UPCOMING 2022 EPIC SHOWS
WORLD'S MOST EXTENSIVE LIST
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Your Spy is bringing you our traditional list of all the period set series to expect in the upcoming new year. We have a few ultra exclusive pics (Tom Jones, Hotel Portofino etc) and if you click on the links within the sections you will find out more about the series.
LORD OF THE RINGS
Without any doubt the most anticipated of the 2022 new epic shows and also, with the budget of over half a billion dollar,
the most expensive series ever made is
LORD OF THE RINGS which arrives to
Amazon with
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The second season is moving production over to UK from New Zealand
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the first eight part season September 2nd. Set thousands of years before the events of the films, it will follow a group of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth.
Morfydd Clark plays young queen Galadriel, and the second season is in works too.
SERIES FROM STARZ
Starz, the usual home of lavish epic dramas, is bringing us three of them this year:
SERPENT QUEEN in which
Samantha Mortonplays famous
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First photo from the sets of The Serpent Queen in France
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Catherine de Medici with
Colm Meaney as her hubby King Francis and
Charles Dance as the pope . They also have a prequel to cult
DANGEROUS LIAISONS 18th century
French story with
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John Heffernan as Duke of Somerset in Becoming Elizabeth
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Denton as leads. Their
BECOMING ELIZABETHwill reveal young years of the Virgin Queen with
Alicia von Rittberg, Tom Cullen, Romola Garai, Jessica Raine,
Jamie Blackley in the cast.
SHOGUN AT FX
FX has started production (which will last till April) on their small screen version of
SHOGUN which means we might get it at the end of the year.
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Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead role in new Shogun
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Cosmo Jarvistakes the lead role a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him!
Hiroyuki Sanada will be Lord Toranaga.
SERIES FROM GREAT BRITAINBBC is bringing us
Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Alen in
SAS ROGUE HEROES six part
series on the creation of the famed Special Forces Unit. We might also get, over at ITV,
a new version of Henry Fielding's
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SAS Rogue Heroes will probably arrive rather soon to BBC
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TOM JONES from the Poldark team.
Solly McLeod plays the poor foundling in the story of the young man's complicated journey to find love and
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Exclusive first look at Solly McLeod as Tom Jones
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success in 18th century England. BBC is also bringing us
GALLOWS POLE which
follows a development of a criminal enterprise set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire, with
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Ultra exclusive first look at the cast of Hotel Portofino
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Mackay, Tom Burke and
Michael Socha in the cast. ITV and BRITBOX will air
HOTEL PORTOFINO 1920s Italian riviera set
mini series starring
Natascha McElhone, Anna Chancellor and
Lorenzo Richelmy.
THE ESSEX SERPENT
Apple has
Claire Danes and
Tom Hiddleston leading
six part THE ESSEX SERPENT which follows newly widowed Cora, who, having been released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the
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Claire Danes will sport a lot of interesting costumes in the series
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small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.
WILD WEST SET SERIES
We are probably most interested in BBC produced and
Emily Blunt, Rafe Spall, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Toby Jones starring
THE ENGLISHsix part saga about a woman who seeks revenge on the man
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First look at Matthias Schoenaerts as Django
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she sees as responsible for the death of her son in the Wild West. Rival Sky is bringing us
DJANGO in which
Matthias Schoenaerts plays a gunslinger in the Wild West who is searching for his daughter who he believes escaped the
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Douglas Booth and Dominic Cooper in That Dirty Black Bag series
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murder of his family eight years ago.
Tom Austen, Noomi Rapace also star. AMC has
THAT DIRTY BLACK BAG a raw, epic and romantic
spaghetti western series about the dark side of the Far West.
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Tom Blyth as Billy the Kid in new Epix historical series
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Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper and
Aidan Gillen star. Epix will have
BILLY THE KID series
in which T
om Blyth plays the young gangster. It comes from
Michael Hirst.
Your Spy is bringing you our traditional list of all the period set series to expect in the upcoming new year. We have a few ultra exclusive pics (Tom Jones, Hotel Portofino etc) and if you click on the links within the sections you will find out more about the series.
