TV UPDATES: ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE GET THIRD SEASONS! WARRIOR EPIC TV SERIES THIRD SEASON STARTS SHOOTING FOR HBO MAX

  SHORT TV HEADLINES 

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL THIRD SEASON 

Short TV updates for you today, starting with news from PBS who have announced that ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL series will return with the third season January 8th following everybody's favourite country vet,

Season three will arrive this Autumn in UK

played by Nicholas Ralph, in six new episodes plus a Christmas one. In Europe, third season will probably arrive before that, in September. All of the cast returns for the new season. In the third season the cantankerous Siegfried (Simon West) will navigate his relationship with younger brother and blossoming vet Tristan (Callum Woodhouse), and will also have to confront his own past with World War I coming back to haunt him. Meanwhile, Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley) and Helen (Rachel Shenton) have similar challenges in this season, with Helen trying to balance being a wife and leaving behind a previous life and having to navigate what that’s like, and Mrs. Hall figuring out if there’s a life outside Skeldale House. The spread of tuberculosis also plays a major role in Season 3 and James must learn how to go about those procedures.

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

Although PBS is yet to air the second season from October 16th after already airing in UK last month, MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE will launch the third season too from January 8th on PBS for the audience in USA. This means the third season of the series which follows Britain's first female detective will arrive to Europe sometime this Autumn ahead of the US premiere. On Sunday October 16th, PBS Masterpiece will also start Lesley Manville's Magpie Murders which already streamed in Europe on Britbox.

WARRIOR SEASON THREE

Meanwhile, after a two year break, the third season of WARRIOR series has begun shooting for HBO Max where it had moved from Cinemax.

The third season will air on HBO Max

The series takes place during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century.  Andrew Koji returns as Ah Sahm, Olivia Cheng as Ah Toy, Jason Tobin as Young Jun, Dianne Doan as Mai Ling, Kieran Bew as Bill O’Hara, Dean Jagger as Dylan Leary, Tom Weston Jones as Richard Lee, Hoon Lee as Wang Chao, Joe Taslim as Li Yong, Langley Kirkwood as Walter Buckley, Perry Yung as Father Jun, with new additions in Mark Dacascos as Kong Pak, the former leader of a newly absorbed, Long Zii-affiliated tong and Li Yong’s old friend and mentor, and Chelsea Muirhead as Yan Mi, the unassuming but shrewd daughter of a local print shop maker based in Chinatown. The ten episode third season will arrive next year, hopefully.

KATE WINSLET RETURNS TO HBO IN NEW TRUST MINI TV SERIES! SEE NEW POSTERS FOR MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 2 WITH STUART MARTIN

 KATE WINSLET TO RETURN 

TO TV IN TRUST SERIES

She did score success with Mare of Easttown, and now Kate Winslet will produce and star in the HBO series adaptation of TRUST novel by Hernan Diaz. It follows a wealthy financier who is dissatisfied by a novel based on his life and his wife’s portrayal, so he asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. The secretary, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history and his wife’s place in it. Before that in LEE movie Kate will play a fashion photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller next to Jude Law, Josh O'Connor and Marion Cotillard.

 

 MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE  

HAS RETURNED THIS JUNE

And just to remind you with these new posters that, June 14th, a return to Alibi Channel in UK with the second season was launched for MISS SCARLET

Season two is already airing in UK

AND THE DUKE period set detective series which will also air on PBS in USA October 16th. Starring our boy Stuart Martin and Kate Philips, the second series, shot in Serbian capital Belgrade, picks up one month on from the end of the previous series. Eliza has solved her father‘s murder, her relationship with William, the Duke, continues to slowly simmer, and Eliza continues to face the challenges of being a professional female detective in Victorian London. Eliza is hired by the sister of a missing woman for her first case this series. Her task is to find the woman, but the case was already closed by the police, so tension between Eliza and the Duke ensues. Beside Epic Drama cable channels around Europe, the six episode series will also air on BBC First in Benelux and BBC Brit in Africa.

 

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE PERIOD SET SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER ANNOUNCES NEXT MONTH RETURN WITH STUART MARTIN!

 MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE  

TO RETURN THIS JUNE

Returning as soon as next month, June 14th, to Alibi Channel in UK with the second season is MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE period set detective series which will also air on PBS in USA October 16th. Starring our boy Stuart Martin and Kate Philips, the second series, shot in Serbian capital Belgrade, picks up one month on from the end of the previous series. Eliza has solved her father‘s murder, her relationship with William, the Duke, continues to slowly simmer, and Eliza continues to face the challenges of being a professional female detective in Victorian London. Eliza is hired by the sister of a missing woman for her first case this series. Her task is to find the woman, but the case was already closed by the police, so tension between Eliza and the Duke ensues. Beside Epic Drama cable channels around Europe, the six episode series will also air on BBC First in Benelux and BBC Brit in Africa.

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE VICTORIAN TV SERIES WITH STUART MARTIN RENEWED FOR SEASON 2 AT PBS! EWAN MCGREGOR, HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, RUPERT FRIEND, JOEL EDGERTON TO LEAD OBI WAN KENOBI STAR WARS TV SERIES

  MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE 

ARE RETURNING FOR SEASON 2

The first season was a rather big hit for PBS Masterpiece, with more than eight million people tuning in to watch MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

A+E has opted out of the production

historical adventure series, and now it has been confirmed that it will return for the second run but without A + E Network who originally launched it. The series will return next year only to PBS. Kate Phillips starred in the six episode series as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless so she takes over his business – a private detective agency. To operate in the business better she joins Detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, played by our dearest Stuart Martin, who is also known as “The Duke;” drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

 OBI WAN KENOBI SERIES  

ANNOUNCES DISNEY + CAST

Disney + has announced cast for their new Star Wars TV series OBI WAN KENOBI which will be led by Ewan McGregor, who will now be joined by Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse as uncle Owen and his wife Beru with whom a baby Luke Skywalker is left after Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side and becomes

Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend will star

Darth Vader! The cast will also have Rupert Friend, Indira Varma, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie. The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor, faced his greatest defeat, the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. Production starts next month.

STAY HOME AND WATCH MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE PERIOD SET TV SERIES THIS MARCH ON YOUR TV WITH STUART MARTIN AND KATE PHILLIPS

  'MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE'

LONDON'S 1ST LADY DETECTIVE

As promised, your trusted spy continues presenting you with all the new series and films you can watch in the comfort of your homes during the

The series starts March 31st on Alibi!

corona virus lockout. And if you go out even if you don't really have to, may you forever be cursed with watching just Kristen Stewart's films! Your latest period set treat arrives next week: new 19th century historical crime drama MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE will start airing its six episodes on Alibi in United Kingdom from March 31st following Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet who joins forces with a Scotland Yard Inspector William Wellington (our dearest Jamestown and Medici star Stuart Martin) to solve crime in 19th century London. The series is also expected to air this year on PBS Masterpiece in United States, RTL in Germany,  CBC in Canada, Seven

PBS Masterpiece will air it in USA

Network in Australia, Lightbox in New Zealand!

Miss Scarlet And The Duke
follows Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips) who, after her father (Kevin Doyle) dies, is left penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she has an ace up her bonnet – her father’s business – a private detective agency. Eliza knows all the tricks of the trade but as a genteel 19th century lady she’s never been allowed to put them into practice. To operate in this man’s world, she needs a partner. Step forward Detective Inspector William Wellington (Stuart

Stuart Martin plays The Duke in the new series

Martin) of Scotland Yard, who is also known as “The Duke;” drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

Who Else Is in Victorian London?

The series, executive produced and written by Rachael New (Grantchester), also stars Ansu Kabia as their helper Moses, a useful crook from Jamaica, and Andrew Gower as Rupert Parker, Eliza’s friend who

Kate Phillips plays the female lead in the new series

helps her start her detective agency. Matthew Malone will play PC Honeychurch, with Danny Midwinter as Frank Jenkins. Check out the feminist trailer below and tell us do you think hitting a policemen (or any

The series will air in six hourlong episodes in the first season

man) is a feminist or just plain disgusting and appalling thing to do? Should violence be presented as fun in movies and series even if it is 'just' a little slap? Would it be the same if the genders were reversed? And do you think Kate

The showrunner and the creator of the series is  Rachael New

Phillips has enough (if any) charisma for a series lead? We're not sure, her acting seems terribly bland and plastic in the trailer, but we shall give the series a chance because of Stuart Martin who never disappoints. 

