Jamie Dornan is reteaming with BBC Two and The Fall creator Allan Cubitt for Death And Nightingales, a three-part drama based on Eugene McCable’s modern Irish classic. The Americans‘ Matthew Rhys will star along with Dornan. They are joined by Irish up-and-comer Ann Skelly (Kissing Candice, … Read entire story.
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Peaky Blinders has broken its drought and scored its first ever best drama BAFTA award, beating The Crown, Thandie Newton’s Line of Duty and Channel 4 and Netflix teen drama The End of the Fxxking World. Creator Steven Knight and producer Caryn Mandabach were visibly in awe by winning the award. … Read entire story.
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Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has said that next year’s Season 5 is not the last we’ll see of the Shelby crime family on the small screen — and, he’s been approached about a spinoff ballet version of the epic gangster series. Knight was speaking during an event at … Read entire story.
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Former British soldier Adnan Sarwar is heading back to Iraq fifteen years after the start of the Iraq war for a two-hour documentary for BBC Two. The broadcaster has commissioned UK and U.S. producer October Films to make Return To Iraq (w/t). Sarwar will explore how the … Read entire story.
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Philomena’s Anna Maxwell Martin, The Alienist’s David Wilmot and Line of Duty stars Vicky McClure and Daniel Mays are to front a British drama based on the events of the IRA’s 1993 bombing of Warrington. The drama, Mother’s Day, will air on BBC Two as a 90-minute one-off, produced by … Read entire story.
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