PERIOD SET MONDAY: NEW CHARACTER PHOTOS FOR BBC'S VICTORIAN DRAMA 'WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH BEN HARDY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE! JULIAN FELLOWES WRITING 'THE ROTHSCHILDS' 19TH CENTURY SAGA

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

NEW BBC SERIES WITH BEN HARDY AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

BBC has revealed new character photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITEwhich starts airing this Sunday, April 22nd!

  IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
 Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master, encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He offers her

Young Ben Hardy leads the cast of the Victorian drama

assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped from a lunatic asylum. The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the

Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series

village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and

Jessie Buckley returns to BBC after War and Peace and Taboo

Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley), and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne Catherick, a mentally handicapped

We haven't seen Dougray Scott on BBC in a very long time!

child who grew up in the village. Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love, however she is already promised in marriage to a

Charles Dance is Mr Frederick Fairlie in the series

baronet - Sir Percival Glyde (Dougray Scott). When Laura receives a vicious letter attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to

Art Malik plays Erasmus Nash in the series

the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in the asylum.

  'THE ROTHSCHILDS'

 JULIAN FELLOWES PENNING SERIES ON  THE RICHEST FAMILY

Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes is going to produce a series on the richest family on Earth THE ROTHSCHILDS (they could apparently feed all

Sky Atlantic will produce the series

the starving people in the world and cure all the ill ones if they weren't evil, as they, allegedly own about 80% of all world's wealth! As 'Deadline' reports, he is writing the 19th century saga set against the backdrop of war and revolution. It tells the story of how the family became to possess the largest private fortune in the world. They gained pre-eminence in the bullion trade during the Napoleonic Wars between 1803 and 1815 and Nathan Mayer Rothschild almost single handedly financed the British war effort. It will also portray a story about human relationships, fraternal struggles for dominance, of brilliant but disenfranchised women, of generational conflict, of incestuous alliances and of forbidden love with outsiders.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: EXCITING TRAILERS FOR HISTORICAL SERIES 'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH JESSE BUCKLEY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE, BEN HARDY, 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' WITH NATALIE DORMER

  'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK'

PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILER

The series starts this May on Amazon Prime

Period set delights for you today, starting with the first trailer for Natalie Dormer's THE PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK which will, produced by Australian Foxtel, air on Amazon Prime and also on BBC in UK. This new reimagining of Joan Lindsay’s novel, will first premiere its six episodes in Australia on May 6th and then on May 25th at Amazon Prime.
 

 MYSTERY THRILLER
With the story set in the 1900 Natalie Dormer plays English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard (a woman whose dead husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely hiding dark skeletons) in the drama which revolves around the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine’s Day. The complex, interwoven narrative follows the

Natalie Dormer plays the mysterious headmistress of the 1900 school

subsequent investigation and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER IS HERE!

BBC has meanwhile released the first, rather atmospheric and exciting, trailer for their period set series THE WOMAN IN WHITE after those first

Women in White starts in two weeks on BBC

photos I showed you a few days ago. The five part Victorian saga will start airing in UK on BBC One Sunday April 22nd starring Jesse Buckley, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Ben Hardy.

 VICTO- RIAN MAD HOUSE
It starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity.

Jesse Buckley, right, leads the female part of the cast

Viewed by many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.

1ST PHOTOS FROM BBC'S 19TH CENTURY GOTHIC SERIES 'WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH BEN HARDY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, CHARLES DANCE, DOUGRAY SCOTT! NEW 'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY' TRAILER WITH EMILIA CLARKE, DONALD GLOVER, ALDEN EHRENREICH

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

NEW BBC SERIES WITH BEN HARDY AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

I reckon the series might air in two weeks

BBC has revealed 1st photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE! We're waiting for the first trailer!

  IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
 Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master, encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He offers her assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped from a lunatic asylum. The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles

The series is based on the popular novel by Wilkie Collins

Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley), and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne Catherick,

Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series

a mentally handicapped child who grew up in the village. Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love, however she is already promised in marriage to a baronet - Sir Percival Glyde (Dougray Scott).

Ben Hardy takes the lead for the first time in a BBC series

When Laura receives a vicious letter attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in the asylum.

  'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY'

GETS A BRAND NEW TRAILER

Solo will first air at Cannes Film Festival

Disney has released a new trailer for their prequel movie SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY which will bring Han's origin story into cinemas May 25th! A rather doomed project which had to change its director in the middle of production and got mixed reaction for the first trailer and the choice of Alden Ehrenreich for the lead, is predicted to earn the lowest income of all Star Wars movies so far. Also starring Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Woody Harrelson as Solo's mentor and Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian, the movie will describe how Han Solo became the famed criminal of the galactic empire.

