ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LADY OF THE LAKE EPIC TV SERIES CURSED WHICH STARTS THIS FRIDAY AT NETFLIX

  'CURSED' EPIC SERIES

BRINGS LADY NIMUE THIS FRIDAY

After Witcher last winter, and then Last Kingdom and A Letter For The King this spring, your sword and sorcery series for this summer will be

Netflix new ten part original series starts this Friday, July 17th

Arthurian legends mini series CURSED which starts this Friday, July 17th over at Netflix with  Katherine Langford leading the cast as the young

The series will be most probably getting a second season

sorceress Nimue who encounters a young King Arthur (Devon Terrell) on his quest to find a powerful and ancient sword.

Cursed Epic TV Series
based on Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler's comic book, is a re-imagination of the Arthurian legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a young woman with

Devon Terrell plays a blackwashed king Arthur who is not even a king

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,

Matt Stokoe is sir Gawain, the legendary Green Knight

a humble 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

Gustaff Skarsgaard is playing a very weird new Merlin the wizard

rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Cursed is a coming-of-age story whose themes are familiar to our own time:

Daniel Sharman is Weeping Monk, the villain of the series

the obliteration of the natural world, religious terror, senseless war, and finding the courage to lead in the face of the impossible.

Who Else Is Cursed?

The cast of the series, which was shot last year before September and has thus escaped the predicaments of corona outbreak, also includes Gustaf

Bella Dayne plays a fierce Viking captain in the new series

Skarsgard as Merlin, Matt Stokoe as Sir Gawain The Green Knight, Bella Dayne as Viking captain Red Spear, Daniel Sharman as the Weeping

Sebastian Armesto is king Utred Pendragon in the series

Monk, with Petter Mulan, Billy Jenkins, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Sebastian Armesto as King Utred Pendragon, Ella Prebble, Scarlett Rock and Daniella

The series will include different clans of fairy people from the woods

Gad also in the lineup. This ten episode long dark fairy tale will include fairies, wizards, knights, Viking invaders, religious zealots... 

NETFLIX REVEALS SUMMER AIRING DATE FOR ARTHURIAN LEGENDS EPIC SERIES CURSED WITH KATHERINE LANGFORD, MATT STOKOE, GUSTAF SKARSGARD, DANIEL SHARMAN

   'CURSED' TRAILER

AND A JULY STREAMING DATE!

Just when we almost thought the summer was over even before it actually started, Netflix has announced today July 17th as the streaming date for their

Cursed starts July 17th at Netflix

new epic series CURSED, a ten episode drama based on Arthurian legends which it obviously (and rather shamelessly) plays with by changing history and legends the way it suits them. Katherine Langford leads the cast as the young sorceress Nimue who encounters a young King Arthur (Devon Terrell) on his quest to find a powerful and ancient sword.

  Cursed Series
based on  Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler's comic book, is a re-imagination of the Arthurian legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a young woman with a mysterious gift

Katherine Langford takes the lead role of Lady of the Lake Nimue

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 humble

Devon Terrell plays King Arthur, or a reimagination of the legendary king

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

Matt Stokoe is the brave Sir Gawain

against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Cursed is a coming-of-age story whose themes are familiar to our own time: the

Gustaf Skarsgard is some weird new Merlin

obliteration of the natural world, religious terror, senseless war, and finding the courage to lead in the face of the impossible.

Who Else Is Cursed?

The cast of the series, which was shot last year before September and has thus escaped the predicaments of corona outbreak, also includes  Gustaf

Daniel Sharman is The Weeping Monk in the series

Skarsgard as Merlin, Matt Stokoe as Sir Gawain, Bella Dayne as Viking captain Red Spear, Daniel Sharman as the Weeping Monk, with Petter

The series will air in ten hourlong episodes

Mulan, Billy Jenkins, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Sebastian Armesto, Ella Prebble, Scarlett Rock and Daniella Gad also in the lineup.This is the third epic series at Netflix this year after Witcher and A Letter for the King.

WHAT ARE JAMESTOWN STARS UP TO NEXT: STUART MARTIN TO LEAD MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE 19TH CENTURY SERIES, MATT STOKOE IS SIR GAWAIN IN CURSED EPIC TV SERIES!

