Collezione autunno-inverno ITV
1) Whitechapel II
Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, and Steve Pemberton will appear in a second series of the Critically acclaimed serial drama Whitechapel.
Whitechapel II once again draws on a set of iconic cult crimes born out of the area. After Jack the Ripper comes the gangster brutality of the Krays, and in Whitechapel II the paranoia of this era and the faded glamour of the former East End overlords will characterise the drama.
Peter Serafinowicz (The Peter Serafinowicz Show) will play DCI Cazenove and Craig Parkinson, (Lark-Rise to Candleford) will play twins, Jimmy and Johnny Kray.
Directed by David Evans (Unforgiven, Survivors) and produced by Grainne Marmion (Small Island, The Damned United), the drama will be filmed at various locations around London including Whitechapel, Bethnal Green and the East End.
Whitechapel I, which played out in a 9pm Monday night slot in February, was ITV1’s best performing new drama of 2009. The first episode debuted with 9.3 million viewers (31.1%) and an average audience of 8.7 million (30.1%) watched across the three episodes.
Returning to write the second series are Ben Court and Caroline Ip and Sally Woodward Gentle will executive produce the series.
Woodward Gentle said: "Whitechapel II will be as sharp, intense and as visually distinctive as the first series with the gangster culture of the Krays never far away. Once again the streets of Whitechapel yield an extraordinary story and we are delighted, if slightly scared, to be going back there again."
2) U Be Dead
Top British actors David Morrissey and Tara Fitzgerald star in a gripping new thriller based on a real life crime.
U Be Dead tells the story of disturbed serial stalker Maria Marchese who was sentenced to nine years in prison for the sustained intimidation of a London doctor, his family and even the lawyer who prosecuted her.
The Metropolitan Police called it "one of the worst cases of stalking we have ever had to investigate" and the drama is told with the help of the people who suffered at the hands of Marchese.
Dr Jan Falkowski (Morrissey) and his fiancée Debbie Pemberton (Fitzgerald) could think of no-one who would want to stalk them with threatening texts and phone calls.
Even when the stalker professed to being in love with Jan, they refused to take her increasingly manic behaviour seriously.
That is until she broke into their houseboat and opened the gas taps, threatened Jan’s family and attempted to cancel their wedding.
Jan and Debbie’s relationship began to suffer under the strain. In fear for their lives, they moved to an address nobody, including their parents, knew.
After staging a fake wedding, Marchese's threats worsened and what followed, no one could have predicted...
U Be Dead co-stars Lucy Griffiths (Robin Hood) and Monica Dolan (Wallis & Edward, The History of Mr Polly, Poirot).
3) Downton Abbey (già segnalato)
"The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear, that it seems as if the way of life it represents will last for another thousand years. It won’t."
ITV’s new costume drama series, Downton Abbey, written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes and made by Carnival Films for ITV will star Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham and Elizabeth McGovern as Robert’s wife, Cora, Countess of Grantham.
They will lead an all-star cast, which also includes: Penelope Wilton, Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nichol, Siobhan Finneran, Rob James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt and Rose Leslie.
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey will portray the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
Downton is the home of the Crawleys, who have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms and library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above. Some of them are loyal to the family and are committed to Downton as a way of life, others are moving through, on the look out for new opportunities or love or just adventure. The difference being that they know so many of the secrets of the family, while the family knows so few of theirs.
ITV Director of Television, Peter Fincham and Director of Drama, Laura Mackie have ordered seven episodes of the drama with Julian Fellowes writing the majority of scripts and overseeing the series. The first episode will be a 90-minute film followed by 6 x 60” episodes.
Julian is best known for Gosford Park, which won a plethora of awards, not least an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2001. His most recent film, The Young Victoria, also received critical acclaim. In addition to his work as a writer, Julian is an actor, director and producer.
4) Joe Maddison's War
Kevin Whately leads the cast as shipyard worker Joe Maddison in brand new ITV1 drama Joe Maddison's War. Written by multi-awarding winning writer Alan Plater and produced by Mammoth Screen. The 2hr drama will be filmed on location in Newcastle.
Whately will star alongside, Robson Green (Wire In The Blood, Northern Lights), Derek Jacobi (The Old Curiosity Shop, Cadfael), Melanie Hill (Stardust, The Street), Trevor Fox (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Emmerdale), and JOHN WOODVINE (Vanity Fair, Z Cars).
Set in Newcastle in 1939, Joe Maddison’s War features shipyard worker Joe (Kevin Whately) who feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer.
Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry (Robson Green) reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard. A decision which leads Joe on a journey of self discovery, learning lessons of heroism and friendship, and also love...
A recipient of the Dennis Potter BAFTA Award in 2005, Alan Plater explained why Joe Maddison’s War is a drama project that means so much to him: "My family background is strictly Tyneside – the earlier generations worked in and around the shipyards, my favourite uncle was in the Home Guard, and my head is still full of family anecdotes from the period."
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