RICHARD MADDEN TO PLAY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IN NETFLIX THRILLER SERIES TRINITY FROM BODYGUARD CREATORS

 RICHARD MADDEN TO LEAD 

TRINITY THRILLER SERIES AT NETFLIX

Coming straight from the creators of his most successful series Bodyguard is Richard Madden's TRINITY thriller series over at Netflix. Gugu Mbatha

Richard Madden will take the male lead

 Raw will join him in the eight part drama as a heroic female Naval Officer who becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense (Madden), only to discover he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. Commander Katherine Decker is described as serving as second-in-command on the USS Kansas, a nuclear submarine and one of the deadliest weapons on Earth. Madden's Secretary of Defense is called Webb Preston. With a technology background that makes him different from most politicians, Webb’s innovation and purpose are seen as a threat in more ways than one.

RICHARD MADDEN AND JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT TO LEAD KILLER HEAT MOVIE AT AMAZON STUDIOS

 RICHARD MADDEN TO LEAD 

KILLER HEAT MOVIE TOGETHER WITH JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT

While we are waiting for the premiere of his new series Citadel, Richard Madden has scored another movie lead. Together with Joseph Gordon Levitt he will star in KILLER HEAT at Amazon Studios. Based on Jo Nesbo's The Jealousy Man, it follows twin brothers who are caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged detective, known as “The Jealousy Man,” is called in to investigate. Shailene Woodley will play the fatal woman. The shooting starts next month in Crete.

FIRST TRAILER FOR CITADEL SERIES WITH RICHARD MADDEN, PRIYANKA CHOPRA, LESLEY MANVILLE, STANLEY TUCCI IS HERE!

   FIRST CITADEL TRAILER   
FROM PRIME VIDEO SERIES
Prime Video has released first trailer for global spy series CITADEL which arrives April 28th! Eight years ago, Citadel fell. The independent global spy agency,

Citadel will have a two episode premiere

tasked to uphold the safety and security of all people, was destroyed by operatives of Manticore, a powerful syndicate manipulating the world from the shadows. With Citadel’s fall, elite agents Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) had their memories wiped as they narrowly escaped with their lives. They’ve remained hidden ever since, building new lives under new identities, unaware of their pasts. Until one night, when Mason is tracked down by his former Citadel colleague, Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci), who desperately needs his help to prevent Manticore from establishing a new world order. Mason seeks out his former partner, Nadia, and the two spies embark on a mission that takes them around the world in an effort to stop Manticore, all while contending with a relationship built on secrets, lies, and a dangerous-yet-undying love. Lesley Manville plays Dahlia Archer, the British Ambassador to the United States, whose loyalties may lie elsewhere. Episodes will stream weekly after a two episode premiere.

RICHARD MADDEN, PRIYANKA CHOPRA, STANLEY TUCCI, LESLEY MANVILLE IN 1ST CITADEL SERIES IMAGES! SEE TRAILER FOR WW2 EPIC MOVIE RIGHTEOUS CURRENTLY RULLING RUSSIAN BOX OFFICE!

  FIRST CITADEL IMAGES  

FROM PRIME VIDEO SERIES

Prime Video has released first photos from global spy series CITADEL which arrives April 28th! Eight years ago, Citadel fell. The independent global spy agency, tasked to uphold the safety and security of all people, was destroyed by operatives of Manticore, a powerful syndicate manipulating the world from the shadows. With Citadel’s fall, elite agents Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) had their memories wiped as they narrowly escaped with their lives. They’ve remained hidden ever since, building new lives under new identities, unaware of their pasts. Until one night, when Mason is tracked down by his former Citadel colleague, Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci), who desperately needs his help to prevent Manticore from establishing a new world order. Mason seeks out his former partner, Nadia, and the two spies embark on a mission that takes them around the world in an effort to stop Manticore, all while contending with a relationship built on secrets, lies, and a dangerous-yet-undying love. Lesley Manville plays Dahlia Archer, the British Ambassador to the United States, whose loyalties may lie elsewhere. Episodes will air weekly after double episode premiere.

 RIGHTEOUS MOVIE TRAILER 

HE MANAGED TO SAVE THEM!

