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This weekend's UK premiere of the 8-hour Event series on Channel 4, WORLD WITHOUT END, based on Ken Follett's worldwide bestseller novel, got off to a very strong start for the network. Channel 4 reports that their peak was up several points over this time last year due to the show's airing. The next episode will air on January 19th at 9pm.
Channel 4's digital channel, MORE4, aired the first episode of the 2-part Event documentary, KEN FOLLETT'S JOURNEY INTO THE DARK AGES, at 8pm as a lead-in to WORLD WITHOUT END which had a 9pm start time. The documentary had MORE4's highest rating of the day, increasing the digital channel's market share for the day considerably.
The ratings success mirrors the positive press response to WORLD WITHOUT END in the UK:
"Powerful, epic, sweeping." Saturday (Daily Express) 12. 1. 2013
"It's a colourful, involving and enjoyable saga." Weekend (Daily Mail) 12. Jan.2013
"Pretty great." The Guardian (Guide) 12.1.2013
"World Without End is fantastic escapism. It's a combination of romance and gritty action."
We Love TV (Daily Mirror) 12.1.2013
"WATCH IT!" The Sun – (TV Magazine) 12.1.2013
"Set in medieval England with a backdrop of war, plague and famine, this adaptation of Ken Follett's novel has a stellar cast […]. Expect knights, fiendish plots and a touch of romance too." S Magazine (Sunday Express) 13.1.2013
"This is one series with quality written all over it." Hot TV (Daily Star) 12.1.2013
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The $46 million Event series is produced by TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS (The Pillars of the Earth, The Company) and TAKE 5 PRODUCTIONS (The Tudors, The Borgias) in coproduction with GALAFILM (Race to Mars, St. Urbain's Horseman) in association with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's SCOTT FREE FILMS (The Good Wife, The Andromeda Strain).
World Without End stars Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winner Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Big C) as the beautiful and deadly schemer "Petranilla", two-time Oscar®-nominee, Golden Globe® and BAFTA-winner Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Young Victoria) as the strong and determined "Mother Cecilia", Olivier and Tony-nominee Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line, Me and Orson Welles) as the mysterious "Sir Thomas Langley", Oscar®-nominee and Golden Globe®-winner Peter Firth(MI5, The Hunt for Red October) as the ruthless Earl "Roland", BAFTA-nominee Charlotte Riley (The Duchess, Wuthering Heights) as the wise and compassionate "Caris", Rupert Evans (HellBoy, Agora) as the duplicitous "Godwyn", Nora von Waldstaetten (Carlos, The Duchess) as "Gwenda",the street-wise peasant girl, Oliver Jackson-Cohen (What's Your Number, The Raven) as the rough and dangerous "Ralph", accomplished stage thespian Tom Weston-Jones (Enlightenment, The Country Wife) as the creative and ambitious "Merthin", Gemini Award-winner and Genie Award-nominee Megan Follows (Heartland, Anne of Green Gables) as "Maud", a lady fallen from grace, and Genie-nominee Sarah Gadon (in the up-comingCosmopolis with Robert Pattinson, A Dangerous Method) as the attractive and intelligent "Philippa". World Without End is directed by Michael Caton-Jones (This Boy's Life, Rob Roy). |
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