Today, BritBox, the premiere streaming destination for British television offering the biggest and best collection of unmissable British television, announced a dynamic slate of upcoming Original series.
Sharing a suspenseful teaser, BritBox announced that the thrilling new mystery Passenger, led by Wunmi Mosaku (Loki), will premiere in October. In the captivating screenwriting debut of actor Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch), inexplicable crimes haunt the fictional village of Chadder Vale, where perhaps more is afoot than meets the eye.
Barry Sloane (Revenge), David Threlfall (Shameless), and Rowan Robinson (A Haunting in Venice) also star in the atmospheric crime drama.
Summer will see the powerful return of gritty, impactful crime dramas, starting with the June 13 return of Blue Lights. A breakout hit in the UK, the Belfast-based series delves into complex local politics through the lens of a police drama.
Multi-bafta-nominated The Responder returns July 11 for a new season, once again led by Martin Freeman...
Sharing a suspenseful teaser, BritBox announced that the thrilling new mystery Passenger, led by Wunmi Mosaku (Loki), will premiere in October. In the captivating screenwriting debut of actor Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch), inexplicable crimes haunt the fictional village of Chadder Vale, where perhaps more is afoot than meets the eye.
Barry Sloane (Revenge), David Threlfall (Shameless), and Rowan Robinson (A Haunting in Venice) also star in the atmospheric crime drama.
Summer will see the powerful return of gritty, impactful crime dramas, starting with the June 13 return of Blue Lights. A breakout hit in the UK, the Belfast-based series delves into complex local politics through the lens of a police drama.
Multi-bafta-nominated The Responder returns July 11 for a new season, once again led by Martin Freeman...
- 5/21/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Warning: spoilers for Blue Lights series 2.
The message in the Blue Lights series two finale could hardly seem clearer. After six episodes of being assaulted, petrol bombed and shot at on their turbulent Belfast patch, police officers Grace and Stevie finally give in to their feelings and drive off into the night while Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” perkily assures us that “Everything’s gonna be alright/It’s gonna be okay.”
Phew. Thank heavens! If there’s one thing Siân Brooke’s Grace and Martin McCann’s Stevie deserve in Blue Lights, it’s for everything to be alright and okay. He’s a widower who nursed his beloved wife through cancer; she’s a former social worker and single parent whose only son has moved away, and they both do a job so stressful it’s a wonder that they don’t spontaneously burst...
The message in the Blue Lights series two finale could hardly seem clearer. After six episodes of being assaulted, petrol bombed and shot at on their turbulent Belfast patch, police officers Grace and Stevie finally give in to their feelings and drive off into the night while Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” perkily assures us that “Everything’s gonna be alright/It’s gonna be okay.”
Phew. Thank heavens! If there’s one thing Siân Brooke’s Grace and Martin McCann’s Stevie deserve in Blue Lights, it’s for everything to be alright and okay. He’s a widower who nursed his beloved wife through cancer; she’s a former social worker and single parent whose only son has moved away, and they both do a job so stressful it’s a wonder that they don’t spontaneously burst...
- 5/20/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The cast and crew of Belfast-set police drama Blue Lights had less than a month of filming left on their second series in 2023 when they found out that their show had been renewed for a third and a fourth run.
“We were three or four weeks off the end of shooting season two when we got the news,” actor Siân Brooke tells Den of Geek. “I was so pleasantly surprised because it doesn’t really happen very much in this day and age, to have somebody support you and nail their colours to the mast the way that they have, it means a lot that they’re behind us.”
Blue Lights follows the progress of Brooke’s character Grace, with Annie (Katherine Devlin) and Tommy (Nathan Braniff), three new recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Grace is a former social worker, Annie’s a young local and Tommy...
“We were three or four weeks off the end of shooting season two when we got the news,” actor Siân Brooke tells Den of Geek. “I was so pleasantly surprised because it doesn’t really happen very much in this day and age, to have somebody support you and nail their colours to the mast the way that they have, it means a lot that they’re behind us.”
Blue Lights follows the progress of Brooke’s character Grace, with Annie (Katherine Devlin) and Tommy (Nathan Braniff), three new recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Grace is a former social worker, Annie’s a young local and Tommy...
- 5/20/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Cillian Murphy obtained one of acting’s most coveted achievements when he won an Oscar for his leading role in “Oppenheimer.” But his award season run for the acclaimed Christopher Nolan film didn’t end with his big night at the Dolby Theater. The Irish actor went on to receive his home country’s highest acting honor on Sunday at the Irish Film and TV Academy Awards when he won the Lead Actor — Film category for “Oppenheimer.”
The ceremony honored the best Irish film and television of 2023, with Pat Collins’ “That They May Face the Rising Sun” winning Best Film. Other notable winners included Paul Mescal taking Supporting Actor for “All of Us Strangers” and Alison Oliver winning Supporting Actress for “Saltburn.”
Keep reading for a complete list of winners from the 2024 Irish Film and TV Academy Awards.
Best Film
“Double Blind”
“Flora and Son”
“Lies We Tell”
“Lola”
“That They May Face the Rising Sun...
The ceremony honored the best Irish film and television of 2023, with Pat Collins’ “That They May Face the Rising Sun” winning Best Film. Other notable winners included Paul Mescal taking Supporting Actor for “All of Us Strangers” and Alison Oliver winning Supporting Actress for “Saltburn.”
Keep reading for a complete list of winners from the 2024 Irish Film and TV Academy Awards.
Best Film
“Double Blind”
“Flora and Son”
“Lies We Tell”
“Lola”
“That They May Face the Rising Sun...
- 4/20/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Cillian Murphy, Kin season two and Paul Mescal were among the winners of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024, which were handed out during a ceremony in Dublin on Saturday.
Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family, led the nominations for the movie portion of the awards with 13 and went home with three. It was followed by That They May Face the Rising Sun, which took home the best film prize, and Double Blind, with 11 each. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel about passion, war and migration, while Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes wrong.
Among the lead acting nominees were such big names as Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson and Jessie Buckley. Murphy took home the best actor...
Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family, led the nominations for the movie portion of the awards with 13 and went home with three. It was followed by That They May Face the Rising Sun, which took home the best film prize, and Double Blind, with 11 each. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel about passion, war and migration, while Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes wrong.
Among the lead acting nominees were such big names as Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson and Jessie Buckley. Murphy took home the best actor...
- 4/20/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Whether due to spoiler phobia, poor impulse control, or an unquenchable need to know what treat Stevie will be serving next out of his magic lunchbox, some Blue Lights fans have already binge-watched all six episodes of series two. To those people we say, breathe out. More is coming.
Two months before series two arrived on BBC One and iPlayer, the corporation confirmed that it had ordered two further series of Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Belfast-set police drama. Like the first two, series three and four will each have the regulation six-episodes, and if all goes to plan, we might reasonably expect them to air respectively in spring 2025 and spring 2026.
Series one arrived to acclaim last March and quickly bagsied itself high-ranking spots on ‘The Best TV of 2023’ round-ups come the end of the year. It’s the story of three rookie recruits to the Police Service of...
