Midsomer Murders in Belgium & the Netherlands

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News reached us that Season 20 of Midsomer Murders (including Andrew’s episode “Send in the Clowns”) is also shown in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Unfortunately the information that NPO1 in the Netherlands airs the episodes every Wednesday evening only reached us this morning – the morning after “Send in the Clowns” was broadcast! Good news is that the episode is still available online if you missed it or would like to watch it again!

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In Belgium, Eén is the Dutch-language TV station for Midsomer Murders – we are still trying to confirm airdates and times for the episodes. We’ll update this post as soon as we get more info!

ETA: “Send in the Clowns” aired on 12 October 2018 in Belgium, but it is also still available to watch online here.

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If you have any information about Midsomer Murders Season 20 in your country, please e-mail us or send us a tweet, so we can update the website! Thanks a million!

In the meantime, visit our Midsomer Murders Gallery for screencaps of Andrew’s episode!

Updated Murdoch Mysteries Gallery

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Our Murdoch Mysteries Gallery has been updated with new DVD screencaps as well as a series of production stills.

If you use our screencaps for gifs, memes, or any other kind of fan art, we’d love to see them, of course, so make sure to link one of our Social Media accounts when you post them!

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Midsomer Murders in South Africa

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Season 20 of Midsomer Murders is currently shown on Universal TV in South Africa.

This week you can still catch Andrew’s Outlander co-star Richard Rankin (Roger Wakefield MacKenzie) in episode 20×04 “The Lions of Causton” which means Andrew’s episode 20×06 “Send in the Clowns” should air on 21 October with repeats in the following week.

Check the Universal TV Midsomer Murders page for more information!

It is still unknown when Season 20 will air in the UK. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything.

If you know of any airdates in your country, we’d love to hear about it! Just drop us an e-mail and we’ll update the website. Thank you very much for your support, it is much appreciated!

Gallery: Bonnie Prince exhibition & Jacobite Trail

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Our Gallery has now been updated with screencaps of two videos that Andrew filmed at the National Museum Scotland in Edinburgh on 22 June 2017.

  • Outlander actor Andrew Gower visits Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

  • Bonnie Prince Charlie on the Jacobite trail

Find all screencaps in our Outlander Gallery!

Fan Art Winner

Last but not least we’re very happy to announce our fan art winner, Twitter follower and group member, Nancy Hibberd!

Nancy created this beautiful fan video about Outlander‘s Bonnie Prince Charlie. We cannot even begin to fathom how much creativity, work and determination must have gone into the creation of this gem, so this is a very well deserved first winner!

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Congratulations, Nancy!

Please e-mail us with your address so we can send you your Andrew calendar!

 

Actress Anna Rust on Carnival Row & Shooting in Prague

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The Prague Reporter interviewed Prague born British actress Anna Rust who’ll be playing Fleury in Andrew’s upcoming series Carnival Row.

What can audiences expect to see in Carnival Row?

A great story, brilliant cast and an absolute and utter visual delight. It’s set in a fictional neo-Victorian fantasy world, in which humans and mythical creatures live alike, and follows the investigation of the murder of a fairy showgirl on Carnival Row. It has a somewhat film-noir feel to it. There’s nothing quite like this show.

Can you tell me anything about your character, Fleury?

Fleury is a mischievous fairy living on Carnival Row. You’ll have to wait till 2019 to find out more!

Carnival Row is set in a fantasy world full of mythical creatures; how much of that did you get to experience on set through practical effects & set design?

The majority of filming took place in a studio, which meant most of the sets were built uniquely for the show. The set designers added so much detail to every part of the world – just stepping onto those sets was magical.

Carnival Row shot for six months in Prague. What kept the cast & crew busy when not filming?

A lot of us weren’t permanently in Prague so we shuttled between the U.K. and Prague whenever needed, but when we had downtime, we did lots of lovely dinners, get-togethers, drinks… As we soon realised, Prague has no shortage of great places to go out!

(Source & full interview: The Prague Reporter)

Poetry Winner

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The winner of our poetry contest is the wonderfully talented poet, our Twitter follower and group member Jackie Merrell!

She originally wrote this poem for Andrew when he attended Starfury’s Highlanders 3 convention in Birmingham this summer. The poem itself is about Outlander‘s Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The White Cockade
by J. Merrell

It’s hard to know,
just who you can trust,
surrounded by the white cockade
proudly worn in solidarity,
yet no loyalty in sight,
emblem of my family
and symbol of my duty displayed,
will anything I do matter
to the man I call father?
Fighting for a cause not my own
in a country with no real ties
holding me to its breast,
and in the end I don’t know
which way to turn
or what is right anymore
in the blinding blaze of battles lost.

