Sean Bean => Television => Topic started by: patch on November 27, 2018, 12:16:34 PM
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Sean Bean Joins Peter Bowker’s BBC One WWII Epic Drama ‘World On Fire’
Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings star Sean Bean is joining the cast of BBC One drama World on Fire.
The actor will star alongside Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) in the seven-part World War II epic.
Also joining the cast is A Very English Scandal and The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward (Today Will Burn), Ansu Kabia (The Long Song) and Ewan Mitchell (The Last Kingdom).
The Mammoth Screen-produced drama is written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker. It is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.
Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44) and Brian J. Smith (Sense8) also star along with Parker Sawyers (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Bruno Alexander (Eden), Johannes Zeiler (Faust) and Eugénie Derouand (Genius).
Filming started in Prague last month and other filming locations include Manchester, London, Paris and Berlin. ITV Studios Global Entertainment handles global distribution for World on Fire. The seven-part drama was developed by Mammoth’s Creative Director Rebecca Keane and executive produced by Bowker, Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler for Mammoth Screen and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The producer is Chris Clough and Adam Smith will direct the first three episodes.
Bean said, “I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama. Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.”
https://deadline.com/2018/11/sean-bean-world-on-fire-1202509589/
World On Fire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Sean Bean joins the stellar cast of new landmark World War II drama World on Fire
World On Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant drama following the first year of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
Filming started in September in Prague and other filming locations include Manchester and Paris Peter Bowker says: “World On Fire tells the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know. From Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations with the Nazis and trying to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory worker who will come to take all the opportunities the War can offer to live a different kind of life. To Nancy, a female US war correspondent who can’t find peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime. These are the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world. Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times."
Damien Timmer, Mammoth Screen Managing Director, says: “We’re thrilled by the talent and breadth of the incredible cast and production team that have come together to tell this extraordinary story. A drama that pieces together World War II with Pete’s characteristic irreverence and humanity, tracing the connections between allies and enemies, and the huge battles we thought we knew. From the siege of Warsaw, to Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the battle of Britain, here is an epic story told on a human scale, with a truly international cast.”
Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, says: “Pete’s funny, humane and poignant writing gives us a perspective on those early days of the Second World War which we have never seen before. Spanning four nations, the canvas for the drama is vast, but the experience Pete gives us is boots on the ground granting us special insight into one of the most pivotal and seismic moments in Twentieth Century history. It is an honour to be working with Pete, director Adam Smith and producers Mammoth Screen as they bring this story to life”.
World On Fire is a 7x60’ series produced by Mammoth Screen for BBC One. It is written by Peter Bowker, developed by Mammoth’s Creative Director Rebecca Keane and executive produced by Peter Bowker, Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler for Mammoth Screen and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The Series Producer is Chris Clough.
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/sean-bean-joins-stellar-cast-new-landmark-world-war-ii-drama-world-fire-0
Sean Bean joins the stellar cast of new landmark World War II drama
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/world-on-fire-casting
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That’s a wrap !
Clear-up time after filming BBC1’s #worldonfire in Handbridge today.
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Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Manville on set in Handbridge this morning filming BBC1’s new drama #worldonfire with students from @qphschester & @ChesterCIS
https://twitter.com/HandbridgeLife/status/1067052432184811521
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Polish actors cast in BBC WWII drama
Leading Polish actors Tomasz Kot and Zofia Wichłacz are on the cast of the new BBC drama series "World on Fire."
The series follows the first year of World War II through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States. The drama focuses on the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
The Polish episode tells the story of Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw who is caught up in negotiations with the Nazis in an effort to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country.
Tomasz Kot’s latest role in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War has won him rave reviews from international critics.
Zofia Wichłacz, 23, was named a Shooting Star of 2017 by the European Film Promotion. Her credits include Jan Komasa’s Warsaw 44 and Andrzej Wajda’s last feature Afterimage.
The cast of World on Fire has also been joined by Emmy and BAFTA winner Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings) and Academy Award winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, Mad About You).
http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/395294,Polish-actors-cast-in-BBC-WWII-drama
So my little brother has been cast in a BBC drama series starring Helen Hunt and Sean Bean! Ever the villain, it seems. So ridiculously proud, again! He's the one in the family who should be running his ass off in LA, rather than me... #worldonfire
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bbc news @benjamin.lillie #worldonfire #worldwartwodrama #forbbc @bbc #onset #prague #brianjsmith
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Day one done. Great first day #worldonfire @bbc
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Gotta love living in Wigan. Today a brand new drama series by the BBC is being shot on my doorstep (literally) - World on Fire starring Sean Bean. Any crew members want a brew im at #57! :-) #WorldonFire
https://twitter.com/David_Eccles/status/1072124549158879232
#liberec #worldonfire #movie #shooting #liberecgram
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Historic photo? Nn, in Reichen .... for Libci is filming World on Fire. #liberec #nataceni #worldonfire #serial
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Doing some filming in the 6
.........Some war drama, apparently. Helen Hunt in it, I understand
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Filming a Sean Bean film in The 1 reet now. On Kendall St.
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BBC drama being filmed at the bottom of my street... #bbc #worldonfire #ww2 #seanbean #digforvictory #gidlowlane
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BBC war drama filmed in Wigan
Published: 12:30 Monday 10 December 2018
The glitz and glamour of prime-time TV production has descended on Wigan as the town was visited by crews shooting a new war drama.
Production teams behind epic BBC World War Two series World on Fire are training their lenses on the town with a number of local spots appearing in the filming schedule for the big-budget series.
Crews used The Old Courts in Wigan town centre to stand in for venues including Levenshulme Palais in Manchester and a decadent Parisian nightspot called Club Amour.
And the crews will close Kendal Street in Gidlow today to work on the eight-part series, which examines lives across the world during the turbulent first months of conflict and stars Academy Award-winning actor Helen Hunt at the top of a stellar cast.
The BBC confirmed some of the lead actors in the programme, which features the talents of Olivier Award winner Lesley Manville and rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown, did visit Wigan but would not say which stars were in the borough for filming.
Residents who have stepped in as extras and the owners of film locations have also been sworn to secrecy on many of the details.
The Crawford Street culture hub will welcome crews again in the new year for more scenes based in the Palais.
And those working on the exciting drama have been keen to say how impressed they have been with the borough.
Andrew Bainbridge, location manager for World on Fire, said: “From the first time I visited Wigan, I knew that it would offer us some great locations for World on Fire and I wasn’t wrong.
“The town offers great streets and some very interesting spaces (not all of which we are using) but most of all the welcome from the residents, businesses and the council has been overwhelming.
“The town has a real can-do attitude and I will always consider filming in Wigan again.”
Written by Peter Bowker, who has worked on the likes of The A Word, Eric and Ernie and Blackpool, World on Fire features an international cast as it follows how war draws together the fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the US.
As well as Wigan the cast are shooting in Manchester, London, Paris, Berlin and Prague.
Stories include a young English translator in Warsaw trying to smuggle his Polish girlfriend out of the country, a young factory worker taking the opportunities war brings for them and a German family trying to protect their disabled daughter from the inhuman Nazi regime.
It is being produced by Mammoth Studios and will be on BBC One next year.
The extent of Wigan’s inclusion in the final cut is yet to be decided.
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There are a lot of photos from the set
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It's not peaky blinders but world on fire starring Sean bean. His car is in the photo!
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photo from the set and a small clip with Sean
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https://twitter.com/David_Eccles/status/1072124549158879232
Gotta love living in Wigan. Today a brand new drama series by the BBC is being shot on my doorstep (literally) - World on Fire starring Sean Bean. Any crew members want a brew im at #57! :-) #WorldonFire
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World On Fire being filmed n Wigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YzzWQtUZU
PHOTO: Barricades grew up in Liberec. Again, the filmmakers settled here
Above the Libercans were floating flags with a hook cross and the streets guarded by the Nazi soldiers. Another film crew arrived in town again. This time it's a prestigious BBC company that looks for the location on the World's Fire TV series.
He has been filming in the Czech Republic since September and follows the fate of several heroes in each year of the war. The filmmakers occupied the city center for one day. Individual scenes were created in front of the theater, in the Post Office and barricades, they grew up in front of St Antonín's Church. Due to shooting, some streets in the center were temporarily closed for drivers. Liberec is one of the favorite destinations for the production of historical films. Most recently, in the middle of October, the German-American film Resistance was also filmed during the Second World War.
https://www.denik.cz/film/foto-v-liberci-vyrostly-barikady-opet-se-tu-usadili-filmari-20181210.html
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Sean Bean goes back in time as he shoots scenes for the BBC's WWII epic World On Fire outside Manchester's Strangeways Prison
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It was recently revealed that he spent some time with his former Game Of Thrones co-stars, as they shot a secret reunion special in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
But on Wednesday, Sean Bean was spotted working on a brand new project as he shot scenes for the BBC's epic World War II drama World On Fire in Manchester.
The 59-year-old actor cut a stylish figure in a spearmint shirt and grey cardigan, teamed with baggy green trousers and a grey flat cap as he got into character alongside Julia Brown outside the city's high-security Strangeways Prison.
Wrapping up in a black coat, he appeared to be in an upbeat mood as he strolled long the streets to shoot scenes for the anticipated seven-part miniseries.
BBC describes World On Fire as a drama 'following the first year of WWII told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States' dealing with the war's effect on their lives.
Filming for the series, which was written by Peter Bowker, kicked off in September in Prague, with other locations including Paris, as well as Manchester.
At the time that he was announced as a castmember, Yorkshire-born Sean said in a statement: 'I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama.
'Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.'
The show will see Sean share screen time with a number stars, including Helen Hunt, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Ansu Kabia and Ewan Mitchell.
Sean's sighting on set comes after it was revealed that he met up with his Game Of Thrones castmates to shoot a reunion special in Belfast back in June.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the special – which was moderated by Conan O'Brien – is set to be included in the GoT box set, which will be released next year.
Speaking last month about the reunion, Sean – who played Ned Stark on GoT – told The Hollywood Reporter: 'They decided to get all the characters together for a bit for this big show in Belfast and he kind of hosted the evening.
'It was good! It's funny with work, you don't really keep in touch. You do so many types of jobs in that part of the world. It's just like whenever I see old friends or even old drama school friends, it's just the same, we pick up where we left off last time.'
The highly-anticipated last six episodes of Game Of Thrones, which will conclude the hit fantasy show's eighth and final season, are set to begin airing from April.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6492083/Sean-Bean-shoots-scenes-WWII-epic-World-Fire-outside-Manchesters-Strangeways-Prison.html
more pictures here http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=5550.msg121628#msg121628
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Had a beautiful dinner to celebrate the near-end of this Prague adventure. THIS is the desert menu. Swipe to see what we chose! #WorldOnFire @bbc #prague
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World On Fire on Sean's IMDb page,no character name yet.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
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Filming World on Fire outside our office today! #worldonfire #seanbean
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Set dressing #worldonfire #seanbean
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The BBC is filming a World War II drama right outside Axon Garside’s HQ 🙌🏻🎬📽 #NorthernQuarter #Manchester #Filming #WorldOnFire
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Think we can sneak on set this morning? #manchester #northernquarter #worldonfire
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They're filming a 1940s set drama outside my work today. It stars Sean Bean apparently so we're taking bets on how he's going to die. I'm pulling for him to be run over by the horse drawn wagon that's parked by the front door.
https://twitter.com/bevismusson/status/1082933434086031362
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It’s been fun watching the filming today #worldonfire #perioddrama #1939 #bbc1
5 interesting photos. Sean is not.
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There is so much pollution in the air 🐎
#BBCdrama #worldwar2 #SeanBean #Manchester #filming #tvshow #NorthernQuarter #boomerang #horseandcarriage #horses
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Sometimes happiness comes in the form of a big red bus...
#NorthernQuarter #BigRedBus #Manchester #WW2 #WorldOnFire #filmcrew #filmset #bus
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BBC filming a new seven-part World War II drama outside @axongarside today! Exciting stuff 🙌🏼 #Manchester #filming #BBC #WorldOnFire #whereareyouSeanBean
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This is why people are dressed up in Second World War costume around Manchester city centre
Red buses and soldiers in uniform have been causing a stir around town today
The BBC is filming a new Second World War drama starring Sean Bean and Helen Hunt in Manchester today.
'World On Fire' is a new seven-part series due to air later in 2019.
It tells the story of several families and individuals as war breaks out for a second time across Europe.
A large filming team began setting up in the area around Hilton Street last night and filming began from 7am on Wednesday.
Actors and extras in period costume were spotted milling around the city centre and pictures posted on Twitter show many of the streets have been dressed up to replicate the era.
Hilton Street and a section of China Lane will be closed today and Thursday.
In a letter sent to residents and businesses, the BBC production team said: "World on Fire is an ambitious seven-part drama which tells the intertwined stories of families and individuals across Europe at the outbreak of the Second World War.
"'World On Fire' is being prdocued by Mammoth Screen (Poldark, Victoria, Endeavour) for the BBC.
"It is being filmed entirel on location in the northwest this autumn and winter and is scheduled for transmission in 2019.
"Our filming will take place at the top of Hilton Street - next to The Met Apartment building.
"We will be filming all day on Wednesday from approximately 07:00-19:00 however our art department will be dressing the street on Tuesday, 8th January and then re-instating on Thursday.
"Due to all the activity that will be taking place on these three days we have asked and been granted permission to close Hilton Street (From The Met Apartments to Tariff Street) and a section of China Lane (North of Brewer Street).
"On Tuesday and Thursday these roads will be closed from 08:00-19:00. On Wednesday (our filming day) they will be closed from 07:00-19:00.
"We realise that filming on location would not be possible without the understanding and goodwill of local business and residents and so would like to extend our thanks in advance."
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New Sean Bean drama filmed in Manchester city centre
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The stage is set... #stretfordpublichall #bbc #worldonfire
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There was more filming at Stockport Town Hall on Friday with the team from World on Fire, a new WW2 Drama for the BBC. Watch this space
#filming #filminglocation #worldonfire #BBCDrama #BBC #WW2
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Sean Bean spotted filming new World War Two drama in Leeds
Hollywood actor Sean Bean has been spotted shooting a new BBC drama in Leeds over the weekend. The Sheffield-born screen veteran was filming scenes for World On Fire at the Braime Pressings factory in Hunslet.
The Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings star has been cast alongside Lesley Manville and The Inbetweeners' Blake Harrison in the WW2-era drama, which tells the intertwining stories of characters living in England, France,Germany, Poland and USA after the outbreak of war. Filming started in September in Prague and other locations include Manchester and Paris.One of the characters is a young Manchester factory worker called Lois, hinting that the Edwardian workshop in Leeds may be standing in as her workplace.
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/sean-bean-spotted-filming-new-world-war-two-drama-in-leeds-1-9548249
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they are filming in the street near us and mum came in and she was like “there’s some big celebrity in it” here’s me thinking of the possibilities and she says “Sean bean” I’m like who?
I’m guessing you know him?? he’s down the road from school and apparently load sof students were trying to get pictures with him , I could of walked past him for all I know because I don’t know what he looks like, I’ll have look out today ahah
I guess so! I’m gonna look out for him because he’s two minutes away from where I am haha, if I see him I’ll try to take a picture
https://twitter.com/leufeysonwinter/status/1088386070989934592
Sean Bean is filming in my town. My IRL friend has just got a picture of him and her as he was standing right outside her mums house! She got him to sign her Game of Thrones poster too....
https://twitter.com/redactted/status/1088439463884349440
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Sean Bean is filming in my town. My IRL friend has just got a picture of him and her as he was standing right outside her mums house! She got him to sign her Game of Thrones poster too....
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Here they are, these photos)))
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and further
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there is still a photo from the set (not Sean)
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What is this uniform? Somebody knows?
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Great pictures! Sean is so handsome :slyfox
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Thanks for the photos!
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What is this uniform? Somebody knows?
Bus crews all over the country were issued with Public Service Vehicle (PSV) badges (red for a driver or green for a conductor) to show that they were licenced to drive a bus in service or to collect fares. Every crew member had his or her unique number
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Been booked to play a WW2 soldier in a major upcoming BBC drama starting Sean Bean called Word On Fire. Costume fitting next Friday, and then filming commences 4,5,6,7 th February on Ainsdale beach 😁. Can't wait, its going to be a great experience
https://twitter.com/BDoyle1973/status/1088893567098077184
This may look like a tranquil forest, but we can’t wait to see how it will be transformed for a new @bbcone drama World on Fire 🌳🚜🌳 film #tv #filmmaking #filmproduction #setdressing
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Another week, another production... This week a site visit for @bbcone drama ‘World on Fire‘ 📺
No spoilers, but our job is to ensure the cast and crew can access the site quickly and safely, plus we will be busy helping to construct the set 🎬🎥 Excited 🙌 stay tuned for further pics
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They say that Liverpool is a great city to live for movie fans. They shoot not only local and BBC productions here, but also many blockbusters and big Hollywood productions. This time I was passing a set of a new TV series 'World on Fire'. WW2 drama starring Sean Bean and Helen Hunt among others.
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On the set of "World On Fire" #worldonfire #mammothscreen #pkelighting #bbc #bbcdrama ..
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[ SPOTLIGHT ON BRITISH SERIES 🇬🇧 ]
Presentation of the series still in production #WorldonFire with @HelenZiegler, Executive Producer at @mammothscreen - @itvstudios @BBCOne
@tradegovukFRA #SeriesSériesOffSite #CreativityisGREAT
https://twitter.com/SerieSeries/status/1091312154299588608
Stellar cast in upcoming WWII drama WORLD ON FIRE - Exec Producer Helen Ziegler from @mammothscreen discusses the challenges and approaches to working on a project shot in multiple languages.
https://twitter.com/CEDUK_MEDIA/status/1091293777489063937
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A new TV production will feature several planes and military vehicles from a #Blackpool museum.
World on Fire - starring @HelenHunt & Sean Bean - is described as an "emotionally gripping and resonant drama"...
https://twitter.com/BBCLancashire/status/1093197535685083136
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This is why Ainsdale woods has been transformed into a Second World War army camp
Scenes are being filmed for an "epic drama" starring Sean BEAn
Ainsdale woods has been transformed into a Second World War army camp for the filming of a major new TV drama starring Sean Bean.
Extras in military fatigues have been spotted filming for World On Fire in an area of woodland dressed with tents, military sand bags, fake rabbits and birds.
Signs for an officers' area and medical tent plus machine guns, army vehicles and a gun carrier are also decorating the set in Ainsdale National Nature Reserve.
The BBC says the seven-part series by award-winning writer Peter Bowker is about the lives of ordinary people affected by the conflict.
As well as Sean Bean - who filmed Jimmy McGovern's Broken in Liverpool in 2016 - stars include Hollywood actress Helen Hunt and with Oscar-nominated Lesley Manville, the star of BBC sitcom Mum.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ainsdale-woods-been-transformed-second-15803101
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This week saw Higher Access provide eight 17m spider MEWPs for the production of new drama World on Fire, starring Helen Hunt. Scenes shot in Oldham needed the lightweight, narrow HACS170 to negotiate graveyard and lawned areas, to provide lighting inside the church.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Btn4bcrlLHF/
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Pine Woods turned into BBC film set
Formby Pine woods have been transformed into a film set ahead of a new BBC Drama starring Sean Bean.
The heartthrob actor has been spotted in the woodland in costume for the 7 part ‘World On Fire’ series expected to come to TV screens later this year and set in the forests of Belgium.
The brand new drama has been shooting in the woodland for weeks and walkers have been asked to either stay away or wait while cameras are live to avoid spoiling the shot.
However the film set has taken over the public footpath meaning anyone can go along to see the filming.
https://www.otsnews.co.uk/pine-woods-turned-bbc-film-set/
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Going on a Sean Bean hunt!! Only to be told he’d left yesterday!!!! #rubbishstalker #formby
https://twitter.com/LadyLeddy/status/1094664117695250437
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That's what ALWAYS happens to me when I try to find him in L.A. !!! Now that I have the time to look for SEAN, GUESS what he's NOT IN L.A. !!!
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What are they filming on St Annes Beach?
It's a BBC WW2 mini-series 'World On Fire' starring Sean Bean.
The Dunkirk sequence is being filmed on the beach Tuesday to Thursday this week.
https://fansonline.net/blackpool/mb/view.php?id=3198922
St Annes beach to star in new Second World War BBC drama
The beach at St Annes has been chosen for filming part of the production, with cameras due to start rolling on Monday.
https://www.lythamstannesexpress.co.uk/news/st-annes-beach-to-star-in-new-second-world-war-bbc-drama-1-9578238
It’s 1940 on the beach... where’s Sean Bean?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtvJbkfgJ2I/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1xt65fm0e5kwt
If Sean Bean is looking for me I’m in the Coastguard truck 😎
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtvTVDfAH54/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=14mykxtcxwgqm
Massive faux pas.... supporting actors... not extras!! Been put right!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Btvw3ObgFHJ/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1jk9np7cqdp1k
Filiming on Fylde beach is for BBC drama starring Sean Bean
The filming taking place on a Fylde beach this week is for a BBC war drama called World On Fire, it has been confirmed. Hundreds of production staff, actors and vehicles have moved onto the sands north of St Annes to capture beach scenes for the epic story, the transmission date of which is yet to be revealed.
World On Fire is described as 'an adrenalised, emotionally gripping and resonant drama following the first year of the Second World War' told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Filming has already taken place in Prague and other filming locations include Manchester, London, Paris and Berlin. Produced by Mammoth Screen which is part of ITV Studios, World On Fire is written by Peter Bowker, whose previous credits include the BBC drama Blackpool, which starred David Tennant and David Morrissey.Along with Bean, who starred as Sharpe on the ITV show of the same name, World On Fire will also star Academy award-winner Helen Hunt and Olivier Award-winning Lesley Manville together with rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown.Damien Timmer, Mammoth Screen's managing director, said: “We are thrilled by the incredible cast and production team that have come together to tell this extraordinary, deeply characterful and intensely adrenalised story."From the siege of Warsaw, to Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the battle of Britain, here is an epic story told on a human scale, with a truly international cast.”
The North Beach car park in St Annes hasd been closed by Fylde Council until February 19 to allow for the filming.
https://www.lythamstannesexpress.co.uk/news/business/filiming-on-fylde-beach-is-for-bbc-drama-starring-sean-bean-1-9588351
World On Fire filming: FIRST LOOK at World War II drama as Battle of Dunkirk is recreated on Lancashire beach for new BBC drama starring Sean Bean and Helen Hunt
Cast and crew gathered on the shores of St Anne's Beach in Lancashire for a reimagining of the Battle Of Dunkirk
•There was no sign of the upcoming BBC drama's leading actors, award-winning duo Sean Bean and Helen Hunt
•Production began on Peter Bowker's new TV series last autumn, with filming taking place in Prague, Paris and Manchester
World On Fire has been billed as an 'adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant' drama detailing the first year of World War II.
Filming was underway for the the upcoming BBC programme on Monday as the cast and crew took over St Anne's Beach in Lancashire in an extravagant recreation of the Battle of Dunkirk.
There was no sign of A-list actors Sean Bean and Helen Hunt on location as filming got underway for Peter Bowker’s historical epic.
Men were spotted dressed in full military uniform as they sat around on the beach, perching on trunks as debris lay at their feet.
Extras were seen performing stunts on the sand, with one man mimicking an explosion as he dived off a trampoline and onto a crash landing pad.
There were also several tanks set up around the beach, as well as a makeshift camp with several tents flanked by vintage WWII vehicles.
Surrounded by the grassy dunes, the beaches Lancashire could be mistaken for the very same shores of Normandy where the Allied forces took on Nazi Germany.
The drama follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States, as they deal with the war's effect on their lives.
Filming for the series kicked off in September last year in Prague, with other locations including Paris and Manchester.
At the time that he was announced as a cast member, Yorkshire-born Sean said in a statement: 'I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama.
'Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.'
The show will see Sean and Helen share screen time with a number stars, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Ansu Kabia and Ewan Mitchell.
Peter Bowker divulged more about the plot in his official statement when the BBC snapped up the rights.
He explained: 'World On Fire tells the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know.
'From Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations with the Nazis and trying to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory worker who will come to take all the opportunities the war can offer to live a different kind of life.
'To Nancy, a female US war correspondent who can’t find peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime. These are the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world.
'Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.'
The evacuation of Dunkirk was the largest military evacuation in history, taking place between May 27 and June 4, 1940.
Known as Operation Dynamo, it saw an estimated 338,000 Allied troops rescued from northern France. 11,000 Britons were killed during Operation Dynamo, and another 40,000 were captured and imprisoned
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6691759/World-Fire-filming-LOOK-World-War-II-BBC-drama.html
Video: Explosive scenes as filming starts for new Dunkirk BBC drama
https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/video/tvshowbiz/video-1860948/Video-Explosive-scenes-filming-starts-new-Dunkirk-BBC-drama.html
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500 cast and crew of major #BBC drama #WorldOnFire filming again today on #StAnnes beach.
https://twitter.com/Ali_Butterworth/status/1095238118792458240
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtxmiutA8Ii/
Here's why you might have felt the earth move in Blackpool this morning - and it wasn't fracking
Did you feel the earth shake beneath your feet this morning? Scientists at the British Geological Survey detected what may have been a 'sonic boom' at 11.37am today, at the same time a series of explosions were let off on St Annes beach during the filming of a new Second World War drama starring Sean Bean.
BGS seismologist Glenn Ford said: "We have checked our network and we don't have anything that would be an earthquake. We did pick up some signals which are definitely not seismic, but may be consistent with a sonic boom. "The signals might also be spurious, and may be random. It's a very busy location, the Blackpool area. There's consistent noise from trains and traffic, so it may just be coincidental. "We can definitely discount that it was an earthquake. We are trying to establish whether there are other sources."A sonic boom is the sound associated with shock waves created whenever an object travelling through the air travels faster than the speed of sound.It is most commonly associated with military jets.Mr Ford said the BGS had been in touch with British Aerospace and confirmed that no jets were present over the Fylde coast at the time the explosions were heard.
Minor earthquakes had previously been reported at Cuadrilla's fracking site off Preston New Road, however, there have been no recorded tremors in the area since December 14.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/here-s-why-you-might-have-felt-the-earth-move-in-blackpool-this-morning-and-it-wasn-t-fracking-1-9590366
World On Fire filming: World War II drama resumes shooting for a second explosive day as the Battle of Dunkirk is recreated on Lancashire beach
World On Fire filming kicked off for the the upcoming BBC programme on Monday as the cast and crew took over St Anne's Beach in Lancashire in an extravagant recreation of the Battle of Dunkirk.
And shooting resumed on Tuesday for a second explosive day, as the cast trudged onto the beach in their wartime military uniforms to recommence another day of hard-hitting scenes.
The BBC Drama series has been billed as an 'adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant' drama detailing the first year of World War II and has previously shot scenes in Prague and Paris.
Although A-list actors Sean Bean and Helen Hunt are set to star in the drama based on real-life events, they didn't appear to be on location as filming got underway for Peter Bowker’s historical epic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6695605/World-Fire-filming-resumes-shooting-second-explosive-day.html
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More shots of filming on the beach at St Annes near #Blackpool for the drama #WorldOnFire . Full story on @BBCNWT 1830
https://twitter.com/pmarshall01/status/1095378342285594624
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https://www.facebook.com/jon.doyle.182/posts/10156045826183093
Filming on the beach today. Sean Bean nowhere to be seen!
