2023 PERIOD SET SERIES
THE ULTIMATE LIST IS HERE
Well, it is not especially ultimate as, unlike 2022 that gave us quite a lot of shows on queens and empresses, freshly launched 2023 looks rather bleak when it comes to our favourite period set genre. Out of the returning shows we
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Django should start very soon on Sky
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can expect new seasons of
Valhalla, Wheel of Time, Serpent Queen, Sisi, Empress, Gilded Age, Domina and
Sanditon, but here are the new ones:
Sky should finally launch its wild west set adventure
DJANGO starring
Matthias Schoenaerts as the legendary gunslinger searching for his daughter.
FX might finally bring us the new adaptation of
SHOGUN sometime this year starring
Cosmo Jarvis as the 17th century sailor who becomes a samurai.
Hiroyuki Sanada and
Tadanobu Asano also star.
BBC will probably give us
GALLOWS POLE set in the 18th century industrial revolution in Yorkshire, and possibly
TEN POUND POMS with
Michelle Keegan in which a group of Brits leave post-
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A sneaky spy peek into Ten Pound Poms set
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war Britain in 1956 to embark on an adventure in Australia.
Amazon Prime Video has already set cast for
MY LADY JANE which brings the history of the saddest queen of England ever - she ruled just a few weeks.
Dominic Cooper stars.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM ITV?British
channel
ITV and their newly launched streamer
ITVX are to bring us
TOM
JONES series which will also air on
PBS Masterpiece this spring starring
Solly McLeod as the titular hero of the four part picaresque
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Tom Jones will have just four episodes this spring
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story
about young man's complicated journey to find real love in the 18th
century England. We might also get to see
Iain De Caestercker as King
Arthur in
THE WINTER KING in which a former warrior now turned monk,
tells the story of how Arthur became the lord of war despite the
illegitimacy of his throne.
2023 OFFER FROM NETFLIX
Netflix does not really have much in offer from the genre. February should bring us Italian series
THE LAW ACCORDING TO LIDIA POET with
Matilda de Angelis. Forbidden from practicing law, a woman prepares
an appeal to overturn the court's decision in this true 19th century story of Lidia Poët, Italy's first female lawyer. Poe's
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE |
Lidia Poet will start this February on Netflix
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OF USHER should also arrive to the streamer sometime this year starring
Bruce Greenwood, Zach Gilford, Mark Hamil and Carla Gugino.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Beside
the new season of Catherine the Great series, this time titled
VELIKAYA: THE GOLDEN AGE in which
Liza Boyarska takes over the
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Liza Boyarskaya is new Catherine the Great in Velikaya
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role
of the Russian empress in the later years of her rule, we will also see
Catherine the Great, this time played by
Irina Pegova, in
THE IMPERIAL
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Irina Pegova is Catherine in The Imperial Vaccination
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VACCINATION about the time when Catherine had to make her people accept
the first flu vaccines by taking it first herself. That one will air on
Russia 1 broadcaster sometime this year.
APPLE TO LEAD THE GENRE
Surprisingly enough,
Apple TV Plus will probably dominate the genre this year. They have
THE BUCCANEERS set in the 1870s when a bunch of rich American girls are trying to find a posh English husband during
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First look at The Buccaneers TV series set
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the London debutante season. They should also show us
THE NEW LOOK in which
Ben Mendelhson and
Juliette Binoche play Dior and Coco Chanel in the story that explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as
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Ben Mendehlson as Dior in The New Look
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he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence.
Hugo Becker, John Malkovich and
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Masters of the Air continues Band of Brothers anthology
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Emily Mortimer also star. It is possibly that we will also finally see
MASTERS OF THE AIR which follows the American bombers during the
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Jason Momoa will be Chief of War
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WW2 with
Callum Turner and Austen Butler in the lead roles.
Jason Momoa is, meanwhile, bringing
CHIEF OF WAR about the historical struggle for power on his islands of Hawaii.
WHAT IS DISNEY PREPARINGWe
are also not used to getting costume drama from
Disney Plus, but this
year they are bringing us
THE BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL about an 18th
century female renegade who will cross paths with Queen Anne and play
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Shazad Latif as captain Nemo in Nautilus
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a
role in the power struggles that were being played out over the European
battlefields. We might also see
Shazad Latif as Captain Nemo in
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The Lions of Sicily first look at the sets
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NAUTILUS epic TV seafaring adventure and also the adaptation of
THE
LIONS OF SICILY which follows the 19th century Florio family which
turned a small shop in Sicily into a flourish business activity that
became an
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Balenciaga might be scraped due to the recent scandal
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economic empire! Disney should also give us
BALENCIAGA series
about the famous Spanish designer and fashion legend it if hasn't been cancelled due to the recent scandal.
RISE OF THE RAVEN
Now, I am not sure this one will be done for airing this year, but it might:
RISE OF THE RAVEN is this year's most expensive epic series from Central Europe done for Hungarian TV2, Austrian ORF and our dear
Beta Film.
Based on
Bán Mór’s bestselling novels, the ten part series follows Hungarian warrior Janos Hunyadi, who defeated the Ottoman army in 1456 at the Battle
of Belgrade, halting its march across
Europe. Set among the
scandals, political power plays and court intrigues of medieval Europe,
the $30 million series is
nevertheless a human story at heart, with
Gellért L. Kádár playing Hunyadi, and
Vivien Rujder as his life partner, Elizabeth Szilagyi.
Laurence Rupp, Murathan Muslu and
Rade Sherbedgia also star.
won a bloody Battle of Belgrade against a
vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were sometimes armed
with just slings and patriotic fervor. To
this very day church bells
ring every day at noon in honour of this victory. Franciska Törőcsik
plays his first love Mara, Serbian princess, who had to marry Ottoman
Sultan Murad (Murathan Muslu) in order to protect her people.
won a bloody Battle of Belgrade against a
vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were sometimes armed
with just slings and patriotic fervor. To
this very day church bells
ring every day at noon in honour of this victory. Franciska Törőcsik
plays his first love Mara, Serbian princess, who had to marry Ottoman
Sultan Murad (Murathan Muslu) in order to protect her people.
Murathan Muslu, as sultan Murad II, Serbian Hollywood star Rade Serbedzija
who plays Serbian despot Djuradj Brankovic, Mara's father, and Giancarlo Giannini. The series is based on a series of books by Ban Mor. 
Judging by the trailer the series will have a lot of historical inaccuracies, including Despina Mara dressed as an exotic sex slave in sultan's harem. In real history, she wasn't his concubine, but his official wife and sultana and
remained true to her faith till death. She dressed in Serbian chaste clothes surrounded by an entourage of Orthodox monks and nuns and later on became one of the most respected noble women in Europe with her own court in Jezhevo. 
Murathan Muslu, as sultan Murad II, Serbian Hollywood star Rade Serbedzija
who plays Serbian despot Djuradj Brankovic, Mara's father, and Giancarlo Giannini. The series is based on a series of books by Ban Mor. 
Judging by the trailer the series will have a lot of historical inaccuracies, including Despina Mara dressed as an exotic sex slave in sultan's harem. In real history, she wasn't his concubine, but his official wife and sultana and
remained true to her faith till death. She dressed in Serbian chaste clothes surrounded by an entourage of Orthodox monks and nuns and later on became one of the most respected noble women in Europe with her own court in Jezhevo. 
