Tag: BBC Two

Filming is underway on the three-part fact-based drama Salisbury, which focuses on the impact the 2018 Novichok poisonings had on the local community.

BBC Two has acquired the new crime drama Vienna Blood from Red Arrow Studios International.

BBC Two has ordered The Children (working title), a drama based on a true story regarding child survivors of the Holocaust.

BBC Two has acquired The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book about the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s.

Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Widows) has come on board the BBC Two four-part thriller The North Water, set in the U.K. and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s.

Expectation and Happy Tramp North are co-producing the four-part series Guilt for BBC Scotland and BBC Two.

Filming has begun on BBC Two’s The Luminaries, which has added to its cast Himesh Patel (The Aeronauts, EastEnders) and Ewen Leslie (The Cry, Top of the Lake: China Girl).

The drama Trust, based on the notorious true-life kidnapping of the heir to billionaire John Paul Getty, has landed a U.K. slot, with BBC Two to launch the series this month.

Nicole Taylor is writing the emotional thriller The Nest for BBC One, while Michaela Coel will pen the landmark drama Jan 22nd (working title) for BBC Two, and Sally Rooney will be adapting her forthcoming novel Normal People for BBC Three.

Jamie Dornan (The Fall, The Siege of Jadotville) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans, The Post) have signed on to lead the cast of the new BBC drama Death and Nightingales, joined by Ann Skelly (Red Rock, Kissing Candice).