Two months before series two arrived on BBC One and iPlayer, the corporation confirmed that it had ordered two further series of Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Belfast-set police drama. Like the first two, series three and four will each have the regulation six-episodes, and if all goes to plan, we might reasonably expect them to air respectively in spring 2025 and spring 2026.
Series one arrived to acclaim last March and quickly bagsied itself high-ranking spots on ‘The Best TV of 2023’ round-ups come the end of the year. It’s the story of three rookie recruits to the Police Service of...
- 4/16/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The BBC has released the trailer for series two of the hit Belfast-based police drama ‘Blue Lights.’
Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and produced by Two Cities Television, Blue Lights is an authentic, gripping and darkly funny drama about ordinary people doing an extraordinary job.
Series one, which aired in March last year, followed three new Psni probationary recruits as they navigated their way through their first few months in a uniquely complex place to be a response police officer. It was recently commissioned for two more series.
Reprising their roles in the forthcoming second series are Siân Brooke (Grace Ellis), Martin McCann (Stevie Neil), Katherine Devlin (Annie Conlon), Nathan Braniff (Tommy Foster), Joanne Crawford (Helen McNally), Andi Osho (Sandra Cliff), and Hannah McClean (Jen Robinson).
Also set to return are Paddy Jenkins (Happy Kelly), Desmond Eastwood (Murray Canning), Jonathan Harden (Jonty) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola Robinson...
Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and produced by Two Cities Television, Blue Lights is an authentic, gripping and darkly funny drama about ordinary people doing an extraordinary job.
Series one, which aired in March last year, followed three new Psni probationary recruits as they navigated their way through their first few months in a uniquely complex place to be a response police officer. It was recently commissioned for two more series.
Reprising their roles in the forthcoming second series are Siân Brooke (Grace Ellis), Martin McCann (Stevie Neil), Katherine Devlin (Annie Conlon), Nathan Braniff (Tommy Foster), Joanne Crawford (Helen McNally), Andi Osho (Sandra Cliff), and Hannah McClean (Jen Robinson).
Also set to return are Paddy Jenkins (Happy Kelly), Desmond Eastwood (Murray Canning), Jonathan Harden (Jonty) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola Robinson...
- 3/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fresh from his Academy Award win for best actor, “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy now has a chance to claim the same honor at his local awards.
The Irish Film and TV Academy (IFTA) has unveiled the nominees for its 2024 awards, with Murphy going up against “Saltburn’s'” Barry Keoghan and “All of Us Strangers” star Andrew Scott in the best actor category. Elsewhere, Jessie Buckley (“Fingernails”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Foe”) are among those nominated for best actress, while Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) and Kenneth Branagh (“Oppenheimer”) are in the running for best supporting actor.
But it was actually Irish features leading the pack of nominees, with Lisa Mulcahy’s “Lies We Tell” landing 13, followed by “That They May Face the Rising Sun” and “Double Blind.”
The IFTAs ceremony will be take place on April 20 at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre with Irish TV personality Baz Ashmawy on hosting duties.
The Irish Film and TV Academy (IFTA) has unveiled the nominees for its 2024 awards, with Murphy going up against “Saltburn’s'” Barry Keoghan and “All of Us Strangers” star Andrew Scott in the best actor category. Elsewhere, Jessie Buckley (“Fingernails”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Foe”) are among those nominated for best actress, while Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) and Kenneth Branagh (“Oppenheimer”) are in the running for best supporting actor.
But it was actually Irish features leading the pack of nominees, with Lisa Mulcahy’s “Lies We Tell” landing 13, followed by “That They May Face the Rising Sun” and “Double Blind.”
The IFTAs ceremony will be take place on April 20 at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre with Irish TV personality Baz Ashmawy on hosting duties.
- 3/14/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Nominations are out for the 21st Irish Film & Television Awards with Lisa Mulcahy’s thriller Lies We Tell leading the pack on the feature side at 13, and crime drama Kin heading up the TV fields with 11 (scroll down for the ful list of nominees). The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) will hand out its prizes on April 20 in Dublin.
Alongside Lies We Tell in the Best Film category are Double Blind, Flora and Son, Lola, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Verdigris. Each of those films also scored a mention for their directors.
In what was a banner year for Irish talent, there are several awards season notables vying for Best Actor as well, including Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and All of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott.
The Best International Film race includes All of Us Strangers, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, Saltburn and The Holdovers.
Alongside Lies We Tell in the Best Film category are Double Blind, Flora and Son, Lola, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Verdigris. Each of those films also scored a mention for their directors.
In what was a banner year for Irish talent, there are several awards season notables vying for Best Actor as well, including Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and All of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott.
The Best International Film race includes All of Us Strangers, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, Saltburn and The Holdovers.
- 3/14/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Lies We Tell, with 13, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Double Blind, with 11 each, are leading the nominations for the movie portion of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024.
Lies We Tell is about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family when she becomes the ward of an uncle determined to marry her off. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel of passion, war, and migration. Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes horribly wrong. Andrew Legge’s Lola, a science fiction drama set in 1940, received seven noms on Thursday.
Among the lead acting nominees are such big names as Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson, and Jessie Buckley. The best supporting film actor category, meanwhile, includes Kenneth Branagh and Paul Mescal.
And...
Lies We Tell is about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family when she becomes the ward of an uncle determined to marry her off. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel of passion, war, and migration. Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes horribly wrong. Andrew Legge’s Lola, a science fiction drama set in 1940, received seven noms on Thursday.
Among the lead acting nominees are such big names as Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson, and Jessie Buckley. The best supporting film actor category, meanwhile, includes Kenneth Branagh and Paul Mescal.
And...
- 3/14/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The BBC has unveiled its biggest drama slate in years featuring a TV version of James Graham play Dear England starring Joseph Fiennes from The Crown producer Left Bank, Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood’s debut writing project and a Rebecca Hall-starrer from Poor Things maker Element.
Unveiled at a glitz London do for press and producers, the 12-strong roster, which features some of Britain’s best and brightest talents, is the first from new Drama Director Lindsay Salt, who took over from A24’s Piers Wenger 18 months ago.
Scroll down for the full slate below, which features an adaptation of Sherwood creator Graham’s Dear England about the England soccer manager Gareth Southgate – the play of which has taken London by storm and recently transferred to the West End. Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) will reprise his role as Southgate and Graham will pen the TV version, which...
Unveiled at a glitz London do for press and producers, the 12-strong roster, which features some of Britain’s best and brightest talents, is the first from new Drama Director Lindsay Salt, who took over from A24’s Piers Wenger 18 months ago.
Scroll down for the full slate below, which features an adaptation of Sherwood creator Graham’s Dear England about the England soccer manager Gareth Southgate – the play of which has taken London by storm and recently transferred to the West End. Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) will reprise his role as Southgate and Graham will pen the TV version, which...
- 2/21/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
2024 really is the year of the Difficult Second Series: after wowing us in 2023 and even earlier, shows like The Tourist, Extraordinary, The Rig, Suspect and Bad Sisters are on the way back for another helping this year, but the question is: will they live up to series one?
