will have an entirely new cast not just with new actors playing princes and princesses (Doğaç Yıldız as prince Kasim, Batuhan Karacakaya as prince Ibrahim, Leyla Feray as sultana Ayshe and Farah Zeynep as another Ayshe sultana - Murad's consort) but also with Nurgül Yeşilçay taking over the role of KOSEM from Beren Saat whose rather sad lack of charisma and acting chops have left the audience requesting a replacement in the lead role. Thus, Nurgul will take over the role of KOSEM who gained her prestige as the most formidable, influential, and powerful sultana in Ottoman history.

NURGUL YESILCAY TO REPLACE BEREN SAAT IN 'KOSEM SULTANA' EPIC TV SERIES? TOBY SANDEMAN IS PRINCE OF MOROCCO IN 'ROYALS' SEASON 3! BBC TO TURN 'MINIATURIST' INTO 17 CENTURY SERIES! NBC BUYS 'THE ARK' SF DRAMA

'KOSEM SULTANA' EPIC SERIES

NURGUL YESILCAY TO REPLACE BEREN SAAT AT THE THRONE? 

Television news for you this Sunday, starting with the royal gossips coming from Istanbul's Topkapi palace which say that Beren Saat could be replaced in the second season of the worldwide hit saga KOSEM SULTANA by Turkey's best paid TV star Nurgül Yeşilçay! I must admit I'd welcome the replacement given how much the audience was dissatisfied with Beren's lack of any interest in giving some depth or personality to her portrayal of the 17th century sultana Kosem who ruled Ottoman Empire through her husband and later on her sons. With her shocking lack of expression and acting chops Beren has really  taken for granted the role which most actresses would consider an acting playground and a role of a lifetime. It is interesting that the second season will have an unprecedented full cast change, since all of the characters have been killed in the first one or have grown up and will be played by older stars. Caner Cindoruk, Burak Yamantürk, Metin Akdülger, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Naz Elmas are just some of the stars I've heard could play Kosem's grown up princes and princesses and courtiers in the new season which should return this Autumn.

TOBY SANDEMAN IS 

MOROCCAN PRINCE IN 'ROYALS'
Speaking of royal courts, E!'s first scripted series ever which has set December 4th for the return in its third season, THE ROYALS has just cast Toby Sandeman as a Moroccan prince! Sebastian is described as being articulate and cerebral and has fully embraced everything that comes with being a contemporary royal including the scrutiny and attention it brings. He joins Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Austin and William Moseley in the popular drama.
NBC BUYS 'THE ARK' SF DRAMA
Meanwhile, NBC has bought a high concept sf drama THE ARK a modern retelling of the Noah’s Ark story from the Bible, following an engineer who, after the death of his wife, has a vision to construct a ship capable of sustaining life in space. When the build happens to coincide with the coming end of the world, the engineer realizes there may be a larger story at play.
BBC TO TURN 'THE MINIATURIST' INTO MINI SERIES
Across the pond, British national broadcaster BBC has announced that they're making a new period set series. They will adapt Jessie Burton's THE MINIATURIST into a three part series! The 2014 bestseller is set in 1686 with the story revolving around eighteen year old Nella Oortman, who arrives in Amsterdam to become the wife of wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt. She receives a wedding gift of a doll's house from a mysterious Miniaturist, which she soon realises is mirroring the situation in her house, and predicting the future in unnerving ways.

ENGLISH TRAILER FOR LAVISH 'MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM SULTANA' EPIC TV SERIES! BBC TO TURN 'HIS DARK MATERIALS' EPIC NOVELS INTO TV SAGA! SYFY ORDERS FEMALE LEAD VAN HELSING' EPIC SERIES!

'HIS DARK MATERIALS' 

EPIC FANTASY NOVELS TO BECOME BBC MINI SERIES 

TV news today, starting with the super exciting ones coming from BBC who will turn Philip Pullman's epic fantasy novels HIS DARK MATERIALS into TV series. The story, already adapted into GOLDEN COMPASS movie eight years ago, follows two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they travel through various parallel universes and meet a host of fantastical creatures including witches and armoured polar bears.

