New Worlds
Channel 4: Tue 1st April 9pm - 10:10pm
Repeat: Channel 4 +1 Tuesday 10pm
Repeat: 4seven Tuesday 12am 1/4. Drama set in the turbulent 1680s, following four young idealists who commit their lives to a fairer future. The story begins in Hadley, Massachusetts, where Ned Hawkins is warning the townsfolk to keep up with the rents owed to his father's company, when they are interrupted by a Native American attack. Ned fights alongside Hope Russell, the daughter of the town's pastor, but it's only when Colonel William Goffe arrives that Hadley is saved. Goffe is a fugitive - one of the last remaining men who signed the death warrant of Charles I. Led by Ned and Hope he flees into the wilderness. Follow-up to 2008 series The Devil's *****, starring Joe Dempsie, Jamie Dornan, Freya Mavor and Alice Englert, with Eve Best, James Cosmo, Patrick Malahide and Jeremy Northam.
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