'HOUDINI & DOYLE' EPIC SERIES
MICHAEL WESTON AND STEPHEN MANGAN TO LEAD THE CAST
In today's TV news, ITV has found the lead star for their intriguing new historical series HOUDINI & DOYLE: the period drama following the real-life friendship of Sherlock Holmes writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini will see Stephen Mangan and Michael Weston leading the cast. Mangan will be Doyle, prolific writer and paranormal aficionado, while Weston will be Houdini, master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker.
Set at the turn of the 20th century, the drama will explore their unique friendship and how they both worked with New Scotland Yard on unsolved crimes. Rebecca Liddiard will play Constable
Adelaide Stratton, the first female PC to work for the London Metropolitan Police Force. Tim McInnerny will play Inspector Horace Merring, while Adam Nagaitis will appear as Sergeant George Gudgett.
'THE NIGHTINGALE' BESTSELLER
GETS BIG SCREEN ADAPTATION
Meanwhile, a book that has spent more than 20 weeks on New York
Times' bestseller list, THE NIGHTINGALE will get its big screen
adaptation. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA's Ann Peacock will pen the script at
TriStar based on the book by Kristin Hannah (it is her 21st book),
published a few months ago, an epic family drama about two sisters
living in France during WWII in which the story follows them as one
becomes a prisoner in her own home and the other fights for the
resistance.
Meanwhile, a book that has spent more than 20 weeks on New York
Times' bestseller list, THE NIGHTINGALE will get its big screen
adaptation. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA's Ann Peacock will pen the script at
TriStar based on the book by Kristin Hannah (it is her 21st book),
published a few months ago, an epic family drama about two sisters
living in France during WWII in which the story follows them as one
becomes a prisoner in her own home and the other fights for the
resistance.
'THE LAST KINGDOM' TEASER
ALEXANDER DREYMON, MATTHEW MACFADYEN EPIC TV SERIES
And I don't know how I missed the first teaser for BBC 2's and BBC America's THE LAST KINGDOM epic series, even though it's constantly on my radar, but here it is now! It stars Alexander Dreymon, Rutger Hauer and Matthew McFadyen, with the story 
set in the late 9th century, when England was separated into several kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxon lands are attacked and in many instances ruled by Viking forces. The kingdom of Wessex has been left standing 
alone under the command of King Alfred the Great. Dreymon's Uhtred - the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman, is kidnapped by Norsemen and raised as one of them. Forced to choose between a kingdom that shares his ancestry and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested.
set in the late 9th century, when England was separated into several kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxon lands are attacked and in many instances ruled by Viking forces. The kingdom of Wessex has been left standing 
alone under the command of King Alfred the Great. Dreymon's Uhtred - the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman, is kidnapped by Norsemen and raised as one of them. Forced to choose between a kingdom that shares his ancestry and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested.