Introduction

New Worlds is a 2014 Channel 4 TV series, set in 1680’s England and America and forming a sequel to The Devil’s Whore.

Outline

1680: Young Ned Hawkins comes to Hadley, Massachusetts, to collect rents from the settlers on behalf of his father, the landlord.

When native Americans attack Ned fights them off along with Pastor Russell and his daughter Hope in a party led by William Goffe, a fugitive regicide wanted by Charles II for his part in his father’s execution.

Goffe makes it clear to Ned that he sees his father as a greedy land grabber.

In England republican Angelica Fanshawe falls foul of tyrannical clay pit owner Hardwick and his kinsman Judge Jeffreys, who forces Will Blood to spy on …

New Worlds Series

You can find a full index of the New Worlds series here.

Production & Filming Details

• Creator(s): Peter Flannery and Martine Brant.
• Director(s): Charles Martin.
• Producer(s): Peter Flannery, Martine Brant, John Yorke, and Johann Knobel.
• Writer(s):
• Music: Harry Escott.
• Cinematography:
• Editor(s):
• Production: Company Pictures.
• Distributor(s): All3Media.
• Original Network: Channel 4.
• Release Date: 01 April 2014.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.