SEE TRAILER FOR BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES WITH MARK GATISS, POLLY WALKER, JACOB FORTUNE LLOYD, JOELY RICHARDSON, TOM FORBES, LUKE NORRIS, DANIEL MAYS

 BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES 

SEE THE TRAILER FROM UKTV'S ALIBI

UKTV's Alibi channel has shot a new six episode series from Mark Gatiss who also stars as a book shop-owning sleuth and we have thefirst trailer for it. With the start date set for July 16th, the series has also been renewed for a second season to arrive next year. Set in 1946 LondonBOOKISH will see him play the erudite and unconventional Gabriel Book, who helps the police to solve a variety of mysterious crimes from hisantiquarian bookshop. With three main cases in the brand new series starting this July, each storyline spans two episodes.

 

  LONDON, 1946

is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands of books that line the shelves of his shop provide him with all the knowledge he needs. Bookhas gathered around him a host of lovable, damaged misfits whom he informally protects, cajoles, and mentors. 

 

 WHO IS IN  THE CAST?

 Polly Walker will play his wife Trottie, a charismatic adventuress whom Book loves but not physically, for they are in a ‘lavender’ marriage to concealBook’s sexual orientation in a time when it was illegal to be gay. Joely Richardson, Daniel Mays, Jonas Nay, Connor Finch, Elliot Leveyand Buket Kömür also star. Blake Harrison joins the returning core cast members as Sergeant Morris, with Rosie Cavaliero, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd,Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Luke Norris, Ella Bruccoleri and Michael Workéyè. Check out the first trailer below:

 

AIR DATE SET FOR BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES WITH MARK GATISS, POLLY WALKER, JACOB FORTUNE LLOYD, JOELY RICHARDSON, TOM FORBES, LUKE NORRIS, DANIEL MAYS

 BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES 

REVEALS JULY START DATE AT AT UKTV'S ALIBI

UKTV's Alibi channel has shot a new six episode series from Mark Gatiss who also stars as a book shop-owning sleuth and we have the first clip from it. With the start date set for July, the series has also been renewed for a second season to arrive next year. Set in 1946 London BOOKISH will see him play the erudite and unconventional Gabriel Book, who helps the police to solve a variety of mysterious crimes from his antiquarian bookshop. With three main cases in the brand new series starting this July, each storyline spans two episodes.

 

  LONDON, 1946

is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands of books that line the shelves of his shop provide him with all the knowledge he needs. Book has gathered around him a host of lovable, damaged misfits whom he informally protects, cajoles, and mentors. 

 

 WHO IS IN  THE CAST?

 Polly Walker will play his wife Trottie, a charismatic adventuress whom Book loves but not physically, for they are in a ‘lavender’ marriage to conceal Book’s sexual orientation in a time when it was illegal to be gay. Joely Richardson, Daniel Mays, Jonas Nay, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey and Buket Kömür also star. Blake Harrison joins the returning core cast members as Sergeant Morris, with Rosie Cavaliero, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Luke Norris, Ella Bruccoleri and Michael Workéyè. Check out the first clip below:

We’re so excited about Bookish (which starts this July!) that we went ahead and asked @Markgatiss to write a second series!

Bookish Series Two. Written by and starring Mark Gatiss. Coming 2026. pic.twitter.com/QaLCA83P55

— U&Alibi (@alibi_channel) May 16, 2025

SEE FIRST IMAGES FROM BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES WITH MARK GATISS, POLLY WALKER, JOELY RICHARDSON, JACOB FORTUNE LLOYD, TOM FORBES, LUKE NORRIS, DANIEL MAYS

 BOOKISH PERIOD SET SERIES 

AT UKTV'S ALIBI REVEALS FIRST IMAGES

UKTV's Alibi channel has shot a new six episode series for 2025 from Mark Gatiss who also stars as a book shop-owning sleuth and we have the first images from it. Set in 1946 London BOOKISH will see him play the erudite and unconventional Gabriel Book, who helps the police to solve a variety of mysterious crimes from his antiquarian bookshop. With three main cases in the series, each storyline spans two episodes.

  LONDON, 1946

is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands of books that line the shelves of his shop provide him with all the knowledge he needs. Book has gathered around him a host of lovable, damaged misfits whom he informally protects, cajoles, and mentors. 

 

 WHO IS IN  THE CAST?

 Polly Walker will play his wife Trottie, a charismatic adventuress whom Book loves but not physically, for they are in a ‘lavender’ marriage to conceal Book’s sexual orientation in a time when it was illegal to be gay. Joely Richardson, Daniel Mays, Jonas Nay, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey and Buket Kömür also star. Blake Harrison joins the returning core cast members as Sergeant Morris, with Rosie Cavaliero, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Luke Norris, Ella Bruccoleri and Michael Workéyè. Hope we get some kind of trailer or a clip soon, so stay tuned.

