The ladies of Gilead were successful France, Saturday, for nan world premiere of Hulu’s The Testaments. Chase Infiniti swapped nan reddish carpet of nan Oscars past play for nan purple carpet, arsenic nan bid provided a splashy opening to this year’s Series Mania play fest.
Infiniti was joined by co-stars Ann Dowd and Lucy Halliday arsenic good arsenic bid creator Bruce Miller and shaper Warren Littlefield for nan premiere.
The show will beryllium connected Disney+ worldwide from adjacent month. The show follows Agnes (Infiniti), nan girl of a high-ranking commandant enrolled successful an elite preparatory schoolhouse tally by Aunt Lydia (Dowd). Halliday plays Daisy, an outsider who joins nan schoolhouse successful nan coming of property tale.
Based connected nan 2019 Margaret Atwood novel, it is simply a sequel to her earlier and hugely acclaimed caller The Handmaid’s Tale, which was besides successfully adapted for TV. Elisabeth Moss was nan prima of nan earlier bid and is an exec shaper connected nan caller chapter. MGM Television is connected accumulation duty.
Series Mania has had a beardown pedigree pinch U.S. series, making love backmost to it showing nan afloat play of Mad Men during its inaugural version successful 2010. In caller times, premieres person included Netflix’s Three Body Problem and HBO’s Succession.
Series Mania has established itself arsenic Europe’s premiere TV play fest. The nationalist facing show runs alongside an industry-focused Forum. Festival screenings this twelvemonth besides see AMC bid The Audacity. Forum highlights see a Deadline-moderated keynote from Disney’s caller EMEA originals leader Angela Jain.