BBCA Saturday Nights immediately following Orphan Black. First episode was June 13 (2015). I'm sure it will be aired again before next week's 2nd episode if you want to watch it.
Interesting show. I liked it, the characters develop quickly, and having said that... there are some very different characters. I am not familiar with any of the actors, nor the book it is based upon. It's a seven episode mini-series.
[which means if it was on ABC, and was a modest hit, TPTB would ask the producers to change the finale at the last minute so they could squeeze a few more seasons out of it, and then wonder why viewers never come back for more.]
From the BBCA web site:
Anyone else catch this?
Interesting show. I liked it, the characters develop quickly, and having said that... there are some very different characters. I am not familiar with any of the actors, nor the book it is based upon. It's a seven episode mini-series.
[which means if it was on ABC, and was a modest hit, TPTB would ask the producers to change the finale at the last minute so they could squeeze a few more seasons out of it, and then wonder why viewers never come back for more.]
From the BBCA web site:
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. So begins a dangerous battle between two great men. Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan, The World’s End), Olivier award-winning Bertie Carvel (Restless, Matilda), Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights, Easy Virtue), and Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures) star in the seven-part mini-series, which has been adapted from Susanna Clarke’s bestselling novel by Peter Harness (Wallander, Doctor Who) and directed by Toby Haynes (Sherlock, Doctor Who). 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation’s past. However, scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains — the reclusive and skillful Mr Norrell (Marsan). His displays of magic soon thrill the nation. In London, he raises the beautiful Lady Pole (Englert) from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Soon the cautious and fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange (Carvel). While trying to secure his beloved Arabella’s (Riley) hand in marriage, he meets a vagabond, the magician of Threadneedle Street, Vinculus (Paul Kaye, Game of Thrones, Stella), who tells him he is destined to be a great magician. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. A dangerous battle ensues between the two great men. Their obsessions and secret dabbling’s with the dark arts will cause more trouble than they can imagine. |
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