LUKE NORRIS, TOM FORBES, BLAKE HARRISON JOIN MARK GATISS, POLLY WALKER IN NEW PERIOD SET DRAMA BOOKISH

  BOOKISH TV SERIES  

STARTS FILMING WITH FULL CAST REVEALED

The shooting has commenced for Mark Gatiss new mini series BOOKISH at Alibi. London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local

Jacob Fortune Lloyd, Tom Forbes, Luke Norris, Blake Harrison

police. The thousands of books that line the shelves of his shop provide him with all the knowledge he needs. Book has gathered around him a host of lovable, damaged misfits whom he informally protects, cajoles, and mentors. His wife Trottie (Polly Walker) runs the wallpaper shop next door. Blake Harrison joins the returning core cast members as Sergeant Morris, with Rosie Cavaliero, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Luke Norris, Ella Bruccoleri  and Michael Workéyè.

MATTHEW GOODE, DAVID MORRISSEY, PHOEBE DYNEVOR TO LEAD PERIOD SET DRAMA THE COLOUR ROOM FOR SKY! MARTIN COMPSTON, IAIN GLEN, EMILY HAMPSHIRE TO LEAD AMAZON'S THE RIG MYSTERY SERIES

  MATTHEW GOODE TO LEAD 

TO LEAD SKY'S NEW PERIOD SET MOVIE THE COLOUR ROOM

And he will do it together with Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor who will plays Stoke-on-Trent ceramic artist Clarice Cliff. This true story will see Goode

Matthew Goode will be a factory owner

play eccentric factory owner Colley Shorter, with David Morrissey as art designer Fred Ridgeway. Luke Norris will also star. THE COLOUR ROOM follows the journey of determined factory worker Clarice, who breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionises the 20th century workplace with her ambition and creativity. Working in a series of factories in the industrial Midlands of the 1920s, Clarice is brimming with ideas for colours and shapes and she ends up taking more and more dangerous risks, all while trying to temper the financial impact her constant moves have on her widowed mother Ann (Kerry Fox) and her youngest sister Dot (Darci Shaw). Clarice soon impresses Colley with her talent and innovation and is apprenticed to renowned art designer Fred Ridgeway. With support from Colley and other women in the factory, Clarice designs the unprecedented Art Deco 'Bizarre' range. Her innovative designs ensure the

Matthew Good and Phoebe Dynevor at the set of the film

factory's survival during the Great Depression, securing her a future as a household name and one of the great Art Deco designers. The film will air later this year.

    THE RIG TV SERIES   

SET AT AMAZON UK

Amazon UK has set the cast for their intriguing UK original series THE RIG which will star Emily Hampshire, Iain Glen, Martin Compston and Mark Bonnar! To start shooting this month in Scotland, the drama will be set on the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea. When the crew is due to return to the

Emily Hampshire, Martin Compston, Iain Glen will lead the cast

mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As the rig is hit by massive tremors, the crew endeavour to discover what’s driving the unknown force. But a major accident forces them to ask questions about who they can really trust. Emily Hampshire will play Rose Mason, the scientist and oil company rep, a fresh face on-board the rig.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON OF BBC AND PBS EPIC SAGA POLDARK WITH AIDAN TURNER AND VINCENT REGAN!

'POLDARK' SEASON 5

READY TO START NEXT SUNDAY!

It seems, people, that summer this year will be more eventful than we thought at least on the small screens, with next week bringing us sf series Pandora and Outpost and costume dramas Harlots and Poldark beside ITV's Beecham

The eight episode final season returns next Sunday at BBC

House which is already airing! Rival BBC is ready with its POLDARK which returns with the final fifth season Sunday July 14th and today you can enjoy

Aidan Turner returns as the brave captain Ross Poldark!

the new photos which include some of the new characters as well! The series will air  September 29th at PBS too for American audience. This will be the first season not to directly follow the stories of Winston Graham's novels and

The series might get a sequel in a few years with Ross' kids as heroes

will again follow Aidan Turner as the mine owner and a politician at the  beginning of the 1800s, instead of jumping a decade and focusing on his

Aidan Turner said the show could return in a few years

children like in the novels. Vincent Regan joins the series as Poldark's old army friend Colonel Ned Despard, the governor of British Honduras who

Luke Norris as Doctor Dwight Enys

ended up in prison for giving the land away to slaves. It will be Ross' mission to get him out. Meanwhile, doctor Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) will be

George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) will be a sad man in the final season

treating George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) from the trauma after the loss of his wife. The slogan of the final season is - If your country betrays you, to whom do you then owe loyalty?

