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Carnival Row Season 2 Official Trailer

Amazon Prime Video have revealed their official trailer for the upcoming and final season of Carnival Row. The fantasy drama will return exclusively on 17 February 17 2023 on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.

The brand-new trailer sets up the final conflict between the mythical fae creatures and humans. Season 2 of Carnival Row sees the return of Orlando Bloom as one of the series leads, former inspector Rycroft Philostrate, as he investigates the murders of fae-folk which have increased the social tension between them and the humans even more than they already were.

The video is also available on Facebook & Instagram.

Bloom’s co-lead Cara Delevingne as Vignette Stonemoss who, along with the Black Raven, plots payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders.

This video is also available on Facebook & Instagram.

Just like our pair of leads, each character has their own agenda and plan that will shape the Row’s future. As per the official description, “With humans and fae-folk divided and freedom on the line, each hero will face impossible dilemmas and soul-defining tests in the epic conclusion of Carnival Row.”

Confirmed cast for Season 2 includes Arty Froushan, Caroline Ford, Karla Crome, Andrew Gower, Tamzin Merchant, and David Gyasi, among others. Carnival Row is a co-production of Amazon Studios and Legendary Television.

Watch the full Season 2 trailer here:

While the first season of Carnival Row was released using the binge model, Amazon announced a new release strategy for the final season. Prime Video will instead release two episodes a week for Season 2:

  • Friday, 17 February 2023: 2×01 & 2×02
  • Friday, 24 February 2023: 2×03 & 2×04
  • Friday, 3 March 2023: 2×05 & 2×06
  • Friday, 10 March 2023: 2×07 & 2×08
  • Friday, 17 March 2023: 2×09 & 2×10

You (Netflix) Season 4 Part 1 Trailer

Andrew Gower joined the cast of the hit Netflix series YOU last year and we’ve now been treated with a trailer for Part 1.

YOU centres around New York bookstore manager Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), on the outside an unassuming guy, who politely helps an elderly lady with her luggage and takes care of his neighbour’s son, when she fights with her abusive partner. On the inside his thoughts betray him and the extreme obsessions that he develops for several women throughout the series. He is willing to remove any obstacle (including murdering friends and ex-boyfriends) that might be in the way of reaching his goal to make these women fall in love with him.

After the events of Season 3, Joe is forced to flee to Europe and adopt a new identy. He is now Jonathan Moore, a professor at a London university, set to leave his “messy” part behind, start a new life and finally find “true love”.

The new trailer, released exactly a month before Part 1 of the new season hits our screens, shows that things don’t go quite as planned on the “European holiday”: Joe finds himself in the strange new role of reluctant detective in a murder mystery and seems to have gained a stalker of his own.

Another new addition to the cast of YOU is Ed Speleers, who Outlander fans will remember well from his portrayal of Irish pirate Stephen Bonnet. On YOU he portrays Ryhs, a member of Joe’s new friend group of “uber-wealthy socialites.”

Not much is known so far about Andrew Gower‘s part except that he’ll play a police officer called Detective Peter Andrews. Previous speculation saw Detective Andrews as some kind of antagonist to Joe Goldberg. Now it seems possible that he’s part of the force that investigates the other killer roaming London. We cannot wait to see Andrew Gower in this new role!

YOU Season 4 will be split in two parts which will be made available a month apart – on 9 February and 9 March 2023 – exclusively on Netflix (worldwide).

Watch the trailer below:

Carnival Row Season 2 Character Posters

The official Carnival Row Twitter account shared these new character posters for the show’s second and final season.

Carnival Row will end next year despite having a loyal fanbase, making Season 2 an emotional farewell to its cast of beloved characters.

The first image shows Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate (Orlando Bloom), a former police inspector in The Burgue, a human republic where social tensions reach a boiling point after more and more fae immigrate reach the city trying to escape a brutal war. At the end of Season 1, Philo was revealed as being half-fae himself and in a final move decided to leave the police and side with the other fae.

In Season 2, Philo will investigate a series of gruesome murders while uncovering a conspiracy at the city’s heart.

Philo’s former lover Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne), a fairy, came as a fugitive to The Burgue in Season 1. After being forced to work as an indentured servant to the Spurnrose family, she joined a band of fae renegades and realized how humans oppressed other creatures in Burgue. Now, in Season 2, Vignette is plotting a revolution to take down the human leaders who contribute to the marginalization of the fae.

The central image shows Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi). Imogen is a human while Agreus is a faun, but they fall in love on Carnival Row’s first season, challenging social norms and shocking the high society. As the conflict between humans and fae evolves in Season 2, their love might symbolize hope and how everyone can still share the same world.

We will also see the return of the Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford); former fae poet laureate turned prostitute and Vignette’s friend Tourmaline (Karla Crome); as well as Imogen’s vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower).

Season 2 of Carnival Row comes to Prime Video on 17 February 2023, with the ten episodes of the season expected to roll out weekly.

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(Sources: Vanity Fair & Collider)

First Look at Sansum the Priest (The Winter King)

Huge thanks to Twitter user @todbristol who shared this screenshot from the set of The Winter King with us.

