A Discovery of Witches TV
News on the television adaptation of the All Souls Trilogy
Cast and Production Gallery
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Sometimes our Supporting Artists are given characters straight out of the pages of history, like this one. He is representing Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, the Moroccan ambassador to Elizabeth I. We cheated a bit—the ambassador arrived in 1600 and his portrait was painted to commemorate the event. But Elizabethan England was a culturally diverse place, and London and the court had many foreign residents. We couldn’t resist changing history a little bit! #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Another shot of some of our fantastic Supporting Artists. #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Louisa de Clermont—and her great clothes! #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2 *water bottle was removed before any film was shot.
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Supporting artists make up the backbone of any production. Here are some of ours from Elizabethan England. #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Welcome to Elizabethan London… Here is your first look at Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode in season 2 of A Discovery of Witches TV. Isn’t it STUNNING??
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We are so excited to share that James Purefoy will be playing Philippe de Clermont. #WeAreAllSouls #TeamPhilippe
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We warmly welcome Steven Cree to the cast as your Gallowglass. #WeAreAllSouls
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Our casting news continues with @MichaelLindall as the marvelous Sir Walter Raleigh. #WeAreAllSouls
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But what about Pierre? Where would Matthew Be without Pierre? No, don’t answer that! 🤣 He is being played by Milo Twomey in A Discovery Of Witches TV. #WeAreAllSouls
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You just can’t have the School of Night without Henry Percy. Welcome Adam Sklar to the cast of A Discovery Of Witches TV. He is my dream for this role! #WeAreAllSouls
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Welcome Elaine Cassidy as your nothing but trouble Louisa de Clermont. You all just WAIT to see her in action. #WeAreAllSouls
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I know there is a HUGE #TeamFrancoise out there, especially after TIMES CONVERT. Here she is. And she is amazing in the role. Welcome Holly Aird to A Discovery of Witches TV. #WeAreAllSouls
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Who will take on Benjamin Fuchs? Well, this guy. Welcome Jacob Ifan!
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Legendary actress Sheila Hancock will be your Goody Alsop. #WeAreAllSouls
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The role of Catherine Streeter, 🔥 witch extraordinaire, goes to Lois Chimimba. #WeAreAllSouls
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Victoria Yeates from Call The Midwife joins our cast as Elizabeth Jackson! #WeAreAllSouls
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Want to know another witchy secret? Amy McAllister joins the cast as earth witch Marjorie Cooper.
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You wanted an amazing Father Hubbard and you got him in the super-talented Paul Rhys #WeAreAllSouls
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When Barbara Marten is going to be your 👑 you know it’s going to be good! Welcome to the cast of A Discovery Of Witches TVin the role of Queen Elizabeth I. #WeAreAllSouls
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The canniest man alive, Willliam Cecil, will be played by Adrian Rawlins. #WeAreAllSouls
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Please warmly welcome the young actor who is going to steal your heart as Jack Blackfriars in A Discovery Of Witches TV, Joshua Pickering. #WeAreAllSouls
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A sign of things to come… #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Our Phoebe, Adelle Leonce
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Kit Marlowe is in the house! Welcome to the All Souls family, Tom Hughes.
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Oh. Yes. #TeamLouisa #ItalianDrawers #ShoeGoalz #behindthescenes @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Mood. #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2 #adiscoveryofwitches
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At the risk of breaking the internet, let’s play a game. Guess who? Hint: he’s baaaaaacccckk. #TeamMatthew @adiscoveryofwitchestv #behindthescenes #ADOWS2
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Just leaving this here. @teresapalmer is in the house. #behindthescenes @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
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Meanwhile in the Wardrobe Department for @adiscoveryofwitchestv … #BagOBumrolls #ADOWS2 #behindthescenes
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An official photo from the A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV series.
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A box of broadsides. #BehindtheScenes with @ADiscoveryOfWTV #ADOWS2 #ADiscoveryOfWitches
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Timewalker alert. #behindthescenes #ADiscoveryofWitchesS2 @adiscoveryofwitchestv Camp mug with bee from @flyingbearfarm
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Timewalker alert. #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv. #ADOWS2 #adiscoveryofwitches
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Last night on location for @adiscoveryofwitchestv. #midsummer #greatwelshsummer #junehat #notascot
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“As a character, and as a witch, Diana is complex and conflicted, intelligent and powerful. She is the witch we need in 2018. It’s no surprise that women are drawn to her, and revel in the idea of harnessing their own ‘super’ powers to achieve their true potential.” Huge props to @teresapalmer for bringing Diana to life in all her complexity! ♥️
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oday for #witchgiving we present TABITHA. We can’t have @adiscoveryofwitchestv without the Bishop cat. Here she is in all her glory, and yes–we remembered the cat carrier so she can go with Sarah and Em on their travels.
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Love is love is love. It comes in all sizes, shapes, and colors. #WeAreAllSouls #pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Stately House #OnLocation
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Meet our Baldwin, Trystan Gravelle
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And another.
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Lovely notes from All Souls Con to ADOW TV!
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Behind the scenes with makeup and wardrobe
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On Location!
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Balthasar, on location
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Meet director Alice Troughton, our director for the second block of shooting, i.e. episodes 3, 4, and 5.
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Director Juan Carlos Medina (far left), and DP Suzie Lavelle (center) at work in Venice. Photo from @adiscoveryofwitchestv on Instagram.
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Night falls in Venice. Still from a video on Helen Ostler’s Instagram feed.
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Venice’s colors are like nowhere else on earth. Photo by @adiscoveryofwitchestv on Instagram.
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Juan Carlos Medina, Helen Ostler, and Suzie Lavelle–high powered production meeting in progress!! photo from @adiscoveryofwitchestv on Instagram
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View from the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. From Helen Ostler’s Instagram feed.
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Vamping around with Domenico and Juliette. From Elarica Johnson’s Instagram feed.
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From DP Suzie Lavelle’s instagram feed. She writes “Rigging day! Boats for trucks!”
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Still of Marcus Whitmore (Edward Bluemel), on the set of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES at Wolf Studios in Wales.
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Photo of the Radcliffe Camera captured by a member of our fabulous crew, Jake Pope. (jakep5552 on Instagram). Only a professional could have captured this glorious shot!
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A still from the television production of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES from Bad Wolf, coming in 2018.
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Seasonal bounty at the Covered Market, captured by yours truly.
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Brown’s in the Covered Market, Oxford. Photo taken by me, on location in Oxford.
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Still photograph taken during this week’s television shoot, on location in Oxford.
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In case you missed it… our Diana and Matthew are Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode
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Alex Kingston (ER, Dr. Who): Sarah Bishop Valarie Pettiford (The Blacklist, Fosse): Emily Mather Tanya Moodie (Sherlock): Agatha Wilson AND Lindsay Duncan (Sherlock, Dr. Who, Gifted): Ysabeau de Clermont
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Daniel Ezra
The extraordinary Daniel Ezra is playing the role of Nathaniel Wilson, one of our daemons and member of the Conventicle. He is half of our pair of revolutionaries along with Edward Bluemel (Marcus).
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The television adaptation of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES has a few new characters. One of them is Matthieu Beny, played by British actor Freddie Thorpe
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From @adiscoveryofwitchestv ・・・ Happy birthday to Trevor Eve!
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Hands up if you want to be Ysabeau de Clermont when you grow up? #behindthescenes #ADOWS2 #ADiscoveryofWitches @adiscoveryofwitchestv
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The magic hour. #adiscoveryofwitches #ADOWS2 #behindthescenes #setlife🎬
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Ooh la la. #Repost @syfyfr with @get_repost ・・・ Diana est enfin parvenue à libérer sa magie ! 🧙🏻♀️✨ Nous espérons que vous étiez bien attentifs mardi pendant #ADiscoveryOfWitches, prouvez-le nous en répondant à la question. Et foncez sur l’espace à la demande de SFR pour dévorer l’intégralité de la série sans plus attendre ! #ScienceFiction #SYFY #TVShow #Witches #Vampires #Daemons #MatthewGoode #TeresaPalmer #OwenTeale #AlexKingston #DeborahHarkness #AllSouls #ADOW #Binge
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24 minutes until @adiscoveryofwitchestv is on @amc_tv and @bbcamerica. I’m ready for my #witcheswatchparty. Sending love to all my ADOW peeps and a huge thank you to the US fans who have been with us every step of the way! ♥️
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🤣♥️👏 #BehindtheScenes @ADiscoveryOfWTV #ADiscoveryofWitches #ADOWS2
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Today for #witchgiving: #behindthescenes at the Bishop House. I wanted to share some@shots of the Bishop House during construction and fully dressed and ready to go. This is the still room, Sarah’s lair, and @valariepettiford and @alexkingstonofficial put in plenty of personal touches to make the space their own and especially witchy.
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I’m sharing a #behindthescenes snap I took of one of the beautiful horses we worked with to make the show. They will be galloping by very soon. Are you ready??
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Today’s #witchgiving gives props to the props!! We had an amazing art department, with geniuses in scene design, set dressing, and making props that were perfect down to the last detail.
