RICHARD RANKIN IS NEW INSPECTOR REBUS AT VIAPLAY! CAST REVEALED FOR DISNEY + 19TH CENTURY LONDON SET BOXING DRAMA A THOUSAND BLOWS! MARIE ANTOINETTE GETS 2ND SEASON

Dicky Rankin is a hot new inspector Rebus

You already know that Nordic streamer Viaplay is planning a world expansion and it is already available in UK and some other European countries, and now they have added another English language series to their slate: Richard Rankin will play inspector REBUS in their new English original. The story follows 40-year-old Inspector John Rebus at a psychological crossroads following an altercation with an infamous Edinburgh gangster. At odds with a job increasingly driven by technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. Ian Rankin, no relation with Richard himself, wrote more than 20 novels about inspector Rebus.

 

Beside The Gold which has been renewed at BBC, French Canal + has just renewed their MARIE ANTOINETTE series as well with Emilia Schüle returning as the queen and Louis Cunningham as Louis XVI. At the height of their power, while Marie Antoinette and Louis face an unprecedented financial crisis, the incessant attacks of Provence and Chartres against the royal couple stir up the hatred of the nobles and disastrous consequences are looming with The Affair of the Necklace. From Versailles to the Palais-Royal, the revolt rumbles! The first season starts on PBS in USA this Sunday.

Disney + 19th century set boxing drama and their new British original A THOUSAND BLOWS has unveiled cast! Malachi Kirby and Francis Lovehall play Hezekiah and Alec, two best friends from Jamaica who find themselves thrust into the vibrant and violent world of London’s East End in

Malachi Kirby, James Nelson Jayce, Stephen Graham

the 1880s.! Drawn into the criminal underbelly of the thriving boxing scene, Hezekiah meets Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), leader of The Forty Elephants, the notorious all-female London gang, as they battle for survival on the streets. As Hezekiah sharpens his new skills, he comes up against Sugar

Jason Tobin and Erin Doherty will also star

Goodson (Stephen Graham), a seasoned and dangerous boxer and the two are soon locked into an intense rivalry that spills out way beyond the ring. Steven Knight's 12 episode series will also star Jason Tobin, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Walters, Nadia Albina, Morgan Hilaire, Jemma Carlton and Caoilfhionn Dunne.