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“A sea creature’s been spotted,” says Claire Danes’ Cora Seaborne, who has arrived in Essex to hunt down the beast. Apple TV+ has unveiled the first trailer for The Essex Serpent starring Danes and Tom Hiddleston, based on Sarah Perry's bestselling novel of the same name. Set in Victorian England, The Essex Serpent…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first five episodes of Disney+’s Loki, & maybe the finale. Maybe. EXCLUSIVE: "I have learned, at this point, having said goodbye to the character more than twice, two and a half times maybe, to make no assumptions," says Loki's Tom Hiddleston as the hours tick away…

Frank Dillane (Fear the Walking Dead, The Girlfriend Experience), Hayley Squires (Adult Material, I, Daniel Blake), Clémence Poésy (Tenet, Genius) and Jamael Westman (Anne Boleyn, Animals), are set as leads opposite Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in the Apple TV+ drama series The Essex Serpent, adapted from Sarah…

Tom Hiddleston has been tapped as the male lead opposite Claire Danes in the Apple TV+ drama series The Essex Serpent, adapted from Sarah Perry's bestselling novel of the same name. Written by Anna Symon and will be directed by Clio Barnard, The Essex Serpent follows newly widowed Cora (Danes) who, having being…

Coming off her Emmy-winning starring turn on Homeland, Claire Danes has signed on to headline The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+. She is replacing Keira Knightley who was originally cast last summer in in the period drama, an adaptation of Sarah Perry's novel. Knightley, who has two young children, pulled out of the…

Apple TV+’s adaptation of Sarah Perry novel The Essex Serpent has halted pre-production after Keira Knightley dramatically dropped out just weeks after Deadline revealed that she was to headline the series. The Atonement actress’ rep told the Daily Mail that she was not participating for family reasons related to the…

EXCLUSIVE: Colette and The Imitation Game star Keira Knightley has found her next period drama – an adaptation of Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+. The streamer has ordered the project to series from See-Saw Films, the company behind The King's Speech and Top of the Lake. It will be directed by Dark…