New Worlds

Series Overview

New Worlds is a four-part 2014 British television drama serial created by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, a follow-up to their 2008 series The Devil's Whore, produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4. During the turbulent Restoration period of the 1600s, young, idealistic renegade Abe Goffe is determined to fight for England to become a true republic. A romantic at heart, he falls for privileged Beth—daughter of Countess of Abingdon Angelica Fanshawe—and brings her into his quest for a new future, transforming her from the innocent young woman she starts out as.

Show Cast

Jamie Dornan

Abe Goffe

Freya Mavor

Beth Fanshawe

Joe Dempsie

Ned

Holli Dempsey

Agnes

Jeremy Northam

Charles II

Alice Englert

Hope

Michael Maloney

Hardwick

Pip Carter

Judge Jeffreys

Phil Cheadle

Ralph