SEE ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022 TRAILER AND PHOTOS!

ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022

Unlike previous years, this December the festive special episode of ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL will air December 23rd on Channel 5! Now that World War Two has broken out, a Jewish evacuee, Eva (Ella Bernstein), is staying at Skeldale House and everyone wants to make her first experience of the festive season magical. James (Nicholas Ralph) and Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) remain torn over whether they should be heading off to war, however, which leaves their loved ones anxious. But when Siegfried (Samuel West) is called out to local landowner Major Sebright Saunders (Michael Maloney) again to ensure that his injured horse River is fit before a big race, the head vet faces a terrible dilemma, leading to a clash with brother Tristan. Meanwhile, as housekeeper Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley) lays on an impromptu Christmas party and faces some big decisions after her friend Gerald (Will Thorp) shares some shocking news, James helps wealthy client Mrs Pumphrey (Patricia Hodge), who is worried about an exhausted stray cat and its gorgeous kitten.  As you know the fourth season of the popular series should arrive Autumn next year.

HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD WARHAMMER EPIC TV SERIES AT AMAZON! MELISSA MCCARTHY TO LEAD NEW RICHARD CURTIS CHRISTMAS COMEDY MOVIE! NIGHT COURT, HOW I MET YOUR FATHER SITCOMS SET AIRING DATES! CBS ORDERS THEY'RE WITH ME MULTICAM

  HENRY CAVILL TO LEAD 

WARHAMMER TV SERIES

If you thought that after being ditched by DC as Superman and leaving Witcher, our Henrylicious Cavill would break down and cry, you thought wrong! He has just announced that he is producing WARHAMMER series adaptation at Amazon and he will also star in the epic series based on a miniature wargame in which players enact battles using miniature models of warriors and fighting vehicles. It is set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is threatened by hostile aliens and supernatural creatures. The models in the game are a mix of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and supernatural powers.

 MELISSA MCCARTHY TO LEAD 

NEW RICHARD CURTIS COMEDY

It's comedy all day today, people, starting with Love Actually's Richard Curtis who is penning new New York set untitled Christmas comedy movie at Universal and Working Title with Melissa McCarthy in the lead. To stream at Peacock, the film will be a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas. Sam Boyd will direct. 

  NEW JANUARY SITCOMS

Meanwhile, two multicam sitcoms have been announced for January. NIGHT COURT will start on NBC January 17th with  Melissa Rauch starring as Judge Abby Stone (the daughter of the original series’ Judge Harry Stone) and John Larroquette returning as slick attorney Dan Fielding in the sitcom that follows the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court! Hulu has, meanwhile, announced January 24th as the returning date for HOW I MET YOUR FATHER season two with Hilary Duff, Christopher Lowell, Tom Ainsley, Suraj Sharma, Kim Cattrall, and Josh Peck returning to the cast of the new season that will, if I got it right, now have 20 episodes! In other sitcom news, CBS has ordered THEY'RE WITH ME multicam about Jackie and Eli who knew right away they were soulmates… too bad their souls come with so much baggage — each has a messed-up 20-something kid and a dependent parent. It is a modern take on a blended family where, instead of young children, Jackie and Eli both come with two generations of intrusive adults. Forget about an empty nest; the number of birds and eggs has doubled.

LEO SUTER, SAM CORLETT HEAD TO CONSTANTINOPLE IN VIKINGS: VALHALLA EPIC SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER WITH BRADLEY JAMES AND DAVID OAKES

  VIKINGS: VALHALLA  

SECOND SEASON TRAILER

Netflix has released a magnificent longer trailer for the second season of their hit historical series VIKINGS: VALHALLA which returns with eight

The second season returns January 12th

brand new episodes January 12th. Our 11th century heroes ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter), Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), and his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustav- sson), will get separated in the new season shortly after the tragic fall of Kattegat; an event that has shattered their dreams and altered their destinies. Finding themselves suddenly fugitives in Scandinavia they are forced to test their ambitions and courage in worlds beyond the fjords of Kattegat. While she remains in Scandinavia, the two of them will venture East to Kievan Rus and to Constantinople. 

  BRADLEY JAMES JOINS THE CAST

 Returning cast also includes Bradley Freegard (King Canute), Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Olaf Haraldsson), Laura Berlin (queen Emma of Normandy), our boy David Oakes (Earl of Godwin), Pollyanna McIntosh (Queen Ælfgifu) and Soren Pilmark (Sweyn Forkbeard). Our dearest Bradley James has joined the cast as Harekr, the ruler of Jómsborg and leader of the most pagan Vikings of all, with Hayat Kamille as Muslim astronomer Mariam, Marcin Dorocinski as King Yaroslav the Wise, the uncle of Olaf and Harald and the ruler of Novgorod, and Sofya Lebedeva as Elena, the daughter of a Russian noble. 

 

PRIME VIDEO ORDERS GOD OF WAR LIVE ACTION EPIC TV SERIES! SEE THE FIRST TEASER AND LAUNCH DATE, PLUS THE NEWCOMERS TO SANDITON THIRD AND FINAL COSTUME DRAMA SEASON!

