OLIVER JACKSON COHEN
JOINS 'HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE' TELEVISION SERIES
Casting news from television field, today! Our dearest
Oliver Jackson Cohen, who redeemed himself for that flop of a series
Emerald City with his outstanding performance earlier this month in utterly brilliant
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| Oliver will probably play the son of the family |
Man in An Orange Shirt mini series, has joined
Timothy Hutton, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas in
HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Netflix ten episode series.
The series will be a modern re-imagining of Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel of the same name. The story revolves around four people living in an 80 year old mansion.
Michiel Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest
Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a
memoir about his family's time living at Hill House. Hutton will probably be the father of the family.
ORLANDO BLOOM TO LEAD
'CARNIVAL ROW' VICTORIAN FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES
We haven't seen him much on film in recent years, but he is now moving onto the small screens: as 'Deadline' reports,
Orlando Bloom
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| Orlando will be a police inspector |
will lead Amazon's fantasy series
CARNI- VAL ROW an eight part drama set in a neo Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population.
In the series that follows the investi- gation of a string of unsolved
murders that are eating away at whatever uneasy peace still exists,
Orlando Bloom will play the man in the centre of it, Rycroft
Philostrate, a police inspector investigating the murder of a faerie
showgirl on CARNIVAL ROW. Rycroft is not supposed to care about the
death of another faerish refugee, but he does, and getting to the bottom
of what happened to her will come at a big cost.