No Sean.
But a lot of good interesting photos and a small video
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Disappointment for Sean Bean's fans as TV crews 'invade' Lancashire beach https://www.lep.co.uk/whats-on/tv/sean-bean-won-t-be-filming-fylde-beach-scenes-for-bbc-drama-and-here-s-why-1-9588351 …
https://twitter.com/leponline/status/1095714574790258688
Sean Bean won't be filming Fylde beach scenes for BBC drama - and here's why
Filming continues on a Fylde beach for the rest of this week for the BBC war drama World On Fire - but Sean Bean won't be involved. The Sheffield-born star's scenes for the show, which will be screened in tthe autumn, have already been filmed in Manchester.
https://www.lep.co.uk/whats-on/tv/sean-bean-won-t-be-filming-fylde-beach-scenes-for-bbc-drama-and-here-s-why-1-9588351
World War II filming on St Annes beach in Lancashire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23-iA3TQHo
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First ever day managing my own location was a success and not only that but Sean Bean was on it haha life has catapulted into something crazy for me the last few years
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https://twitter.com/LucasEIIiot/status/1096198699124965376
Well done Tilly. Filming in Manchester today for the new #BBC drama #WorldOnFire with Sean Bean!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt34xJal2ZM/
Doing some early press for #WorldonFire @bbc
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4MngIDu7J/
Over the last couple of weeks we have had the pleasure of caffeinating the lovely cast and crew filming #WorldOnFire on set at #AinsdaleNNR, thank you to @mammothscreen for inviting us and… https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt5gRx4FvO_/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=5r321d2calua …
https://twitter.com/SquirrelsCoffee/status/1096350350527754245
Traffic jam in the pinewoods where they're filming 'World on fire'
#worldonfire #fromwhereiride
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St Annes beach in February 2019 is playing the part of Dunkirk sands in the summer of 1940 for the wartime drama which is due to be broadcast in the autumn. The seven-part series stars Sean Bean and Oscar winner Helen Hunt, but neither was required for the St Annes scenes.Leading actor on set locally was rising star Jonah Hauer-King, who plays a Manchester lad called Harry involved in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, which was a key incident of the early years of the war.
Filming for the epic series has already taken place in Manchester, where Sean Bean’s scenes have largely been shot; Prague, which has doubled for Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, and also in Paris itself.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/we-will-fight-them-on-the-beaches-st-annes-beach-to-be-precise-1-9598113
Blackpool 1943
#ww2 #spitfire #hangar42 #spit #supermarine #bbmf #worldonfire #bbc #filmset #seanbean #wartime #helenhunt
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More filming happening near the gallery in #Castlefield today. It's for a forthcoming BBC #WWII drama, World On Fire, with @HelenHunt and #SeanBean
https://twitter.com/SaulHayFineArt/status/1097116223215751169
Beautiful 1930s Chevrolet (I think?) with a lurking Spitfire in the background
#Chevrolet #cars #carspotting #instacar #classiccar #propercar #vintagecar #historiccar #gm #ford #spitfire #supermarine #spit #1930s #dodds #planespotting #bbc #worldonfire #americancar #madeinusa #whatisit?
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An actor on set for BBC drama World on Fire being filmed today down in Castlefield .
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuABDrAn1q7/
I saw a few scenes filmed for the upcoming BBC show World on Fire today. Castlefield not for the first time was chosen as a place to turn back time for a period drama.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_8gdDniV8/
Actors on set for new BBC drama World On Fire, set in Manchester and filmed in Castlefield on Sunday.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BuBZnKIntSm/
Set of "World on Fire" at Castlefield.
Manchester 1940's period drama. .
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCOzOaAiT5/
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Set in the first year of World War II, #WorldOnFire tells the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Coming soon to BBC One, starring @JonahHauerKing, #ZofiaWichlacz and @HelenHunt.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1097647199775846405
Sean Bean's World On Fire film crew came to Manchester to shoot rainy scenes - and it was sunny
Castlefield was turned into the backdrop for a World War Two drama on Sunday.
Set around Duke Street and Castle Street, filming got underway for BBC series World On Fire, starring Sean Bean and Helen Hunt.
While the two leading actors were nowhere to be seen, others were snapped in character donning authentic attire, while classic motor vehicles and buses could be seen dotted along the cobbled streets.
As can be seen in these striking images, Manchester weather delivered (for once!) to offer the perfect lighting to capture candid moments during filming, including a man in a trilby style hat reading a newspaper.
But sadly for the film crew, this wasn't what they had in mind - they'd hoped to film some drizzly scenes for the hotly anticipated series.
It was an amusing irony to see a member of the production crew using a water hose to create rainfall - on one of the few days in the year when it doesn't chuck it down somewhere in Greater Manchester (probably).
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/sean-beans-world-fire-film-15848695
First look pictures from brand new, original series #WorldOnFire from @mammothscreen. Set in the first year of WWII, it tells the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Coming soon to BBC One.
https://twitter.com/itvstudios/status/1097806511919824896
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuDyHKsBt1H/
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WorldOnFire
The official page of BBC’s #WorldOnFire. Exclusive behind the scenes content and latest news. Account hosted by @mammothscreen. No spoilers please.
https://www.instagram.com/worldonfiretv/?hl=en
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War epic leads ITVSGE spring drama slate
The distribution arm of ITV Studios (ITVS) today unveils its spring drama slate, spearheaded by Peter Bowker’s epic story World on Fire, adaptation Noughts + Crosses and Rob Lowe-led police procedural Wild Bill.
ITV Studios Global Entertainment will welcome hundreds of buyers from around the world to its second annual Drama Festival today, with MD Ruth Berry noting that each new drama has been backed by the distributor from its inception.
“Our drama festival is the perfect setting for buyers to be immersed in these incredible stories and to see and hear first-hand from their talented creators what it has taken to craft them into the masterpieces they see on screen today,” she said.
The slate is led by World on Fire, a seven-part drama produced by ITVS-owned Mammoth Screen for BBC1 that tells the story of the Second World War through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of the global conflict. The show is written by Bowker (The A Word) while Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville lead the ensemble cast.
https://www.c21media.net/war-epic-leads-itvsge-spring-drama-slate/
First-look image of Helen Hunt in World On Fire released
Writer Peter Bowker said: “World On Fire tells the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know … the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world.
“Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.”
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/firstlook-image-of-helen-hunt-in-world-on-fire-released-37835260.html
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...and that’s a wrap on series one of ‘World On Fire’ The most incredible and life-changing experience of my career so far. 4 months with thee best team, most of them now friends for life. I still don’t know how I landed the honour of bringing Lois Bennett to life but every second of living in 1939/40 has been beautiful. I cannot wait for everyone to meet Peter’s diverse characters and watch how their ordinary lives turn into extraordinary stories in the face of WW2... and I cannot wait to hopefully rejoin them in 1941 and do it all again soon 🎥💖 Stay tuned for lots of photos and behind the scenes (when we are allowed to post them!) September can’t come quick enough 📺 @bbcone @mammothscreen @worldonfiretv #WorldOnFire #BBC #MammothScreen
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMQUg1BWsu/
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What do you think of our new recruit? He'll get told off if the Inspector sees him with his hands in his pockets... #SeanBean #WorldOnFire #BBC
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https://twitter.com/MoTGM/status/1103940426203987969
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SEAN'S SO CUTE !! I LOVE IT !!
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#WorldonFire selected for @mip Drama Summit Made by @mammothscreen Distribution by #ITVSGE part of @itvstudios
https://twitter.com/tessamatchett/status/1105860043939950594
Ten brand-new series from around the world have been selected for an exclusive first look at the MIPDrama Buyers’ Summit.
Buyers in Cannes will see preview excerpts from Atlantic Crossing (Norway), Costa Del Sol Squad (Spain), Dangerous Moms (Spain), Hide and Seek (Ukraine), Made in Italy (Italy), I AM (U.K.), Shadow Lines (Finland), The Gulf (New Zealand), The Middleman (France) and World on Fire (U.K.). The MIPDrama Buyers’ Summit takes place on Sunday, April 7.
https://worldscreen.com/tvdrama/series-selected-for-mipdrama-buyers-summit/
No, we are not moving. The #costumes of the #tvseries #Worldonfire came back
https://twitter.com/uniformverhuur_/status/1105815762256740352
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In Lille for #SeriesMania? Pick up the shiny new issue of #DramaQuarterly, featuring #storytelling #Heder #UneIle #WorldOnFire #Chimerica #LambsOfGod #TheLuminaries #DehliCrime #Quicksand #Borgen #CrimeDrama and much more...
https://twitter.com/DQDAILY/status/1110083112900403200
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BBC filming in Manchester #worldonfire #bbcone
https://twitter.com/clearshazz/status/1114603118896013313
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#WorldonFire selected for @mip Drama Summit Made by @mammothscreen Distribution by #ITVSGE part of @itvstudios
https://twitter.com/tessamatchett/status/1105860043939950594
Ten brand-new series from around the world have been selected for an exclusive first look at the MIPDrama Buyers’ Summit.
Buyers in Cannes will see preview excerpts from Atlantic Crossing (Norway), Costa Del Sol Squad (Spain), Dangerous Moms (Spain), Hide and Seek (Ukraine), Made in Italy (Italy), I AM (U.K.), Shadow Lines (Finland), The Gulf (New Zealand), The Middleman (France) and World on Fire (U.K.). The MIPDrama Buyers’ Summit takes place on Sunday, April 7.
https://worldscreen.com/tvdrama/series-selected-for-mipdrama-buyers-summit/
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https://twitter.com/Romain_Nigita/status/1115231759598223361
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Poster looks good. I'm really excited about this one. Helen Hunt is one of my favourite actresses as well.
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.@itvstudios World On Fire is TBI's scripted top pick #hotpicks #MIPTV
https://twitter.com/Bylykbashi/status/1115580957527089152
Several international partners have already shown interest in the drama, according to Berry.
https://tbivision.com/2019/04/09/scripted-hot-picks-world-on-fire/
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Julia Brown
What’s been your most challenging role so far?
The one I’ve just done actually, World on Fire, which is a World War II drama and the first series is spanning the first year of the war. I was playing one of the leads, Lois Bennett, who is a Manchester factory worker and singer. I was lucky to grow up with stories from my grandparents of World War II. I also had a great history education at school, I just didn’t know the minor details of what these people had to face day by day and the research I did before the shoot taught me so much. Taking on that role was so challenging because I knew I had to do my research properly, I couldn’t take it light-heartedly. I was also singing, I had copious jazz songs to learn and record in the studio. It was a dream role for me but I realised that I had to do it properly. The show’s release (September 19) is to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II so there’s going to be a lot of exposure and we’re lucky as a small percentage of the viewers might be people who were alive at that difficult time. It was so important to get it right, it’s a big responsibility, but a great one.
I’m really excited for the release of World on Fire, I hope that’ll be a springboard for me. I’ve been really lucky in the last two years, I feel like the ball’s started to roll for me. Hopefully there will be another series of World on Fire, it would be a great pleasure to go back and tell more of our characters’ stories. I hope for more acting opportunities and to meet new people, I’ve been so thankful for who I’ve met this year and I hope that those friendships in the industry continue. Hopefully I can take a nice holiday too!
https://tresamagazine.com/2019/05/10/julia-brown/
Julia Brown pictured here on set alongside Sean http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=5550.msg121628#msg121628
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So SEAN is a JAZZ SINGER in this TV SHOW ??? Be still my BEATING HEART !!!
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Julia Brown, the actress who is being interviewed in the article Patch quoted, says she is playing a jazz singer in World on Fire.
In one of the photos I've seen from World on Fire, Sean is dressed as a bus conductor, so that's probably the part he's playing.
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Your RIGHT Janice, and I'm VERY DISAPPOINTED, because that sounded like a GREAT PART FOR SEAN !!! However, I'm hoping his part will be just
as INTERESTING.
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Sean has a talent for making any part interesting. :thumbsup:
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The actors Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville and Zofia Wichlacz from @WorldOnFireTV will attend the #MonteCarloTVFestival 2019! #JonahHauerKing #LesleyManville #ZofiaWichlacz #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/festivaltvmc/status/1134083228325879810
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https://www.tvfestival.com/en
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TV set on fire! 🌍🔥 #MonteCarloTVFestival #JonahHauerKing #LesleyManville #ZofiaWichlacz #WorldOnFire @WorldOnFireTV
https://twitter.com/festivaltvmc/status/1140652189070876672
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#worldonfire cast have arrived at tonight’s #goldennymph awards #montecarlotvfestival - great to have #lesleymanville #jonahhauerking #zofiawichlacz with us @mammothscreen @itvstudios
https://twitter.com/itvstudios/status/1141016051590864896
*Laughter at the Festival* 😜 #MonteCarloTVFestival #GoldenNymph #LesleyManville #JonahHauerKing #ZofiaWichlacz @WorldOnFireTV
https://twitter.com/festivaltvmc/status/1141019632280752128
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When is World on Fire on TV?
The drama was announced in 2017 and production began in September 2018, with filming locations including Prague, Manchester and Paris.
The BBC has yet to announce an air date – watch this space!
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-06-21/world-on-fire-release-date-spoilers-trailer-sean-bean-helen-hunt-lesley-manville-blake-harrison-bbc/
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In addition, the media group's streaming service will exclusively feature the BBC's World War II series "World on Fire." with Oscar winner Helen Hunt and Sean Bean in a Germany premiere.
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On international licensed goods the broadcasting group lifts the world war drama "World On Fire" from the BBC revealed that will come to TVNOW. Emmy and Oscar winners Helen Hunt and Sean Bean have starring roles in the septenary
https://www.wunschliste.de/tvnews/m/tvnow-programmhighlights-2019-20-local-hero-investiert-weiter-in-exklusive-inhalte
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While the world is in flames during World War II, many people have to find their own path through the chaotic circumstances. Among them is the young English translator Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), who is involved in negotiations with representatives of Nazi Germany in Warsaw. He tries to smuggle his Polish mistress Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz) out of the country while his partner Lois (Julia Brown) in the UK is waiting for him. The Manchester-based young woman, meanwhile, works in a factory and suddenly has the opportunity to break out of her predestined life as a result of the war - and Lois is determined to seize this opportunity.
Elsewhere, American War Correspondent Nancy is always in danger, because that's the only way she can find her personal peace. The Rossler family from Berlin cares about their children: on the one hand, the son, who is constantly in mortal danger as a soldier at the front, and on the other, her severely handicapped daughter, who must not in any case be the focus of the murderous regime.
https://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=nl&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fernsehserien.de%2Fworld-on-fire
https://www.fernsehserien.de/world-on-fire
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Julia Brown
What’s been your most challenging role so far?
The one I’ve just done actually, World on Fire, which is a World War II drama and the first series is spanning the first year of the war. I was playing one of the leads, Lois Bennett, who is a Manchester factory worker and singer. I was lucky to grow up with stories from my grandparents of World War II. I also had a great history education at school, I just didn’t know the minor details of what these people had to face day by day and the research I did before the shoot taught me so much. Taking on that role was so challenging because I knew I had to do my research properly, I couldn’t take it light-heartedly. I was also singing, I had copious jazz songs to learn and record in the studio. It was a dream role for me but I realised that I had to do it properly. The show’s release (September 19) is to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II so there’s going to be a lot of exposure and we’re lucky as a small percentage of the viewers might be people who were alive at that difficult time. It was so important to get it right, it’s a big responsibility, but a great one.
I’m really excited for the release of World on Fire, I hope that’ll be a springboard for me. I’ve been really lucky in the last two years, I feel like the ball’s started to roll for me. Hopefully there will be another series of World on Fire, it would be a great pleasure to go back and tell more of our characters’ stories. I hope for more acting opportunities and to meet new people, I’ve been so thankful for who I’ve met this year and I hope that those friendships in the industry continue. Hopefully I can take a nice holiday too!
https://tresamagazine.com/2019/05/10/julia-brown/
Julia Brown pictured here on set alongside Sean http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=5550.msg121628#msg121628
Sean's character is "Douglas Bennett"
Sean Bean ... Douglas Bennett
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
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TV Preview: World on Fire
+ Q&A with writer Peter Bowker plus cast TBA
Helen Hunt and Sean Bean head up an excellent cast in this new wartime drama.
Tuesday 03 September 2019 18:15 NFT1 On sale 06-08-2019 11:30 am
World on Fire is an adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally gripping and resonant drama, written by the award-winning Peter Bowker (The A Word, Marvellous). It charts the first year of World War Two, told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Join us for a Q&A and preview of this new landmark series boasting a stellar cast, headed up by Helen Hunt and Sean Bean.
Please check back for further guest announcements
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=worldonfiretvpreviewplusqanda&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
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@WorldOnFireTV is going global!
https://twitter.com/itvstudios/status/1155928570486673412
ITV Studios Global Entertainment announces first tranche of sales for epic World War Two drama World on Fire
ITV Studios Global Entertainment announces first tranche of sales for epic World War Two drama World on Fire
MASTERPIECE on PBS becomes the US home of the highly anticipated first season.
29 July 2019 – ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has announced the first tranche of pre-sales of its highly anticipated, epic world war two drama World on Fire (7 x 60’) from Mammoth Screen, part of ITV Studios.
Along with the US sale, World on Fire, is set to move audiences in a further 80 territories. It has been acquired by BBC First Australia, TVNZ for New Zealand, M-Net for Africa, SVT for Sweden, NRK for Norway, DR for Denmark, YLE for Finland and Viasat World for Central and Eastern Europe. Second window rights for World On Fire in have also been acquired by SBS Australia.
Ruth Berry, Managing Director of ITV Studios Global Entertainment said:
“World on Fire, is simply one of the most important pieces of television ever to be made. It is our privilege to share this multi-faceted story of World War Two globally and take a step to ensure that the stories around such a pivotal moment in history are not lost for younger generations.”
World on Fire is a heart-stopping, multi-stranded drama tells the story of World War Two through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict. Set amid the creeping horror of the outbreak of war during its first year, World on Fire follows an ensemble cast of vividly drawn characters as they traverse the ever-shifting lines between loyalty and brutality, and courage and fear, experience love and loss, and forge hopes and dreams.
It will premiere on BBC One later this year.
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-studios-global-entertainment-announces-first-tranche-sales-epic-world-war-two
‘World On Fire’: PBS Acquires BBC Helen Hunt & Sean Bean Drama – TCA
PBS has acquired Helen Hunt-fronted British drama World on Fire. The public broadcaster will air the BBC series, which is produced by Victoria producer Mammoth Screen on its Masterpiece strand.
The announcement was made by Masterpiece Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton at the TCA summer press tour.
https://deadline.com/2019/07/world-on-fire-pbs-acquires-bbc-helen-hunt-sean-bean-drama-tca-1202656515/
World on Fire: Here's Everything We Know About the New World War II-era Period Drama
Helen Hunt and Sean Bean will star in Masterpiece PBS's latest project.
Masterpiece PBS has a serious track record of fan-favorite period dramas ranging from Victoria to Downton Abbey to Grantchester. Their next project? A World War II miniseries that chronicles significant moments in the conflict from five different perspectives.
See a few of the first photos from World on Fire below.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a28542858/world-on-fire-masterpiece-pbs-news/?src=socialflowTW&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWTCO
World on Fire Coming to MASTERPIECE
Los Angeles, CA; July 29, 2019: MASTERPIECE announced today that it will broadcast World on Fire, an adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives.
Take a look at the first images from World on Fire:
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/world-on-fire-coming-to-masterpiece/
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WOW !! This is GREAT NEWS !! So I don't have to wait for the DVD to come out !! I can watch it at HOME !! Thank you Patch !!
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Next Big Thing for @masterpiecepbs: #WorldOnFire, WWII saga covering all six years of the war (one per season), featuring characters from five countries: UK, US, Germany, Poland, France. Sean Bean, Helen Hunt among stars. For 2020. #TCA2019
https://twitter.com/TVGMMattRoush/status/1155931128030588928
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Thank you Patch. I'm really looking forward to watching SEAN in this show !!
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I've made a note to sign up for a PBS Masterpiece streaming video subscription. :thumbsup:
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Release Dates
Sweden 13 December 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt
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#WorldOnFire tells the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effect of World War II on their everyday lives. Coming to BBC One, starring Jonah Hauer-King, Zofia Wichlacz, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville and @HelenHunt.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1163895979063427072
World on Fire (BBC1, early autumn)
Oscar-winner Helen Hunt is set to star alongside Sean Bean, Lesley Manville and rising stars Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown in this seven-part series.
The drama will follow the intertwining fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during the first year of the Second World War as this global conflict upends their lives.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/autumn-set-bonanza-tv-lovers-18973362
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World On Fire: Episode 1 + Q&A
World On Fire: Episode 1 + Q&A at the BFI Southbank
Tue 3rd 6:15pm
http://londoncinema.bluebones.net/film.php?film_id=56509&cinema_id=218
https://londonnet.co.uk/films/worldonfireepisode1qa.html
We bought our tickets for the preview and q&a of "World on Fire" a while ago - and now it has been announced that Sean Bean will be there too! Thanks for that, @BFI! This news has made me very happy!
https://twitter.com/tortoisehearted/status/1166430484882235398
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We’re excited to announce that writer Peter Bowker plus cast members Sean Bean, Zofia Wichłacz, Julia Brown, Jonah Hauer-King will join us for our social preview of World on Fire http://bit.ly/2ZBv9Ay #BFISouthbank
https://twitter.com/BFI/status/1166766903580352513
World on Fire | Official Trailer | BBC One and BBC iPlayer
Love. Freedom. Friendship. Family. Truth. Survival.
What would you fight for? #WorldOnFire, coming this autumn to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1166689385594540033
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1tT7hcH0jN/
Watch the Trailer: World on Fire (PBS)
https://www.willowandthatch.com/world-on-fire-pbs-masterpiece-news/
’World On Fire’: BBC & PBS Unveil Trailer For Helen Hunt & Sean Bean War Drama
https://deadline.com/2019/08/world-on-fire-bbc-pbs-unveil-trailer-for-helen-hunt-sean-bean-drama-1202706033/
BBC Reveal First Look Trailer for ‘World On Fire’ With Sean Bean, Helen Hunt
https://variety.com/2019/tv/global/bbc-first-look-world-on-fire-sean-bean-helen-hunt-1203316592/
Get ready for the ultimate autumn drama. #WorldOnFire stars Sean Bean, @HelenHunt, Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville, @blakeharrison23, @___juliab, Zofia Wichłacz, @BrianJacobSmith, @ParkerSawyers, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Tomasz Kot and Ewan Mitchell.
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https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1166690054095495168
Another trailer
World On Fire, a gripping WWII drama starring Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville and Jonah Hauer-King, is coming to MASTERPIECE in 2020!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B1tTMloneUY/
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We’re excited to announce that writer Peter Bowker plus cast members Sean Bean, Zofia Wichłacz, Julia Brown, Jonah Hauer-King will join us for our social preview of World on Fire http://bit.ly/2ZBv9Ay #BFISouthbank
https://twitter.com/BFI/status/1166766903580352513
Competition time! For your chance to win a pair of tickets to #WorldOnFire’s @BFI London screening (3rd Sept), simply go & follow:
https://www.instagram.com/worldonfiretv/ . Don’t have Instagram? Just RT this status to be entered. Closes 2nd Sept. Tc&Cs apply. Good Luck!
Ts&Cs P1: UK only. 3 winners. No prize or cash alternative. One pair of tickets per winner. Competition closes Mon 2nd Sept 1pm GMT. Winner will be chosen by a Mammoth Screen representative and announced shortly after.
P2: By entering you are agreeing to Mammoth Screen sharing your name if you are a selected winner. Only complete entries will be valid and entered: you must follow
@WorldOnFireTV on Instagram or RT the competition post. Good luck.
https://twitter.com/mammothscreen/status/1167517658817998854
The official page of BBC’s #WorldOnFire |
https://www.instagram.com/worldonfiretv/?hl=en
"No man is ever 'like that'. Until they are."
Get ready for @BBCOne's new autumn drama #WorldOnFire.
https://twitter.com/BBCRadio4/status/1166734362060214274
World on Fire
Launches on BBC One later in September
The big budget series is being made by the same people behind Poldark and Victoria so is sure to be a feast for the eyes.
https://www.freeview.co.uk/news-and-blog/the-top-5-new-dramas-starting-in-autumn-2019.html
World on Fire BBC1, October
Few war dramas can genuinely claim to be epic, but this adaptation seems to justify the title based on its cast alone.
Led by Oscar-winner Helen Hunt and Sean Bean, it tells the intertwined story of ordinary people living through World War Two.
Of course there’s the inevitable love story at its heart, while the sensational special effects bring the horrors of the conflict to life.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4665976/the-best-tv-shows-to-hit-screens-this-autumn-from-the-crown-to-a-confession/
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Release Dates
Germany September 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt
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In #London? Why not catch a preview TONIGHT @BFI as well as a Q&A with Writer Peter Bowker plus cast members Sean Bean, Zofia Wichłacz, Julia Brown & Jonah Hauer-King.
Tickets: http://bit.ly/WOF-BFI
https://twitter.com/FilmLiverpool/status/1168846411494055936
Tonight, Peter Bowker (writer of The A Word) and Sean Bean will be attending a preview of World on Fire, a major new BBC drama set in 1939. Join them at #BFISouthbank https://theb.fi/30Rsy2U
https://twitter.com/BFI/status/1168912290365751306
"World On Fire" BFI Premiere
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Sean Bean, playing a new heroic character, plus Zofia Wichlacz and Julia Brown ( @___juliab )at first screening of World on Fire @BFI @mammothscreen
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Cardellino/status/1168980817437237249
Terrific evening at the premiere of @bbcone’s stunning new drama World on Fire. Loved episode one and can’t wait to watch the rest of it. Brilliant cast too, including @jonahhauerking, Lesley Manville, Helen Hunt, @juliabrown, @zofiawichlacz and @sean_bean_official.
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Watched a compelling first episode of #WorldOnFire set at the outbreak of #WW2 followed by a Q&A with the cast. Intriguing how the multi nation characters link up across a soon to be war torn Europe. Great cast includes #SeanBean and #LesleyManville @mammothscreen @BBCOne
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https://twitter.com/LadyOfAManor/status/1169004327035445250
Just seen ep 1 of @WorldOnFireTV and it is utterly brilliant. So so happy. A truly international cast that all bring the best of their magic to the screen. On @BBCOne this autumn. @sethmason and I could not be prouder of this bunch. #greattelly
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https://twitter.com/verbalictor/status/1169004500037840897
Preview of @mammothscreen & @BBCOne's #WorldOnFire at #BFISouthbank tonight, 80 years to the day since start of WWII. Ambitious. Authentic. Polish scenes often unbearably tense. Julia Brown (@___juliab) & #GameofThrones' Sean Bean were highlights for me. Q&A with @RhiannaDhillon.
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https://twitter.com/dazzaross/status/1169026015722725377
#WorldonFire was really very good! Gorgeous writing from Peter Bowker. Characters were engaging and you felt for their circumstances. Lovely Q&A after! Thank you @mammothscreen! I’ll be tuning into second episode!