In among this, a trio of behemoth shows coming back: Doctor Who will return for series 14, or season one as it’s being styled, the first with Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, Wolf Hall is returning after nine years to cover the late Hilary Mantel’s final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, and dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will return to Netflix for its seventh series. There’s even talk of a prequel series to Red Dwarf, if that comes off.
This is our round-up of the British TV shows we’re most excited to see returning for new...
In among this, a trio of behemoth shows coming back: Doctor Who will return for series 14, or season one as it’s being styled, the first with Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, Wolf Hall is returning after nine years to cover the late Hilary Mantel’s final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, and dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will return to Netflix for its seventh series. There’s even talk of a prequel series to Red Dwarf, if that comes off.
This is our round-up of the British TV shows we’re most excited to see returning for new...
- 1/4/2024
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
The BBC has tasked His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne to pen a TV adaptation of William Golding’s seminal novel Lord of the Flies.
This marks the first time the novel will be made for television, though there have been two feature film adaptations — the first Peter Brook’s 1963 movie and the second made in 1990 by Harry Hook (above).
Sex Education producer Eleven is attached to make The BBC’s series, which was unveiled by BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore today at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London. Several other announcements were also made (see below).
Writer Thorne is known for shows such as BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials, Channel 4 Covid-19 drama Help, Shane Meadows’ This is England and Netflix series The Eddy, feature films Wonder and Enola Holmes and theater productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Golding’s 1954 novel tells the story...
This marks the first time the novel will be made for television, though there have been two feature film adaptations — the first Peter Brook’s 1963 movie and the second made in 1990 by Harry Hook (above).
Sex Education producer Eleven is attached to make The BBC’s series, which was unveiled by BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore today at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London. Several other announcements were also made (see below).
Writer Thorne is known for shows such as BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials, Channel 4 Covid-19 drama Help, Shane Meadows’ This is England and Netflix series The Eddy, feature films Wonder and Enola Holmes and theater productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Golding’s 1954 novel tells the story...
- 4/20/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Mip TV is just around the corner and, as ever, the content will be king. Here, Deadline walks you through seven of the buzziest dramas set for the Croisette, featuring police thrillers, a Royal Family docu-drama and Beta Film’s latest about the Ms Estonia shipwreck. Read on for the best-in-class projects heading to Cannes for the April 17-19 confab.
Blue Lights
Distributor: BBC Studios
Network: BBC One
Episodes: 6 x 60
Having just launched on BBC One primetime, Blue Lights is the latest precinct drama from Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the creators of the critically-acclaimed Salisbury Poisonings. In Gallagher Films/Two Cities Productions’ show, the pair, who worked for years as investigative journalists, turn their hands to the troubled situation in Belfast, a uniquely dangerous place to be a Police Officer. Grace (Siân Brooke), a mother of a teenage boy, has made the decision in her 40s to leave her...
Blue Lights
Distributor: BBC Studios
Network: BBC One
Episodes: 6 x 60
Having just launched on BBC One primetime, Blue Lights is the latest precinct drama from Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the creators of the critically-acclaimed Salisbury Poisonings. In Gallagher Films/Two Cities Productions’ show, the pair, who worked for years as investigative journalists, turn their hands to the troubled situation in Belfast, a uniquely dangerous place to be a Police Officer. Grace (Siân Brooke), a mother of a teenage boy, has made the decision in her 40s to leave her...
- 4/14/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Crime dramas are rarely revolutionary – we often watch them because they’re comfortingly formulaic – but every so often you get a gem that changes the game. We saw it with Line of Duty, Happy Valley, and Luther – and now Blue Lights is here to make you sit up, stop scrolling and get invested.
What the detectives from the above shows all have in common is experience, but Blue Lights focusses on three fresh-faced officers on probation in Belfast, Northern Ireland’s most dangerous city. Annie (Katherine Devlin) is scrappy and impetuous, Tommy (Nathan Braniff) is bookish and a terrible shot, and Grace (played by Trying’s Sian Brooke) is naively optimistic about making a difference despite having joined the force in her forties after a career as a social worker.
The good news is that what they lack in policing potential, they make up for in instant likeability, and this...
What the detectives from the above shows all have in common is experience, but Blue Lights focusses on three fresh-faced officers on probation in Belfast, Northern Ireland’s most dangerous city. Annie (Katherine Devlin) is scrappy and impetuous, Tommy (Nathan Braniff) is bookish and a terrible shot, and Grace (played by Trying’s Sian Brooke) is naively optimistic about making a difference despite having joined the force in her forties after a career as a social worker.
The good news is that what they lack in policing potential, they make up for in instant likeability, and this...
- 3/28/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
It seems unkind to mark down any drama that tries to find its way through the continuing tensions in Northern Ireland, but the problem with BBC One’s Blue Lights is that there’s no one to really root for. All the characters in the story are either loathsome or pathetic, with some a mix of both. It does tend to mirror the politics in the province in recent times, incidentally, but that’s not really the point.
Blue Lights is the story of three probationary officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (Psni), Grace Ellis, Annie Conlon and Tommy Foster, played with a kind of uncharming naivety by Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin and Nathan Braniff, respectively. They spend much of their time getting stoned (not in the nice way) and being derided and mocked by their colleagues, who seem to resent the idea that anyone would actually want...
Blue Lights is the story of three probationary officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (Psni), Grace Ellis, Annie Conlon and Tommy Foster, played with a kind of uncharming naivety by Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin and Nathan Braniff, respectively. They spend much of their time getting stoned (not in the nice way) and being derided and mocked by their colleagues, who seem to resent the idea that anyone would actually want...
- 3/27/2023
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
Northern Irish writing-directing duo Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn have signed with WME for representation in the U.S.
The pair’s latest work, precinct drama “Blue Lights,” for the BBC and Two Cities Television, will premiere March 27. It follows the lives of rookie police officers working in contemporary Belfast.
The creative team, who started out in investigative journalism, entered the TV drama world with their original series “The Salisbury Poisonings,” about the Novichok poisonings in the U.K. in 2018. The show starred Rafe Spall and Anne Marie Duff and was the BBC’s highest rated drama of 2020. It scored nominations at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs and Royal Television Society Awards.
Lawn and Patterson’s TV work also includes two episodes of Peter Kosminksy’s Channel 4/Peacock series, “The Undeclared War,” starring Hannah Khalique-Brown, Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.
Patterson and Lawn...
The pair’s latest work, precinct drama “Blue Lights,” for the BBC and Two Cities Television, will premiere March 27. It follows the lives of rookie police officers working in contemporary Belfast.
The creative team, who started out in investigative journalism, entered the TV drama world with their original series “The Salisbury Poisonings,” about the Novichok poisonings in the U.K. in 2018. The show starred Rafe Spall and Anne Marie Duff and was the BBC’s highest rated drama of 2020. It scored nominations at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs and Royal Television Society Awards.
Lawn and Patterson’s TV work also includes two episodes of Peter Kosminksy’s Channel 4/Peacock series, “The Undeclared War,” starring Hannah Khalique-Brown, Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.
