Tom Cullen has joined ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose, as filming begins on the series.
The Downton Abbey star will play Jason Rose, the son of Jimmy (Ray Winstone) and Jackie (Amanda Redman).
Charlotte Randle has also signed up to play Julie, Jason's sister.
Meanwhile, Montanna Thompson will play Jimmy and Jackie's granddaughter Ellie and The Fall actor John Lynch will feature as Steve McIntyre.
The Trials of Jimmy Rose follows notorious armed robber Jimmy Rose, who is released from prison only to find that his family have moved on with their lives.
Written by Strike Back's Alan Whiting and directed by Adrian Shergold, the three-part drama is currently shooting in Manchester.
The Downton Abbey star will play Jason Rose, the son of Jimmy (Ray Winstone) and Jackie (Amanda Redman).
Charlotte Randle has also signed up to play Julie, Jason's sister.
Meanwhile, Montanna Thompson will play Jimmy and Jackie's granddaughter Ellie and The Fall actor John Lynch will feature as Steve McIntyre.
The Trials of Jimmy Rose follows notorious armed robber Jimmy Rose, who is released from prison only to find that his family have moved on with their lives.
Written by Strike Back's Alan Whiting and directed by Adrian Shergold, the three-part drama is currently shooting in Manchester.
- 11/7/2014
- Digital Spy
Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman will star in new ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
The series will tell the story of armed robber Jimmy Rose (Winstone), whose lifetime of crime has had its costs.
His wife Jackie (Redman) battles with thoughts that she no longer loves her husband, while their adult children decide to cut Jimmy out of their lives.
The three-part series follows Jimmy as he is released from prison and tries to adapt to his family's new take on his lifestyle.
Winstone said: "Alan Whiting has created and written a gift of a role. I'm excited to be playing him and to be working with the great Amanda Redman. She's such a fine actress, and together with Adrian Shergold and the production team, I'm sure we'll be able to bring Jimmy and Jackie to life."
The Trials of Jimmy Rose also features Marion Bailey, Sue Anderson and Paul Jesson,...
The series will tell the story of armed robber Jimmy Rose (Winstone), whose lifetime of crime has had its costs.
His wife Jackie (Redman) battles with thoughts that she no longer loves her husband, while their adult children decide to cut Jimmy out of their lives.
The three-part series follows Jimmy as he is released from prison and tries to adapt to his family's new take on his lifestyle.
Winstone said: "Alan Whiting has created and written a gift of a role. I'm excited to be playing him and to be working with the great Amanda Redman. She's such a fine actress, and together with Adrian Shergold and the production team, I'm sure we'll be able to bring Jimmy and Jackie to life."
The Trials of Jimmy Rose also features Marion Bailey, Sue Anderson and Paul Jesson,...
- 10/8/2014
- Digital Spy
London-based Headline Pictures, the outfit behind Quartet and The Invisible Woman, has revealed further details of its slate of high end TV dramas.
One of the company’s long gestating projects, Philip K Dick adaptation The Man In The High Castle, is now shooting in Seattle.
Headline has partnered with Amazon Studios, which is wholly funding the project, and is being filmed in the first instance as a pilot.
This will be broadcast in December and a decision will be taken as to whether a 10-part series will follow.
The drama, set in an alternate future in which Germany and Japan won the Second World War, is scripted by Frank Spotnitz and is being directed by David Semel.
The Man In The High Castle has been put together as a production between Scott Free, Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd, the production arm of the Philip K. Dick estate.
“Headline created this show, secured the rights...
One of the company’s long gestating projects, Philip K Dick adaptation The Man In The High Castle, is now shooting in Seattle.
Headline has partnered with Amazon Studios, which is wholly funding the project, and is being filmed in the first instance as a pilot.
This will be broadcast in December and a decision will be taken as to whether a 10-part series will follow.
The drama, set in an alternate future in which Germany and Japan won the Second World War, is scripted by Frank Spotnitz and is being directed by David Semel.
The Man In The High Castle has been put together as a production between Scott Free, Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd, the production arm of the Philip K. Dick estate.
“Headline created this show, secured the rights...
- 10/7/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
ITV has commissioned a new drama titled The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
The three-part series will centre around Jimmy Roberts, a former gangster and ex-con who is attempting to regain the love and trust of his family.
It is written and created by Alan Whiting, who has previously worked on Strike Back and Kingdom.
Adrian Shergold, whose previous projects include Lucan and Mad Dogs, directs.
ITV's Kieran Roberts confirmed that the show will begin filming this autumn.
"The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a warm, funny and compelling drama about a family man with a criminal past who has to prove it's never too late to start over," Roberts explained.
ITV's Steve November added: "Alan Whiting has created an instantly memorable character, a man with too much to regret and not enough time to make amends.
"He's been a successful criminal but can he now become a successful husband and father?...
The three-part series will centre around Jimmy Roberts, a former gangster and ex-con who is attempting to regain the love and trust of his family.
It is written and created by Alan Whiting, who has previously worked on Strike Back and Kingdom.
Adrian Shergold, whose previous projects include Lucan and Mad Dogs, directs.
ITV's Kieran Roberts confirmed that the show will begin filming this autumn.
"The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a warm, funny and compelling drama about a family man with a criminal past who has to prove it's never too late to start over," Roberts explained.
ITV's Steve November added: "Alan Whiting has created an instantly memorable character, a man with too much to regret and not enough time to make amends.
"He's been a successful criminal but can he now become a successful husband and father?...
- 8/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Kevin Zegers, Chris Noth, Derek Jacobi and Neve Campbell are in various stages of negotiations to join the $28 million, 12-part British miniseries Titanic: Blood & Steel, which has begun filming in Belfast. Unlike Simon Vaughn’s internationally produced four-hour miniseries Titanic, which was picked up by ABC and ITV1, Titanic: Blood & Steel, also an international co-production, doesn’t have U.S. or UK distribution yet. It chronicles the building of the Titanic, beginning in Edwardian Belfast in the early 1900s and depicting how the greatest leviathan of all time was hand made in a city on the edge of revolution. Zegers, repped by ICM and Untitled, will play Mark Muir, the metallurgist on the world’s greatest shipbuilding project who discovers potentially fatal flaws in the quality of metal being used to build the Titanic. Noth is expected to play financier J.P. Morgan; Jacobi would play Lord William Pirrie, chairman of...
- 8/31/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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