The Winter King is a 10-part returning series currently filming in Wales and the West Country based on the best-selling Warlord Chronicles book series by The Last Kingdom author Bernard Cornwell. Andrew Gower plays Sansum the Priest, a character described as “unsympathetic and intriguing”, in this re-telling of the Arthurian legend. He is joined, among others, by actors Iain De Caestecker (Arthur), Jordan Alexandra (Guinevere) and Stuart Campbell (Derfel Cadarn).

The Winter King is produced by Bad Wolf for ITVX and is expected to hit the British streaming service in late 2023 / early 2024.

Carnival Row S2 Press Release

Amazon Prime have shared the plot line for S2 of Carnival Row in their official press release:

In a fantasy world where humans and creatures clash, Season Two of Carnival Row picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate aka Philo (Orlando Bloom) investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension. Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford). Tourmaline Larou (Karla Crome) inherits supernatural powers that threaten her fate and the future of The Row. And, after escaping The Burgue and her vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower), Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and her partner Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi) encounter a radical new society which upends their plans. With humans and fae folk divided and freedom on the line, each hero will face impossible dilemmas and soul-defining tests in the epic conclusion of Carnival Row.

Source: Amazon Studios

Carnival Row returns on 17 February 2023 for its 2nd and final season.

Prime Video is set to release two episodes weekly, spreading S2 out over the course of a month.

  • Friday, 17 February 2023: 2×01 & 2×02
  • Friday, 24 February 2023: 2×03 & 2×04
  • Friday, 3 March 2023: 2×05 & 2×06
  • Friday, 10 March 2023: 2×07 & 2×08
  • Friday, 17 March 2023: 2×09 & 2×10

Opinion

From the beginning it seems that Carnival Row was doomed.

First developed as a spec script by Travis Beacham, it made the Black List in 2005 and ended up gathering dust for 10 years when Amazon Prime signed a development deal for the series. Big names like Guillermo del Toro and Paul McGuigan were associated with the project but dropped out eventually leaving Beacham and Rene Echevarria as official show runners.

In May 2017, production was given a series order and principal photography began in October in Prague, wrapping in March 2018. Following a change in show runners (Echevarria being replaced by Marc Guggenheim) production returned to the Czech Republic for a several week re-shoot eventually wrapping in January 2019. The challenges that caused the re-shoot were addressed during the TCA summer press tour of 2019.

At this point Amazon Studios seemed to be fully invested in the show as rumours soon emerged about the possibility of a Season 2 which was officially announced in July 2019, a month ahead of the show’s premiere on Prime Video. Filming S2 was scheduled to begin in Prague in September of the same year however several issues (another change in show runners, the Corona pandemic, Orlando Bloom’s paternity leave, etc) caused severe delays in production.

It appears that all of these difficulties, the sometimes less than positive reviews that S1 received from audiences and critics alike, and the loss of momentum due to the 3.5 year gap between S1 and S2 in a world where audiences expect content to be available instantly, have led to the decision to pull the plug. It was a (maybe overly?) ambitious project that had enourmous potential but sadly failed due to circumstances. In hindsight, the odd hiring decision might have also hurt rather than helped the situation.

However, we are glad to see the series come to a conclusion. It can be assumed that production was aware of the cancellation well before its end (confirmed by a cast member and evidenced by the fact that the elaborate sets at Barrandov Studios Prague were dismantled only days after S2 wrapped filming), so we have all the hope in the world that S2 will give us and the series the end it deserves.

After all, Erik Oleson promised us: “We finish with a bang.”

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Carnival Row S2: First Look

Orlando Bloom as Philo

Vanity Fair presented us today with a first look at Carnival Row‘s second and final season which airs on Amazon Prime starting on 17 February 2023.

Talking to the S2 show runner – who joined the team early in the production phase of Season 2 after show creator Travis Beacham left due to “creative differences” in a mutual decision with Amazon Studios – Erik Oleson promises audiences: “We finish with a bang.”

The upcoming—and final—season of Carnival Row moves its enormous cast of characters through an entirely new series of gauntlets as well as the complex politics of a world that, despite its fantastical trappings, closely resembles our own. Human-passing half-fae Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) has rejected the police force, an openly racist institution that patrols the Burgue, a Londonesque city-state reluctantly housing a population of fae folk refugees escaped from their war-torn homeland. His sometime lover, gossamer-winged Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne), falls in with a local anarchist group bent on freeing the fae from their human tormentors by any means necessary. Her erstwhile girlfriend Tourmaline (Karla Crome) has been saddled with surprise psychic abilities, her visions of violence corresponding with a new string of crimes targeting the citizens of the Burgue.

Moneyed faun Agreus (David Gyasi) and his human partner Imogen (Tamzin Merchant) are midway through fleeing the violent intolerance of their homeland when they find themselves beset by an entirely new threat when they’re forced to enter the Pact, the Eastern European-styled enemy of the Burgue that has been overtaken by a set of anti-bourgeois communist freedom fighters who call themselves the New Dawn. Meanwhile conniving human politicians Jonah Brekapear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford) continue their psychosexual war for control of the Burgue, manipulated at every angle by the sly Runyon Millworthy (Simon McBurney), while former soldier Darius Sykes (Ariyon Bakare) attempts to live peacefully as a shapeshifting wolf-man.

