THE FORSYTES COSTUME TV SERIES SECOND SEASON IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING AROUND EUROPE

    THE FORSYTES   

COSTUME DRAMA SEASON TWO HAS STARTED

The series will star on PBS next spring

Although the linear television launch date in the UK has not been announced yet and the audiences in North America will have to wait till March 28th to watch in on PBS Masterpiece, just like last year, popular costume drama from Channel 5 THE FORSYTES has already had the world premiere of its second season earlier in September for those in Europe who have Viasat Epic Drama Channel, which is mostly the Balkans and Ex Yugoslavia. It is also available already on Movistar + in Spain and Okko streamer in Russia and the reason for today's spotlight is that it is now also available in UK but so far only for streaming on My5. Joshua Orpin, Francesca Annis, Jack Davenport, Danny Griffin, Stephen Moyer, Millie Gibson, Tuppence Middleton, Eleanor Tomlinson all return with Richard Rankin joining the cast in the second run. You can check out the trailer for the new season below and tell us what you think. 

IN THE NEW CHAPTER

 which was shot last year in Britain, the proud dynasty of 19th century investment bankers faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family’s polished façade grow ever deeper. With both of the Forsyte younger cousins having problems in their marriages due to their spoilt, immature and treacherous wives, the second season will pick up about six months after the season one finale. Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have already shot the third season as well which will be set at the French Riviera and will also have Gregg Sulkin in the cast! The second season will arrive to Channel 5 sometime this Autumn and then later on to PBS as well early next year. 

 

THE FORSYTES COSTUME TV SERIES TRAILER FOR THE SECOND SEASON WHICH STARTS TONIGHT!

    THE FORSYTES   

COSTUME DRAMA SEASON TWO TRAILER

New season starts tonight with six new episodes

Although the launch date in UK and USA still has not been revealed, just like last year, popular costume drama from Channel 5 THE FORSYTES will have the world premiere of its second season tonight, September 13th, for those in Europe who have Viasat Epic Drama Channel, which is mostly the Balkans and Ex Yugoslavia. Joshua Orpin, Francesca Annis, Jack Davenport, Danny Griffin, Stephen Moyer, Millie Gibson, Tuppence Middleton, Eleanor Tomlinson all return with Richard Rankin joining the cast in the second run. You can check out the trailer for the new season below and tell us what you think. 

IN THE NEW CHAPTER

 which was shot last year in Britain, the proud dynasty of 19th century investment bankers faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family’s polished façade grow ever deeper. With both of the Forsyte younger cousins having problems in their marriages due to their spoilt, immature and treacherous wives, the second season will pick up about six months after the season one finale. Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have already shot the third season as well which will be set at the French Riviera and will also have Gregg Sulkin in the cast! The second season will arrive to Channel 5 sometime this Autumn and then later on to PBS as well early next year. 

 

CAST AND FIRST IMAGES REVEALED FOR CHANNEL 5 AND PBS MASTERPIECE NEW HUMOROUS FAMILY TV REIMAGINING OF MONARCH OF THE GLEN SERIES

   MONARCH OF THE GLEN  

TV SERIES RE-IMAGINING AT CHANNEL 5

Beside The Hardacres and All Creatures Great And Small, I told you back in May, that we are getting another warm new show at Channel 5 as they have started shooting a new TV series re-imagining of classic series MONARCH OF THE GLEN from Jeremy Brock! Today I have the first

Julia Brown takes the female lead

 images and the cast unveiled for you! 

 

 WHAT IS THE STORY?

 When high-flying London lawyer Isla Campbell (Julia Brown) finds herself back at her family's crumbling Highland estate for her estranged father's funeral, she expects to be gone in days. Instead, she discovers she has inherited a million-pound debt, a bank closing in, and a brother (Chris Fulton) who refuses to let go of their ancestral home. Under the same roof for the first time in years, brother and sister will have to find a way to save the struggling estate before time runs out and they lose it for good. The show will transport us to the stunning Scottish Highlands each week while introducing a rich ensemble of unforgettable new characters. This six part family saga promises heart, humour and romance – bound together by breathtaking landscapes, roaring hearths, and the people who call this wild corner of the world home.

 WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Ewan Miller plays gamekeeper and family friend Ewan, and Rishi Nair is businessman Daniel. Phyllis Logan stars as Morag, with John Gordon Sinclair as longtime family lawyer Fergus and Gordon Kennedy as stockman Angus. The series will air on PBS Masterpiece for the viewers in America.

