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Mark Hamill, who will debut March 25 in Season 2 of History’s medieval drama Knightfall, came to TCA to explain he had no intention of making the commitment until watching episodes and getting hooked. Hamill plays Talus, the battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran of the Crusades who survived a decade of captivity in…

History has set Monday, March 25 at 10 PM for the season 2 premiere of its popular medieval drama series Knightfall from A+E Studios, Jeremy Renner's The Combine and Midnight Radio. The date was announced Sunday at TCA along with the first trailer (watch above). Mark Hamill makes his series debut alongside star Tom…

Mark Hamill is about to go all medieval on your screen. Here’s the first teaser for Season 2 of History’s Knightfall, in which the erstwhile Luke Skywalker plays a battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran of the Crusades who survived a decade of captivity in the Holy Land and is tasked with training the new initiates to…

Shaun Toub (Homeland) is set for a recurring role opposite Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs in TNT's Snowpiercer, a futuristic thriller based on the acclaimed 2013 movie of the same name by Bong Joon-ho, from Marty Adelstein's Tomorrow Studios and Turner's Studio T. Snowpiercer is set seven years after the world has…

History has ordered a second season of its medieval drama series Knightfall, with Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill joining the cast and Aaron Helbing (The Flash, Spartacus: War of the Damned) set as showrunner and executive producer. Also joining the Season 2 cast is Tom Forbes (The Bastard Executioner, Wolf Hall) and Genevieve…

Wednesday night’s premiere of History’s medieval drama series Knightfall drew 1.8M total viewers, tying it for the third-best cable drama launch of 2017, the network said. The debut of the A+E Studios show trails only FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan and AMC’s The Son among the year’s biggest debuts among total viewers and…

In the age of Peak TV, you can do a lot worse that add a slug of watered down Fight Club and Game of Thrones to your holiday viewing mix. With a bellyful of that, December 6 brings the premieres of both Happy! on Syfy and Knightfall on History. You could call Wednesday the “Night of the Derivatives,” or you could…

As A+E Networks earlier this year opted to make A&E a purely non-fiction brand, the company set out to build up History as an original scripted destination. History got off to a hot start in the arena under then-president Nancy Dubuc, now A+E Networks CEO, with a string of three big hits — miniseries Hatfields & McCoys…

History has slotted Wednesday, December 6 at 10 PM for the premiere of its new drama series Knightfall, from A+E Studios, Jeremy Renner’s The Combine and Midnight Radio, and has released a new trailer. Created by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, Knightfall goes inside the medieval politics and warfare of the Knights…

UPDATE MONDAY, AUG. 29: Production on History’s upcoming drama series Knightfall resumed Monday at the Prague Barrandov Studios after the massive fire on Friday, which virtually destroyed the show’s exterior sets. Filming has moved indoors for interior scenes. It hasn’t been decided yet whether the external sets will…

History has set the cast for its 10-episode straight-to-series historical drama Knightfall, executive produced by Jeremy Renner. In addition, Dominic Minghella (Doc Martin) has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner. Joining previously announced Tom Cullen are Bobby Schofield (Black Sea), Sabrina Bartlett (Da…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been three years since History successfully entered the original scripted series arena with Vikings. Now the cable network is mounting a new scripted push, which includes with a 10-episode straight-to-series order to another historical drama, Knightfall, executive produced by Jerremy Renner who is…