    STUART MARTIN TO LEAD

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE

Sky's beloved epic drama Jamestown has ended, as you know, this summer with a rather shocking finale, but despair not, spylings, some of our

Stuart Martin will take the role of The Duke

favourite stars have already booked themselves new gigs! Our dear Scotsman Stuart Martin (whose rise from Medici series to Jamestown, we've been proudly following for years) will take the lead role in new A&E Network period set series about the first female detective in the 19th century London MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE as the duke himself next to Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet whose father dies and leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is her only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza is determined to find another way and takes over his private detective agency. But she needs a partner, so she hires detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, who is also known as The

Kate Philips as Miss Scarlet, London's first 19th century lady detective

Duke, a drinker, gambler and womaniser. Eliza and Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship and team up to solve crime in 1880’s London. Andrew Gower, Cathy Belton and Matthew Malone will also star!

    MATT STOKOE IS GAWAIN

IN CURSED ARTHURIAN SERIES

Meanwhile, his fellow Jamestownian, the local blacksmith Matt Stokoe will remain in the close proximity to steel, only he won't be working it, but

Matt Stokoe will be Arthur's knight Gawain

wearing it as he is to don the armour of Sir Gawain in Netflix epic series CURSED which will follow Nimue, Lady of the Lake (Katherine Langford), who After her mother’s death, finds an unexpected partner in Arthur (Devon Terrell), a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin (Gustav Skarsgard) 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. Based on Tom Wheeler's yet to be released book, CURSED also stars Peter Mullan, Lily Newmark, Shalom Brune Franklin, Daniel Sharman, Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates, Catherine Walker and Billy Jenkins.

  OTHER JAMESTOWN STARS
While our favourite Jamestown doctor Ben Starr does not have any new gigs announced yet (although you've also watched him in Dickensian at BBC

Niamh Walsh and Ben Starr

and Knightfall at History and also in Medici as Donatello), gorgeous inkeeper Niamh Walsh will join another period set drama THE ENGLISH GAME on the invention of soccer next to Edward Holcroft, Henry Lloyd Hughes and another Jamestown star Ben Batt!

SKY RELEASES TRAILER AND AIRING DATE FOR THE THIRD AND FINAL SEASON OF JAMESTOWN EPIC SAGA WITH NAOMI BATTRICK, JASON FLEMYNG, MATT STOKOE, STUART MARTIN, BEN STAR, BEN BATT! NEW ALADDIN TRAILER IS HERE!

'JAMESTOWN' EPIC SERIES

TRAILER FOR FINAL 3RD SEASON!

Woe is us, spylings, Sky Atlantic has just released the airing date and trailer for the third season of their beloved historical series JAMESTOWN,

The eight episode final season will hit UK April 26th!

but, alas, it will also be the final one! Starting April 26th, it will see the ultimate showdown between Naomi Battrick's Jocelyn and Jason Flemyng's Governor Yeardley. 

IN THE THIRD SEASON
With trade booming and the tobacco farms thriving, the settlers’ pioneering aspirations soon clash with the realities of creating a new nation on foreign

Naomi Battrick's Jocelyn is ready for the last stand against the governor

soil. Tensions rise as the flourishing community seeks expansion onto Pamunkey land, and with politics rife in the air, the idealism of the New World

Stuart Martin gets a whole new image as his character joins the Pamunkey tribe

is tested. As Yeardley’s thirst for power and wealth grows, there are far reaching consequences. And how far will Native American chief

Matt Stokoe returns to the role of local blacksmith in love with Jocelyn

Opechancanough go to protect his land? Set in the 17th century popular historical series also stars Stuart Martin, Matt Stokoe, Ben Starr, Max

Ben Starr as Jamestown's doctor and Jason Flemyng as Yardley!

Beesley, Sophie Rundle and Niamh Walsh as well as a brilliant new cast member Ben Batt. Don't miss the final season of Jamestown this spring on Sky One!

NEW 'ALADDIN' TRAILER WITH

A NEW A WHOLE NEW WORLD

The main movie event of the day was Disney's release of first full trailer for their live action version of ALADDIN which should fly into cinemas this May.

