SKY ORDERS JUNO TEMPLE STARRING MOROCCO PERIOD SET DRAMA LITTLE BIRDS AND LESBIAN 23RD CENTURY SET SF SERIES INTERGALACTIC

Juno Temple will star in the six episode series

British Sky has just cast Juno Temple as the lead star of their new period set series LITTLE BIRDS an adaptation of Anais Nin’s infamous collection of erotic short stories. Set in Tangier in 1955, in the famous international zone, one of the last outposts of colonial decadence, it follows troubled American debutante Lucy Savage (Temple) as she faces a culture shock.Thrilled to escape her controlling parents, Savage arrives full of anticipation for her marriage to her English fiancée, Lord Hugo Cavendish Smythe, little knowing that Hugo has already lost his heart to someone else. As Lucy fights to carve out her independence and identity, her life becomes intertwined with Cherifa Lamour (Yumna Marwan), a Moroccan dominatrix who services the diplomats and foreigners of this colourful, bohemian world and Egyptian Aristocrat Adham Abaza (Raphael Acloque) and they all become entangled with some very

Raphael Acloque will lead the male part of the cast

dangerous characters!

LESBIANS IN SPACE 
Sky has also ordered sf series INTERGALACTIC a 23rd century set action packed ten part drama which will follow a crew of fierce female convicts who break free and go on the run. The series follows Ash, a young flight cadet falsely imprisoned before becoming embroiled in an audacious prison break-out with a disparate gang of dynamic women, who fall in love and betray each other.