ANNE LISTER IS A TRUE GENTLEMAN WHO KNOWS WHERE SHE IS GOING IN GENTLEMAN JACK BBC EPIC SAGA TEASER WITH SURRANE JONES! RACHEL WEISZ TO STAR IN LANNY FANTASY DRAMA

RACHEL WEISZ

TO LEAD 'LANNY' FANTASY DRAMA

Rachel Weisz will play Lanny's mother

Out this month in stores, Max Porter's new novel about a boy gone missing has already scored Rachel Weisz as the lead in the movie adaptation. LANNY is set in a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth. Dead Papa Toothwort is awake. He is listening to this twenty first century village, to his English symphony. He is listening for an enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.

'GENTLEMAN JACK' 

FIRST TEASER RELEASED BY BBC

BBC One has released the first, very fun, teaser for their new epic series GENTLEMAN JACK in which Surrane Jones plays a 19th century woman who dresses up, acts and loves like a man governing her late father's estate.

Gentleman Jack will air this spring on BBC in eight episodes

She portrays real life person Anne Lister who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall. The cast also includes Joe Armstrong, Gemma Jones and Sophie Rundle.

HARLOTS EPIC SERIES SEASON 3 GETS AIRING DATE & CASTS ALFIE ALLEN, LEX SHRAPNEL, JACK GREENLEES, ASH HUNTER AS PIMP BROTHERS! MOLLY SHANNON IS LESBIAN EMILY DICKINSON IN WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY COSTUME COMEDY

'HARLOTS' SEASON 3

GETS AIRING DATE & NEW BOYS

Just two days ago your trusted spy informed you that Alex Sawyer will be joining the third season of Hulu's epic series HARLOTS and now we have

Alfie Allen will be a naughty pimp Isaac Pincher

more casting additions and also the airing date! Premiering on Hulu July 10th, the series which follows the life of two warring brothels in the 18th century London will also star Alfie Allen and Ash Hunter! 

Set in Georgian London, HARLOTS continues to follow the fortunes of the Wells family. Margaret (Samantha Morton) has been sent to America in chains and Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville) is vanquished and in Bedlam. It seems that the Wells girls can finally free themselves of their mother’s feud, helped by allies such as Lady Fitz (Liv Tyler). But Charlotte Wells (Jessica

Ash Hunter is the seductive brother Hal Pincher

Brown Findlay) soon learns that running a lucrative brothel brings enemies as well as friends, including new pimp in town Isaac Pincher (Alfie Allen). Meanwhile Lydia still finds a way to bite, even in her darkest hour. Isaac Pincher is driven by his ambitions to achieve wealth and power. Compared to his more quiet and level headed brother Hal (Ash Hunter), he’s the frontman. Back in London after fighting in the Seven Years War, Isaac wants to take over London. The brothers lease a tavern together, the Saracen’s Head, which serves as a front for their ever-growing pimping business. Hal, meanwhile, enters into a relationship with Emily Lacey (Holli Dempsey), and they share an ambition to achieve something with their lives.

A NEW LORD AND A NEW JUSTICE

But those are not all the new boys in Harlots season three! Super charismatic Medici star Lex Shrapnel will play Lord James Croft, who visits brothels

Lex Shrapnel and Jack Greenlees are gorgeous new boys in town!

seeking young men for gay pleasures, while handsome Jack Greenlees will be new Justice in town who will help solve the murder of Charlotte Wells.

'WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY' 

DICKINSON WAS A LESBIAN!

Wild Nights with Emily hits cinemas next month

Speaking of period set projects, check out the terrible, but also fun, looking uber cheap trailer for WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY a costume comedy drama in which Molly Shannon plays famous poet Emily Dickinson in the lesbifriendly version of her life because the movie  is a dramatisation of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular her relationship with another woman. As the trailer says, she was one step ahead of her time, but men refused to follow her. This delightful silliness will be touring movie festivals throughout spring and summer around Europe and the states, with the limited Northern American release in April.