Aladdin is out this May in cinemas

It is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin (Mena Massoud), the courageous and self determined Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) and the Genie (Will Smith) who may be the key to their future. Guy Ritchie directs the story set in the fictitious port city of Agrabah, written by John August and based on the animated classic. The cast also includes Marwan Kenzari as Jafar, Navid Negahban as the Sultan, Nasim Pedrad as Dalia and Billy Magnussen as Prince Anders. Eight time Academy Award winning composer Alan Menken provides the score, which includes new recordings of the original songs as well as two new ones.

BRITISH MONDAY: JAMES NORTON TO LEAD CHASING AGENT FREEGARD NEW MOVIE, MATT STOKOE TO WRITE AND STAR IN ROSE FOR GREAT POINT MEDIA!

GREAT POINT MEDIA

HIRES JAMES NORTON AND MATT STOKOE FOR NEW FILMS

James Norton will play Agent Freegard

British Great Point Media has set up a slate of new movie projects, and as Deadline reports today, some of them will star two of our super fave actors James Norton and Matt Stokoe! James, who is also executive producing, is supposed to lead their movie CHASING AGENT FREEGARD which is based on the true story of con man Robert Hendy Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the IRA. Matt Stokoe will, meanwhile, join his colleague from Sky's popular 17th century series Jamestown Sophie Rundle in another of Great Point Media's new movies ROSE, a dark exploration of one couple’s relationship that examines the pressures of dependency, illness, guilt,

Matt Stokoe will write Rose and star in it

loneliness and love. Beside starring in it, Stokoe is also presenting himself for the first time as the writer of the screenplay.

DID YOU KNOW? 
James Norton is currently shooting a 6 episode mini series THE TRIAL OF CHRISTINE KEELER, the story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s. Matt Stokoe has shot the third season of Jamestown and you've seen him recently in BBC's 2018 best watched series Bodyguard and in Netflix' epic Outlaw King as baron Segrave.

CHRIS PINE POSTER FROM 'OUTLAW KING' EPIC ADVENTURE WITH AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON, MATT STOKOE, CALLAN MULVEY, BILLY HOWLE! CHRISTIAN CAMARGO, HERA HILMAR JOIN 'SEE' JASON MOMOA'S EPIC FANTASY SERIES

'SEE' EPIC FANTASY SERIES

 HERA HILMAR, CHRISTIAN CAMARGO JOIN JASON MOMOA

You will also watch Hera Hilmar in Mortal Engines

Just epic genre news for you today, spylings! Apple keeps casting stars for their ten part epic fantasy series SEE with the story set in a future when the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, to build, to hunt, to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins with sight is born. Christian Camargo and Hera Hilmar are the latest ones to join the cast which already includes Jason Momoa (as Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian)! Christian Camargo will be Tamacti Jun, the head of Queen Kane’s (Sylvia Hoeks) army while

Christian Camargo will play the general of the Queen's army!

Da Vinci's Demons' Hera Hilmar is Maghra, a determined mother. Alfre Woodard will play Paris, an advisor and priestess.

'OUTLAW KING' POSTER

AND CHRIS PINE'S NEKKID WILLY!

Outlaw King starts streaming November 9th

And are you excited to see some mediaeval action over at Netflix who are releasing their OUTLAW KING November 9th? The movie will also be released in selected cinemas starring Chris Pine in a true David v Goliath story of how the great 14th Century Scottish OUTLAW KING Robert The Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat and repel the much larger and better equipped occupying English army. Aaron Taylor Johnson is another Scottish hero James Douglas, Florence Pugh is Robert's wife Elizabeth de Burgh, with James Cosmo, Matt Stokoe, Callan Mulvey, Tony Curran and Billy Howle as Prince of Wales also in the cast. Charming info: you will see Chris Pine's rebellious willy in one of the scenes in which the Scottish king is bathing in a cold loch!

SKY ORDERS 3RD SEASON OF 'JAMESTOWN' EPIC SAGA WITH NAOMI BATTRICK, MATT STOKOE, STUART MARTIN, BEN STARR! 1ST 'POLDARK' SEASON 4 AIDAN TURNER PHOTO! 'WESTWORLD' SEASON 2 POSTER IS IN!

   'JAMESTOWN' EPIC SERIES

 OFFICIALLY GETS 3RD SEASON!

