FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN STAR SAILORS NEW PERIOD SET TV SERIES

    STAR SAILORS   

PERIOD SET TV SERIES FROM PORTUGAL

It already aired last year in its home country, but Portuguese period set six part mini TV series STAR SAILORS (A Travessia) will

The series stars Goncalo Waddington

 also get international distribution thanks to Onza Distribution from Spain. The story of the series covers the fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, which became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary - navigandum est. It is about the audacious bid by Portuguese Navy officers Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho to cross the widest stretch of the South Atlantic in the early 20th century, when flight remained experimental, navigation was fragile and the ocean still defined the limits of modern travel. 

 

NEW INTERNATIONAL PERIOD SET TV SERIES: DUTCH GRAND HOTEL BY THE SEA, PORTUGUESE THE MARQUISE AND FRENCH SORORITY

 NEW PERIOD SET SHOWS 

DUTCH GRAND HOTEL BY THE SEA

There are a couple of new period set international TV series currently being prepared for our viewing pleasure, so I thought I could do a spotlight on them today for you, starting from Holland where they have GRAND HOTEL BY THE SEA ready for the international market later this year. This eight part series, done for Dutch NPO broadcaster, is a romantic period drama centered on the future of the prestigious 'Grand Hotel aan Zee' in Noordwijk, spanning the years 1912 - 1919. Hotel owner Sandra is determined totransform the Grand Hotel aan Zee within two years into the premier hotel for Europe’s elite along the Dutch coast. In her pursuit, she is confronted with the challenges of being an ambitious woman at the dawn of the 20th century. The hotel’s transformation not only influences Sandra’s future but also the lives and loves of five women around her. Gradually, space begins to emerge for each of them to make their own choices and shape their own futures. Thekla Reuten, Joes Brauers, Florence Vos Weeda, Mustafa Duygulu star.

 

 THE MARQUISE FROM PORTUGAL

This six part historical series is being done for Portuguese broadcaster RTP following a great poet from the late 18th century. From her beginnings in a Lisbon convent to the wild Viennese court, these are the stories of a fearless Marquise who will rock the ruling elite. Leonor is torn between two loves – a Count and an Emperor – and in an era where literature, music, and cuisine blend, she must choose her destiny. Mediapro Studio has taken the international distribution rights at the recent Berlin Film Festival. It is an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Portugal’s Maria João Lopo de Carvalho about Leonor de Almeida Portugal, Marquise of Alorna – a poet, diplomat and revolutionary thinker, who was considered one of the most captivating women of the 18th century. 

 

SORORITY SERIES FROM FRANCE

Over in France we have this period set thriller done for France TV a tale of three women – a wet-nurse, a midwife and a grieving mother – pitched against a male-dominated world in a Paris of 1889. SORORITY follows Rose who leaves her rural home to become a wet nurse for a bourgeois family in Paris. There, she meets Odette, a midwife, who warns her that she won’t be allowed to keep her own child with her. Rose finds a solution, however risky: passing off her baby as that of Hélène de Gersande, a mother grieving the sudden loss of her infant. Rose, Odette and Hélène, three women from very different backgrounds, will have to join forces to carve out a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, and claim their freedom.

1ST SET PIC OF ANTHONY HOPKINS, TOM HUGHES IN THOSE ABOUT TO DIE ANCIENT ROMAN SERIES! LAND OF SHADOWS 17TH CENTURY GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS TV SERIES ANNOUNCED! CBS ORDERS DAMON WAYANS' SITCOM POPPA'S HOUSE!

  THOSE ABOUT TO DIE  

1ST LOOK FROM EPIC SERIES

Daily Mail have got their hands on the first set images from Peacock's new historical saga THOSE ABOUT TO DIE showing Anthony Hopkins as emperor Vespasian of Rome and a glimpse of Tom Hughes as his son Titus and Jojo Macari as his younger son. The $135 million worth series is set in the complex and corrupt world of ancient Rome’s spectacle-driven gladiatorial competition and following an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire. Roland Emmerich is producing the series which will also star Rupert Penry Jones, Iwah Rheon, Lorenzo Richelmy and others.

 LAND OF SHADOWS SERIES 

17TH CENTURY GAY ROMANCE

The series will shoot in English language

Well, this could be very hot if cast right: Pedro Vasconcelos will helm new historical TV series LAND OF SHADOWS, based on  No País das Sombras novel from Emmy winner Aguinaldo Silva, about the forbidden love of two gay soldiers during the 17th Century, when Brazil was a colony of the Kingdom of Portugal. This English language drama will be set in Olinda, a Brazilian village, during the Captaincy of Pernambuco in 1604 and 1605, and reveals how the soldiers’ equality puts them in opposition to Portugal’s Holy Office of the Inquisition. The plot will also cover the persecution of New Christians, abuses against women and the romance between the wife of a sugar cane plantation lord and one of his slaves. The shooting will start early next year in Portugal and Brazil.

  POPPA'S HOUSE SITCOM  

ORDERED OVER AT CBS

CBS has given an official order to new multicam sitcom POPPA'S HOUSE which will be saved probably for the mid season next year. Damon Wayans plays legendary talk radio host and happily divorced Poppa, who has his point of view challenged at work when a new female co-host is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son, played by Damon Wayans Jr., a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband. Essence Atkins and Tetona Jackson are also in the lead cast.

EUROPEAN THURSDAY: SEE TRAILERS FOR ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY THRILLER THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA WITH ANDREA ARCANGELI AND 16TH CENTURY SET PORTUGUESE DRAMA THE CHILD

 THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA 

ITALIAN PERIOD SET MOVIE

The Mute Man of Sardinia is out today

Two international period set movies for you today, starting with Italian historical drama THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA (Il Muto di Gallura) from Matteo Fresi, a sophisticated western set in Sardinia in 1850 which explores an historic family feud and was competing over at the 39th Torino Film Festival starring Romulus' star Andrea Arcangeli. I already mentioned this one before, but now we have a trailer too as it opens in cinemas today in Italy. In the true life story about the feud between the Vasa and Mamia families, which caused the deaths of more than 70 people in mid-19th century Sardinia, Andrea plays deaf and mute

The film competed over at Turin Film Festival

Bastiano Tansu, who – mistreated and marginalized all his life – turned into a feared assassin, driven into a killing frenzy following his brother’s murder. Back in 1884 Enrico Costa wrote a book about this story famous in its region but not so much in the rest of Italy.

 

 

 THE CHILD 16TH CENTURY 

DRAMA FROM PORTUGAL

The Child was out in Portugal in February

After Italy straight over to Portugal where we have period set drama movie THE CHILD (A criança) which already had its release last month in its homecountry and will move over to France in April. Joao Arrais plays an adopted young man called Bela who, living in the middle of the 16th century, somewhere near Lisbon, tries to find his place in a family that is free but trapped in a world where each shadow allows defects to shine through. Here, everything leads to disaster. Marguerite de Hillerin and Félix Dutilloy Liégeois’s first feature length film, is loosely based on Heinrich von Kleist’s “The Foundling". As Cineuropa writes, the story is set in the Portuguese countryside in the sixteenth century, a time when the country's conservative religious traditions were dominant, and follows Bela, an orphan adopted by a French-Portuguese aristocratic couple. The film mostly focuses on this character’s relationships: with his adopted parents, his friends, his lover and with the people who work for him and his family. It depicts the emotionally and psychologically driven cinematic movements in the story of a young boy who seems to be at a time of self-discovery and at the epicentre of the dynamics of his household.