FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Super Channel to premiere the Original Limited Series

Premieres May 5 at 10 p.m. ET on Super Channel Fuse

EDMONTON (April 8, 2019) – Super Channel is pleased to announce that it will premiere the STARZ Original Limited series, The Spanish Princess on Sunday, May 5 at 10 p.m. ET, day and date with its US premiere on STARZ. The third installment follows the Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-nominated STARZ Original Miniseries and the critically acclaimed STARZ Original Limited Series .

Produced by Playground and All3 Media's New Pictures, the Limited Series is drawn from the global best-selling novels, “The Constant Princess” and “The King's Curse,” written by .

To view the trailer for The Spanish Princess, click here.

Returning to the world of Tudor royal court intrigue, The Spanish Princess is a vivid and captivating story told uniquely from the point of view of the women, which also sheds light on a previously untold corner of history: the lives of people of colour, living and working in 16th century London.

Catherine of Aragon () is the strong-willed young Princess of Spain, who has been promised the English throne since she was a child. She arrives in a grey, rain-lashed

England with her glorious and diverse court including her ladies-in-waiting Lina (Stephanie Levi-John) - a Spanish noble of African Iberian descent - and the sweet and free-spirited Rosa (Nadia Parkes). When her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine until she devises an audacious plan and sets her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.

The Spanish Princess also stars Aaron Cobham (Cold Feet, Coronation Street) as Spanish soldier Oviedo, Dame Harriet Walter (The Crown, Call the Midwife) as Margaret Beaufort, Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey, Marcella) as Margaret 'Maggie' Pole, Ruairi O'Connor (Delicious) as Harry (who will become King Henry VIII), Elliot Cowan (Da Vinci's Demons) as King Henry, Alan McKenna (Save Me, The Hitman's Bodyguard) as , Angus Imrie (The Kid Who Would Be King, Kingdom) as Prince Arthur, Alexandra Moen (Fortitude, Dickensian) as Queen Elizabeth, and (The Narnia franchise, The Sisterhood of the Night) as Margaret 'Meg' Tudor.

Acclaimed writer Emma Frost (STARZ Originals The White Queen and The White Princess, The Man in the High Castle) and Matthew Graham (Life on Mars, Electric Dreams, Dr. Who) serve as showrunners and executive producers. Executive producing with Frost and Graham are (The White Queen, The Dresser, Wolf Hall) and Scott Huff (Howards End, The White Princess, The Missing) from Playground and Charlie Pattinson (The White Queen, Requiem, The Missing 1 & 2) and Charlie Hampton (Shameless, Wild at Heart, Inspector George Gently) from All3 Media's New Pictures.

Starz retains all domestic multiplatform pay TV and SVOD rights to the series. Lionsgate retains all international and domestic distribution and home entertainment rights.

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