'VAN HELSING' SYFY SERIES

Meanwhile, after closing down DOMINION and DEFIANCE, SyFy will fill the empty space with new VAN HELSING series! Coming from Neil LaBute, the story will, unlike the brilliant movie with Hugh Jackman, have a female hero! It will be told from the point of view of Dr Abraham Van Helsing's daughter Vanessa Helsing, who is resurrected five years into the future after a long sleep in the world that has been overrun by vampires, leaving Vanessa Helsing as the last hope for humanity's survival. The 13 episodes will be filmed in Canada to air Fall 2016!

'KOSEM SULTANA' 

STUNNING NEW ENGLISH TRAILER

After showing you a number of Turkish language teasers for Star TV and Tims Production's incredibly lavish epic series MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM I finally have for you an exciting new trailer for it with English subtitles! Check it out below together with some new
photos depicting some of the characters that will appear in the ambitious historical saga following the life of Sultana Kosem, one of the key figures in the so called Sultanate of Women, a period in Ottoman history during which ladies were ruling the empire. Great excitement and anticipation surrounds the airing of the first episode which is scheduled for Thursday next week, November 12th after a very long wait!

SULTANATE OF WOMEN  
Just like the previous mega successful series on Sultana Hurrem, KOSEM will be set four generations after Suleyman's rule in Istanbul's Topkapi palace following the rise to the throne of Sultan Ahmet (Ekin Koc) with the help of his grandmother Sultana Safiye (Hulya Avsar) and his wife Sultana Kosem ( Beren Saat and Anastasia Tsilimpiou) one of the most influential woman in Ottoman history, who served as wife, mother and grandmother to four Ottoman sultans! 

'MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM SULTANA' EPIC TV SERIES STUNNING NEW TEASERS! 'EMERALD CITY' EPIC TV SERIES CASTS VINCENT D'ONOFRIO, MIDO HAMADA NEXTO TO ADRIA ARJONA, OLIVER JACKSON COHEN

'EMERALD CITY' EPIC SERIES

TARSEM CASTS VINCENT D'ONOFRIO AND MIDO HAMADA

After casting Adria Arjona to lead their new fantasy series EMERALD CITY NBC is adding new names to the cast! Vincent D'Onofrio will play the Wizard of Oz the enigmatic leader of Emerald City. A man of science in a world of magic, he rules through inspiration, fear and a tenuous accord with the grand witches. Cast also includes Oliver Jackson Cohen as Lucas, Ana Ularu as Wicked Witch of the West, and Mido Hamada. Tarsem is directing the epic series in which Dorothy Gale (Adria Arjona) is transported to a mystical land in great peril, where an all powerful Wizard has outlawed magic and rules over the many kingdoms. This is the fabled Land of Oz where lethal warriors roam, wicked witches plot in the shadows and a young girl from Kansas becomes the headstrong hero who holds the fate of their world in her hands.

'KOSEM SULTANA' 

STUNNING NEW TEASER TRAILERS

Meanwhile, mindblowing new cast photos and a number of stunning teasers have been released by Star TV and Tims Productions for lavish new epic TV saga MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM (Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem) which is to start airing in Turkey any time now and then around the world depicting the life of the Ottoman sultana set a few

generations after Sultan Suleyman and Sultana Hurrem who were the heroes of the original MAGNIFICENT CENTURY SERIES! 

BEREN SAAT, HULYA AVSAR, EKIN KOC LEAD THE CAST
 The series will follow KOSEM SULTANA, played by Beren Saat and Anastasia Tsilimpiou (younger version), who was born at the end of the 16th century and ended up in Topkapi Palace where, thanks to her intelligence and skill she became Sultan Ahmet's favourite concubine and mother of his children. She will quickly become one of  the most influential women in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Ekin Koç will play Sultan Ahmet who died when he was only 27. Hülya Avşar plays Safiye Sultana who was the wife of Sultan Murad, and is Ahmet's grandmother. After Ahmet's death two of his sons with KOSEM SULTANA will ascend to the throne thanks to the power of their mother.

