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Monday, 1st March 2021 at 6:02 pm
Horror anthology series The Terror is coming to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, with season one made available to stream later this year.
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Inspired by real-life events and based on the best-selling 2007 novel by Dan Simmons, the first season (which originally aired in 2018) centres on Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed Royal Navy expedition to the Arctic in 1845, when they set out to discover the Northwest Passage.
Stranded in a frozen wasteland, in the series the two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and their crews are stalked by an unknown monster, known as the “Tuunbaq”.
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It is 1848, and two British Royal Naval ships are lost in the ice-cold waters of the Northwest Passage. They had left England three years earlier to search for the route over North America to the Pacific Ocean. Now frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, the crew, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other.
The Terror shocked and surprised viewers and critics alike when it was first broadcast in 2018, and now you can enjoy it all over again as the chilling first season is airing on BBC Two this spring.
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Second-in-command of Erebus and third-in-command of the expedition, James Fitzjames is a rising star in the British Royal Navy.
He has secured John Franklin’s confidence, in spite of his never having sailed in the polar regions before, and develops an enmity toward Crozier. Fitzjames perceives Crozier as a joyless alcoholic bore, but he secretly knows that Crozier sees through his self-aggrandising bluster.
And Crozier is not wrong: When the expedition finds itself in desperate straits, the confident mask Fitzjames presents to the world begins to slip, revealing a man with crippling secrets.
Tobias Menzies is best known for performances in the cult series Outlander, where he plays Jonathan ‘Black Jack’ Randall and Game of Thrones, which he stars in as Edmure Tully.