Patterson and Lawn...
- 3/23/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Adult Material star Siena Kelly has boarded BBC Three witch drama Domino Day, as the show’s EP Laurence Bowen spotlights his indie Dancing Ledge’s work with new writers.
Domino Day, which comes from first-time writer and Dancing Ledge Writer in Residence (Wir) Lauren Sequeira, is an irreverent comedy-drama about modern dating in which the protagonist uses dating apps to hunt, rather than find love.
Kelly, who was BAFTA nominated for her role in Channel 4’s Adult Material, will play Domino, a powerful young witch who is haunted by her need to feed on the energy of others, a hunger that only grows, despite her attempt to start her life over in Manchester. She is desperately seeking a community who can help her understand her feelings but, unbeknownst to her, she is being tracked by a coven of witches.
Kelly is joined by up-and-comers Babirye Bukilwa (We Hunt Together...
Domino Day, which comes from first-time writer and Dancing Ledge Writer in Residence (Wir) Lauren Sequeira, is an irreverent comedy-drama about modern dating in which the protagonist uses dating apps to hunt, rather than find love.
Kelly, who was BAFTA nominated for her role in Channel 4’s Adult Material, will play Domino, a powerful young witch who is haunted by her need to feed on the energy of others, a hunger that only grows, despite her attempt to start her life over in Manchester. She is desperately seeking a community who can help her understand her feelings but, unbeknownst to her, she is being tracked by a coven of witches.
Kelly is joined by up-and-comers Babirye Bukilwa (We Hunt Together...
- 3/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Sam Taylor-Johnson to direct with production underway on Monday 16.
Filming will begin on Monday, January 16 on Studiocanal, Focus Features and Monumental Pictures’ Back To Black, starring Marisa Abela as music icon Amy Winehouse.
Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct the UK-us production, which will depict Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early noughties and her intense journey to fame. A first look at Abela as Winehouse has been released, above.
Matt Greenhalgh wrote the Back To Black script; he previously collaborated with Taylor-Johnson on 2009’s Nowhere Boy, about the teenage years of The Beatles’ John Lennon.
Focus will distribute...
Filming will begin on Monday, January 16 on Studiocanal, Focus Features and Monumental Pictures’ Back To Black, starring Marisa Abela as music icon Amy Winehouse.
Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct the UK-us production, which will depict Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early noughties and her intense journey to fame. A first look at Abela as Winehouse has been released, above.
Matt Greenhalgh wrote the Back To Black script; he previously collaborated with Taylor-Johnson on 2009’s Nowhere Boy, about the teenage years of The Beatles’ John Lennon.
Focus will distribute...
- 1/13/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Rogue Agent Review — Rogue Agent (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, written by Michael Bronner, Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn and starring James Norton, Gemma Arterton, Rob Malone, Marisa Abela, Freya Mavor, Peter Heenan, Michael Drake, Julian Barratt, Jimmy Akingbola, Simon Chandler, Melissa Collier, Shazad Latif, Luke [...]
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- 8/26/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Gemma Arterton as Alice Archer with James Norton as Robert Freegard in Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s high-stakes and sly spy thriller Rogue Agent Photo: Nick Briggs, IFC Films
A female voiceover conveys the tricks of the trade in Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s high-stakes and sly spy thriller Rogue Agent (co-written with Michael Bronner who wrote the original unpublished article on the case) and shot by Larry Smith. We are informed that for an instant connection we should look into a stranger’s eyes exactly long enough to register their colour. Good spies hide in plain sight. Most effectively, they find out which story the other person is dying to be told.
Adam Patterson with Declan Lawn and Anne-Katrin Titze on James Norton’s specialty dish: “The bolognese came at the script stage and then it won well because James in real life is a great eater.
A female voiceover conveys the tricks of the trade in Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s high-stakes and sly spy thriller Rogue Agent (co-written with Michael Bronner who wrote the original unpublished article on the case) and shot by Larry Smith. We are informed that for an instant connection we should look into a stranger’s eyes exactly long enough to register their colour. Good spies hide in plain sight. Most effectively, they find out which story the other person is dying to be told.
Adam Patterson with Declan Lawn and Anne-Katrin Titze on James Norton’s specialty dish: “The bolognese came at the script stage and then it won well because James in real life is a great eater.
- 8/17/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Rogue Agent star James Norton with Anne-Katrin Titze: “We didn’t want it to feel like a predictable charm, the kind of suave spies in the James Bond vein.”
In Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s percipient Rogue Agent we first encounter James Norton (the tutor John Brooke in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Oliver Ashford in Amma Asante’s Belle) as Robert Freegard in the process of applying for a job as bartender in a rural English pub, located near a small agricultural college.
Robert Freegard (James Norton) with Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton) listen to The Cure (Just Like Heaven) and he does a “bad-dance” to George Michael’s Faith.” Photo: Nick Briggs, IFC Films
Shot by Larry Smith, the year is 1993, the Ira bombings flood the news and we learn that MI5 is recruiting freelance spies to inform on those suspected of plotting terrorist activities.
In Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s percipient Rogue Agent we first encounter James Norton (the tutor John Brooke in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Oliver Ashford in Amma Asante’s Belle) as Robert Freegard in the process of applying for a job as bartender in a rural English pub, located near a small agricultural college.
Robert Freegard (James Norton) with Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton) listen to The Cure (Just Like Heaven) and he does a “bad-dance” to George Michael’s Faith.” Photo: Nick Briggs, IFC Films
Shot by Larry Smith, the year is 1993, the Ira bombings flood the news and we learn that MI5 is recruiting freelance spies to inform on those suspected of plotting terrorist activities.
- 8/12/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With a significant number of Americans in the dangerous sway of a well-disseminated illusion, any stories that help us understand the psychology behind believing a con artist, and why such lies work, become a little more valuable in this day and age.
The tale of British sociopath Robert Freegard’s wreckage is one of those jaw-droppers you can’t help but want to parse, but it’s been turned into the only mildly illuminating, dimly effective thriller “Rogue Agent,” starring James Norton as Freegard, and Gemma Arterton as a lawyer who falls under his spell.
Netflix subscribers whose algorithms push scam-driven titles to the forefront will already be aware of Freegard from this year’s three-part documentary “The Puppet Master,” which grimly recounted his persuasive schemes, and the shattered victims his masquerades left behind. What “Rogue Agent” co-directors–screenwriters Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson have attempted is both to put...
The tale of British sociopath Robert Freegard’s wreckage is one of those jaw-droppers you can’t help but want to parse, but it’s been turned into the only mildly illuminating, dimly effective thriller “Rogue Agent,” starring James Norton as Freegard, and Gemma Arterton as a lawyer who falls under his spell.
Netflix subscribers whose algorithms push scam-driven titles to the forefront will already be aware of Freegard from this year’s three-part documentary “The Puppet Master,” which grimly recounted his persuasive schemes, and the shattered victims his masquerades left behind. What “Rogue Agent” co-directors–screenwriters Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson have attempted is both to put...