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Verified Today’s #witchgiving #behindthescenes shot is one I took when we were filming at the Bishop House set. It captures one of our actors, @danielezra who plays Nathaniel Wilson, in a moment of quiet repose. Sets are busy places and amidst the hustle and bustle quiet places are hard to find. Somehow, the actors manage to carve places out for reflection and thinking, al of which helps to create the space they need to deliver a tremendous performance
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Wishing the happiest of birthdays (2/26) to @teresapalmer, beautiful inside and out. ♥️
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These. Are. Everything. Thank you @amc_tv for the game boards. You can download and print them to have on hand for your #witcheswatchparty on Sunday! Link in my bio. and check out @amc_tv’s Instagram stories for downloadable phone wallpapers. We’ve got you covered. ONE MORE WAKEUP until @adiscoveryofwitchestv comes to @amc_tv and @bbcamerica #eatstoast
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Sometimes our Supporting Artists are given characters straight out of the pages of history, like this one. He is representing Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, the Moroccan ambassador to Elizabeth I. We cheated a bit—the ambassador arrived in 1600 and his portrait was painted to commemorate the event. But Elizabethan England was a culturally diverse place, and London and the court had many foreign residents. We couldn’t resist changing history a little bit! #behindthescenes with @adiscoveryofwitchestv #ADOWS2
Learn More About the TV Series
Jane and Bad Wolf represent my dream team for bringing the trilogy to life. Every conversation we have had about the books shows how thoroughly they understand the All Souls World and how deeply they’re committed to creating something very special with this series.A glance at the projects they’ve been involved with—including the reboot of Dr. Who, Life on Mars, Waking the Dead, MI5/Spooks, Torchwood, David Copperfield, Silent Witness, Ashes to Ashes, The Way We Live Now, and Rome—makes it clear that they are drawn to compelling characters and storylines with twists that keep viewers tuning in for each new episode.
Attention, US viewers of ADOW tv:
Finally—drumroll please—there will be DVDs/BluRay of A Discovery of Witches tv, Series 1 for our viewers in the US!!!!
They will go on sale on 29 October 2019. Thank you to our friends at Sundance Now, Shudder, and AMC TV for making this happen. Let the binge-watching commence! #huzzah
100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
Meet the newest member of the Rotten Tomatoes coveted #100 club with a 100% positive rating (only 102 tv shows have ever earned that!!) and one of the top five shows of 2019 according to critics. Haven’t seen A Discovery Of Witches TV yet? what are you waiting for?? https://editorial.rottentomatoes/guide/the-best-tv-shows-2019
Welcome Adelle Leonce!
I’ve stuck my head out of the library long enough to see that we can now reveal that Adelle Leonce will be your Phoebe Taylor, the ambitious young art curator who steals Marcus’s heart, in A Discovery Of Witches TV series 2. Please join me in warmly welcoming her to the All Souls Family!
Welcome, Farren Blackburn!
So thrilled to be able to officially welcome Farren Blackburn to the All Souls Family as the director for our first block of A Discovery Of Witches TV series 2. It’s going to be amazing! I can’t show you anything behind this fence but …
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Behind the scenes of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV
Click here to go behind the scenes and listen in on what made the dancing scenes so very special in A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES tv!
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A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES tv coming to Africa on Showmax, May 1
Here’s a fun A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV fact: with the addition of countries in Africa this week, A Discovery of Witches tv can be seen in 84 countries around the world and the books are available in nearly as many. #WeAreAllSouls
You can read more here: https://m.channel24.co.za/TV/News/showmax-picks-up-the-new-fantasy-series-a-discovery-of-witches
It’s official!
Thanks to your strong support, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES will be broadcast on BBC America and AMC on Sunday April 7. Those of you on Sundance Now and Shudder will continue to be able to see the show right now. The rest of you are in for a treat!
You can read more, here: https://deadline.com/2019/02/a-discovery-of-witches-amc-bbc-america-airing-sundance-now-shudder-1202553548/
Let’s get this party started!
So much exciting A Discovery of Witches TV news to share with US and Canadian viewers!!
Did you hear that TIME named us one of the best shows to watch in 2019? And did you hear that Sundance Now and Shudder have a special gift for those of you who sign up for a free trial over the holidays? Yep, if you sign up for your free trial you will be able to see episodes 1 and 2 starting on December 25! That’s three weeks before the show is available to stream. And if you are already a subscriber you will have access to it too!
Many of you have asked how to sign up for these subscription streaming services and there are a lot of different ways to do it which I’ve outlined here.
1. Go directly to Sundance Now (https://www.sundancenow.com/) or Shudder (https://www.shudder.com/) to sign up for a free trial and monthly or yearly subscription. Both are offering free 7-day trials at the moment. Once you have an account you can sign in, watch it on your favorite device, download the Sundance Now app to make your life that little bit easier, and even send it to your television through Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV or some other gizmo you might already have.
2. You can also establish an account through your Roku device or Apple TV with Sundance Now and Shudder. If you have one of these devices you know how to do this. If you don’t have one of these devices, you are now frustrated and confused. Fear not. Read further…
3. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can add Sundance Now or Shudder to your paid channels (like Acorn or Britbox or similar). You also get a free trial period, and then you pay monthly/yearly through your Amazon Prime account. Then you can watch the show wherever you watch your other Amazon Prime content. For me, that means a complicated process that somehow magically goes through my DVD player, or my Dish Box, or something attached to my tv that a young person set up for me and which I cannot fully walk you through. If you don’t know how to do this, my recommendation is to find a young person and ask them. They will set it up for you in approximately 2 minutes. #trustme
No matter how you sign up, or where, or how you plan on watching it (phone, tablet, computer, television, or all of the aforementioned), don’t forget to check in with Sundance Now and/or Shudder between Christmas and the New Year. Because even if you’ve been naughty this year, Sundance Now and Shudder may have something nice for you–episodes 1 and 2 of one of the best shows of 2019! Tell everybody you know and let’s get this party started!