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[Jamie Dornan (breakout star of serial-killer drama The Fall and since
cast as the lead in the upcoming film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey)
is the eye-catching name heading up this sequel to Channel 4’s award-winning English Civil War drama
The Devil’s *****. It is set 20 years on, two decades since the restoration of the monarchy in England,
and also takes us to the other side of the Atlantic with much of the story set in colonial New England.
Once again veteran scriptwriter Peter Flannery teams up with Martine Brant to create
a vivid blend of romance and history, painting the1680s as an era of
autocratic cruelty under Charles II (Jeremy Northam)]
from the daily telegraph