NEW PERIOD SET SERIES TO EXPECT IN THE FIRST PART OF 2020: FROM NEW ZEALAND GOLD RUSH, POST NAPOLEONIC LONDON TO ARCTIC, RUSSIAN IMPERIAL COURT AND AGATHA CHRISTIE

     WINT/SPRING 2020 EPIC SHOWS

 THE LUMINARIES

 Arriving sometime very soon (probably sooner to New Zealand than to BBC) is the six episode adaptation of Eleanor Catton's book THE LUMINARIES starring Marton Csokas, Eva Green, Eve Hewson and Callan Mulvey. It is an adventure mystery set in the midst of New Zealand's 1860's gold rush. Expect a trailer very soon.

THE PALE HORSE
 BBC is entering the race first as it will start airing their latest  Agatha Christie series THE PALE HORSE from February 9th. Rufus Sewell leads the two episode mini series as the man who investigates a murder in a beautiful little village. Is a trio of witches responsible for a series of sudden deaths there or is there a rational explanation? You can expect a trailer very soon!

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

 A&E will greet spring with new six part period set drama MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE starring Kate Phillips as London's first Victorian female detective with Stuart Martin playing her partner. It will air on UKTV's Alibi channel and on PBS Masterpiece in USA. In Germany it will air on RTL, in Australia on Seven Network.

    THE NORTH WATER 
BBC will also grace us with Arctic set four episode thriller series THE NORTH WATER based on the novel by Ian McGuire. Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell star in a story set in a 19th century whaling expedition to the Arctic where an army surgeon finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

BELGRAVIA

Easter will, meanwhile, bring us Julian Fellowes' new 19th century set costume drama BELGRAVIA set to air on Epix from April 12th and possibly a bit earlier on ITV in UK.  It follows events decades after a crucial ball ahead of the battle of Waterloo when the emerging nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's established upper classes, and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.

     THE GREAT 
Hulu will meanwhile, end the spring season with three part historical comedy THE GREAT in which Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult play Catherine the Great and Peter of Russia. The series offers an anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the wildly comic rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great. It is out May 15th.

PHOTOS & TRAILER FROM A+E'S 19TH CENTURY LONDON SET SERIES MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE WITH STUART MARTIN, KATE PHILIPS

   'MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE'

NEW PERIOD SET SERIES PHOTOS AND TRAILER ARE HERE

After yesterday's North Water, another new period set series has new photos released! A+E Network's MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE 19th century drama has new pictures from the sets featuring lead stars Stuart

As far as I've heard the series will also hit PBS sometime next year

Martin and Kate Philips as 19th century London's first female private detective! The six episode series will also star Ansu Kabia, Andrew Gower, Matthew Malone, Simon Ludders. You can also check out the first trailer

Stuart Martin and Kate Philips in lead roles

featuring a scene in which she hits a policeman in a disgusting example of violence against men which is, I'm guessing, supposed to be funny. It is not. It is a despicable and vile example of hypocrisy and double standards.

London's First Female Detective 
When Eliza’s (Kate Philips) father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she has an ace up

Stuart Martin returns to period set drama after Medici and Jamestown

her bonnet – her father’s business – a private detective agency. Eliza knows all the tricks of the trade but as a genteel 19th century lady she’s never been allowed to put them into practice. To operate in this man’s world, she needs a

The first season will consist of just six episodes

partner. Step forward Detective Inspector William Wellington (Stuart Martin) of Scotland Yard, who is also known as “The Duke;” drinker, gambler

The series will air sometime this year !

and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

WHAT ARE JAMESTOWN STARS UP TO NEXT: STUART MARTIN TO LEAD MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE 19TH CENTURY SERIES, MATT STOKOE IS SIR GAWAIN IN CURSED EPIC TV SERIES!

