THE ENGLISH GAME 19TH CENTURY NETFLIX SERIES TRAILER WITH EDWARD HOLCROFT, KEVIN GUTHRIE, BEN BATT, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES, CRAIG PARKINSON, NIAMH WALSH IS HERE

'THE ENGLISH GAME'

NEW SHOW ARRIVES MARCH 20TH

Well, it seems, people, March will finally bring us long awaited period set delights, beside Belgravia (March 15th) and Letter for the King (March 20th), you will also enjoy THE ENGLISH GAME which Netflix will stream in all

New series The English Game streams from March 20th at Netflix

its six episodes from March 20th as well. Like Belgravia, this new period set series also comes from Julian Fellowes following the beginnings of soccer in Britain in the mid 19th century.

The English Game
will be a six part series set in the 1800s and will describe how the world's most popular sport of football crossed class lines and became a worldwide phenomenon despite its humble beginnings on the pitch at London’s Limes Field!

Who Is On The Football Field?

The male part of the cast is exquisitely strong led by two of our dear hunks Edward Holcroft (as Arthur Kinnaird – known as the ‘First Lord of

The mini series will air in six hourlong episodes

Football’) and Kevin Guthrie (as Fergus Suter from Glasgow, who is often considered the first recognised professional footballer) next to Craig

Kevin Guthrie leads the cast as the Scottish football player Fergus Suter

Parkinson, Ben Batt, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Gerard Kearns and Daniel Ings! Jamestown star Niamh Walsh leads the female part of the cast

The Eaton team made of aristocrats lead by Ed Holcroft's Arthur Kinnaird

alongside Kate Phillips and, sadly, Charlotte Hope (who judging by the trailer, is as bad here as she was scandalously atrocious in the god-awful

Niamh Walsh returns to TV after Jamestown epic drama

Spanish Princess). It is interesting that the actors who play the footballers trained at Trafford Training Centre in Carrington, the training ground of

Workers of a mill form their rival team lead by Kevin Guthrie's Fergus

Manchester United. They had to play in the 1880s style that is different from the game today. Check out the beautiful trailer below and tell us what you think:

WHAT ARE JAMESTOWN STARS UP TO NEXT: STUART MARTIN TO LEAD MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE 19TH CENTURY SERIES, MATT STOKOE IS SIR GAWAIN IN CURSED EPIC TV SERIES!

    STUART MARTIN TO LEAD

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

Sky's beloved epic drama Jamestown has ended, as you know, this summer with a rather shocking finale, but despair not, spylings, some of our

Stuart Martin will take the role of The Duke

favourite stars have already booked themselves new gigs! Our dear Scotsman Stuart Martin (whose rise from Medici series to Jamestown, we've been proudly following for years) will take the lead role in new A&E Network period set series about the first female detective in the 19th century London MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE as the duke himself next to Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way and takes over his private detective agency. But she needs a partner, so she hires detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as The

Kate Philips as Miss Scarlet, London's first 19th century lady detective

Duke, a drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship and team up to solve crime in 1880’s London. Andrew Gower, Cathy Belton and Matthew Malone will also star!

    MATT STOKOE IS GAWAIN

IN CURSED ARTHURIAN SERIES

Meanwhile, his fellow Jamestownian, the local blacksmith Matt Stokoe will remain in the close proximity to steel, only he won't be working it, but

Matt Stokoe will be Arthur's knight Gawain

wearing it as he is to don the armour of Sir Gawain in Netflix epic series CURSED which will follow Nimue, Lady of the Lake (Katherine Langford), who After her mother’s death, finds an unexpected partner in Arthur (Devon Terrell), a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin (Gustav Skarsgard) and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Based on Tom Wheeler's yet to be released book, CURSED also stars Peter Mullan, Lily Newmark, Shalom Brune Franklin, Daniel Sharman, Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates, Catherine Walker and Billy Jenkins.

  OTHER JAMESTOWN STARS
While our favourite Jamestown doctor Ben Starr does not have any new gigs announced yet (although you've also watched him in Dickensian at BBC

Niamh Walsh and Ben Starr

and Knightfall at History and also in Medici as Donatello), gorgeous inkeeper Niamh Walsh will join another period set drama THE ENGLISH GAME on the invention of soccer next to Edward Holcroft, Henry Lloyd Hughes and another Jamestown star Ben Batt!

EDWARD HOLCROFT, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES, BEN BATT, CRAIG PARKINSON CAST IN JULIAN FELLOWES' NEW PERIOD SET SERIES THE ENGLISH GAME ON ORIGINS OF FOOTBALL!

'THE ENGLISH GAME'

JULIAN FELLOWES FOOTBALL ORIGINS SERIES AT NETFLIX

Edward Holcroft will lead The English Game

While his fans are waiting for Julian Fellowes to finish shooting the movie version of Downton Abbey, and while we are waiting for the production on the small screen adaptation of his own Napoleonic wars set novel Belgravia to start in United Kingdom with Alice Eve as the lead, and while he is also preparing The Gilded Age epic TV saga at NBC, he has finished casting for another new period set television series of his, but this time something more for men! THE ENGLISH GAME will be a six part series set in the late 19th century and will describe how the world's most popular sport of football crossed class lines and became a worldwide phenomenon despite its humble beginnings on the pitch at London’s Limes Field! 

THE LADS IN THE TEAM  
To air sometime next year at Netflix, the series will have dashing Edward Holcroft (whom we watched in period set series Wolfhall, Gunpowder, Alias Grace and also as Ben Whishaw's gay lover in London Spy) as the lead star of

Craig Parkinson, Henry Lloyd Hughes and Kevin Guthrie

the team which, back then, included both Etonians and factory workers! The cast also includes Craig Parkinson, Kevin Guthrie and Spanish Princess

Gerard Kearns, Ben Batt and Daniel Ings will also star!

herself Charlotte Hope! They will be joined by James Harkness, Jamestown's Niamh Walsh and Ben Batt, Gerard Kearns, Daniel Ings, Les Miserables' star Henry Lloyd Hughes, Kate Phillips and Downton Abbey's Joncie Elmore.