Source: Vanity Fair

Andrew Gower (Ezra Spurnrose), Tamzin Merchant (Imogen Spurnrose) & David Gyasi Agreus Astrayon)

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The Winter King – Wrapping at Blaise Castle

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Twitter user @todbristol has shared some important information about filming The Winter King at Blaise Castle Estate in Bristol. According to them, filming at the 650 acre parkland surrounding the 18th century Blaise Castle will wrap on Tuesday, 13 December 2022, and sets are expected to be taken down immediately afterwards.

See @todbristol’s tweets and photos from set below.

The Winter King – Cast Confirmed

In a press release ITVX have confirmed some of the cast already rumoured for the upcoming adaption of Bernard Cornwell‘s Warlord Chronicles.

A bold and revisionist take on the well-loved Arthurian Legends, The Winter King follows Arthur Pendragon as he evolves from outcast to legendary warrior and leader. 

The Winter King is set in the 5th century long before Britain was united. In a land of warring factions and tribes when the World was brutal and lives were often fleeting.

Source: ITVX

Andrew Gower as well as some other actors have been previously confirmed for The Winter King – which is currently filming in Wales and the West Country – by their agencies.

Iain De Caestecker plays a young Arthur Pendragon, who begins as an exiled bastard before becoming the greatest hope for Britain.

Iain is a Scottish actor known for playing Leo Fitz in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Stuart Campbell plays Derfel Cadarn, the narrator of the story. He transforms from left-for-dead orphan to the truest of all warlords.

Stuart is a Scottish actor who Outlander fans might remember as Young Rabbie McNab. He most recently starred in the mini series SAS Rogue Heroes.

Ellie James is Nimue, a priestess saved by Merlin because she can see the gods – he gives her power, wisdom and learning.

Ellie is known for her roles in I May Destroy You, I Am… and Giri/Haji.

Eddie Marsan is Uther, High King of all Dumnonia, old and battle tested. He commands incredible authority, over almost all, bar Merlin.

Eddie was born in East London and has acted in TV mini series The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe as well as Deceit.

Nathaniel Martello-White portrays Merlin, a politician, powerful, enlightened, and absolute. Fearless in the face of a King’s wrath he follows his connection to his Gods in all things.

Nathaniel is an English actor and writer, known for Cla’am, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and Red Tails.

Daniel Ings plays Owain, Uther’s champion of Dumnonia, an experienced but not always honest senior warrior.

Daniel is an English actor who has appeared in I Hate Suzie and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? He also appeared in an episode of Black Mirror.

Valene Kane is Morgan, Arthur’s half-sister and another bastard child of King Uther. She is a sharp-tongued and independent minded pagan and student of Merlin.

Valene is from Northern Ireland and can be seen in The Fall and Gangs of London.

Simon Merrells is Gundleus, King of rival kingdom Siluria. Imposing and savage, Gundleus is prepared to slaughter whoever he needs to secure power.

Simon can be seen in Spartacus, The Tomorrow People and Knightfall.

Carnival Row S2 Release Date!

Fans have been waiting (im)patiently for a long time but were finally rewarded with a release date for Carnival Row‘s Season 2.

After several production delays due to a change in show runners, the Covid-19 pandemic and Orlando Bloom’s paternity leave, principal filming finally wrapped in September 2021. Similarly to Season 1, post-production took 17 months and Amazon Prime will release all ten episodes over the course of a month starting on 17 February 2023.

  • Friday, 17 February 2023: 2×01 & 2×02
  • Friday, 24 February 2023: 2×03 & 2×04
  • Friday, 3 March 2023: 2×05 & 2×06
  • Friday, 10 March 2023: 2×07 & 2×08
  • Friday, 17 March 2023: 2×09 & 2×10

Unfortunately, it has also been confirmed that Season 2 will be the show’s final season. This has been suspected since Orlando Bloom’s heartfelt good-bye post on Instagram and the elaborate sets at Barandov Studios in Prague (Czech Republic) were dismantled shortly after.

However, Season 2 will have 10 episodes (two more than Season 1) which was first announced by Orlando Bloom in an interview in 2019.

Reprising their roles are:

Andrew Gower teased his return in an interview earlier this year:

…the story “gets absolutely crazier” and said his character has “one of the darkest journeys” that he had been on “for a while”.

Source: Express.co.uk

Watch the first Season 2 teaser trailer here:

Pre-Order Andrew Gower & Gustaffson’s The Jacaranda on Vinyl

Andrew Gower‘s first EP, that he released with his band Gustaffson this summer, is now available to pre-order on their website on vinyl. The first 100 vinyls will be signed by Andrew Gower, James Webster (Gustaffson) and Elbow‘s Craig Potter (producer).

The Jacaranda is also available on CD/Digipack and the first 50 CDs will also be signed.

So be quick to order before they’re gone. If you (pre-)order now, Gustaffson promises to ship the items before Christmas 🎄, so they make perfect gifts 🎁 for your loved ones – or yourself. 😉