- 8/12/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
The Spy Who Loved My Money: Patterson & Lawn Get the Grifter in Seductive Drama
Scribes Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson present a smoothly administered expose of a con-man in their narrative directorial debut Rogue Agent. Detailing the exploits of a tenacious target whose perseverance took down the con-man who fleeced her (and countless others) by posing as an MI5 agent, both the script (co-written by The Mauritanian writer Michael Bronner) and a pair of lead performances from Gemma Arterton and James Norton, elevate this familiar recipe of emotional and economic predation.
Focusing on the human elements which really allow the marination of such nastiness to really sink in, it’s one of those rare exercises meriting a television series treatment rather than other way around.…...
Scribes Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson present a smoothly administered expose of a con-man in their narrative directorial debut Rogue Agent. Detailing the exploits of a tenacious target whose perseverance took down the con-man who fleeced her (and countless others) by posing as an MI5 agent, both the script (co-written by The Mauritanian writer Michael Bronner) and a pair of lead performances from Gemma Arterton and James Norton, elevate this familiar recipe of emotional and economic predation.
Focusing on the human elements which really allow the marination of such nastiness to really sink in, it’s one of those rare exercises meriting a television series treatment rather than other way around.…...
- 8/12/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Few filmmakers embrace artistic dichotomy like Baz Luhrmann. The Australian writer-director known for epic, ornate, long-gestating projects has become synonymous with both extravagant innovation and chaotic fluff. He is a walking, talking, directing state of creative contrast. “Six films into his career” might make it seem like he’s a relative newcomer, but Luhrmann’s been helming giant features since his 1996 tropical Ed Hardy rendition of Romeo + Juliet, which pales in scintillation to Elvis. – Luke H. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
I Love My Dad (James Morosini)
Inspired by actual events, I Love My Dad contains a cringe-worthy premise that should easily fall apart, as Franklin (James Morosini), a young-ish man, should have grown up with an awareness of the term “catfishing.
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Few filmmakers embrace artistic dichotomy like Baz Luhrmann. The Australian writer-director known for epic, ornate, long-gestating projects has become synonymous with both extravagant innovation and chaotic fluff. He is a walking, talking, directing state of creative contrast. “Six films into his career” might make it seem like he’s a relative newcomer, but Luhrmann’s been helming giant features since his 1996 tropical Ed Hardy rendition of Romeo + Juliet, which pales in scintillation to Elvis. – Luke H. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
I Love My Dad (James Morosini)
Inspired by actual events, I Love My Dad contains a cringe-worthy premise that should easily fall apart, as Franklin (James Morosini), a young-ish man, should have grown up with an awareness of the term “catfishing.
- 8/12/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I’m surprised the studio gives up the game in its marketing materials; Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Rogue Agent is built in such a way that allows the ruse to stand as truth until a midway-point revelation. It’s a case where not watching a trailer probably augmented my enjoyment of the piece—I genuinely didn’t know where things were going or who to believe. Was Robert Freegard (James Norton) really an MI5 agent who fell in love and thus must suffer the agency’s cruel vetting process of throwing dirt to see if his lover will remain loyal? Or was he a conman shrewdly covering his tracks to keep Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton) on her heels before stealing her money? It really could’ve gone either way.
Watch the trailer, though, and it’s a con from the start. Thus I wonder if the film’s...
Watch the trailer, though, and it’s a con from the start. Thus I wonder if the film’s...
- 8/11/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
One ballsy man’s spectacular real-life scam that endured in the UK for nearly a decade makes for pulse-quickening escapism in Rogue Agent. This is a story so far-fetched that you’d have trouble buying it in a film unless it really happened, and such is the case here in a yarn that intrigues from the very beginning and only momentarily towards the end loses a bit of its footing. Graced by strong and alluring performances by leads James Norton and Gemma Arterton, this most engrossing drama is an IFC Films release in the U.S., where it will also be available for streaming on AMC+, while Netflix will broadcast it on home turf.
Great Britain has probably turned out more first-rate spy stories, both in literature and onscreen, than any other nation, but this one has a special flavor that sets it apart. It’s both intelligent and sexy,...
Great Britain has probably turned out more first-rate spy stories, both in literature and onscreen, than any other nation, but this one has a special flavor that sets it apart. It’s both intelligent and sexy,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Spy tales and romantic stories make for strange if complementary bedfellows. Both, after all, depend on a building of trust between individuals. A spy is only as good as how well they can quickly and efficiently connect with strangers, often creating a makeshift intimacy that’ll be nurtured in due time. The terms may be different during a romantic meet-cute but the comforting sense of being seen by someone you just met — not to mention the thrill of what they may bring out in you and how they may change your life — is not too dissimilar.
In Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn’s diligently crafted British caper “Rogue Agent,” the lines between a rakish spy and a dashing lover are blurred in the figure of Robert Freegard (James Norton), a real life individual who leveraged his alleged spy credentials toward less than savory ends.
“Rogue Agent” opens with some requisite historical context.
In Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn’s diligently crafted British caper “Rogue Agent,” the lines between a rakish spy and a dashing lover are blurred in the figure of Robert Freegard (James Norton), a real life individual who leveraged his alleged spy credentials toward less than savory ends.
“Rogue Agent” opens with some requisite historical context.
- 8/8/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Rogue Agent IFC Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Adam Patterson, Declan Lawn Screenwriter: Michael Bronnerk, Declan Lawn, Adam Patterson Cast: James Norton, Gemma Arterton, Marisa Abela, Shazad Latif, Sarah Goldberg, Jimmy Akingbola Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/15/22 Opens: August 12, 2022 If you have a […]
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- 8/7/2022
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Rogue Agent Trailer — Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson‘s Rogue Agent (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Rogue Agent trailer stars Gemma Arterton, James Norton, Sarah Goldberg, Shazad Latif, Freya Mavor, Jimmy Akingbola, and Julian Barratt. Crew Declan Lawn, Adam Patterson, and Michael Bronner wrote the screenplay for Rogue Agent. Poster Rogue [...]
Continue reading: Rogue Agent (2022) Movie Trailer: Gemma Arterton pursues Fake Spy James Norton in IFC Films’ Thriller...
Continue reading: Rogue Agent (2022) Movie Trailer: Gemma Arterton pursues Fake Spy James Norton in IFC Films’ Thriller...
- 7/16/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Exclusive: The BBC is the network behind Rise Films’ drama on the phone hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The Salisbury Poisonings writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and director Saul Dibb are attached and U.S. buyers are understood to be circling.
Deadline revealed Thank You & Goodbye was in development with Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise in early 2021 and we now understand the show is in an advanced development stage with the British public broadcaster.
Lawn and Patterson replace Des scribe Luke Neal as writers and hook back up with Dibb, who directed The Salisbury Poisonings, which was one of the most-watched British shows of 2020. Lawn and Patterson have just written another BBC drama, Blue Lights, about three rookie Police Officers in Belfast.
U.S. buyers are already understood to be circling Thank You & Goodbye and producers are gearing up for casting.
The British...
Deadline revealed Thank You & Goodbye was in development with Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise in early 2021 and we now understand the show is in an advanced development stage with the British public broadcaster.
