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| Summer of Rockets starts this spring on BBC2 |
First trailer has been released for BBC's new six part series
SUMMER OF ROCKETS which, set in the tumultuous year of 1957, follows a Russian Jewish family living in Britain amid the fear and excitement of the nation’s first Hydrogen Bomb test. The cast includes
Keeley Hawes,Toby Stephens, Timothy Spall (as lord Arthur Wallington),
Linus Roache (who plays an MP, the husband of Keeley's character)!
Toby Stephens leads the cast as Samuel, a 40-year-old Russian Jewish émigré, inventor and designer of hearing aids whose clients include the former Prime
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| The story of the new series is set at the end of the 1950s! |
Minister Sir Winston Churchill. He is approached by MI5 to demonstrate his work but they actually want him to spy on his new friends played by Keeley and Linus. The series should start this spring on BBC2.
Sky Atlantic has released the first trailer for the second season of their Roman age series
BRITANNIA which returns this Autumn. As you can see from the trailer there will be lots of new characters in the new season! Two
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| Britannia is arriving this Autumn instead of Spring |
years on from invading Britannia, General Aulus (
David Morrissey) is romanising willing Celt tribes with the help of Celtic Queen Amena (
Annabel Scholey), and crushing those who try to resist. Aulus's behaviour raises
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| Eleanor Worthington Cox is playing Cait of the Celts! |
suspicions that he has another agenda; one that raises ghosts in Amena's past and makes his threat to the Druids ever more critical. The only form of hope for the Druids and Celts is Cait (
Eleanor Worthington Cox), a young girl being trained by outcast Druid Divis (
Nikolaj Lie Kaas), to fulfil a prophecy
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| The second season is bringing a bunch of new characters! |
that would save Britannia from the Romans. But when the dead man wakes, two Druid brothers – Veran (
Mackenzie Crook) and Harka (
Mackenzie Crook) begin an epic battle of wills that divides the Druids and puts the prophecy in jeopardy.