Currently ruling number one spot at Russia's box office charts is war movie RIGHTEOUS (Праведник) from Sergei Ursulyak. Set in 1942 it sees Alexander

The movie is currently topping Russian charts

Yatsenko playing Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselev who receives an order to withdraw over two hundred Jews from the occupied Belarusian lands behind the front line - old people, women and children, who miraculously escaped reprisal. These people, tormented by hunger, who have lost their relatives and almost lost their minds from the horror they experienced, will have to walk hundreds of kilometers along the forest paths in order to gain hope for salvation and faith in the future. Sergey Makovetsky, Fedor Dobronravov, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Julia Vitruk, Lyubov Konstantinova, Mark Eidelstein, and Maria Zolotukhina also star.

JUSTIN KURZEL TO ADAPT WW2 NOVEL THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH INTO MINI TV SERIES! NEW 1917 WW1 EPIC POSTER STARRING GEORGE MACKAY, RICHARD MADDEN, COLIN FIRTH, MARK STRONG

  JUSTIN KURZEL TO DIRECT

 THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP

The novel won The Man Booker prize in 2014

NORTH WW2 MINI SERIES

After The Railwayman with Colin Firth we are getting a new movie on the horrors of infamous railway in Burma during World War II! As 'Deadline' reports, director Justin Kurzel has boarded Freemantle's small screen adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed novel THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH which has the story set against the backdrop of the horrific Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II. The mini series will chart the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.

  NEW '1917' POSTER

 TIME IS THE ENEMY

Speaking of war, check out the new poster for Sam Mendes directed WW1 epic 1917 which DreamWorks is currently pushing like crazy for the Oscar race.  It follows Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake, two young British soldiers during the First World War, who are given a seemingly

The movie, out next January, was shot to look like a single take in real time

impossible mission. With time against them, they must deliver a message, deep in enemy territory, that will stop their own men, and Blake's own brother, walking straight into a deadly trap. Shot to look like one long single take, the film also stars Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong and Colin Firth!

HARROWING TRAILER FOR 1917 WW1 MOVIE WITH COLIN FIRTH, RICHARD MADDEN, GEORGE MACKAY, MARK STRONG, ANDREW SCOTT, DEAN CHARLES CHAPMAN

   FIRST '1917' TRAILER SENDS

A STELLAR CAST INTO TRENCHES!

First harrowing trailer has been released today for World War One drama 1917 directed by Sam Mendes and starring George Mackay, Richard Madden, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Daniel Mays, and

The movie was apparently filmed as one long shot!

Dean Charles Chapman, who together with Mackay plays two soldiers who are given an impossibly difficult, yet crucial mission: They must traverse enemy territory in a race against time and deliver a message that will stop an

The film will get a Christmas 2019 release ahead of the awards season

attack on hundreds of soldiers, who have no idea it's coming, and the brother of one of them is amongst them. Shot in England, the film will reach cinemas Christmas in USA, and then January (UK, Germany, Europe) and February (Russia) around the world. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON ELTON JOHN'S FANTASY MUSICAL ROCKETMAN WITH TARON EGERTON, RICHARD MADDEN, JAMIE BELL, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD

  ELTON JOHN'S 'ROCKETMAN'

BASED ON A TRUE FANTASY!

The film opens May 16th at Cannes Film Festival

If, after watching last year's Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, you feel nostalgic for some more legendary music, do not despair, later this month Elton John's biopic ROCKETMAN will land into theatres near you, from May 24th directed by Rhapsody's Dexter Fletcher! It is not exactly a biopic, Elton calls it a sort of a movie of fantasy stories based around his greatest hits but it does also describe how he started writing some of world's biggest ever hits and how he developed his unique image enjoying love and fun along the way.

The film opens May 31st in USA, 22nd in UK

ROCKET MAN
tells the story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music, through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin, as well as his struggles with depression, substance abuse, and acceptance of his sexual orientation. It is a musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

WORLD'S FIRST R-RATED MUSICAL

The film is named after Elton's 1972 song

As you know, British actor Taron Egerton has been chosen to portray Elton himself (Justin Timberlake was the original choice), with our favourite Scotsman Richard Madden portraying his manager and lover John Reid (who was played by Aidan Gillen in Bohemian Rhapsody), and Jamie Bell as famous lyricist Taupin. Bryce Dallas Howard plays Elton's mother Sheila, with whom he did not always have the best of relationships. Charlie Rowe, Tate Donovan, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones also star. Taron, who sings songs himself in the movie (he already sung Elton's I'm Still Standing in Sing animated movie), said that he was specially dedicated in portraying a very

Richard Madden plays Elton's manager and lover John Reid who also worked with Queen and his character thus appears in Bohemian Rhapsody as well.

intimate sex scene with Richard Madden, as it portrays an important part of Elton's life. The soundtrack contains 22 hits performed by the cast of the film and a new song (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again featuring Egerton and Elton. 