Lawn and Patterson replace Des scribe Luke Neal as writers and hook back up with Dibb, who directed The Salisbury Poisonings, which was one of the most-watched British shows of 2020. Lawn and Patterson have just written another BBC drama, Blue Lights, about three rookie Police Officers in Belfast.
U.S. buyers are already understood to be circling Thank You & Goodbye and producers are gearing up for casting.
The British...
- 6/21/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: IFC Films and AMC+ have snapped up the U.S rights to Freegard from directors Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn.
The pic will see a theatrical release, PVOD and streaming debut on AMC+ later this summer.
The project is inspired by the chilling true story of conman Robert Freegard (James Norton) and Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton), the woman who brought him down. A master manipulator, Freegard kidnapped countless victims, convincing them he was undercover MI5. A tale of lies, loyalty, gaslighting, fear, hope, and the investigation and high-stakes manhunt, which saved the life of Freegard’s final victim.
Patterson and Lawn co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian) based on the article Chasing Agent Freegard by Bronner. The pic also stars Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Sarah Goldberg (The Dark Knight Rises), Jimmy Akingbola (Ted Lasso), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty...
The pic will see a theatrical release, PVOD and streaming debut on AMC+ later this summer.
The project is inspired by the chilling true story of conman Robert Freegard (James Norton) and Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton), the woman who brought him down. A master manipulator, Freegard kidnapped countless victims, convincing them he was undercover MI5. A tale of lies, loyalty, gaslighting, fear, hope, and the investigation and high-stakes manhunt, which saved the life of Freegard’s final victim.
Patterson and Lawn co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian) based on the article Chasing Agent Freegard by Bronner. The pic also stars Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Sarah Goldberg (The Dark Knight Rises), Jimmy Akingbola (Ted Lasso), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty...
- 5/16/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Series
U.K. broadcaster BBC has acquired CNN‘s Primetime Emmy winning series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.” The six-part series follows Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as he travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. In each episode, Tucci visits a different region or city of Italy, showing viewers how the diversity of Italian cooking offers a gateway through which they can glimpse Italy’s history and culture.
The show, which is produced by CNN and London-based film and television production company Raw, has already been renewed for a second season and will be available on BBC Two and streamer iPlayer from Feb. 27.
Tucci said: “It has been a dream of mine to make this show for many years and a great joy to make it with CNN and Raw. I am so honored that it has been acquired by the esteemed BBC.
U.K. broadcaster BBC has acquired CNN‘s Primetime Emmy winning series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.” The six-part series follows Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as he travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. In each episode, Tucci visits a different region or city of Italy, showing viewers how the diversity of Italian cooking offers a gateway through which they can glimpse Italy’s history and culture.
The show, which is produced by CNN and London-based film and television production company Raw, has already been renewed for a second season and will be available on BBC Two and streamer iPlayer from Feb. 27.
Tucci said: “It has been a dream of mine to make this show for many years and a great joy to make it with CNN and Raw. I am so honored that it has been acquired by the esteemed BBC.
- 2/14/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Sherlock and Good Omens star Siân Brooke is to lead BBC One police thriller Blue Lights from the creators of The Salisbury Poisonings, with filming kicking off in Belfast.
Brooke will play Grace and be joined by The Dig’s Katherine Devlin and newcomer Nathan Braniff as three rookie police officers in the Northern Irish capital, with Grace making the decision in her 40s to leave her steady job and join the force. Just a few weeks into her role, she’s making so many mistakes that her decision no longer looks like a winning bet.
Brooke is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes’ evil sister Eurus in the final ever episode of the BBC’s Sherlock and she has also featured in Good Omens, Doctor Foster and as disgraced Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in ITV’s Stephen.
Joining Brooke in Blue Lights are Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer...
Brooke will play Grace and be joined by The Dig’s Katherine Devlin and newcomer Nathan Braniff as three rookie police officers in the Northern Irish capital, with Grace making the decision in her 40s to leave her steady job and join the force. Just a few weeks into her role, she’s making so many mistakes that her decision no longer looks like a winning bet.
Brooke is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes’ evil sister Eurus in the final ever episode of the BBC’s Sherlock and she has also featured in Good Omens, Doctor Foster and as disgraced Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in ITV’s Stephen.
Joining Brooke in Blue Lights are Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer...
- 2/14/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC Studios Showcase Remains Virtual
The BBC Studios Showcase will take place online for a second time in 2022 amid continued uncertainty over international travel during the pandemic. The event takes place February 28-March 2 and will spotlight shows including Frozen Planet II and Blue Lights, the comedy-drama from The Salisbury Poisonings creators and writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. BBC Studios said this year’s virtual Showcase was the best attended in history, with more than 1,400 buyers taking part. BBC Studios’ president of global distribution Paul Dempsey said: “Their terrific response to our virtual Showcase earlier this year, coupled with continued uncertainty around international travel means that we will once again bring our content to customers digitally next February. Of course, there’s nothing like meeting face to face and we are very much looking forward to the time when we can get together again.”
C4 Greenlights Doc Series ‘The Bling Ring...
The BBC Studios Showcase will take place online for a second time in 2022 amid continued uncertainty over international travel during the pandemic. The event takes place February 28-March 2 and will spotlight shows including Frozen Planet II and Blue Lights, the comedy-drama from The Salisbury Poisonings creators and writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. BBC Studios said this year’s virtual Showcase was the best attended in history, with more than 1,400 buyers taking part. BBC Studios’ president of global distribution Paul Dempsey said: “Their terrific response to our virtual Showcase earlier this year, coupled with continued uncertainty around international travel means that we will once again bring our content to customers digitally next February. Of course, there’s nothing like meeting face to face and we are very much looking forward to the time when we can get together again.”
C4 Greenlights Doc Series ‘The Bling Ring...
- 7/13/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
After its first ever virtual Showcase earlier this year, the 2022 BBC Studios Showcase will also be fully digital, the outfit revealed on Tuesday.
The producer-distributor will hold a three-day program of virtual events running from Feb. 28-March 2, rather than host global buyers in person at its usual Liverpool extravaganza. While the event is still at least six months out, sources tell Variety the company needed to let its suppliers know well in advance.
“We’re proud that BBC Studios Showcase has made the U.K. a key destination for the world’s content buyers but the pandemic has accelerated changes in the way we can help them discover our shows,” said Paul Dempsey, president of global distribution for BBC Studios.
“Their terrific response to our virtual Showcase earlier this year, coupled with continued uncertainty around international travel means that we will once again bring our content to customers digitally next February.
The producer-distributor will hold a three-day program of virtual events running from Feb. 28-March 2, rather than host global buyers in person at its usual Liverpool extravaganza. While the event is still at least six months out, sources tell Variety the company needed to let its suppliers know well in advance.
“We’re proud that BBC Studios Showcase has made the U.K. a key destination for the world’s content buyers but the pandemic has accelerated changes in the way we can help them discover our shows,” said Paul Dempsey, president of global distribution for BBC Studios.
“Their terrific response to our virtual Showcase earlier this year, coupled with continued uncertainty around international travel means that we will once again bring our content to customers digitally next February.
