First Look At The BBC’sJonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellSeries!

We finally get to see actors Bertie Carvel and Eddie Marsan as Strange and Norrell , respectively , in the BBC ’s adaptation of the well - selling novel by Susanna Clarke , and they front prominent . Alas , they only released this one promotional pic , but we had to share it because we ’re dead salivate for this series .

Here ’s the crush release if that helps sate you at all ( it did n’t for us , though ) .

BBC AMERICA ’s new original drama serial , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , is based on The New York Times bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapt by Peter Harness ( Wallander , Is Anybody There ? ) .

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The seven - part series stars Eddie Marsan ( Best of Men , Ray Donovan , Filth ) and Olivier awarding - winning Bertie Carvel ( Restless , Hidden , Matilda ) who take on the magical role of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . Further molding include Alice Englert ( Ginger & Rosa , Beautiful Creatures ) , Marc Warren ( Hustle , harebrained wiener , The Musketeers ) , Samuel West ( Mr Selfridge , Fleming ) , and Charlotte Riley ( Wuthering Heights , Easy Virtue ) .

mark at the start of the nineteenth - one C , England no longer believes in hardheaded legerdemain . The reclusive Mr Norrell ( Marsan ) of Hurtfew Abbey stuns the city of York when he causes the statue of York Cathedral to speak and move . With a little persuasion and assistance from his man of occupation Childermass ( Enzo Cilenti ) , he goes to London to aid the government in the state of war against Napoleon . It is there Norrell process a fairy ( Warren ) to bring Lady Pole ( Englert ) back from the stagnant , opening a whole can of worms …

The serial is produced by Cuba Pictures for BBC One and co - produced with BBC AMERICA , in affiliation with Feel Films , Far Moor , Screen Yorkshire and Bell Media ’s SPACE . It is administer by Endemol Worldwide Distribution .

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