安妮?波琳, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, is expected to air on the UK’s Channel 5 later this year. Previously, we saw astill photoof JTS as the erstwhile queen, and now we have a shot of her in motion, walking down a hall:

Varietyalsohas a new imageof JTS as Anne and Mark Stanley as Henry VIII. The lighting continues to upset me. I mentioned the crap lighting in my first post on this subject and several people took precious time from their lives that they will not get back to tell me that the bad lighting isn’t because of racism, but because the Tudor era was just plain dark! Maybe it was, Margaret, but I’ve seen a lot of Tudor-era portraiture that is perfectly legible, includingPortrait of an African Manby Jan Jansz Mostaert andPortrait of an African Woman Holding a Clockby Annabile Carracci, both painted during the Tudor period and both utilizing good light. Cinema and still photography have an issue with properly lighting non-white skin, it’s a systemic issue that everyone should be working correct.

Anyway, I’m still excited to see JTS play Anne Boleyn, mostly because she’s a great actress and it should be a good performance, but also because it is causing a lot of people with tiny minds to melt down. Go into any comment section about JTS playing Anne Boleyn and look at the sheer number of people telling on themselves. It is truly amazing how many people cannot WAIT to tell you who they really are.

One thing we won’t see, though, isJTS as an elfinThe Witcherprequel,巫师:血液并用gin. As per Deadline, she has had toexit the seriesdue to scheduling conflicts. Apparently, the production start got pushed back, creating the conflict (perhaps with her next film project,Borderland, with Felicity Jones and John Boyega?). That sucks for血液来源because I am no longer interested in it. I enjoyedThe Witcherasdumb fun entertainment, but I’m not, say, stalking cast Instas and relentlessly searching hashtags for any and every scrap of news about the next season, as I am withBridgerton. Unless it stars someone I feel compelled to watch, like JTS, I don’t really care about a prequel series.Witchernerds will disagree, of course, but I do wonder what the appeal ofThe Witcheris beyond that catchy tune and Henry Cavill’s A+ himbo performance. Guess we’ll find out with the prequel.

Attached- JTS and Joshua Jackson together in New York the other day.