BRONTE GIRLS PERIOD SET MINI SERIES! BELCANTO 18TH CENTURY SET ITALIAN OPERA TV SERIES! 1ST LOOK AT BBC'S THE WITCHFINDER 17TH CENTURY PERIOD SET COMEDY SERIES

According to Variety, ZDF Enterprises and Parsonage Productions are developing a new drama, THE BRONTE GIRLS, a fictional account of the

The only Bronte sisters portrait was sold for 50,000 pounds

last summer which the three Bronte sisters spent together. The six part series is set in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, where Reverend Bronte’s three daughters, Charlotte (19), Emily (17) and 15 year old Anne spent their last summer together as teenagers. Theirs was not a prim and proper youth, the series imagines, painting a portrait which anticipates something of the passion of the sisters’ subsequent novels, which were to become literary sensations. With hormones raging, romances leading to sexual tension, political conflicts and guarded secrets, the sisters’ lives are anything but chaste in this fictionalized drama of three women and the men, young and old, who are caught up in this adventure

It will be a six part comedy series

BBC 2 is preparing new period set comedy series THE WITCHFINDER following a witchfinder and his suspect on a road free road trip through an England gripped by civil war, famine and plague. It’s the year of our Lord 1645 and fear of witchcraft is rife. Puritanical Christianity, deep seated superstition and a willingness to scapegoat outsiders have created a tinderbox of suspicion in which few are safe.In this environment, witchfinding has flourished, as self appointed witch experts achieve hero status by investigating accusations of witchery and extracting confessions. A failing witchfinder (Tim Key) transports a suspected witch (Daisy May Cooper) across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever. But his captive is the

The series will air on BBC Two and BBC Player

worst possible travel companion: an inquisitive, uncouth woman whose ability to prick his pomposity and ask uncomfortable questions turns a straightforward journey into a life-changing ordeal.

 

Variety reports that Mariano Di Nardo, Antonio Manca and Federico Fava are preparing BELCANTO series set in 1798, as 14-year-old Carolina, her 17-year-old sister Antonia and their mother Maria seek refuge in the city of Milan after stabbing their violent father to death. The elder sister dreams of becoming a renowned singer, much as her mother once hoped for when she was the girl’s age. However, an unhappy and often violent marriage

The project will be offered to buyers at Berlin's Co Pro Series market

waylaid young Maria, who is now willing to go the extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is afforded every opportunity withheld from herself. Maria’s intense focus on the elder sister leaves little attention or affection for young Carolina however, who more modestly only dreams of earning her mother’s affection. Things go upside down however when a well-respected singing teacher in the cosmopolitan city renowned for its music discovers that Maria’s youngest is the true talent in the family.