Sentences with phrase «new costume dramas»

Amazon Prime gets the new costume drama The Collection which already premiered in the UK and another series Patriot premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, but Netflix has the new original series Santa Clarita Diet, three premiere movies and a major Valentine's Day special for streamers this month.

Soon after, she filmed a new costume drama to be called «Downton Abbey,» in which she played Gwen Dawson, a maid with dreams of moving out of service and becoming a secretary.

Not exact matches

Set in the early days of New England, The Witch is horror by way of costume drama; a decadent period piece with all the accompanying frills accented by true, serpentine terror.

Nostalgists lament the demise of single plays like Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home or Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but drama series like The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness, Our Friends in the North, State of Play, the original Upstairs Downstairs or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will surely loom larger in history's rear - view mirror, while perhaps Julian Fellowes» surprise hit, Downton Abbey, heralds a new wave of the classic British costume drama.

It has the added bonus of being a magical historical costume drama - set in 1920s New York City.

Cornish does about as well as could be expected, considering her character 1) appears to be permanently heavily sedated, 2) spends most of her time on screen window shopping, and 3) is totally unbelievable, a woman with a storyline from a Victorian costume drama rather than 1998 New York, never displaying a hint of backbone or inner life.

A new batch of photos have been unearthed from the set, which offer a glimpse at the costumes used in this drama, set in the early 1950s after World War II.

A solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th - century costume drama filmed on the banks of the river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK's most important public art collections.

Set in the sixteenth century and using the writings and memoirs of a number of seafarers as its raw material, this single channel film is a Brechtian costume drama which merges Shakespeare's The Tempest with true accounts of the journeys to and dreams of the «New World».