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https://twitter.com/lizzie_kristina/status/1168967037336641536
One does not simply interview Sean Bean.
Unless you’re me. Today. That’s me. Interviewing Sean Bean.
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https://twitter.com/rebekahellerby/status/1168992306395078658
At BFI screening of @pbowker7’s stunning WWII drama #WorldOnFire, which offers fresh view on a conflict we think we know. Coming soon to BBC1. Beautiful storytelling, characters to care about linking Manchester, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris... & pacifist Sean Bean will break our hearts.
https://twitter.com/adey70/status/1168967874863648768
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Keep an eye out for updates for @mammothscreen's gripping new #WW2 drama #WorldOnFire this autumn, folks. Filmed across the North West in #Manchester & #Liverpool. It's gonna be epic 🎬
https://twitter.com/Production_CE/status/1169159842747027459
We honour the lives lived and lives lost during World War II.
Love. Freedom. Family. What would you fight for? #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1169174731364478976
TVNOW shows the epic BBC drama series "World on Fire" with Helen Hunt and Sean Bean in a German premiere on 29 September
TVNOW will present the starred drama series with Helen Hunt and Sean Bean starting on September 29, 2019, just a few days after the BBC One world premiere. Every week, a new episode of the seven-part fiction series will be on TVNOW in a German premiere. The first season of "World on Fire" includes the first year of World War II, beginning with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the events of fall 1940.
https://www.presseportal.de/pm/133584/4366068
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BBC drama World on Fire to rely upon subtitles
From The Great Escape to ’Allo ’Allo, actors playing foreigners in wartime productions have long delivered their lines in hammy accents.
The “Ve haf vays off making you talk” days could be over, however, after the writer of a new BBC war series insisted that all characters speak in their own language. World on Fire, which begins on BBC One this autumn, is thought to be the first mainstream British drama in recent years to heavily rely on subtitles.
The series, starring Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville, tells the story of the first year of the Second World War through the fates of ordinary people. The plot follows a British translator, played by Jonah Hauer-King, who falls in love with a Polish waitress…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-drama-world-on-fire-to-rely-upon-subtitles-hj5f7ld3w
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Release Dates
UK 29 September 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001092/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt
The Crown to His Dark Materials, the best TV dramas this autumn
World on Fire
BBC One, Sept
Move over The Winds of War, Peter Bowker’s seven-part Second World War opus is full of everyday sacrifice and romance, jeopardy and tragedy, as it relates the intertwining fates of ordinary people during the first year of the war. Characters include a young English translator in Poland, a female American war correspondent and a worried family in Berlin. The backdrop? The siege of Warsaw, Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the Battle of Britain. So a full-blown sweeping epic. Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville are recognisable faces among a cast of rising stars.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-crown-to-his-dark-materials-the-best-tv-dramas-this-autumn-ljbdf3fd6
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Speaking of previews, forgot to mention I saw the first ep of the new TV series #WorldonFire at the #BFI last week and it’s fantastic. A multi-character WWII drama with human stories at its heart. Looking forward to seeing the rest of it
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World on Fire: From Helen Hunt and Sean Bean to Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown - Meet the cast and characters of BBC One’s World War II drama
With the show set across Europe and the United States, the cast of BBC One’s epic new World War II drama World on Fire is truly international.
Big names including Helen Hunt, Lesley Manville and Sean Bean appear alongside British stars Blake Harrison, Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown, and award-winning Polish actors including Zofia Wichłacz.
Created by multi-award winning writer Peter Bowker (The A Word, Eric and Ernie), World on Fire is an emotionally gripping drama that tells the story of World War II through the lives of ordinary people caught up in the conflict.
Ahead of the show's release on BBC One in autumn 2019, we reveal everything we know so far about the cast and characters of World on Fire.
BT TV customers can watch World on Fire when it starts on BBC One this autumn. Never miss an episode with the BBC iPlayer app - under Players & Apps on BT TV.
Sean Bean as Douglas Bennett
Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean is also part of the cast. He plays Mancunian Douglas Bennett, who from the trailer we know is the father of Lois Bennett (played by Julia Brown).
Of joining the cast, Bean said: “I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama. Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.”
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Get obsessed with BBC drama this autumn and winter.
✨ His Dark Materials
✨ Peaky Blinders
✨ The Capture
✨ Noughts + Crosses
✨ World on Fire
✨ Dublin Murders
✨ The Trial of Christine Keeler
✨ Gold Digger
✨ A Christmas Carol
✨ Giri/Haji
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BBC's Blackshirt blooper: Fascist uniform mistake in new drama World On Fire 'plays fast and loose' with history
A major BBC drama about the Second World War will depict British Fascists wearing their notorious Blackshirt uniforms almost three years after the outfits were banned by law.
World On Fire, starring Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville, opens with Oswald Mosley addressing a Fascist rally in Manchester in March 1939.
Mosley, played by Jonathan McGuiness, and his extremist cronies can be clearly seen wearing the uniform as his supporters repeatedly shout ‘Blackshirts!’ over and over again while delivering Nazi salutes.
But historians say the depiction is inaccurate because the wearing of political uniforms, including the Blackshirt outfit, had been banned years earlier by the Public Order Act 1936.
The law was introduced to curtail the activities of Mosley and the British Union of Fascists following the so-called Battle of Cable Street which took place on October 4, 1936.
Second World War historian Guy Walters said it sounded like the BBC was playing ‘fast and loose’ with the facts when it came to the wearing of the uniforms, even though ‘Blackshirt’ continued to be used as a term of abuse after the introduction of the Act.
The BBC has high hopes for the seven-part drama, written by acclaimed dramatist Peter Bowker, which follows the fortunes of families in four different countries – Britain, Poland, France and Germany – during the first year of the conflict.
A spokesman for the show said: ‘We find in research that those wearing the Blackshirt uniform at such a rally would have had the option to cover them with overcoats and jackets once they left the building.
‘They were then at a lower risk of being reported/arrested.’
World On Fire starts on BBC One later this month.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464463/Fascist-uniform-mistake-new-drama-World-Fire-plays-fast-loose-history.html
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Sean Bean reveals which of his character deaths he thinks is the best ever
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Decapitated by his own sword in Game of Thrones, splattered on a satellite in GoldenEye and impaled by an anchor during Patriot Games: Sean Bean doesn’t exactly have the best on-screen health and safety record.
Through his four decades of fatalities in TV and film, the Broken actor has built up a reputation for playing killable characters, portraying men that have been shot, stabbed and, in 1990’s The Field, trampled off a cliff by a herd of rampaging cows.
But which on his many on-screen deaths is his best? You’ve probably got a personal favourite, but now the actor himself has revealed to RadioTimes.com which of his deaths he thinks is definitively the best. And turns out there’s one on-screen fatality that rules them all: that of Boromir from Lord of Rings.
“I thought his death was very heroic and triumphant and poignant. It had pathos. And the [frame rate] slowed down and it had great music playing really loud. And it was great to try and fight back – he went on forever,” Bean told us, while miming Boromir’s dying sword strokes. “I was very happy with that! Better than a quick death!”
About World On Fire
It’s worth noting that this is obviously only Bean’s favourite death so far – the actor could be killed off even more spectacularly in the coming years. But it’s not likely. As Bean admitted, he’s well aware of the trope and has actually asked writers of his recent projects whether his character dies before signing on (miming turning through scripts to check if they contain a death, he said “I just start at the end!”)
In fact, that’s exactly what Bean did before joining the cast of his new seven-part series, World On Fire. A BBC1 drama delving into the first year of the Second World War, the show will see Bean take the role of Douglas Bennett, a widowed veteran of the First World War and an ardent pacifist by 1939, World on Fire’s start point.
“He’s a firm believer that war isn’t a solution to the world’s problems. That’s basically because he’s been coloured by his past experiences, horrors and bloodshed in the trenches,” explains Bean. “He’s ostracised and abused in his own community for it.”
However, while Bean says he can understand his character’s viewpoint, he doesn’t necessarily agree with Douglas about the war. “Douglas doesn’t know about the horror and the [Nazi] brutality… he’s thinking of the First World War and how futile that was. You can’t blame him for that. It was one of the few wars that was a justifiable war…there’s not been many since, but that was a good ‘un.”
In other words, don’t expect a Boromir-style fight to the death from him in World on Fire. Unless the show rectifies history just to accommodate an obligatory Sean Bean death, he might, just might, get out of this one alive.
World on Fire is on BBC1 this Autumn
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-09-17/sean-bean-best-death/
World on Fire: From filming locations to full cast list, release date and trailer - Everything you need to know about BBC One’s epic World War II drama
Actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, Broken) agreed: “It’s not so much a war story as a montage of how it affected ordinary people in so many different countries.
“It’s not a retelling of history, it’s a reflection of the effects of the brutality of war, and also the courage, friendship, and aspirations, of all these people from different countries, fighting against a common enemy.”
And like Manville, Sean Bean was also ‘pretty much always’ the actor that Bowker had in mind for the role.
Of casting Bean in the role of the troubled former soldier Douglas Bennett, Bowker said: “I knew I wanted to write somebody who had PTSD, or shell shock as it was known at the time.
“I was interested in a character who you’re asking big questions of. I wanted somebody who we felt had immense power, and partly because Sean has that, and because of seeing him in Broken… his main concern when I rang him was that he didn’t die.”
At the launch of the show, creator Peter Bowker confirmed that there are plans to do more seasons of World on Fire.
He explained: “The plan is to do a series for each year of the war. We’ve mapped out six seasons, for six years of the year, and what happens with these characters. Although there may be some fatalities with it being a war, but I’m not at liberty to say [who].”
Executive producer Helen Zielger added: “[By continuing with one series for one year of the war], we’re trying to connect those events in history, and really see the cause and effect of them, rather than thinking of these separate, huge moments. It tells the story of what it was like to live at the time.”
https://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-from-bt/world-on-fire-bbc-one-release-date-true-story-filming-locations-trailer-cast-11364391065388
World on Fire—a war drama about people, not patriotism
The Second World War figures large in popular culture. But rarely do we see a war story that focuses on ordinary people rather than the event as a whole.
World on Fire—the BBC’s offering for the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of war—aims to do just that.
This series tells the story of the first year of the war—from the Nazi invasion of Poland to the Battle of Britain. It features an all star cast.
Oscar winner Helen Hunt plays a US war correspondent desperately trying to spread the news of Poland’s invasion, while Sean Bean plays an anti-war shell-shocked veteran.
The first episode opens with two young activists disrupting an Oswald Mosley fascist rally before being thrown in jail by police.
In Poland, we see soldiers defending Danzig in scenes that don’t shy away from depicting the horror that took place.
In Warsaw a young waiter—Kasha—has to choose between escaping Poland or sending her little brother to safety.
World on Fire promises to be an unflinching look at what the war was like for the people who fought it, and those caught in the crossfire. The variety of actors from different backgrounds makes it all the more authentic and interesting.
It doesn’t suffer from the pitfalls of a heroic British narrative. Instead it allows us to think about how Britain benefits from the conflicts it has a hand in.
World on Fire focuses on real human stories—and does it in a way that avoids a gung-ho viewpoint well.
When one character insists that this war is different Bean replies, “All wars are different, until they aren’t.”
On BBC1 from 29 September and on BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer
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Meet the cast of World on Fire
Sean Bean plays Douglas Bennett
“Douglas is just an ordinary man except the fact that he serves as a soldier in the First World War,” Bean told RadioTimes.com. “He was shell-shocked – the victim of a mustard gas attack.
He added: “He’s a pacifist and conscientious objector, he’s very clear about that and he takes it upon himself to become an activist. He’s ostracised in his own community for his pacifism but those are the lengths he’s prepared to go to.”
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-09-17/world-on-fire-cast-bbc-one/
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World On Fire Ep 1/7 Sunday 29 September 9.00pm-10.00pm BBC ONE
Summer 1939. Translator Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) is working at the British Embassy in Warsaw, falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia (Zofia Wichłacz). When German tanks roll into Poland and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia are faced with terrible choices.
With her life in grave danger, the only way for Kasia to be safe is to escape. Can Harry help her - and if he does, how will he ever explain himself to factory worker and singer Lois Bennett (Julia Brown), the girl he left behind in Manchester?
As the Nazi threat spreads across Europe, Kasia must choose between love and fighting for her country, Harry must find his place in the world, and Lois seizes new opportunities the war throws up. The conflict overturns everything for Harry's snobbish mother Robina (Lesley Manville) and for Douglas (Sean Bean), Lois' pacifist father, and her firecracker younger brother Tom (Ewan Mitchell), who joins the navy and finds himself under fire in one of the first major battles of the war.
In Berlin, outspoken American journalist Nancy (Helen Hunt) risks her life trying to help her neighbours the Rosslers from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime, while in Paris Nancy's nephew, medic Webster (Brian J. Smith) refuses to leave the city and the man he loves.
This is a series that takes us across the first year of the war, from ordinary life in Manchester to the beaches of Dunkirk, getting right under the skin and into the hearts and minds of those living their lives during this extraordinary time as they grapple with the unthinkable: a world in flames.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2019/40/world-on-fire
Love. Freedom. Friendship. What would you fight for?
#WorldOnFire starts Sunday 29th September at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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Exclusive preview screening of new BBC drama World on Fire to take place in Manchester
The new World War II drama was partly filmed in Manchester - and local audiences can see it first at a special screening with the stars
An exclusive preview screening of BBC One’s new landmark World War II drama World on Fire will be held in Manchester next week.
The new series, by award-winning Manchester writer Peter Bowker (The A Word, Marvellous), follows the first year of World War II through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
The series was partly filmed in Manchester. And now local people are being given the chance to see the first episode at Manchester Cathedral before it airs on BBC One.
Two Manchester families are at the heart of the series. Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) plays Douglas Bennett, father of daughter Lois, a factory-worker, and son Tom who is always in trouble with the law – until he joins the Navy at the outbreak of the war.
When Lois, a talented singer, joins ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), pacifist Doug finds himself with both children in uniform.
Lesley Manville plays Robina, the smart mother of Harry, a high-flying translator played by Manchester actor Jonah Hauer-King. When Harry is posted to Warsaw, Robina is delighted to get him away from girlfriend Lois… until bombs start falling in Warsaw and Harry find himself under fire but torn between Lois at home and Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz), a young Polish waitress.
With Kasia’s life in grave danger, the only way to get her to safety may be to marry her and bring her home to Manchester.
As well as Sean Bean and Lesley Manville, the stellar cast includes Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners) and Yrsa Daley-Ward (White Colour Black), plus rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom).
Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Blake Harrison and Yrsa Daley-Ward will be in attendance at the Manchester Cathedral preview and, along with writer Peter Bowker, will take part in a Q&A hosted by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty after the screening.
“World on Fire tells the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know,” says writer Peter Bowker.
“These are the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world. Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.”
The exclusive preview screening of World on Fire takes place on Manchester Cathedral on Wednesday 25th September at 6.45pm.
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Sean Bean reveals he's started turning down roles in which his characters die after being killed onscreen a staggering 21 times
Sean Bean has revealed that he's so exasperated with his characters dying onscreen, he's now turning down roles which would see him meeting a grisly end.
The 60-year-old actor's character Ned Stark was brutally beheaded in the first season of hit fantasy drama Game Of Thrones, while Boromir perished under a shower of arrows in Lord Of The Rings — marking just two of his 21 screen deaths.
And Sean has now decided that he'd like for his next character to make it out of a TV show or movie alive, telling The Sun: 'I’ve turned down stuff. I’ve said, "They know my character’s going to die because I’m in it!"
'I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable. I did do one job and they said, "We’re going to kill you," and I was like, "Oh no!" and then they said, "Well, can we injure you badly?" and I was like, "OK, so long as I stay alive this time."
He added of his many screen roles: 'I’ve played a lot of baddies, they were great but they weren’t very fulfilling — and I always died.'
Fans of the star need not be concerned when they sit down to watch his upcoming BBC World War II drama World On Fire, as his character Douglas Bennett survives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7479843/Sean-Bean-turning-roles-characters-die-killed-onscreen-21-times.html
Sean Bean on becoming a war heroturned conscientious objector in BBC drama
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The actor, 60, leads a glittering cast including Lesley Manville, Helen Hunt and Blake Harrison in the BBC’s new Sunday night wartime epic, World On Fire. Sean plays Douglas Bennett whose beautiful factory worker and jazz singer daughter Lois (Julia Brown) joins the Entertainments National Service Association and finds herself embroiled in a messy love triangle with a translator-turned-spy. Douglas has survived the horror of the First World War, but carries the scars of a mustard gas attack and battles PTSD, known then as shell shock.
After so many roles as a swashbuckling hero, Sean enjoyed the change of pace.
But he had one major caveat before he would sign up to do the show – he wanted writer Peter Bowker to guarantee his character would not die in series one.
During his long career, Sean has filmed some fantastic death scenes.
In GoldenEye he was splattered on a satellite dish, he was shot through the neck with a grappling hook in The Island, peppered with arrows in The Lord Of The Rings, and decapitated by his own sword in Game Of Thrones. Even in The Field he was trampled off a cliff by a herd of rampaging cows.
Sean laughs: “I had to check. I just said, what’s his story? Is he still around at the end? It is a bit of a joke but all those deaths were not in vain! They all meant something!
“But I did fall into that a little bit because the parts were interesting… they were all meaty, juicy roles and everybody likes to play a baddie and a villain, but I realised I was dying in everything and I just wanted to break out and survive!”
He continues: “I quite like that. Douglas is a strong man and he came back from war in pieces.
“He’s fractured, disturbed, damaged and it was interesting to portray a man who suffered so much psychological damage and physically too.”
Playing such a disturbed character did not come easily and Sean had to dredge up his own devastating experiences for the saddest scenes.
He says: “I try to find things in my life that were traumatic experiences. Without doing that you can’t really imagine how it must feel. It’s a personal pride thing, you have to dredge that up and it’s not always a pleasant experience
but it’s necessary to portray someone like Douglas truthfully.”
Sean based Douglas on his grandfather Harold who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and came home a pacifist communist. Sean reveals: “My character is a conscientious objector and he doesn’t feel it’s a justifiable war in any sense. He thinks there should be diplomacy and dialogue, he doesn’t have the benefit of hindsight, he doesn’t know what is to come but he does know what happened to his life after the First World War. Why did they die in their hundreds and thousands? What were they fighting for? They were cannon fodder. Young men died or were killed and many came back broken and it was horrific and unnecessary. Douglas remembers men having their brains blown out and bloodshed. He’s suffering and he’s suffering greatly.”
Sean remembers his own grandfather Harold going through similar torment.
He continues: “My grandad was like that. He was a pacifist after his experiences in the war. My grandfather served in the Royal Navy and was sent up to Murmansk in north Russia near the Arctic for many years.
“I’ve got pictures of him and photographs and it affected him and he came back a shaken man. He got his mojo back in the years after but you could see it had an impact. It’s a long legacy.” The Second World War might have ended 15 years before Sean was born but it still loomed large in his childhood. He explained: “My mum and dad were kids up in Sheffield and they lived very close to the steel works. The steel industry was a target on occasions and they tell stories about gas masks and sirens and having to run and rationing.
“As kids we used to play in bomb craters, old buildings with walls missing. They’d be standing but one side would be missing and you could see all the different wallpapers in different houses in the rubble.”
Sean also drew on his experience of meeting real serving soldiers in the past during his time filming 19th century Peninsular War drama Sharpe in the Nineties.
He said: “When we did Sharpe there was a scene when there was an award for damaged soldiers in the Peninsular War. They had missing limbs and legs and they were men who had fought in the Falklands war and they were gracious enough to be involved in our series.
“Talking to them it wasn’t so much the physical side, as the mental side that affected them after the Falkland Islands. I think there have now been more who committed suicide than actually killed in battle themselves.”
World On Fire appealed to Sean partly because of its huge scale and great cast – but most importantly he was drawn by the quality of The A Word writer Peter Bowker’s storytelling.
Sean says: “It’s the Second World War which I think is always interesting and the fact that Peter is involved, and the BBC – but especially the writing. I spoke to Peter on a few occasions and he filled me in on how this wasn’t really a retelling of the war and the machines, the artillery, the infantry.
“It was a personal story of people coming together in the most extraordinary of circumstances, a very intimate portrayal of men and women whose lives changed dramatically – not just a few lives, everyone in the world. That is quite an extraordinary occurrence. This has left a big impression on me because I remember the characters and how difficult it was for people.”
One of the most compelling relationships in the show is between Sean’s character Douglas and Lesley’s character Robina Chase, whose son Harry is dating Douglas’s daughter. In fact, the pair have such chemistry that writer Peter penned extra scenes for them, realising they were stealing the show.
Sean smiles: “I hadn’t worked with Lesley before but I’d always been a big fan of hers. I watched her in Grown Ups with Mike Leigh many years ago which was fantastic and in every scene she always gives a good account of herself.
“She’s a brilliant actress and it’s been really very nice to work with Lesley. It’s an interesting throwing together of two characters who are basically very, very different.
“Douglas is a working-class, Left-wing pacifist, Robina is a gentrified lady of the manor who is very stuck in her ways and politics and has Right-wing views. But as the war unfolds, we soften our stances because we have to. At first we don’t get on, but my daughter is going out with her son and, in that funny way, they do have something in common because they’re so forthright in their beliefs. You don’t find many people like that. By the end they have quite a lot in common.”
As well as World On Fire, Sean has just wrapped several other projects. So what’s next? He groans: “I’m having a bit of time off! I’ve been working non-stop back to back for a few years so I’m enjoying my garden!”
https://newslanes.com/2019/09/18/sean-bean-on-becoming-a-war-hero-turned-conscientious-objector-in-bbc-drama/
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1179714/sean-bean-film-bbc-world-on-fire
Sean Bean demanded that he didn’t die in WWII drama World On Fire
Sean Bean made sure that his character survived before joining World Of Fire. The actor is known for a weird quirk in his roles where the character he is playing ends up biting the dust. Ned Stark in Game Of Thrones, Boromir in Lord Of The Rings, Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye and Ulric in Black Death are just some of the ways Sean has bitten the dust on screen. It’s something the 60-year-old is well aware of, so before deciding to play Douglas Bennett he only had one question for the show’s creator Peter Bowker. He told press at the show’s launch: ‘It was a telephone conversation and I said, “I don’t die in this one, do I?” and he said, “No, no you’ll be fine. You’re alright.”‘ So now he knows Douglas makes it out alright (this series anyway!), he’s well up for coming back for more episodes if they get the green light.
Sean said: ‘It’s something that’s just unfolding at the moment and all doors are left open.
There’s a lot more story to tell. I’m certainly interested because I want to know what happens to me children. There’s a lot of good potential to come.’ Bowker backed up the star’s comments, revealing: ‘I’d seen him in Broken and I thought, I bet we can get Sean to do this role, because you can see where actors are moving.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/19/sean-bean-demanded-that-he-didnt-die-in-wwii-drama-world-on-fire-10767425/
World On Fire stars Blake Harrison and Parker Sawyers are avoiding social media reaction to their new drama. The actors are going to try and avoid reading the hashtag when World On Fire airs later this month. Harrison, likely speaking from experience when fans reacted badly to the Inbetweeners 10th anniversary event Fwends Reunited, said negative feedback online can take you to ‘bad mental places’. Speaking to press at the World On Fire launch, he said: ‘ think this will be one of those things that trends or something like that. It’s a terrible idea to click on it and just swipe through.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/19/world-on-fire-cast-blake-harrison-and-parker-sawyers-on-social-medias-dark-side-it-takes-you-to-bad-mental-places-10766736/
#WorldOnFire comes to @BBCOne on 29th September at 9pm. What would you fight for
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Will #SeanBean finally survive a series without being killed off? The #GameOfThrone stars appears in @BBCOne's blockbusting new Sunday night drama #worldonfire and it sounds like a corker, real acting departure too. Must-read interview by @Jen_Pharo in @Daily_Express today.
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Sean Bean blasts Tony Blair ahead of starring in epic new war drama on BBC1
The actor is critical of the former Prime Minister's role in the Middle East
When talking about his character in his epic new drama about the Second World War, Sean Bean praises the people who fought that battle – but the veteran actor is anti the more recent conflict in the Middle East .
‘We all got behind our countries to fight Hitler ,’ he says.
‘But there haven’t been many wars that have been worth fighting for, including the Middle East.
‘It was all based on lies. Tony Blair , in my opinion, should be held to account.’
But whatever your own view, World on Fire is a powerful portrayal of the human cost of conflict.
To describe this sweeping new drama as ‘epic’ is something of an understatement.
World on Fire is set in the Second World War , but the cinematic scale of the production belies the intimacy of the very human stories about people across Europe – from Manchester to Warsaw, Paris to Berlin.
These are the intimate, interlinked tales of their everyday lives, loves and losses.
And Sean is more than impressed with the result.
‘It’s not focussed on history and the leaders, the likes of Mussolini , Hitler and Churchill ,’ he explains.
‘It’s more the effects on normal people who are caught up in the war.
'How the writer, Peter Bowker, has done that is brilliant.’
Sean plays Douglas, a Manchester bus conductor.
He’s a pacifist and conscientious objector, having suffered terrible shellshock in the First World War .
‘He’s one of those strong men who went off to war and came back mentally disturbed because of what they witnessed – like their mate next to them getting their head blasted off,’ says Sean.
‘Of course that would traumatise you. So Douglas’s attitude is, “Don’t let’s do this again” because there will be more horror and brutality to come.
‘My Grandad served in the Navy in the Second World War and was up in Murmansk at the top of Russia, in Arctic conditions.
Apparently when he came back he was shaky and on edge, drinking a lot.
'It took him time to find his confidence again.’
Douglas is a widower with two children – ne’er do well Tom and gutsy Lois, who is a factory worker with singing aspirations.
It’s through Lois and her boyfriend Harry that the drama opens up across Europe, as he goes to Warsaw as a dipl
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World on Fire, the new Second World War TV drama that doesn’t take sides
Screenwriter Peter Bowker tells Andrew Billen why the drama looks at the war through British, German, French, Polish and American eyes
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All together now. “I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received . . .” Do nine out of ten British dramas about the Second World War feature a family listening to Neville Chamberlain’s announcement of war on September 3, 1939 — or is it rather more than that?
I have to tell you now, there is just such a scene in World on Fire, the Sunday-night wartime drama beginning this month on BBC One. The difference is that in this show there is a heated family discussion about boyfriends raging in the kitchen at the same time.
“That was absolutely deliberate,” says Peter Bowker, the writer of Eric and Ernie, Marvellous, The A Word and this seven-parter, designed eventually…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/world-on-fire-the-new-second-world-war-tv-drama-that-doesnt-take-sides-fhwqfbssr
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World on Fire on Australian TV
Airdate: World on Fire
Big budget drama World on Fire is coming to BBC First in October.
Sunday, October 13 at 8.30pm on BBC First.
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Game of Thrones' Sean Bean has turned down other roles where his character died
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Sean is back on telly playing an army veteran with PTSD in the BBC's World on Fire where his character presumably lives – since he told Digital Spy and others that he's "turned stuff down" where he'd be killed off.
