As Screen Daily reports British stars Iain Glenn and Anna Maxwell Martin will lead Vincent Regan's directorial debut INCARNADINE which will be a reworking of Macbeth with them playing Macbeth and Lady
The movie will be a rework of the famous play
Macbeth. They both already played the roles in theatre. The title ’Incarnadine’ refers to the process of turning something blood red, and is a reference to a line in the Shakespeare's play.
UNCLE FRANK TRAILER
SAYS THAT NO ONE COMES HOME WITHOUT BAGGAGE
Uncle Frank is out this Thanksgiving!
Amazon has, meanwhile, released the first trailer for comedy drama UNCLE FRANK which is out November 25th offering you a chance to see Paul Bettany and Peter Macdissi playing a gay couple!
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe (Paul Bettany) and his 18 year old niece Beth (Sophia Lillis) take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid (Peter Macdissi). Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale also star in the film written and directed by Oscar winner Alan Ball who hasn't directed a cinematic film since 2007 but has worked for the television.
This one, I think, has no competition when it comes to having the strongest cast in a television series this year! Imelda Staunton, Stephen Rea, Francesca Annis, Russell Tovey and Vincent Regan all star in FLESH AND BLOOD new four part drama which will air on ITV from Monday 24th of February in four consecutive nights!
Flesh And Blood Is A Modern Story
of three adult siblings,
exploring universal themes of relationships, trust, loyalty and love
against the backdrop of the build-up to, and aftermath of, a tragic
crime. The already dysfunctional lives of Helen, Jake and Natalie
(Russell Tovey, Claudie Blakley and Lydia Leonard) are thrown into
Stephen Rea, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton lead the cast
disarray when their recently widowed mother Vivien (Francesca Annis)
declares she’s in love with a new man. Their suspicions are heightened
as retired surgeon Mark (Stephen Mark) sweeps their mother off her feet,
shifting her priorities away from her children. Years of secrets, lies,
rivalries and betrayals come to the surface and threaten to blow apart
everything they’ve held dear. Then there's Mary (Imelda Staunton), who
has lived next
The series will air in four nights from February 24th!
door to Vivien for 40 years. Despite not being family,
Mary appears overly attentive to Vivien and her family's unfolding
drama. With their large family home, inheritance and happy childhood
memories all at risk, the siblings attempt to find out more about Mark.
But will their long-buried grudges, complex relationships and
complicated personal lives allow them to pull together?
It seems, people, that summer this year will be more eventful than we thought at least on the small screens, with next week bringing us sf series Pandora and Outpost and costume dramas Harlots and Poldark beside ITV's Beecham
The eight episode final season returns next Sunday at BBC
House which is already airing! Rival BBC is ready with its POLDARK which
returns with the final fifth season Sunday July 14th and today you can enjoy
Aidan Turner returns as the brave captain Ross Poldark!
the new photos which include some of the new characters as well! The series will air September 29th at PBS too for American audience. This will be the first season not to directly follow the stories of Winston Graham's novels and
The series might get a sequel in a few years with Ross' kids as heroes
will again follow Aidan Turner
as the mine owner and a politician at the beginning of the 1800s,
instead of jumping a decade and focusing on his
Aidan Turner said the show could return in a few years
children like in the
novels. Vincent Regan joins the series as Poldark's old army friend Colonel Ned Despard, the governor of British Honduras who
Luke Norris as Doctor Dwight Enys
ended up in prison for giving the land away to slaves. It
will be Ross' mission to get him out. Meanwhile, doctor Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) will be
George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) will be a sad man in the final season
treating George Warleggan (Jack Farthing)
from the trauma after the loss of his wife. The slogan of the final
season is - If your country betrays you, to whom do you then owe
loyalty?
THE STORY OF THE FINAL SEASON The Poldarks look forward to life together in peace, but a plea from
Ross’s old Army Colonel, Ned Despard (Vincent Regan), compels him to the
capital.
As Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) manages their affairs in Cornwall she
Harry Richardson as the newly wedded Drake the blacksmith
encounters disenchantment and a new opponent, Tess (Sofia Oxenham).
