{"id":20052,"date":"2024-01-24T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:26:26","slug":"colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Firth to Star in Sky &#038; Peacock\u2019s Lockerbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Firth (<em>The King\u2019s Speech<\/em>, <em>A Single Man<\/em>, <em>The Staircas<\/em>e) has been cast to star in the upcoming Sky and Peacock original limited series <em>Lockerbie\u00a0<\/em>as Dr. Jim Swire.<\/p>\n<p>Swire tragically lost his daughter in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, in which Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 38 minutes after takeoff, killing 259 passengers and crew and 11 residents of the Scottish town. After the disaster, Swire became a spokesperson for the U.K. victims\u2019 families as they demanded truth and justice.<\/p>\n<p>The five-part series is a co-production between Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, and Sky Studios. Scottish playwright David Harrower (<em>Blackbird<\/em>, <em>Knives in Hens<\/em>) is lead writer, while Maryam Hamidi (<em>Vigil<\/em>) is guest writer on an episode. Otto Bathurst (<em>Peaky Blinders<\/em>, <em>The Winter King<\/em>) is lead director. Jim Loach (<em>Save Me<\/em>) will also direct an episode.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lockerbie<\/em> is based on the book <em>The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father\u2019s Search for Justice<\/em> by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, along with multiple other sources. The series will be available on Sky and NOW in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and on Peacock in the U.S. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution will handle International sales of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Firth (The King\u2019s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase) has been cast to star in the upcoming Sky and Peacock original limited series Lockerbie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[982,8422,7211,8423,4318,1032,3440],"class_list":["post-20052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-carnival-films","tag-colin-firth","tag-lockerbie","tag-nbcuniversal-global-tv-distribution","tag-peacock","tag-sky","tag-sky-studios","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colin Firth to Star in Sky &amp; Peacock\u2019s Lockerbie - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colin Firth to Star in Sky &amp; Peacock\u2019s Lockerbie - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colin Firth (The King\u2019s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase) has been cast to star in the upcoming Sky and Peacock original limited series Lockerbie.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-24T15:26:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-24T15:26:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/Sky-Peacock-Lockerbie-0124.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/\",\"name\":\"Colin Firth to Star in Sky & Peacock\u2019s Lockerbie - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-24T15:26:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-24T15:26:26+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/colin-firth-to-star-in-sky-peacocks-lockerbie\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Colin Firth to Star in Sky &#038; Peacock\u2019s Lockerbie\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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