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BBC Unveils Mega 12-Show Drama Slate Featuring ‘Dear England’ Adaptation Starring Joseph Fiennes, Aimee Lou Wood’s Debut Writing Project & Rebecca Hall-Led Series From Element
BBC drama slate includes 'Dear England' with Joseph Fiennes, Aimee Lou Wood project & Rebecca Hall-starring 'The Listeners' from Element
Fiennes ( The Handmaid’s Tale) will reprize his role as Southgate and Graham will pen the TV version, which provides a fictionalized account of the struggles and successes of England’s soccer team and features actors playing major stars including Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling. Dear England is Crown maker Left Bank’s first BBC series since 2017’s Pls Like and the Sony-backed indie has two on the slate, having also secured Liverpool-set drama This City is Ours, which comes from The Last Kingdom scribe Stephen Butchard and is about an organized crime boss who falls in love. A24, for which Wenger now runs the London office, is adapting Kaliane Bradley’s upcoming novel The Ministry of Time with Normal People scribe Alice Birch, and there are also greenlights for Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd, BAFTA-nominated Scrapper director Charlotte Regan and deaf writer William Mager.
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