MATTHEW FOX TO LEAD PEACOCK'S LAST LIGHT MINI TV SERIES! 19TH CENTURY SET LIDIA POET & BRIGANTI AMONG NETFLIX' NEW ITALIAN PERIOD SET ORIGINAL SERIES!

Matilda de Angelis will lead Lidia Poet

Netflix has unveiled their upcoming new Italian original series slate and there are two period set ones among them. Matilda De Angelis (from Leonardo and The Undoing) will play LIDIA POET in this procedural series which reconstructs the true story of the Italian woman who in late 19th century Turin fought a legal battle to be allowed to practice as a lawyer after she was forbidden to do so by a court order. She became Italy’s first female lawyer. Romulus helmer Matteo Rovere is directing. BRIGANTI will be a feminist epic set in Italy’s South during the 19th century involving a woman named Filomena who joins a group of brigands and pursues a treasure of gold ingots that had been stolen from a Sicilian bank by Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. 

Speaking of new series, Peacock is preparing new apocalyptic mini series LAST LIGHT based on Alex Scarrow's book. In the series that

Matthew Fox returns to television

follows a family fighting to survive in a world that has been suddenly thrown into chaos, Matthew Fox will be petro chemist Andy Nielsen who knows how dependent the world is on oil. Fearing the fallout that would occur should the supply be disrupted, Andy’s worst imaginings are realized during a business trip to the Middle East, when oil supplies get contaminated by an infectious agent, causing society to implode in the face of global disaster. Meanwhile, his daughter is at home in London, and his wife Elena (Joanna Froggatt) and young son are in Paris, leaving the family separated. In order to find one another, they’ll sacrifice everything. The five episode series will see Fox' return to the small screens after more than ten years.