FIRST LAVISH 'MAGNIFICENT CENTURY: KOSEM SULTANA' EPIC TV SERIES TEASER WITH HULYA AVSAR, EKIN KOC, SARAH HYLAND AND BEREN SAAT.

'KOSEM SULTANA' 

EPIC TV SERIES GETS 1ST TEASER

Now, here's something lavish for you this Sunday! Tims Productions and Turkish Star TV have released the first, rather artsy, epic and intriguing first teaser trailer for their historical saga MAGNI- FICENT CENTURY: KOSEM SULTANA  (Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem) with Beren Saat in the lead role. Now, you can't actually see her in the teaser (I'm guessing they're probably saving her for the real trailer) but you can see gorgeous Hülya Avşar as her grandmother in law Safiye Sultana and Ekin Koç as Sultan Ahmet! The series should start airing October 1st in Turkey and a bit later on around The Balkans, Russia, Asia and Africa! The previous series which followed Sultan Suleyman was one of the most watched series worldwide.

BEREN SAAT, HULYA AVSAR, EKIN KOC LEAD THE CAST
The series will follow KOSEM SULTANA, played by Beren Saat and Sarah Hyland (in the younger version), who was born at the end of the 16th century as Anastasia and ended up in Topkapi Palace where, thanks to her intelligence and skill she became Sultan Ahmet's favourite concubine and mother of his children. She will quickly become one the most influential women in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Ekin Koç will play Sultan Ahmet who died when he was only 27. Hülya Avşar plays Safiye Sultana who was the wife of Sultan Murad, the son of Sultan Selim and Nurbanu Sultana who were characters in the MAGNIFICENT CENTURY previous series. After Ahmet's death two of his sons with KOSEM SULTANA will ascend to the throne thanks to the power of their mother. Alma Terzic will be Ahmet's mother Handan Sultana. Stay tuned for more official pics!

MAGNIFICENT FIRST PHOTOS FROM LAVISHLY EPIC NEW TURKISH SERIES 'KOSEM SULTANA' WITH BEREN SAAT, ERKAN KOLCAK KOSTENDIL AND HULYA AVSAR AS SAFIYE SULTANA

'KOSEM SULTANA' 

1ST PHOTOS FROM EPIC SERIES

Now, here's something stunning to start of the first day of summer in proper style: exactly a year ago lavish Turkish epic series THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY ended its worldwide rule and now the same production team is ready to launch an even more lavish one KOSEM SULTANA series this September! Today, you can feast your eyes on the very first photos depicting gorgeous Turkish star Hulya Avsar in the full costume as the 16th century Safiye Sultana the mother of Sultan Mehmed III. As you can see her gowns are done in English style since she maintained good relations with Elizabeth I with whom she had personal correspondence. If I got it right (my Turkish ain't so good) the white cat is also a gift from the English monarch. As I've reported earlier Beren Saat will play the lead role of KOSEM SULTANA, Sultan Ahmed I will be played by Erkan Kolcak Kostendil, while Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy will be Ayshe Sultana. The preparations took almost a year and a whole Ottoman city was built for the series.

SULTA- NATE OF WOMEN
Similarly to Hurrem Sultana, who was the hero of MAGNIFI- CENT CENTURY, Safiye also rose from being a slave in the harem to becoming sultana after she was chosen by  Hurem's daughter in law Nurbanu Sultana to be the wife of her son future sultan Murad. The main star of the series is of course KOSEM SULTANA, the wife of Safiye's grandson Ahmed I. She was a prominent figure during the Sultanate of Women (which started with the rule of Hurrem Sultana). She was official regent twice and was thereby one of only two women to have been formal rulers of the Ottoman Empire. She came to the sultan's palace in Istanbul as a 15 year old slave girl, but quickly became influential in the harem which will be shown in the new series.