PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON SUPER DYNAMIC 'WILL' TV SERIES ON SHAKESPEARE'S PUNK ROCK YOUTH WITH LAURIE DAVIDSON!

Laurie Davidson plays the lead role

I'm really hoping this one will bring some light into ghastly boring summer of 2018 which hasn't brought us anything fun so far, especially in the deeply unsettling and tragic aftermath of the spring series cancellations and pilot rejections! TNT is ready to start airing their new hip epic series WILL from Monday July 10th (it will be a two hour premiere, but I think the first episode is already available at their app and I also believe TNT will air the show around the world too on its regional cable channels) mixing the setting of the Elizabethan London with modern punk rock music

Will broke onto Elizabethan theatre scene as a kid from a poor sheep town

soundtrack because that is what it was back then: theatre scene with its crazy adoring crowds and actors as superstars with tons of sex, booze and parties. The wild, rowdy story of young William Shakespeare

The series was originally meant for HBO before they got their GOT

(played by super lovely and sinfully cute Laurie Davidson) aims to expose all of Shakespeare's recklessness, lustful temptations and tortured brilliance.

BEFORE HE WAS SHAKESPEARE HE WAS KNOWN AS WILL

'Will' starts July 10th on TNT

As Will opens, a young William Shakespeare has just arrived onto the punk-rock theatre scene in 16th century London. It is in this seductive, violent world that his raw talent faces rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous sideshows. Attracted to Will's naïve genius is Alice Burbage (Olivia DeJonge), the talented, beautiful and rebellious daughter of James Burbage (Colm Meaney), the carpenter whose vision led him to build the first theatre in London since Roman times. Despite being the daughter of an impresario, Alice is forbidden by society from pursuing a

Laurie prepared for the role reading Shakespeare's work

career in the theatre. Her brother Richard Burbage (Mattias Inwood) is innately talented as well, but too much in love with himself and

Shakespeare was a great rival with Christopher Marlowe

prone to overact. But a chance encounter at the theatre leads him to team up with Will in what would soon become the greatest actor-writer partnership the world has ever seen.

The very dynamic, roving shooting style in which the ten episode series was shot in order to make the viewer a part of the 16th century

Caroline McCall did the punk rock costumes for the series

theatre audience, is the work of famous director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, Four Feathers) who is helming this series.  The rest of the cast also includes always under performing and weak Jamie Campbell

Olivia DeJonge plays Will's love interest Alice Burbage

Bower as playwright, poet and chief Shakespeare rival Christopher Marlowe and Ewen Bremner as wealthy and notorious law enforcer Richard Topcliffe.