STUNNINGLY LAVISH NEW TRAILER & AIRING DATE FOR STARZ' TUDOR ERA MINI SERIES THE SPANISH PRINCESS WITH CHARLOTTE HOPE, ELLIOT COWAN, OLLY RIX, RUAIRI O'CONNOR

  'THE SPANISH PRINCESS'

LAVISH NEW TRAILER

Glorious new trailer comes from Starz today, along with the May 5th airing date, for the sequel to their successful White Queen and White Princess series, super epic  THE SPANISH PRINCESS which is, technically

The Spanish Princess will air May 5th at Starz

speaking, a sort of a prequel to famous The Tudors! As you can see from the trailer the sets, cinematography and costumes will be as lavish and

Click on the photo to enjoy the ladies in all their glory!

breathtaking as they were in White Princess, one of the most beautifully done epic sagas we've ever seen. Count your days till spring when the new series airs! Poldark's and Beowulf's Stephen Woolfenden is directing!

THE SPANISH PRINCESS
will see Charlotte Hope playing the young princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she was a child. She arrives in rain lashed

Elliot Cowan and Alexandra Moen are the king and queen of England

England with her glorious court. She is Princess of Wales now, but when her husband Prince Arthur (Angus Imrie) dies suddenly, the throne seems lost

First look at Charlotte Hope as The Spanish Princess

to Catherine. Until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and

Princess Catherine of Aragon arrives to England to marry the heir

headstrong Prince Harry (Ruairi O'Connor) who will one day rule as King Henry VIII. The cast will also include Elliot Cowan as Henry VII of England,

Catherine will have black court lady in the series

Alexandra Moen as his wife Elizabeth of York, Olly Rix, Laura Carmichael, Philip Cumbus and others. Check out the new magnificent

The series is based on Philippa Gregory's best selling historical book!

trailer below for the new series! White Queen and White Princess scribe Emma Frost and Matthew Graham are already planning adaptations of Philipa Gregory's novels Constant Princess and King's Curse.

DEV PATEL JOINS MEDIAEVAL EPIC ADVENTURE ON ARTHURIAN LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT! ALEX SAWYER JOINS HARLOTS 18TH CENTURY SERIES SEASON 3! NEW TOLKIEN TRAILER WITH NICHOLAS HOULT, LILY COLLINS, DEREK JACOBI

DEV PATEL JOINS

GREEN KNIGHT EPIC MOVIE

It is not known whom will Dev exactly play

I'm sure it's the last place you'd expect to see him, but period set projects are exactly where they've been putting him lately. After starring in the latest movie adaptation of David Copperfield, Dev Patel has now been cast in mediaeval epic movie GREEN KNIGHT based on the legend of Sir Gawain and the said Green Knight. David Lowery is directing one of the most famous tales from early English literature. The story follows chivalrous and loyal Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, who accepts the challenge of beheading the Green Knight and must wait a year and a day to receive a blow in return. In the end, his quest turns into a test of loyalty to his king.

'HARLOTS' SEASON 3

CASTS ALEX SAWYER AS A BOXER

We don't exactly know what will happen in the third season of Hulu's period set saga HARLOTS after one of the lead characters has been shipped off to

Alex Sawyer is joining the third season of Harlots

America and the other one to the loony house, but we know that Alex Sawyer has just been cast in the series set in the18th century Georgian London and following the fortunes of two clans of whores who lead their brothels. Sawyer will be Jack Lively, the star of North’s boxing-tour. He was a dolly-boy in a rich man’s house until he was thirteen, acting as a playmate for a white family’s children. Ever since, Jack’s gone from job to job, that is until North (Danny Sapani) spotted his fighting potential. Jack has a deep understanding of society types, and of how they treat people like him as an outsider. He is highly educated and politically motivated, more likely to respond to racism with an erudite come-back than to resort to his prize winning fists. Jack Lively becomes a steadfast ally to North, embracing his coaching, and all that London has to offer. It is expected that Jessica Brown Findlay and Lyv Tyler will return to the series.