"I found it rather more interesting to play someone who is fractured and slightly broken by his experiences and trying to put on a front for his children and try and hold the family together," Bean explained.
"He's playing a character upon a character with many underlying conflicting moods and feelings about how he should be as a father and how he views the world. He's a quieter man.
"He's broken and he's just trying to hold on. It's very poignant and very fulfilling to play someone that's not a hero, big and strong, but a man who's hanging on and is afraid. Playing someone who's not necessarily a hero or a villain, but someone who has been affected by war, which is a story in itself.
"And finding out the physical and psychological damage that caused and how that manifests itself in his body language and habits."
This experience of finding deeper layers in World on Fire is something Bean admits he missed with leaving Game of Thrones after just one season.
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The hidden casualties of war: Sean Bean's epic new drama World On Fire follows the first year of the Second World War through the intertwining loves, losses, sacrifices and traumas of ordinary people
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The Nazi invasion of Poland, the fall of Paris, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain – all cataclysmic events at the start of the Second World War that affected millions of people and would shape the next five brutal years of bloodshed.
Now BBC1's explosive new series World On Fire – the most ambitious war drama ever made for TV, chronicling that tumultuous first year of the conflict – covers them all, and more, on the grandest of scales.
Writer and creator Peter Bowker's seven-part series not only boasts some of the most stunning set-piece scenes ever attempted on the small screen, it features more than 100 speaking parts, involves thousands of extras for scenes filmed in four countries and required a staggering 80 make-up artists to convey the horror of that year.
'It's one of the biggest television projects ever made anywhere in the world,' says series producer Chris Clough.
'It's so global that when I first read the scripts I thought it was madness.'
The Dunkirk evacuation of 1940, for example, when more than 330,000 Allied troops escaped from France, required 600 cast and crew plus dozens of period trucks, tractors, ambulances and cars.
Acres of sand on the beach at Lytham St Annes in Lancashire were covered in discarded boots, helmets, ration tins, boxes of ammunition, mortar bombs and tattered uniforms
At the centre of the choreographed chaos was a full-sized replica of an RAF Spitfire, partly buried and with its propeller bent and twisted.
But World On Fire also gives a very personal take on the war, with the tale unfolding through the intertwining fates of a few ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the US.
There's the Rossler family in Germany who risk losing both of their children, their epileptic daughter Hilda to Nazi ethnic cleansing and their soldier son Klaus to an Allied bullet.
In Poland there's the Tomaszeskis, waitress Kasia and her brother Grzegorz, who goes with his father to defend the town of Danzig as the Germans approach.
American journalist Nancy Campbell is in Berlin, trying to broadcast stories the Nazis want to suppress, while at the American Hospital in Paris her nephew Webster, a surgeon, and French nurse Henriette are hatching a plan to smuggle patients out as the city falls.
But the action starts in England in March 1939, when Harry Chase (Howards End's Jonah Hauer-King) and his girlfriend Lois (Shetland's Julia Brown) attend a fascist rally in Manchester, which they disrupt by singing, 'Bye-bye blackshirts!' at full volume.
A fight ensues and they both end up in the police station, though there are far bigger battles to come.
The action moves on to August 1939, with Harry installed as a translator in Warsaw. 'Harry goes from working at the British Embassy in Warsaw just before the Nazi invasion of Poland, to a soldier fighting the Germans as they advance across Europe,' says Jonah.
'He also has a complicated private life. He has his first love Lois back in Manchester, but he's also smitten with Kasia, a waitress he meets in Warsaw.'
There's another woman in Harry's life too, his mother Robina, played by Oscar-nominated Mum star Lesley Manville.
'There's something quite frozen about her at the beginning of the series,' says Lesley. 'She's emotionally repressed.' Gradually, however, she changes.
'She melts a bit and comes to a level of understanding about herself and how she's conducted her life.'
That's partly due to the arrival from Warsaw of Jan, Kasia's younger brother. 'Kasia smuggles Jan aboard a train out of Poland, and Robina looks after the boy when he arrives in England,' explains Lesley.
'Initially she's aghast – why would her son Harry think she could look after a strange child who doesn't speak her language? But Jan becomes a sort of challenge for her, and she goes on a journey of discovery in which she learns how to be a mother.
Robina's transformation is helped by her friendship with Douglas Bennett (played by Sean Bean), Lois's father. A bus conductor, Douglas was the victim of a mustard gas attack in the trenches of the First World War.
As a result, he's become a conscientious objector. 'He suffers from shell shock and is appalled by Britain going to war again,' explains Sean.
'He doesn't believe in conflict, he thinks there should be negotiation.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7473459/Sean-Beans-epic-new-drama-World-Fire-follows-year-Second-World-War.html
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Thank you Patch for sharing all this info on SEAN'S NEW TV SHOW. It sounds REALLY INTERESTING, and it should be a GREAT ROLE for SEAN !!! He's
always AMAZING at playing CONFLICTED CHARACTERS !!!
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Dan Jones Scoring BBC’s ‘World on Fire’
Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Empire, Any Human Heart, Lady Macbeth, The Miniaturist) has composed the original music for the new BBC One drama World on Fire.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/09/23/dan-jones-scoring-bbcs-world-on-fire/
Peter Bowker on World on Fire, The Emmys, Amina Atiq, New poetry releases
https://player.fm/series/front-row-1301220/peter-bowker-on-world-on-fire-the-emmys-amina-atiq-new-poetry-releases
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Sean Bean plays a traumatised war veteran in major new BBC drama World on Fire - we talk to the Sheffield-born star
Sean Bean has an unlucky track record when it comes to the fate of his characters on screen. From Ned Stark in Game Of Thrones to Boromir in Lord Of The Rings and Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, the Sheffield-born actor is famed for roles which end in an untimely death.
So, it’s understandable that for his latest show, World On Fire, he was keen to check with the writer – Bafta-winning Peter Bowker – that he would survive the first series.
“I think I did have a telephone conversation; ‘I don’t die, do I?’,” the 60-year-old recalls with a light chuckle.
“And they said, ‘No, no, no, you’re all right!’”
In the seven-part BBC One war drama, Bean plays Born in the Handsworth area of Sheffield, few actors have stayed as true to their roots as he has and his distinctive accent has starred in some of the most popular movies and television shows of the last 25 years.
Bean joined his father’s firm as a welder before starting a drama course, getting a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1981 from where he graduated two years later. The ardent Sheffield United fan rose to prominence with parts such as Mellors in the 1993 TV mini-series Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the eponymous hero Richard Sharpe in the TV adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling books set during the Napoleonic Wars – with the latter show making him a household name.
He says his latest role in the seven-part BBC One war drama as working-class man Douglas Bennett is unlike any character he’s played in the past. Now a bus conductor living in Manchester with his two grown-up kids, Douglas witnessed a lot of horror and bloodshed during the First World War. As a result, when the Second World War begins, he is “a conscientious objector, a pacifist”.
He is also, Bean suggests, “a man who was suffering really psychologically from the past, trying to keep a hold on his life”.
“These flashbacks come upon him, these memories, these horrible nightmares that he just can’t get out of his head, and he’s trying to deal with it himself, on his own really, as many men did after the First World War,” he elaborates.
They didn’t get help from hospitals or societies or the government; they were very much seen as weaklings or men who were shirking or trying to dodge things. But they were actually men who were so shocked and so damaged that they weren’t pretending.”
His voice soft and quiet, the gentle star adds: “Today it would be mental illness; it’s well documented and it’s addressed. But then, they just thought you were weak, you weren’t strong, you weren’t a man. He is a man, and he was a strong man, until he went through this and he’s kind of broken.”
The emotive series, which was partly filmed in Yorkshire at the Braime Pressings factory in Leeds, looks at
how the first year of the war affected several different ordinary people in various countries – Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States.
Other intertwining stories we follow include that of Douglas’ children, Lois (played by Julia Brown) and Tom (Ewan Mitchell).
“He was a loving father, loving husband,” notes Bean, who married his fifth wife in 2017, and has three children from his previous marriages.
“The war threw that everywhere; his wife died soon after and he was kind of living it with it on his own. He wasn’t getting any help and he’s going through these emotions, trying to get these horrific experiences.
“He has to live with them for the rest of his life.
What research did he do for the part?
“Well, I read up about it and I watched documentaries. But I suppose I’ve always had an interest in it, the First and Second World War.
“I’ve played a lot of soldiers over the years and I’ve talked to a lot of people involved especially in the Falklands.
“In the series Sharpe, I remember we had men from the Falklands who had lost legs and we used them for a scene we shot in the hospital in Greenwich, in the Peninsular War.
“That was over a period of time, and we were chatting.
“There were experiences that had been told to me by those guys and so it was a matter of just dredging those stories back up again, a bit of talking to the directors and writers and a bit of research.
“It’s a very personal thing, because it’s how you portray it and how you try to show the damage that has been done.
“So it’s a matter of choice of how far you go and how your body reacts and how your body follows your brain to demonstrate in your acting.”
Bean, whose other recent TV roles include Broken, Medici and Curfew, admits the filming process for World On Fire was particularly intense.
“It wasn’t where you went to work and said, ‘Hi’ with other characters,” he says, imitating a cheerful voice. “It was a man who was kind of trapped in his house, in his kitchen with his family, and he’s claustrophobic and it was intense, and he was putting on this front. He was trying to be all right for his kids – he was really falling apart inside.
“That was very interesting to play. Not necessarily enjoyable, but fascinating to explore.”
As well as Bean, other big names on the cast list include Hollywood star Helen Hunt and Oscar-nominee Lesley Manville.
“Douglas and Robina [Lesley’s character] struck up quite a friendship. [They’re] from totally different backgrounds and walks of life – he’s a working class bus conductor who’s served in the First World War, she’s a rather posh, gentrified lady of the manner. Because of the relationship between my daughter and her son, we’re thrown together and that’s quite a fascinating relationship.”
Discussing the appeal of the project, Bean affirms he was really pleased with how the story deals with people from different countries, walks of life and classes.
“It just gives it a bigger feel, in Warsaw, in Berlin in the snow, in Paris... All these people come together in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
“I suppose it’s the first time that all the European people have become so close,
because of this common enemy, and had to be thrown together, and how well we all seem to like each other. Now, we don’t!”
The BBC are promising viewers “a series that takes us across the first year of the war, from ordinary life in Manchester to the beaches of Dunkirk, getting right under the skin and into the hearts and minds of those living their lives during this extraordinary time as they grapple with the unthinkable: a world in flames”.
When it comes to reprising the role of Douglas in the future, (the plan is to do a different series for each year of the war), it’s definitely something that Bean would be up for.
“It’s such a good series,” he gushes. “It’s something that’s just unfolding at the moment, and all doors are left open. There’s a lot more story to tell.”
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World on Fire Clips
The first air raid
As the first bombs descend on Warsaw, Harry must make it to Kasia at all cost.
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An interview with Sean Bean
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Sean Bean plays Douglas Bennett in World On Fire.
Describe the character of Douglas - what it was about him that drew you to the script?
Douglas was involved in the First World War and was so mentally damaged by shell shock that it has an influence on how he viewed everything to do with the Second World War. He doesn’t believe in war as a means of achieving objectives. He thinks there should be negotiation and people should be trying to communicate.
At this point, no one is aware of the impact that this second war is going to make on the world but from his experience of the First World War he always wondered what it was all for. The people who fought were cannon fodder with no real understanding of why they were fighting. For Douglas it was a futile war, that left him mentally scarred and suffering from flashbacks, anxiety, insecurity and a slight leaning towards madness.
Where does Douglas fit into the Bennett family set-up?
The Bennett family consists of Douglas, son Tom and daughter Lois. Lois is the backbone of the family and is a strong-willed woman. She runs the everyday life of the family, leaving Tom and Douglas to just sit about the kitchen and wait for her to make cups of tea and feed them.
They’re working-class men and are very down to earth. Douglas’ wife died years ago so he’s brought the children up somewhat on his own. He’s been trying to keep it together but he’s weak and he’s depressed from the First World War and he’s nervous and unsure about the future. It’s difficult for him to relate to his children at times and it’s difficult for them to know how to treat him without robbing him of his dignity or his independence.
Tell us about the relationship that develops between Douglas and Robina.
Douglas and Robina meet purely because of Harry and Lois’ relationship. It’s a very unlikely relationship, a working-class bus driver and a very gentrified lady of the manor as it were. They’re thrown together because of their children’s relationship. It's quite an interesting friendship that emerges between them. Some people are thrown together who would never otherwise meet, but Robina recognises that Douglas is an intelligent man and has a warmth of personality that she finds both alien and interesting to her.
Explain how Douglas and Jan are thrown together, and how that friendship develops?
A big element in the relationship between the Chase family members and the Bennett family is the young Polish refugee Jan, whom Harry brings home from war. Jan is being brought up by Robina, and Douglas gets to know Jan well and becomes really fond of him. He befriends Jan and plays football with him; he shows him some fatherly love. Douglas sees him as another son and I think Jan sees Douglas as a surrogate father figure. They form a really interesting and quite touching relationship.
How does he feel when his son and daughter both head off to service the war in their different ways?
As a pacifist, Douglas has to watch his daughter Lois go off to join the entertainment corps ENSA, and then sees Tom join the navy and go to war on the HMS Exeter. This terrifies Douglas, yet when Tom returns on leave he wants Douglas to sanction him becoming an objector and essentially going AWOL - but no matter what he is, Douglas is not a coward and doesn’t give his blessing to Tom.
He’s a man of morals and he knows what this would mean for the pacifist organization that he belongs to, but more importantly what it could mean for his son if he is caught. He could be court marshalled and disgraced and he doesn’t want that for Tom. Tom is many things, and headstrong, but to live his life as a cowardly criminal or be executed is not what Douglas’ wants for Tom, so the only way out of that situation is to encourage him to go back to war and possibly certain death. It weighs heavy on Douglas.
Describe the scale of this show.
It’s an amazing production that I became engrossed in as soon as I read it the scripts. In some ways it’s like a completely captivating novel and every individual seemed to be portrayed as unique. They all have their particular ambitions, dreams and jobs before the war starts and then their fears and dread as events unfold are the same across all the countries we show. They are all coming to terms with the changes that are happening in their lives and realise that, for some of them, ridicule, intimidation and persecution are coming down the line because of their beliefs and simply for being who they are.
Do you have any personal memories of family members who were alive during the war?
My mother and father were born just before the war started in the 1930s. They used to tell me stories about how they used to wear the gas masks. My auntie and uncle had an Anderson shelter in their shed (that’s still there today) that we used to play in it when we were little. It was very flimsy as bomb shelters go and I’ll always remember those moments. They were storytellers and there was a lot of humour and funny stories to be told of those times.
Is this a period in history that you are particularly interested and did you conduct any research to prepare you for the part?
I did a fair bit of research for the part but it’s something I’ve always been quite interested in as an area of history. The Second World War fascinates me, but it was the reparations that were set in place following the end of the First World War that heralded the introduction of Hitler. I’ve always been interested in how people like Douglas Bennett were shunned within that community. They were ostracised which must have been very, very difficult. You’re going totally against the propaganda and the general feeling of the country by actually standing up and saying, I’m a pacifist. That’s an incredibly hard and brave thing to do and you suffer for it.
How do we see Douglas being affected by his beliefs?
Imagine being in a closed-knit community and people turn their back on you. Shopkeepers don't want to serve you in shops and shout at you in the street and call you this and that. I would imagine you have to be pretty determined and principled to stick to your beliefs in the face of popular opinion. So that was interesting and just the fact that Douglas is physically and mentally not very well wasn’t really understood, certainly not in the wake of the First World War - shellshock was just frowned upon.
Today’s soldiers have a diagnosis now in PTSD and we can see how it works on the brain and how these people suffered in silence. It’s a difficult one. It’s a difficult illness to talk about, especially during the Second World War, so for Douglas to actually stand up and say, I don't believe in it [the war], was a really, big and brave statement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/worldonfire/sean
An interview with Lesley Manville
Describe Robina’s relationship with Lois’ dad Douglas?
Robina’s relationship with Douglas is at first a necessity because of the relationship between Harry and Douglas’ daughter, Lois. She thinks she can handle Douglas easily because he is a bus driver, but he disarms her with his candour and honesty. Given everything that’s happening in Robina’s world she actually opens up to Douglas and realises that he’s an intelligent man. She can see he has a tenderness and warmth that she envies in some way so we see this unusual friendship begin to develop.
Apart from when she’s with Harry we never see Robina with her own people, so it was quite tricky to get that right because there were no other upper-class characters to bounce off. But then one of the directors (Andy Wilson) gave me a great note which is that Robina is naturally upper-class because it’s in her DNA, so she would never think about how should she behave with a bus driver - she would just be Robina.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/worldonfire/lesley
An interview with Ewan Mitchell
What's it like to have Sean Bean play your father?
It was such an honour and an absolute privilege to have someone as talented as Sean Bean to learn from and work with during our scenes. He is an incredible actor, with such understanding of the nuances of Peter’s scripts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/worldonfire/ewan
Two women fighting to broadcast the truth, and to be independent. It’s 1939 and the game just got bigger.
#WorldOnFire starts Sunday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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World On Fire – The DVDfever Preview – BBC drama
World On Fire shows that like all sailors, Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King) wants a girl in every port, since he has Lois (Julia Brown) back home in Manchester, but also a Polish lover in Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz). Oh, what a tangled web we weave! That said, Harry is such a wet blanket that it’s amazing he managed to pull one woman, never mind two! And you can see that from the trailer below.
It’s the start of World War II and in this first episode, the Germans are invading Poland.
And a full review of the first episode will go online at 10pm on Sunday.
World On Fire begins on BBC1 on Sunday at 9pm. It’s is available to pre-order on DVD, ahead of its release on November 25th.
After broadcast, each episode will be on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after transmission.
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World on Fire BBC Home Page
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Clips
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Cast and Characters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/nSsy7NJpzGS7t7wDZrnmMM/cast-and-characters
Douglas Bennett Played by Sean Bean
Douglas Bennett is a pacifist who was mustard-gassed in the First World War. He watches as his son and daughter go off to war, despite the fact that he is a pacifist.
With both children away, he finds solace in unlikely friendships - with Harry Chase’s mother Robina, and the young Polish refugee she has reluctantly taken into her home. Douglas' worst fear looks set to become reality when his son Tom finds himself aboard HMS Exeter, a ship which eventually faces German ship the Graf Spee in one of the first major battles of the war.
Desperate for news of Tom, the uncertainty of his son’s wellbeing and the haunting horrors of his own experience of battle look set to overwhelm him, until unexpected news from his daughter Lois gives him renewed hope for the future.
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Great to see you all on @BBCBreakfast this morning after a great night last night.
(yet another!) epic @BBCOne drama. Everyone’s in for a treat on Sunday!
Big thanks to you & the rest of the cast for a Q&A after the episode and of course @HollyHNews for hosting it!#WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/EmmaT1995/status/1177128466434732033
Was able to watch that segment on BBC Breakfast and it had a clip with a scene of Sean in action as bus conductor.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v5tb
Thanks to beanland.de
World On Fire
- premieres on German streaming service TVnow on Sun Sep 29, 2019
https://www.tvnow.de/serien/world-on-fire-17858
- premieres on Fox in Australia on Sun Oct 13, 2019
https://www.bbcstudios.com.au/channels/first/
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When lives were plunged into chaos: Sean Bean on portraying a man with PTSD
Sean Bean is one of the stars of a new series set at the start of the Second World War, writes Georgia Humphreys.
In the seven-part BBC One war drama, Bean plays working-class man Douglas Bennett. Now a bus conductor living in Manchester with his two grown-up kids, Douglas witnessed a lot of horror and bloodshed during the First World War. As a result, when World War Two begins, he is a conscientious objector.
He is also, Bean suggests, a man who was suffering from the past.
“Today it would be mental illness; it’s well documented and it’s addressed. But then, they just thought you were weak, you weren’t strong, you weren’t a man.”
“He is a man, and he was a strong man, until he went through this and he’s kind of broken.”
“He was a loving father, loving husband,” notes Bean, who married his fifth wife in 2017, and has three children from his previous marriages.
“The war threw that everywhere; his wife died soon after and he was kind of living it with it on his own. He wasn’t getting any help and he’s going through these emotions, trying to get these horrific experiences.... He has to live with them for the rest of his life.”
What research did he do for the part?
“Well, I read up about it and I watched documentaries. But I suppose I’ve always had an interest in it, the First and Second World War. I’ve played a lot of soldiers over the years and I’ve talked to a lot of people involved especially in the Falklands
“In the series Sharpe, I remember we had men from the Falklands who had lost legs and we used them for a scene we shot in the hospital in Greenwich, in the Peninsular War. That was over a period of time, and we were chatting.
“There were experiences that had been told to me by those guys and so it was a matter of just dredging those stories back up again, a bit of talking to the directors and writers and a bit of research.
“It’s a very personal thing, because it’s how you portray it and how you try to show the damage that has been done. So it’s a matter of choice of how far you go and how your body reacts and how your body follows your brain to demonstrate in your acting.”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/when-lives-were-plunged-into-chaos-sean-bean-on-portraying-a-man-with-ptsd-953310.html
He’s got a girl back home in Manchester, but he’s fallen for someone else in Warsaw.
In 1939, when any day could be your last, what and who is worth fighting for? #WorldOnFire starts Sunday, 9pm, BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1177262560208412672
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https://www.magzter.com/articles/5484/373844/5d8b046c06e0b
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10 things we found out about World On Fire
World On Fire marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War by homing in on human stories that sweep across Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States.
Sunday 29 September, 9pm, BBC One HD (CH 101/108). Also available for 30 days in Catch Up > Channels > BBC iPlayer
Across this seven-part series, a brilliant international cast (including Sean Bean, Blake Harrison, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville) grapples with love triangles, forbidden romance, class divides and dangerous jobs. Why? Because people’s concerns back then were the same as today, says writer Peter Bowker (Blackpool): “falling in love, falling pregnant, somebody dying, somebody disgracing themselves, somebody getting drunk… life goes on.”
“It was a relief that, lo and behold, I could still write about the tos and fros of family arguments within the context of the Second World War”, he adds. The characters are just ordinary people who are incredibly relatable. That’s why World On Fire is not your typical war drama – it’s way, way better.
https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-tv-edit/tv/world-on-fire-bbc-one-drama
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World on Fire aspires to be the definitive Second World War drama. DQ reveals how writer Peter Bowker has taken the global conflict and reduced it to a domestic level, weaving an emotionally tangled web of multi-national characters whose ordinary lives intersect through love, hope and tragedy.
“It sounds more complicated than it is,” explains writer Peter Bowker when he recalls the plot of his latest series, World on Fire. Described as an adrenaline-filled, emotionally gripping and resonant drama set during the first year of the Second World War, it follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
But what makes the show stand out from other wartime dramas, such as HBO’s celebrated miniseries Band of Brothers, is the way it watches the conflict unfold from a multi-national perspective. Polish, French, German, American and British characters are at the heart of the seven-part series, as it charts the experiences of individuals and families facing the fall-out from war.
Bowker says it had never occurred to him to write a period piece about the consequences of military action, despite having penned Iraq War drama Occupation (2009). Yet when Mammoth Screen MD Damien Timmer asked him whether a Second World War drama could ever match the scale and emotional intensity of iconic documentary series World at War, an idea was planted that the writer couldn’t shake. “I turned him down a couple of times but the idea wouldn’t go away, and that’s usually a good clue that you should be writing it,” he says.
Confined to filming most of her scenes in Manchester and nearby Wigan, Manville plays Harry’s mother Robina, an upper-middle-class woman she describes as frosty, private and cold. Still angry at her husband’s suicide, she mellows as the drama moves forward, particularly when Harry returns with a young Polish boy who she takes into her home.
“What was really lovely to play about this character was that it’s not a complete metamorphosis, but in her own quiet way she goes on a little voyage of discovery,” the actor says. “She finds true feelings for this boy and comes to care for him deeply.
“She lives in this huge pile of a house, alone and doesn’t seem to have much of a life or friends. In some ways, cold as she is, deep down she’s had this desire for something to make her feel and be warm and understand things. That’s what happens. And she’s got some very dry, funny lines as well. Peter has written some choice bits of dialogue for her. It’s upmarket Hyacinth Bucket [the snobbish lead character in UK sitcom Keeping Up Appearances], in terms of the comedy. It’s not ‘ba-boom’ but it’s very dry and witty. It’s lovely. Some of the later scenes with her son are quite powerful and potent.”
Later in the series, Robina discovers Lois is pregnant with Harry’s child, while he ends up marrying Kasia to rescue her from the war. “There’s a great line from Robina,” Manville reveals. “‘If I’d know he was going to marry a Polish waitress I would have seen you [Lois] as more of a prospect.’ That’s her in a nutshell.”
Harry’s relationship with Lois also fosters a blossoming friendship with Robina and Bean’s Douglas, who Manville admits are an odd couple. “What is lovely about it is these two characters, were it not for the war and the situation of her son impregnating his daughter, they’re an unlikely match,” she says. “He’s a bus conductor and she’s a wealthy upper-middle-class woman who doesn’t work. But they certainly develop this friendship that’s really rather tender. She starts to see that underneath all the layers of class, there are people who are human beings who you can have the same conversation with. They just sound different.”
Like Robina, Douglas is a single parent, having been left along with children Lois and Tom after their mother left home. He’s also still struggling to come to terms with his experiences during the First World War. “He’s a beaten man in some ways,” says Bean. “You can still see the strong character that he once was, but he’s been battered down and demoralised by the bloodshed and the horror that he saw out there. He’s not on his own either. There were many who were seen in that way and were treated as if there was something wrong with them. They didn’t really recognise shell shock, which has such a devastating impact on so many men.”
This means that on the brink of the Second World War, working-class Douglas is a conscientious objector – a position that leaves him open to criticism from his friends and neighbours.
“He’s chosen a very hard war to be a conscientious objector in because on the surface it was quite cut and dried,” Bean explains. “He’s very brave to have done that. He gets a hard time from everyone really and when he would go out to get food, people would turn their back on him. It was a very lonely life for him and he’s just trying to do his best. He’s trying to bring his kids up the best he can and he’s still suffering, psychologically and mentally. Then he meets a woman who’s got quite a lot of money. That brings Douglas out of himself and it helps Robina as well because they’re totally different.”
During filming, many of his scenes were emotionally intense, and viewers will see Douglas fall apart when he’s left on his own. But Bean also got to spend a lot of time in a kitchen, next to a fire, having cups of tea and reading the paper, “which was great,” he jokes.
Bowker adds: “What I’m particularly interested in is informing the universal, not establishing the universal and coming down. Sean’s found me out really because all I’ve done is reduce the world to a kitchen.”
https://dramaquarterly.com/tag/world-on-fire/
Chinese Streamer Huanxi Premium Acquires BBC Miniseries 'World on Fire' (Exclusive)
The pickup of the Helen Hunt-starring period drama is part of Huanxi's expansion plans for 2020, which also include launching a documentary streaming channel and releasing two tentpole films during Chinese New Year.
Huanxi Premium, the startup streaming service targeting China's prestige video consumers, has acquired the exclusive local rights to World on Fire, the upcoming WWII period series from the BBC.
The streamer plans to launch the show in early 2020, supporting the release with a major marketing campaign in upscale urban centers across China.
