A trailer for E!’s one new show: The Royals

In true Steve Jobs style, there’s one last thing: E!’s The Royals.

No, really, it’s a thing. E! – best known for fawning/stalkery celebrity content – is actually venturing into scripted programming for the first time. And for its first project, it’s lined up The RoyalsAn hour-long drama from One Tree Hill‘s Mark Schwahn, it follows a fictional British royal family led by Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley), a hard-drinking, table-dancing, fancy hat-wearing modern matriarch who will do anything to protect her family’s reputation. 

Can’t wait – can you? Unfortunately, it’s not airing until 2015. That’ll give you time to prepare.

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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