BILL NIGHY, GEMMA ARTERTON, HUGH SKINNER, JIM STURGESS, MIRANDA RICHARDSON TO LEAD NEW BBC AND PBS THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY TV SERIES ADAPTATION

  THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 

GETS NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATION

PBS Masterpiece and BBC have announced new TV series adaptation of Henry James' classic novel THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Nell Tiger Free leading the cast as Isabel Archer, a vivacious New World ingénue who leaves America for Old World Europe, keen to experience all that life has to offer. A young woman with charm and an innate intellectual curiosity,

Gemma Arterton, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Skinner will star

 Isabel rejects a series of marriage proposals, but when she inherits an unexpected fortune that promises to grant her freedom, she falls prey to two American ex-pat schemers: the elegant Madame Merle (Gemma Arterton), and the charming but calculating Gilbert Osmond (Jim Sturgess). Bill Nighy plays Mr. Touchett, who is enamored with Isabel’s youth and spirit and

Bill Nighy, Nell Tiger Free and Hamish Frew will also star

 hopes to help her in her quest for freedom, while Miranda Richardson is Mrs. Touchett, Isabel’s fantastically eccentric aunt, who takes her to Europe in search of a husband. Jack Wolfe is Ralph Touchett, Hugh Skinner is Lord Warburton, Hamish Frew is Casper Goodwood, Thomas Coombes is Mr Bantling, Lydia Leonard is Countess Gemini and Edward Rosier will be played by Dean-Charles Chapman.

SPOTLIGHT ON CALL ME LEVI PERIOD SET TV SERIES ON THE INVENTOR OF FAMOUS JEANS PANTS

   CALL ME LEVI SERIES  

ON THE INVENTOR OF FAMOUS JEANS

Today I will turn your attention to a series that already aired in Europe two years ago, but is currently available also on Walter Presents on PBS Masterpiece channel over at Prime Video so you can catch it even if you

The series is available on Walter Presents

 are in Northern America or Canada. The four episode period set series CALL ME LEVI spans the 1840s to the 1870s: from Europe's failed revolutions in 1848, which triggered waves of emigration to the New World, to the gold rush in California and the American Civil War, to the "Gilded Age" of the US economy. Whether fortune hunters or Hollywood stars, whether workers or intellectuals - everyone wears blue jeans. Hardly any other item of clothing is so iconographically representative of the myth of America. Director Neele Leana Vollmar tells the amazing story of the invention of jeans in the four-part event series with Vincent Redetzki as the Franconian fabric merchant Levi Strauss and Anton von Lucke in the role of the Latvian tailor Jacob Davis. They play two immigrants who realize their "American dream" in wild times and despite adverse circumstances. Their patent for denim trousers reinforced with rivets from 1873 laid the foundation for an unprecedented success story: Today, 250 million of the world's most worn trousers are produced every year. "Levis" is one of the best-known brand names and enjoys cult status.

 

THE FORSYTES COSTUME TV SERIES SEASON 2 TEASER IS HERE WITH LAVISH COSTUMES AND UNHAPPY LOVES

    THE FORSYTES  

SEASON TWO TEASER IS HERE!

Although the first season just ended over on PBS Masterpiece, it actually aired on Channel 5 in UK last September and season two of THE FORSYTES costume drama is coming over there quite soon so a lavish teaserannouncing it has been released! I also don't have to remind you that the third season has already been ordered as well. Joshua Orpin, Francesca Annis, Jack Davenport, Danny Griffin, Stephen Moyer, Millie Gibson, Tuppence Middleton, Eleanor Tomlinson will all return with Richard Rankin joining the cast in the second run. In this next chapter which was shot last year in Britain, the proud dynasty faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family’s polished façade grow ever deeper. With both of the Forsyte younger cousins having problems in their marriages due to their spoilt, immature and treacherous wives, the second season will pick up about six months after the season one finale.

 

SPOTLIGHT ON CHANNEL 5'S LAVISH NEW COSTUME DRAMA THE FORSYTES BASED ON FAMOUS SAGA BY JOHN GALSWORTHY

   THE FORSYTES SERIES  

NEW CHANNEL 5 SAGA STARTS TOMORROW

It is finally the time for the top new TV series of the season to start airing! Admittedly, new version of famous The Forsyte Saga with six episodes based on John Galsworthy famous novel had its world premiere last week in Central Europe on Epic Drama Channel, but THE FORSYTES will start over at British Channel 5 tomorrow, October 20th and will then cross the ocean to visit American audience March 22nd next year on PBS Masterpiece which has already renewed the new costume drama for a second season.

