Sunday, July 30, 2017

PERIOD SET SERIES SATURDAY: NEW PHOTOS FROM 'HOWARDS END' SERIES WITH MATTHEW MCFADYEN, HAYLEY ATWELL, 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' WITH NATALIE DORMER

  'HOWARDS END' NEW PHOTOS
FROM BBC & STARZ MINI SERIES
With the news from the world of period set series that Hulu has ordered the second season of Harlots and that TNT is probably going to
Matthew Macfadyen plays a conservative businessman
cancel their Will series, there's also something new from Starz: they've released new photos from next year's mini series HOWARDS END an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel.
The series is based on E.M. Forsters' classic novel
MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND HAYLEY ATWELL LEAD THE CAST   
A coproduction between BBC and Starz it will tell the story of two couples caught in a swirling landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England! The four part series focuses on Margaret
The series will air next year both on BBC and Starz
Schlegel (Hayley Atwell), an idealistic, woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen), a conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies
Joseph Quinn, Tracey Ulman and Alex Lawther in their costumes
unexpectedly. Meanwhile, Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn), a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky (Rosalind
Hayley Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel
Eleazar). In the absence of their parents, who have died, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.

  'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK'
NATALIE DORMER TV SERIES
Amazon has, meanwhile, picked up another period set series coming from Australia PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK with Natalie Dormer as the lead star.  Based on a Joan Lindsay’s classic novel, the six part
Natalie Dormer leads the cast of the new period set series
series sees her playing English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard, a woman whose dead husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely hiding dark skeletons! PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK chronicles the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls
The series will first air Down Under on Foxtel before moving to Amazon
and one teacher on Valentine’s Day 1900. The complex, interwoven narrative follows the subsequent investigation and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.

12 comments:

  1. Hah, period drama always gets me!

    -Kati
    Almost Stylish

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  2. Those costumes look positively exquisite.

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    1. it's not my favourite period when it comes to costumes, I must admit

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    2. Well, insist that they take 'm off!

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    3. I do love male prewar costumes, though in period set series, female ones not so much, only from a deeper past

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    4. Well, for what it's worth... they beats skinny jeans with holes.

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  3. That's too bad about Will, but if it's as bad as you said it was, it has no business on the air. I'll be catching up on Harlots later next month when the girls are back in school. I'll be sure to add Picnic at Hanging Rock to my playlist. I do love eccentric characters, so this one sounds like it's my kind of show.

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    1. Will is almost unwatchable, I'm sticking to it because Laurie Davidson is overwhelmingly radiant and I just can't take my eyes off of him. I will watch Harlots this summer too!

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  4. Try the original 1975 movie Picnic at hanging rock, with Anne Lambert as Miranda! Still a fantastic, haunting movie!

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    1. has this new one already aired in Australia? I forgot to search for a trailer

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