Brave New World

 

- Ian MacEwan

Set in the very first permanent English settlement in the Americas, sky1’s brand new 17th-century period drama Jamestown follows the fortunes of three women who have sailed to Virginia to marry the men who have paid for their passage.

Farm girl Alice (Sophie Rundle) discovers that her future husband Henry (Max Beesley) is a brute, who has been hardened by frontier life, and rebellious Verity (Niamh Walsh) learns that she is betrothed to drunken innkeeper Meredith (Dean Lennox Kelly).

Only the upper-crust Jocelyn (Naomi Battrick) appears to have made a good match – she is to marry the honorable Company Recorder Samuel (Gwilym Lee).

We caught up with Peaky Blinders actress Sophie, 29, and Mad Dogs star Max, 46, to find out what lies in store in this lavish eight-part series from the makers of Downton Abbey…