Once Upon a Time made quite an impression here in the UK when it debuted to over 2 million viewers on Channel 5 at the beginning of April and there’s a new trailer for the show out today.
The quality of US TV has rarely been higher, with many series picked up quickly for release around the world and looking at this trailer Channel 5 have cleverly taken on up a series which will likely buoyed by the current proclivity to take fairy tales and add a fresh spin. Mirror Mirror impressed (and perhaps surprised) critics while Kristen Stewart’s Snow White and the Huntsman looks to be a rather more epic and dark take on the story.
Here’s the new trailer for Once Upon a Time, and yes, that is Robert Carlyle in there.
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Every little girl dreams about having their happily ever after just like in a fairy story but in reality this is never the case. Women grow up reading about princesses, waiting for their own Prince Charming to sweep them off their feet. However, a new fantasy drama will turn everything you have ever believed about fairy tales upside down.
‘Once Upon A Time’ is the brand new drama by Channel 5 and it is the complete opposite of a traditional fairytale because in the programme there is no happily ever after.
The drama was created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the team behind Lost and Tron: Legacy; and it features a feisty woman called Emma Swan who knows how to take care of herself. The 28-year-old has been fending for herself ever since she was abandoned as a baby at the side of a road but everything changes when her own son, whom she too gave up for adoption, appears on her doorstep 10-years-later.
The young lad, called Henry, is in desperate need of his birth mother’s help because he believes that she derives from an alternate world in which she is the missing daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Still following?
According to the book of fairytales, Emma was sent away to be protected from the Evil Queen’s curse which trapped all of the characters in the real life world. However, they are not even aware that they are lost fairytale characters and are simply living in a town in America called Storybrooke. Here in this strange town, magic has been forgotten and the Evil Queen is known as Regina, who is now Henry’s adoptive mother.
The epic series aired at 8pm on 1st April and the second episode airs on 8th April. If you want to delve deeper into the cast and learn more about these iconic fairytale characters, you can catch up on the episodes with our Demand 5.
