Lightfields

[tammyy2j]

ITV1 has ordered a follow-up to Marchlands.

The five-part paranormal drama - starring Alex Kingston, Dean Andrews and Shelley Conn - aired in early 2011.

New series Lightfields will share a similar theme and format, taking place - like Marchlands - in three different time periods, Broadcast reports.

Chronicling a series of chilling events in a remote Suffolk farmhouse, the thriller opens in the wartime Britain of 1944 and follows the aftermath of a fire that devastates Lightfields' hay barn.

The story then moves to 1976, when a woman named Vivien is forced to confront repressed childhood memories of her time as an evacuee in Suffolk. The final chapter - set in the present day - will see a husband and wife haunted by a restless spirit.

Lightfields and Marchlands are both based on The Oaks, a US TV pilot that was in development at Fox in 2009.

Simon Tyrell (Survivors, The Body Farm) will write the new series, with Cherry Gould (Above Suspicion) as producer and Damon Thomas (Monroe) directing.

Exec producer Kate Lewis said: "Simon Tyrell has found a bold way to approach the format that inspired Marchlands. The scripts are atmospheric and there's great complexity to the characters as they interweave across the decades."

Lightfields will enter production later this month in Rickmansworth and East Sussex.

[N.Fan]

Stars: Dakota Blue Richards ( The Golden Compass ) ( Skins ),Danny Miller ( Emmerdale ), Jill Halfpenny ( Eastenders.Waterloo Rd ), Antonia Clarke ( Skins ), Neil Jackson ( Upstairs Downstairs ), Karla Crome ( Misfits ), Sophie Thompson ( Four Weddings and a Funeral ). Danny Webb ( Life Begins ).

[N.Fan]

Sounds like it should be a good paranormal drama,especially with Danny Miller who played Aron in it.

[tammyy2j]

Lightfields is a five-part supernatural drama set on a remote farm on the Suffolk coast.

The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.

Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass, Skins), Sam Hazeldine (Bridget Jones, The Raven), Jill Halfpenny (Eastenders, Waterloo Rd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually, My Family), Danny Miller (Emmerdale), Antonia Clarke (Skins, A Mother’s Son), Lucy Cohu (Gosford Park), Danny Webb (Life Begins), Neil Jackson (Upstairs Downstairs), Karla Crome (Misfits) and Sophie Thompson (Four Weddings and a Funeral) all join the cast.

Lightfields is a brand new story and original script from writer Simon Tyrrell (She’s Gone, The Vice) following on from the hugely successful drama Marchlands which debuted on ITV in 2011 and secured a place in the top ten most watched dramas on television across all channels that year.


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[lizann]

starts 9pm wed 27 feb on ITV

[Perdita]

27 February


The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.

Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass, Skins), Sam Hazeldine (Bridget Jones, The Raven), Jill Halfpenny (Eastenders, Waterloo Rd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually, My Family), Danny Miller (Emmerdale), Antonia Clarke (Skins, A Mother’s Son), Lucy Cohu (Gosford Park), Danny Webb (Life Begins), Neil Jackson (Upstairs Downstairs), Karla Crome (Misfits) and Sophie Thompson (Four Weddings and a Funeral) all join the cast.

Lightfields is a brand new story and original script from writer Simon Tyrrell (She’s Gone, The Vice) following on from the hugely successful drama Marchlands which debuted on ITV in 2011 and secured a place in the top ten most watched dramas on television across all channels that year.

Episode one:

1944 – The harvest is looming and the Felwood family are hard at work on the farm when 19 year-old Eve arrives. She has been evacuated from London and wants to help out and do her bit for the war effort. A friendship blossoms between Lucy Felwood and Eve but this is put in jeopardy when Dwight, a dashing American airman, comes into their lives. It is Eve who meets him first but then a chance meeting between him and Lucy triggers lies and deceptions between the two girls. Then, one fateful night, the hay barn catches fire. The fire rages and it is too late when they realise that there is someone in the barn.

1975 – Lightfields has stood empty for many years when Vivien and her teenage daughter Clare arrive from London to stay for the summer. Vivien stayed in the area when she was evacuated there during the war but struggles to remember anything about that time. As they settle into their holiday Vivien’s distant behaviour starts to concern her daughter. Unbeknown to Clare something has started to stir in Vivien’s memory since their arrival at the farm, something unsettling. But that is not all; their arrival has triggered something else, something has woken in the house. The two women are not alone.

