ANN LEE 18TH CENTURY SET MOVIE MUSICAL CASTS AMANDA SEYFRIED, LEWIS PULLMAN, CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT, TIM BLAKE NELSON

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MOVIE MUSICAL SETS LEAD CAST

As Deadline reports, the team behind The Brutalist is preparing a new period set musical movie ANN LEE and have set Amanda Seyfried as the lead of an epic fable about religious leader Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by her followers as the female Christ and went on to build one of the largest utopian societies in American history. Lee and her followers worshiped through exuberant song and dance. She was born in England in 1736 but in 1774 she and a small group of her followers emigrated to New York where Lee continued to become a prominent and powerful figure. Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson are also in the cast.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON APPLE TV PLUS NEW PERIOD SET TV SERIES LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY WITH BRIE LARSON AS A HOST OF A TV COOKING SHOW

  LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY  

NEW APPLE TV PLUS SERIES

Lessons start this October at Apple

Beside the second season of Julia series which will see the outstanding Sarah Lanchashire reprise the role of famous TV cook Julia Child from November 16th over at HBO, there is another period set series on a pioneer (albeit a fictional one) of television cooking shows arriving to us this Autumn. Apple TV Plus streamer is launching the new season with a brand new eight episode mini TV series LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY which, set in the early 1960s, follows Elizabeth Zott whose dream of being a chemist is put on hold when she finds

The series will have eight episodes

herself pregnant, alone, and fired from her lab. But after she gets hired to host a cooking show she tries to make the most out of this new platform. You can check out the first trailer for the new show below the post.

 

LIFE RARELY FOLLOWS A FORMULA

In the 1950s, a woman's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong only in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

WHO ELSE IS AT THE LESSONS?

The new series, based on the international best-selling fictional novel from author and science editor Bonnie Garmus, will see the first two episodes premiere on Friday, October 13th, with new episodes arriving weekly through Nov. 24. The series led by Brie Larson also stars gorgeous Lewis Pullman as her husband alongside, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, and Thomas Mann. This is Brie Larson's first major TV role in almost 15 years. After an unsuccessful role in Captain Marvel, this is her attempt to revive her career after a series of episodic roles in smaller shows and lending her voice in animated movies. Check out the series trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be tuning in this October?