PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SINGAPORE GRIP PERIOD SET TV SERIES STARTING TONIGHT AT ITV WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, BART EDWARDS

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WELCOME TO THE DYING DAYS OF BRITISH EMPIRE IN SINGAPORE

Singapore Grip starts tonight on ITV

Launching this year's Autumn season over at British ITV tonight is their new six part historical series SINGA- PORE GRIP based on the famous novel by J.G. Farrell! The whole series will be available on Britbox immediately after the first episode finishes airing tonight at ITV. Sadly, your trusted spy has seen the first two episodes and I cannot say it is great, it will be another flop for ITV: the story has no dynamics, the plot is slow, but the series does have a great and very charming performances by David Morrissey and Bart

The six part series has already aired down in Australia!

Edwards. The cast also includes Charles Dance (but his character dies in the first episode), Luke Treadaway as his son, Colm Meaney as his

David Morrissey is brilliant as cunning rubber merchant who wants to secure the future of his business by marrying his daughter to the son of his business partner

landlord, with Luke Newberry, Jane Horrocks and Georgia Blizzard also in the cast. The series has already received harsh criticism in Asia for depicting the

Luke Treadaway is a naive and moral UN worker who travels to Singapore after his rich father dies and leaves him his rubber empire. But he is progressive and does not accept exploitation.

sunny side of vile British imperialism without much focus on the brutalities their Asian colonial slaves had to endure under their wicked tyranny. But that is Brits for you, turn an eye blind on anything that paints you under a bad light.

The Singapore Grip Is Set 
in Singapore, 1941 and follows Walter Blackett (David Morrissey), who is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm alongside his

Charles Dance stars only in the first episode of the series

business partner Webb (Charles Dance). With Webb’s health failing, Walter needs to ensure the future of their firm is secure. He decides Webb’s son

Bart Edwards is supercharming as captain Ehrendorf who is in love with Blackett's daughter and is also a good friend with Matthew

Matthew (Luke Treadaway) is the perfect match for his spoilt daughter Joan (Georgia Blizzard). Matthew’s idealism leaves Walter increasingly

Georgia Blizzard is a spoilt brat and Blackett's conniving daughter

suspicious as Matthew himself falls under the spell of Vera Chiang (a rather amateurish performance by gorgeous but  not very talented Elizabeth Tan), a mysterious Chinese refugee.

SINGAPORE GRIP EPIC TV SERIES WITH DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, COLM MEANEY, LUKE NEWBERRY GETS JULY AIRING DATE

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EPIC SERIES GETS JULY AIRDATE

The series starts at the end of July this summer

Although we still don't know when it will air in UK on ITV (I'm guessing the same date), exotic period set drama THE SINGA- PORE GRIP will start on BBC First and on Foxtel in Australia July 26th! Coming from Mammoth Screen, the creators of Poldark and Victoria, it is an ambitious and exotic six part family saga set in colonial Singapore during World War Two. This epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world

The series is based on a classic book by J.G. Farrell

events. A compelling portrait of a society in decline and a family clinging to a world that is crumbling around them! David Morrissey, Luke

The series will air in six hourlong episodes

Treadaway, Jane Horrocks, Colm Meaney, Luke Newberry, Elizabeth Tan, Bart Edwards, Charles Dance star in the adaptation of J.G. Farrell’s classic novel. Stay tuned for more info from ITV soon.

An epic new drama following the lives of a British family during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.

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LUKE TREADAWAY, CHARLES DANCE, DAVID MORRISSEY, LUKE NEWBERRY TO LEAD ITV'S WW2 EPIC & LAVISH TV SAGA THE SINGAPORE GRIP! 1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS FROM AMMONITE PERIOD SET MOVIE

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CASTS LUKE TREADAWAY, DAVID MORRISSEY, CHARLES DANCE 

Last year I informed you that British ITV is planning to turn J.G. Farrell's Booker prize winning novel THE SINGAPORE GRIP into TV series, and

Luke Treadaway will lead the six part drama

now they've finally announced the cast! Luke Treadaway, David Morrissey, Colm Meaney and Charles Dance will lead the WW2 epic series produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark, Victoria), which, set during World War Two, follows a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion!

THE SINGAPORE GRIP will see Luke Treadaway playing the reluctant hero and innocent abroad Matthew Webb. David Morrissey takes the role of ruthless rubber merchant Walter Blackett, who is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm alongside his business partner Webb played by Charles Dance. With Webb’s health failing, Walter needs to ensure the future of their

Bart Edwards, Luke Newberry, David Morrissey will move over to Singapore

firm is secure. He decides Webb’s son Matthew is the perfect match for his spoilt daughter Joan (Georgia Blizzard). Matthew’s idealism leaves Walter increasingly suspicious as Matthew himself falls under the spell of Vera

Elizabeth Tan and Georgia Blizzard lead female part of the cast

Chiang (Elizabeth Tan), a mysterious Chinese refugee. Jane Horrocks plays Sylvia Blackett, Walter’s wife and Colm Meaney plays Major Brendan Archer. Also joining the esteemed cast are Luke Newberry playing Walter’s son Monty, Bart Edwards as Captain James Ehrendorf and Christoph Guybert as Dupigny.

1ST KATE WINSLET PHOTOS

FROM AMMONITE 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN ADVENTURE

You can also check out the first set photos of Kate Winslet in her new period set drama AMMONITE which also stars Saoirse Ronan. Set in a UK

Ammonite is being directed by God's Own Country's Francis Lee

coastal town in the 1840s, it will have its story following the unlikely romance between palaeontologist Mary Anning and a London woman of means to

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in costume.

whom she must unexpectedly play nursemaid. It is interesting that the family of Mary Anning does not support the film as they say the lesbian aspect of it  is based on lies and is purely invented for the purpose of the big screen.

EPIC MONDAY: MICHAEL HIRST & MARTIN SCORSESE PREPARING 'CAESARS' EPIC TV SERIES ON YOUNG ROMAN RULERS! ITV & MAMMOTH SCREEN MAKING ASIA SET WW2 SERIES 'THE SINGAPORE GRIP'!

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FROM TUDORS' MICHAEL HIRST AND MARTIN SCORSESE?

The series apparently already has the pilot written

We're all epic today, people, starting with the info coming from 'The Guardian' that Tudors, Elizabeth and Vikings creator Michael Hirst is preparing THE CAESARS series with Martin Scorsese which will cover the lives of some of Rome's most famous rulers. The series, expected to start shooting its first season next year in Italy, will tell the story of the early rulers of ancient Rome, beginning with the rise to power of Julius Caesar! Unlike other projects which used to depict him in his mature age, this series would depict him when he was young, ambitious and full of vitality. As you probably remember, Julius Caesar was indeed already shown as a very ambitious young soldier, filled with both political and sexual energy, in super popular Spartacus series.

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ITV & MAMMOTH SCREEN PREPARING ASIAN WW2 DRAMA

The book is a part of the Empire trilogy

Speaking of period set dramas, ITV is teaming up with Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen to turn J.G. Farrell's WW2 novel THE SINGAPORE GRIP into a six episode series. The story is based around a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion. As 'Deadline' reports, it follows rubber merchant Walter Blackett, his wife Sylvia, ruthless daughter Joan and spoilt son Monty, who live a life of luxury, seemingly untouched by the troubles in Europe. However, the story takes a turn when the son of his business partner Mr Webb becomes involved with his daughter Joan before falling under the spell of Vera Chiang, a mysterious Chinese refugee. Christopher Hampton (Atonement, The Quiet American), who won an Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons, is penning the script.