TV NEWS: GREGG SULKIN JOINS FORSYTES SAGA SEASON 3, DOUGLAS BOOTH, MARISA TOMEI, LUKE PASQUALINO, KELLY MACDONALD IN WAR SEASON 2, BEN MILES, SHAZAD LATIF, FRA FEE JOIN FIRST WOMAN

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GREGG SULKIN IN FORSYTES SEASON 3

We announced recently that Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece series THE FORSYTES is getting a third season even before the second one

Gregg Sulkin joins The Forsytes

 has aired, and now we know that Gregg Sulkin and Gabriel Antunes will be joining the cast. The third season that has begun shooting in Croatia! When Forsytes try to get some respite in the glamorous French Riviera, they quickly realize that they can’t escape their family drama. The casino, the beach and a luxurious hotel are all settings for the third chapter, which brings new characters into the family’s lives.Season two will, meanwhile, premiere soon in UK on Channel 5 with Richard Rankin joining the regular cast.

 

THE WAR SECOND SEASON CAST

Although the first season in which Dominic West and Sienna Miller play stars in high stake divorce case is yet to air later this year on Sky and HBO, the cast has now been set for the second season which will deal with a new case with new actors. Season 2 will see rival law firms Cathcarts

Luke Pasqualino, Kelly MacDonald, Douglas Booth

 and Taylor & Byrne take on an explosive defamation case. With Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, David Harewood and Richard Schiff as leads, the cast will also have Douglas Booth, Linus Roache, Luke Pasqualino, Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Charles Edwards, Rebecca Front, Alexandra Maria Lara, Violet Braeckman, Sasha Behar, Sid Phoenix, Cornelius Booth and Megan Channell. 

  

FIRST WOMAN ADS CAST AT ITV AND ZDF

Meanwhile, ITV and ZDF series FIRST WOMAN has also added new cast. Andrea Riseborough plays a biologist in a groundbreaking research project and the first woman to set foot on the moon, who disappears,

Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Ben Miles, Shazad Latif

 throwing suspicion on her fellow astronauts and a rival Chinese base. Thousands of miles away on Earth, her husband, Ben (Ashley Walters), searches for the truth. They are now joined by Ben Miles, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Fra Fee, Shazad Latif and Jimmy Akingbola.

1ST 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN, HOLIDAY GRAINGER! 'POLDARK' SEASON FOUR PLOT DETAILS, CAST ADITIONS, FIRST PHOTOS! REBECCA FRONT JOINS!

  'ELECTRIC DREAMS' SF SERIES

FIRST PHOTOS WITH RICHARD MADDEN AND HOLIDAY GRAINGER

News from the British isles today! First photos have been released for the new science fiction series ELECTRIC DREAMS specifically for The Hood Maker episode with our dearest Richard Madden and Holiday Grainger! Each of the ten episodes is done by a different director and

This is fourth or fifth time for Madden and Grainger to star together

cast adapting one of the stories from Philip K. Dick's sf opus. Some of the other episodes of the Channel 4 and Amazon series will star Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Jack Reynor, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston!

One half of the series will air this Autumn, the other next year

THE HOOD MAKER is set in a world without advanced technology where mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. Their powers have unintended

The series will also air on Amazon around the world

implications and when the public begins to embrace mysterious telepath blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate. This will be opening episode of the series and will air September 17th!

  DEZZY'S VERDICT Short, and a bit cheap looking,the episode was still thoroughly intriguing with Madden and Grainger shining as the leading pair. They've always had a strong magnetism when together on the big or small screen.

  'POLDARK' SEASON 4

REBECCA FRONT JOINS THE CAST

Rebecca Front will play Ozzie's mother

News are also arriving from BBC who have started production on the fourth, and probably penultimate, season of hit period set series POLDARK! The new season, which will air next year probably in summer again after scoring great ratings this June and July, has added Rebecca Front and young Louis Davison in the cast!

 HELLO, LONDON!
Set in 1796, it will see Poldark (Aidan Turner) trying to defend Cornwall from an empowered George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), and risking everything as he embarks on a political journey which takes him to the capital. Ross strives to become a better man, but his dark and reckless streak is never far from the surface and will lead to him facing new enemies and suffering great losses. Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) finds her loyalties torn, Elizabeth (Heida Reed) tries to strengthen her marriage, Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) continues to be oppressed by husband Reverend Ossie Whitworth (Christian Brassington), and the Enyses (Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde) are tested as never

Louis Davison will play older Geoffrey Charles

before. The action of series four should run until the Christmas period of 1799.

NEW CAST!

After playing roles of snobbish, pompous mothers in Doctor Thorne and War and Peace costume dramas, Rebecca Front will do that again in the fourth season of POLDARK, by playing  Lady Whitworth, Ossie's formidable mother. Harry Richardson and Tom York return as Drake and Sam Carne, Beatie Edney as Prudie and Josh Whitehouse as Lieutenant Hugh Armitage, who remains smitten with adulterous Demelza especially after they scandalously shagged each other on the sand dunes of Cornwall. Little Louis Davison will play a more grown

Max Bennett will play one of the new baddies!

up Geoffrey Charles, Elizabeth's son and Poldark's nephew.The series will also have a new villain in evil Monk Adderley who is friends with George. Max Bennett will play him!