Tolkien's biopic should be out this May in cinemas

NEW TOLKIEN TRAILER

IS SPECTA- CULARLY MOVING
Fox has released a spectacular long trailer for their Lord of the Rings author's biopic TOLKIEN starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins and Derek Jacobi. Out this May, the movie follows his formative years as the orphaned author during which he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

GUSTAF SKARSGARD, PETER MULLAN, DANIEL SHARMAN JOIN KATHERINE LANGFORD IN CURSED, LADY OF THE LAKE ARTHURIAN LEGEND EPIC SERIES! SANTIAGO CABRERA JOINS NEW JEAN LUC PICARD STAR TREK SERIES

'CURSED' ARTHURIAN SERIES

 GATHERS ITS KNIGHTS & LADIES

Last Autumn your trusted spy informed you that Katherine Langford will lead new Arthurian epic series CURSED at Netflix and now they've found

Daniel Sharman will star in Cursed

the rest of the cast and it seems they think mediaeval England was very diverse. Devon Terrell, Gustaf Skarsgård, Peter Mullan, Lily Newmark, Shalom Brune Franklin, Daniel Sharman (who did not exactly shine in Medici series with his lack of charisma, acting chops and any on screen depth), Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates, Catherine Walker and Billy Jenkins will also star in the ten episode series that starts shooting this month.

CURSED, based on the Lady of the Lake legend, it follows Nimue (Katherine Langford), a teenage heroine with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake. After her mother’s death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin 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.

Devon Terrell, Katherine Langford, Gustaf Skarsgard will lead the series

It is a coming of age story whose themes are familiar to our own time: the obliteration of the natural world, religious terror, senseless war, and finding the courage to lead in the face of the impossible.

SANTIAGO CABRERA   

Santiago Cabrera starred in Merlin & Musketeers

JOINS NEW JEAN LUC PICARD STAR TREK TV SERIES AT CBS

Deadline is reporting that new untitled STAR TREK series at CBS which will follow again famous captain Jean Luc Picard (to be played again by Patrick Stewart) on his new adventure, has just added Santiago Cabrera to the cast. Although there are no details on the plot of the series, Santiago Cabrera will play the pilot of Picard’s ship who is also a skillful thief. Michelle Hurd has also been added to the cast as a former intelligence officer who is a brilliant analyst with a terrific memory that has not been affected by her drug and alcohol abuse. The first two episodes will see a female director directing a debut of a Star Trek series for the first time in history. There were also stories that Jonathan Frakes, who played Picard's commander in the Next Generation series, might direct some of the episodes as well.

MORGAN LLYWELYN'S HISTORICAL NOVEL LION OF IRELAND ON THE FIRST HIGH KING OF IRELAND TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES! ARISE, AN EPIC MOVIE ON DEBORAH, THE ONLY FEMALE WARRIOR OF BIBLICAL ISRAEL

'LION OF IRELAND'   

TO BE TURNED INTO EPIC SERIES

Here's an epic delight for you this Monday: Michael Scott will turn Morgan Llywelyn's novel LION OF IRELAND (which has been sold in more than 40 million copies so far) into TV series following Brian Boru, the

Brian Boru was an 11th century hero

greatest king Ireland has ever known, the man who liberated the Irish nation from centuries of Viking rule. It also follows the 11th century women who shaped his life and, ultimately, history itself: Fiona, a Druid priestess; Dierdre, a warrior princess, and Gormflaith a powerful Celtic Queen. These women fight alongside, and sometimes against, Brian in an age where women were the equal of men, where they had the right to own property in their own name, train as warriors, and also divorce – taking from the marriage everything they had brought to it. Ranged against Brian and his allies are the might of the Viking world who will stop at nothing to destroy the upstart Irish king. The series will follow multiple perspectives: Irish, Viking, and Druid, and will culminate in the epic Battle of Clontarf.

