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If any tv company wanted to make you a gift, what historical tv series they should make for you?
Well, I've already written about two potential candidates - a five seasons tv show about Frederick II of Prussia and a tv show about exiled young Charles II making cash by fighting crime together with a female Dutch spy. Either of those would do nicely, but I have, of course, far more scenarios to offer, depending on how much of a budget and ability to shoot on locations we're talking about.
One dream would be a tv show about the Mongolian Khatun Mandukhai (or Manduchai, as I would write her name in German), who managed to reunite the Mongol tribes again 250 years after Genghis Khan. Offers several more good female parts in addition to our leading lady - Jekhe Chabartu, the first wife of Mandukhai's first husband, for example, and most importantly the Lady Wan, concubine of the Ming dynasty emperor of the era and true power behind the thronen, which meant both the patriarchal Mongols and the even more patriarchal Chinese were ruled by women in this era. Mandukhai wasn't the only woman who for a time ruled the Mongols, but as opposed to most of the others, she didn't end up dethroned, betrayed, killed or otherwise tragically. No, this would be one tv show where our historical heroine succeeds and ends her days happily.
If a show in Mongolia is out of the question: a multi generation tv show about the Dumas family comes to mind, starting with Marie-Cesette Dumas (slave in Saint-Domingue, aka Haiti; had four children by a white French aristocrat, one of which he took with him to France; the other were sold to cover for debts, and Marie-Cesette died of dystentry) , Thomas-Alexandre, who upon reaching adulthood fell out with his white father, enlisted under his mother's name in the revolutionary army, reached the rank of general, fell out with Napoleon and died when his son the author was only three years old; Alexandre père, entertaining novelist extraordinaire (aka he of the Three Musketeers and the Count of Monte-Christo), Alexandre fils (that's the one who wrote the Lady of the Camellias, which La Traviata is based on). I've said it before, I'll say it again: this should be an ideal ARTE (French/German tv channel) broadcast and I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. (Unless it has by now and I've just missed it?).
Lastly, a more recent discovery with a crossover potential to the Frederick show but really deserves her very own tv series: Émilie du Chatelet, mathematician, natural philosopher, physicist and author, brilliant woman of the enlightenment. She did not succeed in all she wanted, but she always managed to live on her own terms, and the tv show based on her life would offer brilliant dialogue, hair-raising escapes, at least one duel and intense relationships galore.
The Other Days
Well, I've already written about two potential candidates - a five seasons tv show about Frederick II of Prussia and a tv show about exiled young Charles II making cash by fighting crime together with a female Dutch spy. Either of those would do nicely, but I have, of course, far more scenarios to offer, depending on how much of a budget and ability to shoot on locations we're talking about.
One dream would be a tv show about the Mongolian Khatun Mandukhai (or Manduchai, as I would write her name in German), who managed to reunite the Mongol tribes again 250 years after Genghis Khan. Offers several more good female parts in addition to our leading lady - Jekhe Chabartu, the first wife of Mandukhai's first husband, for example, and most importantly the Lady Wan, concubine of the Ming dynasty emperor of the era and true power behind the thronen, which meant both the patriarchal Mongols and the even more patriarchal Chinese were ruled by women in this era. Mandukhai wasn't the only woman who for a time ruled the Mongols, but as opposed to most of the others, she didn't end up dethroned, betrayed, killed or otherwise tragically. No, this would be one tv show where our historical heroine succeeds and ends her days happily.
If a show in Mongolia is out of the question: a multi generation tv show about the Dumas family comes to mind, starting with Marie-Cesette Dumas (slave in Saint-Domingue, aka Haiti; had four children by a white French aristocrat, one of which he took with him to France; the other were sold to cover for debts, and Marie-Cesette died of dystentry) , Thomas-Alexandre, who upon reaching adulthood fell out with his white father, enlisted under his mother's name in the revolutionary army, reached the rank of general, fell out with Napoleon and died when his son the author was only three years old; Alexandre père, entertaining novelist extraordinaire (aka he of the Three Musketeers and the Count of Monte-Christo), Alexandre fils (that's the one who wrote the Lady of the Camellias, which La Traviata is based on). I've said it before, I'll say it again: this should be an ideal ARTE (French/German tv channel) broadcast and I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. (Unless it has by now and I've just missed it?).
Lastly, a more recent discovery with a crossover potential to the Frederick show but really deserves her very own tv series: Émilie du Chatelet, mathematician, natural philosopher, physicist and author, brilliant woman of the enlightenment. She did not succeed in all she wanted, but she always managed to live on her own terms, and the tv show based on her life would offer brilliant dialogue, hair-raising escapes, at least one duel and intense relationships galore.
The Other Days