- 7/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran and Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Industry and Skins star Freya Mavor has joined the cast of UK thriller Freegard, which is filming in London.
As previously revealed, cast is led by James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Sarah Goldberg (Barry) and Jimmy Akingbola (In The Long Run).
Rounding out the cast are Rob Malone (Vikings), Philip Wright (Line Of Duty), Micheal Fenton Stevens (Benidorm) and Charlotte Avery (Doctors).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn — who won an IFTA last night for their short film Rough — are directing from a script by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian), Patterson and Lawn (The Salisbury Poisonings). Rabbit Track Pictures and The Development Partnership...
As previously revealed, cast is led by James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Sarah Goldberg (Barry) and Jimmy Akingbola (In The Long Run).
Rounding out the cast are Rob Malone (Vikings), Philip Wright (Line Of Duty), Micheal Fenton Stevens (Benidorm) and Charlotte Avery (Doctors).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn — who won an IFTA last night for their short film Rough — are directing from a script by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian), Patterson and Lawn (The Salisbury Poisonings). Rabbit Track Pictures and The Development Partnership...
- 7/5/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sarah Goldberg (Barry) and Jimmy Akingbola (In The Long Run) have joined the cast of UK thriller Freegard, which is in production in London.
As previously revealed, cast is led by James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn are directing from a script by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian), Patterson and Lawn (The Salisbury Poisonings). Rabbit Track Pictures and The Development Partnership produce with backing from Night Train Media.
Goldberg is best known for her portrayal of Sally Reed in HBO series Barry, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
As previously revealed, cast is led by James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn are directing from a script by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian), Patterson and Lawn (The Salisbury Poisonings). Rabbit Track Pictures and The Development Partnership produce with backing from Night Train Media.
Goldberg is best known for her portrayal of Sally Reed in HBO series Barry, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
- 7/2/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Munich-based Night Train Media, the company launched last year by former Tele Munchen Group MD Herbert Kloiber, is making its first movie investment in thriller Freegard, starring James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man) and Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery).
Production starts May 31st in London on the feature, which will also star Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down. Freegard was a master manipulator who convinced countless victims he was undercover MI5 in order to extort and kidnap them. Initially falling for his charms, Arterton’s character became the architect of his downfall and her actions led to his conviction and arrest.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn will direct from a script...
Production starts May 31st in London on the feature, which will also star Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).
Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down. Freegard was a master manipulator who convinced countless victims he was undercover MI5 in order to extort and kidnap them. Initially falling for his charms, Arterton’s character became the architect of his downfall and her actions led to his conviction and arrest.
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn will direct from a script...
- 5/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Gemma Arterton (“Black Narcissus”) and Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”) will join James Norton (“McMafia”) in the thriller “Chasing Agent Freegard.”
“Chasing Agent Freegard” is based on the story of British conman Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira.
Arterton’s reps at CAA confirmed her casting to Variety.
The project is written by “The Mauritanian” writer and co-producer Michael Bronner, who also co-produced “Captain Phillips.” The film will be helmed by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the duo who directed the hit BBC drama “The Salisbury Poisonings,” about the 2018 poisoning of a Russian agent and his daughter in Salisbury, U.K.
“Little Women” star Norton, who most recently appeared in Netflix chiller “Things Heard & Seen” and series “The Nevers,” will play Freegard and is also executive producing via his Rabbit Track Pictures outfit.
“Chasing Agent Freegard” is based on the story of British conman Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira.
Arterton’s reps at CAA confirmed her casting to Variety.
The project is written by “The Mauritanian” writer and co-producer Michael Bronner, who also co-produced “Captain Phillips.” The film will be helmed by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the duo who directed the hit BBC drama “The Salisbury Poisonings,” about the 2018 poisoning of a Russian agent and his daughter in Salisbury, U.K.
“Little Women” star Norton, who most recently appeared in Netflix chiller “Things Heard & Seen” and series “The Nevers,” will play Freegard and is also executive producing via his Rabbit Track Pictures outfit.
- 5/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, Sky commissions supernatural thriller “The Rising” and Channel 4 and Peacock wage “The Undeclared War”; The Garden, BBC Studios Productions and Constantin Film Development reveal senior appointments; Rakuten TV expands AVOD offering; and Disney India picks up kids series “Dr Tenali Rama Hmkd” from Cosmos-Maya.
Commissions
Sky original series, supernatural crime thriller “The Rising,” is the first series produced entirely in-house from Sky Studios, Sky’s production and development arm. It tells the story of Neve Kelly who discovers that she is dead, and is determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew.
The cast includes Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother”), Nenda Neururer (“A Brief History of Struggle”) and Solly McLeod (“Boxing Day”), alongside Daniel Ings (“I Hate Suzie”), Emily Taaffe (“Rare Beasts”), Alex Lanipekun (“Spooks”) and Robyn Cara (“Ackley Bridge”).
The eight-part drama was commissioned by Zai Bennett,...
Commissions
Sky original series, supernatural crime thriller “The Rising,” is the first series produced entirely in-house from Sky Studios, Sky’s production and development arm. It tells the story of Neve Kelly who discovers that she is dead, and is determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew.
The cast includes Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother”), Nenda Neururer (“A Brief History of Struggle”) and Solly McLeod (“Boxing Day”), alongside Daniel Ings (“I Hate Suzie”), Emily Taaffe (“Rare Beasts”), Alex Lanipekun (“Spooks”) and Robyn Cara (“Ackley Bridge”).
The eight-part drama was commissioned by Zai Bennett,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a huge transatlantic project for you: The team behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/PBS drama Wolf Hall, including Oscar winner Mark Rylance, are reuniting to make cybersecurity series The Undeclared War for NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and UK broadcaster Channel 4.
The six-part series is written and directed by seven-time BAFTA winner Peter Kosminsky and is housed at Emmy-winning producer Colin Callender’s UK and New York-based production outfit Playground. NBCUniversal International Studios is co-producing.
Rylance, who picked his Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies, will star alongside another of Britain’s finest exports: Mission Impossible and Shaun Of The Dead actor Simon Pegg. Other cast includes Adrian Lester (Riviera), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alex Jennings (The Crown), and newcomer Hannah Khalique-Brown.
The Undeclared War takes place in the post-pandemic world of 2024 against the backdrop of an upcoming British general election involving the UK...
The six-part series is written and directed by seven-time BAFTA winner Peter Kosminsky and is housed at Emmy-winning producer Colin Callender’s UK and New York-based production outfit Playground. NBCUniversal International Studios is co-producing.
Rylance, who picked his Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies, will star alongside another of Britain’s finest exports: Mission Impossible and Shaun Of The Dead actor Simon Pegg. Other cast includes Adrian Lester (Riviera), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alex Jennings (The Crown), and newcomer Hannah Khalique-Brown.
The Undeclared War takes place in the post-pandemic world of 2024 against the backdrop of an upcoming British general election involving the UK...
- 4/27/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC Drama has revealed eight new commissions from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England and announced four new commissioning roles.
