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Airdate: Carnival Row

Fantasy drama with Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne comes to Amazon Prime in August.

Amazon Prime Video today announced fantasy drama Carnival Row will premiere in late August.

The series from Legendary Television stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, is based on Travis Beacham’s A Killing on Carnival Row.

It is set in a Victorian fantasy-world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man and explores how the growing population struggles to co-exist with humans.

Beacham’s script which appeared on the very first instalment of the Hollywood Blacklist, a survey of the “most liked” unproduced screenplays in 2005.

Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Delevingne (Suicide Squad) star in Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbors a secret that endangers Philo’s world during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row.

Joining Bloom and Delevingne, the series also stars David Gyasi (Interstellar) as Agreus, a mysteriously wealthy faun who moves into an affluent human neighborhood in defiance of the social order, Karla Crome (Under the Dome) as Tourmaline, a quick-witted faerie poet driven from her war-torn homeland, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) as Piety Breakspear, the regal and cunning matriarch of the powerful family that rules the city of The Burgue, and Tamzin Merchant (Salem) as Imogen Spurnrose, a young woman who sees in Agreus an opportunity to turn her aristocratic family’s fading fortunes around.

Carnival Row is from Legendary Television, with executive producers Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, Eli Stone), René Echevarria (Star Trek, Teen Wolf, Castle, Medium), Jon Amiel (Outsiders), Bloom, and Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans). 

Friday 30 August on Amazon Prime.

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