PERIOD SET THURSDAY: EXCITING TRAILERS FOR HISTORICAL SERIES 'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH JESSE BUCKLEY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE, BEN HARDY, 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' WITH NATALIE DORMER

  'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK'

PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILER

The series starts this May on Amazon Prime

Period set delights for you today, starting with the first trailer for Natalie Dormer's THE PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK which will, produced by Australian Foxtel, air on Amazon Prime and also on BBC in UK. This new reimagining of Joan Lindsay’s novel, will first premiere its six episodes in Australia on May 6th and then on May 25th at Amazon Prime.
 

 MYSTERY THRILLER
With the story set in the 1900 Natalie Dormer plays English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard (a woman whose dead husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely hiding dark skeletons) in the drama which revolves around the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine’s Day. The complex, interwoven narrative follows the

Natalie Dormer plays the mysterious headmistress of the 1900 school

subsequent investigation and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER IS HERE!

BBC has meanwhile released the first, rather atmospheric and exciting, trailer for their period set series THE WOMAN IN WHITE after those first

Women in White starts in two weeks on BBC

photos I showed you a few days ago. The five part Victorian saga will start airing in UK on BBC One Sunday April 22nd starring Jesse Buckley, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Ben Hardy.

 VICTO- RIAN MAD HOUSE
It starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity.

Jesse Buckley, right, leads the female part of the cast

Viewed by many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.

NEW PERIOD SET & EPIC TV SHOWS COMING TO AMAZON IN 2018: BRITANNIA, KING LEAR, VANITY FAIR & PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK!

AMAZON'S 2018 EPIC DELIGHTS

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK!

This 6 episode series will air on Foxtel in Australia and then on Amazon. Starring Natalie Dormer PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK  will plunge viewers into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one

Picnic at Hanging Rock is based on Joan Lindsay novel

teacher on Valentine’s Day 1900, taking the audience on a new journey into the revered Australian novel from Joan Lindsay.

NEW 'VANITY FAIR'!
The 7 part adaptation of Thackeray’s classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows modern heroine Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English

Vanity Fair will first air on ITV in UK, probably this spring

Society. Her story of takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes. VANITY FAIR also stars Tom Bateman and Charlie Rowe!

STAR STUDDED 'KING LEAR'

David Morrissey Once a governor always a governor!

Set in the fictional present, with Anthony Hopkins as the king, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England KING LEAR will first air on BBC 2 and then on Amazon. Emma Thompson is his eldest daughter Goneril, Emily Watson middle daughter Regan, Florence Pugh Cordelia, the youngest one. Jim Broadbent is the Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Scott his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan his bastard son Edmund. Jim Carter, Christopher Eccleston, Tobias Menzies also star! It will be a one hour TV film.

BRAVE CELTIC BRITANNIA
Starring Kelly Reilly and David Morrissey, this ten part saga will start airing January 18th on Sky in the United Kingdom and on Amazon around the world. BRITANNIA is set in 43 AD as the Roman Imperial Army, determined and terrified in equal measure, returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia, a mysterious land ruled by wild warrior

Britannia will start its rule in less than a month from now

women and powerful Druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Zoe Wanamaker and Steven Weber also star in the epic adventure series.

PERIOD SET SERIES SATURDAY: NEW PHOTOS FROM 'HOWARDS END' SERIES WITH MATTHEW MCFADYEN, HAYLEY ATWELL, 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' WITH NATALIE DORMER

  'HOWARDS END' NEW PHOTOS

FROM BBC & STARZ MINI SERIES

With the news from the world of period set series that Hulu has ordered the second season of Harlots and that TNT is probably going to

Matthew Macfadyen plays a conservative businessman

cancel their Will series, there's also something new from Starz: they've released new photos from next year's mini series HOWARDS END an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel.

The series is based on E.M. Forsters' classic novel

MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND HAYLEY ATWELL LEAD THE CAST   
A coproduction between BBC and Starz it will tell the story of two couples caught in a swirling landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England! The four part series focuses on Margaret

The series will air next year both on BBC and Starz

Schlegel (Hayley Atwell), an idealistic, woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen), a conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies

Joseph Quinn, Tracey Ulman and Alex Lawther in their costumes

unexpectedly. Meanwhile, Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn), a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky (Rosalind

Hayley Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel

Eleazar). In the absence of their parents, who have died, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.

  'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK'

NATALIE DORMER TV SERIES

Amazon has, meanwhile, picked up another period set series coming from Australia PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK with Natalie Dormer as the lead star.  Based on a Joan Lindsay’s classic novel, the six part

Natalie Dormer leads the cast of the new period set series

series sees her playing English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard, a woman whose dead husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely hiding dark skeletons! PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK chronicles the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls

The series will first air Down Under on Foxtel before moving to Amazon

and one teacher on Valentine’s Day 1900. The complex, interwoven narrative follows the subsequent investigation and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.