Fantasyserie, Großbritannien / USA 2018
Matthew bringt Diana auf das Anwesen seiner Familie in Frankreich. Dort erwartet sie Matthews Mutter, die alles andere als begeistert davon ist, eine Hexe unter ihrem Dach zu beherbergen.
Originaltitel: A Discovery of Witches
– Episode #1.4
| Montag | 20.07. | 16:15 Uhr | Sky Atlantic HD |
| Besetzung | Teresa Palmer | Diana Bishop |
| Matthew Goode | Matthew Clairmont | |
| Edward Bluemel | Marcus Whitmore | |
| Owen Teale | Peter Knox | |
| Daniel Ezra | Nathaniel Wilson | |
| Louise Brealey | Gillian Chamberlain | |
| Malin Buska | ||
| Aiysha Hart | Miriam Shepherd | |
| Alex Kingston | Sarah Bishop | |
| Valarie Pettiford | Emily Mather | |
| Trevor Eve | Gerbert D'Aurillac | |
| Regie | Alice Troughton | |
| Drehbuch | Kate Brooke, Tom Farrelly | |
| Produzent | Jane Tranter, Julie Gardener | |
Adapted from Deborah Harkness best-selling trilogy of novels, A Discovery of Witches is a bold and romantic thriller that uncovers a secret underworld of extraordinary beings hiding in plain sight for fear of persecution by humans they are vampires, witches and daemons. Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxfords Bodleian library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont. Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of the creatures decline and extinction, but their unlikely alliance to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands and their deepening relationship threatens to violate age-old taboos and shake the fragile peace that exists between the species. Starring: Pino Maiello, Alex Kingston, Valarie Pettiford.
