Marcus Garvey Joins ITV’s Comedy Series ‘Cabbage And Me’

EXCLUSIVE: ITV’s upcoming six episode comedy series Cabbage and Me (formerly known as Cabbage and Pat) has found another main cast member. I’ve learned that Marcus Garvey, whose previous credits include White Van Man and Broadchurch, has joined the comedy as a series regular. Exact character details are being kept under wraps, but one source tells me that Garvey plays one of “the kids who are less than impressed with Cabbage and Pat’s new zeal for life and wishes they would just grow old gracefully.”

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BBC One Orders Drama Series ‘In The Club’ From ‘The Syndicate’ Scribe Kay Mellor

BBC One is getting back into business with Kay Mellor, the creator of the channel’s drama series The Syndicate which is currently being adapted for ABC in the United States under the title Lucky 7. Danny Cohen (in his former capacity as Controller of BBC One) and the BBC’s Controller of Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson have given the green-light to a new six episode drama series titled In The Club about pregnancy, imminent birth, love and the change that new baby brings to a relationship.

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John Hurt Joins FX’s Drama Pilot ‘The Strain’

John Hurt (Merlin) has joined cast of FX’s upcoming drama pilot The Strain as a series regular. Hurt has been cast as Professor Abraham Setrakian, a holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United States after World War II and now runs a pawn shop in Spanish Harlem. As the outbreak spreads, he may be the only one with answers – if anyone will listen. He joins previously announced cast members Corey Stoll, Kevin Durand, Mia Maestro, Richard Sammel, Lauren Lee Smith, Jonathan Hyde and Miguel Gomez.

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Jenna-Louise Coleman, Trevor Eve & More Cast In BBC One’s ‘Death Comes To Pemberley’

Jenna-Louise Coleman (Doctor Who), Trevor Eve (Waking The Dead), Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It), James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley), Penelope Keith (To The Manor Born), Joanna Scanlan (Stella), Tom Ward (Silent Witness), Eleanor Tomlinson (The White Queen) and James Norton (Doctor Who) have joined the cast of BBC One’s upcoming three-part drama Death Comes To Pemberley.

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