Joe Dempsie & More Join ‘New Worlds’

GAME OF THRONES and SKINS star Joe Dempsie will be joining Jamie Dornan, Freya Mavor and BEAUTIFUL CREATURES star Alice Englert for a new four part history drama commissioned by Channel 4.

The series, which is titled NEW WORLDS, follows two young men and two young women as they commit their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. Set in the 1680s, NEW WORLDS is being described as ‘gripping story of love and loss and the human price paid for the freedoms we enjoy today’.

NEW WORLDS is created and written by OUR FRIENDS OF THE NORTH’s Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, while Company Pictures is producing the project. Filming with start this month with SKINS and RUN director Charles Martin directing. It is expected to air on Channel 4 in 2014.

Check out the full synposis for the series below:

In England, torture, show trails and summary executions are rife as Charles II has betrayed his promise of tolerance and reverted to tyranny. At Fanshawe House, we rejoin Angelica (Eve Best, Nurse Jackie) from The Devil’s Whore, now Countess of Abingdon, striving to protect her daughter Beth (Freya Mavor) from a country yet again on the brink of chaos. But when Abe (Jamie Dornan) – outlaw and idealist – breaks into Beth’s sheltered world he jolts her into consciousness and asks her if she can standby as the liberties won with her father’s Civil War blood are destroyed? Meanwhile in New England the colonists struggle throw off the distant but steely control of the English Crown and Hope (Alice Englert) and Ned (Joe Dempsie) find themselves on the brutal frontline.

Source: Channel 4