Rejoice, people! Sky has just confirmed that  their marvellous epic saga JAMESTOWN will get 3rd season! The 2nd season proved to be even better than the brilliant first one with outstanding cast, good dynamics and stories.

Jamestown joins Sky's Britannia epic series which also got a new season

Knowing eight episodes per season is not much, they've succeeded in making each episode unique, diverse and deeply entertaining! Congratulations to the cast (from Naomi Battrick and Matt Stokoe, to Stuart Martin, Ben

First season airs only now in USA on PBS streaming channel on Amazon

Starr, Niamh Walsh and others) which invested so much love into their work. First season starts airing March 23rd in USA on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel.

   'POLDARK' SEASON 4

  1ST AIDAN TURNER PHOTO
Another treat from period set series front is the first photo of Aidan Turner from the fourth season of POLDARK which will probably air this summer on BBC. Set in 1796, it will see Poldark trying to defend Cornwall from an

Aidan Turner returns in what could be the penultimate season of Poldark

empowered George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), and risking everything as he embarks on a political journey which takes him to the capital. We're waiting for the first trailer!

   'WESTWORLD' SEASON 2

 POSTER PROMISES CHAOS!

New season returns April 22nd worldwide

After that teaser trailer last month, HBO has revealed the first poster for the second season of their super popular epic saga WESTWORLD which comes back April 22nd bringing chaos and destruction to the amusement park with the cast again led by Thandie Newton, James Marsden, Ed Harris, Rodrigo Santoro and Evan Rachel Wood! The story, this time, might delve into other theme parks that Delos Corp owns. The episodes will again air around the world a day after the US premiere. Peter Mullan is joining the cast as James Delos the founder of the park which is now under a full uprising of the android hosts!

SKY'S 17TH CENTURY EPIC DRAMA 'JAMESTOWN' RETURNS TOMORROW WITH THE 2ND SEASON STARRING STUART MARTIN, MAX BEESLEY, MATT STOKOE, JASON FLEMYNG, BEN STARR

Jamestown was renewed for third season in March 2018

 

  'JAMESTOWN' SEASON 2

STARTS TOMORROW AT SKY!

Just a reminder for you today that the second season of historical series JAMESTOWN starts tomorrow at British Sky One with eight new episodes

The second season should also have eight hour long episodes

(the first one will be a double one). Set in the 1600's Virginia it follows the inhabitants of one of the first towns to be build their by the colonists. While

Matt Stokoe is town's brooding blacksmith who now has hots for Jocelyn

the first season dealt with the arrival of new women there, the second season will deal with the arrival of Angolan slaves into their community and the

Rachel Colwell joins the cast as Winganuske who might be close to Henry?

changes that brings. The main stars will still be Alice (Sophie Rundle), Jocelyn (Naomi Battrick) and Verity (Niamh Walsh), three brave women

Naomi Batrick's Jocelyn will have to find her way in Jamestown as a widow

who were the first females to set foot in Jamestown for 12 years. The Native American tribes will again play a large part of the story. A terrible crime will

Our dear Stuart Martin returns as town's hunkiest hunk Silas

throw suspicion on the entire colony. Meanwhile, Jocelyn will forge a surprising connection when her position in JAMESTOWN comes under threat.

WHO RETURNS TO JAMESTOWN?
Max Beesley returns as the villainous farmer Henry, Stuart Martin as his kind hearted brother Silas who is having a baby with Alice, Gwilym Lee as

The second season was ordered even before the first one was aired

the recorder and Jocelyn's husband sadly dies and leaves her finding a new way to stay in the town on her own! Jason Flemyng and Claire Cox are the

Native tribes will again play a large role in the story of Jamestown

Governor and Governess of Virginia. Dean Lennox Kelly returns as drunken tavern owner Meredith, Verity's husband, Matt Stokoe as hunky

Niamh Walsh is again witty and wild Verity Bridges!

blacksmith James and Ben Starr as the dashing doctor Christopher who is flirting with Jocelyn. New faces include Abubakar Salim as Pedro, Rachel

Ben Starr is Jamestown's doctor Christopher Priestley

Colwell as Winganuske and Abiola Ogunbiyi as Maria. Check out the trailer for the new season below.