NEW HISTORICAL TV SERIES LITTLE GENIUS: IBN SINA ON THE CHILDHOOD OF FAMOUS 10TH CENTURY SCHOLAR AND FATHER OF EARLY MODERN MEDICINE AVICENNA

  LITTLE GENIUS: IBN SINA 

NEW HISTORICAL TV SERIES

Since we are in the middle of the writers' strike I have promised you we will cover that period by venturing more into the international waters, so

The series has ten episodes in the first season

today we are voyaging over to Turkey where a new ten episode historical saga has already started airing earlier this month. LITTLE GENIUS: IBN SINA (Küçük Dahi: İbn-i Sina) kicked off its run last Sunday on TRT. The series depicts the the childhood of legendary Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, one of the most significant 10th century physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. You can check out the beautiful series trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

 THE STORY OF THE SERIES

Ibn-i Sina is a curious boy who seeks to discover knowledge, does not fit into his age, and has an intelligence beyond his time. He reads Aristotle's Metaphysics book many times in order to understand it, does research instead of playing games like his peers, and mostly talks with his best friend, the goat Socrates. Kaan Alp Uncle, Meriç Özkaya, Deniz Bolışık, Ekin Pasvanoğlu, Mehmet Ali Kaptanlar, Recep Efe Ekemen take part in the cast. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus later on included writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry.

ANCIENT ROME SET DOMINA EPIC TV SERIES 2ND SEASON TO SHOOT THIS SPRING! VISIT ISTANBUL IN NEW NETFLIX HISTORICAL ADVENTURE SERIES MIDNIGHT AT THE PERA PALACE

  DOMINA SEASON TWO  

STARTS SHOOTING THIS SPRING

Second season will shoot this spring

Earlier this winter I informed you that Epix has greenlit the second season of their DOMINA epic TV series and now we have a confirmation that it will start shooting this spring in Rome and will, beside Epix, also again air on Sky in Europe next year. The series that sees Kasia Smutniak playing Livia Drusilla, Caesar's (Matthew McNulty) wife, chronicles the struggle for control of the Roman Empire, and of Rome’s Imperial Family from a rare female perspective. In its first season, Livia Drusilla, the golden girl of the prominent Claudii family returned to Rome after ten years in exile, determined to regain everything that was stolen

The first season had great ratings both for Epix and Sky

from her. Now, atop a fractious empire, and a dysfunctional dynasty, she must fight to preserve her marriage to Gaius and find a way to seat one of her sons

Kasia Smutniak will again lead the series as Livia Drusilla

on the throne as new and old rivals jockey for position in a world where it’s impossible to know who to trust. The first season was the most watched in 2021 among the new shows at Epix. Hopefully we will have new casting addition announcements soon.

 MIDNIGHT AT THE PERA PALACE 

NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX

I kept forgetting to inform you about this one and now it is already streaming over at Netflix. MIDNIGHT AT THE PERA PALACE is a new eight episode historical comedy adventure series based on a Charles King

The Midnight at the Pera Palace is already streaming at Netflix

novel, focusing on the rise of modern-day Turkey! Esra (Hazal Kaya) is a journalist looking for her next big story. She sets off to visit the Pera Palace, an esteemed hotel in Istanbul known for both its intriguing history and its

Hazal Kaya takes the female lead in the series

mysterious supernatural happenings. One fateful night, Esra is suddenly sent back to the past, finding herself in 1919. There, she meets all sorts of key figures from the past, including Mr. Halit (Selahattin Pasali), who isn’t just

The series airs in eight hourlong episodes

the key to Esra returning to the present but is also the key to ensuring the election of Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal, comes to pass. How will Esra keep the past the same to prevent the future from changing? 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RUSSIAN EPIC TV SERIES THE PRISONER WITH ILYA MALAKOV AND IVAN BOSILJCIC SET AT THE COURT OF OTTOMAN SULTAN MEHMED THE CONQUEROR

  RUSSIAN PRISONER 

NEW RUSSIAN EPIC SAGA

The new series arrives sometime later this year

After the insane success of Turkish historical series The Magnificent Century on sultan Suleyman and his wife Hurem, which was feverishly adored in Arabic countries, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Russia has been trying to create their own historical drama which would repeat similar success, but they weren't overly successful even though their own shows on Catherine the Great, Golden Horde and Boris Godunov had nice ratings. Now they've decided to set one of the new series directly in the dark Ottoman empire and we can expect a lavish new 12 episode

Ilya Malakov, right, plays the title role of the Russian prisoner

television series THE PRISONER (Русский пленник) to arrive to the small screens via Russia's national broadcaster sometime later this year. Beside our

Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic is sultan Mehmed

dearest Ilya Malakov (whom you remember from their historical movie Kolovrat or Furious) in the lead role, the cast also includes actors from Serbia

Maya Tzetzhladze is sultana Safiya in the new series

making it a panslavic project. The shooting started back in the summer of 2019 so it was a very long production process. The story is set at the end of the

Serbian actress Milena Radulovic is Zuleika in the series

15th and the beginning of the 16th century so beside the infamous Turkish sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic), the series will

The series will have scenes set in the harem of the Turkish sultan

also include Russian tzars Fedor Ivanovich (Vladimir Koshevoi) and Boris Godunov (Artur Ivanov). Samvel Tadevosian, controversial Serbian

Vladimir Koshevoy is Russian tzar Fedor, son of Ivan the Terrible

actress Milena Radulovic, Arina Zharkova, Richard Lepers also star. Ivan Shurhovetzkiy, who helmed Kolovrat, is also directing this one. A whole city was built in Turkey for the needs of the production.

THE STORY OF THE PRISONER

Alekha (Ilya Malakov) is an honest, strong, freedom loving Cossack who decided to fulfill his father's last will. As a result, he goes to a foreign land in

The series was shot in Turkey and Russia in 2019

order to bow to the Virgin Mary. By the will of fate, he finds himself in the palace of the Sultan Mehmed (Serbian star Ivan Bosiljcic) of the Ottoman

Prisoners underwent a very harsh treatment to become Janissaries

Empire. Here the Russian is taken prisoner and sent to become one of the evil Jannisaries (sultan's elite squads made from the children and prisoners taken

Alekha will be trying to return to his love in Russia

from the enslaved regions of the empire). In an instant, not only plans, but also the life of the protagonist goes downhill. The man tries to fight fate, but

A whole historical city was built for the production of the series

the circumstances are stronger. As a result, he becomes an Ottoman prisoner who must serve the hated sultan. Here Alekha will face many trials and

It is expected that the series will be offered to the foreign markets as well

hardships. But during the whole journey, he does not give up on the feeling that one day he will return home - to his native land. In parallel, he finds the

Thousands of authentic costumes were made for the series

love of his life. But even here difficult tests await him. But for a real Cossack there are no barriers when he loves. He is ready to give his life for his beloved,

Jannisaries in the line in front of the grand vizier of the empire

because in a true Cossack, love for a woman is equated with love for the Motherland. Check out the annoucement clip below and tell us what you think: