Andrew Gower appeared on the BLANK podcast with hosts with Giles Paley-Phillips & Jim Daly this week talking “about football & how it often compares to acting, going through drama school and how we need to reframe failure.”
BLANK is described as “a podcast which delves into those moments when things aren’t going so well”.
We hope that our Andrew doesn’t have too many of these moments and feel very spoilt as his fans with the upcoming YOU (starts 9 February 2023 on Netflix), Carnival Row(starts 17 February 2023 on Prime Video) and The Winter King (estimated for autumn 2023 on ITVX).
When Amazon announced the return of Carnival Row on 7 November 2022, it was rather bittersweet news for the fans who’d been waiting (im)patiently to see new episodes of their favourite show. Three and a half years after the release of Season 1, the popular fantasy-noir series will come back to Prime Video for a second and – unfortunately – final season.
While fans rejoiced about the Season 2 news, there was also a lot of disappointment that it would be the end of the jounrey for Vignette (Cara Delevingne), Philo (Orlando Bloom) and all the other beloved characters.
Bianca Ruggeri, who runs a fan page for Cara Delevingne on Instagram, decided to act and started a petition on Change.org to save Carnival Row.
We’re happy to support Bianca and say ‘No to the Closure of Carnival Row‘!
Please join us, sign the petition and share the link as far and wide as possible! The resident of The Burgue will be forever grateful!
Filming of the “revisionist take on the well-loved Arthurian legends”, is now completed, which some actors have shared on their Social Media, including Valene Kane, who plays Morgan, Arthur’s sister.
A staff member confirmed that crews were filming at different locations around the privately owned estate. They further said that the fitful weather effected their choice of locations in which to film on the estate.
Lynday Park belongs to the Bathurst family since the 18th century and the current owner Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe, is the older brother of The Winter King‘s lead director Otto Bathurst. The estate was used for filming on previous occasions, though, so it’s not just a matter of family connections.
Other than its gardens and large park areas, the estate is also famous for the archeological sites that were excavated in the early 20th century by Tessa Wheeler and her husband.
They found the remnants of an old Roman temple to the Celtic god Noden (Romans often assimilated foreign gods and goddesses into their own belief) which was built on much older structures known as ‘Lydney Camp’ dating back to the British Iron Age and ‘Dwarf’s Hill’, an open-cast mining site for iron ore in Roman times.
Soon after the Romans abandoned Britain, local people thought the ruins were the homes of dwarves and hobgoblins and were afraid of the hill. The Lord of the Ring‘s author J.R.R. Tolkien, who was part of the Wheeler excavation team in the 1920s and was working on The Hobbit at the time, is said to have taken large inspiration from these tales and the landscape at Lynday Park Estate.
Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles – set in the 5th century AD, roughly 100 years after the Roman departure – in turn often mention buildings and other Roman architecture that are used by the protagonists of the books. Maybe we can expect to see some of the old ruins at Lynday Park Estate during the TV series.
The series is expected to be released on ITV’s new streaming platform ITVX exclusively in the UK later this year. There is no information on international distributors yet, but we will keep you informed as always as soon as we find out more.
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.
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.
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.”
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:
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).
The official Carnival RowTwitter 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 (AndrewGower).
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.
Huge thanks to Twitter user @todbristol who shared this screenshot from the set of The Winter King with us.
@AndrewGowerF4ns here is a still from a video of Andrew gower as priest sansun in The winter king.he is in white with the fir neck garment.. thought you might like it.. pic.twitter.com/u1S3kT6IjD
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.
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.
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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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.
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