  GOD OF WAR ORDERED  

INTO SERIES AT AMAZON

Prime Video has officially ordered a live action TV series adaptation of popular video game GOD OF WAR with Rafe Judkins as the show runner!  It will

It will stream in 240 countries around the world

follow Kratos, the God of War, who, after exiling himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece, hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard. When his beloved wife dies, Kratos sets off on a dangerous journey with his estranged son to spread her ashes from the highest peak — his wife’s final wish. Kratos soon realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which will test the bonds between father and son, and force Kratos to battle new Gods and monsters for the fate of the world. 

   SANDITON SEASON 3   

ARRIVES IN MARCH TO PBS

The series will end next March

PBS Masterpiece has released first teaser from the third season of their historical costume drama SANDITON based on Jane Austen's final work. To air from March 19th, it will also be the finale of the whole series which stars Rose Williams as Charlotte Heywood, Cai Brigden as Ralph Starling, Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Alexander Colbourne, Edward Davis as Lord Montrose and Crystal Clarke as Georgiana Lambe. After Leo Suter and Theo James who left season one, the third season will no longer have the character of Esther, lady Babington, played by Charlotte Spencer and we are guessing Tom Weston Jones' character has left the town as well. Joining the series are several new characters that will surely bring drama, laughter, and romance along with them. Lady Montrose (Emma Fielding) is described as the quintessential Jane Austen mother figure, who arrives at Sanditon with one objective: matches for her children, Lydia and Henry. Lydia (Alice Orr-Ewing) is an independent young woman who is not as eager for a match as her mother. Lord Henry Montrose (Edward Davis) is described as charismatic and confident, but he holds a secret. Rowleigh Pryce (James Bolam) is a wealthy, curmudgeonly investor who is interested in teaming up with Tom Parker on the seaside resort's expansion. Their plans become complicated when Rowleigh runs into Lady Denham. Also new to Sanditon is Alexander's brother, Samuel Colbourne (Liam Garrigan), who is a lawyer and a charming bachelor.

JUDI DENCH, DEREK JACOBI, RUSSELL TOVEY, JENNIFER SAUNDERS IN DELIGHTFUL ALLELUJAH COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER! MARTIN COMPSTON, TONY CURRAN IN MOVING MAYFLIES BBC SERIES TRAILER

 MAYFLIES SERIES TRAILER 

STARRING MARTIN COMPSTON

Mayflies will air December 28th at BBC

Two British projects for you today, starting with a trailer for two part series MAYFLIES which will air on BBC during the holidays, December 28th! The adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's acclaimed novel sees a friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully (Tony Curran) has the worst kind of news. He has cancer and he makes a request that tests his and James' (Martin Compston) friendship to the limit. After sharing his devastating news, Tully asks his old pal for help ending his own life, yet James isn’t comfortable keeping their plan a secret from Tully’s partner Anna (Ashley Jensen).

 

   1ST ALLELUJAH TRAILER  

WITH JUDI DENCH, DEREK JACOBI AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS

A delight coming from Pate Films today is the first trailer from ALLELUJAH movie starring Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Russell Tovey, Jennifer Saunders, David Bradley and Julia McKenzie. The film is out March 17th, at the anniversary of British NHS.

  WHEN THE GERIATRIC WARD

of a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community. They invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong? ALLELUJAH celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand. But in the midst of the tears and the laughter, we slowly realise that there is something threatening the hospital that is far more lethal than the politicians demanding efficiency at any cost…

 

NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATIONS: STEINBECK'S THE GRAPES OF WRATH AND LOVE OF MY LIFE WITH AMY ADAMS!

 FIFTH SEASON'S NEW SHOWS 

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Grapes of Wrath will become a TV series

Fifth Season is preparing two new TV shows, one of them is the adaptation of John Steinbeck novel THE GRAPES OF WRATH which is set during the Great Depression and follows a poor family of farmers driven out of their home in Oklahoma and set out for California. Although it will be period set, it might have more contemporary music. Ramin Bahrani is writing and directing, but not before 2024. I already told you before that the same company is preparing a series adaptation of Stenibeck's EAST OF EDEN too with Florence Poo over at Netflix. 

  LOVE OF MY LIFE

Amy Adams will lead the other project, a TV series adaptation of Rosie Walsh’s New York Times best-selling book LOVE OF MY LIFE which tells the story of marine biologist Emma, whose obituary writer husband Leo researches everything about his wife’s life, which is a lie, when she suffers a serious illness.

SEE TRAILER AND POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET CRIME TV SERIES PARIS POLICE 1905 SECOND SEASON WHICH STARTS TOMORROW

  PARIS POLICE 1905  

2ND SEASON IS BACK TOMORROW

After the forced wokeness and diversity have pretty much killed period set genre in its motherland England, France and Germany have stepped up and

The second season starts tomorrow!

pretty much took over the costume drama genre into their motherly embraces. France was quite active in this field this year and they are closing the year with PARIS POLICE 1905 the second season of the series that became popular on many international broadcasters and I think you can catch the first season in English over on Amazon's MHz Choice channel. It was also available on BBC in UK and Sky Italy and Germany. Now the second season arrives tomorrow, December 12th to our dear Canal + who has just finished airing Marie Antoinette (which starts on BBC Two December 29th and in March on PBS Masterpiece and is already available Down Under on Foxtel). Jérémie Laheurte, Evelyne Brochu, Thibaut Evrard again lead the cast! Set five years after the first season, new season shows how homosexuals were persecuted in the same way as prostitutes, in a patriarchal and homophobic society that interferes in people's intimacy and sexuality.