George (Jack Farthing) meanwhile struggles to engage with the world
after Elizabeth’s death and it falls to Cary (Pip Torrens) to expand the
family
Tom York as Demelza's minister brother Sam
empire - as Valentine (Woody Norman) struggles to find his place
within it.
Arriving in London, Ross (Aidan Turner) finds a city gripped with
paranoia,
Luke Norris will be helping Jack Farthing's George to cope with wife's death
and is determined to save Ned from the conspiracy that
imprisoned him.
George enters into an alliance with the merchant behind Ned’s
imprisonment,
Vincent Regan is Poldark's old friend Ned Despard
Ralph Hanson (Peter Sullivan), whose business is in
upholding the slave trade. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Charles (Freddie Wise)
decides to follow in
Tom York and Harry Richardson return as Demelza's brothers
Ross’s footsteps and enter the military - but also
finds himself drawn to Cecily Hanson (Lily Dodsworth Evans), Ralph’s
daughter.
As George’s grief leads
Peter Sullivan and Lily Dodsworth Evans and Freddie Wise
the Warleggans into uncharted and worrying
territory, Ross discovers a grave plot and is urged to heroism, while
Demelza is forced into action herself back at home.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND WHO ARE THE NEW CAST MEMBERS?
While Americans are waiting to watch the fourth season of epic saga POLDARK at the end of the month at PBS, British BBC has announced how
Season 4 stars on PBSMasterpiece September 30th
the fifth and the final season will look like next year! They have also announced our dearest 300, Royals and White Princess star Vincent Regan, Lily Dodsworth Evans, Kerri McLean, Peter Sullivan, Freddie Wise and Sofia Oxenham as the new cast members who will join Aidan Turner in the series finale which starts filming this week. Although there is a ten year gap between the seventh novel (the last one covered so far on the telly) of Winston Graham's saga on which the series is based, and the eight one, the writer of the show will still cover the lives of the Poldarks, George Warleggan, the Enyses, and the Carnes in this intervening period, which means the actors won't have
Our dear Vincent Regan is joining season 5 in unspecified role
to look so much older. As you know, the series follows captain Ross Poldark after he returns to his father's estate in England from the American War for Independence.
IN POLDARK SEASON FIVE
it is a new century and with it comes
the promise of a hopeful future, but the past casts a long shadow over
Cornwall. Following the death of Elizabeth, Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner)
resolves to put Westminster behind him and spend
Jack Farthing's George Warleggan will again do his best at doing evil
more time with the
people he loves. However, when an old friend emerges with a plea for
help, Ross is compelled to challenge the establishment again. As the
Enyses (Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde) rally to join the cause,
Gabriella Wilde and Luke Norris will return as the Enyses
Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) must contend with dangers close to home,
while George (Jack Farthing) courts corrupt powers whose influence spans
the Empire.
Are you ready for new court intrigues and fights for throne and power at the British isles? Starz is ready to start airing its new epic TV series WHITE PRINCESS April 16th! The ten part historical drama will chart the 15th century War of Roses in which Henry Tudor gets on the throne and princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry him in order to end the rival conflicts. Newly crowned Queen of England, Elizabeth finds
herself torn between loyalty to her blood relatives, placating her
husband and his icy mother and establishing herself as a key player within the court's intricate politics.
QUEEN ELIZABETH OF YORK Is played by Jodie Comer. Daughter of
the late King Edward IV and The White Queen herself, gets her life
transformed when she gets married to Henry VII the new king thanks to
the plots of her mother.She is kind, warm and publicly loyal to her
husband but privately she hates him and plots against him. Their hatred
could not only destroy them but England as well.
HENRY VII KING OF ENGLAND
Is played by
Jacob Collins Levy. After living in exile for most of his youth in France, he returned to England to regain the crown from the Yorkists. He is mistrustful of women, has a strict and obsessive mother and a new wife he does not love. He finds himself torn between the two women who use him as their battleground. They both want to win his favour.
