A Discovery of Witches TV
News on the television adaptation of the All Souls Trilogy
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TELEVISION BROADCAST UPDATE:
Here are all the territories with closed deals. I can only announce particulars when I am given permission or find information on the web from the broadcasters that give particulars. There are many more deals in the works. As ever, I will update you as soon as there is news. Please note this update includes new information (Korea, Greece) and updates on older information (Hungary, Bulgaria).
COUNTRIES WITH BROADCASTERS AND DATES
UK, Sky One/NowTV—14 Sepember 2018
Sweden, HBO Nordic—15 Sepember
Bulgaria, HBO Bulgaria—15 September
Denmark, HBO Nordic—15 September
Finland, HBO Nordic—15 September
Hungary, HBO Hungary—15 September
Norway, HBO Nordic—15 September
Sweden, HBO Nordic—15 September
Spain, Sky Espana—6 November
Australia, Fox8 on Foxtel–15 November
Canada, Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
Guam, Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
Northern Mariana Islands, Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
Puerto Rico, Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
USA, Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
Virgin Islands (US), Sundance Now/Shudder/Sundance TV—early 2019
COUNTRIES WITH BROADCASTERS, NO DATES
Andorra, Sky Espana—date TBA
COUNTRIES WITH DEALS THAT I CAN’T ANNOUNCE
New Zealand, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Angola, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Cape Verde, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Croatia, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Czech Republic, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Equatorial Guinea, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Guinea-Bissau, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Macedonia, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Moldova, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Montenegro, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Mozambique, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Poland, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Portugal, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Romania, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Sao Tome and Principe, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Serbia, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Slovakia, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Slovenia, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Kosovo Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Greece, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Israel, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Austria, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Germany, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Liechtenstein, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Luxembourg, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
South Tyrol, Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Switzerland Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
Korea (South), Broadcaster TBA—date TBA
TO BE CONTINUED….
Thank you for your patience!
Professor Harkness
Manic Monday News Update: US/Canada Broadcaster, UK premiere date, and all the fun at Comic Con!
Taking a minute today to update you on all the news from this past weekend. As some of you know, I was invited to Comic Con this year. Thanks to those of you were able to fold me into your plans and attend one of the panels or signings. It was a busy, busy weekend. Here are some highlights.
US BROADCAST PARTNER ANNOUNCED: At the A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV panel with we announced that Sundance Now and Shudder, the streaming platforms for the AMC Network, will be the first to show the series in the US and Canada. Both of these services are like Netflix, and stream directly to your smart TV, through Roku, via Chromecast, on Apple TV, or whatever other gizmo you like. It’s also available on your device or computer. And, if you are Amazon Prime members who uses their video service, or their add-ons like Britbox or Acorn, Sundance Now and Shudder are just the same–you can add them to your channels. If you aren’t familiar with these services, Sundance Now and Shudder have very reasonable pay-as-you-go plans for $6.99 a month, and a yearly subscription that works out to $4.99 a month. At the moment Sundance Now and Shudder plan on bringing the series to US and Canadian viewers early in 2019. Things change, though, so use the sign up button here on my website to subscribe to the email newsletter if you haven’t already so as to avoid being left out of the loop. After premiering on Sundance Now and Shudder, the series will be available on the Sundance Channel, which is included in many cable packages. No date for that at present.
UK PREMIERE DATE: we also announced that the TV show will premiere in the UK on 14 September 2018. Yep. Friday the 14th. 
Weirdly, that is about ten years to the day I started writing ADOW. Magic?
OTHER COUNTRIES: there are deals in place for broadcasting in many other countries. Sadly, I’m not able to share those with you–only the broadcasters can do that. So stay tuned and we will let you know as soon as we can.
INKPOT AWARD: finally, I received one of Comic Con’s Inkpot Awards. These are awarded annually for achievements in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing, as well as in other Comic Con fields of interest like animation, television, and film. It is a profound honor–and it was a huge surprise–to be counted among such legends as Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
This week we will be releasing another excerpt from TIME’S CONVERT (Tuesday) and the US Tour details (Thursday). Other announcements will come steadily as we approach the UK premiere and learn details about AMC’s plans for ADOW TV.
If you haven’t already, it really might be a good time to subscribe to the newsletter. We’ve put a “Sign Up” button right on our site’s home page to make it easy for you to do so. We promise not to spam you. Our newsletters come straight to your emailbox once a month, unless there are really, really important things to announce (like tour dates, or the broadcaster updates, etc.)
Until tomorrow, enjoy these pictures from Comic Con!
x Deb
The new trailer for A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES…
…has landed, starring Teresa Palmer and #MatthewGoode. Enjoy. Sky One NOW TV#ComingSoontoSky
And no, I don’t have any more broadcaster information I can share for other countries. You need to ask Sky One and Bad Wolf about that. 
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV–THE NEW TRAILER!
The new trailer for A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES has landed, starring Teresa Palmer and #MatthewGoode. Enjoy. Sky One NOW TV #ComingSoontoSkyAnd no, I don't have any more broadcaster information I can share for other countries. You need to ask Sky One and Bad Wolf about that. <3
Posted by Deborah Harkness on Monday, June 25, 2018
Meet our Baldwin, Trystan Gravelle
Gruff soldier. Ruthless power broker. Head of the family. Meet our Baldwin, Trystan Gravelle (Anonymous, Mr. Selfridge)! Welcome to the All Souls Family, Trystan. We can’t wait to see you kicking a$$ and taking names in the A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES television series. Thanks to Sky One and Bad Wolf for another exciting piece of casting.
x Deb
Behold!
Behold the first official photos from the A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV series, shared with us today by our friends at Sky One.
I’m delighted to be able to share and hope that you enjoy them.
To all my readers in the US, I hope you have a joyful Thanksgiving.
x Deb
Meet our Marthe
Fierce. Loyal. Canny. Warm. Wise. Meet our Marthe, played by the extraordinary Sorcha Cusack. You might recognize her from Father Brown and the BBC series River.
Welcome to the All Souls Family, Sorcha. You are the perfect Marthe and we are so very glad that you are willing to take on the de Clermonts
Another cast reveal!
Introducing Balthazar and Rakasa, ridden by Matthew and Teresa. Prince (playing Balthazar) is a Friesian. Pinot (playing Rakasa) is an Andalusian.
Look…
Look what awaited me at @BadWolf_TV: messages of support from @AllSoulsCon attendees! Cast, crew, & production staff are so grateful for your continued good wishes for @ADiscoveryOfWTV! Hop over to @adiscoveryofwitchestv on Instagram to listen to the messages on their instastory.
x Deb
Casting announcement: Daniel Ezra
The newest member of the #ADiscoveryofWitches television family is Daniel Ezra!
This extraordinary actor 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).
Join me in welcoming Daniel to the All Souls family. If you are interested in seeing more of Daniel, you can see a marvelous portfolio of portraits, entitled “Othello Reborn,” by photographers Meet the Masons: https://the-dots.com/projects/othello-reborn-daniel-ezra-95848
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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official photo from the A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES TV series
Another….
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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 Tanya Moodie Valarie Pettiford Lindsay Duncan
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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Freddie Thorpe
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.