THE STORY OF THE FINAL SEASON
The Poldarks look forward to life together in peace, but a plea from Ross’s old Army Colonel, Ned Despard (Vincent Regan), compels him to the capital. As Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) manages their affairs in Cornwall she

Harry Richardson as the newly wedded Drake the blacksmith

encounters disenchantment and a new opponent, Tess (Sofia Oxenham). George (Jack Farthing) meanwhile struggles to engage with the world after Elizabeth’s death and it falls to Cary (Pip Torrens) to expand the family

Tom York as Demelza's minister brother Sam

empire - as Valentine (Woody Norman) struggles to find his place within it. Arriving in London, Ross (Aidan Turner) finds a city gripped with paranoia,

Luke Norris will be helping Jack Farthing's George to cope with wife's death

and is determined to save Ned from the conspiracy that imprisoned him. George enters into an alliance with the merchant behind Ned’s imprisonment,

Vincent Regan is Poldark's old friend Ned Despard

Ralph Hanson (Peter Sullivan), whose business is in upholding the slave trade. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Charles (Freddie Wise) decides to follow in

Tom York and Harry Richardson return as Demelza's brothers

Ross’s footsteps and enter the military - but also finds himself drawn to Cecily Hanson (Lily Dodsworth Evans), Ralph’s daughter. As George’s grief leads

Peter Sullivan and Lily Dodsworth Evans and Freddie Wise

the Warleggans into uncharted and worrying territory, Ross discovers a grave plot and is urged to heroism, while Demelza is forced into action herself back at home.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BBC'S EPIC SERIES 'POLDARK' SEASON FOUR WITH AIDAN TURNER! SEE THE NEW PHOTOS AND TRAILER, MEET THE NEW CHARACTERS!

   'POLDARK' SEASON 4

STARTS NEXT SUNDAY AT BBC!

Season four starts Sunday, June 10th at BBC

Are you excited people? The fourth, and most probably the penultimate, season of popular British period set saga POLDARK starts its eight episode run next Sunday, June 10th on BBC, and for the viewers in Northern America on PBS Masterpiece later next Autumn September 30th! Everybody's favourite Captain Ross Poldark will, as he himself admits, sell his soul and go into politics after refusing to do so in previous three seasons. Tough times require drastic measures. Stay tuned for more photos, I will be updating the spotlight throughout the week as the info arrives!

SEASON FOUR OF POLDARK
set in the 18th century Cornwall will see Ross (Aidan Turner) putting himself as political rival to his dastardly enemy George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), and possibly moving to London. Turmoil will rule in his private

Aidan Turner's Captain Ross Poldark will head to Westminster this season

life as well after his shameless adulteress wife Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) has cold heartedly cheated on him with Hugh Armitage (Josh Whitehouse), a man whose life Ross saved by heroically risking his own

Demelza's and Ross' marriage will suffer due to her adultery

which obviously did not mean much to his flimsy wife. She is obviously still torn between her loving husband and a lovesick Hugh, who is set to rival

The Enyses will be expecting a baby at the beginning of the season

George in the upcoming election but due to his poor health Ross will obviously have to take over his candidacy and chalange George himself. Their friends

Elizabeth still hides from George that little Valentine isn't his son but Ross'

Dwight and Caroline Enyse (Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde) contemplate having a child and the love of Ross' youth Elizabeth (Heida Reed) seeks the same to secure her marriage with his biggest enemy

The beauty of Cornwall will dominate this season as well! Click for bigger view

Warleggan who still does not know their son Valentine is not his but Poldark's. Meanwhile, their ex nanny Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) uses her husband

Warlegans will try to increase their power in London

Osborne’s (Christian Brassington) affair with her sister Rowella (Esme Coy) to keep the reverend’s advances at bay! Harry Richardson and Tom

Rejoice! Season 4 opens with Ross coming out of the ocean like this!

 York return as Demelza’s brothers Drake and Sam ready for a lot of new trouble with law. Series four will cover the happenings until the Christmas period of 1799. The fifth season will probably start with a ten year jump.

VILLAINOUS MONK ADDERLEY

When it comes to new faces in the cast, Max Bennett joins the crew as villainous member of parliament Monk Adderley who takes a particular interest in Demelza! He is an unscrupulous and very vivid society figure without conscience and loyalty.

FORMIDABLE LADY WHITWORTH

Meanwhile, Rebecca Front also joins the cast as Lady Whitworth, formidable mother of perverse reverend Osborne who does not care that her son loves to suck female toes in his free tme. The arrival of his overbearing mother will bring more trouble to Morwenna.