Andrew loved the poem – and who are we to disagree with him?

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Congratulations, Jackie!

Please e-mail us with your address so we can send you your Andrew calendar!

Caption This! Winner

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Here they are: Our much anticipated prizes for the main winners of the three categories of our birthday contest!

Each winner will receive one of these calendars, exclusively designed for Andrew Gower Fans.

We will present you our winners and their art (in case of our poetry and fan art contestants)  over the next few days.

Today, it is with great pleasure to reveal our randomly drawn “Caption This!” winner, our Twitter follower Angela Davis (@woollyheaded)!

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Congratulations, Angela!

Please e-mail us with your address so we can send you your Andrew calendar!

Presenting our Social Media Winners

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Over the last few days, we announced our Social Media winners with shout-outs to

Again, thank you so very much for participating in our birthday contest!

Now, all there’s left for us to announce our own main winners! Stay tuned and watch this space for the big reveal this Sunday, 7 October 2018!

Carnival Row: International Press

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The Austrian online paper “Kleine Zeitung” also reported about the “Amazon Prime Presents” event at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London this week (English summary below):

Ganz vorne mit dabei ist sicher “Carnival Row“: Die von René Echevarria und Travis Beacham entwickelte Serie, die kommendes Jahr bei Prime Video starten soll, handelt von einer magischen Welt, in der mythische Kreaturen ihre Heimat verlassen müssen und auch eine gute Portion Krimi mit von der Partie ist. “Mir war einfach wichtig, dass dabei auch gesellschaftspolitische Themen verhandelt werden”, sah Cara Delevingne eine Parallele zwischen Fiktion und Realität. “Immigration ist allgegenwärtig, und man muss darüber diskutieren.”

Ähnlich sah es ihr Co-Star Bloom, könne man mit dieser “Fantasywelt” doch einen “Blick von außen auf unsere Gesellschaft” werfen. “‘Carnival Row‘ ist dabei wie nichts, was ich zuvor gelesen habe.” Viktorianische Einflüsse seien ebenso dabei wie Steampunk-Anleihen. “Und letztlich können wir in diesem Rahmen größere Fragen verhandeln.” Delevingne, die eine Fee spielt, sieht in ihrer Rolle auch eine “Empfehlung” an die Menschheit. “Dieses Volk nimmt nur von der Natur, was es braucht, gibt aber auch etwas zurück. Außerdem ist sie eine Überlebende, sie kämpft, ganz egal was man ihr entreißt.”

Für beide Schauspieler sind es die ersten Gehversuche im Serienfach. “Es war toll, mit vier verschiedenen Regisseuren zusammenzuarbeiten”, so Bloom. “Dadurch bekommst du immer wieder einen neuen Zugang zu dieser Story, was eine echte Entwicklung nach sich zieht. Diese Flexibilität habe ich sehr genossen, es war gleichzeitig aber auch eine Herausforderung.” Nicht zuletzt die an verschiedenen Orten abgehaltenen Dreharbeiten brachten den Hollywoodstar ins Schwärmen. “Was sie etwa in Prag aufgebaut haben, war unglaublich. Diese Detailverliebtheit: Das ist wirklich ein Zeichen dafür, welche Größe diese Serie erzielen will.”

This summary was done by the author of this blog post. Please keep in mind that the quotes have been translated from English to German and then back to English, so we can’t guarantee 100% accuracy:

Carnival Row is set in a magical world where mythical creature have to leave their home, and it also includes a murder mystery.

Cara Delevingne sees a paralell between fiction and reality and says it was important to her that the show addresses social and political themes. “Immigration is omnipresent and we meed to discuss it.”
She also sees her character, a fairy, as some kind of “recommendation” for humanity: “It’s a people who only take from nature what they need but they also give back. She’s also a survivor, she keeps fighting no matter what is taken away from her.”

Orlando Bloom adds that with this fantasy world you get to take a look at our society from the outside. “Within this framework, we can address bigger questions” and “Carnival Row is unlike anything I’ve read before.”

For both actors it was the first time working on a multi-episode show and they enjoyed working with four different directors. Orlando Bloom liked the flexibility and calls it an advantage but also a challenge to access the story with a new perspective with each director. He was particularly impressed by the film sets in Prague, especially the attention to detail. “It’s a sign which greatness the show is goingt to achieve.”

Der Tagesspiegel” also features an article about the event but Carnival Row only gets a brief mention.