 

THE SECOND SEASON OPENS ON
Christmas 1904. "No prostitutes in the streets of Paris during Holy Night": under political and media pressure, the prefect is forced to organize a raid. He entrusts the dirty work to the morality police. An unidentified dead man is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne. Suicide... or murder? This investigation leads Inspector Antoine Jouin into a clandestine and secret territory, where the whole of Paris comes to satisfy their impulses. Jouin will have to leave the beaten track... at his own risk and peril, to enter a whirlwind of vice, corruption and blackmail.

 

TOM PARKER IS ONE HELLUVA HOT HENRY VIII IN NEW NETFLIX HISTORICAL SERIES BLOOD, SEX & ROYALTY WITH AMY JAMES KELLY AS ANNE BOLEYN

  BLOOD, SEX & ROYALTY  

IS STREAMING ON NETFLIX

I know we have had tons of shows done on Tudors and especially Henry VIII, but can we really resist a new one when it is (often deliciously nekkid) Tom Parker wearing the crown in it? BLOOD, SEX & ROYALTY a new historical documentary with live action scenes is already available for streaming over at Netflix as of November 23rd!  The three episode programme brings a modern take on the British royal drama! This steamy series offers a window into the lives of history's deadliest, sexiest and most iconic monarchs, in this season it is Henry VIII played by the super hunky Tom Parker with Amy James Kelly as Anne Boleyn. 

 

WHAT IS THE SHOW ABOUT?

In the 16th century, Anne Boleyn navigates treacherous sexual politics and rises to become Queen of England. She forges history as she reshapes King Henry VIII's worldview, but she's expected to give birth to a male heir and makes powerful enemies along the way.

WHO IS IN THE ROYAL CAST?

Max Parker stars Henry VIII, the king of England, still married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, at the start of the series. He wants to have his marriage annulled so that he can marry Anne Boleyn. Amy James Kelly is Anne Boleyn, an outspoken woman at Henry’s court who succeeds in catching the king’s eye, causing a rift between the king and his current wife that will change England forever. Lois Brabin-Platt stars as Mary Boleyn, Callum Coates as Cardinal Wolsey tasked by Henry with securing his annulment from Catherine of Aragon, Stephen Fewell as Thomas Cromwell, Jhon Lumsden as George Boleyn, Sophie Boettge as Jane Boleyn, Adam Astill as Thomas Boleyn and Nikhita Lesler as Lady Worcester! Matas Dirginčius is King Francis of France!

ITVX STREAMER LAUNCHES WITH CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON HISTORICAL TV SERIES! SEE HUGO BECKER, GREGORY FITOUSSI IN WIN OR DIE FRENCH HISTORICAL WAR MOVIE TRAILER

 ITVX LAUNCHES WITH 

CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON COSTUME DRAMA

ITV has invested $200 million and launched their new free streaming service ITVX this week with new historical series CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON which is available for streaming as of December 8th. Karla-Simone Spence leads the four parter in the role of Frannie Langton, the drama’s young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own story. She is joined by Sophie Cookson as Madame Marguerite Benham and Patrick Martins as Olaudah “Laddie” Cambridge in the murder mystery drama. Also starring in the historically authentic adaptation is Stephen Campbell Moore as renowned scientist and husband to Madame, George Benham. Joining him are Steven Mackintosh as John Langton and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Sal. 

 

CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON
 set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, narrates Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham. In a misguided and monstrous gesture Frannie is gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton, and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. As the plot twists and turns, events take a fateful turn as the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, with Frannie lying next to Marguerite. Frannie is accused of murder but swears that she couldn’t possibly have killed her mistress because she was devoted to her. Dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that night. She is deep into a laudanum addiction and unclear about precisely what happened…

 

 

 WIN OR DIE MOVIE TRAILER 

STARRING HUGO BECKER

The film is out in France January 25th

Speaking of period set projects, I also have one for you from France today: first traielr for WIN OR DIE historical movie also known as VAINCRE OU MOURIR which is coming to French cinemas next January directed together by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez and with a rather strong cast of French superstars led by Hugo Becker, Gregory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger, Jean Hugues Anglade and Rod Paradot. You can check out the first teaser below.

 

 

Hugo Becker leads the cast

THE STORY OF WIN OR DIE

follows the adventures of Charette (played here by French star Hugo Becker), naval officer, winner of the American War of Indepen- dence, who sees his life changed in 1793 when he engages in a final fight for freedom. François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of  the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime during which the peasant fighters asked Charette to be their leader. During the very brutal war in which republicans massacred many people, he won numerous battles but was captured and executed when he was just 32.