LADY MARGARET BEAUFORT The queen mother is played by Michelle
Fairley. She has sacrificed her whole life to get her son to the throne
but now he is sitting on it she realizes she barely knows him. Desperate
to get closer to him she puts herself in the role of his advisor.
DOWAGER QUEEN ELIZABETH
The new queen's mother is played by Essie Davis. She will do whatever it takes to ensure her children survive the war between the Yorks and Lancasters. It was through her betrayal of her late husband's brother, King Richard III, that the Lancaster family retook control over the English crown — with the condition that her daughter Elizabeth be made Queen consort.
JASPER TUDOR The King's uncle is played by Vincent Regan. He is
his right hand, his general and brilliant battle commander, utterly
loyal to his nephew. He has always been secretly in love with his mother
Lady Margaret.
MARGARET PLANTAGENET
Is the queen's cousin played by Rebecca Benson. She is shy and wants to be invisible, but her brother is a York heir and they are both in danger in this Tudor world. She is the queen's close friend as well.
PRINCE RICHARD OF YORK Played by Patrick Gibson is 'a boy' who
appears at court claiming he is Queen Elizabeth's long lost brother
Prince Richard of York. He has a very strong claim to the throne and a
support among the Yorkists.
PRINCESS CECILY OF YOURK
Elizabeth's younger sister is played by Suki Waterhouse. She always feels she is in a shadow and wants to marry the king herself. Battling for survival and better position she may become a turncoat!
THE DUCHESS OF BURGUNDY Is played by Joanne Whalley! Aunt to
the queen, sister of her dead father and uncle, whom she lost in the War
together with her father and husband. She wants peace but the Tudors
have taken all she's ever got. She rules her own very fashionable and light court.
Tons of costume drama delight today, my spylings, as we have first photos and teasers for upcoming new period set TV shows! A few weeks ago I showed you the first teaser for THE WHITE PRINCESS series, a sequel to The White Queen but this time produced only by Starz without a help from BBC, and today you can feast your eyes on the lavish new cast photo shoot photos from the eight episode saga which will start its rule this April! As the photos show it will obviously have much better costumes than the first season which was largely criticised for historical inaccuracies and lack of any splendour.
YORKS VS TUDORS The story begins in the aftermath of the 1485 battle of Bosworth, the
final conflict in England's War of the Roses, where Henry Tudor (Jacob Collins Levy) unexpectedly defeated King Richard III to become King Henry VII. Elizabeth of York (Jodie Comer),
the niece and former lover of Richard, is forced to marry Henry to
unite their warring families, but the two can barely contain their
disdain for one another. Newly crowned Queen of England, Elizabeth finds
herself torn between loyalty to her blood relatives, placating her
husband and his icy mother (Michelle Fairley) and establishing herself as a key player within the court's intricate politics.
PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE CAST
Other stars in the cast include Essie Davis as Elizabeth's mother, previous queen Elizabeth, Joanne Whalley will be Duchesss of Burgundy her aunt, and sister to dead kings Richard III and Edward IV of England, with Michelle Fairley as Margaret Beaufort, the king's mother and the calculating mastermind behind Henry's ascent to the Throne, and Suki Waterhouse as Cecily of York, jealous younger sister to Princess Elizabeth! Amy Manson is going to portray Lady Catherine Gordon, cousin
to King James IV of Scotland and the
love interest of “The Boy” who claims to be Prince Richard of York, rightful heir to the
throne and Elizabeth’s long lost brother played by Patrick Gibson!Andrew Whipp will play Richard Pole, supporter and former soldier of Henry VII, whose marriage to Elizabeth’s cousin Margaret Plantagenet (Rebecca Benson) reinforces the alliance between the Houses of York and Lancaster under Tudor rule. Kenneth Cranham is Bishop Morton and Vincent Regan is Jasper Tudor.
'REIGN' EPIC SERIES
FINAL SEASON TRAILER!