RICHARD MADDEN, MARK STRONG, COLIN FIRTH, ANDREW SCOTT JOIN SAM MENDES' WW1 FILM 1917! THE DARK AGE EPIC TV SERIES SET IN A WORLD WITHOUT METAL

WW1 MOVIE '1917' ADS

 RICHARD MADDEN, MARK STRONG AND  COLIN FIRTH

This will be a great cast, indeed! Director Sam Mendes has lined up dashing British gents Richard Madden, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott and Mark Strong to star in his World War One drama 1917! The war drama will

Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Richard Madden have joined the movie

actually have George MacKay and Dean Charles Chapman as lead stars since the story of the movie with follow them as two young British soldiers during a single day at the height of the terrible war a year before its end.

George Mackay and Into the Badlands star Dean Chapman will lead the cast

Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Duburcq round up the rather stellar cast. This is Sam Mendes' first film after his work on James Bond movies and it also marks his return to Dreamworks. Shooting for the film scheduled for Christmas 2019 release, starts on Monday!

  'THE DARK AGE' SF SAGA

A WORLD WITHOUT ANY METAL!

Armory Films and Knightfall co-creator Don Handfield will turn THE DARK AGE, a sf comic book series to be published by Red 5 Comics, into TV series about the collapse of contemporary civilization in the wake of

The Dark Age is yet to be released as comics

mysterious calamity that transmutes every piece of workable metal on earth (tools, vehicles, guns, circuits, girders, etc.) into crumbling piles of rusted dust. Staggered by the loss of technology, humanity plunges into chaos until a violent feudal system takes shape and the surviving pockets of civilization are dominated by knights who wield weapons of wood and plastic. The story begins with Ethen Riker, an archaeology professor, his pregnant wife, Helen and his daughter Jonnie, enjoying a quiet lunch at a campus cafe. When his stirring spoon, then the table, then the metal foundations of the building itself suddenly crumble, Ethen rushes his family outside to witness the world quite literally coming to end. We flash forward thirteen years post-metal as he struggles to protect his family in this new paleo-plastic world and unravel the dark mystery of why metal disappeared.

TARON EGERTON IS ELTON JOHN IN FANTASY BIOPIC ROCKETMAN WITH RICHARD MADDEN, JAMIE BELL, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD! MARCO POLO'S PRODUCER TO MAKE HISPANIOLA EPIC TV SERIES ON COLUMBUS

'HISPANIOLA' EPIC TV SERIES

Hispaniola is based on Hans Koning's book

ON INFAMOUS CHRISTO- PHER COLUMBUS

 Marco Polo's writer John Fusco is set to produce another epic saga for TV! He will turn Hans Koning's novel Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth into an epic series titled HISPANIOLA! Cavalry Media has envisioned it as a premium drama about unchecked power and the madness and brilliance bred by its pursuit. Based on Koning’s 1991 book, it will tell the brutal true story of Christopher Columbus and the first Wild West frontier, the tropical Caribbean island of Hispaniola that now encompasses the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Hispaniola is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, founded by Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493.

'ROCKETMAN' TRAILER

TARON EGERTON IS ELTON JOHN

First full trailer and a poster arrive from United Kingdom for Elton John's ROCKETMAN, a movie inspired by his life. Taron Egerton (who actually

Rocketman will fly from May 31st!

sings all Elton's songs in the movie) plays Elton himself, with Jamie Bell playing Elton's long time composer Bernie Taupin, our dear Richard Madden as Elton's manager and lover John Reid and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton's mother Sheila Farebrother. Charlie Rowe, Steven Mackintosh, Tate Donovan also star. The movie is not a classic biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody was, but a fantasy musical in which Elton's most famous songs were used to express important beats in his life at emotional moments describing how he went from a shy small town pianist to world's biggest pop superstar.