From Northern Ireland, six-part BBC One series “Blue Lights” is a police drama created by the writers of “The Salisbury Poisonings,” Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. It follows probationary police officers working in contemporary Belfast, who have to come to terms with a constant threat. The series is executive produced by Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, Stephen Wright for Two Cities Television and Louise Gallagher for Gallagher Films, and by Lawn and Patterson.
Another BBC One six-parter, “Better,” is from from the writers of “Humans,” Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, and “Chernobyl” producer Sister. Set in Leeds in Northern England, the series follows a corrupt police detective who undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing, but satisfying her newfound conscience won’t be straightforward.
From Northern Ireland, six-part BBC One series “Blue Lights” is a police drama created by the writers of “The Salisbury Poisonings,” Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. It follows probationary police officers working in contemporary Belfast, who have to come to terms with a constant threat. The series is executive produced by Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, Stephen Wright for Two Cities Television and Louise Gallagher for Gallagher Films, and by Lawn and Patterson.
Another BBC One six-parter, “Better,” is from from the writers of “Humans,” Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, and “Chernobyl” producer Sister. Set in Leeds in Northern England, the series follows a corrupt police detective who undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing, but satisfying her newfound conscience won’t be straightforward.
- 3/30/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has unveiled a slate of eight drama series, including the latest projects from the writing teams behind The Salisbury Poisonings and Humans, and a Maxine Peake series about sexual politics in the modern workplace.
The projects were announced on Tuesday by BBC drama director Piers Wenger and are designed to mark his unit’s contribution to BBC plans to produce more in the UK’s nations and regions. Each series will be made outside of London and Wenger said they celebrate the “true range of authorship” from Britain’s creative communities.
Among the series is the six-part, Belfast-set rookie police officer drama Blue Lights, from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn (see below for full details). It’s their first series since The Salisbury Poisonings last year, which was picked up by AMC after becoming the highest-rated new drama launch on British television since 2018. Two Cities is producing.
Humans...
The projects were announced on Tuesday by BBC drama director Piers Wenger and are designed to mark his unit’s contribution to BBC plans to produce more in the UK’s nations and regions. Each series will be made outside of London and Wenger said they celebrate the “true range of authorship” from Britain’s creative communities.
Among the series is the six-part, Belfast-set rookie police officer drama Blue Lights, from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn (see below for full details). It’s their first series since The Salisbury Poisonings last year, which was picked up by AMC after becoming the highest-rated new drama launch on British television since 2018. Two Cities is producing.
Humans...
- 3/30/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC has announced a slate of new commissions that it claims is part of its plan to stretch its creative muscle outside of London and portray audiences from across the U.K.
Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...
Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The BBC has announced a slate of new commissions that it claims is part of its plan to stretch its creative muscle outside of London and portray audiences from across the U.K.
Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...
Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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This week Screen International is celebrating its 2020 UK and Ireland Stars of Tomorrow. Watch the video above to see behind-the-scenes of this year’s photoshoot at London’s BFI Southbank in August.
Screen is hosting a live online event on Monday, October 5 at 5pm BST, where you can hear directly from the Stars.
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If you would like to ask a question to any of this year’s selection, please email it to ben.dalton@screendaily.com and we will select a few for the live event.
This week Screen International is celebrating its 2020 UK and Ireland Stars of Tomorrow. Watch the video above to see behind-the-scenes of this year’s photoshoot at London’s BFI Southbank in August.
Screen is hosting a live online event on Monday, October 5 at 5pm BST, where you can hear directly from the Stars.
To register for the event, click here
If you would like to ask a question to any of this year’s selection, please email it to ben.dalton@screendaily.com and we will select a few for the live event.
- 10/1/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The hottest up-and-coming actors, filmmakers, and heads of department in the UK and Ireland.
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For the first year, Screen has partnered with a headline sponsor, Amazon Prime Video, alongside returning partners ScreenSkills and the BFI London Film Festival.
Screen International has a highly regarded track record of spotting talent early, and this year’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow will be following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are BAFTA and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Emily Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch in the...
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For the first year, Screen has partnered with a headline sponsor, Amazon Prime Video, alongside returning partners ScreenSkills and the BFI London Film Festival.
Screen International has a highly regarded track record of spotting talent early, and this year’s UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow will be following in the footsteps of some of today’s biggest names in film and television, many of whom are BAFTA and Oscar winners and nominees.
From Emily Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch in the...
- 9/28/2020
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
British dramas Gangs of London and The Salisbury Poisonings will debut on AMC’s streaming service AMC+ ahead of their linear launch.
Earlier this year, the network picked up BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, which is based on real-life Novichok poisonings in the UK, and also boarded Sky drama Gangs of London after Cinemax exited the project.
Both The Salisbury Poisonings and Gangs of London will debut on the premiere streaming service on October 1. All four episodes of The Salisbury Poisonings will launch then, while the first three episodes of Gangs of London will air on October with other episodes rolling out weekly. They will then launch on the linear network next year.
The series, which was created by The Raid’s Gareth Evans, was originally commissioned by Sky and Cinemax in 2017. The ten-part show, which is produced by Pulse Films in association with Chernobyl producer Sister, was a bit...
Earlier this year, the network picked up BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, which is based on real-life Novichok poisonings in the UK, and also boarded Sky drama Gangs of London after Cinemax exited the project.
Both The Salisbury Poisonings and Gangs of London will debut on the premiere streaming service on October 1. All four episodes of The Salisbury Poisonings will launch then, while the first three episodes of Gangs of London will air on October with other episodes rolling out weekly. They will then launch on the linear network next year.
The series, which was created by The Raid’s Gareth Evans, was originally commissioned by Sky and Cinemax in 2017. The ten-part show, which is produced by Pulse Films in association with Chernobyl producer Sister, was a bit...
- 8/7/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, creators of the hit BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, have been attached to direct feature film Chasing Agent Freegard, a thriller starring James Norton.
The movie is written by Captain Phillips co-producer Michael Bronner and is based on the gripping true story of con man Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and manipulated and threatened multiple people into going underground for fear of assassination.
McMafia star Norton will play Freegard and is also producing through his banner Rabbit Track Pictures. The project comes under the ongoing investment and packaging deal between UK companies Great Point Media and The Development Partnership. Rabbit Track’s Kitty Kaletsky and The Development Partnership’s Robert Taylor are also producers. The team are aiming to shoot in 2021.
James Norton said, “We are so excited to be working with Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. Their incredible show The Salisbury Poisonings...
The movie is written by Captain Phillips co-producer Michael Bronner and is based on the gripping true story of con man Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and manipulated and threatened multiple people into going underground for fear of assassination.
McMafia star Norton will play Freegard and is also producing through his banner Rabbit Track Pictures. The project comes under the ongoing investment and packaging deal between UK companies Great Point Media and The Development Partnership. Rabbit Track’s Kitty Kaletsky and The Development Partnership’s Robert Taylor are also producers. The team are aiming to shoot in 2021.
James Norton said, “We are so excited to be working with Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. Their incredible show The Salisbury Poisonings...
- 7/16/2020
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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