HBO and Sky’s Catherine the Great offers another exceptional performance from Helen Mirren, as well as the spectacle of an historical epic.

HBO has released the official trailer for the upcoming limited series Catherine the Great. The series stars Helen Mirren as the titular 18th-century Russian monarch and Jason Clarke as Grigory Potemkin, a military man and one of Catherine's many lovers. The official trailer puts a majority of its focus on Catherine (Mirren), naturally, and hints at how central her fight to maintain her position of power is as her male advisors attempt to sow distrust with those at court. Catherine is, as the trailer repeatedly tells us, an atypical ruler for her time. She flaunts her rotating roster …

HBO has released the Catherine the Great trailer for the pay-cable network’s upcoming limited series. The four-episode miniseries stars Helen Mirren as Russian empress Catherine the Great, set against her politically tumultuous and sexually charged court. The focus of this story is on the end of her reign, during which she shared a passionate affair with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) and overcame scandal, intrigue, and conflict to concoct the basis for modern day Russia. Philip Martin, who directed Mirren in the TV series Prime Suspect in addition to episodes of Wallander and The Crown, directs all four …

HBO releases the first trailer for its four-part limited series Catherine the Great, with Helen Mirren in the lead role as the Russian empress.