Created and written by Peter Bowker, World on Fire stars Oscar winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, Cast Away), BAFTA-winner Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Maleficent). Described as a "heart-stopping, multi-stranded drama," the seven-episode mini-series tells the story of the vertiginous early days of World War II through the lives of ordinary people on all sides of the conflict.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinese-streamer-huanxi-premium-acquires-bbc-miniseries-world-fire-1243829
Prepare yourselves. We’ve cast Sean Bean in a World War Two drama. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1177562921439830018
What does it take to fight against fascism?
#WorldOnFire, starring Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, and @juliabrownactor.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1177606322323369986
World On Fire might be one of the best things the BBC has ever produced (no HBO/Amazon input or £££s either). It’s utterly gripping, original, perfectly cast and it looks like a big budget movie. Unmissable, and it starts on Sunday at 9pm #WorldOnFire
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Sean Bean on World On Fire: Europeans seemed to like each other then. Now we don't
https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2019/09/25/news/sean-bean-on-world-on-fire-europeans-seemed-to-like-each-other-then-now-we-don-t-1720085/
The highly anticipated drama #WorldOnFire airs on BBC on Sunday evening (UK time). You can catch every episode live, free & legally on #BBCiplayer with #VanishedVPN wherever you are in the world by connecting to our UK #VPN
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Sean Bean's amazing gesture to make young co-stars confident before filming
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Action hero Sean Bean took his co-stars out for a steak dinner in a bonding session
before filming BBC1 series World On Fire.
The Second World War epic promises to be the new Sunday night obsession when it starts tonight.
Rising star Julia Brown – who plays Sean’s on-screen daughter – said: “Working with someone you have idolised before was incredible but getting to know him as a person was fantastic and amazing.
“Before we started filming they sent us out on a dinner together as a family in Manchester so we had time to discuss our characters and get to know each other.
“Sean’s so down-to-earth and friendly, it was great, as was the imparted wisdom.”
The 22-year-old Shetland actress added: “He made it very comfortable and a laugh on set and it was just a masterclass in acting. He’s mesmerising to watch and that was so important.
“I really had to connect with him on an emotional level and it was so easy because he was so believable.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sean-beans-amazing-gesture-make-20323445
How old is Sean Bean? 23 surprising facts about Somerset-based World on Fire actor
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/sean-bean-age-world-fire-3364078
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Series 1 - Episode 1
Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
There are big subjects, there are enormous subjects and then there are absolutely ginormous subjects, and writer Peter Bowker has chosen to wrestle with arguably the biggest of them all: the Second World War.
But he boils down the social and political to a human and approachable level, concentrating on families on every side of the conflict, starting in 1939. In Britain, pacifist bus conductor and shell-shocked First World War veteran Douglas (Sean Bean) trembles as he prepares for what he knows is to come, while his headstrong daughter (Julia Brown) disrupts fascist rallies.
Nancy (Helen Hunt) is an American war correspondent broadcasting from Poland as the Nazis mass on its border, while young British translator Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) in Warsaw knows his Polish girlfriend and her family face danger.
There’s a lot to get to grips with in the opening episode, as plot strands unfurl across Europe.
Summary
New series. Drama following people from all walks of life during the first year of the Second World War, beginning in the run-up to its outbreak. American journalist and broadcaster Nancy Campbell makes a grisly discovery at the Polish-German border, while in Manchester, Lois waits for news of her translator boyfriend Harry. However, Lois is unaware that Harry has a secret Polish lover, Kasia, and he has vowed to help her flee from Warsaw. Starring Sean Bean, Helen Hunt, Lesley Manville, Julia Brown and Jonah Hauer-King.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jpm6qw/world-on-fire--s1-e1-world-on-fire/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008zvf
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/search.asp?title=world+on+fire&submit.x=6&submit.y=16
CRITICS’ CHOICE
World On Fire (BBC1, 9pm)
Marking the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Peter Bowker’s seven-parter reworks the 1970s saga A Family at War by giving it a markedly more international dimension. Here the pivotal figure is Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), a dishy diplomat who has been dating fellow-Mancunian Lois (Julia Brown), but when assigned to Warsaw in 1939 he falls for Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz), whose family are later caught up in fighting in Danzig. Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville also star in a poignant and expertly crafted tale of three families at war, with brief scenes in Berlin and Paris suggesting Bowker’s tale will become more panoramic.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whats-on-tv-sunday-mqwrrj5mg
Love. Freedom. Friendship. Family. Truth. Survival.
What would you fight for? #WorldOnFire, starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1178233201023565824
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World On Fire: Viewers distressed by 'brutal' battle scenes in WW2 drama
WORLD ON FIRE kicked off on BBC One tonight and viewers were quick to praise the World War II drama. However some felt the first episode, which focussed on the lead up to the outbreak of war in Poland, contained scenes that were difficult to watch.
World On Fire follows the fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during the first year of the Second World War. The seven part drama which stars Helen Hunt and Sean Bean premiered tonight and viewers were quick to praise the new BBC series on social media. However some fans found many of the scenes “brutal” and noted it would be an emotionally draining but compelling series.
The first episode introduced viewers to the lives of Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), a young English translator in Warsaw, Kasia, (Zofia Wichlacz) his Polish girlfriend and waitress, and Lois, (Julia Brown) the factory worker who’s waiting for Harry at home.
As the outbreak of war looked ever more certain, viewers witness a number of chilling scenes.
One particular moment involved Kasia’s dad and brother who joined the efforts of a number of Polish soldiers in Danzig as they resisted German invasion.
The Polish soldiers were trapped in an abandoned building waiting for British support which never came
After the German’s attacked the building, Kasia’s dad bravely surrendered and approached the Nazi’s while waving a white flag.
But he was shot dead by the Nazi’s while his son watched.
Viewers watching the horrific scenes took to social media to comment.
One said: “This is brutal. Best not get attached to any of the characters I suppose #worldonfire.”
Another added: “#WorldOn Fire @BBCOne oh my, so sad and tense.”
“The battle scenes are incredibly well done; brutal and unflinching - and quite hard to watch #WorldoOnFire,” wrote a third.
“Not usually my thing but this looks very promising. Tough watch though. #WorldoOnFire,” said another.
A fifth remarked: “Very hard to watch and it will only get harder but it’s bloody brilliant #WorldOnFire.”
Another tweeted: “Wow, I felt tense watching the whole time. Excellent drama #WorldOnFire.”
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1184279/World-On-Fire-cast-location-Danzig-Helen-Hunt-BBC-video
Viewers praise 'distressing and emotional' new BBC WWII drama World On Fire as series kicks off with dramatic scenes of Polish volunteers fleeing a Gdańsk post office basement after it's set alight with petrol
Viewers praised Second World War drama World On Fire after its 'distressing and emotional' premiere last night.
The ambitious seven-part BBC1 drama, which follows characters living through the first year of the Second World War, was met with widespread praise for its depiction of events across Europe in the summer and early autumn of 1939.
Among them was the siege of Gdańsk (then Danzig) post office on 1 September, where some 60 Polish volunteers - many of them civilians - held off German troops for 15 hours before being forced out when petrol was poured into the basement - their last stronghold - and set alight.
Scenes showing a man stumbling through the flames on fire and others fleeing for their lives were praised by their accuracy.
The assault was among the first acts of the German invasion, in which Adolf Hitler's troops broke through Polish border crossings and launched naval, air and army attacks on the Westerplatte peninsula in the Bay of Danzig.
The episode introduced viewers to a string of characters living in the UK, France, Germany and Poland, including an American journalist played by Hollywood actress Helen Hunt and a pacifist Brit played by Sean Bean.
At the centre of the story are Manchester-based factory worker and jazz singer Lois (Julia Brown) and her sweetheart Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), who fell in love with Polish waitress Kasia (Zofia Wichłacz), while working as a translator in Warsaw.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7519967/World-Fire-Scenes-man-fire-leaves-viewers-shocked.html
The reviews are in! **** The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent. #WorldOnFire.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1178694783117778944
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I should've told you that I loved you, when you told me." #WorldOnFire, Sundays on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, starring @juliabrown, @jonahhauerking, @zofiawichlacz, @helenhunt, @sean_bean_official, @yrsadaleyward, @smithespis and @parkersawyers
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3CfhLmoL55/
WORLD ON FIRE 🔥
LIVE at 17:30 we'll be joined by the cast of @bbcone's new series, @WorldOnFireTV 🔥
With Jonah Hauer-King, @blakeharrison23, @juliabrownactor, Yrsa Daley-Ward & Director Adam Smith 🔥
Watch LIVE ➡️ http://buildseries.com/uk
https://twitter.com/BUILDseriesLDN/status/1178977893285859329
World on Fire on BBC First Benelux Sunday 27 October 21.00
https://www.bbcbenelux.com/zenders/first/
Cast of 'World on Fire' discuss their amazing BBC TV series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGI1vJ-twfs
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“We must love one another, or die.”
The cast of #WorldOnFire perform W.H. Auden’s iconic poem ‘1st September, 1939’. #NationalPoetryDay
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1179652301981540352
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JZpm4joB4/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07pxg1v
Absolutely loving being in Warsaw for the European Premiere of @WorldOnFireTV at The Polish Vodka Museum. TV and shots, who can complain? 🍸 #WorldOnFire #EpicDrama
https://twitter.com/juliabrownactor/status/1179729224036433921
#worldonfire #premiere #Poland 😍😍😍
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Getting ready! World on Fire press event in Poland
#worldonfiretv #viasatworld #WoF #epicdrama #series #ww2 #viasatworld #itvstudios #warsaw
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#epicdrama, #worldonfire #premiera #fingerfood #eventyfirmowe #cateringwarszawa #catererslife #partyfood #partytime
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More from the World on Fire Premiere in Warsaw
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Amazing Poland launch for #worldonfire #epicdramapoland #mammothscreen - slam dunk
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Polish actors about the backstage of the international production "World on Fire"
The seven-episode BBC series "World on Fire" will premiere on November 10, under the Polish title "World on Fire". Polish actors playing in this international production talked about their participation in the series.
The premiere of the series "World in Fire" will take place on November 10 on the Epic Drama channel.
https://www.rmfclassic.pl/informacje/Obraz,12/Polscy-aktorzy-o-kulisach-miedzynarodowej-produkcji-World-on-Fire,39167.html
IMPORTANT BROADCAST 🎙 Hold your loved ones slightly closer this evening, this is Nancy Campbell signing off. #WorldOnFire
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3NDdxelIJx/
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Everything that matters to me is here in this city. #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1180516581954207744
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Series 1 - Episode 2 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
Life for Kasia and what remains of her family in Warsaw is brutal and violent, as Nazi tanks roll onto the streets and trigger-happy German soldiers turn on blameless men and women with monstrous cruelty. As Peter Bowker’s epic story of the Second World War unfolds, there are inklings that much worse is to come.
The family living next door to war correspondent Nancy (Helen Hunt) are perpetually anxious and won’t let their young daughter go to school. There are hostile eyes everywhere and informers around every corner as paranoia festers. Meanwhile, in the streets, Jews are routinely taunted and humiliated.
In Britain, Harry returns home to his unbending mum (Lesley Manville at her iciest) as his ex, Lois, prepares to face a new life, singing for the troops with Ensa. None of this will send you to bed whistling, but it’s war and it’s grim.
Summary
In devastated Warsaw, Kasia makes plans to flee with her grief-stricken mother Maria, but gets caught in a resistance cell's attack on German soldiers. Harry returns to Manchester, but when he finally plucks up the courage to tell Lois the truth she disarms him by declaring her love, while Tom shocks Douglas by announcing he is now a conscientious objector. In Berlin, Nancy is frustrated with the growing power of the censor, while Webster and Albert's joy is overshadowed by the growing threat of prejudice they face.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jp7vcj/world-on-fire--s1-e2-world-on-fire/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000970l
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3364692/14285441/world-on-fire
Kasia saved her little brother from the bombs of Warsaw. Now she must face the Nazi occupation herself. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1180618670671679488
“I should’ve told you I loved you when you told me.”
#WorldOnFire tonight at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1180777214146539520
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World on Fire viewers stunned by "heavy" and "harrowing" scene in the second episode
BBC One's WWII drama World on Fire returned tonight (October 6) for its second episode and one scene in particular left viewers shellshocked.
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a29379623/world-on-fire-episode-2-murder-scene/
In wartime, truth is no longer factual. Sometimes, truth is little more than wishful thinking.” .
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#WorldOnFire continues next week on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, starring @helenhunt, @sean_bean_official, @blakeharrisonreal, @jonahhauerking, @juliabrown and @zofiawichlacz
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Tsf1CH2pR/
“People wanted to live their normal lives, even though they were not free.”
Growing up in a warzone... a reality in 1939 and around the world today. #WorldOnFire
Big thanks to the cast of #WorldOnFire: @blakeharrison23, @ParkerSawyers, Sean Bean, @YrsaDaleyWard, @juliabrownactor, Zofia Wichłacz and Jonah Hauer-King.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1181251049694334976
World on Fire: Life For Young People in WWII
https://www.facebook.com/BBCOne/videos/450404582492915/
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To all the Sean fans from the Benelux; World On Fire also starts on BBC First at Sunday October 27th 😉 #worldonfire #bbcfirst #bbcbenelux #seanbean
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3XzLzzoBBj/
Love and war
Jonah Hauer-King and Zofia Wichłacz, two of the stars of Peter Bowker’s war drama World on Fire, talk about the tangled relationship between their characters and how the series balances epic action scenes with emotional storylines.
https://dramaquarterly.com/love-and-war/
Man who transformed Wigan for set of BBC epic 'World on Fire' talks about life behind the scenes
The man who transformed Wigan into a 1940s backdrop for the latest BBC drama “World on Fire” has spoken about life behind the scenes.
Liam O’Hara, who runs O’Hara TV and Film Construction, spent around seven months changing the face of The Old Courts and Kendal Street, as well as buildings across the North West, for the Second World War epic.
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/man-who-transformed-wigan-for-set-of-bbc-epic-world-on-fire-talks-about-life-behind-the-scenes-1-10042321
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BBC First Australia World On Fire Starts Sunday October 13
https://www.bbcstudios.com.au/shows/world-on-fire/
Sean Bean's big on dad jokes in his portrayal of Douglas Bennett in World on Fire. Watch the new series from Sunday at 8.30pm.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=503217827183588
BBC First Benelux
https://www.bbcbenelux.com/programmas/world-on-fire/
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#WorldOnFire is Coming
Sean Bean London roundtable interview
@esquire_bulgaria
#bigblackbook 5th #anniversary #edition
World on Fire premiers on @epicdramabulgaria by
@viasatworld Nov. 10th
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3eC6vUD5Qh/
https://www.esquire.bg/
Disaster lies ahead for the men of the Royal Navy in #WorldOnFire.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1182616637775794177
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3eti26j6nr/
An epic saga across Europe about ordinary lives in a time of war. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1182681838801903616
Watch the brilliant @WorldOnFireTV @Raphaeldesprez @mammothscreen this #Sunday @BBCOne
https://twitter.com/StevensonWither/status/1182689556623220736
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'My dad didn't see him for many years': Game of Thrones star Sean Bean pays homage to his late grandfather in the new BBC series World On Fire
He's best known for playing Ned Stark in HBO's medieval fantasy phenomenon, Game Of Thrones.
And on Sunday, British actor Sean Bean opened up about paying homage to his late grandfather in the new BBC First wartime series World On Fire.
Speaking to News Corp, the 60-year-old said he drew on his grandfather's pain from World War II for his character, who has just returned from the war with shell shock.
'My dad didn't see him for many years. He (my grandfather) was a bit shaken by it. He had trouble re-adapting, coming back to civil life,' Sean said.
While his grandfather fortunately managed to overcome his trauma, he said many others were similarly affected by their transition back into society following the war.
The drama, which tells the story of World War II through the lives of everyday people, gives a voice to those who were caught in the most difficult of circumstances.
Sean plays Douglas Bennett, a pacifist working class man in Manchester, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress and the effects of exposure to mustard gas.
The actor explained how immersing himself in the painful stories of post traumatic stress disorder was uncomfortable but necessary when researching his character.
'It wasn't enjoyable dredging those memories up and feeling those thoughts but that's something you have to do to do it justice,' he said.
The seven-part drama, which also features Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt, follows its characters across several European countries.
Sean said the idea that people 'meet from different places and are thrown together' is a recurring theme throughout the series.
'It tells tales of friendship and love, and love affairs, brutality, and it's very intimate, it's not a retelling of the facts of the war,' he said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7565825/Game-Thrones-Sean-Bean-pays-homage-late-grandfather-BBC-drama-World-Fire.html
"I want my boy back." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1183052538511351811
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hj3dWAQmq/
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Series 1 - Episode 3 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
War turns lives on their heads, and inevitably too worlds collide, which is the case for embittered former lovers Lois and Harry (Julia Brown and Johan Hauer-King). Harry is with his Army unit in northern France when who should turn up with an Ensa party to entertain the troops but singer Lois.
This is no gushing reunion, though, as Peter Bowker’s taut saga pitches us headfirst into the horrors of combat and the overwhelming sadness of separation, and regret. Meanwhile Lois’s annoying brother Tom (Ewan Mitchell) is in the Navy aboard HMS Exeter, mainly to avoid the attentions of the Manchester police.
He’s an oikish ne’er-do-well, but maybe he’s not the irredeemable boor he seems after he confronts an epic tragedy with bravery and brusque kindness. There’s nothing his pacifist dad (Sean Bean) can do back home but rage at the radio news in despair.
Summary
After enlisting in the Royal Navy, Tom finds himself on board the HMS Exeter in pursuit of German pocket battleship the Graf Spee, and Tom watches the carnage and death around him as a huge naval battle ensues in the South Atlantic. Harry crosses paths with Lois again when she arrives to perform at the BEF base camp in France, while Robina steps in to defend Jan in the playground. In Berlin, Nancy is shocked by rumours of sick children being forcefully taken to clinics and killed and decides to investigate for herself.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jqt6xj/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-3/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009f7n
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3376701/14768260/world-on-fire
What gives us the right to decide who lives or dies?
A journalist uncovers the shocking Nazi eugenics programme. @HelenHunt #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1183336579542278144
Pretty much sums up tonight’s ep. Can not wait to see this come to life.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3j4BnyHqSJ/
It’s what we’ve been waiting for! Be sure to tune in for tonight’s episode of #WorldonFire on BBC1 at 9pm featuring #QPHSchester students & #LesleyManville whilst filming in #Handbridge
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3j0-eJFvkH/
Look out for my best friend and my favourite actor @MikeyKCollins in tonight’s #worldonfire at 9pm on @BBCOne he’s doing actings with Sean Bean I’m well jealous
https://twitter.com/JoshBolt/status/1183403596957790211
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New acquisitions of Mammoth’s World On Fire, which is co-produced with Masterpiece and successfully launched on BBC One in the UK last month with a consolidated audience of over six million, include in China on Huanxi Premium, RTL in Germany, Telefonica in Spain and BBC First across Australia and Benelux, as well as Roadshow in Australia and in Korea on Channel A for linear and KT Corp for SVOD.
https://www.itvstudios.com/news/itv-studios-global-entertainment-announces-raft-of-scripted-sales-for-new-and-returning-dramas
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World On Fire’s Peter Bowker: I won’t have WWII rewritten by isolationists
Peter Bowker's new drama World On Fire tells the story of the Second World War from a new perspective. The writer explains how he created an epic series by telling the stories of ordinary people living through extraordinary times – and why he won't accept the rewriting of history for political ends
Peter Bowker is the award-winning writer of Occupation, Marvellous, Blackpool, Eric and Ernie and The A Word. When he writes a new TV drama, you know it is going to be smart, incisive and infused with sharp wit and engaging characters.
But even Bowker was worried by the scale of his latest television project, World On Fire. The series, which airs on BBC1 on Sunday nights, is an attempt to tell the story of the Second World War in a new way. Quite a challenge for the most dramatised conflict in history.
Bowker’s inspirations were two-fold. The classic 1970s series World At War, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, widely seen as the definitive documentary on the Second World War, was a touchstone. Could a television drama be equally definitive? But Bowker was also inspired by recent TV trends.
The success of Danish shows The Killing and The Bridge, particularly, suggested audiences were now more willing to engage with subtitled shows – meaning he could tell this global war from a global perspective, in multiple languages.
The result is stunning. Rather than Churchill and Hitler’s speeches, Spitfires dueling, Vera Lynn and the spirit of the Blitz – a version of history we’ve seen countless times – Bowker focuses on people across Europe whose lives were irrevocably affected by this global conflict. Through these brilliantly drawn characters a new picture emerges of the impact on the ordinary people living through extraordinary times.
And we have only just begun. For the grand plan is seven series, each telling the story of a single year of the Second World War from multiple perspectives. We spoke to Bowker about his most ambitious series to date…
Is this the perfect time to tell this story of the international conflict that eventually led to long-term peace in Europe?
The perfect time might have been a couple of years ago! But I think we constantly need to remind ourselves that it is a story about international co-operation to defeat Nazism. A group of countries with very little in common politically formed an alliance because they knew they had more in common than what set us apart. That is what World War Two was. And I won’t have it rewritten. Because it is insulting to the memory of everybody if you go along with the ‘plucky Britain’ myth. I know what my dad thought he was fighting for – and it wasn’t isolationism. He fought alongside Gurkhas, soldiers in the Far East, alongside all nationalities. And he never forgot that.
How do you get beyond the received wisdom about the war to the on the floor reality?
I’m normally interested in people at the bottom of the food chains – on the sharp end of political decisions, enacting these decisions whether they are right or not. The Imperial War Museum have been amazing. At one point I went in and said: One of my characters is a Polish waitress in her 20s. Have you got anything? Within three days, they had found two diaries that had been translated. What was reassuring was that there would be a page saying I have joined the resistance movement run by the old scoutmaster. But the rest would be about boys and coffee.
In a weird way, Andrew Davies’s War and Peace adaptation opened it up for me. I could see how you could be both part of history and not deny the history, but simultaneously get stuck into the day to day concerns, falling in and out of love, having children, people dying, people being traumatized, people having a disability.
How did you go about building the story of this massive global conflict from the intimate stories you chose?
One of the first things I did was to invent a character, played by Sean Bean, who is a pacifist. Because to keep the conscientious objector argument sustained during the Second World War is the hardest challenge. It is the least equivocal war of all time. But then you have a story – because you have events pushing against this man and his beliefs. And you have his two children taking up different positions to him. So you also have a father-daughter and father-son story. I am interested in reclaiming that generation from keeping them in aspic. It is far more interesting if they are flawed human beings.
Sex wasn’t invented in 1963 and all that…
Exactly, so it is reclaiming that generation as flesh and blood human beings – and I think that is honouring them far more than idealising them as some special generation we revere. Another starting point was a desire not just to tell a white man’s war [retrieves photograph from his bag].
This is my grandma and this is my Auntie Anna. They had a musical duo called the Two Shades and toured Manchester and the north west. She was the daughter of a French variety artist and an American – somebody told me she had the same genetic make-up as Jimi Hendrix. But she was adopted by a white family and raised in Doncaster in the 1920s. Her and my grandma had this variety performers called The Two Shades, which preceded Two Tone by, what, 50 years? So there is a singer and a dual race couple in World On Fire.
We always look for contemporary relevance – with the Second World War being invoked so often in the political debate at the moment, what are you hoping people take from it?
The Second World War is evoked so often in very un-nuanced arguments. Our national myth is based on it. So it is healthy to look at that and say ‘My version of the war isn’t the same as yours’. I would hope is that the contemporary relevance is to do with the big questions – at what stage do you make a stand? At what stage do you compromise in order to achieve a greater good? And I am talking not necessarily about political decisions, but personal decisions. The other thing is the irony that for women, in particular, the war being one of the great moments of liberation. I want to mark the social changes that it brought about, the unintended consequences I guess.
How does the international nature of the drama – telling stories in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, Manchester – help your mission to change our perspective on the war?
The advantage of writing an international drama is that the war started for a lot of other people, including Poland and France, a lot earlier. So it has been a joy to honour that struggle. I knew I was going to tell the story of Danzig and Warsaw in the first episode (above). So although we might be writing through a British lens, we are also reminding people that the Poles had a fairly major part to play in that war for us. Neither the British nor the French went in when the Poles were under the impression that we would. The siege of Warsaw happened soon after that. The German occupation pretty soon after that.
We’ve never seen Sean Bean like this – his is quite a performance as a survivor of the First World War with PTSD who is now a pacifist…
He rang me and one of the things that swung it for him is that he wanted to make sure he didn’t die. But no, I wanted a man who looked physically powerful and had a powerful presence. Because the cliché of men with post-traumatic stress from the First World War would be played by somebody like Tom Courtenay, who is thin and nervy and neurotic. I wanted us to be able to see the man he had been before he was traumatised.
It comes down to the heroism of people who have mental illness in their day to day life. I am interested in where that for him is as much of an emotional need as well as a political need, in order to reclaim a version of his masculinity. People forget how relatively mainstream that was.
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film-tv-radio/world-on-fires-peter-bowker-i-wont-have-wwii-rewritten-by-isolationists/
Die historische Dramaserie mit Helen Hunt und Sean Bean gibt‘s ab sofort exklusiv bei @tvnow.de.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3t-nhpIYgI/
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Clip from World on Fire Episode 4
"Hold firm and drop back"
The battalion wait for orders, Harry gives the advance and as they head toward the building they are fired upon by a machine gun.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rffzd
"I'll never be safe anywhere." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1185607916038082560
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3zt5mOA_LV/
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Series 1 - Episode 4 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
The iron has entered young Kasia’s (Zofia Wichlacz) soul after the murder of her parents and she is honey-trapping Nazi soldiers, luring them to grubby corners of Warsaw where they are murdered by her resistance fellows. But when she picks a high-profile target, an SS officer, the consequences are appalling.
Back in England, conscientious objector Douglas Bennett (Sean Bean) can’t even give away copies of his dratted Peace News, though that’s the least of his worries as his children skitter off the rails. Lois is pregnant and his son Tom arrives home with a difficult proposition for his dad.
As the war escalates in Peter Bowker’s absorbing drama, the sense that things cannot ever possibly be the same again becomes more acute, as characters face life-altering decisions with irrevocable consequences. For Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) leading a unit through Belgium, it means growing up and becoming a leader.
Summary
Harry and his unit are fighting for their lives in the town of Louvain, Belgium, where the German forces far outnumber those of the Allies. Grzegorz and Konrad are woken by a German troop, while back in Warsaw Kasia and Tomasz's resistance activity has horrific consequences. Webster is shocked to learn more about the rise of anti-Semitism in Paris when a Jewish couple come seeking his help.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jrmqvz/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-4/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009n09
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3386734/15121239/world-on-fire
World on Fire: Britain’s Poles hope war drama will help reclaim their past
Polish Londoners longing for a more accurate portrayal of their country’s history take stock of the epic BBC series
On a Saturday night, a large and expectant audience turned up to a preview screening of the BBC’s seven-part war drama World on Fire at a Polish community centre in west London. After decades of waiting to see their country’s second world war story told, Polish Londoners gathered to see whether the producers had succeeded in faithfully capturing history.
