STACEY HALLS' THE FAMILIARS 17TH CENTURY WITCH TRIAL NOVEL TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES! NEANDERTHALS ARE ALIVE IN SUPER INTRIGUING WILLIAM MOVIE TRAILER WITH WILL BRITTAIN

Production house The Bureau (Lean on Pete) have bought small screen rights on THE FAMILIARS novel by Stacey Halls and will turn it into epic TV series about 17th century witch trials in Lancashire!

It follows Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a 17 year old pregnant noblewoman, who finds herself caught up in the witch trials when her midwife, Alice Gray, is

Nine major publishers auctioned for the novel in 2017

accused of witchcraft. Shuttleworth is pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn’t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. Then she crosses paths by chance with Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the north-west, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Soon the two women’s lives will become inextricably bound together as the trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood’s stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.

William has limited release April 12th

I also have an exquisitely interesting trailer for you for new drama WILLIAM which hits cinemas next month following  star academics, Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan, who fall in love with each other and with the idea of cloning a Neanderthal from ancient DNA. Against the express directive of University administrators they follow through on this audacious idea. The result is WILLIAM (Will Brittain): the first Neanderthal to walk the earth for some 35,000 years. William tries his best to fit into the world around him. But his distinctive physical features and his unique way of thinking set him apart and

Super dashing Will Brittain plays the lead role of William

provoke fear. William's story is powerful and unique, but his struggle to find love and assert his own identity in a hostile world is universal and timeless.