Peaky Blinders and Gangs of London star Joe Cole has been forged as lead in real-time BBC thriller collection Nightsleeper.
He’ll play reverse Alexandra Roach (The Gentle within the Corridor) within the drama, which is from Nick Leather-based (The Management Room, Mom’s Day). Filming is underway in Glasgow, Scotland.
The BBC first introduced the present in December, as we reported right here. Set on a sleeper prepare from the Glasgow to London, the real-time drama follows a authorities company desperately making an attempt to intervene as occasions quickly escalate onboard. Two strangers (Cole and Roach) are compelled to work collectively to save lots of the lives of disparate group of passengers, because the prepare hurtles in the direction of “what would possibly fairly actually be its ultimate vacation spot.”
Additionally starring are Alex Ferns (The Satan’s Hour), Sharon Small (The Bay), James Cosmo (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), David Threlfall (Shameless), Daniel Cahill (The Management Room), Lois Chimimba (Vigil), Gabriel Howell (The Fence), Katie Leung (Harry Potter), Leah MacRae (Rosie Molloy Provides Up Every little thing), Ruth Madeley (Years and Years), Adam Mitchell (Mom’s Day), Pamela Nomvete (Andor), Scott Reid (Maxine), Sharon Rooney (Jerk) and Parth Thakerar (Gangs of London).
“It’s a pleasure to have the ability to write for this forged of a few of the best appearing expertise within the UK at the moment,” mentioned Leather-based. “Our prepare is an actual rollercoaster, a white-knuckle journey by means of the guts of Britain, and I’m delighted to have them be part of us for the trip.”
The six-part collection is for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and comes from Fremantle-owned Euston Movies, the drama indie behind Wreck, The Sister and Dublin Murders.
Euston Managing Director Kate Harwood will government produce with Leather-based, and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC. Jamie Magnus Stone (Physician Who, Ten Pound Poms) and John Hayes (Dublin Murders) are the collection administrators. Leather-based wrote the scripts, with Laura Grace becoming a member of on episodes 4 and 5. Producing is Jonathan Curling (The Sister, Baghdad Central) and Fremantle is dealing with international distribution.