Four More Join Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager

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BY MAX EVRY ON APRIL 16, 2015



British actors David Harewood (“Homeland”), Neil Morrissey (“Line of Duty”), Katherine Kelly (“Mr Selfridge”) and Tobias Menzies (“The Honorable Woman”) have been announced to join the star-studded cast of the television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel “The Night Manager,” which started filming last month.

Co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, the latest names to feature in the international production join previously-announced stars Hugh Laurie (“House”), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Olivia Colman (“Broadchurch”), Tom Hollander (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest), Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby) and Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier (In a Better World).

Harewood is most well-known for his role in Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning drama “Homeland,” whilst Morrissey was recently featured in BAFTA-nominated drama “Line of Duty.” Kelly starred in two series of Emmy-nominated British drama “Mr Selfridge,” and Menzies has made a name for himself in Golden Globe-winning drama “The Honorable Woman” and Emmy Award-winning series “Game of Thrones.”

Other names announced to appear in the espionage drama include BAFTA nominees Adeel Akhtar (“Utopia”) and Natasha Little (“Wolf Hall”), as well as Jonathan Aris (“Sherlock”) and Hannah Steele (“Wolf Hall”).

A contemporary interpretation of le Carré’s 1993 novel – and the first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years – “The Night Manager” mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. The series follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.


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Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy: Neverwhere - BBC Radio

London Below
Episode 1 of 6
Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Saturday 16 March 2013

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.

An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.

So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and the cast of Neverwhere - first photo and air date revealed (RADIO TIMES)

Paul Jones

6:24 PM, 20 February 2013

As anticipation mounts among fantasy fans ahead of the Radio 4/4 Extra co-production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, RadioTimes.com can reveal the first exclusive shot of the star-studded cast, which reads like a who's who of cult TV.

Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch and X-Men's James McAvoy are joined by Game of Thrones and former Fades star Natalie Dormer, Doctor Who alumnus Sophie Okonedo and Homeland's David Harewood for the tale of London Below, an alternate reality beneath the capital where famous landmarks take on a life of their own.

Screen legends Christopher Lee and Bernard Cribbins also star in an adaptation that is being described as an "audio film".

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Benedict Cumberbatch to play angel in star-studded Neil Gaiman fantasy Neverwhere (RADIOTIMES)

The Sherlock star is among a who’s who of cult character actors in the Radio 4 production about the magical world of London Below

Paul Jones

11:42 AM, 29 November 2012

A who's who of sci-fi and fantasy actors is lining up for a new radio version of Neil Gaiman's fantasy Neverwhere.

James McAvoy, star of the X-Men movies, heads up the cast, along with Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and Natalie Dormer, formerly of BBC3’s supernatural drama The Fades and currently filming Game of Thrones.

Homeland’s David Harewood and his fellow Doctor Who alumni Sophie Okonedo and Brenard Cribbins are joined by Anthony Head, star of Merlin and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Saruman (and Dracula) himself, Sir Christopher Lee.

Neverwhere is the tale of businessman Richard Mayhew (McAvoy) whose life is turned upside-down when he comes to the aid of a young woman named Door (Dormer). In helping Door, Richard ceases to exist in his own world – London Above – and is transported to the magical parallel universe that lurks beneath it – London Below, where the capital's landmarks take on new significance.

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Damian Lewis, David Harewood star in President Obama's favorite TV show - "Homeland" (Radio Times)

Gareth McLean
11:00 AM, 19 February 2012

Even if Barack Obama hadn’t mentioned in a recent magazine interview that Homeland was his favourite television series, the taut thriller starring Claire Danes and British actors Damian Lewis and David Harewood would have attracted attention, not to mention critical acclaim and awards – like the best drama trophy at last month’s Golden Globes.

That’s because it’s compelling, complex and absolutely addictive. Plot It tells of Nick Brody (Lewis), a US marine freed after eight years as a PoW in Iraq, and his pursuit by Carrie Mathison (Danes), a possibly unstable CIA analyst who is convinced that the man the rest of America imagines a hero, brought home with much patriotic pomp, is actually a terrorist, “turned” during his incarceration.

 As an increasingly rogue Mathison instals surveillance equipment in Brody’s home and watches his and his family’s every move – especially those of him and his wife – we see a man ill-at-ease in a country he finds alien, a family struggling to cope under extraordinary circumstances, and an examination of the loneliness of the woman watching them.

Homeland (shown in America on cable channel Showtime, also home to Nurse Jackie) is as much a personal psychodrama as it is a political thriller. All of this is captivating enough, but the fact that Homeland also earned the epithet of “Obama’s favourite drama” has brought it added cachet. New York Times columnist and liberal doyenne Maureen Dowd describes it as “a master- piece of paranoia”, a detailed portrait of an American psyche changed by 9/11, and wondered just how much Obama’s enjoyment of it revealed about his foreign policy.


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