    STUART MARTIN TO LEAD

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

Sky's beloved epic drama Jamestown has ended, as you know, this summer with a rather shocking finale, but despair not, spylings, some of our

Stuart Martin will take the role of The Duke

favourite stars have already booked themselves new gigs! Our dear Scotsman Stuart Martin (whose rise from Medici series to Jamestown, we've been proudly following for years) will take the lead role in new A&E Network period set series about the first female detective in the 19th century London MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE as the duke himself next to Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way and takes over his private detective agency. But she needs a partner, so she hires detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as The

Kate Philips as Miss Scarlet, London's first 19th century lady detective

Duke, a drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship and team up to solve crime in 1880’s London. Andrew Gower, Cathy Belton and Matthew Malone will also star!

    MATT STOKOE IS GAWAIN

IN CURSED ARTHURIAN SERIES

Meanwhile, his fellow Jamestownian, the local blacksmith Matt Stokoe will remain in the close proximity to steel, only he won't be working it, but

Matt Stokoe will be Arthur's knight Gawain

wearing it as he is to don the armour of Sir Gawain in Netflix epic series CURSED which will follow Nimue, Lady of the Lake (Katherine Langford), who After her mother’s death, finds an unexpected partner in Arthur (Devon Terrell), a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin (Gustav Skarsgard) and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Based on Tom Wheeler's yet to be released book, CURSED also stars Peter Mullan, Lily Newmark, Shalom Brune Franklin, Daniel Sharman, Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates, Catherine Walker and Billy Jenkins.

  OTHER JAMESTOWN STARS
While our favourite Jamestown doctor Ben Starr does not have any new gigs announced yet (although you've also watched him in Dickensian at BBC

Niamh Walsh and Ben Starr

and Knightfall at History and also in Medici as Donatello), gorgeous inkeeper Niamh Walsh will join another period set drama THE ENGLISH GAME on the invention of soccer next to Edward Holcroft, Henry Lloyd Hughes and another Jamestown star Ben Batt!

A+E ORDERS PERIOD SET MINI TV SERIES MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE WITH KATE PHILLIPS AS LONDON'S FIRST 19TH CENTURY FEMALE DETECTIVE

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

FIRST LADY DETECTIVE IN THE 19TH CENTURY LONDON

A+E Networks International has officially ordered new epic series MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE in which Kate Phillips will play the first ever female detective in 19th century London! The six part mini follows Eliza

The six part saga shoots this June in Ireland!

Scarlet.

When her father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way. Luckily, she has an ace up her bonnet – her father’s business – a private detective agency. Eliza knows all the tricks of the trade but as a genteel 19th century lady she’s never been allowed to put them into practice. To operate in this man’s world, she needs a partner. Step forward Detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as “The Duke”, drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship that will crackle and smoulder with sexual tension as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

THE SPANISH PRINCESS EPIC TV SERIES TEASER IS HERE WITH YOUNG CATHERINE OF ARAGON! MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE TV SERIES ON LONDON'S FIRST 19TH CENTURY FEMALE DETECTIVE!

 1ST 'THE SPANISH PRINCESS'

TEASER HAS BEEN REVEALED

A special treat comes from Starz today, they gave us a trailer Royals on Starz, which does not just show us their old series White Queen and White

The Spanish Princess will air sometime next year on Starz

 Princess, but also tease the upcoming THE SPANISH PRINCESS with a few exciting glimpses into the 2019 series which is, technically speaking, a sort of a prequel to famous The Tudors!

THE SPANISH PRINCESS
will see Charlotte Hope playing the young princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she was a child. She arrives in rain lashed England with her glorious court. She is Princess of Wales now, but when her husband

First look at Charlotte Hope as The Spanish Princess

Prince Arthur (Angus Imrie) dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine. Until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and

The series is based on Philippa Gregory book!

headstrong Prince Harry (Ruairi O'Connor) who will one day rule as King Henry VIII. The cast will also include Elliot Cowan as Henry VII of England, Alexandra Moen as his wife Elizabeth of York, Olly Rix, Laura Carmichael, Philip Cumbus and others.

  'MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE'

NEW 19TH CENTURY TV SERIES

A+E Networks will produce a series on the first ever female detective in 19th century London. MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE will star Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong

First look at Kate Phillips in Miss Scarlett and the Duke

Eliza is determined to find another way and takes over his private detective agency. But she needs a partner, so she hires detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as The Duke, a drinker, gambler and womanizer. Eliza and Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship and team up to solve crime in 1880’s London.