2012 – A new generation of Felwoods have recently bought Lightfields. Barry and Lorna live there with their grandson, Luke, and Barry’s elderly and infirm father, Pip, has just moved in. Pip lived at Lightfields when he was a boy and this is the first time he has returned. He is disturbed to be back after all these years and won’t talk about his childhood on the farm. Pip knows his return has awakened something in the house but he refuses to acknowledge it. What he doesn’t know is that there is someone else who is only too willing to see and communicate with this ghostly presence; his great grandson Luke.

[Perdita]

6th March


Episode two:

1944 – As the family and local community struggle to come to terms with Lucy’s death Eve believes it wasn’t just a tragic accident. She knows Lucy must have been meeting someone at the hay barn and having established it wasn’t Harry she knows who it must have been. Motivated by this niggling suspicion Eve searches in the smoldering wreckage of the barn and finds Dwight’s petrol lighter. With this proof she confronts Dwight but outsmarted by him she is left once again with nothing but her own suspicion.

1975 – Clare remains worried about Vivien and is relieved when her dad arrives for the weekend. He believes Vivien is on the verge of a breakdown, something that has happened before, and wants her to go home and get treatment. But Clare wants her mother to be given a chance to work things out her way so he returns to London alone. A discovery that Vivien visited Lightfields as a girl unsettles her. Her memory remains just out of reach but as information drips in and the ghostly presence becomes more prevalent she starts to fear that her memory holds a terrible secret.

2012 – A terrifying moment when Luke goes missing and is found sitting by a grave in the churchyard makes Pip realise that the ghost is communicating with his great grandson. The grave belonged to Lucy Felwood and it is getting harder and harder for Pip to keep up his pretense that she never existed. They are then distracted when Paul turns up with shocking news; he is going to fight for custody of Luke. Barry and Lorna have looked after Luke since he was a baby and the thought of losing him now is unimaginable.

[Perdita]

13th March


Episode three:

1944 – Despite the police confirming that Lucy’s death was an accident Eve is still convinced that there is more to it than that. She tries to talk to Martha but, at the mention of an airman, Martha shuts her down. Similarly Albert, who is finding Eve’s presence in the house difficult, won’t listen. Meanwhile Vivien has found a letter Eve wrote to Lucy on the day of her death. Harry sees the letter and before Eve can destroy it he reads it. He is shocked; the letter is vitriolic and hurtful. It seems that Eve hated Lucy.

1975 – While Clare is intrigued about Vivien’s time in Suffolk as a child Vivien is reluctant to dig up the past. She hasn’t told Clare but the memories have started creeping back leaving her with nightmares revolving around Lightfields. Then one morning Vivien finds typing on her typewriter that she knows she didn’t do. Clare tries to calm her mother down but in truth Clare is scared about what is happening to them. The next night Vivien wakes and hears a noise. She goes downstairs and there is more typing and this time the message seems directed at her.

2012 – When Luke puts himself in danger by starting a fire Pip is worried that this is Lucy’s doing and he is terrified she is trying to hurt his great grandson. However for Paul the fire presents an opportunity, which he grabs with both hands, and Barry is left having to convince social services that Luke is safe at the farm. Then Barry, after an evening with Paul trying and failing to settle the dispute amicably, seizes his own opportunity to level the playing field. Meanwhile Pip is spending more and more time with Luke. It is the only way he can think of to protect Luke from his sister.

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Danny Miller has revealed that working on upcoming thriller Lightfields is "more relaxed" than appearing in Emmerdale.

The 22-year-old, who bowed out of the Dales-set soap last year after four years as Aaron Livesy, told What's On TV that working on Lightfields is very different to acting in a soap.

He explained: "The schedule for Emmerdale was 16-17 scenes a day, whereas here is more like four or five a day.

"It's a lot more relaxed and gives you a lot more time to sit down with the director and talk about the scene you're about to do."

However, Miller said that the regime of a soap is great training for actors.

"On Emmerdale you're on a schedule and you've got to be in at 7.30am. If you're late you hold everyone up. That's great for your discipline and punctuality," he said.

"You've got to be there otherwise you cost people money and time. Anyone who's got that kind of training will tell you how full on it is. That's why it's nice to come to this and have time to breathe."