Chewbacca's wife is also set to appear in this one!

Opening first exclusively at Cannes Film Festival next month the science fiction adventure movie also stars Westworld's Thandie Newton. 

'LAST MAN STANDING' GETS SHOCKING CANCELLATION BY ABC! NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER GLIMPSES INTO 'POLDARK', 'GUNPOWDER', 'TROY FALL OF THE CITY', 'WOMAN IN WHITE', 'MINIATURIST', 'HOWARDS END'! JESSE EISENBERG, PIERCE BROSNAN, VANESSA REDGRAVE IN 19TH CENTURY 'MEDUSA'

 NEW BBC DRAMAS TRAILER

 A PEEK INTO NEW TV SERIES

 Some great news and some sad news today! Good ones come from BBC One which has just released an epic trailer announcing all the new dramas coming up our way this year at the British broadcaster giving us exciting first peeks into their new epic series GUNPOWDER with Kit Harintgon, Jessie Buckley's Victorian thriller THE WOMAN IN WHITE, the adaptation of THE MINIATURIST, new mini series on HOWARDS END with Matthew MacFadyen, epic adventure TROY: THE FALL OF THE CITY, gay drama MAN IN ORANGE SHIRT with Oliver Jackson Cohen and Vanessa Redgrave, and the first scenes from POLDARK season 3! Feast your eyes on the trailer below:

 'THE MEDUSA' 19TH CENTURY

MOVIE CASTS JESSE EISENBERG, VANESSA REDGRAVE AND PIERCE BROSNAN

Another period set project will be a movie on famous painter Théodore Géricault THE MEDUSA depicting the tragic events that inspired his harrowing and politically significant masterpiece The Raft Of The Medusa. As 'Deadline' reports Jesse Eisenberg will play the painter, with Pierce Brosnan as his uncle and nemesis, Caruel, and Vanessa Redgrave as his anti royalist innkeeper. Peter Webber of Girl With a Pearl Earring is directing.

Set during the turmoil of post Napoleonic France, the story centres on Géricault, artist and enfant terrible, who learns that his best friend has died after the Naval vessel Medusa runs aground near Senegal. His death and those of over 100 others were horrific due to incompetence on the part of an aristocratic captain.

 'LAST MAN STANDING'

 PREMATURELY KILLED BY ABC

The saddest of news people! The most wholesome of sitcoms on the telly which offered good natured family friendly humour and multiple perspectives on modern day life and politics  LAST MAN STANDING has been cancelled by ABC after the end of its sixth season (which is a great long running number for any sitcom, admittedly). It hasn't been revealed why ABC cancelled it, since it averaged 8 million or more viewers per each episode for six years ruling Friday night evenings in USA (a viewership that most of your favourite shows never had especially not on Friday nights which are considered a graveyard for ratings). It is also not clear whether ABC is looking to cancel its Friday night comedy block and whether the sitcom, which has been done under syndication so far, might get another network. With its friendly but also contemporary and very relevant humour wrapped in warm family stories with highly moral educational messages of tolerance and compromise, Tim Allen's beautiful sitcom was one of the last ones of its kind on the small screens.Tim commented on the cancellation with: Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years.

JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEN HARDY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE IN BBC VICTORIAN MINI SERIES 'WOMAN IN WHITE'! MANISH DAYAL TO LEAD 'RESIDENT' FOX TV SERIES

'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' 

JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEN HARDY TO LEAD BBC VICTORIAN SERIES

Here's a new BBC project for us: they've announced today the beginning of production on their small screen adaptation of Wilkie Collins Victorian thriller THE WOMAN IN WHITE and they've also announced Ben Hardy (X-Men) will star as Walter Hartright and our beloved Jessie Buckley (War And Peace, Taboo) as Marian Halcombe, with Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Art Malik also in the cast!

The five episode mini series starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity. Viewed by many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.

MANISH DAYAL TO LEAD

 'THE RESIDENT' MEDICAL SERIES

Meanwhile, another of our absolute fave's, always lovely Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) will lead new medical drama THE RESIDENT at Fox! He will be Devon Pravesh, an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident, Conrad Hawkins who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered. Devon is a first year resident at Kings County Hospital. Top of his class at medical school, the type to follow rules, driven and passionate when it comes to medicine, Devon is a hard working perfectionist from a working class background. In Phillip Noyce directed and Antoine Fuqua produced series, Bruce Greenwood will play Chief of Surgery Dr. Soloman Bell, every inch the image of an ideal surgeon.