The centre – known as “Posk” – its Polish acronym – was built in the 1970s from donations made by a generation of Poles who had experienced the war first hand, and thus it made an appropriate setting. Even if slightly dated now, it remains a meeting point for Poles in Britain, and runs a busy programme of cultural events, a drop-in centre helping the community to prepare for Brexit. It offers, too, some of the best pierogi in London.
Many of those in the audience for the first episode were relatives of about 175,000 Poles who settled in the UK during and after the second world war. Wiktor Moszczyński, chairman of the Friends of Polish Veterans Association, knows their stories better than most. Born in London a year after the war, he is a tireless campaigner for greater inclusion of the Polish historical narrative and an organiser of a Polish contingent at the annual Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph march.
“For the few remaining veterans, watching supposedly realistic war films is never easy as the memory of what actually happened is painful and horrific,” he says.
But while Moszczyński concedes that “the Poles can be pernickety about their history” and picks up on minor errors in World on Fire, he concludes that Polish audiences “will undoubtedly take some satisfaction in the way it shows Poland’s gruesome experience and sense of betrayal by Britain”.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/20/world-on-fire-bbc-war-drama-polish-londoners-epic-series-relcima-their-past
“How does it feel to be a target?” The war in Nazi-occupied France exceeded far beyond the battlegrounds. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1185888393286311936
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340,000 troops evacuated. 84,000 vehicles abandoned. 900 ships involved. 77,000 tonnes of ammunition lost.
#WorldOnFire continues with The Evacuation of Dunkirk, Sunday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B37D-JrHyXU/
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Has Sean Bean only appeared in 2 out of the 4 episodes so far?
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Has Sean Bean only appeared in 2 out of the 4 episodes so far?
No Sean Bean appeared in all episodes so far. :thumbsup:
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K, thats good! Thanks for responding. I was confused because IMDB says episode 1 and 4 only. I haven't been able to view it yet here in Canada.
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Yet to watch the powerful #WorldOnFire? Catch up on eps 1-4 on @bbciplayer now ahead of Sunday's emotional #Dunkirk episode.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1187402553522348032
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Just watched this coming Sunday's episode of #WorldOnFire. I'm absolutely shaken. So, so good, but utterly gut-wrenching. @mammothscreen @BBCOne
https://twitter.com/clairywoowoo/status/1187743073356472321
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You want to know about the World on Fire series
Have you not heard of the World on Fire series yet? Can be right, because it is brand new and will only be shown at BBC First from next Sunday. The series takes you into the lives of ordinary people at the start of the Second World War and gives a glimpse into the most crucial moments in European history. This produces an intriguing cocktail of fear, courage, love, loss, dreams and hope. We collected the best behind the scenes facts for you.
Have you become curious about the series? You can see it from October 27 at 9 p.m. at BBC First . Of course with Dutch subtitles.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtlnieuws.nl%2Flifestyle%2Fgadgets%2Fartikel%2F4897506%2Fdit-wil-je-weten-over-de-serie-world-fire
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/gadgets/artikel/4897506/dit-wil-je-weten-over-de-serie-world-fire
@BBCBreakfast #WorldOnFire so engrossed in the interview and trailers for Sunday night I left my husband stranded in the shower with no towel 🙄
https://twitter.com/wumblemacdumble/status/1188001879176953856
Just seen clips from tomorrow's #WorldOnFire on @BBCBreakfast Wow. Just wow. @NickieSault @juliabrownactor
https://twitter.com/suestepline/status/1188001876366839808
"We're all ready for death mate." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer tomorrow at 9pm.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1188154446397739010
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Fz8MeFlsY/
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Series 1 - Episode 5 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
Belgium has fallen to the Germans and Harry, with his little band of fellows, trudges towards the coast, towards Dunkirk and rescue. But as the column of soldiers and refugees is strafed by bombers, Harry comes across a van with a sad cargo, a bunch of desperately traumatised men.
They have shell shock and Harry displays some very 21st-century sensibilities about both mental illness and racial prejudice, despite the scepticism of his cheerful everyman staff officer, Stan Raddings (Blake Harrison), to whom they are “mad lads” and a “truckful of loonies”.
There are some very impressive action sequences in Peter Bowker’s involving Second World War drama as the conflict reaches a crucial stage. But back home, pacifist dad Douglas (Sean Bean) finds the going tough, while his pregnant daughter, Lois, unexpectedly meets a kind man in the shape of a polite pilot (Arthur Darvill).
Summary
As thousands flee Nazi-occupied Belgium, Harry, Stan and the rest of their unit take the last route out of France - the road to Dunkirk, where Grzegorz fights his way to the front of a queue to board a boat - only to be thrown back by angry soldiers. In Manchester, Douglas finds solace in his rapport with Jan, as his growing anxiety about Tom pushes him to the brink, while in Berlin the Rosslers grow ever more fearful for Hilda. Second World War drama, starring Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Blake Harrison.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jsc6b8/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-5/
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3394665/15493569/world-on-fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009ttj
#worldonfire @BBCOne tonight...
Coming on BBCfirst too with Dutch subtitles
https://twitter.com/Wilstweet1/status/1188401530690519040
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#worldonfire @BBCOne tonight...
Coming on BBCfirst too with Dutch subtitles
https://twitter.com/Wilstweet1/status/1188401530690519040
I watched this,to bad it was an edited version with scenes cut.The same happened with Broken!
The total consolidated figure for 28 days including all devices for episode 1 of #WorldOnFire is 7.7 million! Making
@WorldOnFireTV the third biggest new drama launch of the year so far for @BBCOne! Thank you all for your support so far! 🎉
https://twitter.com/mammothscreen/status/1188852655445204999
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“I am the officer in charge! And they are coming with us.”
This is Dunkirk like you’ve never seen it before. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1189149886949625858
The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NOOnyA0HK/
Tempers short. Emotions high. All that's left now is protocol. Watch the latest episode of #WorldOnFire over on @BBCiPlayer now.
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1189234036113313793
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ne3yAlPxW/
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Will there be a second series of World on Fire?
There’s already been bloodshed, tears and a lot of deaths, but BBC One’s World on Fire may not be over yet. At least, that’s according to writer Peter Bowker, who has said he plans for a second run of the WW2 drama.
But what exactly could happen in new episodes of the show? And who could star in them? Here’s everything you need to know…
Although a second series of the drama hasn’t been officially greenlit by the BBC, it’s likely World on Fire will return to screen. With episodes being watched by audiences of four million and above, the drama has proved more popular than the likes of Peaky Blinders.
If recommissioned, don’t expect the second run of World on Fire to land on screens any time soon. After being greenlit, the first series took almost two years to finish. Following this form, a new show wouldn’t arrive until late 2021
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-11-01/second-series-world-on-fire/
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"If you get caught, the best you can hope for is a quick death." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer tomorrow at 9pm.
https://twitter.com/Albertschipshop/status/1190703515959791616
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Series 1 - Episode 6 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
There’s a dreadful and irrevocable act of utter despair in the penultimate episode of Peter Bowker’s drama that signals the base horror of Nazi occupation and the grotesque “cleansing” that is to come.
Paris has fallen and is over-run with louche Germans making themselves at home in other people’s houses. Internment has begun and Webster fears for his lover, black jazz musician Albert.
Back in Britain Lois has a very persistent admirer while her ex, Harry, brings yet another not-terribly-welcome visitor home to his mother. Out of the blue the War Office offers him a job with the winning words: “If you’re caught, the best you can hope for is a quick death.”
Summary
Paris falls to the Germans with not a single shot fired and Webster begins a campaign of resistance under the nose of the Nazis at the American hospital, while in Berlin, Mr and Mrs Rossler are arrested for neglecting their patriotic duties. Harry has returned home to Manchester with one of the Senegalese troops who stayed by his side to transport soldiers off Dunkirk beach, and is dumbfounded to learn that a newly formed special operations unit is interested in having him on board. Lois finds herself growing closer to Vernon.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jsvxg9/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-6/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b1v4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2019/45/world-on-fire
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/search.asp?title=world+on+fire&submit.x=16&submit.y=13
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Don't miss the final episode of #WorldOnFire next Sunday at 9pm! #PeteBowker @BBCOne @mammothscreen
https://twitter.com/TALLAgent/status/1191285893123973120
Fired up
Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville head the cast of World on Fire, a seven-part series that follows ordinary people from across Europe as the continent becomes consumed by the Second World War.
In this DQ interview, writer Peter Bowker and executive producer Helen Ziegler reveal the origins of the series and explain how it follows the lives of multinational people on all sides of the global conflict.
They also discuss how they tried to distance the show from any elements of nostalgia, building the series around a love story between a British translator (Jonah Hauer-King) who falls in love with a Polish waitress (Zofia Wichłacz), despite his relationship with factory worker and singer Lois (Julia Brown) back home.
World on Fire is produced by Mammoth Screen for BBC1, and distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
http://dramaquarterly.com/fired-up-2/
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When you are a pacifist ... Fate plays with you and sends your children to war ... Douglas cannot accept their decisions. #European world arrives @Epicdrama in five days.
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The premiere of 'The World in Flames' is set to debut on Sunday, November 10, and we spoke with British and Polish actors who embodied characters based on real people
Julia Brown, who worked closely with Sean Bean on this series - he plays her father.
"It was an amazing experience, as if I had acting lessons every day. It was great to watch him transform into this wonderful man every day, and in private he is very humorous and likeable," Brown said.
We are watching a great crew in the first episode of the World in Flames series on Sunday, November 10th at 9pm on Epic Drama.
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One of the actors gave an interview too that they're tied into another series of #WorldOnFire and there's room for it to run for the whole six years of the war so they're hoping the @BBC will let them do all six. Fingers crossed
https://twitter.com/DebbieBlackma14/status/1192477804757180418
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World on Fire: thrilling TV that shows the true, terrifying cost of war
Chief plaudits clearly go to Lesley Manville and Sean Bean as Robina and Douglas, two people from very different backgrounds who are united by the sorrow and, perhaps more importantly, the residual wounds they both carry from the first world war.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/08/world-on-fire-thrilling-tv-that-shows-the-true-terrifying-cost-of-war
http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=5643.msg123533#msg123533
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"There's a good chance I won't make it back." Join us for the final episode of #WorldOnFire tomorrow at 9pm on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4p5RDeHtVW/
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1193237139129094144
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Series 1 - Episode 7 Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One
Review
Harry, it’s time to stop crying, there’s a war to be fought. Dry your eyes, there’s a good lad. In the final episode of Peter Bowker’s drama weeping Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) prepares to be parachuted into enemy territory.
But first an awkward farewell with his brittle mother (Lesley Manville) and we learn a little more about why she is so unbending and chilly (though it’s worth remembering she’s given little Jan a proper and even loving home after Harry dumped him on her).
There’s an even more difficult parting with chippy Lois (Julia Brown), who’s about to have their baby. She’s being pursued by a cartoonish gung-ho pilot (Arthur Darvill) who bally well loves her. Pip pip!
Summary
On a Polish mission as part of the SOE, Harry grasps a second chance at saving Kasia from the horrors of Warsaw, while new mother Lois is surprised to be visited again by Vernon. Robina continues to appreciate her unlikely and surprising bond with Douglas and Jan, while Nancy promises Webster she will do all she can to help Albert. Last in the series.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jtn8dv/world-on-fire--s1-e7-world-on-fire/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b9fm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2019/46/world-on-fire
https://www.tvguide.co.uk/search.asp?title=world+on+fire&submit.x=16&submit.y=13
Kasia’s fight for Poland becomes a fight for her own survival. The epic series finale of #WorldOnFire. Tonight at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1193468339403640837
Tonight’s the night,the finale of #WorldOnFire 9pm @BBCOne & @BBCiPlayer Thank you so much for watching & supporting all of us in our labour of love,these are our wonderful Czech units (we worked with the best & we think you can tell) with so much love & gratitude we THANK YOU
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Eagerly awaiting the finale of #WorldOnFire tonight at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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Sean Bean World on Fire: What happened to Conscientious Objectors during the war?
SEAN BEAN stars as pacifist and Conscientious Objector (CO) Douglas Bennett in BBC’s World on Fire but what happened to men like him during the Second World War?
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The final episode of World on Fire airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One. Game of Thrones star Sean Bean plays pacifist and Conscientious Objector (CO) Douglas Bennett in the series. Not only is Douglas a CO but he is also suffering terribly from PTSD from his experience of the First World War. Pacifists chose not to participate in combat for a number of reasons: their faith, non-religious belief in the sanctity of life and a practical belief that war is ineffective.
As seen in World on Fire, CO’s faced hostility from members of the public as patriotism swept across the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1945.
In reality, many CO’s in World War Two, still served in the war effort, signing up to work of national importance instead.
The Non-Combatant Corps (NCC) composed of CO’s who had been conscripted but had been registered as non-combatants.
There were also enlisted members of the NCC who had been deemed not physically fit for combatant service in the military, which lessened the stigma around the NCC.
Objectors could serve in the military non-combatant roles such as medics and ambulance drivers.
Those who objected to serving in the military altogether served on the home front as air raid wardens, in agriculture, forestry and cared for the mentally unwell.
Pacifist options during World War Two were limited in Britain, in comparison to the levels of the First World War.
A few organisations were operating such as the Peace Pledge Union, Society of Friends and The Fellowship of Reconciliation, which continues to operate.
Many CO’s from the First World War had changed their minds by the outbreak of World War Two, viewing the fight against fascism as necessary.
Historian Richard A Rempel explained in his article, The Dilemmas of British Pacifists During World War II: “World War Two raised difficult moral issues for British pacifists.
“By 1939, Nazi totalitarianism had made many pacifist convictions appear untenable and particularly in 1940, after the fall of France, many leading pacifists and thousands of the rank and file disavowed former principles and supported the war.”
The political party in Britain that was opposed to the war was Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, who believed a war with Germany was not in Britain’s national interest.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Sean Bean said: “I read about it [CO’s] and I kind of know what it is and I read about the kind of isolation and the pacifist conscientious objector who is being ostracised by his community.
“It takes a hybrid of madness. He [Douglas Bennett] is a man of strong belief and the First World War coloured his view of the second impending war, and that's not a surprise in hindsight.
“I did some research into the issue. I guess we'll watch soldiers suffer when they've been through Iraq in the Middle East and Afghanistan, in a kind of more extreme version of that.
“I mean, he was a victim in my case. He was a victim of a mustard gas attack, which is pretty horrific and it left him with dreadful memories and flashbacks and left him anxious, depressed and manic in some cases, and he would it would very much influence his view of future wars.
“So that was why he is a pacifist, a conscientious objector. Because he saw his mates around him being blown to pieces. He didn't see war as a solution to the political conflict in Europe.”
In World on Fire, Douglas is a pacifist and hands out Peace News, a pacifist magazine, to passers-by on the street.
He even visits army recruitment centres to try and persuade young boys from joining the war effort.
However, when his son Tom (played by Ewan Mitchell) said he has become a pacifist and doesn't want to return to the navy, Douglas insisted he go back.
Douglas told his son to return as deep down, he believed the war is a war worth fighting in but he is too old to join the forces himself.
However, when his son went missing at Dunkirk, Douglas was consumed by guilt for sending his son back to the battlefield.
Bean explained: “Unfortunately for him, in hindsight, it was not the best war to be a pacifist because there was such a common enemy.
“I mean the German Nazi’s were such a threat that there was no alternative as there is today.
“There’s always an alternative today, dialogue and diplomacy but in that particular one here we didn't know what was going to happen, the difficult parts and brutality that was to come.
“And [WW1] is a war that young men went to as cannon fodder and they didn't know what they were fighting or understand what he was fighting. So, you can't blame him for how he reacted [to WW2]. “
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1200863/Sean-Bean-World-on-Fire-Conscientious-Objectors-WW2-Douglas-Bennett-pacifists
Given THAT ending, we’re especially delighted to be able to tell you that #WorldOnFire will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for Series 2.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1193649170181165057
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Globe-trotting war drama World On Fire gets second series after emotional finale
World On Fire is coming back for a second series. The BBC announced more episodes of the war drama after the series one finale, which aired on Sunday night. World On Fire looks at World War II from the point of view of ordinary people in different countries caught in the crossfire. Game Of Thrones actor Sean Bean plays bus conductor Douglas Bennett, while Helen Hunt, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison and rising talents Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward and Kasia Tomaszeski also star. The show has proven to be a phenomenal success, with the first episode being watched by over 7 million people. The show’s writer Peter Bowker has previously spoken about his plans for more. In an interview with RadioTimes.com, he revealed his detailed plans for more series, each one covering a year of the war.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/10/globe-trotting-war-drama-world-on-fire-gets-second-series-after-emotional-finale-11075893/
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Yup the BBC has spoken!
https://twitter.com/NickieSault/status/1193817971392753665
World On Fire's fate has been revealed after season finale cliffhanger
Many fans were left reeling by World On Fire's season one finale tonight (November 10) after BBC One's WWII drama ended with an almighty cliffhanger.
But not to worry – it's good news for those who were left desperate to find out what happens next in the saga, as the BBC has confirmed that the show will return for a second series. Hooray!
Considering the show has been such a resounding success thanks to its heartfelt writing and incredible performances from top actors including Helen Hunt and Sean Bean, no doubt the confirmation of a second outing will come as welcome news to fans.
Particularly for those who took to Twitter tonight to share their dismay at the show's open ending. Just take a look at some of the reactions below:
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a29752000/world-on-fire-season-1-renewed-finale-cliffhanger/
Fans delighted as World on Fire is renewed for season two
https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2019111180419/fans-delighted-world-on-fire-renewed-season-tw/
We’ll be able to look back in years to come and tell Boden he played a girl on a BBC drama when he was a newborn!
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@sean_bean_official thank you so much for your great performance in World on Fire!! No one would have played the role of the PTSD suffering pacifist Douglas Bennett better than you did! You literally made me cry almost every episode , because you made this emotional storyline look so real. I really enjoyed watching this brilliant series! Hope to see you again in season 2!!
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PBS Masterpiece To Co-Produce Second Season Of Helen Hunt-Fronted War Drama ‘World On Fire” & Reveals Premiere Date
EXCLUSIVE: PBS is joining the BBC for a second season of Helen Hunt-fronted war drama World on Fire and has set a premiere date for the first season.
The U.S. public broadcaster will air the first season on Sunday April 5 2020 on its Masterpiece strand but has already signed up to co-produce the second season of the period thriller ahead of its TX.
Earlier today, the BBC revealed that it had renewed the series, produced by Victoria producer Mammoth Screen, following the UK finale.
https://deadline.com/2019/11/pbs-masterpiece-to-co-produce-second-season-of-helen-hunt-fronted-war-drama-world-on-fire-reveals-premiere-date-1202782888/
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So proud to have been involved in a few dailys on this amazing series looking after hundreds of supporting artists, amazing hair & make up team, lots of wwII haircuts, bendy sets & 1940’s make ups.
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Sweep of ‘World on Fire’ encompasses portrayals of ordinary lives
When screenwriter Peter Bowker decided to dramatize World War II, he looked at it through the prism of ordinary people whose otherwise ordinary lives had been overtaken by global events far beyond their control.
Though they lived in England, France, Poland and Germany, he imagined that, in unexpected ways, their lives had become intertwined.
The result was World on Fire, a seven-part Masterpiece scheduled for broadcast next spring.
You might think Bowker, 61, would have been influenced by such celebrated 1980s miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance, based on sprawling novels by Herman Wouk. But despite some similarities to those epic stories, his biggest inspiration was a 26-episode BBC documentary series, The World at War, broadcast in 1973 and 1974 and narrated by Laurence Olivier.
That landmark series examined the entirety of the war from military and civilian perspectives around the globe. Bowker challenged himself to create a drama with similar sweep and diverse points of reference.
His previous creations included the musical drama Blackpool (2004) and the subsequent CBS adaptation, Viva Laughlin. His 2009 series, Occupation, followed three military servicemen after their tours of duty in Iraq. Desperate Romantics (2009) was about the pre-Raphaelites. He has written an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (2009) and a play, Flesh and Blood (2002), about sex and disability.
“He’s a varied guy, and his stories are character-driven,” said Masterpiece EP Rebecca Eaton. “But he’s also interested in big ideas. This gave him the opportunity to create a whole roomful of very distinct characters.”
Eaton first learned of the project from one of her regular conversations with Damien Timmer, managing director of Mammoth Screen. The company has produced several Masterpiece series, including Poldark, Endeavour and Victoria.
Timmer arranged for Eaton to meet Bowker in London in the summer of 2018. “He pretty much acted out six years of World War II. He described his intention to do this series from the individual’s point of view,” she said.
Eaton was impressed, though there were still other elements to be considered, including casting, directing and, of course, negotiating a price. “I think they very much wanted it to be on PBS,” she said. “As soon as we showed serious interest, they agreed to just talk to us exclusively.”
Masterpiece does not reveal the amount it pays for productions but, Eaton said, “I would say this isn’t cheap.”
The extent to which Masterpiece gets involved with actual production can vary. “In this case, there was a lot of trust,” Eaton said. “My feeling as an executive producer and as a minority partner is to give them the money, keep an eye on it but then get out of the way and allow them to fulfill the vision. That’s generally how we do it, but very much so with Mammoth because of what they’ve done.”
The three characters at the heart of the show are Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King of Little Women), a young English translator in Warsaw; Lois Bennett (Julia Brown of The Last Kingdom), his girlfriend at home; and Kasia Tomaszeski (Zofia Wichlacz), the Polish waitress with whom he falls in love and then tries to spirit out of the country.
Others in the cast include Helen Hunt (Mad About You), who plays Nancy Campbell, an American radio correspondent and the glue holding many of the other stories together. Lesley Manville (Midsomer Murders) plays Robina Chase, Harry’s domineering mother.
Sean Bean (Game of Thrones and Inspector Morse) plays Lois’ father, Douglas Bennett, a conscientious objector during World War I who is shellshocked from his service in a non-combat role. The character is modeled to an extent on Bowker’s own grandfather, a bus driver whose experiences in World War I, including a mustard gas attack, caused a condition now referred to as PTSD.
While all characters are fictional, Bowker conducted extensive research at London’s Imperial War Museum to learn more about the concerns of people at that time, from the trivial to the aspirational. At the museum, he discovered a trove of diaries written as part of a project to encourage people to record their feelings.
Bowker told a group of journalists that he asked the museum if there were diaries about Polish life during the war. “Within a couple of days, they found me two translated diaries of young women, one of whom was a waitress working in Warsaw,” he said.
Helen Ziegler, an EP for Mammoth, said Bowker was searching for a common humanity. “What he does and what he evokes is the idea of what it would be like for a Harry and a Kasia to be falling in love with the world as their oyster and then the bombs start to fall,” she said.
“Pete was fascinated by the questions — Do you stay? Do you run? Do you hide or do you fight? Not putting judgment on that, but just asking the question,” Ziegler said.
Although there’s no intention to deliver a history lesson, each of the seven episodes is organized around a significant event during the first year of the war. These include the invasion of Poland, the evacuation at Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the start of the Battle of Britain.
“There are many more stories to tell,” Ziegler said. “I know Peter has planned where the characters go and what they end up doing throughout the war.”
The BBC began broadcasting the series in October and has not yet announced a decision about additional seasons.
“So far, so good in terms of how it’s going in the U.K.,” Eaton said. “Hopefully, we’ll all know in the next few months and definitely before we air in the spring.”
https://current.org/2019/11/sweep-of-world-on-fire-encompasses-portrayals-of-ordinary-lives/
Renewed: World on Fire
UK period drama World on Fire has been renewed for a second season.
No official airdate has been suggested, but the first series reportedly took two years to make.
World on Fire airs in Australia on BBC First.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/11/renewed-world-on-fire.html
Thank you all for watching and supporting #WorldOnFire. We can't wait to bring you series two.
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Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville star in World on Fire, an adrenalized and emotionally gripping World War II drama, coming to MASTERPIECE on April 5, 2020. #WorldOnFirePBS
https://twitter.com/masterpiecepbs/status/1194796126974742529
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/world-on-fire-teaser/
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Chonkinfeckle on set of the BBC drama 'World on Fire'
Wigan band Chonkinfeckle have a mooch at some of the Wigan sets used in the brilliant BBC WWII drama 'World on Fire'. Filmed back in November 2018 using multiple rooms at the Old Courts complex and on location in Kendal Street, it is amazing to see how much effort goes into making one of these programmes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMwBFdXoORw
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World on Fire 2
Peter Bowker’s second world war drama gets a second outing as the BBC have commissioned a follow-up to the acclaimed World On Fire. Telling the story of normal people caught up with a war that consumed a continent, a 2020 shoot date is to be fixed soon for the second instalment of the mini-series. Casting director Victor Jenkins looks set to return – as will a swathe of original cast members, from Sean Bean to breakout Polish star Zofia Wichłacz.
https://www.backstage.com/uk/magazine/article/these-2-marvel-bbc-productions-are-casting-soon-in-the-uk-69433/?fbclid=IwAR0KsHRrxHDSHXA8ZxbLmYT73tCr0nMO_Ydr4sUeE2i8AP6FIUWeBimQljM
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'World On Fire' Actresses Tell Their Experiences Of ENSA
'World on Fire' cast tell us what it's like to act opposite Sean Bean as ENSA performers during WW2.
Following the end of the first series of the BBC drama 'World on Fire', BFBS speaks to actresses Julia Brown and Yrsa Daley-Ward to find out what it was like to play the parts of historic wartime entertainers.
Lois, alongside working for ENSA, finds herself pregnant whilst nursing a broken heart and also caring for her father (played by Sean Bean), a former soldier suffering shell shock from his time serving in the First World War.
Working with her onscreen father was ‘daunting’ initially but Julia said:
“Sean was amazing to work with. He was so down to earth and humble and really generous to work opposite and just kind and lovely.”
https://www.forces.net/entertainment/world-fire-actresses-tell-their-experiences-ensa
https://twitter.com/ForcesRadioBFBS/status/1196429604795359232
A young Gdynia citizen in the BBC series. Beside him, Sean Bean and Tomasz Kot
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His sister took him to the casting. During the audition, however, he got an invitation to a completely different production. This is how the adventure of Eric Biedunkiewicz with the series "Świat w ogniu" produced by BBC began. The young actor from Gdynia made his debut on the screen in good company - on the set he met, among others Sean Bean, Tomasz Kot, Zofia Wichłacz or Agata Kulesza. Eryk Biedunkiewicz is a graduate of the Gdynia Valldal Comedy Theater . He hit the miniseries "World on fire" quite by accident. The boy's sister, Nina, took her brother to a student etude, which was organized in Gdańsk. It turned out that on-site recruitment for the latest production carried out under the banner of the BBC was carried out. So Eryk tried his hand, and after a few months he received an invitation to the next stage of the casting in Warsaw. Here, he met directly with the creators of the series, whom he convinced so successfully that he took one of the main children's roles.