1ST TRAILER FOR 'ROCKETMAN' FANTASY MUSICAL ON ELTON JOHN'S LIFE WITH TARON EGERTON, JAMIE BELL, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD! PLUS 1ST PHOTO OF RICHARD MADDEN AS HIS MANAGER AND LOVER

   'ROCKETMAN' TRAILER

 WITH TARON EGERTON, RICHARD MADDEN AND JAMIE BELL

We're launching the new working week with the first trailer for Elton John biopic ROCKETMAN with first photos of Taron Egerton as Elton himself and currently the most popular Brit Richard Madden as his manager and

Rocketman will hit theatres around the world next May

lover John Reid (you will hardly recognise him with the dark new hairdo) with whom he worked for more than twenty years. The movie, scheduled to start its cinematic life next May around the world, also stars Bryce Dallas Howard

Richard Madden plays Elton's manager and lover John Reid

as Elton's mother Sheila Eileen. Jamie Bell plays his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin whom he met when they both applied for a job at a record company back in the late 60s. Steven Mackintosh and Gemma Jones also star!

  ROCKETMAN
a mix of fantasy and reality, is a very honest and uncensored story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through becoming world wide pop superstar and his influential and enduring

The film was originally supposed to star Tom Hardy or James McAvoy

musical partnership with Bernie Taupin with whom he wrote the song which became the name of the movie itself. The movie will also mention Elton's drug abuse. Dexter Fletcher, who was brought in to finish Queen biopic

Jamie Bell and Taron Egerton as Bernie Taupin and Elton John

Bohemian Rhapsody, is directing this one as well. Taron Egerton is also singing the songs in the movie beside portraying Elton John, but that is no big surprise as we were all mindblown by his voice in the animated feature Sing in which he gave his voice to the smooth voiced gorilla.

EXCITING FULL TRAILER FOR BBC ONE'S SERIES 'BODYGUARD' WITH RICHARD MADDEN, KEELEY HAWES!

BBC'S 'BODYGUARD' TRAILER

NEW RICHARD MADDEN AND  KEELEY HAWES TV SERIES

BBC has revealed the 1st long trailer for their 6 part drama BODYGUARD that tells the fictional story of David Budd (Richard Madden), working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch

The series will air in six hourlong episodes

 of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes),

Keeley Hawes is warmongering Home Secretary Julia Montague

whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat? Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin, Stuart

Richard Madden is Special Protection Officer David Budd

Bowman also star! The series starts airing Sunday, August 26th on BBC, with the second episode on Monday, and then continues Sunday evenings.

RICHARD MADDEN TO BE TARON EGERTON'S LOVER AND MANAGER IN ELTON JOHN'S BIOPIC 'ROCKETMAN'! AMAZON PICKS UP ROBBIE AMELL'S SF COMEDY SERIES 'UPLOAD'

  RICHARD MADDEN JOINS

 TARON EGERTON IN 'ROCKETMAN'

While we are waiting to see whether his latest series The Bodyguard will replace Poldark in the primetime slot on BBC next Sunday (I have a feeling it

Richard Madden will play Elton John's manager

will), our dearest Richard Madden will try to get a few gigs set for Elton John!

As 'Variety' reports, he will play his manager John Reid in ROCKET MAN musical movie about his life. You already know that the latest Robin Hood Taron Egerton is actually playing Elton John in the film (and singing too), while Jamie Bell is also on board to play song writer Bernie Taupin! Reed, legendary music manager in the ’70s and ’80s who also helped with Queen’s rise to fame was John manager for thirty years till 1998. At some point they were also lovers, but their romance ended after five years following the leak of a letter from John’s accountants detailing Reid’s spending. The two would continue to work together professionally until 1998.

  ROBBIE AMELL'S 'UPLOAD'

GETS FULL UPLOAD ON AMAZON

Robbie Amell will lead new fantasy sitcom

Speaking of handsome gents, here's another one for you this Monday: Robbie Amell's new science fiction comedy series UPLOAD has been picked up by Amazon to series!  This new mix of a sitcom and fantasy series, will take place in the near future, where people who are near death can be “uploaded” into a virtual afterlife of their choice. In 2033, secretly romantic Brooklyn born Nora (Andy Allo) works customer service for a luxurious virtual reality environment. When handsome L.A. party boy Nathan’s (Robbie Amell) self driving car crashes, his high maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.

1ST 'BODYGUARD' BBC TV SERIES TRAILER WITH RICHARD MADDEN, KEELEY HAWES! NEW 'BOOKSHOP' POSTER WITH EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY, PATRICIA CLARKSON

BBC'S 'BODYGUARD' TRAILER

NEW RICHARD MADDEN AND  KEELEY HAWES TV SERIES

BBC has revealed the 1st trailer for their 6 part drama BODYGUARD that tells the fictional story of David Budd (our dearest Richard Madden who celebrated his 32 birthday yesterday), working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London’s

Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes in Bodyguard

 Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes), whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

NEW 'BOOKSHOP' POSTER 

STARRING EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY AND PATRICIA CLARKSON

Speaking of Brits, check out the new poster for this month drama movie BOOKSHOP based on Penelope Fitzgerald's novel set in 1959! Florence

Bookshop opens next week in England

Green (Emily Mortimer), a free spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. Fighting damp, cold and considerable local apathy she struggles to establish herself but soon her fortunes change for the better. By exposing the narrow minded local townsfolk to the best literature of the day, she opens their eyes thereby causing a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries. Her activities bring her an ally in Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy) who is himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson)!

