NEW EUROPEAN SF TV SERIES: FRENCH INFINITI WITH LEX SHRAPNEL, THE ROPE WITH JEAN MARC BARR, SPAIN'S MARS SET HUMANITY

Three European projects for you today before we launch our Mega List of Epic and Historical Shows To Air Till the End of 2021 tomorrow: INFINITI will be a new six part sf TV series coming from France, but shot in French,

Our dearest Lex Shrapnel will star in Infiniti

English and Russian with the cast coming from England, France, Russia, Asia. Our dear Lex Shrapnel will be in it together with Vlad Ivanov, Celine Sallette, Oleg Levin, Laurent Capellu- to, Daniar Alshi- nov! The ISS, the International Space Station has gone silent. The crew is in distress. Simultaneously, a decapitated and waxed body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Positive identification leaves no room for doubt: the body belongs to an American astronaut currently on a mission on the ISS. A French astronaut, dismissed from the space program, and a Kazakh cop, disowned by his ranking hierarchy, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.

Spain's Mediacrest is, meanwhile, preparing new sf series HUMANITY together with a Chilean coproducer. It is set in the not-so-distant future following the explosion of planet Earth!. It’s the year 2050 and ten astronauts have recently arrived on Mars with an impossible mission: To save mankind

Humanity is coming from Spain's Mediacrest producer

from extinction. They are abandoned on the inhospitable planet of Mars without family, without friends, without resources. They are badly matched, alone in the universe, and the only thing left of the human species. On them falls a mission for which they have never been trained: to secure the survival of the species. But does this species, capable of destroying the planet that hosts them, deserve to survive?

 

French Arte has also gathered an international cast including Jean Marc Barr, Richard Sammel, Jeanne Balibar, Suzanne Clement,

Arte will air The Rope sometime next year

Jakob Cedregren for three episode series THE ROPE. In the fantasy thriller, co-written and directed by Dominique Rocher, a small group of scientists working at a remote Norwegian base discover a seemingly endless piece of rope just outside their observatory which runs into the vast surrounding forest. Intrigued by the discovery, several members of the team group up and begin to follow the rope into the wilderness, while others stay behind to man the station.Curiosity transforms into compulsion as the mystery deepens, forcing each character to face the life-changing consequences of choices they’ve made.