Lightfields, a follow-up to ITV drama Marchlands, is set in a Suffolk farmhouse and follows three sets of occupants in 1944, 1975 and present day who are revealed to be connected due to events in the house towards the end of the Second World War.

Miller said of his new character Tom: "[He's] completely different to Aaron. He's not one of those who can make eye contact very easily. He's very nervous. He's not very confident or well educated.

"He has a massive crush on Lucy who, in his eyes, was his childhood sweetheart.

"You see him ask her out and she says, 'No, because you're not my type' sort of thing. He's obviously not confident with how to woo a lady, with how to talk properly."

Lightfields airs on Wednesday at 9pm on ITV1.

[Katy]

I really don't like that boy.

Going to catch up in this at some point, it looks good. I really enjoyed marchlands when that was on.

[Katy]

I really don't like that boy.

Going to catch up in this at some point, it looks good. I really enjoyed marchlands when that was on.

[Perdita]

Episode 4 - 20th March 2013

The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.


1944 – In the wake of Harry’s discovery of the letter Eve decides to leave the farm but a plaintive plea from Pip persuades her to stay. Lucy’s death is haunting them all and life at Lightfields is becoming increasingly painful. Martha can see that Albert’s grief for Lucy is eating him up inside and she wants them to move but Albert has a plan of his own. Eve finds Albert at the hay barn one evening and he makes a terrible confession. He needs Lucy’s forgiveness if he is going to be able to carry on.



1975 –Vivien is increasingly preoccupied with the unexplained goings on in the house. She is beginning to fear that Lucy is out to get her. She learns from Tom that Lucy died in a fire and Vivien begins to wonder if she had something to do with it. Clare is frightened and wants them to leave Lightfields and go home but Vivien knows she needs to stay. Vivien needs to find out what she has blocked out for all these years and that night a visit from Lucy lets Vivien know that the time has come.



2012 – Paul is fast unravelling and anxiety is high at Lightfields - the custody battle is taking its toll on them all. Increasingly aware of Lucy’s influence on Luke Pip makes him promise to tell him if she comes to see him again. One night, true to his promise, Luke wakes Pip to tell him that Lucy is there. Pip, after all these years, is forced to face his past. Knowing he can’t manage this alone any longer he tells Barry and Lorna about Lucy; that she died at Lightfields and is still here. He tells them they can’t let Luke out of their sight.

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[Perdita]

Final episode - 27th March 2013


Final episode:

1944 – With the harvest in the Felwoods decide that the time has come for them to move on. Lightfields holds too many memories of Lucy; memories they believe they need to forget. Dwight is close to breaking point and looks to unburden himself of the truth about what happened that night with Lucy but it seems his confession may have come too late. Meanwhile Harry and Eve come to the realisation that they need to put the events of the summer in their past in order to make the most of the time they have left together before Harry has to leave to fight in the war.

1975 – Recent spooky events have forced Vivien to make a decision and she tells Clare that the time has come for them to go home. But while Clare is at the beach saying her goodbyes to Nick it becomes clear that Vivien hasn’t been totally honest with her daughter. Clare realises something is up but when she gets back to the house and finds her mother gone. With the help of Tom she races against time to find Vivien, who alone and vulnerable, is on the verge, after all these years, of remembering what she did that fateful night.

2012 – When Luke goes missing at the farm they believe that Pip was right and that Lucy has taken him. But Lucy is not the only danger to Luke; Paul is unravelling and looks ready to resort to drastic measures to see his son. While they frantically search for Luke a B&B guest arrives at Ligthfields. The guest turns out to be someone from Pip’s past. Finally, after all these years, it is time for the truth about what happened that night to be told.

Series overview:

Lightfields is an ITV five-part supernatural drama set on a remote farm on the Suffolk coast.

The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.

Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass, Skins), Sam Hazeldine (Bridget Jones, The Raven), Jill Halfpenny (Eastenders, Waterloo Rd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually, My Family), Danny Miller (Emmerdale), Antonia Clarke (Skins, A Mother’s Son), Lucy Cohu (Gosford Park), Danny Webb (Life Begins), Neil Jackson (Upstairs Downstairs), Karla Crome (Misfits) and Sophie Thompson (Four Weddings and a Funeral) all join the cast.

Lightfields is a brand new story and original script from writer Simon Tyrrell (She’s Gone, The Vice) following on from the hugely successful drama Marchlands which debuted on ITV in 2011 and secured a place in the top ten most watched dramas on television across all channels that year.

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