BBC ANNOUNCES 19TH CENTURY POLAR ADVENTURE 'NORTH WATER', EPIC WW2 DRAMA 'WORLD ON FIRE', 'KING LEAR' WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, EMMA THOMPSON, 'BODYGUARD' WITH RICHARD MADDEN, KEELEY HAWES

BBC'S NEW PROJECTS 

ARCTIC SET 'NORTH WATER'

We're all posh British today, with BBC's announcement of a slate of their future projects! They are planning to turn Ian McGuire's novel THE

Andrew Haigh is directing the series

NORTH WATER into a five episode period set thriller series. Set in Hull and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s it follows Patrick Sumner, a disgraced surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax, the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

WW2 DRAMA 'WORLD ON FIRE'
Together with Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen, they're also working on epic WW2 landmark drama WORLD ON FIRE telling the story of WW2 through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global

King Lear will air on Amazon Prime too!

conflict. The 7 part saga tells the story of the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain. It follows a young translator in Warsaw, a factory worker in Manchester, a war correspondent, a family from Berlin etc.

NEW 'KING LEAR'

BBC has also officially confirmed their work on new TV movie KING LEAR. Hollywood Spy was among the first in the world to announce this project which, set in the fictional present, sees Anthony Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Emma Thompson, Emily Watson and Florence Pugh are his daughters. Jim Broadbent is Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Scott is his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan his illegitimate son Edmund. Jim Carter is Earl of Kent, Christopher Eccleston is Oswald, Tobias Menzies is Duke of Cornwall. Karl Johnson is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool.

RICHARD MADDEN'S 'BODYGUARD'
BBC has revealed the 1st photo from their 6 part drama BODYGUARD that tells the fictional story of David Budd (Richard Madden), working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch

Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes in Bodyguard

of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes), whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

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!

PERIOD SET FRIDAY: BRADLEY JAMES, SEAN BEAN, DANIEL SHARMAN, RAOUL BOVA, SARAH PARISH JOIN 'MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE' EPIC TV SERIES 2ND SEASON!

'MEDICI' EPIC SEASON 2 CASTS

 BRADLEY JAMES, DANIEL SHARMAN, SEAN BEAN, SARAH PARISH, JULIAN SANDS

Bradley James will be Guiliano Medici

The most beautiful piece of info ever as the highlight of our period set projects week! Those who know the spy probably remember when I said I was gonna ditch MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE after it was shockingly announced that Richard Madden won't be starring in the second season, but now that the new cast has been announced for the sophomore run of the magnificent epic TV series I'm definitely watching since our dearest King Arthur Bradley James has been cast in the role of Giuliano Medici! The main star of the second season, which starts shooting next month, will, however, be Daniel Sharman as his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandson of Madden's Cosimo Medici who was the star of the first season. The eight part series will also include Julian Sands as Lorenzo and Giuliano’s father, Piero, and Sebastian De Souza as their friend, Sandro Botticelli. The pope will be played, believe it or not, by sinfully gorgeous Italian superstar Raoul Bova and Sean Bean will

De Souza, Sharman and Bova, left to right, will star in the second season

portray the family's greatest rival and enemy Jacoppo Pazzi. Sarah Parish (who is no stranger to epic series as she already starred in Pillars of the Earth and Atlantis) will play the new, older version of Lorenzo's mother while Alessandra Mastronardi will play his mistress! Italian RAI and Netflix are producing the series again to air it sometime next year. 

MASTERS OF FLORENCE
The second season of the best epic series in last ten years, will be set 20 years after the events of the first. A young Lorenzo, the grandson of Richard Madden’s character Cosimo from the first series, is forced to

Alessandra Mastronardi and Sarah Parish will be the female leads

take over the family bank, which has been mismanaged by his father. As Lorenzo, his brother, and Botticelli set about trying to make Florence a great financial and cultural center, they face off against the Pazzi family, and Pope Sixtus IV.