REMATCH SERIES WITH CHRISTIAN COOKE AS CHESS CHAMPION KASPAROV AND FRENCH HISTORICAL SERIES A DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP TO COMPETE AT SERIES MANIA 2024

 SERIES MANIA 2024 SELECTION

REMATCH CHESS WORLD SERIES

One of the series that will compete at this year's Series Mania next month is REMATCH a co production between Hungary and France, starring our dear Christian Cooke .Inspired by real events, this captivating thriller immerses us in the most decisive chess game in history – the second match between the champion Kasparov and the computer Deep Blue. With the advancing technological breakthroughs of our age, this fascinating duel still has resonance today, at a time when artificial intelligence is raising new challenges. Our favourite hunks Tom Austen and Luke Pasqualino also star next to Sarah Bolger, Trine Dyrholm and Aidan Quinn.

A DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP FROM FRANCE

 I already informed you about this one, but French historical series A DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP from French Television will lead the French competition at the festival! Adapted from the historical saga by Juliette Benzoni, Alain Tasma’s series Une amitié dangereuse gives us an innovative portrait of two young women reclaiming their desire, at a time when sexuality was above all a political lever. It is a story of queen Anne of Austria, the wife of French king Louis XIII and Mary Duchess of Chevreuse! 

 

SPY'S GUIDE THROUGH PERIOD SET SERIES TO AIR AT SERIES MANIA 2020: LUMINARIES, LITTLE BIRDS, OPERATION BUFFALO, GIRL FROM THE SHORE, SNOWPIERCER

SERIES MANIA 2020

SPY'S PERIOD SET SERIES PICK

It's that time of the year when Series Mania, MipCom, Canneseries and similar events promoting new series are near, and today the spy gives you the pick of period set shows that will be presented at Series Mania in March.

The Luminaries

Anna Wetherell has travelled to 1865 New Zealand to forge a new life. On the last day of her voyage, a romantic first encounter with the radiant Emery

Six part BBC series stars Marton Csokas, Eva Green, Eve Hewson

Staines fills her with great expectations for what lies ahead. However, the scheming fortune-teller Lydia Wells has other ideas for Anna and lays a trap to ensure that the planned rendezvous between the young lovers never takes place.

 Little Birds

Tangier, 1955. New York heiress Lucy Savage (Juno Temple) is fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But

Sky's six part series also stars Jean Marc Barr, Hugh Skinner, Matt Lauria

when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into an unfamiliar world and goes on a witty, moving and provocative journey towards freedom and independence.

Operation Buffalo

South Australia, 1956. The Menzies government has just welcomed British atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Charged with keeping the nuclear base running smoothly is Major Leo Carmichael, an Australian Army engineer and

ABC Australia series stars Ewen Leslie, James  Cromwell, Jessica de Gouv

WWII hero. But testing the most dangerous weapon in the world is not an easy task with a Commanding Officer who is not fit for the job; a new meteorologist asking too much questions; and the government and press watching their every move. And as it turns out, the land of Maralinga may not be as uninhabited as it seems.

Snowpiercer

Set more than seven years after the world became a frozen wasteland, it centres on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train,

TNT ten episode series staring Jennifer Connelly airs May 31st

with 1,001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation based on the graphic novel series and film!

Wonderland. Girl From The Shore

This is a story about a mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko), pretty as a picture. A woman in danger. A woman who refuses to love and to be loved. Of

It is a six episode French language series

a man who travels, from Paris to Biarritz, and finds himself lost during the summer of 1960. Pierre Deladonchamps, Pierre Perrier, Barbara Schulz, Simon Abkarian also star.