As Screen Daily reports, our dearest Sam Claflin is starring next to Niamh Algar in THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES movie which finished shooting in Dublin. Colm Meaney, Sinead Cusack, Tom Glynn Carney and Ruth Bradley also star in the story about Rabbit Hayes (Algar), a woman who loves her ordinary life even as it approaches its final days. She must come to terms with her past and a future she won’t be part of, while her close-knit, optimistic family grapples with the reality of losing her and decides what will happen to Juliet, Rabbit’s 14-year-old daughter.
MATTHEW MCNULTY AND OTHERS JOIN JENNA COLEMAN THRILLER
After announcing Jenna Coleman as the lead, BBC has now added new cast members to their four part thriller series THE JETTY. Among the new names are Matthew McNulty, Archie Renaux, Elliot Cowan, Ralph Ineson and Tom Glynn-Carney! In the series, a fire tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town. Detective Ember Manning must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.
But as Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she’s always called home.
Officially the last series of October, together with Marie Antoinette which starts tomorrow in France, is period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series, which starts
The series starts October 30th on BBC
tonight on BBC One and will later on air on Epix in USA as well, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West,
in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary
circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest
and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create
mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team
are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are
astonishingly brave and heroic. On Epix it starts November 13th, on Canal Plus in France December 1st.
MEET DAVID STIRLING
Connor
Swindells is David Stirling in the series, the real-life founder of
the SAS, who when we first meet him in the series is an eccentric young
officer serving with 8 Commando. He is frustrated with the military
authorities and their handling of strategy. This is Connor's first
series lead.
MEET PADDY MAYNE
Jack O'Connell is Paddy Mayne in the series, he was a real-life British army officer and a founding member of the SAS. He is portrayed in the series as something of a live-wire, who is won round by Stirling. O'Connell led The North Water series last year.
MEET JOCK LEWES
Alfie
Allen plays Jock Lewes in the new series. Lewes was the real-life
founding principal training officer of the SAS, who at the start of the
series shares with Stirling his idea of parachuting units of men into
the desert to attack by surprise! Alfie starred in Game of Thrones.
MEET MIKE SADLER
Tom Glynn Carney, who currently can be seen in House of the Dragon as Prince Aegon Targaryen, portrays Mike Sadler in the new series based on a book by Ben Macintyre and will air till a week before Christmas. He was also a real-life figure and one of the first officers to join the SAS.
MEET BILL FRASER
Stunningly
handsome blond hunk Stuart Campbell will portray Bill Fraser in the
new series which was shot during the hellish summer heat of over 50*C down in Morocco
where the crew experienced the same climate as the real SAS soldiers!
Bill was a real-life member of the SAS in the Second World War.
MEET EOIN MCGONIGAL
Dashing Donal Finn, who previously had small roles in other epic shows such as The Wheel of Time and The Witcher, will portray Eoin McGonigal in this new series from BBC and Epix. Like the others, Eoin McGonigal was also a real-life member of the SAS in World War II.
a woman who loves her ordinary life even as it approaches its final days. She must come to terms with her past and a future she won’t be part of, while her close-knit, optimistic family grapples with the reality of losing her and decides what will happen to Juliet, Rabbit’s 14-year-old daughter.
a woman who loves her ordinary life even as it approaches its final days. She must come to terms with her past and a future she won’t be part of, while her close-knit, optimistic family grapples with the reality of losing her and decides what will happen to Juliet, Rabbit’s 14-year-old daughter.