Meanwhile, over at CW all is set for the fourth and final season of their popular historical saga REIGN which will bring Mary Queen of Scots' reign to end starting February 10th! You can check out the first trailer below announcing the ending run which will have 16 episodes following Mary's settling in Scotland, fight with Queen Elizabeth and her new marriages. Adelaide Kane returns as Mary, Queen of Scots,
Megan Follows as French queen Catherine de' Medici,
Rachel Skarsten as Elizabeth I of England,
Charlie Carrick as her lover Robert Dudley,
Ben Geurens as Mary's ex lover Gideon Blackburn,
Spencer MacPherson as Charles IX of France with Will Kemp arriving as one of Mary's new husbands Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and
Adam Croasdell as Bothwell!
A bunch of new actors have joined the cast of Starz' period set sequel series WHITEPRINCESS lead by Jodie Comer as Princess Elizabeth, who is now joined by JacobCollinsLevy as Henry VII, the paranoid king forced to marry an enemy to secure his throne! EssieDavis is her mother Dowager Queen Elizabeth “The White Queen” indomitable strategist and unwavering supporter of the York cause. Joanne Whalley will be widowed Duchess of Burgundy, her aunt, and sister to dead kings Richard III and Edward IV of England – a sensual, intelligent York woman who presides over her cultured court across the English Channel. As we wrote before, Michelle Fairley is Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII’s mother, the calculating mastermind behind his ascent to the Throne of England who works to fortify his rule, as York rivals continue to plot against them. Suki Waterhouse is Cecily of York, jealous younger sister to Princess Elizabeth, while their cousin Margaret Plantagenet – reluctant member of the York clan because of the precarious political position it puts her and her brother in at the Tudor court – is played by Rebecca Benson! Rhys Connah is Teddy, Caroline Goodall is Duchess Cecily, Kenneth Cranham is Bishop Morton and Vincent Regan is Jasper Tudor.
'THE YOUNG POPE' TRAILER
JUDE LAW IS SMOKING PONTIFF
Two preview clips for upcoming period set series, starting with Jude Law's THE YOUNGPOPE in which he plays the pontiff himself, mysterious and contradictory, the first American pope in the devil's nest we call Vatican. Also starring Diane Keaton, the series will air this October on Sky, HBO and Canal +!
'VICTORIA' PREVIEW CLIP
INTRODUCES THE QUEEN
While we're waiting for a regular trailer for ITV's upcoming new epic drama VICTORIA you can check out a preview clip in which Jenna Coleman's young queen VICTORIA is meeting her prime minister Lord Melbourne, played by Rufus Sewell, and other nobles for the first time.
The only thing I have for you today, people, are gorgeous new character photos for NBC's new historical series A.D. THE BIBLE CONTINUES, the sequel to their famous THE BIBLE hit series, which is arriving to the small screens this Easter Sunday coming from executive producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey with the epic story picking up where THE BIBLE left off, exploring the aftermath of events following the Crucifixion.
VINCENT REGAN AND RICHARD COYLE LEAD THE STELLAR CAST The series focuses on the disciples who had to go forward and spread
the teachings of Christ to a world dominated by political unrest, and
the start of a whole new religion that would dramatically reshape the
history of the world.
Jesus (Juan Pablo Di Pace) dies on the cross at the hands of the Romans, deserted by even his most loyal followers. Peter (Adam Levy) and the disciples are hunted by Temple authorities led by High Priest Caiaphas (Richard Coyle) and Roman soldiers under orders from Governor Pontius Pilate (Vincent Regan).
For the tiny band of followers, every day is a fight for survival, and
their mission to spread the word to the world seems impossible.
Yet, they have hope and soon they have power: the amazing miracle of the
Resurrection and the shocking arrival of the Holy Spirit upon them all
at Pentecost enables them to inspire more and more people to join. The
growing church brings challenges for Peter, John (Babou Alieu Ceesay) and Mary Magdalene (Chipo Chung),
who are pushed to the limit; they face trials while trying to
understand the God-given power granted to them as they transition from
the sorrow of Christ's ultimate sacrifice to the awe-inspiring wonder of
the Resurrection and beyond. Joanne Whalley and Greta Scacchi also star.
