The Dovekeepers
| The Dovekeepers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Biblical Historical Drama |
| Based on | The book The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman |
| Written by | Ann Peacock (teleplay) |
| Directed by | Yves Simoneau |
| Starring | Cote de Pablo Rachel Brosnahan Sam Neill |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Beal |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Roma Downey Mark Burnett John Weber Frank Siracusa Yves Simoneau |
| Producer(s) | Alice Hoffman |
| Production location(s) | Malta |
| Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
| Editor(s) | Sylvain Lebel Isabelle Malenfant |
| Running time | 180 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Take 5 Productions Whiz Bang Films Lightworkers Media |
| Distributor | CBS Television Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | March 31 – April 1, 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Masada |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Dovekeepers is a two-part television adaptation based on the book of the same name by Alice Hoffman from executive producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. It features the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War.[1] The program premiered in the United States on March 31, 2015 on CBS.[2]
Plot
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From the producers of The Bible, comes the story of a place called Masada, where three extraordinary woman faced an army of thousands. A healer accused of witchcraft. An outcast haunted by her past. A woman with the heart of a warrior.
Tagline: The trailer featured the tagline, "Their journey. Their passion. It all leads up to this. Take a stand."
Main cast
- Cote de Pablo as Shirah
- Rachel Brosnahan as Yael
- Kathryn Prescott as Aziza
- Sam Neill as Flavius Josephus
- Diego Boneta as Amram
- Mido Hamada as Eleazer Ben Ya'ir
- Sam Hazeldine as Flavius Silva
- Jonas Armstrong as Yoav
- Luke Roberts as Jachim Ben Simon
- Fiona O'Shaughnessy as Channa
- Kenneth Spiteri as Claudius
- Diarmaid Murtagh as Wynn
- Manuel Cauchi as Josef Bar Elhanan
- Andre Agius as Adir
Episodes
| Ep. # | Title | Original airdate | Viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | "Part 1" | March 31, 2015 | 8.99[3] |
| Roman historian Flavius Josephus chronicles the lives of three Jewish women during the Romans' siege of Masada in A.D. 73, where more than 900 Jews were able to take refuge at the fortress for months. But first he pressures two of them into telling their versions of the story; Shirah, believed to be the witch of Moab, and Yael, an outcast to her father and neighbors. In order to tell the story, they must first go back to the beginning and share accounts of their pasts. | |||
| 1.2 | "Part 2" | April 1, 2015 | 6.40[4] |
| Shirah and Yael remain in the custody of Flavius Josephus in his house in Rome. They tell of how Shirah's warrior daughter, Aziza joins them in their duty of keepers of the messenger doves in their home. Roman centurions Flavius Silva and Claudius devise a plan in how to get their soldiers into Masada. But to the Jewish sicarii, it's "freedom or death" as they hole up in the last Jewish fortress in Judea before the fateful day of the siege. | |||
Reception
The adaptation garnered negative reviews: Keith Uhlich of the Hollywood Reporter writes, "True to its title, this romantic-historical miniseries is more fowl than fair. CBS' two-part adaptation of Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel is a cheap, chintzy adventure." While, Brian Lowry of Variety writes, "Designed to play as a moving adaptation of Alice Hoffman's bestseller, The Dovekeepers is more of a wounded duck."[5]
See also
- The Dovekeepers (novel)
- Masada, a 1981 television dramatization of the events at Masada
References
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- ↑ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/04/01/tv-ratings-tuesday-weird-loners-the-dovekeepers-start-soft-marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-new-girl-hit-lows-the-flash-izombie-flat/382572/
- ↑ http://deadline.com/2015/04/dovekeepers-ratings-down-american-idol-blackish-lmodern-family-abc-1201403344/
- ↑ http://variety.com/t/the-dovekeepers/
External links
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