{"id":9805,"date":"2018-08-03T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/julia-ormond-star-gold-digger-bbc-one\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:22:56","slug":"julia-ormond-to-star-in-gold-digger-for-bbc-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/julia-ormond-to-star-in-gold-digger-for-bbc-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Ormond to Star in Gold Digger for BBC One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Ormond (<em>Legends of the Fall<\/em>, <em>Sabrina<\/em>) is attached to star in the new BBC One drama <em>Gold Digger<\/em>, which tells the story of a woman falling in love with a much younger man and the effect it has on her already damaged family.<\/p>\n<p>The six-part drama marks the British TV debut for Ormond, who will star in the series as Julia Day. <em>Gold Digger<\/em> tells the story of a wealthy 60-year-old as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. But has she finally found the happiness she&#8217;s always deserved, or is Benjamin really the gold digger her family thinks he is?<\/p>\n<p>Written and created by Marnie Dickens (<em>Thirteen<\/em>), <em>Gold Digger\u00a0<\/em>is made by Mainstreet Pictures. Tim Bradley (<em>Unforgotten<\/em>, <em>Death in Paradise<\/em>) will produce and Vanessa Caswill (<em>Little Women<\/em>, <em>Thirteen<\/em>) will direct the first three episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Dickens said: &#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to have the hugely talented Julia Ormond bringing our heroine to life. I couldn&#8217;t be happier to be working with the BBC and Mainstreet on a drama that puts an older woman unequivocally at the heart of the action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ormond added: &#8220;This is a fabulously written piece exploring family dynamics, and I feel extraordinarily grateful to have been cast in <em>Gold Digger<\/em> and to be working with Vanessa and Marnie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted Julia Ormond will be starring in <em>Gold Digger<\/em> and at the center of Marnie\u2019s explosive new series for BBC One. I can\u2019t wait to see her take on this complex and fascinating character.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, Sabrina) is attached to star in the new BBC One drama Gold Digger, which tells the story of a woman falling in love with a much younger man and the effect it has on her already damaged family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[201,394],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-one","tag-mainstreet-pictures","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Julia Ormond to Star in Gold Digger for BBC One - 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\/julia-ormond-to-star-in-gold-digger-for-bbc-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Julia Ormond to Star in Gold Digger for BBC One - 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