JUDI DENCH IS 'RED JOAN' SECRET GRANDMOTHER SPY NEXT TO TOM HUGHES! 1ST 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' BBC SERIES PHOTO WITH BILL NIGHY, MATTHEW GOODE, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, ED WESTWICK

  TOM HUGHES JOINS

JUDI DENCH IN 'RED JOAN'

The film is based on a 2013 Jennie Rooney book

Here's a great story for you: Judi Dench will play Britain's oldest spy in RED JOAN! She will be joined by Victoria's Tom Hughes as the KGB’s longest serving spy in Britain. The film takes place in two eras. In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley lives in contented retirement, hiding her incredible past as one of the most influential spies in living history. Suddenly her tranquil existence is shattered as she’s shockingly arrested by MI5. Flashback to Stanley as a 1930s Cambridge physics student (Sophie Cookson) who falls in love with seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo (Tom Hughes). Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. After the war, she works at a top-secret nuclear research facility and is confronted with the impossible: Would you betray your country and your loved ones if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace?

  'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE'

FIRST CAST PHOTO FOR BBC'S NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES

Speaking of all things British, BBC has released the first cast photo for their new Agatha Christie adaptation ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE which will air this Christmas in three parts starring Bill Nighy, Matthew Goode,

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Eleanor Tomlinson, Luke Treadaway, Ed Westwick and Catherine Keener.  It is set at Christmas 1954 when a wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate. Her adopted son Jack Argyll is arrested for her murder but he vehemently protests his innocence.