Denise Gough (Andor), Holliday Grainger (Merlin), Ambika Mod (One Day) and Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas) star in the adaptation of Playdate, the novel by Alex Dahl, who also executive produces. Rounding out the cast are Bronagh Waugh (Death in Paradise), and Michael Workeye (My Lady Jane).
Leo Woodall (One Day) stars in an action show that combines two of the most exciting things in the world: a hidden conspiracy and maths.
Manners is the lead director behind the latest iteration of David Nicholls’ 2009 bestseller, the Netflix series One Day. Viewers get to know Emma, a working-class girl from Leeds, and Dexter, a privileged boy from London, through just one day a year, over a 20-year span. Manners’ role included setting the tone for the series as a whole, finding her ‘Emma’ and ‘Dexter’, choosing locations, and creating a visual language for the two of them, both when they’re together, and in the years where they’re separated.
You’ve seen the show, now book the trip. Coming soon to screens worldwide is an advertising campaign for UK tourism, featuring some of the best-known TV and film locations on our sceptred isles.
“Starring GREAT Britain” will be launched in January by VisitBritain, whose job is to attract international visitors. It is spending several million pounds to cash in on a boom in “set-jetting” – marketing-speak for location tourism. It will focus on TV shows sold globally, featuring places recognised by international audiences.
The six-part drama follows Gabriel Book, who solves crimes from his antiquarian bookshop. Three cases will span two episodes each, as Book will need all his wits – and the volumes lining his shelves – to deliver justice.
In 1946, Book keeps his sexuality hidden with a ‘lavender marriage’ to Trottie (Polly Walker, Bridgerton), who runs the wallpaper shop next door.
Fortunately, a summer Futures event offered a glimpse into this mysterious world with the help of three experts from the world-renowned Curtis Brown agency.
“My role is to be the best advocate for my clients,” said literary agent Jess Molloy.
Her colleague, Cynthia Okoye, represents screenwriters and directors from shows such as One Day, Succession and Peaky Blinders. “Ultimately, on a very basic level, we are getting clients work,” she explained.
Bookish follows the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop as he assists the police in solving crimes.
Though not a detective by trade, Gabriel has all the knowledge he needs in the books lining his shelves. Set in postwar London, the consultant sleuth has to conceal his sexuality with a ‘lavender marriage’ to Trottie, played by Polly Walker (Bridgerton).
Katherine Ryan has a 14-year-old, a two-year-old, a seven-month-old, and a career as a stand-up comedian.
Here are just some of the many shows to look out for, starting with a jam-packed January.
The hit 1990s game show returns, promising tight competition and even tighter spandex. Can members of the public take on the elite cabal of athletes and bodybuilders?
In the debut images accompanying the announcement, Ambika Mod (This Is Going to Hurt) and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus series two) are seen starring as the central couple, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, across the places and decades of their love story.
They meet on 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation from university. They separate the next morning, but the chapters check in on them both on that one ordinary day for every year that follows.