 

 IN THE STORY THAT FOLLOWS

a rich British family in 1880s London Francesca Annis will play formidable Forsyte matriarch Ann. Stephen Moyer is Ann’s eldest son, Jolyon Senior, head of the family stockbroking firm Forsyte & Co. Danny Griffin plays his bohemian son Jo, while Tuppence Middleton is his status-driven wife Frances. Jack Davenport plays Ann’s competitive younger son James.  Joshua Orpin stars as James’ shrewd son Soames, with  Millie Gibson  as his love interest. Tom Durant Pritchard  plays Monty Dartie, James’ son-in-law. Eleanor Tomlinson plays Louisa Byrne, a Soho dressmaker and Jo’s first love. Family stability is threatened by two chance encounters for rival cousins, Jolyon and Soames, throwing their previously steady lives into disarray. Married Jolyon contends with the reappearance of his former lover, Louisa, a lady’s maid-turned-dressmaker, while daughter June falls for a penniless architect. Soames, meanwhile, is enchanted by the beautiful and free-spirited dancer Irene. All must decide whether to be ruled by the head or the heart. Ten years after Jolyon’s marriage to high society favourite, Frances, the Forsytes prepare to celebrate daughter June’s 18th birthday and entrance into society. Ambitious Frances is determined to secure her an advantageous marriage. Meanwhile, the question of the succession of the family firm, Forsyte & Co., hangs heavily in the air with brothers, and rivals, Jolyon Senior and James battling for their own sons, Jolyon and Soames, to triumph as chairman. Despite Jolyon’s protests, Soames wastes no time in demonstrating his ruthless business acumen by seizing an opportunity to offload risky shares in a mining company, consequently causing its collapse, and the destitution of many of its shareholders. Elsewhere, Soames finds himself utterly captivated by the beautiful dancer Irene Heron, leaping to her assistance after her father’s sudden collapse. Just as Soames and James’s plans to conspire against them escalate, Jolyon Senior makes a shock announcement at June’s birthday party. Frances, meanwhile, suspicious of her husband’s unceremonious disappearance from their daughter’s party, follows him and makes a shocking discovery. 

 

THE SECOND SEASON ALREADY SHOOTING 

It is interesting that even before the airing of the first season, we know that Richard Rankin will be joining the cast in the second season next year. In this next chapter that is now shooting in Britain, the proud dynasty faces a new era of scandal, ambition, and shifting loyalties. As love, legacy and reputation collide, the cracks in the family’s polished façade grow ever deeper. 

 

SEE ENTICING NEW TEASER TRAILER FOR CHANNEL 5'S THE FORSYTES COSTUME TV DRAMA

   THE FORSYTES SERIES  

SEE THE ENTICING NEW TEASER TRAILER 

The Forsytes arrive this Autumn

We have an enticing new teaser for Channel 5's new series adaptation of THE FORSYTES which arrives October 20th in UK and sometime next year in USA at PBS, with central Europe seeing it as a world premiere on Epic Drama from October 14th! 

 

 IN THE STORY THAT FOLLOWS

a rich British family in 1880s London Francesca Annis will play formidable Forsyte matriarch Ann. Stephen Moyer is Ann’s eldest son, Jolyon Senior, head of the family stockbroking firm Forsyte & Co. Danny Griffin plays his bohemian son Jo, while Tuppence Middleton is his status-driven wife Frances. Jack Davenport plays Ann’s competitive younger son James.  Joshua Orpin stars as James’ shrewd son Soames, with  Millie Gibson  as his love interest. Tom Durant Pritchard  plays Monty Dartie, James’ son-in-law. Eleanor Tomlinson plays Louisa Byrne, a Soho dressmaker and Jo’s first love. 

 

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Ignite all your senses with a trip to the intoxicating world of The Forsytes 👂🫦

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EMOTIONAL TRAILER AND AIR DATE FOR THE SIXTH SEASON OF BELOVED SERIES ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL!

 SEASON 6 TRAILER IS HERE 

New season starts next week

FOR ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece have revealed first trailer for the 6th season of the beloved series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL which returns September 25th in Great Britain. Based on James Herriot's books it will again have six episodes plus the traditional Christmas special in December. In USA the series will return January 11th  early next year as it usually does every year. Season seven has been ordered already.

 

SEASON SIX RETURNS TO

 Yorkshire Dales for more human and animal tales but this time, the Skeldale gang is in a different situation, just as the war in Europe is coming to a close in 1945. Nicholas Ralph reprises his role as vet James Herriot, alongside Samuel West as his business partner Siegfried Farnon. Anna Madeley returns as dear Mrs. Hall, followed by Rachel Shenton (Helen Herriot), Callum Woodhouse (Tristan Farnon), Patricia Hodge (Mrs. Pumphrey), Tony Pitts (Richard Alderson) and Imogen Clawson (Jenny). Joining the cast for the new chapter will be Lucy-Jo Hudson, Gaia Wise, Jonathan Hyde, Philip Martin Brown and Chris Gascoyne. Check out the trailer below in which it seems the kids are grown up and everybody has moved on with life.