{"id":11504,"date":"2019-06-25T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/channel-4-hulus-light-adds-cast\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:00:01","slug":"channel-4-hulus-the-light-adds-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/channel-4-hulus-the-light-adds-to-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 &amp; Hulu\u2019s The Light Adds to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sidse Babett Knudsen (<em>Westworld<\/em>), Mark Lewis Jones (<em>Chernobyl<\/em>), Joanna Scanlan (<em>Notes on a Scandal<\/em>) and Genevieve Barr (<em>Call the Midwife<\/em>) are among the actors joining Sarah Lancashire (<em>Happy Valley<\/em>) in the tentatively titled new drama <em>The Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Written by the award-winning theater, film and television screenwriter Jack Thorne and directed by Sandra Goldbacher, <em>The Light<\/em>\u00a0(w\/t) explores a forgotten Welsh community that\u2019s been devastated by an explosion at the construction site of a regeneration project. The disaster, which claims the lives of children who had broken into the building site, leaves the town roiled by grief and anger amid the search for justice. 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