'ARISE' EPIC MOVIE  

ON HISTORICAL ISRAELI WARRIOR

The movie will follow Deborah from the Bible

Speaking of strong ladies from history, Ben Howard is set to make a faith based historical movie ARISE based on a screenplay written by Paige Collins and Mark Freiburger. It will be the Biblical account of the only female warrior in the history of ancient Israel. The story follows a people who have undergone years of oppression at the hands of King Jabin of Canaan. Against this backdrop, an ordinary woman named Deborah is called by God to rise up and deliver an unexpected victory for the chosen people of Israel. The story will be set during the time of The Book of Judges.

NEW SOAPY DRAMAS: FILTHY RICH AT FOX WITH KIM CATTRALL, COREY COTT, AUBREY DOLLAR AND GLAMOROUS AT CW WITH BROOKE SHIELDS, BEN J. PIERCE, PIERSON FODE

'FILTHY RICH' AT FOX  

TOPLINED BY KIM CATTRALL

More soapy drama is coming from Fox and The Help writer and director Tate Taylor whose new pilot FILTHY RICH will be led by Kim Cattrall. It

Kim Cattrall will lead the Monroe family

is a larger than life Southern gothic dramedy that revolves around two strong, sharp women, Margaret Monroe (Cattrall) and and Ginger Sweet, who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town but becoming part of the family empire.

Aubrey Dollar will play Margaret’s daughter Rose Monroe, a sarcastic but kind hearted clothing designer who yearns to be real and find her own voice apart from her family. Corey Cott plays her brother Eric Monroe. Married

Corey Cott, Aubrey Dollar and Benjamin Levy Aguilar will be Filthy Rich

 with two kids, he’s the Senior VP of Operations at the conservative Christian Sunshine Network, which was created by his powerhouse parents. Benjamin Levy Aguilar and Jason Conley will also star.

'GLAMOROUS' AT CW  

STARRING BROOKE SHIELDS

Over at CW, they have found their gender nonconforming lead star in Ben J. Pierce who will topline their new soapy drama GLAMOROUS opposite

Ben J. Pierce will lead Glamorous at CW

Brooke Shields. Pierce will play Marco, an ambitious and creative gender nonconforming teenager who uses make up and fashion to let his queer self bloom. Fresh off his high school graduation, Marco’s life changes when an unplanned rant on YouTube bashing a cosmetics company for their shoddy products lands him a dream internship at the side of its founder and CEO, Madolyn (Brooke Shields). On his own for the first time, this is Marco’s chance to live, love and grow to understand what it really means to be queer.

Pierson Fodé will play Chad, an ambitious alpha male who works at the cosmetics company his mother founded, styling himself as her heir apparent.

Brooke Shields and Pierson Fode will be mother and son in Glamorous

While openly gay, Chad is buttoned down, with a personality and wardrobe that would be more at home on Wall Street than the beauty industry. Damon Wayans and Eva Longoria are producing.

RICHARD ROXBURGH, KATHLEEN TURNER, ANDIE MCDOWELL TO LEAD FOX NEW DRAMEDY LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER! ABC ORDERS THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY ROMANTIC COMEDY

LET'S SPEND NIGHT TOGETHER  

RICHARD ROXBURGH, KATHLEEN TURNER, ANDIE MCDOWELL

Australian star Richard Roxburgh will debut on US TV

The spy is presenting you this weekend four new soapy TV series that are getting pilots at big networks. First up, Richard Roxburgh will lead hourlong dramedy LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER with two 80s stars Kathleen Turner and Andie McDowell. Madeline Wise and Usman Ally are also set to star in the inventive series, in which the entire first season takes place over the course of single night at a wedding.

As we get to know the wedding party, we’ll learn surprising reveals about both their present and past. We’ll see that things aren’t always what they seem and explore the

Kathleen Turner will play a very tactless woman

complicated bonds of love, friendship and family at different stages of life. Richard Roxburgh will play Nigel Valentine Lily’s (Andie MacDowell as a bitter, fiery ex supermodel) ex-husband, a legendary British rock-star who tries to save the world through music and has a weakness for supermodels. Madeline Wise plays the quirky and pessimistic Poppy, the exceedingly blunt daughter of Nigel and Lily. Usman Ally will play Julian, a roguish doctor who doesn’t act like one.  Kathleen Turner will portray Grace, the blunt, tactless, and judgmental woman.

THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY  

NEW ABC ROMANTIC COMEDY

Lisa Vidal will play the matriarch of the Garcia family

ABC has, meanwhile, ordered a pilot for one hour romantic comedy series THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY based on an Israeli format. Carlos Gomez, Lisa Vidal, Dan Bucatinsky and newcomer Belissa Escobedo will star in the impossible Miami love story between a simple baker and an international superstar.

Noa Hollander (Nathalie Kelley) has it all: She’s the most famous woman in the country, the beautiful daughter of a real estate magnate, a successful model with an international career and, up until now, one half of a Hollywood power couple. The son of Cuban immigrants, Daniel Garcia (Victor Rasuk) is a simple guy who still lives with his parents and works at the family bakery. A chance encounter at a fancy restaurant — where Daniel may or may not propose to his eager girlfriend of eight years and where Noa is avoiding public speculation about a breakup from her Hollywood lover – leads to unexpected sparks and an even more unlikely love story. Can their love survive her jet-setting lifestyle, her

Dan Bucatinsky will play Daniel Garcia's manager and handler

overbearing agent, his unworldly family, both their exes and the media? Gomez, Vidal and Escobedo will play Daniel's family, with Bucatinsky as his manager.

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE IN RICKY GERVAIS' NEW NETFLIX COMEDY SERIES AFTER LIFE!

'AFTER LIFE' TRAILER  

NEW RICKY GERVAIS COMEDY

Gervais also wrote and directed the six part series

The only thing I have for you this Friday is the first trailer and poster for Ricky Gervais' new half hour comedy AFTER LIFE which starts on Netflix March 8th! David Bradley and Penelope Wilton round up the British cast.

AFTER LIFE follows Tony (Ricky Gervais) who had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on. He thinks it’s like a Super Power — not caring about himself or anyone else — but it turns out to be tricky when everyone is trying to save the nice guy they used to know.

MIKE VOGEL TO LEAD BERMUDA TRIANGLE TV SERIES AT ABC! NEW MIA AND THE WHITE LION TRAILER AND POSTER ARE HERE!

MIKE VOGEL TO LEAD  

BERMUDA TRIANGLE SERIES

Mike Vogel will lead Triangle series

If you ever wondered what was behind the infamous Bermuda triangle ABC might give you some answers in the pilot for a new show TRIANGLE which will have Mike Vogel as the lead star. The show poses the question, what if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean but a land lost in time that has trapped travellers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like minded inhabitants, from throughout history, to survive and somehow find a way home.

Mike Vogel will be David Roman, whose life has always been a bit of a roller coaster. He’s an orphan who bounced between foster homes growing up. Now hoping to begin a new life with his daughter, Natalie, and fiancé, Alex, their tropical vacation is interrupted by a violent storm that capsizes their boat and lands them in a strange land filled with danger, mystery, no way home.

  'MIA AND THE WHITE LION'

LOVELY NEW TRAILER  IS HERE!

Already playing around Europe, it hits USA this April

New trailer has been released for South Africa set movie  MIA AND THE WHITE LION from French director Gilles de Maistre! The shooting of the movie lasted for three years so that the actors could bond with the animals that are the stars of the film.

MIA AND THE WHITE LION
  sees little Daniah De Villiers playing Mia, an 11 year old girl who develops a relationship out of the common with Charlie, a young lion White born at her parents feline rearing South African farm. Over the course of three years, they will grow up together and form a  friendship. When Mia reaches the age of 14 and Charlie has become a magnificent adult lion, she

Director's wife wrote the script after their visit to a lion breeding farm

discovers the unbearable truth: her father decided to sell the lion to trophy hunters. Desperate, Mia has no other choice than to flee with Charlie in order to save him. Langley Kirkwood and Melanie Laurent also star.