PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'INDIAN SUMMERS' PERIOD SET TV SERIES SEASON TWO WITH JULIE WALTERS, BLAKE RITSON, RACHEL GRIFFITHS, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES, OLIVIA GRANT

'INDIAN SUMMERS' SEASON TWO

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As the highlight of our British TV week, in which I presented you with a number of brilliant trailers for upcoming new English dramas, today you can enjoy our premium spotlight on the second season of period set series INDIAN SUMMERS which will air on Channel 4 from March 13th and later this year at PBS in USA too! Channel 4's most watched series in ten years, which is planned for a five season run, charts two families living in Simla during the last days of the British Raj, a period when tensions are running high as the nation strives for independence from their colonial rulers. Series two will again consist of 10 episodes set in the summer of 1935, several years after the events of the first series, as the Indian nationalist movement gains traction.

BLAKE RITSON AND RACHEL GRIFFITHS JOIN JULIE WALTERS
Rachel Griffiths, Blake Ritson, Art Malik and James Fleet join Julie Walters in the second series. Summer of 1935 – a season where old allegiances will be broken and new ones forged, where unbridled passions run wild and where revolution hangs heavy in the air. An assassination attempt on the Viceroy Lord Willingdon (Patrick Malahide), and the surprise arrival of Lord Hawthorne (James Fleet), puts Ralph’s (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) future in the balance. Meanwhile, Cynthia’s (Julie Walters) Royal Simla Club plays host to an important royal guest, the Maharaja Maritpur (Art Malik) and his elegant and mysterious mistress Sirene (Rachel Griffiths). Blake Ritson arrives as Ralph's sister Alice's (Jemima West) banker husband. Meanwhile, Ralph now has a daughter with gorgeous Madeleine (Olivia Grant) and has brought his secret Indian son under their roof as his house-boy unbeknownst to her.

JOIN THE SIMLA CLUB! 'INDIAN SUMMERS' HISTORICAL SERIES 2ND SEASON TRAILER WITH JULIE WALTERS, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES, BLAKE RITSON!

'INDIAN SUMMERS' 2ND SEASON

TRAILER FOR BRITISH RAJ SERIES

One of our favourite of the new historical dramas that TV has given us this year INDIAN SUMMERS has been given the second season trailer today by British Channel 4! It has only just finished airing its first season in USA at PBS, but the first ten episodes were aired in Europe earlier this spring and the second run is ready to heat the small screens sometime this February (if the rumours are true). The series, set in the final years of British invasion of India, depicts the ruthless machinations and political intrigues of the evil British invaders frantically trying to hold onto power. With the cast enriched by Blake Ritson, James Fleet, Art Malik as a Maharaja and Rachel Griffiths, the second season should reveal us whether India is getting a new viceroy!

JOIN THE ROYAL SIMLA CLUB  
Set in the INDIAN SUMMER of 1935 three years after the end of the previous series, ten new episodes will again circle around Royal Simla Club, owned by scheming and snobbish Cynthia (Julie Walters), which gives entertainment to the members of the high colonial society including the viceroy's ambitious private secretary played by Henry Lloyd Hughes, his sister played by Jemima West and her Indian lover played by Nikesh Patel, and his gorgeous new wife played by Olivia Grant.