A new miniseries on Channel 4. Lovely screencaptures from the first episode are up on our family site Long Ago Captures. Synopsis: The Devil’s Whore tells the story of the seismic events of 17th-century England, when political disobedience turned to revolution and civil war, and English history changed forever. The story is told through the [...]

The English civil war gets an overdue celebration in The Devil’s Whore, a thrilling new TV drama from Peter Flannery There are moments when The Devil’s Whore, coming soon on Channel 4, seems almost too rich and exotic to be a British drama. Hollywood’s accepted agenda for heroes — whether fighting aliens in Independence Day, [...]

Peter Flannery’s new Civil War epic is a sex-fuelled, violent bloodfest that’s more Sergio Leone than Shakespeare, finds Gerard Gilbert Roundheads and cavaliers… class warfare… regicide… families at one another’s throats… an explosion of radical ideas… You’d think that the English Civil War would be meat and drink to any half-sentient dramatist. But think again, [...]

Channel 4′s new drama The Devil’s Whore is set during the English Civil War. Its stars and writer tell Serena Davies why the period is so ripe for dramatisation Channel 4’s new four-part costume drama, The Devil’s Whore, is full of wild storms, furious winds and camera angles so eccentric they make it look like [...]