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Spotlight: Stars Coming to MASTERPIECE
Actor Sean Bean first stormed onto the MASTERPIECE screen as Richard Sharpe in the hard-hitting action series Sharpe, based on the books by Bernard Cornwell. But the adventures haven’t stopped for Bean who has appeared in Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and many other adrenaline-fueled films and television shows. In World on Fire, Bean takes on a very different role as Douglas Bennett, a father whose experiences of war have made him an ardent pacifist. But as his own children go off to the war, Bennett is left both bereft and brave. “Douglas was involved in the First World War and was so mentally damaged by shell shock that it has an influence on how he viewed everything to do with the Second World War,” Bean said. “He doesn’t believe in war as a means of achieving objectives. He thinks there should be negotiation and people should be trying to communicate.”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/spotlight-stars-coming-to-masterpiece/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/world-on-fire/
War Drama 'World on Fire' Will Come to Masterpiece in April
Sprawling, epic World War II drama World on Fire will officially be coming to PBS Masterpiece this Spring.
The seven-part period drama spans the first year of the war, with its story split between multiple main characters in several locations, including Manchester, Warsaw, Berlin and Paris. The idea is to show the impact of World War II through the eyes of different ordinary people around the world.
World on Fire will officially begin on Sunday, April 5, 2020. Mark your calendars now!
The series features an all-star ensemble cast led by Oscar winner Helen Hunt and Game of Thrones star Sean Bean. They’re joined by a ton of other faces that’ll be very familiar to British television fans, including Lesley Manville (Harlots), Blake Harrison (Prime Suspect: Tennison), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women), Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom), Brian J. Smith (Sense8) and Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44).
PBS also released a second trailer for the series along with the premiere date announcement, which provides a bit more context for the show.
https://blogs.weta.org/tellyvisions/2019/11/18/war-drama-world-fire-will-come-masterpiece-april
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‘World on Fire’ interview: Creator Peter Bowker on writing his new WW2 drama
Written by The A Word creator Peter Bowker, World on Fire is out on DVD this week.
BBC One’s hit new period drama series from the makers of Poldark launched this autumn, marking 80 years since the outbreak of World War II.
The all-star cast includes Oscar-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), Sharpe star Sean Bean, Lesley Manville (Mum, River), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom).
The epic seven-part series tells the story of ordinary people from all sides of the global conflict of the Second World War.
The complete first season is out now on DVD from ITV Studios Global Entertainment and it’s also available to watch on Digital Download.
Here writer Peter Bowker chats in depth about creating World on Fire…
The second season of World on Fire is expected to begin filming in 2020.
Season 1 is available now on DVD on Amazon.
http://britishperioddramas.com/news/world-on-fire-peter-bowker-interview/
http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=2705.msg123199#msg123199
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Short interview with Sean on the World On Fire DVD.
http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=5550.msg123614#msg123614
Win World On Fire on DVD
https://winit.winsomething.co.uk/sweepstakes/win-world-on-fire-on-dvd-29199
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Only 7 days left to watch all the episodes of @WorldOnFireTV on @BBCiPlayer. After that you can buy pirate copies off me at the Chiswick School Car Boot every first Sunday of the month. Just don't tell the legal team of @mammothscreen
https://twitter.com/pbowker7/status/1201870889689763840
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008zv1/world-on-fire-series-1-episode-1
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The new series World On Fire, which brings together the audience with a striking expression of how the Second World War affects not only the soldiers on the front but all the people, is on TV only on December 16! #HelenHunt #SeanBean
https://www.instagram.com/p/B540caPgpz6/
https://tvplus.com.tr/
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Music played a huge part in keeping morale high during the war. But which wartime songs were the favourites amongst the #WorldOnFire cast?
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1205549366611722240
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BBC One’s epic international period drama series set in World War II returns for a second season.
The second season of World on Fire will span the years 1940 to 1941, and all the main cast are expected to return, including Oscar-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), Sharpe star Sean Bean and Lesley Manville (Mum, River).
When will it air?
Season 2 will air in late 2020 or possibly in 2021.
http://britishperioddramas.com/lists/best-new-british-tv-period-drama-series-2020/
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The 50 best TV shows of 2019: 2-50
49
World on Fire
(BBC One) Peter Bowker’s ambitious wartime drama, featuring both the burning home fires and the plight of families in Germany and Poland, was an emotional tour de force right to its flabbergastingly open ending.
What we said: There is plenty of action, for those who want it, but this is far from the standard wartime miniseries. It is a beautifully turned ensemble piece, with everyone getting their time in the spotlight. Read the full review.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/02/50-best-tv-shows-2019
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World On Fire tells story of 'ordinary people' during World War II
World On Fire, a sweeping drama with an international cast, tells the story of World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from around the world.
When Stuff was invited to talk to the cast and creative team behind the show, it soon became evident just how epic it was in nature.
"Douglas (Bean) is a bus conductor and father to Lois and Tom," says Bean. "And he brings them up on his own after their mother died and he's struggling a little bit because of his experience with the First World War where he suffered with what then would be called shell shock and now post-traumatic stress disorder.
"He is a beaten man in some ways. You can still see the strong character that he once was but he's been battered and shocked and demoralised by the bloodshed and the horror that he saw.
"Back then people like him were treated as though there was something wrong with them. Often they were thought not to be 'real men' or that they were 'cowards'.
"And it's so sad because they were men and they were strong men and they went to war and they came back mentally disturbed because of the physical things around them – their mates next to them getting their heads blasted off. You can't say that's not going to affect you. It would traumatise even the strongest of men. I imagine it would have traumatised me very much and that I would have come back a different man.
"He's a conscientious objector when World War II breaks out and he gets a hard time from people because of that.
"He is closer to his daughter than he is to his son. She keeps everything together and is domestic.
"She does all the washing and cooking and tidying up, as women did in those days. But it's not so much the domestic chores, it's her moral influence and strength on the family that keeps them together. If it wasn't for her I think they would fall apart.
"Then he meets this woman, Robina (Lesley Manville), who is upper middle class, snobbish and has quite a lot of money and lives in a grand house. They are totally different but they later find that they have a lot in common and help bring out the best traits in each other."
World On Fire, TVNZ 1, Sunday January 5
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/tv-guide/118280820/world-on-fire-tells-story-of-ordinary-people-during-world-war-ii?fbclid=IwAR0b302hOzIsUXLZUUY9tm8firdWLQXntqopZa1bahm8xs3cpWCxpMvGUVw
In our latest issue, we chat to Sean Bean and Helen Hunt about the new war drama World On Fire, starting on TVNZ 1, Sunday Jan 5.
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Still time to enter our competition to win recent BBC drama World on Fire. For you chance to win, enter here:
http://boomuk.net/worldonfirecomp.html …
#Competition #Competitions #Win #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/boomUK/status/1211281792491237378
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World on Fire is a searing portrait of ordinary folk in wartime
In the Netflix era, it’s go big or go home, and the BBC is doing the former in seven-part series World on Fire (TVNZ 1, Sunday, 8.45pm), which dramatises the lives of ordinary people in five countries during World War II.
This article was first published in the January 4, 2020 issue of the New Zealand Listener.
https://www.noted.co.nz/culture/culture-television/world-on-fire-searing-portrait-of-ordinary-folk-in-war
World on Fire
Premieres Sunday 5 January 8.45pm on TVNZ 1
Helen Hunt (Mad About You) and Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) star in this beautifully-shot, sweeping historical drama following the intertwined lives of ordinary civilians across Europe who are caught up in World War II.
An English translator in Warsaw attempts to smuggle his Polish lover back to Manchester. Meanwhile, an American war correspondent makes a discovery at the Polish-German border and runs up against censorship in Germany.
Each of the characters are from different backgrounds and countries, and play different roles in the war, but are united by their struggle to survive in difficult circumstances.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/what-to-watch/news-feed/tvnz-highlights-4-10-january
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#WorldOnFire panel features writer Peter Bowker, star Helen Hunt, along with Jonah Hauer-King (by satellite), Zofia Wichlacz and Julia Brown, who play the love triangle portion of the multi-armed tale of life during WWII. It has already been commissioned for S2. #tca20 #PBS50
https://twitter.com/OfficialTCA/status/1215694193609175040
http://tvcritics.org/press-tour-schedule-overview/
TCA: ‘World on Fire’ Starts on PBS April 5
The PBS World War II drama World on Fire premieres April 5. PBS calls the show “an adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives. Set in Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States, the events of the seven-hour series take place during the first year of the war.”
The cast includes Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King and Blake Harrison. Hunt plays an American journalist reporting from Warsaw and Berlin as fighting erupts.
PBS has committed to a second season of the series, which falls under its Masterpiece header.
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/tca-world-on-fire-starts-on-pbs-april-5
‘#WorldOnFire’s #HelenHunt On Being The “Token American” In #PBS Series & More – #TCA http://dlvr.it/RMq2sQ
https://twitter.com/Current_Knewz/status/1215758106774233088
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2020 Preview: 'World On Fire's EP Previews the Show's Interweaving Tales
https://www.tvinsider.com/843147/world-on-fire-pbs-masterpiece-preview/
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World on Fire: Cast, Air Date, Trailer and More
When is it Airing and How to Watch
World on Fire premieres on Sunday, April 5 at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS, and will run on Sundays through May 17, with seven episodes in total. Watch on-air, online, or with the PBS Video app, available for free download. Want to watch all the episodes at your own pace? Starting on April 5 at 9/8c (the night of the premiere), binge the entire series with PBS Passport, an added member benefit.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/world-on-fire-cast-air-date-trailer-and-more/#
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Soundtrack Album for BBC’s & PBS Masterpiece’s ‘World on Fire’ Released
Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the BBC drama World on Fire . The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Empire, Any Human Heart, Lady Macbeth, The Miniaturist). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. World on Fire is written by Peter Bowker and stars Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Blake Harrison, Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Patrick Kennedy, Johannes Zeiler and Eugénie Derouand. The World War II drama follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives. The series premiered in the UK last fall on BBC One and will debut in the U.S. as part of PBS’ Masterpiece on April 5, 2020. Visit the official show website to learn more about the drama, which has already been renewed for a second season.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2020/02/14/soundtrack-album-for-bbcs-pbs-masterpieces-world-on-fire-released/
World on Fire (Original Soundtrack
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084KXHNVH/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=filmusrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B084KXHNVH&linkId=f29a27841de58d7294d6a01c6091d999
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https://twitter.com/WYESTV/status/1229885617867304960
See Sean Bean as Douglas Bennet in the first episode of MASTERPIECE | PBS' newest series "World on Fire" during a preview screening happening March 18th at #WYES. Delish #NOLA bites and cocktails will be served. Get your 🎟🎟 on our profile!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8uVFZilwgb/?igshid=7v35jjhmryx1
WYES MASTERPIECE "WORLD ON FIRE" SCREENING | MARCH 18 | $20
Enjoy sweet & savory bites, a specialty cocktail and wine while watching MASTERPIECE'S newest WWII drama.
https://www.wyes.org/events/
Tickets
WYES MASTERPIECE "WORLD ON FIRE" SCREENING
Wednesday, March 18th
6:30pm — Specialty Cocktail, Wine, Sweet and Savory Bites
7:15pm — Watch a First Look of MASTERPIECE "World on Fire"
Guests will enjoy Speciality Cocktail, Wine, Sweet and Savory Bites.
WYES Paulette and Frank Stewart Innovation Center for Educational Media
916 Navarre Avenue, New Orleans
Seating is limited!
$20 per person
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wyes-masterpiece-world-on-fire-screening-tickets-92953820379
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Free screening of “World on Fire,” a new Masterpiece drama
Wednesday March 25 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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Join KET for a special, free screening of the first episode of the new Masterpiece drama, “World on Fire.” This gripping series follows the fates of ordinary people in five countries during the first year of World War II and features performances from Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and more.
The screening will be followed by a special discussion of WWII history in Northern Kentucky with:
Elaine Kuhn, local history/genealogy expert at Kenton County Public Library;
Dave Schroeder, director of the Kenton County Public Library;
Dr. Paul Tenkotte, chair of the history & geography department at Northern Kentucky University and director of The Center for Public History
Wednesday, March 25
Doors open at 5:30, screening begins at 6:30
Kenton County Public Library, Durr Branch
1992 Walton-Nicholson Road Independence, KY 4105
https://www.ket.org/event/free-screening-of-world-on-fire-a-new-masterpiece-drama/
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Preview Screening: World on Fire
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https://www.witf.org/2020/03/02/free-preview-screening-world-on-fire/
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The BFI & Radio Times TV festival is back for 2020 and here are some of the highlights
the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival is taking place on the Southbank in London between 17 and 19 April. And here are the highlights, according to the press release:
The intertwining stories of ordinary people caught up in WW2 were told to great acclaim in the epic World on Fire; star Julia Brown, writer Peter Bowker and designer Paul Spriggs will take part in a panel to discuss the creation of this powerful hit drama series and offer behind-the-scenes insights into the challenges of re-creating war-torn Europe.
https://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2020/03/bfi-radio-times-tv-festival-2020-highlights.php
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Travel to the four corners of the world with the Festival International Panorama series!
Let’s travel with the International Panorama series of #SeriesMania 2020!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UmwONBWFc/
NTERNATIONAL PANORAMA #WorldOnFire, created by Peter Bowker and broadcast on
@BBCOne
. The series retraces years after years the Second World War with men and women in five European countries.
https://twitter.com/FestSeriesMania/status/1235273307135627264
SERIES MANIA Festival International TV Series Festival
Lille / Hauts-de-France /// 2020 edition: March 20-28
Episodes 1 & 2
Series 7 x 60 min
In English, German, French, Polish, with French and English subtitles
Saturday 21 March UGC 20:00 - 22:34
Tuesday 24 March UGC 11:00 - 13:04
https://seriesmania.com/en/festival/programmation/world-on-fire/
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We are proud to be nominated for Best Drama Series at this year's Broadcasting Press Guild Awards! #WorldOnFire https://deadline.com/2020/02/fleabag-chernobyl-vie-broadcasting-press-guild-1202857621/… via
@DEADLINE
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1228691835507347457
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London on March 13
https://deadline.com/2020/02/fleabag-chernobyl-vie-broadcasting-press-guild-1202857621/
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Calling all MASTERPIECE fans! You’re invited to join WSEC or a free film screening on Thu, Mar. 26 at 7pm at the WSEC Television Studios.
Join us for a one hour screening of MASTERPIECE’s newest World War II drama, ‘World on Fire.’ Guests will enjoy a screening of episode one and have a chance to meet local MASTERPIECE fans. Arrive early to enjoy refreshments provided by Cristaudo’s Café, Catering and Bakery and enter to win MASTERPIECE -themed door prizes. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for entry. Doors open at 6:30pm.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-on-fire-film-screening-tickets-99267011303?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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SERIES MANIA Festival International TV Series Festival
Lille / Hauts-de-France /// 2020 edition: March 20-28
Episodes 1 & 2
Series 7 x 60 min
In English, German, French, Polish, with French and English subtitles
Saturday 21 March UGC 20:00 - 22:34
Tuesday 24 March UGC 11:00 - 13:04
https://seriesmania.com/en/festival/programmation/world-on-fire/
Series Mania TV festival and industry event cancelled due to coronavirus
French TV festival and industry event Series Mania, which was due to take place from March 20-28 in the northern French city of Lille, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The organisers said the entire meeting spanning the Series Mania Festival (March 20-28), Series Mania Forum (March 25-27), and Lille Dialogues (March 26) have been shelved in the interest of safety.
https://www.screendaily.com/news/series-mania-tv-festival-and-industry-event-cancelled-due-to-coronavirus/5147986.article
After trying everything to ensure the 2020 edition of the festival, we are forced to cancel it. #SeriesMania must remain an exceptional event and we could not have offered it with the same ambition. Thank you for being so many of us supporting us, we will be there in 2021!
https://twitter.com/FestSeriesMania/status/1237676730330079235
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Meet the Cast of World on Fire
Which World on Fire cast member once studied theology, who nearly joined the United States Army, and who has starred in a hit musical on London’s West End? Learn all about the multi-talented cast of the upcoming, epic World War II drama, including Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and more. Get the rundown on where you’ve seen them before, how they prepared for their World War II era roles, and some fun facts about their lives and award-winning careers. Mark your calendars: World on Fire premieres on MASTERPIECE on PBS on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 9/8c.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/meet-the-cast-of-world-on-fire/
Episodes
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/world-on-fire/episodes/
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I can’t wait for all you lovely Americans to be able watch this! Starting on Sunday 9/8c
@masterpiecepbs
#WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/NickieSault/status/1244961861705125888
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However, the biggest disappointment is the character of Douglas Bennett, played by the iconic Sean Bean. Lois and Tom’s father isn’t given much to do, particularly in the first three episodes. It’s a shame to have an actor as talented as Bean relegated to such a marginal role.
https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/hitler-lights-the-match-that-sparks-world-war-ii-in-world-on-fire-tv-review/article_9fd30086-542a-11ea-bbe3-af456659d114.html
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Already renewed for a second season – although that was pre-global pandemic, so who knows if it will come to fruition – writer Peter Bowker said he’s planned out the series for the characters established in season one but he did it with eyes open to the realities of show business. Unlike commercial series, where the whole cast is locked in for years up front, on a production like this it’s more year-by-year for some of the big name cast members, which means not all of the actors may be available when it comes time to film season two, originally planned to started production in September, although now, who knows when it might happen.
“I know that people like Sean and Helen and Lesley may well be demanded on other projects, and this young cast, who have now broken through so spectacularly, will also be in demand,” Mr. Bowker said in January during the PBS portion of the Television Critics Association winter 2020 press tour in Pasadena, Calif. “Everybody at the moment wants to come back.”
http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in/item/41692-pbs-debuts-wwii-drama-world-on-fire-while-world-is-on-fire
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‘Masterpiece’ recalls ‘World on Fire’ with WWII drama
Many stories have dramatized World War II, but familiar faces and age-appropriate actors can bring that event into fresh focus again.
“World on Fire” has both elements as the British-American co-production begins its PBS “Masterpiece” run Sunday at 9 p.m. Written by Peter Bowker (“Blackpool”) and set in 1939 in everal countries that were at the forefront of the conflict including America and England.
Even before “World on Fire” starts its U.S. telecasts, it’s known there will be more of it, since a second season already has been ordered. “We do a lot of World War II homefront dramas that may take in one part of the war,” Bowker said, “so I just hope (this) will carry on getting recommissioned. I’m not naive enough to suppose that that’s a done deal. Hopefully, the longer it goes on, the more people will want to find out what happens next. In my head, there’s a huge series bible which I planned out for all these characters,but I take it for granted we will lose some along the way.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/05/masterpiece-recalls-world-on-fire-with-wwii-drama/
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If the series never gets completed, I hope the writer tells us what he had in mind for all the characters!
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World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives. Watch the series Sundays at 9/8c now through May 17, 2020. You can also see all seven episodes now when you watch with PBS Passport, an added member benefit.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/world-on-fire/#
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Hey ya’ll! I hope you’re all safe, healthy, and hanging in there. Just a heads up - I’m going to be taking over the
@masterpiecepbs Instagram account this Thursday, April 30 to discuss all things @WorldOnFireTV
basically you can ask me anything! Who’s in?
https://twitter.com/BrianJacobSmith/status/1253971762645282822
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I really ENJOYED WORLD ON FIRE last night !!! SEAN is SO CUTE and the story and other actors are FANTASTIC !!!
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World on Fire's Julia Brown Reveals Why Sean Bean Made Her Cry During the Season Finale
"We had this baby who was only four days old who played my newborn. He was playing a girl, but he was so sweet. He's so tiny. And then, it was really special doing the scene with Sean, as well. Because we shot it quite near the end of the series and I think we were all quite emotionally exhausted. And there's a little bit where Sean comes in and he's got tears in his eyes and he strokes the baby's head. And I think I cried in response to Sean, because he just looked so heart-warmed by the tiny little baby."
World on Fire has already been renewed for a second season, but Brown was tight-lipped about what's to come for her character.
"It's all under lock and key, but I know Pete has been busy writing," she tells me."We're going to start production in September, but with the current global situation you never know if that's going to be pushed back. I'm just excited to reunite with everyone and do it all again. It's been a dream of a job."
World on Fire is available to stream through the PBS Passport app, or on Amazon Prime.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a32071294/world-on-fire-julia-brown-sean-bean-lois-season-1-finale/
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World on Fire Season 2: Everything We Know So Far
World on Fire is returning to MASTERPIECE on PBS for Season 2! Find out everything we know so far, including Season 2 plot points, character arcs, and even battlefields, revealed to MASTERPIECE by writer and creator Peter Bowker. Plus, we caught up with stars Julia Brown (Lois Bennett) and Zofia Wichlacz (Kasia Tomaszeski), who told us their Season 2 hopes for their characters.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/world-on-fire-season-2-everything-we-know-so-far/#
After a stunning season one finale, World On Fire lead Zofia Wichłacz and series creator Peter Bowker return for another new podcast conversation, wrapping up the drama of season one and looking forward to the thrill of the second season already in the works.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/podcasts/masterpiece-studio/peter-bowker-zofia-wichlacz/
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THIS IS GREAT NEWS !! THANK YOU Patch !!
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NO Bafta TV Awards 2020 nomination for Sean or World On Fire.
Bafta TV Awards 2020: Nominees in full
The best British TV of 2019 has been nominated for the Bafta Television Awards, which take place on 31 July. Here is the full list:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52917661
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I've seen 2 episodes with my wife so far and we're really enjoying it.
Too bad about BAFTA, but maybe he will have luck at the Emmys this year. It be nice to see his work be more recognized.
At least he has 2 highly prestigious awards already! I'd love to see him do something meaty on the silver screen.
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Well... 0 nominations for World on Fire. Disappointing but not unexpected.
Sean Bean is fantastic in this. But they also didn't nominate Tom Pelphrey for Ozark, which boggles my mind as well.
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The world will never be the same again, nor will their lives.
Watch out for the historical drama featuring Helen Hunt and Sean Bean set during the WW2.
#WorldOnFire - streaming from 14th August, exclusively on #SonyLIV
https://bit.ly/39KaXiA
https://twitter.com/SonyLIV/status/1293133364426346496
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Gogglebox reacting to World on fire 🌍🔥
Pete at the end when he said I couldn’t lift you up 😂
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD0soMwjGvx/
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A caring and loving father, Douglas struggles watching his son and daughter join the war effort.
What will he do when he sees his worst fear set to become a reality?
Watch Sean Bean as Douglas Bennett in #WorldOnFire - streaming now, only on #SonyLIV
https://bit.ly/WoF_
https://twitter.com/SonyLIV/status/1295004890230644736
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World on Fire on Dutch TV
WORLD ON FIRE: WAR DRAMA TO BE SEEN AT THE NPO
World on Fire can be seen weekly on NPO 2 and NPO Start from 25 October. The full first season will also appear in its entirety on NPO Plus on that day.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdelagarde.nl%2Fworld-on-fire-oorlogsdrama-te-zien-bij-de-npo..
https://delagarde.nl/world-on-fire-oorlogsdrama-te-zien-bij-de-npo
From the end of this month, the British Second World War series World on Fire will be broadcast on NPO 2. The broadcaster announced today. The series, which was produced by Masterpiece, features an impressive cast that includes Sean Bean, Helen Hunt and Lesley Manville.
World on Fire was developed by Masterpiece - also responsible for series such as Baptiste, Sherlock and Wallander - and appeared on the British channel BBC One in 2019. Although the production had the resources and cast to put down a rock-solid series, the reviews were somewhat disappointing. However, they were enough to make the developers decide to add a second season. When this season will appear on British television, it is not yet known, but the first season can be seen weekly on NPO 2 and on NPO Start from 25 October. Subscribers to NPO Plus can also watch the entire first season from this date.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviemeter.nl%2Fartikelen%2F1546%2Fwoii-serie-world-on-fire-komt-naar-de-npo%2F
https://www.moviemeter.nl/artikelen/1546/woii-serie-world-on-fire-komt-naar-de-npo/
I hope it's not the same edited version that was screened last year in the Netherlands on BBC First Benelux.
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Trailer: NPO comes with brutal war series with Game of Thrones star
NPO comes with World on Fire
The production was broadcast on BBC One in 2019. That creates high expectations, because if the British are known for something when it comes to this kind of historical series, then it is quality.
World on Fire follows several people just before the Second World War broke out. An American journalist played by Helen Hunt tries to keep up with the burgeoning chaos and put it on paper, something that is becoming increasingly difficult. Sean Bean plays a bus driver who continues to struggle with the PTSD he contracted in World War I and Jonah Hauer-King plays Harry, an ambitious civil servant who works at the British Embassy.
Second season
You can of course also start streaming the series on NPO Start, completely free of charge. Paying subscribers do not have to wait for new episodes and can then check the entire first season in one fell swoop.
Hopefully World on Fire will also make an impression in the Netherlands, because the British are already working on a second season. Unfortunately, it is not yet known when those new episodes will be broadcast by BBC One.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manners.nl%2Fnpo-oorlogsserie%2F
https://www.manners.nl/npo-oorlogsserie/
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With Sean Bean working on Snowpiercer and a miniseries, and Helen Hunt now signed on to another show, and how time keeps passing with no news, I think it is unfortunately likely that season 2 will not happen.
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When will ‘World on Fire’ Season 2 begin filming?
World on Fire fans are set for an even further wait before the second season arrives.
From the makers of Poldark and Endeavour, the show launched in the UK back in September 2019.
Opening with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain in 1940, World on Fire takes viewers across the first year of World War II, from ordinary life in Manchester to the beaches of Dunkirk.
The hit period drama series received great reviews and premiered in the US early last year.
World on Fire was officially renewed in November 2019, and the new episodes were originally meant to start filming last year.
However, production was delayed due to the coronavirus pande
Spanning the years 1940 to 1941, the new season of World on Fire will open with the blitz in the Northwest of England.
All the main cast are expected to reprise their roles, including Oscar-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), Sharpe star Sean Bean, Lesley Manville (Mum), and Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women).
Zophia Wichlacz and Julia Brown, who play Kasia and Lois, have already revealed some hints about what to expect.
Unfortunately, it looks like Season 2 won’t be ready anytime soon!
Jonah Hauer-King, who plays Harry, is currently busy filming Disney’s new live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
The 25-year-old English-American actor is playing Prince Eric in the movie, and the shoot is expected to continue for many more months.
Even if World on Fire is able to resume filming this summer, we wouldn’t expect it to premiere until spring 2022 at the earliest.
Jonah Hauer-King previously discussed the status of Season 2 last year: “It’s off the books right now, but I know that they remain fully committed to making it. I’ve spoken with the writer, with Peter [Bowker] in the last week and he’s been giving me updates.”
He added: “The scripts are very much in the works. As to when we actually start shooting is anyone’s guess. Unfortunately, I think you know, this this [coronavirus] crisis has thrown up all kinds of issues. It’s big crews, big sets, so yeah, we’ll just have to wait and see when we get the green light.”
Luckily, American viewers can catch the first season again on Sunday nights on PBS Masterpiece next month, airing after new Second World War drama Atlantic Crossing.
World on Fire is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.
https://britishperioddramas.com/news/world-on-fire-season-2-filming/
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TV QA: When will 'Yellowstone' and 'World on Fire' return?
Q: Can you find out if there is going to be another installment to "World on Fire," which premiered on PBS in the winter of 2019? This was an excellent series starring Helen Hunt. It left several characters' stories unfinished, and we are hoping it will carry on from it left off.
A: The first season of the wartime drama was well received, and a second season has been announced. But I do not know when it will begin. Production was delayed during the pandemic, and one report said it will return late in 2021 at the earliest.
