FIRST TRAILER FROM ITV'S PERIOD SET SERIES 'VANITY FAIR' WITH OLIVIA COOKE, TOM BATEMAN, CHARLIE ROWE, SURANNE JONES, FRANCES DE LA TOUR, MICHAEL PALIN

  'VANITY FAIR' TV SERIES

 FIRST TRAILER  UNVEILED!

After a number of photos and a teaser, we finally have the first trailer and character photos from ITV's new period set series VANITY FAIR which will

Olivia Cooke the star of Spielberg's Ready Player One takes the lead

start airing this September in United Kingdom! Brand new costume drama based on William Thackeray's famous novel, has the story set in the

First look at the lead cast of the new Vanity Fair series!

Napoleonic era following the destiny of resourceful Becky Sharp played by Olivia Cooke. Check out the trailer below and first cast photos!

 

NEW VANITY FAIR  
The seven part drama coming from Poldark's and Victoria's Mammoth Screen, is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows

After airing on ITV in UK, Vanity Fair will air on Amazon too in US

modern heroine Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy, crime,

The saga is based on William Thackeray's classic novel

merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.

A RATHER STELLAR CAST INDEED

Her main love interest daft Captain Rawdon Crawley is played by Tom Bateman with Charlie Rowe as poor soldier George Osborne, Johnny

Claudia Jessie is Becky's confidante Amelia Sedley

Flynn as Dobbin, Martin Clunes as Sir Pitt Crawley, Frances de La Tour as Miss Matilda Crawley, Suranne Jones as snobbish Miss Pinkerton and

Charlie Rowe as George Osborne and Johnny Flynn as William Dobbin

Michael Palin as Thackeray himself. Claudia Jessie will play Becky�s confidante Amelia Sedley, with Simon Russell Beale and Claire Skinner

Vanity Fair will air in seven hourlong episodes

as her parents, and David Fynn as her brother Joss.Shot on locations around United Kingdom and Hungarian capitol Budapest, the series will later on also air on Amazon in USA!

BBC AND HBO REVEAL FULL CAST FOR THEIR PERIOD SET LESBIAN FEMINIST MINI SERIES 'GENTLEMAN JACK' WITH SURRANE JONES, SOPHIE RUNDLE, JOE ARMSTRONG

 BBC'S 'GENTLEMAN JACK'

MINI SERIES REVEALS FULL CAST

Surrane Jones will be the Gentleman Jack!

Something lesbiefriendly today, spylings! BBC has revealed the whole cast for their period set mini series GENTLEMAN JACK (previously known as Shibden Hall) which will celebrate 19th century feminism led by Surrane Jones! Can't say I'm overly optimistic given the fact the eight episode series has been written by Sally Wainwright who gave us the borderline unwatchable and mind numbingly uninspired To Walk Invisible, but we shall give it the benefit of the doubt. The series will air on HBO in USA.

  GENTLEMAN JACK

Sophie Rundle will play Lister's love interest!

will be set in 1832 Halifax, West Yorkshire, revolving around landowner Anne Lister (Surrane Jones) and her determination to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home, Shibden Hall, by reopening the coal mines and marrying well. But  charismatic, single minded, swashbuckling Anne Lister - who dressed head to foot in black and charmed her way into high society - has no intention of marrying a man. True to her own nature, she plans to marry a woman. And not just any woman: the woman Anne Lister marries must be seriously wealthy. Every part of Anne�s story was recorded in her diaries that contain the most intimate details of her life, once hidden in a secret code that is now broken.The story examines Anne�s relationships at home with her family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals and, most importantly, would-be wife.

WHO WILL VISIT SHIBDEN HALL?

Jamestown's  Sophie Rundle will play Ann Walker, the wealthy heiress on whom Anne Lister sets her sights to marry; Gemma Whelan will portray Anne Lister�s sister, Marian! Timothy West is the sisters� father, Jeremy Lister, and Gemma Jones plays Aunt Anne Lister. Stephanie Cole stars as

Joe Armstrong and Thomas Howes will lead the male part of the cast

Ann Walker�s aunt; Peter Davison as William Priestley, Ann Walker�s cousin; Amelia Bullmore as Eliza Priestley, his wife; Vincent Franklin as Christopher Rawson, businessman and fierce rival to Anne Lister, Shaun Dooley as his  brother and business partner;  with Joe Armstrong, Jodhi May, Rosie Cavaliero, Thomas Howes, Jessica Baglow and newcomers Albane Courtois and Ben Hunter also in the cast!