On the “Masterpiece” website, “World on Fire” creator Peter Bowker offered this teaser for the second season: “Kasia and Lois will meet, and the fallout from that, I think for everybody, will be interesting and fascinating. Season 2 will start, historically, with the blitz in the Northwest of England. And North Africa will be very much the field of battle. We’ll find out more about Webster’s family history. Nancy will finally have to leave Berlin near the start of the series, for crossing a line, and we will also find out more about Nancy. And she will carry on. She will definitely be in the Soviet Union for some of it. So yeah, that’s the shape it’s taking. And Lois, of course, trapped in a rather Bronte-esque, loveless marriage with Vernon.”
https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2021/04/15/TV-QA-When-will-Yellowstone-and-World-on-Fire-return/stories/202104150009
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WORLD ON FIRE SEASON 2: BBC RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED?
However, a comment from the official World on Fire Instagram page on a post explained that they “intend to start filming in the summer”. Taking this into consideration, new episodes will likely arrive sometime in 2022.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/05/17/world-on-fire-season-2/
Just between us 😘, we intend to start filming in the summer. Can't wait...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQJ5Q-FMYP/?igshid=1jog9lfv3lq9v
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Best Returning British TV Series 2022: the Most Anticipated Series Coming Back This Year
World on Fire Season 2 (tbc)
To the delight of fans following series one’s tense cliff-hanger ending, Peter Bowker’s WWII drama following multiple interconnected stories from around the world during the war, was recommissioned in November 2019. Then, the pandemic intervened. The stories of Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz) and Lois (Julia Brown) will continue in the second run, alongside those of Lois’ conscientious objector father Douglas (Sean Bean) and Harry’s ice-cold mother Robina (Lesley Manville).
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/best-returning-british-tv-series-2022-most-anticipated/
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Season 2 of ‘World On Fire’ starring Jonah Hauer-King begins filming in July.
https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1510246911541972992?cxt=HHwWgMC42Y_kvPUpAAAA
World On Fire Season 2 starring Jonah Hauer-King Begins Filming in July
BBC and PBS’ hit series World On Fire Season 2 starring Jonah Hauer-King begins filming in July. The British World War II drama series was written by Peter Bowker. Season 1 aired in 2019 in the UK and in 2020 in the US, on PBS.
https://maxblizz.com/world-on-fire-season-2-starring-jonah-hauer-king-begins-filming-in-july/
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Is SEAN going to be in season 2?
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Is SEAN going to be in season 2?
According to this......
Best Returning British TV Series 2022: the Most Anticipated Series Coming Back This Year
World on Fire Season 2 (tbc)
To the delight of fans following series one’s tense cliff-hanger ending, Peter Bowker’s WWII drama following multiple interconnected stories from around the world during the war, was recommissioned in November 2019. Then, the pandemic intervened. The stories of Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz) and Lois (Julia Brown) will continue in the second run, alongside those of Lois’ conscientious objector father Douglas (Sean Bean) and Harry’s ice-cold mother Robina (Lesley Manville).
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/best-returning-british-tv-series-2022-most-anticipated/
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I’m so happy I can finally say that world on fire will start filming in July! Thanks to @jonahauerking for telling me about this update.
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Filming for world on fire has started!!
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YES !! YES !! YES !!
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Jonah is on set for season 2 of world on fire!
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@posysterling has joined the cast of world on fire playing the role of Eileen!
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Another new cast member! @greggsulkin will play David a fighter pilot of Jewish heritage.
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Julia BTS from today (12/07/22)
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'World on Fire' Season 2 First Look Teases the Return of the WWII Series
After a successful first season on PBS Masterpiece and BBC, the hit drama World on Fire is going back to WWII to continue the stories of the ordinary people caught up in the crosshair of conflict. Three years after the first season aired on BBC and two since it crossed over to Masterpiece, filming has officially begun on Season 2 after delays due to the ongoing pandemic. The announcement comes with a new photo of series star Jonah Hauer-King with clapboard in hand preparing to shoot once more.
Written by creator Peter Bowker, Rachel Bennette, and Matt Jones, the six new episodes of World on Fire will immediately follow the events of its first season. Set in October 1940, the new season will see the horrors of war finally reach home in Britain as pilots take to the skies to shoot down German bombers in the skies above Manchester. Once again, viewers will be taken across the European theatre from Britain to now-occupied France and Nazi Germany, but a new type of conflict will be introduced in North Africa where British troops, Indian Sappers, and Australian Diggers fight together against the Axis forces.
Much of the cast from Season 1 is returning with Lesley Manville reprising her role as Robina, Hauer-King as Harry, Julia Brown as Lois, Zofia Wichlacz as Kasia, Blake Harrison as Stan, Eugénie Derouand as Henriette, Eryk Biedunkiewicz as Jan, and Cel Spellman as Joe. There's no confirmation if some of the previous season's other big faces like Helen Hunt will be returning, however. Some new faces will be joining the war effort this time around, with Mark Bonnar (Guilt, Line of Duty) leading the new additions as Sir James Danemere along with Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil, Hum Tum) as Rajib, and Gregg Sulkin (Runaways, Pretty Smart) as David. More casting announcements are still to come for the series.
https://collider.com/world-on-fire-season-2-first-image-jonah-hauer-king-pbs/
Filming begins on series two of World On Fire
Filming has begun on the return of the BBC's hit drama, World On Fire
Telling the story of World War Two through the eyes of ordinary people whose lives have been thrown into chaos, the six new episodes are written by series creator Peter Bowker, Rachel Bennette and Matt Jones, and made by Mammoth Screen for the BBC and Masterpiece.
October 1940. Lone pilots are sent to destroy German bombers prowling the skies above Manchester as the Northern Blitz begins. The true reality of war has arrived in Britain.
World On Fire series two will take viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France, Nazi Germany, and to the sands of the North African desert, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat.
Returning cast include Lesley Manville as Robina, Jonah Hauer-King as Harry, Julia Brown as Lois, and Zofia Wichlacz as Kasia, with Blake Harrison as Stan, Eugénie Derouand as Henriette, Eryk Biedunkiewicz as Jan, and Cel Spellman as Joe.
Joining the World On Fire cast for series two are Mark Bonnar (Guilt, Line Of Duty) as Sir James Danemere, Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil, Hum Tum) as Rajib, and Gregg Sulkin (Runaways, Pretty Smart) as David. Further new and returning cast will be announced in due course.
Lesley Manville says: “It’s wonderful to be bringing Peter Bowler’s epic scripts to life again. Rich characters telling great, human stories set against the backdrop of World War Two. It’s a feast!”
World On Fire creator and writer Peter Bowker says: "The second season of World On Fire has been a long wait due to a certain pandemic and this makes the beginning of filming especially exciting. It has been a real joy to pick up the story with our inspirational cast, both our established regulars and new and exciting talent who have embraced the show’s scale and ambition.
"How the conflict played out in North Africa is a fascinating and little-explored history and we are aiming to redress that balance with stories of struggle and friendship. Our diverse cast will continue to reflect the global nature of the conflict.”
Helen Ziegler, Director of Television at Mammoth Screen, says: “Peter Bowker gives us an extraordinary insight into the second year of World War II with his unique humanity, humour and pathos. This is a drama which poses the question: how do you survive when everything around you has changed unimaginably? We are absolutely thrilled to be returning for this epic and adrenalized series two of World On Fire, with our wonderful returning cast joined by a host of new characters!”
Ben Irving, Acting Director of BBC Drama, says: “With a range of intriguing, untold stories that put ordinary people at the centre of history, and a first-rate ensemble of both new and returning characters, it’s a real pleasure to see filming on World On Fire series two now underway.”
Susanne Simpson, executive producer for Masterpiece, says: “World On Fire captivated our Masterpiece audience and we’re thrilled to bring them another season of this ambitious World War II drama. With Peter Bowker’s riveting scripts, a talented returning cast plus some intriguing new characters, season two will definitely be worth the wait.”
Filming on series two is currently underway in Northern Ireland. World On Fire series one aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in autumn 2019, where it averaged 6.7 million viewers (30-day consolidated data). The second series will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2023.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/world-on-fire-series-two
BBC's World on Fire begins filming season 2 after "long wait"
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/bbc-world-on-fire-season-2-filming-newsupdate/
World on Fire is finally filming season two
“The second series of World On Fire will take viewers from the streets of Britain to occupied France, Nazi Germany and the desert sands of North Africa, where British troops fight alongside Indian sappers and Australian diggers to suit a very different kind of combat.”
The show will see the return of Lesley Manville as Robina, Julia Brown as Lois, and Jonah Hauer-King as Harry, and welcome newcomers Mark Bonnar and Ahad Raza Mir. Whether Sean Bean or Brian J Smith will return for the second series is yet to be confirmed.
https://gaamagazine.com/world-on-fire-is-finally-filming-season-two-details/
World on Fire – filming begins on series 2 in Northern Ireland
We expect further returnees and new cast reveals as filming progresses.
https://cultbox.co.uk/news/world-on-fire-filming-begins-on-series-2-in-northern-ireland
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PLEASE GET SEAN FOR SEASON 2 !!
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Candy cart & customised choc strawberries for the
wrap party of @WorldOnFireTV on Friday night! Set up
was on studio set so limited photos until the series launches 👍😁🎬📽
https://twitter.com/thecandywagonni/status/1566382168762359809
And that’s a wrap on World on Fire season 2 🎬🔥
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'World on Fire' Season 2 Images Light Up the Battle Between the Allied and Axis Forces
Jonah-Hauer King, Lesley Manville, and more return for the show's long-awaited second season.
The PBS and BBC drama series World on Fire is setting fans ablaze with images from its second season that feature Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville, Parker Sawyers, and Eugénie Derouand surrounded by the tragedies of World War II. Created by Peter Bowker, we’re excited to see the first peeks of the show’s sophomore season and the most recent update since it was announced that filming had begun almost a year ago. Although no release date has been set, this first set of photos points to more information coming our way soon.
While Bean and Hunt won’t be returning for the follow-up episodes, we can expect to see Julia Brown, Zofia Wichlacz, Blake Harrison, Eryk Biedunkiewicz, and Cel Spellman all reprise their roles. Newbies include Mark Bonnar, Gregg Sulkin, Ahad Raza, and Miriam Schiweck.
https://collider.com/world-on-fire-season-2-images/
'World on Fire' Will Finally Return for Season 2 This Fall
It appears that several key cast members, including Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch), Helen Hunt (Blindspotting), and Sean Bean (Time), won't be returning for the series' second season. There's no hint yet of how the show will handle the departures of their characters, who were all involved in major ongoing storylines opposite several of the show's major players. (I know I can't be the only person who was really invested in the potential of that slow-burn Robina and Douglas romance. SIGH.)
Season 2 will officially premiere on Sunday, October 15 at 9pm ET. The first season of World on Fire is currently available to stream on PBS Passport.
https://tellyvisions.org/article/world-fire-season-2-premiere-date-cast-and-first-look-photos
World on Fire Season 2 will premiere on MASTERPIECE on PBS Sunday, October 15, 2023, 9/8c! Find out what’s ahead in the new season of the critically-acclaimed drama starring Lesley Manville (The Crown, Magpie Murders), Jonah Hauer King (The Little Mermaid, Little Women) and a stellar international cast, and get your first look at the stars of the new season.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/world-on-fire-season-2-cast-slideshow/?utm_campaign=masterpiece&utm_content=1685540852&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#
The first series of World on Fire recently returned to BBC iPlayer where it can be streamed in full ahead of series two launching on BBC One and iPlayer soon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/world-on-fire-series-two-first-look-images
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Watch the first full trailer for BBC's World on Fire series two
World on Fire series two comes to BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Sunday 16 July, with series one available to watch in full on BBC iPlayer now
The first full trailer has been released for series two of World on Fire, coming soon to BBC One and iPlayer.
Telling the story of World War Two through the eyes of ordinary people whose lives have been thrown into chaos, the six new episodes are written by series creator Peter Bowker, Rachel Bennette and Matt Jones, and made by Mammoth Screen for the BBC and MASTERPIECE.
RAF pilots are sent to destroy German bombers prowling the skies above Manchester, with rescue operations underway on the streets below. The true reality of war has arrived in Britain.
World On Fire series two will take viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France, Nazi Germany, and to the sands of the North African desert, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat.
Returning cast include Lesley Manville (The Crown, Magpie Murders) as Robina, Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid, The Flatshare) as Harry, Julia Brown (Shetland, Anthony) as Lois, and Zofia Wichlacz (Miasto 44, Amok) as Kasia, with Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners, A Very English Scandal) as Stan, Eugénie Derouand (The Advent Calendar, Paris Police) as Henriette, Eryk Biedunkiewicz as Jan, and Cel Spellman (Cold Feet, Waterloo Road) as Joe.
Joining the World On Fire cast for series two are Mark Bonnar (Guilt, Line Of Duty) as Sir James Danemere, Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil, Hum Tum) as Rajib, Gregg Sulkin (Runaways, Pretty Smart) as David and Miriam Schiweck (Der Staatsanwalk, Fellweckselzeit) as Marga.
The first series of World on Fire recently returned to BBC iPlayer where it can be streamed in full ahead of series two launching on BBC One and iPlayer, with the first episode airing on Sunday 16 July.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/world-on-fire-series-two-trailer
World on Fire - Series 2 | Official Trailer - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-p08dcb8dA
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World on Fire star reveals fate of Sean Bean’s character
The Game of Thrones star played a major role in the show's first season, but didn't return for this new outing.
World War Two drama World on Fire is returning to the BBC for its second season this Sunday, after the first season landed four years ago in 2019.
Despite the long wait, many of the show's original stars have returned for season 2, including Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville and Blake Harrison. However, one major star who won't be back is Sean Bean.
The Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings star played bus conductor and pacifist Douglas Bennett in the first season, but was notably absent when the cast for season 2 was announced.
Now, Julia Brown, who plays Douglas's daughter Lois, has explained what happened to Bean's character off-screen and, unfortunately, it isn't good news.
Brown revealed: "I think it will be a massive shock for viewers to see that Douglas, the committed pacifist, is no longer with us. He was killed when their house in Manchester was hit by a bomb in the Blitz. Luckily, Lois was out working on a shift at the time, so she survived.
"It's a horrible thing to have happened to a very peaceful man who strongly believed that the war was unjustifiable and wanted to put an end to violence - in the end, he was killed just sitting quietly at home."
This makes Douglas one of many characters that Bean has played to have died - his characters Ned Stark, Boromir, Alec Trevelyan and many more have all bit the dust, with the star saying in 2019 that he had started turning roles down because the character died.
He told The Sun: "I’ve turned down stuff. I’ve said, 'They know my character’s going to die because I’m in it!' I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable."
The new season of World on Fire will once again tell the story of World War Two through the eyes of ordinary people, taking viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands of the North African desert.
World on Fire returns to BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday 16th July 2023.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/world-on-fire-sean-bean-fate-newsupdate/
World On Fire sees Sean Bean killed off again as BBC drama returns without him
https://www.ok.co.uk/tv/world-fire-sean-bean-killed-30412237
World on Fire series two cast and writer Peter Bowker on telling the story of World War Two through the eyes of ordinary people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/world-on-fire-series-two
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World on Fire season 1 recap: What happened to Sean Bean’s Douglas Bennett and which characters will be back in season 2?
https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/world-on-fire-season-1-recap-what-happened-to-sean-beans-douglas-bennett-and-which-characters-will-be-back-in-season-2/
World on Fire season 2 review: War drama struggles with its USP
In its second season, the BBC's sweeping World War Two series remains immersive, but its structural issues are more prominent than ever.
Julia Brown's Lois remains a stand-out and newcomers to the series such as Mark Bonnar and Ahad Raza Mir successfully fill in the spaces left by the likes of Sean Bean and Helen Hunt, who are not involved in this second season.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/world-on-fire-season-2-review/
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bts of ewan mitchell, julia brown and sean bean (photograph) as tom, lois and douglas bennett for ‘WORLD ON FIRE’ season 2 - via juliabrown ig
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Sean bean dying and leaving his babygirls to suffer in every fucking universe
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Tom and Lois are waging a war of their own tonight on #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1680674890662158338
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‘World on Fire’ Creator Peter Bowker on Shaking Up His War Drama in Season 2: ‘We Can Do So Much More’ Than Show the ‘White European Perspective’
When “World on Fire” premiered on the BBC in September 2019, no one could have known that the World War II drama would be one of the last major scripted debuts on the public broadcaster before the pandemic.
The PBS Masterpiece co-production — which follows the interconnected lives of British and European families during the outbreak of war — confirmed it would return at the end of its Season 1 finale, but the onset of the COVID-19 crisis just four months later and its impact on global production made the prospect of setting up a continent-spanning war drama all the more unlikely.
Yet with some heroic scheduling, rewritten scripts and clever location and CGI combos, Season 2 returned to British screens on Sunday after a four-year hiatus, premiering to an audience indelibly changed by a global and life-altering event of their own.
“I wrote the bulk of the first two episodes during lockdown, and suddenly, this feeling didn’t seem so far away,” the show’s writer, Peter Bowker, tells Variety. “It feels like we have a better understood connection with what it feels like to be both very tiny in this world, but very much part of a connected world.”
Season 1 was led by Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, and a then little-known Jonah Hauer-King. The British actor had played Laurie alongside Maya Hawke in the BBC’s 2017 “Little Women” adaptation, but received global attention when he was cast as Prince Eric in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” just as “World on Fire” was ending. In Season 2, Hauer-King’s Harry Chase leads the series.
There are other casting changes, too: Bean’s schedule didn’t align with Season 2 production, and, in a familiar turn of events for Bean, his character is killed off, with Mark Bonnar introduced as a new sparring partner for Manville’s thorny matriarch Robina. Meanwhile, with no obvious trajectory for Hunt’s American journalist in Berlin after Season 1, she’s not part of the new series, either. Such changes made room for the introduction of Ahad Raza Mir, who masterfully inhabits an Indian soldier in the uncomfortable position of fighting for the British while yearning for his country’s independence as a British colony.
Bowker, who’s known for “The A Word” and “Monroe,” confides that he’s got some nerves about the show returning to the BBC after such a long period of time, but makes clear that Season 2 is also crafted for those coming to “World on Fire” with fresh eyes.
“There’s quite a bit of it that’s a clean start, because in the end, if we were picking up too much from Season 1, an audience that hadn’t caught up or hadn’t watched it before will be referring back to something that just wasn’t in their consciousness sufficiently,” says Bowker.
Did you have Season 2 written by the time the pandemic hit? How did you navigate that?
I had a plan. I knew what we were going to do in Season 2. By the time it was recommissioned, I’d already plotted it, but that was based on everybody being available within six months. And so there was a period of adjustment because, obviously, the knock-on effects of COVID, apart from the fact that it was filmed under COVID protocol, was that everyone’s availability started to become an issue because everybody’s worlds locked up. And there are some pretty high-profile people [in the cast] who are working all the time. So Sean Bean isn’t in it. That was due to Sean’s availability. Then with the second wave of COVID, the long-tail of the second wave delayed the production again because it impacted where we were going to film and who was going to be in it. I kept having to recalibrate the stories. I knew there was no point in recreating the Sean Bean character, so I thought, “What would be the opposite character? What would he look like?” And I came up with the James Danemere figure, who is played by Mark Bonnar. The two things that kept changing were cast and crew availability and location.
It felt different watching Season 2 compared to Season 1 because of the pandemic in between, which was a global event that touched everyone’s lives. That shared experience made shows and movies about the war feel somehow more accessible. Did that play in your mind at all when you were readying the new scripts?
Oh, definitely. I wrote the bulk of the first two episodes during lockdown, and I agree that, suddenly, this feeling didn’t seem so far away. And that’s right down to the fact that we all speculated how it was for everybody else in other countries. There was a feeling that the endeavor was global. So we felt what we all had in common as human beings quite acutely, as well as the potential for what divided us in terms of resources. That was definitely in my head writing it and I agree that watching it now, it feels like that for me as well. It feels like we have a better understood connection with what it feels like to be both very tiny in this world, but very much part of a connected world.
Are you concerned at all about the four-year gap for audiences between Season 1 and Season 2?
There’s a three-minute [review of Season 1] at the top. But obviously, it’s different than how it would have been if we’d been picking it up a year later. And it was a concern in writing it because part of me was thinking I was writing a brand new series. There will be people who didn’t watch it. There will be people who don’t remember it, but then again, there are people who do remember. So it was tricky. There’s quite a bit of it that’s a clean start, because in the end, if we were picking up too much from Season 1, an audience that hadn’t caught up or hadn’t watched it before will be referring back to something that just wasn’t in their consciousness sufficiently. The gap is a worry because when you’re launching a new show, that feels very different from launching a second season.
In Season 2, you’re very focused on showing diverse perspectives on the war, such as the British Indian soldier Rajib, and the complexity of his wartime experience. Had you always intended to have that in the story?
Definitely, in the very, very beginning. The whole genesis of the idea was to tell the war from multiple perspectives, and to tell the global conflict from multiple global perspectives. As somebody who grew up in Britain — and it may be different at schools now — but I did not grow up [knowing] there were soldiers from India, Australia and the West Indies that the Empire was tapping into in such a — well, one word would be practical and the other word would be cynical — way. As a dramatist, what’s interesting is the internal conflict that that causes for the character. The other thing I wanted to reclaim, from everything I read when I started to research, was that the Indian officers who were from military families are often portrayed as quite naïve in fighting for the Empire, but actually, that was a pragmatic decision. They knew exactly the situation they were in, and I think Rajib says at one point, “Well, it’s either the Nazis or it’s the Brits who will be running us. So, this gives us leverage.” This gives leverage toward getting to independence — so rather than the naiveté that’s often shown, which I think is the false version, I wanted to sort of [show that] these men knew what the deal was and articulate that.
Was there an added responsibility of showing the British Indian army given the dialogue around representation that the industry’s been having since 2020? Was that important for the BBC in their notes to you?
The BBC were very much in support of that. But I always knew that with this series, I wanted it to feature [more voices]. Look, there is a great collection of World War II films and TV series about the white European perspective. You know, why would we bother even making another? We can do so much more here. So yes, obviously there’s a push for greater diversity and representation and quite right. But this was entirely driven by me and the team. That was always the vision for this piece and will carry on being the vision.
You also have a German perspective in each season, and in this one, that focuses on a young woman selected to participate in the Lebensborn program, which effectively used German woman to birth “racially pure” Aryan children from SS officers.
Yes. I always want there to be a German’s perspective — and going forward, the Japanese or the Korean perspective. But the spark for the German storyline was actually when I was researching the American journalists who were in Berlin during the first 18 months of the war. It was in the diary of [one journalist], who overheard some teenage girls chatting on the train and giggling. He thought he’d misheard what they’d been talking about, and it went from there. He found out about this scheme of Aryan mothers being used to breed heirs with Aryan men. I thought, “Well, I think there’s something there. That’s extraordinary.” It’s monstrous enough. I don’t have to make that monstrous. My purpose is to dramatize how that could be normalized. And that’s what creates the tension. There was this family who probably bought into the Nazi ideology. And then what happens when your child is so driven by this ideological fervor? Because again, as we’ve seen with other ideological firms, young adolescents are very susceptible to this kind of grooming. And so that’s where the story came from. It’s not common knowledge, but it gave me a vehicle to look at what happens when toxic ideology takes a grip.
“World on Fire” is a co-production with PBS Masterpiece. Did they have any notes about the lack of a big American character in this season, unlike Season 1?
For both [Helen Hunt] and [Brian J. Smith], who plays Webster, I would hope there’s room for them to return in Season 3 because of the American involvement. I think sometimes it comes to a point where obviously with someone as good as Helen, you’re looking at stories. And you’re looking so hard. You’re thinking, “Is this growing the story or growing because I would really, really love Helen to be in it?” There’s a gap between the American journalists being expelled from Berlin and before the Americans joined the war, so [including her] doesn’t really fit with the story. But I would love both of those characters to come back if at all possible. [PBS] was very supportive. They respond to story; they’re not really box-ticking for American actors. They are very keen on the diverse representation.
You’ve said before that you have six seasons in mind for this show. These days, drama costs an awful lot, and there are more complicating factors now given the strike action. How does that inform the next few seasons?
The nature of what I write about often means that there’s an intimacy to a lot of these themes in this epic sort of setting. There’s a sleight of hand that if you have sufficient number of scenes that look very big for television, then people think they’ve seen far more of a battle than they have. I think what people carry is what’s played out on a very small, personal scale within the battle. This season, there is probably more VFX than last time. I don’t tend to write big epic action set pieces. And all I’m interested in is the space between battle. I’m interested in the space between army raids. I’m interested in interrogating the impact of that. There isn’t anything I haven’t worked on where somebody [hasn’t said] “We need to cut that because we just can’t afford it.” I mean, that’s always been part of the industry.
Yes, I do intend to follow this through to the end of the war. The shape of it changes constantly as new stories are unearthed. And fortunately for me, it is not really my job to navigate that, but I’ve written for television for 33 years, and I’ve never not been on a show where scenes have been cut for budgetary considerations or reconfigured. And the other thing I hope is that if we don’t have another pandemic — this season cost a lot because of pandemic conditions, so we might gain some budget back.
Have you heard from the BBC about Season 3 yet?
No, no, we’re at planning stages. It’s usually a case of after the first two episodes have gone out, they start looking at the numbers, and then there’s iPlayer, and then it’s about presenting and saying, “These are the stories we want to tell; this is how we think we can tell them.” You pitch all over again, really.
And do you still have that six-season arc in mind?
Oh yeah. I mean, things changed. It’s moved and all the rest of it will move. But yeah, I know where it can go.
“World on Fire” will air on the BBC every Sunday until August, while the full series is now available on iPlayer. Season 2 will premiere on PBS Masterpiece on Oct. 15.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/world-on-fire-season-2-peter-bowker-1235671799/
'World on Fire' Season 2 Sets Fall Release Date on PBS
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Sean Bean is killed off on-screen for the 25TH TIME as the curse of his characters dying continues in his new series World On Fire
English actor Sean Bean has been killed off on screen for the 25th time as his character once again came faced with death.
Fans of BBC One's World On Fire have been left 'furious and devastated' after it was revealed on Sunday that Bean had come under fire again.
Playing pacifist Douglas Bennett, he thought he'd escaped death as he spent series one far away from the World War Two frontline, however the first episode of series two aired on Sunday and viewers were shocked to discover that Douglas had gone missing.
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World on Fire has come to an end after two seasons, Masterpiece on PBS executive producer Susanne Simpson revealed at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday.
Simpson added that the BBC decided not to renews the British series for “many different reasons.”
World on Fire was a World War II drama that followed the intertwining fates of ordinary people in multiple countries as they grappled with the effects of war on their everyday lives. Season 2 picked up in late 1940, taking viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands of the North African desert—where troops struggled to adapt to a very different kind of combat.
The cast included Lesley Manville, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Jonah Hauer-King, Blake Harrison, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichlacz, Parker Sawyers, Eugenie Derouand, Mark Bonnar, Gregg Sulkin, Ahad Raza Mir, Miriam Schiweck and others.
https://tvline.com/news/world-on-fire-cancelled-season-3-pbs-1235167355/